Marvel vs. Capcom 3 / YMMV

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Abridged Arena Array: The only stage you'll really see in competitive UMvC3 is Bonne Wonderland (barring the occasional Training Room), due to a combination of a) its calm and unobtrusive stage design ensuring both players can't get distracted, b) lack of background detail resulting in a steady framerate, and c) it being the first option on the stage select making it easy to get to in a hurry and the random option having a chance of leading to an undesirable stage.
Accidental Innuendo: Spencer's "You don't know nothing about swinging!" line to Spider-Man, especially regarding the latter's astonishing number of love interests and his actions post-One More Day.
Broken Base: The inclusion of Zero brought a long-standing debate over whether his Mega Man Zero incarnation should have been in the game instead of the Mega Man X version of the character. Zero's ending, where he visits the Mega Man Zero universe with the assistance of the Silver Surfer, only served to add fuel to the debate.
Character Tiers:
- In Vanilla: Dante, Phoenix, Wesker, and Wolverine are High Tier Scrappies. From the low-tier side, Thor gets better (but the fans still placed him at the low tier level). Hsien-Ko's not so lucky.
- Vanilla Phoenix might go down as the most hated fighting game character of all time, due to how she would still win regardless of how poorly your opponent played. Even in Ultimate after her nerf, winning in a tourney with Phoenix results in being booed offstage.
- Wesker was hated early in Ultimate's lifespan for his buff where taking off his glasses boosted his speed, leading many to decry his spot as the third character on many teams where he now gets "Level 4 X-Factor." Nowadays, Wesker has dropped in his tier position, mostly due to people figuring out his weaknesses (owned heavily, ironically, to his overexposure).
- Zero (and to a lesser extent Firebrand) are hated for their ability to make the game single player. Good Zero teams can and do win with perfects quite regularly.
- In a very offensive and aggressive game, the best duo is Morrigan/Dr. Doom, a projectile spamming defensive duo that hard counters most of the cast. Can you say "hated duo?"
Come for the Game, Stay for the Mods: A small but significant factor in the game's continued populartiy was the birth of a mod scene for it following the release of the PC port in 2017. Though it started small, it has since exploded into a scene filled with custom "palette swap" characters (basically full characters modded into costume slots) that range everywhere from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom ports, veterans of the series not playable in 3 or Infinite like Gambit or Captain Commando, and even brand new fan favorite characters who had never been playable in a Marvel vs. Capcom game like Asura, Nero, Rashid and The Thing. Interest in the scene further grew as word spread, barriers behind modding (such as the inability to add character slots or new animations) found workarounds and the groundwork for completely custom characters was in place.
Complacent Gaming Syndrome:
- Sentinel used to be the most popular character in the vanilla version, until a patch nerfed the character's health. Even then, the number of Sentinel users was only reduced slightly.
- Come Ultimate, the most popular teams are a mix of Dante, Deadpool, Zero and Vergil.
- Dr. Doom, Magneto and Wesker are commonly picked due to their superb Assists on top of being pretty good on point.
Contested Sequel: Though with very amicable terms to Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. Players debate if this game's refined mechanics, unique roster (filled with some great pulls like Rocket Raccoon, Dormammu, Wesker and Vergil), fantastic presentation and fun gameplay can make up for its stranger design decisions, such as the extremely contentious X-Factor, extremely restrictive metagame and smaller roster than MvC2. It's usually agreed that the game is quite solid, but these factors are still hotly debated years after the game's release.
Crack Pairing: Felicia and Super Skrull appearing in the art for one T-shirt hasn't stopped certain fans in Capcom's official forums from shipping them together.
Crazy Is Cool:
- Deadpool is so crazy that he attacks in nonsensical ways like using the HUD to attack opponents.
- Dante, of his own admission.
  (after beating Deadpool) Sometimes you gotta out-crazy the crazies if you wanna beat 'em.
Crossover Ship:
- Iron Man and Morrigan are paired with many characters from within the game. Morrigan has been shipped with Iron Man (by virtue of Iron Man's winquote and the first intro movie of vanilla MvC3), Chris (by way of Chris's Take My Hand! moment in the first intro movie and the final picture in the fourth intro movie), Deadpool (by way of a hilarious scene in the first intro movie), Dante (which predates this game by a margin of a few years), Shuma-Gorath (she appears to be... fond of Shuma's tentacles), and Wolverine (by way of his own ending in the game). Iron Man has been shipped with almost all of the women, especially Morrigan (by virtue of the already mentioned intro movies), Crimson Viper (by way of his pre-fight quote), and even Tron Bonne! A web animation takes it to the logical extreme.
