History VideoGame / MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes

In 2012, the game was re-released for UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Network}} and XboxLiveArcade with ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' in ''Marvel vs. Capcom Origins''.

* {{Cyborg}}: Shadow Lady, which among others can turn her hands into drills and fire off missiles from her back. Shadow too.

** Shadow Lady, a cyborgized Chun-Li in the vein of Shadow from ''Marvel vs. Street Fighter''. She's heavier and has Shadow-esque takes on Chun-Li's moves.

* DesignatedHero: The game's subtitle is "Clash of Super Heroes", but it includes Venom, although he has shown AntiHero tendencies at times.

* {{Bowlderize}}: The American release removed one of Morrigan's win poses, which had her changing into a black dominatrix outfit while a tied up Lilith was lowered down from the ceiling.

** Gold War Machine, a variant of War Machine who is ImmuneToFlinching and fires missiles instead of beams for all his projectiles, but is incredibly sluggish.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: One of Morrigan's victory animations -- featuring her in a dominatrix outfit that exposes her butt and Lilith dangling from a chain -- was cut from international localizations of the game, but was retained in the sequel.

* FreakyFriday: [[SecretCharacter Lilith-Mode Morrigan]]'s ending: [[spoiler:Morrigan and Lilith have switched bodies after a collision, and they decide to try it again to fix it. Just at the last moment, Zangief jumps in believing they were amidst a "head crush training", and crash into Morrigan head-first... in the end, while Morrigan is back to normal, it seems Zangief and Lilith have ''switched bodies'' themselves.]]

* JokeCharacter: Roll.

** Hyper Venom, a secret version of Venom who's constantly in Berserker mode. Also known as Red Venom. He's known for his huge offensive potential and speed, but is [[GlassCanon incredibly fragile.]]

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Anita]], [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]] (as [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter Shadow]]), [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Devilotte]], [[VideoGame/ThreeWonders Lou]], [[VideoGame/LegendaryWings Michelle Heart]], Pure & Fur, Saki, [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Ton Pooh]] and [[VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds Unknown Soldier 1P]].

* PlayingWithFire: CaptainCommando's Power Glove uses fire and [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] on his attacks. Jin's punches and attacks are all fire-covered, one even setting ''himself'' on fire.

** War Machine counts as a replacement for Iron Man, and even has his own palette swap in the form of Gold-armor War Machine. The gold version [[ImmuneToFlinching cannot be stunned]].
** Lilith-mode Morrigan, a.k.a. Morrigan with Lilith's color scheme.
** Shadow Lady, a cyborgized Chun-Li in the vein of Shadow from ''Marvel vs. Street Fighter''.
** U.S. Agent, one of the assist characters. He uses the same sprite as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
** Hyper Venom, a secret version of Venom who's constantly in Berserker mode. Also known as Red Venom.

* PowerCopying: In Mega Man's ending, he gains a super move from Onslaught, Magneto's Magnetic Shockwave. And in the ports, ''you can actually unlock a secret version of Mega Man that has this attack''.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Due to legal issues, ComicBook/IronMan was unavailable for this game, so War Machine was selected in his stead (for all intents and purposes, he's a PaletteSwap of Iron Man). As a result, his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBd3Y8298rU theme]] in this game is based off of Iron Man's ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHZbfzSII0 theme.]]

Followed up in 2000 by ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''. This puts it in the rather unique position of simultaneously being the finale of one trilogy (as started by ''X-Men Vs. Street Fighter.'') and the first game of another (due to the NumberedSequels that follow.)

In 2012, the game was re-released for [[PlayStationNetwork PlayStation Network]] and XboxLiveArcade with ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' in ''Marvel vs. Capcom Origins''.

* Newcomers: VideoGame/MegaMan, [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]], [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Strider Hiryu]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin Saotome]], and CaptainCommando.
* {{Assist Character}}s: [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Anita]], [[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Arthur]], [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Charlie]], [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Devilotte]], [[VideoGame/ThreeWonders Lou]], [[VideoGame/LegendaryWings Michelle Heart]], Pure & Fur, Saki, [[VideoGame/{{Strider}} Ton Pooh]] and [[VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds Unknown Soldier 1P]].

