With a recent outpour of concepts and UI designs from Marvel Rivals, the general impression for the game is that chaotic beauty will be fully at play. This tweet, from some authoritative source, if not the developers themselves, gives a glimpse into preliminarily polished ideas. Quite frankly, many of those rejected ideas now look ridiculously dense and chaotic enough to be today engaged as fan favorites.
Let’s talk UI first. I’m taking all sorts of comic-booky vibes with jarring colors, energetic composition, and fighting vibes that would rattle one’s eyeballs! Some early designs seem distilled straight down from a 90s arcade fighter—neon outlines and radical typography for days!
Another mock-up features a rather streamlined approach with more cinematic foundations, where the portraits literally pop from the screen. You can definitely sense that the team was experimenting with a lot of styles before whatever made it to the final build.
Now onto the concept art: some hero designs are downright insane. Iron Man but in a suit with many more ridiculously unnecessary glow bits. Spider-Man in a mask designed by someone who had one too many cups of coffee. Doctor Strange, too, with that one design where his cloak is about to swallow him whole—kinda slap, if we’re being real for a second.
So here’s the thing: zero replies. Crickets. No single soul has commented below the tweet, which is weird because Marvel fans usually swarm anything superhero-related like ants on a dropped popsicle. Maybe they were too busy staring at the art to write anything? Or maybe the algorithm buried it faster than anyone could say Bucky Barnes plotline? Either way, total bummer; it deserved hype.
The takeaway? Marvel Rivals is cooking with some bold ideas, even if not all of them made it to the final game. Who knows, maybe some of these designs that didn’t make it will return as skins or alternate modes further down the line (Iron Man suit better show up, though.) For now, this is just gnarly behind-the-scenes creative chaos.
Hey, someone get to Twitter already! Where’s the noise? Where’s the hype?