- Hulk/X-23 and Deadpool/Dante, due to the sheer amount of eye contact between the pairs during the opening cinematic.
- Thanks to the fourth intro movie, Haggar/Felicia.
- Dormammu/Trish (the high dosages of crack are even lampshaded by the fan artist). If anything, the game is quickly proving one infallible truth: if you can think it up, you can ship it.
Epileptic Trees:
- In Wesker's ending, due to him capturing some Marvel heroes (shown in picture: Phoenix, Spidey, and Cap) and placing them in People Jars, as well as infusing them with Uroboros virus, many fans think that he's the one who caused the Marvel Zombies plot. His slightly modified ending in Ultimate touches this deeper, as per his quote:
  Wesker: The fantastic specimens from this new world should yield zombies to be truly... marvel.
- Some fans speculate that Sentinel's original ending from X-Men: Children of the Atom triggered the Days of Future Past stage in Ultimate.
Fan Nickname:
- Mentok the Mindtaker for Skrull, due to his green skin, and many gamers being only familiar with Marvel through the movies (which wouldn't feature the Skrulls until Captain Marvel (2019), and even then not with K'lrt himself), and not the comics themselves.
- "Maximum Wesker" for Phantom Dance and "Maximum Vergil" for Dimension Slash, hyper attacks in which said characters start pinballing off the walls in a similar manner to Spider-Man's Maximum Spider. Lampshaded by Deadpool in his new win-screen quote against Spider-Man in Ultimate.
  Deadpool: "Hey, did you know that Wesker guy stole your Maximum Spider move? You were doing that back in Marvel Super Heroes! So... gonna go kick his ass? Can I watch?"
- X-23 aka Moeverine/Moerine/Sex-23 or, thanks to Spidey, Wolverette.
- Poolryuken for Deadpool's launcher move, which has him perform the ({Shoryuken}} attack from Street Fighter.
- Spencer's "Bionic Arm" is now labeled as the "Bionic Pawnch", due to it resembling Captain Falcon's "Falcon Punch" from Super Smash Bros..
- Due to MODOK's specialization in "keep away" tactics, people have dubbed him the "Mental Organism Designed Only for Trolling" (or M.O.D.O.T. for short).
- A widely used term for M.O.D.O.K.'s powering up when he hits an opponent with his Analyze Cube is "levels of understanding".
- Cancelling a hyper with X-Factor and performing another hyper has been called "KFC", short for "X-Factor Cancel". Originally "XFC", some posters on a forum commented on the acronym's similarity to "KFC", and the name stuck.
- Regarding Sentinel:
  - Sentinel is sometimes referred to in competitive circles as "50Sent."
  - The thing it uses to smash the opponent to the ground when it does an air combo is called by fans the "frying pan".
  - Sentinel is also referred to as Saltinel, but whether or not this is meant to be affectionately mocking or spiteful depends on who you're talking to. Its Hyper Sentinel Force hyper is called the Hyper Sodium Force by proxy.
- CKC, aka Character Kill Combo: Killing one enemy from the full health bar with a single, long combo (using a hyper and/or KFC is optional).
- "MAGGY!" (courtesy of Spider-Man) or "Swagneto" for Magneto.
- "Doom Rocks", for Doom's Molecular Shield special, and "THE (GODDAMN) FINGER LASERS!" for his Photon Shot special and Photon Array hyper.
- Ammy is sometimes called Okami, which is the name of the game she originated from.
- The fans and even the developers themselves call Joe's position of his hands during his Viewtiful God Hand hyper the "Viewtiful Handjob".
- Chris' Combination Punches special is called "Boulder Punch", because it's believed to be a reference to the infamous cutscene in Resident Evil 5 in which he moved a giant boulder by punching it repeatedly.
- Getsuga Tenshou for Zero's Genmu Zero (Genmurei). Three guesses why.
- Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan Lite, or Jill Install for Jill's Level 3 hyper, because they work similarly.
- Dormammu's Stalking Flare hyper combo is usually just called "Run!" because that's what Dormammu says when he unleashes it.
- Nemesis' Bio Hazard Rush hyper combo is called "I Ain't Even Mad" due to Nemesis unleashing a flurry of punches while shrugging off enemy attacks.
