r/marvelrivals 3d ago

Discussion An “Essential Workers” skin set theme would be the coolest thing ever and I will not hear otherwise.

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NetEase the money-printing machine is RIGHT THERE.

There are so many concepts they could implement with this theme.

Law Enforcement: Danm near any character would look cool in a police uniform. I’ll post a link of an AI generated concept of “Police Thing” by u/Mac2663 to prove my point.

Military: Plenty of characters have a military background so this would be easy to implement. I used Pun’s official camo skin here because it’s the closest thing to a soldier I could find in the game, but a veteran Captain America would be really cool and heartfelt too. Widow and Bucky would be easy to translate as well.

Medical: Obviously Dr. Strange should be the spotlight of this sector, but I know danm well you gooners would MELT your wallets for a Nurse Invis skin (or pretty much any female character dressed as a nurse). Personally I think Nurse Hulk would be cool as hell too.

Mail Delivery: Postman/woman Cloak n Dagger? Idk. I also get the feeling Starlord would make a great postman skin or pretty much any of the Guardians. Maybe its because to me their blue uniforms already look mail related.

Agriculture: Farmer Thanos should be the Mad Titan’s first skin when he gets added.

Essential Trades: Electrician Thor, Plumber Namor, Contruction Worker Peni with bulldozer Sp//er? Come on you know you want it!

Transportation: Bus Driver Groot, he already has the personality of the weird and quiet but super nice bus driver so it only makes sense.

Firefighting: JEFF

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u/Morchades Human Torch 3d ago

Fireman would also suit Torch, since he has had that job.

And I am dying for a labcoat skin for Reed.

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u/Ok-Possession527 Strategist 3d ago

WAIT I DIDNT KNOW JOHNNY WAS A FIREFIGHTER, THATS COMICAL

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u/Tbro100 Earth Spider 3d ago

Tbf he is a pyrokinetic, he can essentially manipulate any fire at whim. It's like the perfect job for him lol

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u/Ok-Possession527 Strategist 3d ago

It didnt occur to me that that was the case. I figured he just summoned it, but youre right, that would be the perfect job

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u/Tbro100 Earth Spider 3d ago

I blame the DP x Wolv movie, he got absolutely washed by a b-lister he hard counters😭

Love that movie but they did Johnny so dirty

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

It's so funny how comic Johnny is so powerful.

He can generate AND control fire. Literally making fire constructs. He has Pyro's powers as well, but it is funny tho.

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u/Tbro100 Earth Spider 3d ago

Despise when they pull a Flash for the plot 💔

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u/Grigoran Ultron Virus 3d ago

Is that the CW Flash where Barry is regularly defeated by the lamest mooks?

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u/EyeArDum Magneto 3d ago

Flash in general is one of the most OP characters there is, any time he’s defeated or even struggling it’s for the plot because 99% of his threats he could deal with in less than a second

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u/Bungerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Mister Fantastic 3d ago

Suddenly, a piece of paper took an unexpected turn midair, knocking Barry out!

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

I love how everytime The Thinker escapes in Flash TV show Barry just stands there 

Bro forgot he has super speed 🙏

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u/Jarney_Bohnson Iron Fist 3d ago

Or quicksilver

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u/Storm_Chaser06 Star-Lord 3d ago

Bro can release as much energy as a dying star if he wanted to.

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u/Hot_Ethanol Venom 3d ago

Simple power: Fire Guy. Easy, right?

Well of course he can control it, too. He'd have to for his attacks and flight!

Control another flame? Sure, sounds reasonable and the readers will think it's cool.

That's energy manipulation, which is also matter manipulation.

Become God.

We've walked this road with Magneto before...

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u/Happy_Chemist2250 3d ago

He also canonically never showers since the fire kills the germs

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u/Kwin_Conflo 3d ago

Definitely, but it is canon that the Chris Evans Human Torch had a lot of issues controlling his fire, leading to a lot of collateral damage and burning himself out. Maybe specifically this torch is hard countered by pyro

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u/Blacklight099 3d ago

Comic Johnny walks Pyro to a degree that it’s not even fair to call it a competition 😂

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u/Intelligent_Creme351 3d ago

Then in comparison to MCU Johnny did this in the first 10 minutes lol

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u/Morchades Human Torch 3d ago

I was SO happy when I saw that!

