The lore of Cyber Akuma comes from the comics with Apocalypse. Just like how Apocalypse took Angel from the comics and converted him to Archangel, he converted Akuma to Cyber Akuma.

Secret characters should be so broken they come out of the game screen and personally beat my ass.

Sakura doing a simultaneous backturn pose with Akuma like he's a proud uncle is the funniest shit, I love it lol.

I love how armored Spider-man has showed up in like five or six, maybe more video games over the course of like 30 years but in the actual comics it showed up for like one page in one issue. The armor gets immediately broken.

Of course. A Desk video. I love this guy's combo vids.

19:15 - I believe what happened is after Magento striped the Adamantium from Wolverine and Prof X thought he killed him, the Prof flipped out and mind wiped Magneto to press the reset button on him in order make him good again. However, when he did it the darkest parts of Magneto's psyche slipped into the professor and merged and festered in the darkness of his subconscious and eventually manifested itself as Onslaught.

“Whats the difference between Blackheart and Mephisto?” Mephisto can cancel Spider-Man marriage.

Random bit of trivia: The Shadow characters in the MvC series are a riff on the iconic Kamen Rider franchise. Shadow Charlie's backstory is basically identical to the original Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo: An evil organization kidnaps a man and turns him into a cyborg supersoldier, but he escapes before they can brainwash him into obedience and uses his newfound powers to fight against them. Meanwhile, "Shadow Jin" from Shadow Lady's MvC ending is a riff on Kamen Rider V3's Shiro Kazami, with Jin getting mortally wounded by the villains and the two existing Shadows being forced to turn him into a cyborg like themselves to save his life.

22:39 Fun Fact: Roll is the only secret character in MVC1 with her own theme instead of the blanket secret character theme

Max: "You wanna know Cyber Akuma lore? They were BROKE. The End".

I think the MvC announcements have just, restored Max's soul, and it's so lovely to see.

It seems like after MvsC came back from the dead, Max has turned his KZfaq channel back to a MvsC KZfaq channel once again. Proud for the guy he seems happy.

The Pokemon Flashing episode is fascinating because research suggest the large majority of children checking in to the hospital where doing so due to mass hysteria and reverse placebo.

Desk is a scientist. He has a masters degree in Combology and a Just-Frame Specialist.

I introduced my friends to MVC1. I used Red Venom to put all of them into infinites to properly introduce them to the game. Lol

"mvc1 balanced" that got a legit laugh out of me

Onslaught remained dormant for some time. Gradually, Xavier's frustration with his dream of mutant-human peace and harmony began to increase, exacerbated by the daily growth of anti-mutant hysteria, the deaths of dozens of mutants from the lethal Legacy Virus, and his own failed attempt to rehabilitate the mutant sociopath called Sabretooth. Xavier reached his breaking point when anti-mutant humans killed a young mutant near the grounds of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, the secret base of the X-Men. It was at this point that Onslaught awakened within Xavier and began to manifest himself to others

I find it funny how Desk and Max only remember Cyber Akuma coming back in SFV... but not in UMVC3 lol

Max saying Jubilee is one of the coolest X-Men characters makes me so so happy.

Max, literally nobody knows this but the design inspiration comes from another game. Cyber Akuma also known as Z-Gouki was a secret mech character from Cyberbots which was released on the sega saturn 4 months prior (March 28, 1997) to marvel super heroes vs street fighter.

Thank god we're gonna be able to turn of the flashing lights in the collection cause holy shit man watching this video hurts my eyes

TvC always cracked me up with the 27.5 BILLION damage! 😂

24:08 now that we freed MVC2, we need to free Tatsunoko vs Capcom, this time with the full roster!

I dont care what version of X-Men Vs. SF we get in the collection. I'm just happy to be able play it again after 20 years

The only fighting game to be 100% balanced was Street Fighter 1, since you could only play Ryu vs Ken.

Btw, I'm 25 and in Portugal I didn't get to play arcades or fighting games in my childhood. But thanks to this dood I've gotten into fighting games since 2015, which was a hard year for me. Started with USF4 and then UMVC3 on PS4. I'm just a casual but I love fighting games and I love how Capcom designs their characters and fighting games mechanics. Looking forward to get into TVC too. It's Mahvel baby !!!

This is what makes secret characters so fun and enjoyable to play against and as during the arcade matches even when playing online. And plus big shout out to the artist that did the cover of the marvel versus Capcom cover

I've actually heard people put dark Sakura on a much higher tier than regular in MVC2 mainly because her teleport has 0 recovery and you can do some wild stuff with that

The moment I saw Tomichin at the very end I instantly though "OK, how long until some sprite modder turns Tomichin into Max & makes him a usable assist, thereby inserting Max into MvC1?".

Secret characters of this magnitude seem to be part of that era of gaming, as I highly doubt they’d fly or even be put into modern fighting games. Like say if we were to get New MvC or XMvSF2, I don’t think we’d see something so broken like back then.

Cyber Akuma also appears in Marvel VS Capcom 3 and Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3, where he is a DLC costume for Akuma.

