Polaris and Scarlet Witch Gameplay – Uncanny X-Men Days of Future Past
Polaris is recognizable even in games… food for thought
It’s a shame the game is set up in such a way that you can’t have the sisters working together, but it’s kinda unavoidable given the way mobile titles work. I was very happy when Glitchsoft (now going by Gigataur) added Lorna, it was the entire reason I got the game.
… Though I didn’t get very far. Because it’s only on mobile, and I’m not really a mobile games person. Still, I got it and played it.
Oh I made it till the end and it was enjoyable. Speaking of sisters together, have you try X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse? Let me post an image where you can see Polaris and Scarlet Witch 2gether.
Have you try Polaris Mod for Marvel Ultimate Alliance *PC ONLY* Another interesting game. Here is an example and a link.
There is also a LEGO Marvel Super Heroes The Video Game. I think Polaris looks adorable in this one.
Even in Soul Calibur
Plus this one possibly from Street Fighter
Oh Polaris been around in not just one game, but many and all are fun to play.
The X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse one is odd. As far as I’ve always heard, Lorna was originally set to have a big role, but eventually Marvel gave that role to Wanda and relegated Lorna solely to some tube in the background.
Are you sure the first screencap isn’t from preliminary work or a mod? I never played that game myself, so I don’t know.
I never played the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance either. I played the second one, but on console. It was back when discovering Lorna made me excited to get into stuff tied to Marvel, before Marvel decimated that level of interest with their forced retcon on Wanda and Pietro’s parentage. Still, that’s the great thing about PC versions of games, they can be modded by fans to add the things they want when companies fail to deliver.
I was ecstatic when we learned Lorna would finally be officially playable in Lego Marvel Super Heroes. Literally, I bought the game only because she was playable in it, and it’s led to me buying many other Lego games afterward. I’ve played and beat Lego Lord of the Rings, Lego The Hobbit and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean so far, I plan to eventually get Lego Jurassic World, and it’s all thanks to Lorna becoming available in LMSH.
One you’re missing here, though it’s very easy to miss this, is Lorna’s brief appearance in Marvel vs Capcom 3.
Many of us were ecstatic about this, because at the time, Marvel wasn’t including Lorna with her family – and still isn’t, to be honest. Just in a different manner, by kicking Wanda and Pietro out of it.
The Soul Calibur and possibly Street Fighter ones are fanmade using character editors. You likely already know that, but I feel like it’s important to make that clear since some fans might assume they were officially in those games. Still, I absolutely love those cases, because it further shows how much fandom is out there and what could be had if Marvel actually uses Lorna’s full potential.
I’ll be frank, I don’t think we’ll see Lorna officially in any games outside ones tied to Fox films in the near future, if we’re lucky. It has nothing to do with Lorna, it has to do with Marvel’s current treatment of the X-Men franchise. Marvel’s trying to undermine the X-Men franchise right now, refusing to make cartoons and video games with them among other things. Since Lorna’s part of the X-Men, that means if the X-Men don’t get a shot, Lorna doesn’t get one. Same reason Disney and Marvel canceled the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon, despite its success and having future seasons already worked out.
I mean, I’d actually play Marvel Heroes if Lorna was playable in it, and members of the team behind it have repeatedly said they’d like to provide a playable Lorna. They just haven’t been allowed to do so.
The good news is, I think Lorna will get to make a big comeback in video games and other media about a decade or two from now, when new people at Marvel see their current treatment of X-Men only hurt their goals and try to reverse course.
I don’t know about a decade or 2 but she already been in many games so far. There are more I haven’t post yet of those where you can use different costumes of Lorna Dane.
There aren’t many video games that include Lorna. Her first “appearance” was in the background of the X-Men II: Legends game in the 00s, which looked like it would’ve been her first major game if not for people involved changing things around. Her first playable appearance was Lego Marvel Super Heroes, in 2013.
Games where you can create your own character that looks similar, such as City of Heroes or Soul Calibur, don’t really count. They’re fan-made likenesses created with create-a-character editors. You can “add” almost any character you want to any game using such editors. It’s not the same as Marvel or Fox licensing the actual character, powers and story and exact likeness and all, to these games.
