After teetering back and forth between excitement and skepticism, I’m now fully the Captain of the now full-steam ahead Hype Train for Marvel’s Avengers, the upcoming and long-awaited narrative-based, action-adventure game. After 12 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we’re finally getting a proper video game.
Initially scheduled be released in mid-May, Marvel’s Avengers is now finally set to arrive in September for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (don’t worry, it’ll come with a free code that will allow you to have the game on the upcoming next-gen consoles).
Despite the presence of many familiar faces — such as Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, and Ms. Marvel — one of the Mount Rushmore Marvel Comics heroes is notably absent: the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
Not teased in any of the trailers or promotional material, everyone’s favorite web-slinging, wall-crawling New Yorker doesn’t appear to be a part of the upcoming game. Or will he?
Because the internet is the internet, eagle-eyed fans have noticed a Spider-Man easter egg in the recent story trailer (that revealed MODOK as the main villain) that definitely confirms that Spidey, at the very least, exists in the video game’s universe.
— IGN (@IGN) June 28, 2020
It’s certainly complicated, as the recent Spider-Man game released for PlayStation was developed by a different studio, Insomniac Games (this upcoming Avengers game was made by Square Enix). That said, given the general power of Marvel/Disney these days, it wouldn’t surprise me if the company figured out a way to work the character into both franchises, similar to how they’re sharing Tom Holland’s Spider-Man with Sony.
Eric is a New York City-based writer who still isn’t quite sure how he’s allowed to have this much fun for a living and will tell anyone who listens that Gotham City is canonically in New Jersey. Follow him on Twitter @eric_ital for movie and soccer takes or contact him eric@brobible.com