I want to continue on a little from my previous comment: ...Since we have Terry and Mai in the Capcom Universe now canonically...Does that mean that, in a potential new Marvel vs Capcom (vs SNK), we will get Fatal Fury representatives? 🤔 Are we going to get a potentially gigantic fighting game from some crazy places!? 🤔 There's so much potential!

I need to find a way to work "you cannot stop me with paramecium alone" into a conversation.

love that background art Cyclops Vs Ryu Chun vs Psylocke? Cpt America vs Cpt Commando Spider man Vs Morrigan... for some reason Zangief vs Venom Victor von Doom Vs Bison Gouki vs Thanos Iron Man Vs Mega man Storm Vs Strider Hiryu Wolverine vs Tron Bonne Nice

I'm still waiting on Rival Schools

I'd love it if in MvC4, if they brought back Ryu being able to transform into "Ken" and "Akuma" forms for 1 bar like he could in MvC1.

I think its funny how the flashes were like crack to my eyes as a kid, but now pushing forty it's like fucking sand paper over my cornea.

If they do Marvel 4, I'd like a combination of the groove system and some mechanics in prior MvC's/CvS. Like CvS2 you could choose whether to have 1, 2 or 3 characters to use: 1 character would give you more health (like CvS2), access to cancelling specials into specials and a parry or counter move to help against teams that use multiple characters. 2 characters would give your teams slightly less health than a single character and you'd have access to MvCI's/PR:BftG/2XKO active tag system. Then 3 characters would be like UMvC3's with ability to call in assists and do DHC/THC or wall bounce combos. That way there's a way to play for everyone, as not every player enjoys 2v2 or 3v3. Would love to see that compared to an overly complicated traditional groove system. Simplified from CVS but expanded

36:48 I knew who Strider was because my dad's best friend had the first game on the Sega Genesis...but I had forgotten about him until he showed up in MvC1. I also knew who Captain Commando was because i saw his game in the arcades as a child...but again, it had been years at that point.

Gosh I love desk videos. They are always such a treat when they release! And the production value is high on them too!

So glad they have the setting to turn off flashing, my eyes hurt watching this but love the video max

The Simpsons making a joke about that Pokemon episode will NEVER in my lifetime not be hilarious though.

A new MvC game with playable Nightcrawler would be a dream!

Cyber Akuma is also a costume in Marvel vs Capcom 3

Even though Norimaro isn’t in the MvC collection fans will find a way to mod him in.

Red Venom my beloved

God, I'd love to see these games remade. Properly upscaled to 1080p, with all new sprites SO MORRIGAN CAN FINALLY GET ONE

Armored Spiderman also showed up in that Spiderman Animated series episodes where they have to fight Spider Carnage

Onslaught first manifestated himself to Jean Grey. His first real goal was to turn X-Men to his side, by showing them how the world was really full of hypcrisy and duplicity. Starting with Jean, Onslaught pulled her into his psychic realm while she was in the middle of conversation in a shopping center, he reasurred her that although she didn't know him they had much to discuss, Jean wasn't really convinced but decided to play along in order to learn more about the entity, Onslaught started by showing her how none of the people in the mall were actually concerned for her safety, even if she had just randomly dissapeared, he even fired a fake blast at the building to release his frustrations, he then took Jean to the anti-mutant presidential campaign of Graydon Creed, showing him how his main advisor didn't really have any ideology regarding mutants, mocking the fact that the X-Men's "Dream" would never reach people like him. Jean countered saying that he wasn't really surprising him by showing her any of this and defended that despite there being people who would never change, Proffesor X's beliefs still were just

Devilotte Mech is a pendant in Monster Hunter World

The ending with just the empty corner lol

I'd cry if we got assist me, the comeback or something like that

One thing I always thought was cool was how both Arthur and Thor were strikers in MvC1 but when they became playable in MvC3 they had the moves they'd used as Strikers.

The ending made me laugh how it usually zooms in on maxs cam in the top corner and this time nothing was there cause he was at the bottom 😂

"This should have less flashing...IT DOES NOOOOOOOOOT!" Perfect timing.

Minute 26:53: There is missing information there. The palette swap of Morrigan with Lilith´s colour scheme became canon in a series of mangas Capcom released a few years ago. In that manga it is revealed that when Morrigan and Lillith fuse (DBZ style) into one being that is the appearence the fusion takes, as Morrigan is the dominant one. It even has an oficial model kit.

I worked at an arcade in 97. Had this racing game that looked like Stunt Race FX from the SNES with the Mode 7 graphics and the 3d sprites. Well it also had flashing effects and children would have seizures all the time. So yea it's def a thing that happened a lot until the insurance companies got involved.

Desk is godlike. In every iteration, he has infinites, infinite good videos.

so many characters I never really got the chance to mess around with, will definitely be trying them out in MVC collection first chance I get! had no idea shadow charlie and shadow lady both had raging demon-style screen kills!

I’ve actually always thought, ever since I was a kid, that Nightcrawler would be the perfect addition to a MvC fighting game.

