







With Marvel Champions: The Card Games, now well in full swing and a huge fan base of gamers and comic-lovers a like, Fantasy Flight has as part of their preview of their Thor: Hero Pack expansion have announced their release schedule for the first half of 2020. Following Thor's release in May, they are looking at release three further heroes in the following months followed by their first "Story Box", that will contain new heroes and scenarios.





The simple nameless listing of releases has sparked a lot speculation in the community forums based on the silhouettes and redacted story box name. The two arcs that immediately spring to mind would either be The Age of Ultron and The Age of Apocalypse, however the later really only centres around alternative versions of the characters that we know and love and it seems strange to have an Ultron-centric story box when Ultron was in the core box. Others have suggested The War of Realms, this would definitely open up the span of characters available in the game as the Avengers, Champions, Agents of Atlas and X-Men, were all involved in the story (including one of my favourite splinter groups - Captain Marvel's War Avengers). There would also be a number of scenarios, as the arc has many story points all leading up to and converging for it's finally.

All of this speculation is of course based on the idea that they're releasing a story box based on a pre-existing event in the Marvel universe, which while makes sense, may not necessarily be the case. So looking at just the silhouettes my educated guesses would be:

April - The silhouette is definitely female, and from her pose I would say not an outright fighter, she's not holding herself in the manor of Black Widow or the like. With the pony-tail I'd say it will either be Invisible Woman or potentially (hopeful, but probably not likely) X-Men's Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat).

May - The community have all but agreed that this guy is wearing a baseball cap, but all previous Hero Packs have had their hero's in hero form and I don't personally know of any hero that wear baseball caps. Others have suggested Dr. Strange, but I just don't see it. So if we take what others are assuming is the peak of a cap and make it the end of something their holding, I'd say it could be the end of a bow and that's actually Hawkeye.

June - The community at large are agreeing with this one as being a scientist of some kind adjusting their glasses, but again we've not seem heroes in the alter-ego on the front of the packs. So thinking the only character with glasses as a hero that comes to mind is Cyclops.

With April being Shadowcat and June being Cyclops (at a complete guess), we could be seeing the X-Men enter the Champions universe. [Ed. Iceman has been known to wear a baseball cap from time to time, even while in his ice-form, as he got stuck that way for awhile].





But in the end only time will tell, although it is fun to keep guessing, so watch this space and see what's coming to Marvel Champions (it's going to be great).





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