- Finger Install for Phoenix Wright's Turnabout Mode, activated via Objection (Forward + H on the ground or Down + H in the air during Courtroom Mode), where he gets a Theme Music Power-Up like Bang proper. Shining Finger for the glowing finger point he gains as a Heavy Attack in that mode.
- Quicksilver (coined by Mugetsu/Rogueyoshi) for a Good Bad Bug of Dante's which mimics the time-warping Style of the same name he used in Devil May Cry 3.
- Dark Wesker for a Level 3 X-Factor Wesker with his sunglasses off.
- Sister-Sister for Morrigan's Astral Vision, which creates an invulnerable copy of herself on the other side of the screen.
- Nick, Nicky, P-Dub (to distinguish between him and the other Phoenix in the game).
- Team Trenchcoat, The Trenchcoat Mafia - A team consisting of Vergil, Wesker, and Dante. Because they all wear trenchcoats and are considered extremely dangerous and overpowered in their own ways.
- Zero May Cry (ZMC) - a team consisting of Dante, Vergil, and Zero. The team is extremely popular due to all three characters being jacks-of-all-trades, in exchange for being very high execution.
- Moridoom Phoenix is a term used to describe a team consisting of Morrigan, Dr. Doom, and Phoenix. Possibly the most despised team in the game, all three are incredible zoners and can farm meter easily with Morrigan's Dark Harmonizer. This makes it incredibly easy to bring out Dark Phoenix if the match starts going the opponents way.
Fashion-Victim Villain: Taskmaster's Carrot Orange outfit from his time in the Frightful Four makes a return.
Fountain of Memes: Anything Deadpool says is liable to Memetic Mutation.
Deadpool: Have gun, will shoot!
Deadpool: Anime power up time!
Franchise Original Sin: There were a few Marvel characters who were added to the roster for the express purpose of promoting MCU films, such as Thor, Hawkeye, and Doctor Strange (who hadn't gotten his movie until five years later but was always planned)^note. Furthermore, they downplayed the presence of X-Men characters in favor of others (2 had 18 out of 28, 3 has 7 out of 25) with only four X-Men returnees from that game (Wolverine, Magneto, Storm, Sentinel). But since it made X-Men less of a blatant Spotlight-Stealing Crossover, added more space for the general Marvel Universe, and gave three new X-Men additions with fan-favorites Phoenix, X-23 and Deadpool, this was an effect fans generally liked. The MCU-inspired characters (for the most part) didn't take up space, allowing established veterans and other Unexpected Characters alike from all corners of the universe to be represented in the game. However, this was turned up to eleven in Infinite, where one of the biggest complaints was that almost the entire Marvel roster were related to the MCU, and were big-name stars, without any mutants, Doctor Doom, or the signature unexpected additions, and combine that with a severe lack of polish, made the game feel like a cheap cash-in and MCU plug.
Genius Bonus:
- Captain America's quip against Zero can be a reference to the binary numbers concept, or the fact that Japanese fighter pilots in WWII were nicknamed "Zeroes", though Cap didn't fight in the Pacific. Or the fact that "zero" is a generic insult.
- Phoenix Wright's line when defeating Firebrand. He casually quips, "Well, look at that! I guess you can beat the devil!" It can remind one of another certain attorney who took on the Devil and won. The quote itself is more or less a reference to both Miles Edgeworth and Manfred von Karma of his own series, but it can still apply to the book.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- For some strange reason, Shuma-Gorath is popular in Japan. According to Seth Killian, Shuma-Gorath was chosen by Capcom's Japanese developers because he was listed in an old Marvel universe handbook; coupled with a lot of "characters in tights", a one-eyed tentacle monster really stood out, even though he's not a popular Marvel character.
- In a Q&A session with Niitsuma, he stated that Spider-Man's announcement was intentionally held off until the Tokyo Game Show because he is a popular character in Japan.
Good Bad Bugs:
- Cinematic hypers resetting the hitstun decay, which means that long MvC2 style combo videos that run into the hundreds of hits are still possible.
- Dr. Doom has a glitch which can also qualify as a Game-Breaking Bug, in which he can abuse the cooldown frames of his Hidden Missiles to generate more missiles at once. This does extra damage but using it too much in a row can freeze the entire game, forcing you to reset it.
- Zero's Sougenmu glitch, which involves snapbacking the opposing player's point character with Zero's shadow clone while one or both of their Assists were out, causing none of the opposing members to jump back into the fight for the remainder of the match. This was patched.
