852: Marvel vs. Capcom 2 PS3 \\ Thanos, Hulk, Sabretooth (& Birdie!) - mega-muscle Score Attack 1cc!

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Published on March 19, 2022 4:20:31 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8a8EY3SKVI

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Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000)

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Playing Score Attack mode in Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes in widescreen on PS3 with the team of Thanos, Hulk, and Sabretooth!

My Vs. series playlist:    • smbhax's Vs. series adventures!  

0:00 - start
1:28 - Omega Red, Colossus, Doctor Doom
5:42 - Venom, Wolverine, Spider-Man
9:32 - Hayato, Rogue, Ryu
13:33 - Cyclops, Jill, Thanos
16:35 - Iceman, Captain America, Zangief
20:07 - Sonson, Guile, Cable
23:25 - T.Bonne, Anakaris, Ruby Heart
26:54 - Abyss
31:22 - credits
33:32 - wrap-up & what's next!

These dudes are too strong! ; D

Oh! I'm dumb; I bet if I'd done the LIGHT version of Sabretooth's hcb+K, that would have had Birdie shooting at a different angle; all I tried was the heavy kick version, where she shot slightly upward, and I completely failed to hit the second boss form. In fact, according to Sabretooth's MvC2 FAQ https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/dreamcast/914427-marvel-vs-capcom-2/faqs/8247 ... Yep, light would have shot horizontal. Oops! ; )

I looked up Birdie! Well, in the actual Marvel comics, there was no "Birdie"; there was, however, a tall slender blonde woman pretty much identical to her, with a more fabulously '90s costume, named "Birdy"--somehow the spelling just came out differently in the games. Birdy was a sort of Gal Friday to Sabretooth, and had a telepathic power that conveniently helped control his blind rages. Introduced in his employ in 1992 ("X-Men" 2001 series #6), she was killed by Mystique's mutant-serial-killing non-mutant (go figure) son in 1993 ("Sabretooth" limited series #4); this was firmly back in the awful "women in refrigerators" ridiculously testosterone-overblown era of comics where the industry's male hack comic writers routinely murdered female supporting characters in gruesome ways as a desperate means of generating drama.

Not to mention that their "relationship" was written in grotesque ways even before she was killed off. In one issue of the Sabretooth limited series, for instance, while she's massaging his poor tired muscles from the side of his hot tub, he gets mad and throws her into the tub, yelling at her to "do her job." Irked by that treatment, she zaps him with an extra-big psychic zap, which not only chills him out hard but also manifests his younger self. She converses with the younger self and hugs him--after he's slipped his weird manacles and lunged at her--at which point Sabretooth snaps out of his trance, shouts at her some more, and punches her right in the face, knocking her out flat on the floor. He puts on a towel and walks out, talking and smiling to himself. ; P

MvC2 came out in 2000, so when "Birdie" appeared as part of Sabretooth's special and super attacks in the game, "Birdy" had already been dead seven years in the comics; the game is a call-back to the glory days of Marvel's 1990s excess! (Granted, she and Sabretooth first showed up https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/199373-x-men-vs-street-fighter/faqs/1197 in 1996's X-Men vs. Street Fighter, but her comics alter-ego had still been dead THREE years at that point.)

(Sabretooth and Birdie weren't in MSHvSF and MvC, the two vs games between XvSF and MvC2. Ref: https://marvelvscapcom.fandom.com/wiki/Sabretooth )

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Birdy_(Earth-616)
https://x-men.fandom.com/wiki/Birdy (not as good an article but I really like the style of the illustration of Birdy there--it's the opening shot of Birdy from the 1993 four-issue "Sabretooth" limited series, with incredibly over-the-top art by Mark Texeira, and colors by Steve Buccellato)

Only three characters left to try out! Can you guess who they are? Two are eh sort of related, and the other is a character I'd scratched off the list at one point early on, but need to try out again!

3/17/22

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