* AnimeThemeSong: Roll's "Kaze Yo Tsutaete", a poor midi version (in the English version atleast) of the one found in ''[[GoKartingWithBowser Rockman Battle and Chase]]''. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom makes it a fully-fledged, four minute-long theme song.
* AssistCharacter: There are several of these from both Marvel and Capcom libraries called "Assist Partners". In the arcade versions, these are chosen randomly, but you could choose one of these as your second partner in the home versions which didn't allow the 2 on 2 gameplay. Aside from this:

** Ginzu, Babyhead and Mack, the Commando Team, assists CaptainCommando.
** [[HumongousMecha Blodia]] assists [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin]].

* AudibleSharpness: One of the ''many'' reasons VideoGame/{{Strider}} Hiryu became [[EnsembleDarkhorse so popular]]. [[MostWonderfulSound SCHWING!]]

* AWinnerIsYou: Winning with {{secret character}}s Gold War Machine, Red Venom, Orange Hulk and Onslaught nets you a flashing screen with the character and text saying "Congratulations! You've defeated the game with a Secret Character!".

* BadassNormal: ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and Comicbook/WarMachine in the Marvel side; and Zangief, CaptainCommando, Strider Hiryu and Jin Saotome in the Capcom side. With the exception of Zangief, all of them use {{Powered Armor}}s, {{Humongous Mecha}}s and/or weapons, anyway.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: One of Morrigan's victory animations - featuring her in a dominatrix outfit that exposes her butt and Lilith dangling from a chain - was cut from international localizations of the game, but was retained in the sequel.

** In terms of story, there's Shadow and [[SecretCharacter Shadow Lady]], Charlie and Chun-li respectively controled by M.Bison and turned into killing machines. [[spoiler: Though Shadow seems to break free of it in Chun Li's ending.]]

** '''''[[IncredibleHulk GAMMA CRUSH!]]'''''
** '''''[[CaptainCommando CAPTAIN]] [[strike:COLLIDER]] CORRIDOR!'''''

* CoolShades: CaptainCommando and the Unknown Soldier.

** Pure & Fur drops a bunch of huge dices into the enemy.

** Counting up ''[=XMen:CotA=]'', it also includes Psylocke, Colossus, Iceman and Sentinel.
* DesperationAttack: If Jin Saotome is left as the last man standing on his team, he'll start glowing gold and will gain a strength boost plus Super Armor (needs two hits to enter the stun animation).

* GeniusBruiser: The Hulk, where he's in the guise of the Merged Hulk/Professor persona. (remember, The Green Scar from ''Planet Hulk'' and ''WorldWarHulk'' had yet to be created at the time)
* HenshinHero: CaptainCommando is one according to his intro.

** Parodied in his taunt - if you keep pressing the attack buttons while he uses it, he literally sets himself on fire.

* JapaneseRanguage: Very, ''very'' odd inversion. The announcer reads the first word of the name "Strider Hiryu" right, but when it comes to the second, Japanese word, it incidentally slips into "Hilyu". Of course, this may be the fault of audio quality...

* Leitmotif
* MegaManning: In Mega Man's ending, he gains a super move from Onslaught. And in the ports, ''you can actually unlock a secret version of Mega Man that has this attack.''

* NonFatalExplosions: Upon being summoned, Princess Devilotte will issue his subordinates to attack...but instead, all three just blow up on the spot (the explosion turning into the attack itself).

** War Machine counts as a replacement for IronMan, and even has it's own palette swap in the form of Gold-armor War Machine. The gold version cannot be stunned.

** Orange Hulk, a faster Hulk who uses his old ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' moveset and lacks super armor. Also known as MSH-Performance Hulk.

