Starting off with the Capcom hopes leads the mighty 4chan hero, Fanman from Megaman. Fanman basically represents 4chan in that he blows away anyone he's ever cared about, and is quite sad and depressed and lonely...in their fanfiction. In the actual game, he has next to no backstory, but is still quite badass in that he fights with a fan. Maybe he'll get in as one of Dr. Wily's summonable assists (ala Doronjo in TvC or the zombies for Jill in MvC2), but realistically, he won't be a playable character. Still, if they're going for fanservice and want to draw 4chan in, maybe in some parallel universe far away, Fanman is playable.
Second up is Tron Bonne from Megaman Legends and her own spinoff, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. She is the anti-hero inventor of the Servbots, who now also exist in Frank West's world in Dead Rising as a bunch of toys. Nonetheless, she was a playable character in MvC2 (a well designed and creative one at that, might I add), and is a good way to get the well known Servbots 'playable'. Also, I play her on Team Z, so, y'know, she's cool. But alas, she's in the background of the Megaman Legends stage (indicates Megaman Volnutt is back, btw), though fanservice is supposed to abound in this game, so maybe all the stages are really 'interactive'. Possible, but unlikely for a character that's (now) as obscure as Tron. Oh well, still hope.
Turned into a god after being born from a genetic control program by a virus designed to interact with you, then assimilating another plague would probably make you perfectly zany for the Versus series. This, of course, describes the mighty Resident Evil villain, Albert Wesker. With his super strength, Ouroboros tentacles, guns, and whatever else you could possibly dream of, Wesker is probably a good chance for MvC3, given that Chris got a rather large spotlight, indicating a like of the RE franchise for MvC3. So, hopefully Wesker'll make it in.
While charge characters tend to be fairly bad in Mahvel, it wouldn't be too hard to redesign the mighty Bison to fit in with the new insane speed. The whole 'kneel before my psycho power!' thing gives him alot of room to move in, since you can pretty much make him do anything. With cinematics supers, as well, Psycho Punisher could be a fairly cool redesigned ultra. Nonetheless, the main reason I want Bison in is because, if and when Marvel make a crossover comic series, Bison teaming up with Doom would be the coolest evil partnership ever. No, seriously. They'd inevitably backstab each other, as well, so it'd be amazing. Even better than Bison and Magneto was in MvC1.
To alot of people, Darkstalkers simply doesn't exist, and even if it does, they see it as 'Street Fighter with monsters', even though they play nothing alike. Such is the curse of the casual. The fact that Morrigan and Felicia are already in indicates no more, but I'd still like to hope the big bad Jedah makes it in, given his popularity in the series, his position as a big villain (though you could argue Pyron or Demetri are more important), and his playstyle would be unique. Plus, he's another Capcom character you could give flight to, which are pretty slim in numbers. Given that Tyrant isn't going to be due to gruesomeness, however, I doubt Jedah, with his disconnected hands rising up from a pit of blood sweep, has much of a chance. As with the others, though, hope is a virtue.
To finish up Capcom, we've got a character who, to alot of people, represents the Marvel series. With the new Capcom directive, I can see the mighty Captain Commando being left out, and that kinda scares me, because he's such a nice tie-in to Capcom's past, and such a badass hero. Seriously, he's a commando ranked captain who can summon a ninja commando to help him. What more could you want? The fact alot of people wouldn't recognize him at all, let alone immediately, is a threatening prospect for him, though.
Onto Marvel now, and let's start with everyone's favourite anti-hero, stripper devouring, symbiote-wearer, Venom! Venom had a great, unique design in MvC (though, as with some other characters, noobs will go 'hurr spiderman clone' because they don't understand the game), and I'd really hope they'd continue him through into MvC3. He's probably one of the most well known Marvel villains, up there with Doom and Magneto, and I can't really see Marvel leaving him out. The lack of a Spiderman silhouette is frightening, though, since I can't see Venom without Spidey, but time will tell.
Even though its probably him in the sillhouettes, Dr. Doom is also another villain who's gotta make it in. He's well known, fights pretty much the entire Marvel mainstay (not many villains can really say they've done that), and has his unique MAGICCC playstyle. Also, this ties in well with my Bison summary, since, again, Bison and Doom would be an awesome evil cabal partnership.
With a new movie coming up (well, two, if you count The Avengers, which better be hype as all hell, btw), and being a pretty big badass, Thor is yet another probable shoe-in. Plenty of possibility for unique moves with Mjolnir, and plenty of room for lightening being thrown in every direction. Also, if he makes it in, all the important (sorry Yellowjacket) founding members of the Avengers will be in, which would really be perfect for Marvel's history. I mean, I'd also like the complete founding New Avengers to be in, but I can't see Luke Cage making it, alas.
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