All Marvel Rivals upcoming characters, heroes and villains

Plenty of Marvel Rivals upcoming characters have been leaked or datamined, potentially expanding the roster with many interesting additions. There are now 35 Marvel Rivals characters, with Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Woman being the most recent additions, but the Human Torch and the Thing are on their way.

Beyond this, the next characters to be added to Marvel Rivals aren't obvious. Many dataminers have found references to the likes of Captain Marvel, Hit-Monkey, and plenty of X-Men, but not every leak is definitive proof of a hero coming to the game. By corroborating all sorts of leaks and official information from NetEase, we've laid out a comprehensive list of all the confirmed and rumored Marvel Rivals upcoming characters below.

When are The Human Torch and The Thing coming to Marvel Rivals?

The Human Torch and The Thing will be joining Marvel Rivals on February 21, 2025, with the start of the second half of Season 1. This coincides with the Marvel Rivals ranked split, which will bring some new rewards, though the Marvel Rivals Battle Pass for Season 1 will still be running too. With the whole Fantastic Four gang being reunited in the game, we're looking forward to whatever new Marvel Rivals Team ups appear as a result.

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.

• Human Torch (confirmed, arriving February 21)
• The Thing (confirmed, arriving February 21)
• Ultron
• Blade
• Angela
• Beast
• Captain Marvel
• Colossus
• Crystal
• Cyclops
• Deadpool
• Emma Frost
• Gambit
• Hit-Monkey
• The Hood (maybe Ghost Rider)
• Jean Grey
• Jia Jing
• Jubilee
• Locus
• MODOK
• Nightcrawler
• Professor X
• Paste Pot Pete
• Quicksilver
• Rogue

As ever, take these with a BIG pinch of salt. Just because a character shows up in the files doesn’t guarantee that they will be released any time soon or even at all. Characters take many month (at least!) to develop and long-term development plans for Marvel Rivals will be subject to change.

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 been revealed, courtesy of Twitter account Marvel Rivals Leaks. While initially thought to be a new character for Season 1, it seems like he has been delayed to Season 2. Whenever he arrives, leaked info details 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. However, it’s clear NetEase has plans for these characters, as work on them appears to be ongoing.

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:

• Human Torch
• The Thing
• Ultron
• Blade

We obviously already know that the Human Torch and The Thing will be added in the second half of Season 1, but considering the full list had names like Wolverine, Squirrel Girl, and Moon Knight months before they were announced, there’s a strong chance that Ultron and Blade will be some of the next few characters to join the fray.

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 and Emma Frost are 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 called out as being plants, bearing in mind that, rather confusingly, they may not actually be plants:

• 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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