One of the most celebrated fighting games in history returns for another round! Nine years after taking the arcade gaming scene by storm and over six years after making its original home console debut, "Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes" will soon juggle-combo its way onto Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade and PS3's PSN!
In anticipation of the "MvC2"s next-gen debut, we're bringing you daily showdown spotlights pitting a Marvel character against a Capcom character. Each entry features official game artwork, character bios and polls to determine which universe really brings the heat.
Enjoy Ryu vs. Woverine spotlight, make sure to vote in the poll below, visit the official "Marvel vs. Capcom 2" site and come back on Monday for our next throwdown, right here on Marvel.com!
Oh, and we actually have a special treat for this showdown, the first episode of our "Marvel vs. Capcom 2" featurettes! Enjoy!
Marvel/Capcom Game Appearances: "X-Men: Children of the Atom," "Marvel Super Heroes," "X-Men vs. Street Fighter," "Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter," "Marvel vs. Capcom," "Marvel vs. Capcom 2"
Citizenship: Canada
Brief Bio: Living the calm and cool pampered life in 19th Century Canada until traumatic events triggered the onset of his mutant powers, Wolverine's life has been anything but quiet ever since. From fighting in world wars, training in the ways of the samurai in Japan or working as an assassin for the CIA, Wolvie's been just about everywhere. And for the longest time, he couldn't remember any of it—a result of the process that grafted adamantium to his skeleton and claws. Nearly driven mad and used as a weapon time and again, Wolverine's long since established himself as one of the most heroic members of the X-Men, Avengers, humanity and mutantkind. Remember, he really is the best there is at what he does.
Powers: Wolverine has a mutant healing factor that keeps him going no matter how hard you hit him. Couple that with an unbreakable adamantium skeleton, six razor sharp claws, animal-like senses, and an anger management problem and you've got one very dangerous mutant.
Special Moves: Berserker Barrage, Drill Claw, Tornado Claw, Berserker Barrage X, Weapon X
Quote: "Still the best there is at what I do!"
Fighter Name: Ryu
Real Name: Ryu
Universe: Capcom, Street Fighter
First Appearance: "Street Fighter"
Marvel/Capcom Game Appearances: "X-Men vs. Street Fighter," "Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter," "Marvel vs. Capcom," "Marvel vs. Capcom 2"
Citizenship: Japan
Brief Bio: The heart and soul of the "Street Fighter" series, Ryu is probably the most well known fighting game character in the world. Master of the Hadouken (fireball), he is more out to perfect his craft and hone his skills than win fights. An orphan trained alongside Ken, Ryu has a personality you could call stoic or boring. Either way, he is often seen as the greatest pure fighter in the world, always out for the next challenge to his abilities, with very little else in his way, save for vengeance against Akuma, the man he thought killed his very alive master.
Powers: Ryu is quite possibly the most skilled student of the Shotokan karate style. As such he has a ton of special attacks at his disposal, the most familiar being the chi-powered fireball, the Hadouken.
...Whew. Somebody's gonna be mad no matter how I gauge this.
First of all, there's two Wolverines on the game: Adamantium and Bone. Adamantium has more Hyper attacks and slightly higher...
No need to break it down for me....
Ryu attack at long range to keep Wolvie at a distance because he knows Wolverine is a match for his close-combat skills....but once Wolverine's healing factor...
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Japanese Spiderman, Episode 30 ''Fight On, Police Woman'': After breaking several traffic laws while chasing the Iron Cross Army, Takuya is placed under arrest and is sent to jail. While there, his cellmate escapes with the assistance of an Iron Cross Army machine bem. Spiderman digs deeper into the connection between the jailbreak and the army, only to find that they needed the convict for their plan to steal Cobalt X. Now Spiderman must make sure that Professor Monster can't get to the Cobalt X, or face the destruction of the city!
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X-Men (1992) - Season 2, Episode 22 When Mystique forces Rogue to revisit her own past, Rogue's overpowering flashbacks cause her to relive the encounter with Ms. Marvel and drive her from the X-Men. Rogue struggles with Ms. Marvel's thoughts which are trapped in her mind and the two battle it out on the psychic plane.
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Spider-Man 1967 Episode 25 ''Menace From The Bottom Of The World'': A criminal takes charge of subterranean molemen and uses them create sinkholes under bank buildings to steal all the money inside.
Japanese Spiderman, Episode 29 ''Hurry, GP7! Stop the Time!'': The Iron Cross army hires Bomb Wolf to intimidate hi-powered businessmen and blow up their buildings if they don't comply with the Iron Cross Army's requests for money. When a young boy's father is caught in a detonation, Spiderman is reminded of his own father's death at the hands of the Iron Cross Army and vows to keep fighting the fight against the evil empire!
Spider-Man (1994), Episode 7 Spider-Man finds himself caught between Mariah Crawford, a doctor from Africa, and Kraven, a man who has stalked her all the way to America. An accomplished hunter, Kraven gained animal-like abilities when he ingested a cure to save his life, but the side effects are causing his behavior to be erratic and violent. Spider-Man works with Mariah Crawford to find a cure and save an innocent man and the people around him.
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X-Men (1992) - Season 2, Episode 21 Cable comes to the present to stop Bishop and save his own future world. But after a one-sided fight against Bishop and the X-Men, Cable realizes that they might be too powerful to handle on his own. Looking for an alternative, Cable looks into the X-Men's history and discovers that Logan's healing factor may be the key to saving the future.
One of the most celebrated fighting games in history returns for another round! Nine years after taking the arcade gaming scene by storm and over six years after making its original home console debut, "Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes" will soon juggle-combo its way onto Xbox 360's Xbox Live 
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