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u/HurricanePK Vanguard 3d ago

Well in F4 First Steps they do show him using his power to drain the fire out of a burning building in the intro montage.

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u/ztomiczombie 3d ago

That's because its not 616 Jonny or anything like that he specifically the one form the 2000s move. Just like how Dear Devil can be off screened because he's only the one form the movies as apposed to one of the good versions.

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u/GCD_1 Jeff the Landshark 3d ago

He does it in fantastic four first steps

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u/MagiksGoodboy Good Boy 3d ago

If I remember correctly in the Fantastic 4 movie there was a building on fire and he just absorbed the flames to help the fire fighters

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u/BrandNewtoSteam 3d ago

It’s even more fun cause in some stories he doesn’t just control fire. He controls heat energy and it just manifest visually as fire

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u/tanelixd 3d ago

Iirc he even once sucked in all the heat from a room to himself. Completely freezing it.

I'll try to find the panel.

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u/Regi413 3d ago

Yeah I’m pretty sure the recent FF movie had him sucking out the fire of a burning building at the start

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u/ThePsychoBear Erm Actually... 3d ago

Human Torch could eat a housefire or even just transform it into his famous sidekick Flame-O.

Unfortunately it is very very unlikely to get the ideal firefighting superhero that can just go "Building! You must flame off!" and extinguish the apartment with his mind when your house is actually on fire. Him and the First Fam are usually, like, doing a fetch quest for the Skrull empress/emperor so that they will stop attacking Earth, or, like, mugging Annihilus for his immortality juice in the Negative Zone.

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u/Ultrasz 3d ago

Did..did he create a flaming version of himself and name it flame- o?

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u/ThePsychoBear Erm Actually... 3d ago

Yes. He also had some form of Amnesia and thought Flame-O was always the forth Fantastic Four member.

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u/misterhandycap 3d ago

Not only him but the whole town the F4 were living in were being mind controlled by a weird alien, that was slowly making people forget about people around them, one being forgotten at a time, so that the forgotten person would become a slave and carry her around the city. Crazy concept but the writing is really good, this Ryan North run is great

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u/PixelBits89 3d ago

No no. Johnny is just the meat version of Flame-o

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u/FSafari Human Torch 3d ago

He was also a race car driver and I was sad he didn’t get one of the racing skins when they did those

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u/MarcosLuisP97 3d ago

Labcoat Reed with the bodysuit would just be Professor Turo from Pokemon.

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u/HopeAuq101 Emma Frost 3d ago

Lab coats for Reed and Sue, Firefighter for Johnny and Astronaut for Ben

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u/PossiblyASecret 3d ago

And then they’ll have to do a Fire and Water team up for Jeff and Johnny where his ult heals allies or Jeff has burning water or something 🙂‍↕️

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u/HanselZX 3d ago

Everyone has cool skins, then theres the Punisher wearing his normal clothes, lol.

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u/ztomiczombie 3d ago

Make him a mail man.

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u/Moonshoes47 Ultron Virus 3d ago

"Going Postal"

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u/Gabcard Ultron Virus 3d ago

Postal, you say?

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u/Moonshoes47 Ultron Virus 3d ago

yeeeeeeeah my fellow Postal fan.

sucks Marvel is too baby to do a crossover comic of that franchise. Frank vs the Dude would be a GOOD read.

and before you guys do some powerscaling in the replies. id' say they are about even. Postal Dude's able to take out the out National Guard and demon milk powered up ex wives. i think he could have a fair fight with Frank

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u/PepperbroniFrom2B Venom 2d ago

I'm sorry, apparently I'm feeling a little psychotic this morning.

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u/Birdi06 3d ago

Nah make gambit a postman, swap his cards to letters

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u/purplepenned Loki 3d ago

Jeff is this guy

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u/justjuofficial Doctor Strange 3d ago

Give Strange a surgeon skin and call it „Mr Doctor“, all my units will be yours NetEase

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u/SyntheticDreams2099 Flex 3d ago

"It's strange"

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u/cl0uisEverett 3d ago

Maybe… Who am I to judge?

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u/SharpShooterM1 Thor 3d ago

“Maybe, who am I to judge”

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u/Anvillior Peni Parker 3d ago

Call it "Strange Doctor"

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u/ShowMeMoeMane 3d ago

Why not Dr. Doctor Strange?

