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MartianSnake

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Ok I have a theory.

Jason was supposed to be announced at the NHL collab, but for some reason, he wasn't quite ready yet.
Did the NHL collab feature any GOT or R&M characters? Cuz if not I have an alternative theory where Jason was supposed to be announced but was deemed too violent for something that's essentially just Warner's version of those SpongeBob and Toy Story football match overlays
 

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between the watchmen poster in the devs office and the watchmen Ring out that was leaked ages ago I honestly think a watchmen rep could happen
 

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So, if speculation were based on the office pictures, Matrix, Watchmen, and Mortal Kombat would in consideration, right?

The third picture (the one with the Watchmen poster) has John Tobias in it. He's the co-creator of Mortal Kombat.

I don't believe in the office pictures meaning anything, but it's neat to see things like this pop up outside Smash speculation.
 
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So, if speculation were based on the office pictures, Matrix, Watchmen, and Mortal Kombat would in consideration, right?

The third picture (the one with the Watchmen poster) has John Tobias in it. He's the co-creator of Mortal Kombat.

I don't believe in the office pictures meaning anything, but it's neat to see things like this pop up outside Smash speculation.
Well MK is no surprise, it was always just a matter of time.

Watchmen is very intriguing, I wonder who they'll choose. I think Dr. Manathan is the most popular one, but I feel like his powers might be hard to translate in a fighting games, so they might go with Rorschach.
 

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God that would be so lame. Imagine introducing a massive pick like that in somewhere as random as the NHL collab.
I think it's because Jason wears a hockey mask so there's like that thematic connection or something like that

between the watchmen poster in the devs office and the watchmen Ring out that was leaked ages ago I honestly think a watchmen rep could happen
I wonder how the inclusion of Doctor Manhattan in a game where he can fight Bugs Bunny and Velma Dinkley would affect Moore's spellcasting? Also, I never actually heard about that, but the idea of you getting flashbanged by a giant psychic squid when you get K.O.'d is really funny to me somehow

Well MK is no surprise, it was always just a matter of time.

Watchmen is very intriguing, I wonder who they'll choose. I think Dr. Manathan is the most popular one, but I feel like his powers might be hard to translate in a fighting games, so they might go with Rorschach.
I reckon they could probably work out a way to do Doctor Manhattan if they toned him down a little, though I'd personally be kind of shocked if they included Rorschach for numerous reasons - I can imagine it, he's become decently iconic - but there'd be so many issues with his inclusion in a game of this age rating. Then again, they could always go with someone from the 2019 series everyone forgot about, or even make him more appropriate using the swearing toggle

Like, Manhattan but arguably also V or Constantine all feel more palettable as Moore creations if they were desperate to delve into his own DC catalogue?

To be honest, I feel like it'd be more likely for them to actually include the Question, and then give him a Rorschach costume - but I really don't think Question would be high on the Charlton list when you consider there's still Peacemaker to cross-promote later down the line.
 
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I think it's because Jason wears a hockey mask so there's like that thematic connection or something like that


I wonder how the inclusion of Doctor Manhattan in a game where he can fight Bugs Bunny and Velma Dinkley would affect Moore's spellcasting? Also, I never actually heard about that, but the idea of you getting flashbanged by a giant psychic squid when you get K.O.'d is really funny to me somehow


I reckon they could probably work out a way to do Doctor Manhattan if they toned him down a little, though I'd personally be kind of shocked if they included Rorschach for numerous reasons - I can imagine it, he's become decently iconic - but there'd be so many issues with his inclusion in a game of this age rating. Then again, they could always go with someone from the 2019 series everyone forgot about, or even make him more appropriate using the swearing toggle

Like, Manhattan but arguably also V or Constantine all feel more palettable as Moore creations if they were desperate to delve into his own DC catalogue?

To be honest, I feel like it'd be more likely for them to actually include the Question, and then give him a Rorschach costume - but I really don't think Question would be high on the Charlton list when you consider there's still Peacemaker to cross-promote later down the line.
I feel like they might want to not include Rorschach due to his um

Well let's just say he's one of those "You miss the point by idolizing them" kinda characters that insights some pretty bad people.

As for Doctor Manhattan, maybe one of his abilities could involve like an irradiated debuff on enemies.
 

