All Marvel Rivals upcoming characters, heroes, and villains

The roster of Marvel Rivals upcoming characters is extensive, thanks to plenty of official teases along with some significant leaks and datamining discoveries. While the most recent arrivals of the Thing and the Human Torch have pushed the existing line up to a whopping 37 Marvel Rivals characters already, there are always more waiting to emerge from the wings. Thanks to the Season 2 Hellfire Gala trailer we can now confirm several previous leaks, with Emma Frost being the headline character and Ultron arriving with his minions to crash the party.

While we don’t know exactly which heroes are upcoming in all future release, we do have a decent understanding of who is on the docket for Marvel Rivals thanks to leakers and dataminers. There have been references to favorites like Deadpool and Captain Marvel, but also some very interesting niche picks. By corroborating all sorts of leaks and official information from NetEase, we've laid out a comprehensive list of all the confirmed and rumored upcoming Marvel Rivals characters below.

When are the next Marvel Rivals heroes launching?

We now know that the upcoming Season 2 of Marvel Rivals will be starting on April 11, which we were already expecting since that's the day the Marvel Rivals Battle Pass countdown for Season 1 finishes (it's also a Friday, which is when Marvel Rivals tends to roll in new content). From the Season 2 trailer it's clear that Emma Frost will be the headline character for the launch of this new season, while Ultron arrives to break up the party. It's not clear yet if Ultron will arrive later in Season 2, or if Blade will be making an appearance as an upcoming character, but these fresh faces should hopefully bring some interesting new Marvel Rivals Team ups to the game.

Full list of leaked upcoming Marvel Rivals characters

Here's a list of all the possible Marvel Rivals upcoming characters based on leaks and datamined information from in-game files.

• Angela
• Beast
• Blade (currently in the game as an NPC)
• Captain Marvel
• Colossus
• Crystal
• Cyclops
• Deadpool
• Emma Frost (confirmed for Season 2)
• Gambit
• Hit-Monkey
• The Hood (maybe Ghost Rider)
• Jean Grey
• Jia Jing
• Jubilee
• Locus
• MODOK
• Nightcrawler
• Paste Pot Pete
• Professor X
• Quicksilver
• Rogue
• Ultron (confirmed for Season 2)

Take these with a BIG pinch of salt. There is no guarantee all of these characters come out. This is a huge list that would take years for NetEase to complete even on Marvel Rivals' speedy release schedule. It’s also very likely that the incoming roster will change based on NetEase's plans, the game’s needs, and Marvel’s own trajectory.

As evidenced by some major confusion we've gone into more detail on further down, some of these characters could also be red herrings hidden by the developer, which wouldn't be the first time a game developer has done this. Below, you'll find more information and sources for the most notable leaks, but this quick list gives you a good idea of the range of heroes to expect in the future, and we know that the plan is for two heroes to be added per season - at least one per half-season.

Marvel Rivals Ultron leak and all abilities

Many aspects of Ultron have already been revealed, courtesy of Twitter account Marvel Rivals Leaks. While initially thought to be a new character for Season 1, it seemed like he was delayed to Season 2 – which has now been confirmed by the Season 2 trailer. Whenever he arrives, leaked info details that he'll be a two-star-rated Strategist with the following abilities:

1. Rage of Ultron - Summoning Ultron Drones to fire Encephalo Rays, damaging opponents and healing allies.
2. Dynamic Flight - Quickly fly in the direction of movement and enter free flight.
3. Imperative: Patch - Send a giant drone to follow and ally, constantly healing allies in a radius around it with extra healing for the targeted ally.
4. Imperative: Firewall - Summon Drones to give bonus health to allies within range, focused on Ultron and the ally marked with Imperative: Patch.
5. Algorithm Correction - Hold Space to fall slowly.

Leaked upcoming Marvel Rivals characters

Due to the datamining of in-game files, several leakers have found references to many Marvel characters that are seemingly being worked on. Obviously, with all of these, it’s mostly speculation based on information found in the files. That means these could be early concepts that are dropped or even red herrings. It’s also possible for some characters to appear in-game but not be fully fledged playable characters. For example, in Season 1, Dracula is in the game, but merely as a map and narrative fixture.

The most infamous leak comes from Miller Ross, who leaked a massive list of upcoming characters back in May, 2024, which has thus far proven correct. Out of the characters that still haven’t come to the game on that list, there are:

• Ultron (confirmed for Season 2)
• Blade

Thanks to the release of the Human Torch and The Thing, this list has proven to be very accurate. As well as the supporting Ultron leaks, Blade has now all but been confirmed as he appears in artwork all over the Season 1 Vampire-focused season, and is even in a room in the new Central Park map (he also appears at the end of the map’s trailer.) Right now, it appears he is locked down and trapped, so who knows if and when he breaks free, but it seems inevitable he’ll join the roster soon.

Miller Ross also posted a lore card about the end of Season 1 of Marvel Rivals that heavily hints at the Hellfire Gala being the theme for Season 2. This means it’s likely Emma Frost is involved – though like Blade, she may only be featured next Season, for a release later. In terms of the Season 2 heroes, Blade and Ultron seem very likely, considering the extent of their leaks, with Blade having in-game hero models too (via XOXLEAK), further suggesting he is imminent. We now know that the Hellfire Gala is the theme for Season 2 and Emma Frost is the headline character with Ultron to follow, so only Blade's fate is uncertain.

Plenty of other names have turned up in Marvel Rivals' game files, with dataminer Matfacio uncovering references to Captain Marvel, Hit-Monkey, and Angela (Thor's long lost sister) in hidden voice lines.

Fumo Leaks also went into the Chinese build and found strong evidence that Jean Grey is not too far off either. Miller Ross has also teased The Hood for Marvel Rivals too. For those unaware, the Hood is a Marvel villain who recently took on the Ghost Rider mantle. Whether this would be The Hood pre or post-Ghost Rider isn’t clear though as information seems limited.

Matfacio also mentions that there are references to Deadpool potentially being a playable character in the game files, but has cautioned about potential misdirection due to some irregularities with the files, saying, “I don't want to fall into their trap”.

X0XLEAK, a team of dataminers, has corroborated several of the above leaked characters and has found references to MODOK too.

An update for the game on January 22, prior to the launch of the Fortune and Colors event where you can earn Marvel Rivals Danqing for rewards, also turned up more information, however much of it could be false.

With this update, X0XLEAK claimed to have also found references to many more X-Men characters, including Professor X, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Gambit, and Rogue, using machine translation. Shortly after, a post in a Marvel Rivals leaks Discord server said that NetEase had set up fake characters to catch leakers, ruling out the majority of the leaked X-Men characters as legitimate. However, as IGN reports, many of the dataminers reckon the amount of work needed to lay these traps would be a lot for the developer, so they could be real characters after all.

Here's the list of heroes and villains that the now-deleted Discord server post accused of being plants, bearing in mind that, rather confusingly, that they may not actually be plants after all:

• Beast
• Colossus
• Crystal
• Cyclops
• Gambit
• Jia Jing
• Jubilee
• Locus
• Nightcrawler
• Professor X
• Paste Pot Pete
• Quicksilver
• Rogue

Elsewhere, more officially, Marvel Rivals has featured Knull and Doctor Doom in promotional material, though they aren’t currently playable. Two versions of Doctor Doom served as the antagonists for the launch of Marvel Rivals with Season 0, and Knull turned up in the seasonal launch trailer. They both have official art, so could become characters down the line.

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