Marvel's Avengers Design Lead Confirms Next Hero Will Not Be Another Echo Character

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Marvel’s Avengers is hot off its release of Jane Foster’s Mighty Thor. But without a narrative thread of challenges and missions for players to embark on with another one of Marvel’s Avengers’ DLC Operations, players may have already experienced Jane’s gameplay and moved on if her playstyle was not favorable to them.

Indeed, though Jane is her own character with her own plethora of mechanics and abilities, she is ultimately an echo character of Thor Odinson. Recently, Twitter user @MeepleOfBritain expressed to Crystal Dynamics Design Lead Brian Waggoner their hopes for a new character. While they would like to see Marvel’s Avengers’ interpretation of War Machine, MeepleOfBritain also hopes that Marvel’s Avengers will soon introduce “a new style of character.” Waggoner has since responded plainly, giving fans a clear idea of what to look forward to in Marvel’s Avengers’ near future.

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Waggoner simply replied by saying, “Next hero is new” with a smiley emoji. This officially and maybe surprisingly confirms that the next character Crystal Dynamics is working on has a unique playstyle apart from other characters and would not be representative as an echo character imitating another established character on the roster. MeepleofBritain points out the fact that Marvel’s Avengers already has two echo characters now in Kate Bishop and Jane Foster, and thus Waggoner’s confirmation of the next character being new interestingly narrows down whom they may be.

Echo characters are obviously not identical reskins of another character, but their inherent similarities are too comparable, and therefore may not require Crystal Dynamics to build a character and their playstyle from scratch. War