"This should have less flashing." *ROYAL FLUSH*

Hey Max! Love your videos, have for years! With the MvC collection coming out, a suggestion for a video might be a breakdown of the MvC2 characters and assists! With a huge roster and three assists per character, it's hard to tell which is best to use for each character for different team set-ups.

Its relaxing listening to the song and have Max tell stories over it.

Man I love me some Mecha gief. Also learned something new about being able to choose your assists in mvc1. Can't wait for the collection.

Please make a tier list of the top 10 or 20 most broken characters in fighting game history

Sometimes I look up combo videos from time to time just to get some motivation to get better at fighting games

looking forward to all the mvc series videos

DUDE Deskcombo vids are my fav!!!

oh boy i can't wait to go online in MVC1 and get my ass beat by photoshop recolors

41:43 - they called Darkstalker's Revenge a Beat-em-up. XD

“And who knows all the secret character codes? Dios do!” 🤣

Me: *watches new Max vid on my birthday* Max: *calls a game from my birth year ancient*

Jesus Crist, i didnt play many fighting games but i vaguely remember trying to fight Metal Zangeif as a friends house as a kid, I had a time with it to say the least lol.

The Orange Piccolo Orange Hulk connection is blowing my brain rn 22:01 and also Orange Hulk looks like Reg Hulk when he’s taking damage

The mvc collection cannot drop soon enough

I don't know how, but as a young child, I was able to consistently find Roll on the character select in the (ABSURDLY loud) PS1 port. Her and Mega Man were always my favorite characters. I don't remember playing anyone else as strongly, but Venom and Gambit probably made strong impressions.

I absolutely love Desk and his in-depth analysis videos, the one that looks at the MVC1 Special Partners and the series they come from, I can’t believe MVC1 invented Assist Trophies before Smash did in Brawl and holy coincidence they are 10 years apart. MVC1 released in 1998 Brawl released in 2008 If you could have Special Partner Playable who would you choose? For its Jubilee I’ve heard she’d be sort of like the Dan Hibiki on the Marvel side, is that true?

I WANT THAT MVC COLLECTION WALLPAPER BACKGROUND!!!!! It’s so amazing….

Not having vergil in the thumbnail is crazy.

Desk combos are great!

21:15 - I remember reading somewhere Orange Hulk was a reference to The Thing because they wanted him & the Human Torch in the game but didn't have time.

Quickest way to see if MvC1 has flicker reduction on or off is to check the color of the super background during a duo team attack. Full flicker/flash is rotating rainbow color and flicker/flash off is just red.

I would love to have a sit down chat/fighting game session with you

This was fascinating and really gave me nostalgia for the 90’s when I played all these games in arcades as a kid with my dad. Ngl I always liked the flashing cuz it made supers feel more powerful like they are so explosive you can’t look at them. But I get why they’re frowned upon now

24:34 would love to see you rank these supers! They get pretty creative!

Sf6 how to get bison: Follow the quest line in old Nayshall, near Rashid, pretty straightforward. The change it to night. Go to foothills. Then go meet “FANG” in metro city. Return to old Nayshall arena at night. Use Ed or jps super art 3 times on enemy. You’ll then be taken to the old lab. Follow those basic quest requirements. Then behold the video of retro goodness and bison will enroll you. Get a carrot with 40 points from defeating Dr bad. And then you’ll have the second outfit in seconds. 2 point for psycho power drink as well. Done. You’re welcome.

I'm telling you this collection that's coming out is going to be one of the greatest of all time😊

Hands down,the best KZfaq gamer intro !

Secret character always be OP as hell

I hope they sell a poster of that art because it's so sick

Here is how you can select the Special Partner in Marvel vs Capcom: Light Punch = 1 = 2^0 Medium Punch = 2 = 2^1 High Punch = 4 = 2^2 Light Kick = 8 = 2^3 Medium Kick = 16 = 2^4 High Kick = 32 = 2^5 (this is no needed) Now, map the Special Partners grid from top left from bottom right 1, 2, 3....to 20 For example to pick U.S Agent who is number 20 in the grid you need to hold Start + Medium Kick(16) + High Punch(4) or for Jubilee, number 14 in the grid, you do hold Start + Medium Punch(2) + High Punch(4) + Light Kick(8)

This was one of my favorite parts of these kind of games, the hidden secrets and weird characters ❤❤

3D polygons just don't hold a candle to these beautiful sprites and Q sound soundtracks. An era where everything CAPCOM did sounded like Megaman X and it was amazing! Theme of Gambit is soooo good!🥰

Max we need a video on what characters would you include in MVC4 like a full roster please

The amount of flashing lights in this video would probably kill a victorian child

Any idea when the game collection will actually drop?

Seeing Max chuckle at Roll's TvC Level 3 makes me realize, we never did get a 'Rate the Super' for TvC did we?

Will the MvC collection have all these secret characters? That would be cool if they could. I saw Cyber Akuma and some others but I wonder about the rest

39:01 Hope when working on MVC&B, we can get Thor's classic costume that he had in MVC3 but never carried over.

Cant wait for your video about Harada's tweet