History VideoGame / MarvelPuzzleQuest

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Deadpool does this a lot, quite a lot, both with his daily missions, his unique quest line, and his skill descriptions. Gwenpool also does this an obscene amount with her hero abilities, which are named "'SPLOITS" which talks about cheating and exploits, "PlotArmor" which talks about being important in order to stay alive in a story, and "DeusExMachina" which talks about plot convinces and turns into "ChekhovsGun". "'SPLOITS!" Also mentions [[WikiRule "This game has a Wiki, right?"]] One gets the impression she's read ThisVeryWiki

* AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: It's a shame that one-star comic book characters can only reach level 40-50 at the maximum.

* SeriousBusiness: This game has gotten to the point where ConanOBrien's special guest [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12RTC2FwGk Blake Anderson confessed that it's affecting his marriage.]]

** The Oscorp event has a stage called "VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}".

** Spider-Man also has four variations of comic book covers (if you don't count Miles Morales or Venom).
** Iron Man now has a cover at every rarity level except for 2.
** Black Widow, Storm, and Captain America (Steve Rogers) all get three appearances each as well. And the Venom symbiote appears across four different covers, although each is with a different host.

* UnstoppableRage: Damaging Hulk by more than 5% of his maximum health will make many tiles turn Green thanks to his passive ability '''Anger'''.

* CharacterLevel: Depending on the rarity of the character, the maximum level can range from 40 to 270. See AbsurdlyHighLevelCap and AbsurdlyLowLevelCap.

** Any invisible character, only possible through Professor X, Invisible Woman, Spider-Man (Miles Morales), and Spider-Man (Back in Black) currently, cannot take damage but are automatically moved to the back of the battle roster come turn's end. If they are the only character, then they will not take damage from anything other than team hitting attacks.

* RandomEffectSpell: Various skills will randomly change tiles, such as Ms. Marvel's '''Strategic command''' or hulks '''Thunderous Clap''', which changes or destroys tiles at random respectively. Also, when used by the CPU, even targeted skills, such as Black Widow (grey Suit)'s deceptive tactics, they will be placed at random.
** Coloossus's '''fastball special''' is a truer example, as once the thrown unit lands, they will use a random active skill they own at no cost, which can range anywhere from dangerously effective to disappointing.

** {{Deadpool}} will show you how many whales he can pile up when you [[https://youtu.be/PQ1Mm9OCdKA?t=18s press this button]]!

* RandomEffectSpell: Various characters like Ms. Marvel's '''Strategic Command''' can randomly select up to 9 tiles and transform it into Team-up Tiles.

During a fight, your goal is to down all of three opponents on the opposite team not unlike ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3'' with your own roster of heroes/villains. Leveling them up with ISO-8 and power up their abilities with their respective comic book covers.

Not to be confused with similar themed games such as ''VideoGame/PuzzleQuest'', ''VideoGame/JewelQuest'', ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons'' or any other Creator/{{Marvel}} affiliated video games.

There are 5 different ranks in the game represented by the number of stars under a character. Each rank can be trained to a higher level than the previous one, with rank 1, or 1-star, having a cap of 50, and 2-star having a cap of 94, and further up. For each rank, a character of the same name, for example Magneto, can have two different move sets and looks. Magneto has a 2-star variant and a 3-star variant that both have different move sets, with rank-2 Magneto having better board-clearing abilities and rank-3 Magneto being more defensive. Because of this, Magneto might be described as having two moves that don't seem to relate to each other.

** The new level cap is '''550''', with an added twist that ever level after 450 on a five star character has to come from a five star cover, which are absurdly rare in the first place.
* AbsurdlyLowLevelCap: It's a shame that one star comic book characters can only reach to level 40-50 at the maximum.

** Any maxed out character will have 13 levels in their 3 skills, aside from the rare characters who have two abilities but those are all 1 star, but they must be used on the character as they get randomly selected covers of those skills. To avoid any inconvenience, if a character has max skill levels in skills the player may not like, the player can change them if they get a cover of the skill the player wants to add by removing a level in one of the other two skills of the player's choice. Champion characters have the added bonus of doing this for free instead of using up a skill cover to do it.

** The computer will use any skill available as soon as possible, limiting it to one skill use per turn if it has enough AP to use an ability more than once. This means that certain player built teams will murder when played by a real person, but when you face them as a computer, they suck. A good example in one character is wolverine. His green skill gets better the more red AP he has stored, but as he has a skill that uses red AP, he will end up using his red AP skill and remove that bonus to his green skill gets from having stored up AP.

*** That also extends to matching colors. The computer will normally try to match tiles its strong in, and sometimes match a tile that it wants to get rid of such as a friendly countdown tile, however it will forgo that if there is a 4 in a row match. Although it's rare, there are opportunities to use this to make the computer ignore a much more devastating match, such as a countdown tile, to get the 4 in a row.

** Deadpool's daily was clearly designed to mimic daily quests from [=MMOs=], and it does a good job. 2 of the mission on any given deadpool's daily will grant solid amounts of ISO, and two others will grant special taco tokens. you can clearly see what all is available to win in a taco token and you can see what has been removed from the pool. Finally there is a required character battle to earn one of the tokens. Do that, and it will unlock a very challenging mission that will give you a cover of the required character as a reward. This last bit may be the most useful, as level 3 characters are hard to find regularly and so if one appears as a required character it can allow a player to get a cover that might otherwise be difficult to come across.
** even with access to better characters, keeping a few one, or much later 2, star characters is very helpful. They won't seen much screen time compared to the higher leveled characters, but at the very least deadpool's daily, mentioned above, requires low level characters to complete every mission and get bonus ISO.
** A lot of players with low level characters will often compete in PVP. It might seem insane, but due to special pvp events [[ATasteOfPower giving everybody a high level fighter that acts as the theme of the event]] even low level parties matched up against a higher level party can win due to humans being able to easily beat the computer enemy.