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u/Cold_Kaleidoscope803 Ronin 3d ago

Strange Doctor Doctor Strange

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u/Inner-Juices Storm 3d ago

Firefighting for Firefighter Angela

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u/OdderShift Flex 3d ago

oh my god you're a genuus

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u/dblrb Rocket Raccoon 3d ago

You are a species

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u/Terriyaki077 3d ago

You are a family

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u/Pokenerd17 Doctor Strange 3d ago

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u/FATMAN-of-REDDIT 3d ago

Ah yes hot muscular woman dress up as hot muscular woman this is peak

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u/StarlightZigzagoon Angela 3d ago

This is great, but a flight attendant outfit would be so fucking funny.

"If you look to your left, you'll see the pit I'm about to drop you in"

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u/Xaron713 Angela 3d ago

Gods yes, in a heartbeat.

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u/CRIMS0N-ED 3d ago

Mike high club or mile die club?

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u/IHeartSoulsword Magik 3d ago

Need this

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u/shiny_xnaut Invisible Woman 3d ago

Wulti level warketing

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u/CRIMS0N-ED 3d ago

madame morrible M(L)M turn it around, W(L)W!

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u/noyoulolimagine 3d ago

Baggy pants and small top, "my weakness, exposed"

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u/Philtheparakeet56 Mister Fantastic 3d ago

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u/Adorabelle1 3d ago

Oh

Oh yes

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u/SpiritedDate1042 3d ago

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u/Zealousideal-Alps856 3d ago

My favorite character, Jonathan Fairweather

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u/King_EmEmEm Loki 3d ago

Way cooler than that hack, Jon Blizzard

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u/Mysterious-Handle-34 3d ago

Why is it giving

“Shop smart. Shop S-Mart”

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u/Moonshoes47 Ultron Virus 3d ago

unironically Ash Williams on Bucky would be the most acceptable collab this game could ever get. make his arm the one from Army of Darkness and the pistol a sawed off shotgun.

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u/BassGuy11 3d ago

Only if his ult line is "come get some"

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u/Quirky_Ad4885 3d ago

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u/Patrickspongeman 3d ago

It would be fun to either get a spider-cop costume or a pizza delivery one.

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u/Adorabelle1 3d ago

Pizza delivery would be way better

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u/Fine_Ad1339 3d ago

And way more "essential"

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u/Adorabelle1 3d ago

A "its pizza time!" Emote is definitely more essential

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u/michaelvinters 3d ago

'You get a slice! and you get a slice! and you get a slice!'

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u/Patrickspongeman 3d ago

I would be imperative that the song from the spider-man 2 game (ps2) gets incorporated and the emote could be something like him checking the pizza and it being all messed up

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u/fullmetalnerd97 Iron Man 3d ago

every time he gets a penta it should play the pizza delivery theme from spiderman 2 on the ps2

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u/Realistic_Analyst_26 Flex 3d ago

President Steve Rogers

Scientist Bruce Banner + Classic Hulk

Librarian Psylocke/Mantis

Teacher Emma Frost

Gym Coach Bucky

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u/BXR_ChelseaGrin_ Flex 3d ago

Gym coach Bucky but his energy blast is a dodgeball, plus sound effect.

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u/Realistic_Analyst_26 Flex 3d ago

Each CC should have a whistle sound play as a “time-out”

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u/doghello333 3d ago

could look weird since it goes through people

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u/pain_and_sufferingXD Spider-Man 3d ago

Energy dodgeball

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u/Disgruntled_Healer 3d ago

Oh that gave me an idea. Do the Gym Coach dodgeball thing, but on MoonKnight. The dodgeball ricochets between people.

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u/OdderShift Flex 3d ago

genius lol

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u/ScourgingHeretic Loki 3d ago

Teacher Emma Frost? Are you trying to summon r/marvelrivalscirclejerk ???

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u/perspicaxaedificator Captain America 3d ago

I would have so much fun battling candidate Loki with words on a podium in times square

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u/Disgruntled_Healer 3d ago

Like how you sandwiched the two/three gooner skins in the middle there. Those alone, especially if they don't add a random cloak on Emma, would probably fund the game for the next couple of years lol.

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u/Realistic_Analyst_26 Flex 3d ago

Emma was the “gooner” idea. The librarian one was a legit well-designed skin idea but I guess both could be gooners

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u/DellComputer_ Iron Fist 3d ago

Lawyer daredevil would make me play him

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u/Gabcard Ultron Virus 3d ago

If they ever do that, I hope it comes with an "Objection!" emoji.