- There's also another glitch, dubbed "Quicksilver", in honor of Dante's time-controlling Style in DMC3, found by Rogueyoshi. It involves Dante calling in a THC (Team Hyper Combo/Cross-over Combination) during a style cancel using Stinger (or Wild Stomp). This freezes the game until Dante returns to a neutral state, meaning that if a skilled Dante can loop his style cancels, the glitch remains in effect until he pretty much whittles away the health of the poor soul on the receiving end of this (if the opponent is blocking, they can eventually escape by using a Team Assist Counter). Like the Doom Hidden Missile glitch, doing this for too long eventually causes the game to crash.
- One that has nothing to do to gameplay is one of Deadpool's new opponent-specific winquotes in Ultimate: "...and THAT's for pooping on my lawn. I'm the only one who gets to do that." Considering the tone of the quote, one could suppose it should be directed to Amaterasu (who is a wolf, whom many people mistake for a common dog), but weirdly enough (and maybe because of this), it ended up as the quote against... Spencer? What is doubly strange is that Deadpool already had a quote for him. Doesn't stop fans from letting their imaginations fly as to why the guy with the bionic arm would take a dump on Pool's lawn.
Harsher in Hindsight:
- You can have Phoenix Wright do a Mirror Match against another Phoenix. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the Big Bad is a constantly disguised assassin, and one of the disguises he pulls out in court is of Phoenix himself.
- If She-Hulk defeats Deadpool in this game, she remarks that if there's ever an MvC4, she'll beat him there too. While there would eventually be a fourth game, neither character is playable in it. Then again, she did specify "Marvel vs. Capcom 4" and not "Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite"...
- When Zero activates X-Factor, he yells "No more games!" The series he hails from went on a hiatus which only ended with the release of Mega Man 11 in late 2018.
High-Tier Scrappy:
- Sentinel was intensely disliked in the early days of Vanilla due to its fantastic air mobility, far-reaching specials, and normal attacks that inflicted chip damage, making him incredibly difficult to approach. The character was so unbalanced that Capcom was forced to Nerf it in a later patch, which, among other things, cut down Sentinel's health, decreased its Flight speed, took out the chip from all normal attacks except the ones that produce lasers, and made certain projectiles come out more slowly.
- Wesker was annoying to deal with in the vanilla version, thanks to his highly damaging normals with high priority, teleport and projectile spamming, and a Level 1 Hyper that hits from nearly anywhere on the screen. In Ultimate, he deals Level 1 X-Factor damage when he takes his shades off (which stacks with Level 3 X-Factor), making fighting him an absolute chore. Up until people discovered his counters, he was considered one of the best on-point solo characters in the game.
- Morrigan's playstyle involves spamming the screen with projectiles. Chris "ChrisG" Gonzales has popularized a lockdown team with Morrigan and Dr. Doom that many players simply cannot do anything about, particularly since she can gain meter during her Astral Vision super.
- Vergil is considered one of the best characters in the game. His normals have massive range and can nullify projectiles; he can teleport; and his Hyper Combos either hit the entire screen, grant him a damage buff, or extend combos. Vergil's versatility made him so infamous that he became the only character to be banned from fans' "Ratio Tournaments".^note Even Capcom would make references to how unbalanced he was compared to the rest of the roster, as Dante calls him "the king of cheap moves" in Project × Zone.
- Phoenix became one of the most hated characters in the game due to her level 5 Hyper Combo, which transforms her into the ridiculously overpowered Dark Phoenix when her health bar is depleted. In tournaments, it's fairly common to witness spectators cheering whenever a player manages to knock her out.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The Ultimate version of Nick Fury appears in C. Viper's ending. Most people saw it as odd… until the Updated Re-release came out with the name Ultimate MvC3.
- Zero taking a pot shot about X's absence from the roster has been made funnier now that it's been revealed that Zero's DLC suit actually is X.
- M.O.D.O.K. was nicknamed "M.O.D.O.T." (the T for "Trolling") by many due to the fact that he managed to be included in the game despite being "obscure." In Ultimate, one of his alts. is that of a real M.O.D.O.T. (the T this time for "Talking") in the comics, specifically in the Howard the Duck comics.
- On gameplay videos featuring Galactus, people would often post the comment, "Much like the Fantastic Four, I am not playable." Cue Ultimate, where Galactus really IS playable!
- Iron Man flirts with all the ladies in the roster... sans Ammy. Cue Ultimate, where Ammy is finally the target of flirting... by Rocket Raccoon of all people. With the similar quotes, too:
  Iron Man's intro against female characters: So, you doing anything after this?
