For the main index of characters, see Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Epic Characters
★★★★★ Rarity
- Power Equals Rarity: They are the most powerful, and also the rarest in the MPQ rosters.
- Purple Is Powerful: Both Legendary Tokens and the preview cover draw are purple, and when you do get this trope's image, you definitely got a powerful 5-star character.
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Apocalypse (Classic)
Apocalypse (Classic)
Cover: Astonishing X-Men #2 (Leinil Francis Yu, 2017)
Groups: Villains, Mutants
Black: Forged In Fire
Red: Survival of the Fittest
Yellow: Shared Strength
- Promoted to Playable: He was for a few years the boss of a PVE event before getting a playable version.
- The Social Darwinist: Survival of the Fittest targets the lowest health enemy.
- Super Supremacist: The passive of Shared Strength makes him unable to be stunned if Mutants are on the team to reflect this viewpoint of his.
Big Wheele (Jackson Wheele)
Big Wheel (Jackson Wheele)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #183 (Ross Andru, 1978)
Groups: Villains
Green: Spin Me Right Round
Red: Thread On Me
Blue: Wheelhouse
- Adaptational Badass: He's an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who died at least thrice in the comics. The game puts him in the highest tier.
- Lethal Joke Character: For a D-list villain with barely any comics to his name, he gets all the match damage a 5 star can dish plus powers that can erase special tiles and build up a very strong attack.
Black Bolt (Inhuman King)
Black Bolt (Inhuman King)
Cover: Inhumans #1 (Jae Lee, 1998)
Groups: Heroes, Inhumans
Green: Quasi-Sonic Whisper
Black: Energy Channeling
Yellow: The Silent King
- Make Some Noise: Two of his powers revolve around his downright lethal sound powers.
Captain America (First Avenger)
Captain America (First Avenger)
Cover: Iron Man / Captain America: Casualties of War #1 (Jim Cheung, 2007)
Group(s): Heroes, The Avengers, Team Captain America
Yellow: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Red: Shield Bash
Blue: Coordinated Offensive
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Chris Evans, who plays him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Captain America (Infinity War)
Captain America (Infinity War)
Cover: Captain America #451 (Ron Garney, 1968)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Red: Rope-a-Dope / Coup de Grace
Purple: Man Without a Country
Yellow: On Your Feet, Soldier!
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Chris Evans as Cap appears in Avengers: Infinity War.
Captain Marvel (Galactic Warrior)
Captain Marvel (Galactic Warrior)
Cover: Captain Marvel, (David Lopez, 2014)
Group(s): Heroes, The Avengers, Team Captain America
Red: Mean Right Hook
Blue: Event Horizon / Photonic Rush
Yellow: Got Your Six
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Brie Larson, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Chasm (Ben Reilly)
Chasm (Ben Reilly)
Cover: The Amazing Spider-Man #93 (Patrick Gleason, 2022)
Group(s): Villains, Spider-Verse, Street Level, Enhanced
Black: Walking Abyss
Purple: Stare Into The Void
Blue: Empty Inside
- Difficult, but Awesome: His powers are all passive and need to spread Abyss tiles before properly working, but once done he'll deal passive damage, drain enemy AP, heal himself and even revive once downed (while also stunning the opposing team in the process!).
- Heal Thyself: Stare Into the Void allows matching web tiles to heal his damage.
- Resurrective Immortality: If there are at least three Abyss tiles when Chasm's downed, Stare Into The Void will revive him.
Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin)
Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin)
Cover: All-New Inhumans #1 (Stefano Caselli, 2015)
Groups: Heroes, Inhumans
Red: Some Say the World
Green: Elemental Activity
Yellow: Inhuman Ambassador
- Elemental Powers: Elemental Activity picks which of the four classic ones gets the primary effect. Fire (Red, and the default one) deals permanent danger, Earth (Green) enhances special tiles, Air (Yellow) creates charged tiles, and Water (Blue) heals Crystal.
- Promotion To Playable: Five years after being one of the Inhumans that could be summoned by Lockjaw, she earned her spot.
- Team Medic: The passive of Inhuman Ambassador heals the entire team if the enemy makes a match in a color they already have more AP.
Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
Cover: Marvel's Daredevil (Joe Quesada)
Groups: Heroes, Defenders, Team Cap
Yellow: Fighting Spirit
Green: Hand-to-Hand
Purple: Sonar Strike
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Charlie Cox, who plays him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Deadpool (Spirit of Vengeance)
Deadpool (Spirit of Vengeance)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Deadpool (Jae Tsai)
Groups: Heroes
Black: Penance Fare
Red: Abyssal Blades
Blue: Wade and Measured
- Hurricane of Puns: It's Deadpool, after all. Along with Wade and Measured, there's Penance Fare and all its sub-attacks, Tacos Diablos, Disgrace-adilla, Burritonement and Fajitality.