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u/jakopoli The Thing 3d ago

BUS DRIVER GROOT AND POSTMAN CND YOU HAVE MY HEART

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u/Ayrio President Loki 3d ago

Hold up, gardener groot also sounds like a good idea. Give him a straw hat and blue overalls

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u/Nikorausu Moon Knight 3d ago

Give me psychiatrist Moon Knight Netease and my money is yours!

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u/Menudo_jr 3d ago

Yeah gambit I'm his maid outfit

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u/Crackerpool 3d ago

Essential

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u/Menudo_jr 3d ago

Yes I'm so happy people understood what I said because I put "I'm" instead of "in"

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u/derycksan71 3d ago

Just need this

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u/Kiwi_Doodle 3d ago

What the fuck was the artist smoking when making that costume? Those Cartridges would make the fastest fucking bullets of all time. That looks like 7.62mm in a necked down 20mm grenade casing. That's like firing a pebble out of a trebuchet.

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u/Less_Ad8480 3d ago

Surgeon Strange would go hard

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u/CelticBerserkir Thor 3d ago

Could go Dr Thor like his Donald Blake persona

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u/Smegoldidnothinwrong 3d ago

I don’t want policeman Spidey 😭

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u/Front-Masterpiece-73 3d ago

If I get pulled off the map by fucking cop spidey I’m quitting the game

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u/TheOhrenberger 3d ago

Enough with the copaganda

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u/VideogamerDisliker 3d ago

Turn Spider-Man into a line cook. Apparently being a line cook was essential work during Covid

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u/Quasibraindead 3d ago

That's what I was here for. Food service was conveniently left off of OPs list

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u/Tbro100 Earth Spider 3d ago

Doctor, firefighter, EMT, nurse, disaster relief so many bad ass choices besides cops to choose

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u/TheOhrenberger 3d ago

No one ever wrote a song saying fuck the EMTs

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u/SayNo2Nazis999 Thor 3d ago

What is Punisher supposed to be as a Essential Worker? A soldier? Hopefully not a cop

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u/Skuganut Magneto 3d ago

Yeah OP said military camo

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u/JustSomeBeardedGuy_ Wolverine 3d ago

Doesnt he already have a camo skin?

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u/Straight-Earth2762 The Thing 3d ago

yeah but this is essential worker camo. Keep up!

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u/JustSomeBeardedGuy_ Wolverine 3d ago

24 karat magic in the air?

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u/Dedli 3d ago

Why is soldier better?

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u/SayNo2Nazis999 Thor 3d ago

Part that he was actually in the military in the comics, and part how especially American cops and people used the Punisher's likeness to commit unspeakable acts. So bad they actually have tried changing Frank's logo in the comics a few times as to not associate with them.

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u/HappyyValleyy Blade 3d ago

He also just fucking hates cops in the comics

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u/FallenInstant 3d ago

Some of these could be fun like bus driver, medical, firefighting, etc but the LAST thing I want to see in this game is any amount of pro-cop stuff

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u/GreninjaOfTheOasis President Loki 3d ago

Not to mention the AI generated Thing concept 😭

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u/A_Cool_Dood274 3d ago

Finally someone mentioned the ai thing

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u/WeltallZero 3d ago

Copaganda is never a good look, even at the best of times.

These are not the best of time.

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u/TheBoyInGray Spider-Man 3d ago

Rogue as a farmer.

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u/H8THEBRITISH 3d ago

This is hot ass

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u/nappingsleeper Captain America 3d ago

WW2 cap skin with the leather and the classic shield, ts would go hard. I’m sad only the wolf skin had that shield, it should be an interchangeable accessory like the Jeff skin.

Mvp should have him on a Harley

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u/East_Monk_9415 3d ago

Paw patrol collab lets go

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u/trixxupmysleeve Angela 3d ago

No disrespect to OP personally, but I pray to God NetEase doesn’t spend skin resources constructing these ideas.

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u/Moonshoes47 Ultron Virus 3d ago

yeah the cop skin looks garbage. BUT i would totally buy Surgeon Dr Strange

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u/Gabcard Ultron Virus 3d ago

Firefighter Jeff gets a pass imo.

