All Marvel Rivals upcoming characters and leaks

The possibilities for Marvel Rivals upcoming characters are almost endless, but leaks and datamining have certainly narrowed things down. With the launch of Season 2.5 and the arrival of Ultron, the Duelist and Strategist hybrid, it now means there are 39 Marvel Rivals characters to pick from. However if that isn't enough for you, there are plenty of leaks and datamines out there to keep you speculating about future characters past Season 2.5.

While we don’t know which heroes are upcoming in future updates, we do have a decent understanding of who is on the docket for Marvel Rivals. While Deadpool and Daredevil have been rumoured, suggesting that popularity is a factor, but we've also seen more out-there suggestions too. 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 is the next Marvel Rivals hero coming out?

Now that Season 2.5 is out, we’re actually at a bit of a loss for who to expect next. We know, thanks to the end date of the Battle Pass, Season 3 should launch on July 11, 2025. However, we don’t quite know yet who to expect to land with it. Blade has obviously been floating around the game since last season, so it might make sense for him to appear, though it's not clear if and when we'll see the Daywalker Vampire Hunter becoming a playable option, with all the new Marvel Rivals Team ups that will inevitably come with that.

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
• Daredevil
• Deadpool
• 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 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. As the current plan is for two heroes to be added per season though, it’s never going to be very long between hero reveals. Be sure to check back with us here to stay up to date.

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.

Most recently, prolific Marvel Rivals leakers XOXLEAK put out a list of heroes they believe to be coming to the game in the imminent future based on files in the game. That list includes:

• Blade
• Phoenix
• Professor X
• Gambit (previously rumored as Jia Jing)
• Rogue
• Daredevil

Adding to the Daredevil leak, XOXLEAK mentioned Daredevil specifically accidentally having his name and the name of his passive ability leaked into the game’s code.

Another prominent leaker, Miller Ross, also showed off lore for Season 2.5, which might point to who is coming in Season 3. The lore in-game points to being Knull in the next season, and that Adam Warlock needs to find a “primal forces of the universe”. This has led many to speculate that we could be seeing Phoenix or Captain Marvel next season too.

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 too.

Fumo Leaks also went into the Chinese build and found strong evidence that Jean Grey is not too far off either, further supporting evidence that she might be coming in Season 3. 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, Dracula 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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