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I feel like they might want to not include Rorschach due to his um

Well let's just say he's one of those "You miss the point by idolizing them" kinda characters that insights some pretty bad people.

As for Doctor Manhattan, maybe one of his abilities could involve like an irradiated debuff on enemies.
Honestly yeah I was having a similar thought process given some of his, ahem, characterisation

That said, Doctor Manhattan could probably be made to work! You could probably give him a decent variety of moves and I'm sure there's enough potential for him, it might just feel a little odd if he gets killed by like Marvin the Martian lol

I'd personally say it'd be really cool if he had a teleportation move but with a visual effect that makes him look like he's "disassembling" his body into a skeleton, kinda like the visual effects in Snyder's Watchmen film - obviously they couldn't do it in too much detail but I feel like him manifesting as a nervous system, then a skeleton, then fully formed would be a really cool bit of visual flair

Also completely unrelated but I just had a weird thought. With discussion around Pickle Rick being pretty commonplace as well as the obvious elephant in the room being UI Shaggy, it's pretty clear that literal "meme picks" aren't off the table - do you think there's a genuine possibility of Batman recieving a "Man" skin to represent the iconic Arkham Aslume series?

 
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Honestly yeah I was having a similar thought process given some of his, ahem, characterisation

That said, Doctor Manhattan could probably be made to work! You could probably give him a decent variety of moves and I'm sure there's enough potential for him, it might just feel a little odd if he gets killed by like Marvin the Martian lol

I'd personally say it'd be really cool if he had a teleportation move but with a visual effect that makes him look like he's "disassembling" his body into a skeleton, kinda like the visual effects in Snyder's Watchmen film - obviously they couldn't do it in too much detail but I feel like him manifesting as a nervous system, then a skeleton, then fully formed would be a really cool bit of visual flair

Also completely unrelated but I just had a weird thought. With discussion around Pickle Rick being pretty commonplace as well as the obvious elephant in the room being UI Shaggy, it's pretty clear that literal "meme picks" aren't off the table - do you think there's a genuine possibility of Batman recieving a "Man" skin to represent the iconic Arkham Aslume series?

I'm not too sure about Arkham aslume, I think it's not a mainstream meme enough to be seriously considered. On that topic tho, according to PapaGenos source Big Chungus might come eventually.
 

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I heard somewhere (might have been this thread) the game was pitched to Netflix and Disney as well, though. Did it start as a WB pitch first and they had back up pitches just in case?
Netflix would've been a strange partner to go for this concept with, I feel like they don't really have a unified brand image with all their originals. Warner Bros. arguably doesn't have as unified a brand as Disney either, but I think they're still more iconic than what Netflix has got.
 

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Also I can't help but find the idea of Universal's just being like, Marty McFly, a realistic T-Rex, six different Minions with unique movesets, and Jason Bourne pretty funny
Not just those.

Blumhouse Productions such as M3gan and Michael Myers
Bourne Identity
Cocaine Bear
E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Jaws
King Kong
DreamWorks Animation (HTTYD, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, etc.)
The Blues Brothers
The Fast and the Furious
The Land Before Time
The Mummy
Waterworld
Woody Woodpecker
Universal Monsters

Lol. Dom Toretto vs. Littlefoot.
 
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I've read some sources saying that potential voice lines for Daenarys and the Hound were leaked last year.

Is there any truth to this and/or is the info outdated?
 
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I've read some sources saying that potential voice lines for Daenarys and the Hound were leaked last year.

Is there any truth to this and/or is the info outdated?
they don't have lines themselves but there are lines about and to them. daenarys had more iirc

This was 2 years ago so I dunno how relevant it is now
 
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Not just those.

Blumhouse Productions such as M3gan and Michael Myers
Bourne Identity
Cocaine Bear
E.T. the Extraterrestrial
Jaws
King Kong
DreamWorks Animation (HTTYD, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, etc.)
The Blues Brothers
The Fast and the Furious
The Land Before Time
The Mummy
Waterworld
Woody Woodpecker
Universal Monsters

Lol. Dom Toretto vs. Littlefoot.
Curious George and Fievel vs. Riddick and Chucky, while fighting on The Office would go very hard.
 

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I've read some sources saying that potential voice lines for Daenarys and the Hound were leaked last year.

