In an era where fighting games are more than happy to bring in guest characters from other franchises, like Street Fighter 6 bringing in Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockheart, or Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves bringing in Fist of the North Star’s Kenshiro, Invincible VS developer Quarter Up has expressed similar interest in guest characters as well. In an interview with MMORPG.com, game director Dave Hall and lead combat designer Bau Bautista spoke about how cool it would be to see a character like Spider-Man taking on Omni-Man.
“We’re always down for a crossover,” said Hall when asked about a potential Spider-Man 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. We’re definitely not above that, and we would love to have a chance to work with legendary characters like Spider-Man.” He went on to even name-drop Mortal Kombat characters. “We’d love to have Sub-Zero and Scorpion! Bring them over; that’d be great.”
“If we have that opportunity, we will definitely take it because those characters are iconic as hell and being able to bring them to Invincible to see how they fit in our meta would be awesome,” added Bautista.
It is worth noting that characters from Mortal Kombat would be a much better fit for the kind of violence that is possible in Invincible VS. Much like the comic book and its animated adaptation by Amazon, the Invincible-based fighting game also has quite a bit of emphasis on the violence of the fights.
For the time being, however, Quarter Up is focused on bringing in more characters from the Invincible franchise into its fighting game. With Hall noting that the studio doesn’t quite have any major announcement regarding new characters or even a Nintendo Switch 2 port yet, Bautista said that the team is working hard on “some really awesome characters” for Invincible VS.
“We’re not announcing any new consoles or anything at the moment,” Hall said. “So, if we do anything like that, we’ll definitely have an announcement.”
“But we have some really awesome characters coming down the pipe that people are going to really love,” Bautista explained. “Every character is going to bring unique gameplay to it, and the meta is going to shift a little bit around that character. It’s going to be really exciting.”
Invincible VS is slated to bring in its newest roster addition, The Immortal, later this week. Leading up to the release, the studio had released a deep dive video on the character over the weekend, which placed quite a bit of emphasis on how lore-accurate his depiction in the fighting game would be.
Invincible VS is available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. For more on the fighting game, check out our review, where we gave it a score of 8 out of 10. And take a look at our interview with executive producer Mike Willette and technical director Bill Merrill, who joined Hall in answering many of our questions.