  Rocket Raccoon's winquote against Ammy: So... you doing anything after this, cutie? Rowwwr!
- Doctor Strange's comment about "starting an all-female Defenders" becomes much funnier with the announcement of Fearless Defenders, an all-female team.
- Chun-Li calling Thor attractive in one of her win quotes. Travis Willingham, the current voice of Thor, later got married to Laura Bailey, Chun-Li's voice actress.
- All of the Civil War references, now that the Marvel Movieverse did that storyline in the third Captain America movie.
- Nobody expected Rocket Raccoon for UMvC3. But after the uber-success of the Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) movie, suddenly he doesn't seem so far-fetched.
- This poster◊ in the Days of Future Past stage is a lot more meaningful now. It features several characters that were in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 that aren't in the roster of this game. Most of them have either been slain or apprehended, but not Mega Man. He somehow escaped and is in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U!
- Capcom stated that the reason Zero was chosen over Classic Mega Man was because the latter didn't have enough flashy moves to constitute his inclusion. ^note Cue the Blue Bomber's inclusion in the fourth Super Smash Bros. game, where he has a multitude of weapons at his disposal.
- Ultimate gave Ryu a new utility Hyper Combo known as Hado Kakusei. Before its name was officially revealed (and even after), many fans took to calling it "Denjin Mode" (after his Denjin Hadoken Super Art)... even though the Super Mode had nothing to do with lightning outside of the Shin Tatsumaki Senpukyaku generating a thunderstorm. ^note In Street Fighter V, Ryu actually does get a "Denjin Mode" in the form of his Denjin Renki V-Trigger.
- One of Deadpool's standard win quotes has him call out the player for not recording the match. Then Ultimate got rereleased on PS4, which automatically does record gameplay footage which can be saved at the player's leisure.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: On the opposite end of the They Changed It, Now It Sucks! debacle (see below), there's an equally large swarm of people complaining that the game is too close to MvC2 and TvC.
Low-Tier Letdown: Ryu got flak from a surprising amount of fans. Some have even gone far enough to state that Akuma's presence makes Ryu obsolete in every way possible, despite the fact that Ryu can wallbounce and Akuma can't, has better stamina, and possesses quirks such as an aimable Shinkuu Hadouken.
Memetic Badass:
- Mike Haggar was elevated to this following his appearance in the fourth trailer. When he sees a huge fiery tornado caused by Dormammu and Thor's fight, his reaction is to nonchalantly rip the nearest signpost out of the ground and Menacing Stroll towards the two.
- Phoenix Wright. It doesn't matter if you're a supervillain with diplomatic immunity or an Eldritch Abomination who's above human laws. Phoenix will still find you guilty.
Memetic Molester: One of Iron Man's winquotes is shared amongst all female characters (with the exception of Amaterasu) and involves him asking them out on a date. This unfortunately includes Tron, who is only 14 years old, leading some to jokingly label Tony as an ephebophile. This also extends to Hsien-Ko, who is not only effectively a walking corpse, but is also technically only 16 years old.
Memetic Troll: M.O.D.O.K., normally a half-comical, half-sadistic villain of Marvel Comics, becomes this. From his Evil Laughs in many in his attacks (and in his Victory Pose in particular), some of his quotes that can come off as sadistically insane, his unorthodox playstyle (in that he can fly freely and mainly excels in keep-aways), and the fact that he just looks plain ridiculous and comes rather out of the blue (when compared to many other Marvel fan favorites that don't come in), the fans seemingly see him as a potent troll. Oh, and his theme goes with trolling.
Most Wonderful Sound:
- The announcer's declaration "You have saved the Earth!"
- The activation sound of a Level 3 Hyper Combo (except when it's interrupted or you're on the receiving end).
- Strider Hiryu's Cypher. SHWING!
- When you're on the delivering end, K.O., or even better, HYPER COMBO K.O.
- When playing as Phoenix Wright: "I've got all I need!"
Nightmare Fuel:
- Galactus destroying the world should you lose to him is a little more unnerving than it should be.
  - To rub salt in the wound? Should you lose to him, and wait on the Game Over screen (which in vanilla you HAD to do if you wanted to get the Galactus ending), the screen literally RIPS IN HALF, just to remind you that the Marvel and Capcom worlds are now in Galactus' stomach acids.
- Dormammu's Level 3 Hyper. He traps the opponent in a dark bubble (Dark Dimension), then he goes big (or the bubble goes small, we can't be sure) and then pops the bubble with his fingers, with the opponent inside.
