You're going to have to wait slightly longer for Hawkeye and Spider-Man to make their way to Marvel's Avengers because Crystal Dynamics has just announced that the first superhero arriving after launch is Kate Bishop. Her story begins right after the culmination of the base game's campaign and ties into the narrative that also brings Hawkeye into the fray. Her addition wasn't dated, but it doesn't seem like we'll be waiting too long before her bow and arrow are in our hands. Don't forget the superhero and everything that comes with them is completely free.
Kate Bishop will be voiced by Ashley Burch and brings with her new story missions, locations, and gameplay mechanics to ensure a fresh experience can be enjoyed by all. The latest War Table livestream also seemed to indicate that it had plans to unveil Black Panther as a new playable character, but the reveal appears to have been delayed out of respect for Chadwick Boseman. Are you happy with this selection, or were you hoping for a different superhero? Get hyped in the comments below.
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Totally expected, considering Hawkeye is already getting a standalone campaign inspired by the Aja/Fraction run on his comic series. Bishop is one of my personal favorite new characters introudced in the Marvel Universe during the last decade alongside Hulkling and Kamala Khan so that's exciting. There's still yet to be a character that would really wow me though. These roster picks just seem super safe and marketable to the MCU audience so far
So they casted Ashley Burch as a Bow and arrow hero? Guerrilla Games will be like "that's a good one".
Well that’s definitely going a long way towards me picking up the game. With Ms Marvel and Kate Bishop with Miles pretty much guaranteed to get in there, we’re a little away from this universe’s Young Avengers.
@TheFrenchiestFry Now if only Hawkeye’s look wasn’t so ugly. I hope they do costumes with different visual styles, like they did in the Arkham games so we can get a simplistic cartoony Kate and Clint.
@nessisonett The alternate look they showed based off his David Aja design actually didn't look that bad but his default look in the reveal trailer looked like it didn't know if it wanted to directly derive from MCU Hawkeye or not, so they just said "make his head bald"
@TheFrenchiestFry It’s based on a comics look from a few years ago.
@nessisonett Ok yeah that makes sense
The face still looks like a mish mash of that and Jeremy Renner from the close up we got of him
Oh my god! Kate Bishop!
...
Who is she?
So the first post-launch hero is Hawkeye and the second one is... Hawkeye?
Even if they play different, it still feels weird conceptually, especially in a game where one of its biggest criticisms is that the characters feel “same-y”.
Edit: I just want it on record that I absolutely love Young Avengers and have nothing against Kate Bishop.
How can you be excited when you don’t even know who is this character
@GKO900 She’s one of the best new characters since the 2000s. Member of the Young Avengers, took over as Hawkeye when he was Ronin and starred alongside Clint in the Fraction/Aja run which is one of the best comics runs of all time. Just look her up, it’s not that difficult to find a wiki.
I can't stand Kate Bishop. Her comic with America Chavez (the most irrating and blatantly racist character Marvel has come out with in the last 20 years) sealed it for me. It was pure cringe; My Immortal-tier writing right there.
@Constable_What If you consider America Chavez racist then you clearly have never experienced actual real racism. Her solo series suffered from bad writing but calling it racist is laughably wide of the mark.
How stupid hahahaha
@nessisonett First off, I'm a Hispanic-American living in the Southwest, and I'd thank you to keep your presuppositions and arrogance to yourself. You don't have anything to be arrogant about, frankly.
Second, she's an overly-stereotypical, overly aggressive, Dora the Explorer-esque "Spanglish" speaking ignoramus, and was intentionally written to be that way. She was a bastardized and token character. Like a character that was so superficially "Latina" that it certainly was insulting to those that actually read that piece of garbage.
It doesn't surprise me that you'd not see anything racist about that series, but the fact that it failed, and made absolutely no impact in the Hispanic demographic tells me all I need to know, along with what I read.
@Constable_What Here’s a series of comments sent in by ‘fans’ about America Chavez. Plenty Hispanics vote for Trump as well, it’s impossible to speak for a whole race of people. She’s a positive role model for both Latina and LGBTQ+ children who look at her and realise that if their heroes can be just like them then they can push through the difficulties of growing up.
The cost of being America Chavez? Knowing that you're only a character created to pander to Hispanic-American girls.
Oh yeah- and pandering to the lesbian community. Marvel is lucky Americans love being pandered to!