- Incendiary Exponent: Given it's a Ghost Rider, flames are featured heavily in every attack.
- Original Generation: This amalgalm of Deadpool and Ghost Rider was created for the game.
Doctor Octopus (Classic)
Doctor Octopus (Classic)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #55 (John Romita Sr., 1965)
Groups: Villains, Sinister Six
Black: Superior Science
Blue: Tentacles
Green: Cunning Scheme / Phase 2 / Phase 3 / Final Phase
- Combat Tentacles: Of course. And they are even placed on the battlefield with Match-4s or greater.
- Stout Strength: He's chubby, but undeniably strong, specially with the four extra arms to help.
Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme)
Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme)
Cover: Doctor Strange #5 (Michael Cho, 2015)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers
Blue: Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
Purple: Eye of Agamotto
Yellow: Flames of the Faltine
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Benedict Cumberbatch, his portrayer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Flames of the Faltine responds to enemies using powers with a powerful strike that also heals the whole party.
Gargantos (Multiverse of Madness)
Gargantos (Multiverse of Madness)
Cover: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Marvel Studios, 2022)
Groups: Villains
Green: Tentacle Thresh
Black: Tentacle Teeth
Blue: Ineffable Horror
- Adaptational Badass: His power set is powerful enough to make justice to the Shuma-Gorath-esque Eldritch Abomination discussed in the flavor text, as opposed to the somewhat easily dispatched monster of the movie.
- Combat Tentacles: As expected from a beast with such a Lovecraft Lite design.
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #568 (Alex Ross, 1999)
Group(s): Villains
Black: Goblin Glider
Purple: Trick or Treat
Yellow: Goblin King
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Done to the enemy with the Goblin Glider and its razor sharp wings.
- Mad Bomber: Trick or Treat involves the pumpkin bombs, albeit the regular explosive ones are only if they are planted on red tiles (yellow creates Protect tiles, black Strike ones, blue stuns enemies, green destroys nearby tiles, and purple drains enemy AP).
Hela (Goddess of Death)
Hela (Goddess of Death)
Cover: Thor #3 (Mike del Mundo, 2018)
Groups: Villains
Red: Knives Out
Green: Death's Best Friend
Black: Death Becomes Her
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Cate Blanchett, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Savage Wolves: Death's Best Friend summons Fenrir to attack.
- Storm of Blades: Knives Out releases a rain of blades that create Strike tiles.
Iron Man (Mark XLVI)
Iron Man (Mark XLVI)
Cover: Iron Man / Captain America: Casualties of War #1 (Jim Cheung, 2007)
: Group(s): Heroes, The Avengers, Team Iron Man
Red: The Winning Team
Blue: Girl F.R.I.D.A.Y.
Yellow: House Party Protocol
- Marquee Alter Ego: Girl F.R.I.D.A.Y. makes sure to show Robert Downey Jr.'s face, given this is supposed to be the MCU Iron Man.
Hit-Monkey (E.D.I. Suit)
Hit-Monkey (E.D.I. Suit)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Hit Monkey (E.D.I. Suit) (Broken Circle Studios)
Groups: Heroes, Mercenaries, Technologists, Non-Humans
Purple: Monkey Suit
Red: Monkey Business
Black: OW OW That STINGS / I'm BACK Baby!
- Killed Off for Real: Monkey Business can kill a character and prevent its resurrective powers from igniting. (albeit a few still escape, like with Chasm's passive)
- Original Generation: This Hit-Monkey wearing an E.D.I. suit with Loki's powers was created for the game.
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
Cover: The Incredible Hulk #7.1 (2011, Michael Komarck)
Group(s): Heroes, The Avengers
As the Hulk, Banner is virtually indestructible - and only grows more powerful when angered. When something does finally return him to human, it's only a matter of time before the monstrous Hulk returns.
Blue: Gamma Ray Experiment / Green: Hulk: Smash
Black: Smartest Guy In The Room / Red: GRAAAGH (Passive)
Purple: The Other Guy (Passive) note / Uuugh...
- Hulking Out: Once there's enough Green in the board, Banner will become the Green Giant.
