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RyanCE posted up some notes from a recent Q&A session on Marvel vs Capcom 3 with the game's producer Ryota Niitsuma and a few others. This mostly details why some characters were picked over others and how some ultimately ended up in the game. Check out the notes below.
- Thing was at one point considered, but they felt he would be too similar to Hulk.
- Human Torch was a completed character, but he ate up too much RAM and had to be taken out.
- Marvel suggested Super-Skrull as a Human Torch replacement.
- To balance the roster out, Niitsuma wanted to include a young Marvel female, and ultimately X-23 was decided on.
- Niitsuma intentionally held off Spider-Man's announcement until TGS because he is a popular character in Japan.
- Marvel was reluctant to grant permission to include Shuma-Gorath, but Capcom convinced them that he is popular and an important part of the series' history.
- Incidentally, Shuma-Gorath was the first Marvel character that Capcom proposed to Marvel -- originally planned as an on-disc character?
- Felicia has yet to appear in an official English language gameplay video because of the ESRB.