  "Welcome… To my realm…"
- Likewise, Shuma-Gorath's Level 3 Hyper starts with a nasty closeup of his face getting all bitey, and then finishes by teleporting the opponent inside of Shuma-Gorath, who now looks like a colored balloon with an eye sticking out. In Ultimate, with his new costume, it's all made creepier with the Extra Eyes.
- The visual effect of the X-Factor in Ultimate MvC3 is a bit unnerving. It turns the user into a black silhouette with red outlines and aura.
- Nemesis made his Fighting Game debut, but is it lessening any of his horrifying nature? Hell no. Tentacles burst forth from nearly every pore of his body, he's one of the tallest characters in the game, and his Level 3 Hyper? Well, it involves his final blob form constricting the poor opponent, then doing... something from a first person view, no less. Capcom probably got away with adding him in because he bleeds a green liquid.
- Crimson Viper's theme gets a remix in the game, but while the vocals in the original are epic and boastful, the robotic, unnerving voice, the slower tempo, and clearer vocals make it sound like Viper is some kind of killer android. The distorted, discordant harmonies combined with the threatening message certainly don't help.
  "MY NAME IS VIPER. CRIMSON VIPER. I HAVE THE KEY NOW. THERE IS NO WAY OUT."
- Ghost Rider's Level 3 Hyper Combo, the "Penance Stare." He grabs his foe by the collar, growls out "LOOK INTO MY EYES!" and makes his victim feel every bit of pain that they have ever inflicted on anyone else in their lifetime. There is an intense close up of Ghost Rider's face and you hear that disturbing screechy noise once the Penance Stare goes into effect. After the attack, the victim is left in a disturbing burning crumple state.
Scrappy Mechanic:
- X-Factor. Particularly level 3, which some players feel is too strong and lasts too long, to the point characters like Sentinel and Dark Phoenix can KO anyone with a basic 4-5 hit combo. While X-Factor was toned down in Ultimate (damage and speed boosts have been reduced across the board and characters in X-Factor are affected by damage scaling, particularly in terms of hypers), it could be activated in midair. Once again, fans were divided on its necessity but the dev team continued to defend the point that it is a core element of the game.
- The Simple Mode. It is geared towards the newcomers to the game, with the simplified command for specials and hypers. However, because of the nature of the mode itself, specials and hypers are easily spammable in this mode.
- Team Aerial Combos are ludicrously easy to setup (all it takes is one button!) and impossible to escape from unless you can predict what random direction your opponent is holding his analog stick. Worse, a successful combo starter gives away free hyper gauges (1 gauge for down + S, half gauge for side + S, no gauge for up + S), meaning a dirty player can just spam launchers and knock you around in the air, just to greet you with a Team (or Delayed) Hyper Combo when you land.
- The playerbase found a way to convert most TAC set ups into simple Infinite combos. To make it even worse, this was right before EVO.
Suspiciously Similar Song:Wolverine's theme is surprisingly similar to the main theme of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, resulting in videos that mix themes.
Tear Jerker: Some of the things certain characters say when defeated by a light attack could qualify. Special mention goes to Phoenix and Spider-Man.
Spider-Man: "I let everyone down..."
Phoenix: "Scott..."
That One Attack:
- Arthur's Goddess Bracelet can combo into itself and create loops for high damage.
- Akuma's Zankukyaku, the multihitting version of Ryu's Senpuukyaku that is vital to his infinite set-ups, later nerfed. There's also his usual Shun Goku Satsu (or Raging Demon, if you prefer), and in this game, it comes even faster than in the Street Fighter games plus it's almost completely invincible allowing you to just plow through any attack the other fighter brings out with it.
- Storm's Hailstorm takes almost the whole screen and causes nasty chip damage.
- Magneto's Gravity Squeeze (Level 3) can hit the enemy anywhere they are, even OTG. He can do this after his long chain of combos for large amounts of damage.
- Dormammu's Stalking Flare, a fireball which slowly homes in on opponent and causes high chip damage. Furthermore, doing KFC after that makes him able to launch ANOTHER Stalking Flare (or his other hypers).
- Zero's Genmu Zero (Genmurei). One of only three non-cinematic damaging Level 3 hypers in the game, it is large and hard to dodge and comes out very fast.
- Morrigan's Astral Vision. It produces a copy of her that mimics her every move, but appears behind the opponent, creating heavy lockdowns and punishes. Unlike every other level 1 hyper, Astral Vision builds meter, so a competent Morrigan player could potentially use it indefinitely. Combined with her Soul Fist special, it can turn the game into a Bullet Hell.