The Hulk (Immortal Hulk)
The Hulk (Immortal Hulk)
Cover: The Immortal Hulk #11 (2018, Alex Ross)
Group(s): Heroes
Green: The Green Door
Black: What Does Kill Me
Red: Breaker of Bones
- The Berserker: All his powers revolve around the fact that he will come back if killed, and thus cause damage to either himself or the party.
- Came Back Strong: Whenever he's revived by What Does Kill Me, Hulk's strength is enhanced.
- Megaton Punch: Breaker of Bones, which also injures Hulk to hasten his demise for...
- Resurrective Immortality: If the Hulk dies but has allies still in the fight, What Does Kill Me ensures he will be revived.
Iron Man (Mark XLVI)
Iron Man (Mark XLVI)
Cover: Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War (2007, Jim Cheung)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man
Red: The Winning Team
Blue: Girl FRIDAY
Yellow: House Party Protocol
- Marquee Alter Ego: Girl FRIDAY shows one of those views from inside the helmet, complete with Robert Downey Jr.'s face.
Jean Grey (Phoenix)
Jean Grey (Phoenix)
Cover: X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #5 (Greg Land, 2005)
Groups: X-Men, Heroes
Green: From the Ashes (Passive) / Phoenix Force
Purple: Psychic Rapport
Red: Psychic Flames
- The Berserker: She has powerful abilities, however they will become more dangerous to both sides as things get worse. From the Ashes revives her if she dies, and becomes the explosive Phoenix Force that will hurt friend and foe alike for dangerous amounts of damage, and if she uses Psychic Flames while there are 5 or more friendly tiles, she will give the enemy strike tiles.
- Death Is Cheap: From The Ashes creates a 1 turn Countdown tile that revives Jean with 55% of her health.
- The Empath: Her Psychic Rapport Helps her allies by forming a psychic bond with them. Passively, whenever a friendly 5 match or higher is made, she will improve friendly tiles.
Jessica Jones (Alias Investigations)
Jessica Jones (Alias Investigations)
Cover: Jessica Jones #1 (David Mack, 2016)
Groups: Heroes, Defenders, Team Cap
Red: Defenestrate
Black: Body Check
Blue: Damning Evidence
- Destination Defenestration: Although it is not a window, but the glass pane of her door (a Shout-Out to both Alias #1 and the first episode of her show).
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Krysten Ritter, her Marvel Cinematic Universe portrayer.
Kamala Khan (Origin)
Kamala Khan (Origin)
Cover: Ms. Marvel (Marvel Studios, 2022)
Groups: Heroes
Yellow: I'm a Super Hero
Green: Embiggened Blast
Blue: Cosmic Course
- Adaptational Superpower Change: By following the show, she builds crystalline constructs instead of being the elastic girl of the 3 star tier.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Iman Vellani, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Loki (God of Mischief)
Loki (God of Mischief)
Cover: Loki: Agent of Asgard #3 (Jenny Frisson, 2014)
Groups: Villains
Purple: Shadowplay / Dagger Surprise
Green: Destroy Everything
Black: Feign Death
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Tom Hiddleston, his Marvel Cinematic Universe portrayer.
- Psycho Knife Nut: Dagger Surprise allows for a literal backstab.
- Staying Alive: Feign Death creates a trap tile that if matched revives Loki.
Moon Knight (Avatar of Khonshu)
Moon Knight (Avatar of Khonshu)
Cover: Moon Knight #12 (Alex Maleev, 2012)
Groups: Heroes
Green: Crescent Darts
Black: Knightmare
Purple: Moon Shadow
- Heal Thyself: If the enemy's is downed with Knightmare, it will also restore Moon Knight's HP.
- No-Sell: Moon Shadow has a passive making him immune to stun; any attempt to do so will harm the enemy instead.
Okoye (Warrior General)
Okoye (Warrior General)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man: Wakanda Forever (Terry Dodson, 2018)
Groups: Heroes, Team Cap
Black: Wakanda Forever!
Yellow: Indomitable Spirit
Red: Piercing Throw
- Heal Thyself: Indomitable Spirit recovers her health at the cost of team-up AP.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Danai Gurira, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Javelin Thrower: Her only offensive ability, Piercing Throw.
- Support Party Member: Most of her usage is because Wakanda Forever! boosts the damage caused by all party members for each team-up AP.
Rescue (Pepper Potts)
Rescue (Pepper Potts)
Cover: Superior Iron Man #7 (Mike Choi, 2014)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers
Blue: All Systems Go
Yellow: Your Shield
Red: Do or Die
- Marquee Alter Ego: All Systems Go shows Gwyneth Paltrow's face before the face plate of the helmet comes down.