Is there any truth to this and/or is the info outdated?
As stated, they had voice clips targeted toward them, but none from them. However, Daenerys had significantly more, while The Hound only had like two. Multiple leakers have also vouched for the former being fairly far along.
 

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As stated, they had voice clips targeted toward them, but none from them. However, Daenerys had significantly more, while The Hound only had like two. Multiple leakers have also vouched for the former being fairly far along.
Had leaks happened during the hiatus? cause i havent been keeping up with game leaks.

If they did, weird how they didn't catch Banana Guard before his announcement. Then again, Papagenos had info, he decided to not share to not spoil the surprise i guess but PFG beat him at that LUL
 

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Had leaks happened during the hiatus? cause i havent been keeping up with game leaks.

If they did, weird how they didn't catch Banana Guard before his announcement. Then again, Papagenos had info, he decided to not share to not spoil the surprise i guess but PFG beat him at that LUL
There was a few leaks here and there even in the hiatus period. There was the big PapaGenos stream which I'm not going to to the whole summary but he comments on many characters, most of them we already knew would be coming. There where also a lot of leaks towards Powerpuff girls and Samurai Jack.

But yeah weirdly enough, both Banana guard and Jason (assuming he's happening) didn't leaked at all. So I'm assuming that in the last year, a lot of plans have changed and characters order probably changed heavily, with some that weren't originally planned getting more priority.
 

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So, if Jason is coming how do you think a CGI teaser trailer for him would go?

I imagine it'd be Velma trying to find the fighters in a dark forest becoming more concern and worried as she finds some of their stuff scattered around, then when she hears something in the bush she goes looks into it she reassures herself that it's nothing(Girl's been seeing too many people in costumes lately) and the bush reveals to be Reindog.

She become relieved until Reindog got scared and ran off, Velma shouts were he's going but when she hears footsteps and turns around to see a white face looking figure dash towards her which causes the camera to cut off.

Edit at 6:36 PM: After the camera cuts off for 3 seconds, the screen goes back to normal only to show a crack forming from the top right to bottom left but we see a almost clear image of Velma's Glasses laying on the ground with a distant sound of a girl's cry followed by the iconic "Kekeke" noise playing before the camera dies out and displays the multiversus logo.
 
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So, if Jason is coming how do you think a CGI teaser trailer for him would go?

I imagine it'd be Velma trying to find the fighters in a dark forest becoming more concern and worried as she finds some of their stuff scattered around, then when she hears something in the bush she goes looks into it she reassures herself that it's nothing(Girl's been seeing too many people in costumes lately) and the bush reveals to be Reindog.

She become relieved until Reindog got scared and ran off, Velma shouts were he's going but when she hears footsteps and turns around to see a white face looking figure dash towards her which causes the camera to cut off.

Edit at 6:36 PM: After the camera cuts off for 3 seconds, the screen goes back to normal only to show a crack forming from the top right to bottom left but we see a almost clear image of Velma's Glasses laying on the ground with a distant sound of a girl's cry followed by the iconic "Kekeke" noise playing before the camera dies out and displays the multiversus logo.
I think it'd be funny to have the trailer involving him cutting the Banana Guard in half with his machete and being confused it's not blood
 
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So, if Jason is coming how do you think a CGI teaser trailer for him would go?

I imagine it'd be Velma trying to find the fighters in a dark forest becoming more concern and worried as she finds some of their stuff scattered around, then when she hears something in the bush she goes looks into it she reassures herself that it's nothing(Girl's been seeing too many people in costumes lately) and the bush reveals to be Reindog.

She become relieved until Reindog got scared and ran off, Velma shouts were he's going but when she hears footsteps and turns around to see a white face looking figure dash towards her which causes the camera to cut off.

Edit at 6:36 PM: After the camera cuts off for 3 seconds, the screen goes back to normal only to show a crack forming from the top right to bottom left but we see a almost clear image of Velma's Glasses laying on the ground with a distant sound of a girl's cry followed by the iconic "Kekeke" noise playing before the camera dies out and displays the multiversus logo.
While that would be accurate to how Jason could play, that will never happen. Not even to Mindy Kaling's take on Velma.
 

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So, if Jason is coming how do you think a CGI teaser trailer for him would go?