Here’s why the difference matters: while fan-made likenesses show fan support, officially licensed appearances represent official support. They are both important and valuable in their own ways. The fan-made ones represent fans making for themselves what the company (in this case Marvel) isn’t giving them. It shows demand. However, the officially licensed appearances represent how seriously the company takes those fans and their interest. Marvel has plastered Wolverine on everything because they see his fanbase as just that important.
More importantly, how seriously the company takes fans and their interest often translates into whether or not they get opportunities in the comics. If a company is allowing a character to have appearances in games, or better yet to be playable, then it might have a shot at translating into comic book appearances.
I think the distinction is crucial because I don’t want people to think “If we can use generic create-a-character editors to create something that looks similar to Lorna, then we don’t need official appearances.” I want those fanmade versions to exist, they’re wonderful, but I also want people to continue asking Marvel to give her official appearances too.
All of that said, I look forward to when you post more pictures of different costumes of Lorna Dane. 🙂
I think she’s been in many games. There are many post of it and I can clearly see it. Just saying.
Polaris appeared in the video game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, having been captured by Apocalypse before the game’s events took place, as she is one of four mutants who possess “harmonic” DNA,
the other three being Quicksilver, Emma Frost, and Sabretooth, which
Apocalypse intends to use in order to steal their powers. The stolen
powers are ultimately restored to their original possessors. She plays a
role in the prequel comic book published as a companion to the game.[citation needed]
She appears in Magneto’s ending in the video game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, alongside other members of The Brotherhood.
Magneto is the final boss of the NES game Marvel’s X-Men. However, players could only access his level via a special code input at the level selection screen.
Magneto is the final boss of the X-Men arcade game. He kidnaps Professor X and Kitty Pryde during the first two stages, prompting the heroes to go on a rescue mission.
Magneto is the final boss of the Sega Genesis game, X-Men. However, after defeating Mojo,
players must softly press the reset button on the console to delete a
computer virus emitted on Mojo’s level before time runs out, in order to
face him.
Magneto appears in X-Men: Children of the Atom. He was the non-playable boss of the game whom the players must defeat at his space stationAvalon. His abilities rendered him very difficult to defeat.
In X-Men 2: Clone Wars,
Magneto served both as a boss and, for the first time in X-Men video
game history, as a playable character. Upon defeating him in the third
level aboard Asteroid M, Magneto joins the X-Men when he discovers that his entire crew had been assimilated by the alien Phalanx invasion.
Magneto appears as a boss in X2: Wolverine’s Revenge,
reprised by Fred Tatasciore. He is shown as a prisoner of The Void (a
mutant prison) until he is released by Sabretooth. He is also shown in a
Magnetic Flux Limiter Collar that was placed on him which ended up
suppressing his magnetic powers long enough to make him more powerful.
Wolverine ends up fighting him at an electrical plant.
Magneto appears in X-Men Legends voiced by Tony Jay.
Like the other characters in the game, he appears in his Ultimate
costume, though his personality and his relationship with Xavier is more
similar to his 616 incarnation. Mystique frees him from the U.S.S.
Arbiter and he escapes to Asteroid M where he gives a televised
transmission for any mutant who wants to get away from the Genetic
Research and Security Organization (GRSO) to head to the Mount. When
confronted by the X-Men, he fights them alongside Mystique and
Sabretooth. After the defeat, Magneto and his Brotherhood get away.
A capeless and non-helmeted version of Magneto was a playable character in the game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, voiced David Kaye.
In story mode, he is the last playable Marvel character in the game’s
story mode and like many Marvel heroes and villains in the story, is
taken down and (possibly) killed (a strange “swooshing” sound is heard
as he faints/dies, indicating that he actually indeed dies). By the most
powerful Imperfect, Paragon, after she refuses his offer of an alliance (She mistakes him for Niles Van Roekel, the man who kidnapped her, annihilated her village, froze her for several centuries and mutated her). In the PSP version of the game he still has his helmet.
Magneto as a playable character in the video game
X-Men Legends II
.
In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Magneto (voiced by Richard Green)
was made the main playable character as part of the game’s Brotherhood.
He and his Brotherhood of Mutants sided with the X-Men when Apocalypse
kidnapped Quicksilver when rescuing Professor X and fighting the forces
of Apocalypse. He has special dialogue with Zealot.
