Marvel vs. DC: Crisis of Infinite Brands is a fan-made crossover video game based on the aforementioned comic book companies. The game takes place in a world where not only do Marvel & DC characters exist, but they coexist. Historically, the two brands have stayed away from each other, but this all changes when the Joker bombs Times Square on New Year's Eve, leading to dozens of civilian casualties, including that of Mary Jane Watson.
The game's initial production began in 2010, by aspiring author Nathan Thornsbury, but the entire project, with story and all progress made thus far, was released to the public in the form of fan-assisted creation. The campaign for the game is all-but complete, and there have already been multiple side-missions and even possible DLC's planned out.
The game is to be third-person, open world, where there is over 200+ playable heroes and villains from both Marvel & DC.
There game is still in the late stages of planning, and the very early stage production of full coding. The game is not yet finished.
The main wiki for the games creation can be found at this URL:http://marvel-dc-game.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_%26_DC:_Crisis_Of_Infinite_Brands_(Fan_Made_Video_Game)_Wikia
This game provides examples of:
- 100% Completion: If you finish the game with 100% completion, you actually get one final playable character unlocked: Stan Lee.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Since this is a comic book video game, of coarse there are.
- Wolverines Adamantium Claws
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The side-mission "Cold-Blooded", where you play as the Lizard in the unfamiliar Gotham Sewer System, trying to escape a hungry and ravenous Killer Croc.
- And briefly in the side-mission, "Knightfall", Thing Vs Bane.
- Action Girl: Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Black Widow, Jessica Jones, Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Hit-Girl, Bat-Girl... And that's just the main story!
- Apocalypse Wow: Level 15... When Galactus comes.
- Arc Words: "Things will never be the same..."
- "The line has been crossed."
- Arrow Catch: This occurs twice simultaneously in the "Mark Of Death" side-mission, when Hawkeye and Green Arrow catches each others arrows.
- Atlantis: Well, we have a side-mission where you play as Aquaman, so of course!
- Awful Truth: In the interlude between Act II and Act III, we see the Guardians of the Galaxy out in the edges of our galaxy, panicking about something massive coming towards the Earth. But by the time they find out what is coming, it's too late to warn anyone, and they are destroyed with their ship by the impending cataclysm... Galactus.
- Bait-and-Switch: In the cut scene at the start of Level 5, there are groups of heroes working on the reconstruction of Times Square, when suddenly, Doomsday attacks. Doomsday easily beats everyone there, and before he can pass out, Cyborg makes an emergency assistance call out to 'Bruce'. The player anticipates Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman himself to come and defeat Doomsday, but we realize that he was contacting a very different Bruce... Bruce Banner.
- Becoming the Mask: Some of the and audio-log diaries discuss a special story-arc that was to be made into a side-mission about Flash Thompson, or as he is better known, Agent Venom. The audio-log diaries talk about how Flash Thompson was sent deep-undercover, infiltrating the League of Assassins to take it apart from the inside. He was undercover for almost a full year, and when Jessica Jones & Tim Drake breaks in to their base to take down Ra's Al Ghul & Killgrave, Flash Thompson does have to fight them while undercover, and he very nearly kills Tim Drake in the process, but he just barely stops himself.
- Biblical Motifs: In Level 11, Ghost Rider hints at these while fighting Hellboy.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Level 7, you play as Deadpool, so of course there will be major fourth wall breakage.
- The Cameo: In every single level, Stan Lee makes a cameo, whether it be as a bartender in Level 11, or a civilian to be saved in Level 1. In fact, once 100% Completion is achieved, you are actually allowed to play as Stan Lee.
- Catchphrase: "Lines have been crossed... And things will never be the same..."
- Chess Master: Ra's al Ghul tried to be one, but he underestimated the power and capabilities of Killgrave.
- Despair Event Horizon: Peter Parker achieves this when Mary Jane dies in his arms.
- Eye Scream: A few, but the most prominent is probably in the side-mission "Mark Of Death" when Deadshot is stopped by an arrow straight through his targeting lens and through his eye!
- Face–Heel Turn: Oh so many!
- In Level 2, when Thor appears on Mount Olympus, you expect it to be for punishing Loki, but Thor attacks one of the Greek deities, because "They are not allowed to harm a god of Asgard... Especially not my brother."
- Also, in the interlude between Act I and Act II, we get this for Peter Parker, after he kills Harley Quinn in vengeance for the Joker causing Mary Jane's death.
- Finger-Tenting: In Level 6, Kingpin does this while speaking to Catwoman.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Deadpool tells us this in Level 7.
- Irony: Oh so much!
- One instance is that Ra's al Ghul, a historically level-headed man who is a very calculating chess master, ends up becoming a helpless pawn to Killgrave in Level 9, and he becomes to distracted to block out a command that leads to his death.
- Laughably Evil: The Joker, but more along the lines of the terrifying example, instead of harmless.
