07/21/02
Marvel Vs. Capcom
  
     I suppose to keep with the "comic theme" it would be a good idea to do something at 
least remotely comic related. The original plan a long while back was to do Spider-man 
but hey, whatever.

    In a world of 3D fighting games, some games dare to keep with the old ideas that 
gave us such great fighting games like Super Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat, they 
keep the "2D" in "2D Fighting Games". One such game is Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. However this 
is not about a game. It's about a war between two companies that produce merchandaise 
that has pretty much nothing to do with each other.
  
    There are a few things that comes to mind that ARE similar between the comics of 
Marvel and the games of Capcom. Inconsistancy on storylines is one, the need to bring 
back dead characters without any sort of explanation, or maybe the need to make spinoffs 
of all sorts from thier products. These two are different yet the same in many ways.
  
     We can use two popular lines to compare. For Marvel we will use "The X-Men". For 
Capcom we'll let Mega Man stand in. For X-Men we have numerous different universes and 
timelines such as Age of Apocalypse or Days of Future Past. Mega Man of course has the 
main series, Mega Man X, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Battle Network, plus a few others 
that more or less fit in various places. Marvel has killed off heroes such as Jean Gray 
only to bring them back when they feel the need, capcom of course has Zero, who seems to 
be in a perpetual state of leaping in and out of death.
  
    And these are not the only series in which these concepts show up. There is the whole 
Street Fighter series for Capcom, MArvel has numerous super heroes and super hero groups. 
Plus both have cross over specials a lot and cameos by charachters in other series.
  
    The final note is that there is more to this match up than meets the eye. Also with 
the advent of games that merge these two properties do we considere Capcom characters to 
be part of the Marvel universe or Marvel characters to be part of the Capcom universe?