Magneto also appeared in X-Men: The Official Game voiced by Dwight Schultz. Magneto is only playable in the DS version of the game. In this game (which is set between the X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand
films), Magneto teams up with the X-Men to battle the Sentinels, and
also sends Sabretooth in the Master Mold to retrieve Jason Stryker to
make him a member of his Brotherhood. His plan was foiled by Wolverine.
Originally, Magneto made a brief appearance in a cutscene in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance lying on the floor next to Professor X, both having been defeated by Doctor Doom. However, the new Xbox 360
downloadable content features him (with his classic costume, 1980s
costume, Ultimate costume, and Xorn as alternate costumes) as a playable
character with Richard Green reprising his role. Magneto has special
dialogue with Professor X and Fin Fang Foom.
Additionally, there are unconfirmed rumors that if one uses Magneto in
Mephisto’s Realm after defeating Blackheart, he can save both Jean Grey
and Nightcrawler, rather than letting one fall into the Void.
Magneto appears in the Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable versions of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by John DiMaggio. He and Quicksilver have become victims of The Fold and will fight the heroes within a Repeater Tower in Reykjavík, Iceland.
After he and Quicksilver are defeated and cured, Magneto uses his
magnetism to help the heroes get to the top of the Repeater Tower. He
appears as downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, with Fred Tatasciore reprising. The DLC also includes an extra mission where the player fights Magneto.
Magneto appears in the Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet video game voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver appear on Asteroid M in order to confront
Magneto who mentions that the message they received is for them to
contain the Space Infinity Stone which had been shattered following an
attack by Doombots. When Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver reassemble it,
Doctor Doom arrives and reveals that his attack on Magneto was just a
ploy so that he could get the Space Infinity Gem. When Doctor Doom ends
up defeated, he tricks Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into swiping the
Space Infinity Gem. Doctor Doom’s attacks on Quicksilver and Scarlet
Witch cause Magneto to use his magnetic abilities on Doctor Doom who
reveals that he had placed Asteroid M on self-destruct. Magneto sends
Doctor Doom flying where the Space Infinity Gem transports Doctor Doom
to a cage. Magneto then gives his children the Space Infinity Gem. After
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver leave, Magneto claps off the
self-destruct sequence. In the DS Version, he is a playable character on
the last level of Challenge Mode.
Havok appeared as a supporting, temporarily playable character (through use of a power-up) in the Wolverine video game for the NES.
Havok appears as an NPC in X-Men Legends, voiced by Matt Nolan.
He has joined forces with the Brotherhood, much to Cyclops’ chagrin.
Discovering that mutants are being experimented on in the abandoned
Weapon X labs, he contacts his brother to secretly meet up with him to
check it out. Cyclops initially fights it out with Havok, until
Wolverine, having also come to investigate due to his ties to Weapon X,
breaks things up. Together the three attack the labs, freeing the
imprisoned mutants, though Havok returns to the Brotherhood afterwards.
Later on, Havok (along with Magneto and some unnamed Brotherhood grunts)
fights alongside the X-Men when the Mansion grounds are under attack by
Sentinels. Eventually, Havok has second thoughts about working with the
Brotherhood and is immediately imprisoned for mutiny upon being subdued
by Blob. He is freed in the final mission by the X-Men. After winning
the game, Havok and the rest of the Brotherhood of Mutants are playable
in the Danger Room.
Havok appears as an NPC in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, voiced by Scott Holst.
Here, he serves as the pilot of the X-Jet during the game’s third act.
Dialogue in the game suggests that some of the X-Men apparently have
trouble trusting him due to his alliance with the Brotherhood in the
previous game.
Havok appears in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2,[57] voiced by Jason Zumwalt.
Following the incident at Prison 42, Havok is featured in a funeral
scene as one of the missing and presumed deceased heroes. When the
heroes travel to Wakanda, they discover that Havok was taken over by The
Fold and end up fighting him on the path to the city where Black
Panther’s palace is. He is an exclusive boss character, only appearing
on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. He has special
dialogue with Storm and Jean Grey.
Note that only two of Lorna’s four appearances are playable, compared to these other characters having a majority playable appearances. I was going to include Jean Grey, but hers is as long as Magneto’s and more complicated.
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