* CharacterLevel: Depending on the rarity of the character, the maximum level can range from 40-270. See AbsurdlyHighLevelCap and AbsurdlyLowLevelCap.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Be warned that A.I. opponents can create cascades of matches to the point where you would question the legitimacy of the game, or worse, smash your gaming screen. Although it should be noted players can also get such cascades as well, it's often set up to where the computer suddenly gets one and has enough AP to fire off all the abilities of its team after being denied AP by the player, while the player's cascades usually only give enough AP to use, maybe two abilities.
** Although not seen in PVP, for story or "campaign" missions, the computer may be given characters with levels beyond what they can get normally, such as Yelena above level 40, in order to facilitate a challenge or story piece and keep the combatants relevant. However it's not very frustrating as the game does a good job at keeping such characters unique in a fight, adding more variety.
** There is also a very odd phenomenon where enemy special tiles, or more specifically any tile other than a countdown tile, will appear to ''drop down from the top'' after it gets destroyed by some means. Fight against Bullseye (Dark Avengers) or let an enemy storm use '''Hailstorm''' and use a tile destroying skill. You might just see the very tile you removed with that ability drop right back down.

** The main one is overall team build. Each character has colors they use to power their abilities, as well as how much damage they do with that color when matched. If you place too many characters on your team that use the same color, and you will suffer from a lack of AP in some colors while other AP just builds up uselessly. A good example would be invisible woman and she-hulk. Both characters are solid support characters, but both of them use green and blue heavily to do their job. This can lead to one character starving for AP and unable to do their job properly.

** And speaking of witch, the minions themselves count, as their only job is to spawn countdown tiles. They cannot make any matches and constantly gain AP each turn to make up for it. This makes a few setups very potent against them, and even characters who can't do anything against countdown against them still have a chance of matching and destroying them before they go off.

* ExclusiveEnemyEquipment / UnusableEnemyEquipment: the player can choose from plenty of characters for their roster, both heroes and villains, however grunts, enemies who cannot match any tiles and only use countdown tiles to attack, are not usable by any player. and of the full characters who can make matches, Gorgon, leader of the hand, is so far the one that cannot be used by the players, every single other matchmaking hero can be in the player's roster.

* MadeOfExplodium: When you make a match of 5 or more tiles horizontally or vertically, the entire column and row is completely destroyed and creates a critical tile. The critical tile will explode as long as you match it with any other colored tiles. Also depends on a character's ability such as Bullseye's Murderous Aim where he can create a critical tile.
* MadeOfIndestructium: There are ways to lock up a tile through various abilities such as Quicksilver's passive ability '''Supersonic''' or Invisible Woman's '''Force Bubbles''', and the tile you locked up won't be destroyed even if you make a match with it.

** Any invisible character, only possible through Professor X, Invisible Woman, and Spider-Man (Back in Black) currently, cannot take damage but are automatically moved to the back of the battle roster come turn's end. If they are the only character then they will not take no damage from anything other than team hitting attacks.
* ObviousRulePatch: Before Venom (Dark Avengers) was capable of pulling off a OneHitKill if enough web tiles were placed down on the battlefield. With Miles Morals (Spider-Man) coming in with the ability to place abundant web tiles with one ability, this was changed to a solid 2000 damage if the same conditions were met instead to keep players from abusing instant kills easily. It sadly had the side effect of making even less useful than before.

** A Charged Tile grants you 3 times the AP of its respective color plus 3 times the damage it generates from matching it. For example, You match 2 blue tiles + 1 blue charged tile, that damage 25 for each tile. This will result in 5 blue AP (1 + 1 + 3) and cause 125 damage (25 + 25 + 75).

** Initially all three Daredevil's powers consisted of setting traps of different kinds. As a result, they were too random, and Daredevil was considered one of the weakest characters, suffering from CripplingOverspecialization. Since then, he's been reworked: now, only one of his powers sets traps.

* VendorTrash: Any low level cover the player might not want can easily be sold for some extra ISO-8. However, a patch was released to change any covers for a max level character into a form of prestige leveling, changing redundant covers from vendor trash to extra EXP

** Spider-Man also has four variations of comic book covers (If you don't count Miles Morales or Venom).

* OvershadowedByAwesome: a fair bit of the game could be this. One stars are a good example, not having bad abilities, but do to their poor level cap being abandoned as soon as possible. Or even abilities. Two Star Magneto is a good example. '''Iron Hammer''' is a really good skill that has the unique properties of destroying the board at max rank. Or he could have '''Polarity Shift''' and '''Magnetic Flux''', with the former [[BoringButPractical Feeding both of his other two abilities and helping control the board]] and the latter having only a one turn countdown at max rank, dealing heafty damage, and any tile is destroys is fed into his team's AP counter.
** Black Widow (Grey) is another good example. Her red ability, '''Pistol''', is by no means bad. It's a slightly expensive red ability that will destroy an area of the player's choosing. On any other character that would be amazing at clearing out enemy hazards. But her '''Sniper Rifle''', which cost a large amount of green while destroying a large amount of the board and dealing a large amount of damage (to the entire enemy team at max rank), and '''Deceptive Tactics''', which will create a great number of green tiles on the board at the players choosing allowing them to both get green and control the board through match 4 line clearing, are just far too potent a combo to give up.