Whether you’re talking about multiverse-upending event comics or that time Shadow the Hedgehog called Darkseid “pathetic,” comic book stories love taking unrelated groups of characters and smashing them together. The same is true of traditional fighting games, where Ryu is as likely to be seen throwing fireballs at the Hulk or Minecraft Steve as he is at Guile.
Currently, superhero tag battler Invincible VS is limited to the world of Robert Kirkman’s acclaimed Image comic—but let’s say I’m tired of watching Battle Beast smash other Invincible characters into gore. I want to watch him smash my friendly neighborhood Spider-Man into gore. In an interview with MMORPG.com, game director Dave Hall and lead combat designer Bau Bautista agreed that sounds pretty neat.
“We’re definitely not above that,” Hall said. “We’re always down for a crossover. I think it’s really exciting to think about, and let’s hope we can do some in the future, but nothing that we can talk about right now.”
As MMORPG points out, there is precedent for that specific crossover: Spider-Man has been spotted in Invincible comics and vice versa. Invincible is itself informed by all sorts of nods to characters from DC and Marvel, so crossovers like that are more of a full circle moment than they might be in, say, Fortnite.
But it seems like guest characters in general are of interest to Hall and Bautista, who are also excited about Mortal Kombat’s koterie of kharacters. “We’d love to have Sub-Zero and Scorpion! Bring them over, that’d be great,” said Hall. “If we have that opportunity, we will definitely take it,” added Bautista. There’s precedent there, as well: Omni Man was a guest fighter in Mortal Kombat 1.
Currently, Invincible VS is focused—as you might expect—on other characters original to the Image comic. Immortal and Universa are due to join the game June 30, when its first season begins.
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