I imagine it'd be Velma trying to find the fighters in a dark forest becoming more concern and worried as she finds some of their stuff scattered around, then when she hears something in the bush she goes looks into it she reassures herself that it's nothing(Girl's been seeing too many people in costumes lately) and the bush reveals to be Reindog.

She become relieved until Reindog got scared and ran off, Velma shouts were he's going but when she hears footsteps and turns around to see a white face looking figure dash towards her which causes the camera to cut off.

Edit at 6:36 PM: After the camera cuts off for 3 seconds, the screen goes back to normal only to show a crack forming from the top right to bottom left but we see a almost clear image of Velma's Glasses laying on the ground with a distant sound of a girl's cry followed by the iconic "Kekeke" noise playing before the camera dies out and displays the multiversus logo.
I figure they'd probably end with a gag tbh
 

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I do expect Velma to attempt to unmask Jason only to freak out over what she sees (that the audience doesn't) or be unable to because the mask is literally attached to his face at a certain point in his movies.

Either way, Jason's just going to stand there and let it happen as the comically serious and just wait for her to run away before tailing her.
 

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Honestly as a life long scooby doo fan and movie monster enthusiast I'm pretty excited to see Shaggy and Velma in the same space as Jason
 

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I too would find it humorous if -insert character I personally hate- gets graphically murdered on-screen.

Funniest **** ever.
It's the only character that the slasher movie bad guy can kill on screen without showing graphic blood because it's a fruit dude, chill out. I wouldn't have said it if it was a character like Shaggy or Steven or Black Adam, who I despise just as much as Banana. If the idea ivanlerma has doesn't bother you neither should this because this implies Velma dies.

If there was a MK character I would say just have his trailer fight them but that's not what we have
 

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It's the only character that the slasher movie bad guy can kill on screen without showing graphic blood because it's a fruit dude, chill out. I wouldn't have said it if it was a character like Shaggy or Steven or Black Adam, who I despise just as much as Banana. If the idea ivanlerma has doesn't bother you neither should this because this implies Velma dies.

If there was a MK character I would say just have his trailer fight them but that's not what we have
We have Stripe, a non-human creature whose species has been depicted being killed off in gruesome ways with green blood (part of why the PG-13 rating came into existence), Bugs Bunny, who has been depicted in more recent shows with grotesque horror (but in a manner that is implied not to be fatal to him, so can just have him be "slashed" but wink to the audience that he's alright), Iron Giant, a robot, Joker, who had been in a Mortal Kombat like Jason (so the concept of fighting MK characters instead can still apply), Garnett, an alien rock species that can be killed in a manner that was flat out referenced in an losing animation and would require no blood, etc.

No one's buying that you didn't just single out the one character you'd been making a huge deal out of the past days and went doomposting the game over and literally saying Jason would "make up for it" to cater to a sadistic fantasy about killing it off for your own satisfaction.
 

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We have Stripe, a non-human creature whose species has been depicted being killed off in gruesome ways with green blood (part of why the PG-13 rating came into existence), Bugs Bunny, who has been depicted in more recent shows with grotesque horror (but in a manner that is implied not to be fatal to him, so can just have him be "slashed" but wink to the audience that he's alright), Iron Giant, a robot, Joker, who had been in a Mortal Kombat like Jason (so the concept of fighting MK characters instead can still apply), Garnett, an alien rock species that can be killed in a manner that was flat out referenced in an losing animation and would require no blood, etc.

No one's buying that you didn't just single out the one character you'd been making a huge deal out of the past days and went doomposting the game over and literally saying Jason would "make up for it" to cater to a sadistic fantasy about killing it off for your own satisfaction.
...admittedly, I'd also have him harmlessly slice Banana Guard, but only for the sake of a "banana split" pun

Double post, but Jason got directly leaked, and dear lord, he big.
Not like, Iron Giant big, but he big.

Good god, I gathered he'd be on the larger side but it looks like he's eaten all of the lawyers involved in the legal issues he used to be wrapped in

Admittedly it's growing on me every time I look at it but I do hope he gets a little more detail in the final build. The cartoony look suits him in this context tbf

I'm not watching as to avoid some spoilers

But I wanna know if it's video or pictures that have leaked
Just an image here, admittedly there's a possibility of this just being a mockup or something though
 
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