- Phoenix's fragile, but when defeated while she has 5 hyper bars, she'll be resurrected as Dark Phoenix with full (but degenerating) health and more strength. Her normal attacks fire small bullets of flame, and combined with her normal projectiles and teleport, she can make a nasty lockdown gameplay. Worse still, the X-Factor can stop the health degeneration, and combined with Healing Field, she can stay healthy long enough to decimate all of her opponents' characters. A Level 3 X-Factor Phoenix Inferno is basically a one-hit KO.
- Haggar's Pipe Bash. It has a big hitbox, long reach, causes severe hit/block stun when it lands, aerial version can be used as an instant overhead and gives him a ground bounce. It's completely safe to use.
- Wolverine's Dive Kick. It comes out rather quickly, has a huge hitbox, and causes stagger OR bounce depending on the opponent's position at the time. If you're up against a good Wolverine player, getting hit by this basically means you're as good as dead.
- Dante's mid-air launch move. It has a long reach and is commonly used to start up the potentially long combos he has. Combined with the ability to teleport behind and above your opponent, it can quickly catch the opponent off guard, and basically means instant death.
- Tron Bonne's Gustaff Fire assist deals large damage and is very fast, but the main annoyance factor is that she has an extremely small hitbox that is located somewhere around her feet and becomes invincible immediately after the move is performed. Many other assists with long invincibility times, like Haggar's spinning lariat or Hsien-Ko's super armor pendulum swing, are disliked for similar reasons.
- Doom's Hidden Missile assist does not have invincibility advantages, but can hit anywhere on the screen and stop combos. Pairing it up with Morrigan's Astral Vision hyper to make her even more annoying to deal with is an infamous strategy.
- Doom's Foot Dive is arguably just as bad since it's spammable and grands him easy combos that are likely to KO his opponents especially when they're on the end sides of the screen.
- Phoenix Wright's Turnabout mode has three:
  - His H attack, nicknamed "The Finger". It is a semi-launcher normally, but becomes a ground bounce if performed on air or a loopable wall bounce if done while crouching. Even if blocked, it does MASSIVE chip damage.
  - His Level 3. It is the same as Magneto's gameplay-wise, meaning it hits instantly no matter where the opponent is, even if they're on the ground. The difference is, it's also the second strongest hyper in the game, beaten out by only 10 hitpoints from Vergil's much harder to use hyper.
  - His "Press the Witness" assist used to be completely invincible in Turnabout Mode until a patch nerfed it. Even then, it is an easily spammable attack, and doesn't decrease the Turnabout Mode timer since Wright isn't fighting directly.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Fans were preparing to complain about the same game they've been waiting for a decade. Complaints went from assist characters taking too much damage, missing "important" characters (despite most of the requests not being important to the Marvel universe since The '90s or—in the case of Capcom characters—it not having any released game since The '90s), the roster size being smaller than MvC2 (despite half of that game's cast consisting of "clone" characters), its combo-easiness compared to MvC2 (despite there being several infinite combos), that the game takes less skill to master, to trivial stuff like Deadpool's lines, slight changes in movesets, and the game not being Marvel vs. Capcom 2 running on MT Framework.
- In Ultimate:
  - The new visual effects for the X-Factor (the character becomes a black silhouette with red outline and aura, and the X on the lifebar is highlighted) have been disliked.
  - People preferred the vanilla HUD because the new one is jumbled (Assist 2 on the top, point character in the middle and the Assist 1 on the bottom of the arrangement).
- Regarding Jill:
  - Her moveset in MvC2 consists of keep aways (such as summoning enemies), shoulder tackles, pistol counters, and the franchise's trademark rocket launchers. Her play style in MvC3 has been radically altered to involve rushdowns, stylish kicks, and a pair of VZ61 sub machineguns, which alienated fans who liked her previous portrayal.
  - Her Spy Cat Suit design, which divided the Resident Evil fanbase, has been criticized as too different from her iconic S.T.A.R.S uniform.
  - Many fans hate that she's based on her Brainwashed and Crazy self from RE5 complete with Robo Speak, so she doesn't have worthwhile banter or trash-talk with the other characters. Some people simply hate that she's represented as a villain and not her true heroic self, leaving the hero/villain ratio of Resident Evil characters on the roster as 1:3 (Chris vs. Wesker, Jill, and Nemesis).