* PoweredArmor: War Machine and CaptainCommando. Then there's [[SecretCharacter Gold War Machine]], a special version of War Machine who moves slowly, barely jumps and CANNOT block BUT his defense is insanely high, he has an infinite hit buffer allowing him to continue moving forward against enemy attacks, and many of his projectile attacks are amped up. An even better bonus is that some Hyper combos like Maximum Spider and Weapon X hit for the FIRST hit and the other player is repelled off the armor. He can still be thrown though. Onslaught has this as well.
* PowerFloats: M.Bison in his cameo appearances and Onslaught.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Due to legal issues, IronMan was unavailable for this game, so War Machine was selected in his stead (for all intents and purposes, he's a PaletteSwap of Iron Man). As a result, his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBd3Y8298rU theme]] in this game is based off of Iron Man's ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHZbfzSII0 theme.]]

** Duo Team Attack mode where both characters become controlable simultaneously and have infinite supers temporarily. The bar must be at Level 2 in order to execute this. However, getting one more bar (Level 3) will allow you twice as much time (with varying percentages based on how much of the third bar was filled when you execute the command).

* BadassNormal: CaptainAmerica and Comicbook/WarMachine in the Marvel side; and Zangief, CaptainCommando, Strider Hiryu and Jin Saotome in the Capcom side. With the exception of Zangief, all of them use {{Powered Armor}}s, {{Humongous Mecha}}s and/or weapons, anyway.

** '''''[[CaptainAmerica FINAL JUSTICE!]]'''''

** U.S. Agent, one of the assist characters. He uses the same sprite as CaptainAmerica.

* {{Shotoclone}}: Aside from Ryu, Spider-Man, CaptainAmerica and Morrigan qualify for this.

After the successes of ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', Capcom would bring out '''''Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes''''' in 1998. The game's setting is based on the {{Onslaught}} storyline, with Professor Xavier calling for help from within the Capcom universe.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Onslaught]].

* MoreDakka: Mega Man's and Roll's Lv1 super has them becoming MazingerZ's expies firing many types of projectiles at will.

Followed up in 2000 by ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''.

** Ryu in this game is referred to as "Complete-Change Ryu", since he has the ability to switch from his normal style into Ken's and Akuma's styles as a special ability.

* FreakyFriday: [[SecretCharacter Lilith-Mode Morrigan]]'s ending: [[spoiler:Morrigan and Lilith have switched bodies after a collision, and they decide to try it again to fix it. Just at the last moment, Zangief jumps in believing they were amidst a "head crush training", and crash into Morrigan head-first...in the end, while Morrigan is back to normal, it seems Zangief and Lilith have ''switched bodies'' themselves.]]

After the successes of ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', Capcom would bring out '''''Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes''''' in 1998. The game's setting is based on the {{Onslaught}} storyline, with Professor Xavier calling for help from within the Capcom universe.

* Returning from ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'': ComicBook/{{Gambit}}

* {{Assist Character}}s: [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Colossus]], ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Iceman, Jubilee, Juggernaut]], {{Magneto}}, TheMightyThor, [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Psylocke, Rogue, Sentinel]], {{Storm}}, [[CaptainAmerica U.S. Agent]].
* Final Boss: {{Onslaught}}.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
** Saki Omokane, a character who would've remained in an obscure [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/quiznanairo/quiznanairo.htm Japan-only trivia game]] had it not been for her appearance.
** Most fans had no clue who [[VideoGame/{{Cyberbots}} Jin or Devilotte]] were when they made their debut in this crossover.
** Morrigan for many

* PaintItBlack: Shadow and Shadow Lady (roboticized versions of Charlie and Chun-Li). The same happens to [[spoiler:Jin]] in Shadow Lady's ending.

* Returning from ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'': {{Wolverine}}, CaptainAmerica, SpiderMan and TheIncredibleHulk.

** '''''[[Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}} WEB SWING!]]'''''

After the successes of ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Vs Street Fighter}}'' and ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'', Capcom would bring out '''''Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Superheroes''''' in 1998. The game's setting is based on the {{Onslaught}} storyline, with Professor Xavier calling for help from within the Capcom universe.