Wtf smh, why are they getting pc all of a sudden
Marvel pandering to identity politics...smh
Is this the Hispanic Cap'n? Too much political correctness
She also an illegal alien who punches holes through walls.
Didn't she time travel to the moment cap was punching Hitler and jump in just to steal his glory? Yeah, definitely has NOTHING to do with cap.....Lmfao it literally showed her stealing his thunder, but ok, whatever you say super sjw!
Marvel needs to debate ideas that challenge their liberal ideology and welcome more independent and populist minded ideas.
The minute Marvel stops pandering the current SJW crowd that doesn't even read these books is the day Marvel will get its shot together. Until then, they're done for.
No one cares. She sucks. Bring back the heroes marvelites know and love and discard this trash.
Yeah hating white people and men openly in comic books is a small thing. Stop the reverse snowflake routine would you like me to list the things that have offended liberal regressives in the last 4 years
Or the fact that Marvel is choosing a political statement over story, character and art is disappointing to people who at one point liked Marvel and would like to see it return to a time when those things were paramount.
When she getting deported?
She could be America Chàvez and have a Mexican flag or from whatever she is. Lol
America is a Continent.
Hey SJW cosplayers it's going to cost you $300 in capitalism to dress as one of the crappiest sjw pandering characters marvel created.
Stop placating an audience you do not have.
To be fair if I was Hispanic I'd be pretty embarrassed.
What has happened to people in the social media era? You HAVE to represent everyone just for the sake of representation? It's a comic not a political ad or a billboard. Anytime they force something like that it fails miserably.
So what I’m sensing from Marvel is that heterosexual white males are only good for the villains is that correct?
I feel like Marvel is pandering to the Latino community with this lame excuse for a hero. Is this the best your writers could come up with???
The epitome of muh diversity in comics...
Too much lesbian stuff going on in a comic for me.
Another politically correct, liberal failure. No one will know of this grotesque person in 6 months.
When are you at Marvel gonna realize this book is an absolute embarrassment. It’s written by a moron for morons. This little “diversity” stunt is a failure.
American...Chavez?....facepalm Marvel just wants to fail at this point in comics it seems.
Not hard to see which side of history you’d rather fall on.
@nessisonett What's your point?
Liberals are constantly racist, and a lot of "SJWs" are as well. The whole, privilege notion, along with speaking on behalf of another community based on that perceived privilege is not only incredibly condescending, but also pretty racist as well. No matter how we'll meaning. It's just ignorant.
Why should I care about these comments as well? They're not relevant at all to what I was saying; it seems like you're just trying, and failing, to paint me in a bad light rather than respond to my point.
I've experienced my share of racism, and I've gotten over it and thrived in spite of it. Why? Because it makes me feel great when racists are doing worse than the people they feel should be doing worse than them.
It's impossible to speak for a whole group of people, hey?
Aren't you doing that by saying she's a positive force for LGBTQ and Latinos?
I mean, at least I have the ethnic ground to stand on. What about you, mate?
They really went for every famous voice actor, eh?
The character may be free, but everything else is going to cost you. Season pass, per character!, $10. Then a whole bunch of costumes, emotes and finishes to be purchased from the shop.
Don't forget, this isn't a free to play game, its $60 plus game.
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Kate bishop, aka hawkeye, is the person who took on the mantle of said alias after Clint Barton retired/died, don't remember which plotline. She was part of a team known as the young avengers, with other heroes such as iron lad and miss America. This is not to be confused with the new avengers, another group of young heroes including Nova and Ms.Marvel, (Khamala Khan), the west coast avengers or the great lakes avengers. Neither should they be confused with the avengers from the fifty state initiative after the first avengers civil war(yes there is two), or the Canada or UK based avengers, both of which the names escape me.
@GilbertXI thanks for the info. Comic books are so hard to follow hahaha
Kate's cool better add at this point then the tremendously boring Clint Barton. But, you get them both so hurray. I need like Deadpool, Ghost Rider or Daredevil to really make me bite and pick this up but. Kate at least piqued my interest.
@nessisonett I already had preordered the game, but with the addition of Kate Bishop and a lot of other cool characters on the way, I am feeling better all the time about that decision!
@nessisonett @Constable_What Wow people everyone is so triggerd now. Its a fictional character get over it people. 😆
@Flaming_Kaiser Oh shut up. You don't need to insert yourself the argument is already over.
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