- The Medic: At the start of her turn, if there are 2 or more friendly Protect tiles on the board, Your Shield heals Rescue's allies.
- Rule of Three: If there are three special tiles on board, Do or Die fires a third time as well.
Ronan (The Accuser)
Ronan (The Accuser)
Cover: Annihilation: Ronan (Gabriele Del'otto, 2006)
Groups: Villains
Black: Judgement Call
Red: Swift Hammer of Justice
Blue:Uncompromising Power
- Ink-Suit Actor: He looks like Lee Pace's version from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
Sersi (Eternals)
Sersi (Eternals)
Cover: Eternals #1 (Joe Quesada, 2021)
Groups: Heroes
Purple: Cosmic Purpose\Cosmic Path
Green: Gift of Transmutation
Yellow: Eternal Life
- Death Is Cheap: Eternal Life creates countdowns that if on board when Sersi is downed, revive her.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Gemma Chan, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Transmutation: Her powers either prevent certain colors from appearing or convert tiles to a chosen color.
Scarlet Witch (WandaVision)
Scarlet Witch (WandaVision)
Cover: House of M (Joe Quesada, 2005)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers, Team Cap
Purple: Welcome to My Reality / Chaos Magic
Blue: Debilitating Hex
Green: Mystical Feedback
- Deliberately Monochrome: Sometimes her character select picture will change to the "housewife Wanda" from WandaVision.
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Elizabeth Olsen, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Mystical Feedback returns damage given to the team.
She-Hulk (Immortal)
She-Hulk (Immortal)
Cover: The Immortal She-Hulk (Simone Di Meo, 2020)
Group(s): Heroes, Avengers, Team Iron Man, Gamma Mutates, Enhanced
Red: As Above
Black: ...Makes Me Stronger
Green: So Below
- Came Back Strong: Whenever she's revived by ...Makes Me Stronger, She-Hulk's strength is enhanced.
- Megaton Punch / Punched Across the Room: As Above is one that sends enemies airborne!
- Resurrective Immortality: Like her cousin. Albeit Jen's is not immediate, only starting after the round ends.
Silver Surfer (Skyrider)
Silver Surfer (Skyrider)
Cover: Annihilation: Silver Surfer #4 (Gabriele Dell'Otto, 2006)
Groups: Heroes, Team Iron Man
Blue: Perfect Being
Red: Cosmic Ray
Black: Silver Singularity
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Silver Singularity from the Silver Surfer.
- Chrome Champion: Silver Surfer glows bright with cosmic energy.
- Hand Blast: Silver Surfer fires his Cosmic Ray from his hands.
- Heal Thyself: Perfect Being allows to restore HP.
- Lightning Bruiser: He has both fast and constant damage, The ability to manipulate tiles, and a good chance of getting higher than average AP with good luck.
- No-Sell: His Perfect Being ability makes him passively immune to stuns. He was the first character to do so (and only Hydra Stomper has this by default as well).
- Also his Silver Singularity tile cannot be matched, and must be destroyed by some other means.
Spider-Man (Back in Black)
Spider-Man (Back In Black)
Cover: Amazing Spider-Man #539 (1999, Ron Garney)
Groups: Heroes, Team Iron Man
Blue: Taek-Web-Do
Green: Automotive Artillery
Purple: Shadowy Acrobatics
- Car Fu: This Spiderman flings cars at his enemies using Automotive Artillery.
- Fragile Speedster: He has a cheap stun, or cheap damage if an enemy is already stunned, an a much more powerful damage and stun, and while more fragile than other Epics, he can turn invisible when an enemy is stunned and prevent damage being added by strike tiles. However without either a stun he still has to deal with an enemy's base power, which at any point may be a match for him.
- No-Sell: His biggest point. Shadowy Acrobatics can reduce to outright prevent strike tiles from stacking bonus damage as well as making him invisible if any enemy is stunned, and Automotive Artillery will completely ignore defense tiles at any time.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: To point out how effective yet brutal he becomes, the friendly neighborhood Spider-man starts flinging CARS with his Automotive Artillery. And they work, dealing massive damage to the targeted enemy and stunning another one at random.
Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Cover: Star-Lord #1 (Kris Anka, 2016)
Groups: Heroes, Guardians of the Galaxy
Yellow: Something Good
Purple: Something Bad
Green: Bit of Both
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Chris Pratt, who plays him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Thor (Gladiator)
Thor (Gladiator)
Cover:Thor: Ragnarok (Marvel Studios, 2017)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers
Green: God of Thunder
Red: Asgardian Tactics
Yellow: Smoldering Fire / Raging Fire
- Ink-Suit Actor: He's made to look like Chris Hemsworth, who plays him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Shock and Awe: God of Thunder wrecks lightning all over the enemy party. And random tiles to get AP if his health is low.
Thor (Mighty Thor)
Thor (Mighty Thor)
Cover: Thor: Love And Thunder (Marvel Studios, 2022)
Groups: Heroes, Avengers, Godlike, Enhanced
Red: Feel The Thunder
Blue: Doctor Thor
Yellow: Share the Love
- The Adjectivable Superhero: Her disambiguation concerns Thor's sobriquet (which Jane does mention in the movie).
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's drawn to resemble her MCU portrayer, Natalie Portman.
- Shock and Awe: All her powers concern using Mjolnir to make it rain lightning, creating charged tiles and destroying the surrounding ones.
Ultron (Age of Ultron)
Ultron (Age of Ultron)
Cover: Age of Ultron #1 (Marko Djurdjević, 2013)
Groups: Villains
Blue: Hive Mind
Black: Gravitational Force
Red: Energy Beams
- Promoted to Playable: He was for a few years a PVE boss before getting a playable version. And it's the same power set as the Ultron Prime found outside PVP, albeit without the Hive Mind passive that made him unable to be stunned.
The Wasp (Hope van Dyne)
The Wasp (Hope van Dyne)
Cover: Unstoppable Wasp #1 (Nelson Blake II, 2017)
Group(s): Heroes,
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's made to look like Evangeline Lilly, who plays her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Wolverine (Old Man Logan)
Wolverine (Old Man Logan)
Cover: Old Man Logan #3 (Andrea Sorrentino, 2015)
Group(s): X-Men, Heroes
Black: Living Legend / Still Sharp
Yellow: Die Hard (Passive) / Old Habits
Red: Reluctant Hero (Passive) / Finish The Fight
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Once Old Man Logan pops out his claws, Still Sharp goes to show he still hasn't lost his edge.
- Glass Cannon: If you use Living Legend with more than 12 Yellow AP stored, his normal moveset gets replaced by a flurry of cheap offensive abilities, however he loses his healing and makes himself vulnerable.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Once you collect enough yellow AP, Wolverine replaces his defensive skills with offensive skills.
- Retired Badass: Old Man Logan may have stopped fighting for some time, but his killer skills are still sharp.
- Support Party Member: Before he swaps his moveset, he will be able to heal with Die Hard, healing more the more allies he has, and both Living Legend and Reluctant Hero abilities will give his team strike tiles at some detriment, losing the turn with him in front and taking damage respectively, helping them deal more damage.
Wolverine (Samurai Daken)
Wolverine (Samurai Daken)
Cover: Marvel Puzzle Quest - Wolverine (Jae Tsai)
Groups: Heroes, Mutants
Red: Master of Iaido
Black: Lawless Warrior
Green: Lethal Fury / Unkillable Ronin
- The Atoner: His backstory is that after killing Logan with the Muramasa Blade, its mystical powers sent Daken back to Feudal Japan, where his regret made him decide to turn into a heroic Rōnin.
- Everything's Better with Samurai: Like his father, Daken becomes a Rōnin, complete with Cool Sword!
- Healing Factor: Unkillable Ronin heals Daken if his AP is low and his Green AP is high.
- Legacy Character: He took on his father's codename to make up for kiling Logan.
- Original Generation: This "Old Man Daken" was created for the game.
Yelena Belova (Black Widow)
Yelena Belova (Black Widow)
Cover: Black Widow #1 (J.G. Jones, 1999)
Groups: Heroes
Red: Top of the Class
Purple: Spycraft
Black: Military Surplus
- Ink-Suit Actor: She's drawn to resemble her MCU portrayer, Florence Pugh.
- Trap Master: Spycraft creates traps that cause damage even when destroyed instead of matched.
- Took a Level in Badass: After years as just a 1*, and possibly the worst character in the game, Yelena got an alternate right in the top tier.
Yellowjacket (Darren Cross)
Yellowjacket (Darren Cross)
Cover: Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Marvel's Ant-Man (Mike del Mundo, 2016)
Groups: Villains
Black: Cross Your Heart
Blue: That Shrinking Feeling
Green: Sting Like a Bee
- Sizeshifter: That Shrinking Feeling makes him tiny, and subsequently invisible.