- Madness Mantra: After Hal Jordan beats the Silver Surfer in Level 4, we think that Silver Surfers babbling are this... As it turns out, he most definitely is telling the truth.
- Mind Screw: Most of Level 7, with Deadpool's random... Randomness.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Level 4, when Hal Jordan defeats Silver Surfer, he safely defended Earth from an extra-terrestrial foe... Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that the Surfer was coming to Earth to warn them to evacuate the planet, because Galactus is coming. Whoops.
- Noodle Incident: There are repeated mentions that characters from Marvel & DC have actually dealt with each other in the past and that it didn't go over well, but we aren't exactly told what happened.
- In Level 3:
- TONY: Jarvis, set course for LexCorp.
- JARVIS: Are you sure, sir? Last time you went to Metropolis-
- TONY: Just set course.
- In Level 3:
- Older Than She Looks: Hit-Girl in Level 12.
- Reformed, but Rejected: In the Civil War DLC, the anti-registration movement is co-led by Captain America and Batman. In this version, Spiderman starts by joining the Anti-Registration, because he knows that registering will need DNA sampling, and then the world would know that Spiderman killed Harley Quinn. Batman, being one of the two only people who know the truth of Spiderman's actions, does not expose him, but still rejects acknowledging his very existence.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: We are dealing with characters from DC as well as Marvel. So we have both brooding grittiness, and fun-loving action!
- String Theory: In the side mission, "Stranger Things", we see a sort of this in the private studying area of Doctor Strange, with images and notecards being held in the air by strings of ethereal energy lines webbing all across the room, trying to decipher when the convergence of universes actually occured and what mystical force caused it.
- Wham Episode: Many, but one of the big early ones is Level 5: Hulk Vs. Doomsday!
- Wham Line: Oh so many!
- In the first level, after the power shuts off in Times Square, and the jumbo-tron suddenly turns on to Jokers face as he tells us "Happy New Year!"
Levels of this game provide examples of:
Level 1
- Despair Event Horizon: Peter Parker achieves this when Mary Jane dies in his arms.
- Wham Line: "Happy New Year!"
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Hal Jordan defeats Silver Surfer, he safely defended Earth from an extra-terrestrial foe... Unfortunately, he doesn't realize that the Surfer was coming to Earth to warn them to evacuate the planet, because Galactus is coming. Whoops.
Level 5
- Bait-and-Switch: In the cut scene at the beginning of the level, there are groups of heroes working on the reconstruction of Times Square, when suddenly, Doomsday attacks. Doomsday easily beats everyone there, and before he can pass out, Cyborg makes an emergency assistance call out to 'Bruce'. The player anticipates Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman himself to come and defeat Doomsday, but we realize that he was contacting a very different Bruce... Bruce Banner.
Interlude I
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8
Level 9
- Chess Master: Ra's al Ghul tried to be one, but he underestimated the power and capabilities of Killgrave.
Level 10
Interlude II
Level 11
- Biblical Motifs: In Level 11, Ghost Rider hints at these while fighting Hellboy.
Level 12
Level 13
Level 14
Level 15
Interlude III
Side Missions of this game provide examples of:
Blood Moon: Cassidy VS The Vampire (Chew) VS VS Blade
- The Assimilator: The Vampire of CHEW definitely qualifies.
Cold-Blooded: Lizard VS Killer Croc
Knightfall: Thing VS Bane
Mark Of Death: Green Arrow & Hawkeye VS Bullseye & Deadshot
- Eye Scream: A few, but the most prominent is probably in the side-mission "Mark Of Death" when Deadshot is stopped by an arrow straight through his targeting lens and through his eye!
The Most Dangerous Game: Beast Boy (& Beast) VS Kraven the Hunter
- Survival Horror: You play as a critically wounded Beast Boy in an abandoned woods of Rochester, trying to navigate throughout the woods in order to try and save Beast of the X-Men, while himself trying to avoid deadly traps and the constantly tracking and hunting of Kraven himself. You don't have much more energy and can't transform more than once or twice before passing out from exaustion, so you have almost no way to defend yourself. Even when you manage to find and rescue Beast, now you have to get out of the woods as well, with the added handicap of dragging a critically wounded mutant along to slow you down, and with Kraven even more determined to reclaim his initial prey, as well as you.
Stranger Things: Doctor Strange & Doctor Fate
- String Theory: We see a sort of this in the private studying area of Doctor Strange, with images and notecards being held in the air by strings of ethereal energy lines webbing all across the room, trying to decipher when the convergence of universes actually occured and what mystical force caused it.
DLC's of this game provide examples of:
Civil War DLC
- Reformed, but Rejected: In the Civil War DLC, the anti-registration movement is co-led by Captain America and Batman. In this version, Spiderman starts by joining the Anti-Registration, because he knows that registering will need DNA sampling, and then the world would know that Spiderman killed Harley Quinn. Batman, being one of the two only people who know the truth of Spiderman's actions, does not expose him, but still rejects acknowledging his very existence.
