Niitsuma has confirmed that a third of the potential roster will consist of characters who did not appear in the Marvel vs. Capcom franchise.

Characters confirmed by Niitsuma to be absent from the game have so far included Tyrant and Nemesis of the Resident Evil series, citing concerns that their inclusion would change the game's content rating.

The primary members of Marvel's Fantastic Four were excluded at the company's suggestion for currently undisclosed reasons, although it could be argued that it's because Super-Skrull has all their powers, thus giving all of the Fantastic Four representation within Super-Skrull. (Niitsuma stated that the Human Torch was a completed character and originally considered to be on the roster, but his animations consumed a lot of memory. So Marvel suggested Super-Skrull to be his replacement and retained his model, animations, hyper combos slated for the Human Torch. The Thing was also considered at one point, but Capcom felt he would be too similar to the Hulk.)

Seth Killian has stated that original characters Amingo, Ruby Heart and Sonson from Marvel vs. Capcom 2 were absent. The final character roster is said to be around 40.

It has also been stated that:

■Blade (Blade)
■Cable (X-Men)
■Daredevil (Daredevil)
■Doctor Strange (Doctor Strange)
■Emma Frost (X-Men)
■Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four)
■Gambit (X-Men)
■Ghost Rider (Ghost Rider)
■Kingpin (Daredevil/'Spider-Man)
■Loki (Thor)
■Mojo (X-Men)
■Punisher (The Punisher)
■Silver Surfer (Silver Surfer / Fantastic Four)
■B.B. Hood (Darkstalkers / [Vampire Savior])
■Demitri Maximoff (Darkstalkers)
■Donovan Baine (Darkstalkers [Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge])
■Gene (God Hand)
■Gill (Street Fighter III)
■Hayato Kanzaki (Star Gladiator)
■Nemesis (Resident Evil 3)
■Nero (Devil May Cry 4)
■Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
■Strider Hiryu (Strider)
■Tyrant (Resident Evil)
■Vergil (Devil May Cry 3)
■Wayne (Lost Planet)
■Zangief (Street Fighter II)
and characters from the following Capcom series:

■Breath of Fire
■Darkstalkers (Beyond those already in the game)
■Monster Hunter (At the request of their developers)
■Power Stone
■Rival Schools
■Sengoku Basara
■Three Wonders
will not be playable, but it is possible that they will make stage and ending cameo appearances.

Why are we getting a list of deconfirmed characters from you when all the characters are known?

Spencer, She-Hulk and X-23 was awesome. Why do you hate them if you have never played the game yet? Don't judge it until you play it.

Modok, Spencer and She-Hulk are wastes of roster slots in my opinion. Mainly Spencer.

Modok, Spencer and She-Hulk are wastes of roster slots in my opinion. Mainly Spencer.

Spencer looks like hes alot harder to master than spiderman
She hulk looks so hard to master and perfect her moveset
X-23 looks like a wolverine clone. Even though shes not, im sure she will have low health like wolverine

If theres one person you should rlly bich about when it comes to movesets is Dante's. A few videos have been posted up about Dante owning an entire team

Modok, Spencer and She-Hulk are wastes of roster slots in my opinion. Mainly Spencer.

That's probably because Nathan can't trap opponents like Spider-Man.

pppst X-23 IS a Wolverine clone, but you probably ment 'in-game' (as in, her moves are not the same)

Also, when it comes to overpowered people, Phoenix deserves a mention.