Ugly Cute: You could argue Shuma is. His appearance is a strange tentacle monster with only one eye but in a way it looks squishy.
Unexpected Character: As per tradition, the roster is chalk full of these that'll make anyone only expecting A-listers scratching their heads.
- Marvel
  - M.O.D.O.K. was probably the most obvious example, as he was never requested or even thought of by fans until he was actually put in the game. In fact, he was chosen for that reason.
  - X-23, while popular, is quite literally a female clone of Wolverine, and didn't sound likely when Wolvie himself was in. That, and compared to everyone else on the Marvel roster, she was extremely recent having only debuted in 2004, a mere seven years prior to the game. For comparison, the second newest Marvel character here is Deadpool, who debuted in 1991 and predates her by thirteen years, and the others are a lot older than that.
  - Super-Skrull isn't an iconic Marvel villain, but appeared here as because his All Your Powers Combined was a good compromise to not having the Fantastic Four themselves.
  - Taskmaster is well-regarded by fans, but isn't super well-known outside the core fanbase, so having him here definitely caught some off-guard.
  - Rocket Raccoon. While everyone knows who he is now thanks to the MCU, back when Ultimate's characters were leaked his inclusion caught a lot of people off-guard wondering who the hell this talking raccoon with all these guns is supposed to be, as the Guardians of the Galaxy weren't big even with Marvel fans. In fact, some were even counting his inclusion as a strike against the game, which now seems Hilarious in Hindsight. Many players then figured that he was added specifically to promote the movie, but in actuality the developers decided to put either him or Squirrel Girl into the game, and he was chosen because the developers preferred raccoons to squirrels.
  - Nova wasn't exactly a big-name hero at Marvel, so him being in the game wasn't something people expected.
- Capcom
  - Hsien-Ko, to say the least, was a shock for a number of reasons. Darkstalkers was a long-dead franchise with only Morrigan and Felicia being well-remembered years later. When both were revealed, it wasn't thought Capcom would actually give the series a third rep. Furthermore, even among the cast of Darkstalkers itself, Hsien-Ko wasn't even close to being the third most iconic of the bunch. If the topic of a third rep came up, many would assume it'd be either Demitri Maximoff, Lilith, Anakaris, Jon Talbain, B.B. Hood, or Q-Bee. So when Hsien-Ko of all people was revealed as the series' third rep, that was a surprise.
  - Amaterasu of Ōkami, while popular, was part of an Acclaimed Flop and her quadrupedal design didn't seem like a good fit for a fighter, and thus was a character few actually requested. For many, it was a pleasant surprise.
  - Trish wasn't what people thought would be Devil May Cry's second rep over the more requested Vergil, who had to wait until Ultimate to be added.
  - Arthur could already be considered one, as most only know Ghosts 'n Goblins as that old Nintendo Hard video game. So imagine the shock when Ultimate added his rival Firebrand, who's even more obscure than Arthur, as a second rep.
  - C. Viper from Street Fighter IV was added as the fourth rep for the series, with the others being the much more iconic and classic Ryu, Chun-Li and Akuma, while she had only debuted just over two years prior to this game, and wasn't even intended to be the star from the beginning (it was supposed to be Abel, but fans caught on to her much more).
Vindicated by History: Back in 2011, there was no shortage of gamers tearing the game to shreds over a lack of content, bizarre roster choices (no Mega Man, really?), and what many felt was taking advantage of the playerbase with Ultimate being released the same year. As time went by, when Disney revoked their license only to later collaborate with Capcom to create Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, the reception has become far more positive. That's mainly because Infinite is far, far more polarizing than 3 ever was, which seemed to magnify the issues^note while creating new ones^note. Now, 3 is much more praised by fans than it's ever been, who hold it as an example of how good the series was before Disney got involved. The roster in particular is held in high regard — not only are there plenty of characters to choose from, but it actually feels like it draws from the comics, as opposed making everything a plug for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The fact that it had a good mixture of characters from different teams instead of characters from both the X-Men and Street Fighter series dominating the Marvel and Capcom sides helped. It also helps that Infinite had the side effect of making 3 easily available again via bringing it to new consoles and to PC, bringing the game to a wide audience again after a brief stint in difficult availability. This was perhaps best cemented by the fact that, when the game returned to EVO in 2023 (after no Marvel vs. Capcom game being at the tournament since 2017^note) as a throwback tournament, the tournament attracted even higher numbers than it ever did when it was considered a marquee game in the Fighting Game Community in the early-mid 2010s.

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