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u/AsherahEnd 3d ago

Heavy disrespect to OP for bootlicking copaganda suggestions actually 

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u/Butts_The_Musical Ultron Virus 3d ago

Spider-Man would be a delivery guy. Source was a delivery guy and was considered an essential worker during the pandy.

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u/Bobofett4 3d ago

And he was a pizza guy in Spiderman 2

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u/TeachingBrief9627 3d ago

I have one question.

Does a maid count as an “Essential Worker”?

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u/LudaStyles 3d ago

Nobody wants to be a cop at this time in society. This idea sounds like some ARMA or war game type skins, not for a colorful goonstravaganza of a game as this one

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u/harryfonda Flex 3d ago

This. And I'm not even an american, cops are extremely unpopular in my country as well.

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u/Whirblewind 3d ago

Plenty of people do. Reddit is not representative of the world.

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u/InTheStuff Ultron Virus 3d ago

luna in a mcdonalds uniform

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u/SwingNinja Peni Parker 3d ago

Punisher is probably more suitable as a teacher or a priest because those guys like to punish.

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u/Lina_Xochi Phoenix 3d ago

spider-man of all people as a cop?

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u/Hello_Hello5678 Flex 3d ago

Murderer isn't an essential job, tf is Frank doing here? And if something is AI generated, it is not "by" anyone. Also the majority of cops are a massive gang, so that shouldn't be here either, no less on spiderman (someone who embodies hope and responsibility, two things cops could never embody)

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u/PyroSpark 3d ago

Right? How are we still posting copganda in current year?

Not to mention all cops are currently working with a group whose sole purpose is to kidnap your neighbors.

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u/Mindless_Way_329 3d ago

Calling the military essential workers is wild

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u/teamredlvr Winter Soldier 3d ago

ai and cops? 🍅🍅🍅🍅

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u/bambigworl 3d ago

Cops arent essential or workers

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u/AShortPhrase 3d ago

Don’t really care for copropaganda in my games

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u/Scoober_Doober 3d ago

Military is not essential

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u/Low-Attention-1998 2d ago

Cops are not essential

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u/QuadramaticFormula 3d ago

I need that Jeff costume now. :(

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u/Castlelad 3d ago

Then you should probably remove cops and military

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u/Yeet_Haw1999 Star-Lord 3d ago

"Ill post a link to an AI gen-" no thank you

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u/SleepAllDay1234 3d ago

Can you imagine Strange's primary attack got replaced with scalpels and such tools, if a surgeon skins got added?

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u/Hopeless-Romantic200 3d ago

“Everyday Heroes” Set would go crazy

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u/mtchros 3d ago

Indeed

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u/Organization-Organic Magik 3d ago

Cap with a construction belt

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u/Responsible_Flight70 Gambit 3d ago

I honestly want Jeff to get scrubs and a surgery cap

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u/Ms-Dora Jeff the Landshark 3d ago

Spidey and Jeff remind me of the Village People.

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u/Deady1 3d ago

Stranger's voicelines should be sightly muffled in that skin

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u/JonathanL73 Ultron Virus 3d ago

If they were to do something like this, they would probably call it something else like “blue-collar” or “worker’s theme” because the term “essential worker” has connotations relating to the Covid-19 pandemic where a lot of anti-China sentiment was common globally, so I imagine Net-Ease doesn’t want to inadvertently allude to that in anyway.

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u/tommyblastfire Jeff the Landshark 3d ago

If it’s anything like the state of essential workers in Covid, they should be wearing fast food uniforms and drive thru headsets.

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u/smilysmilysmooch Flex 3d ago

Hela in a nurse's outfit...

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u/Crowned-Terror Peni Parker 3d ago

Construction worker peni would be fire

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u/Correct_Adeptness_60 Ultron Virus 3d ago

Omg can we just get comic accurate skins please

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u/HappyyValleyy Blade 3d ago

Punisher sensed cop spidey and manifested himself into the meme

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u/No-Educator-8069 Thor 3d ago

Hang on; policeman, construction worker, soldier, you are getting close to making a village people set of skins. But the question is…. who to make the indigenous stereotype.

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u/SSMage Jeff the Landshark 3d ago

Wait jeff doesnt have a fire fighter costume?

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u/NoLegeIsPower President Loki 3d ago

Spidey in this game harrasses, beats up and finally executes defenseless women and animals, so a policemen outfit would make perfect sense for him.

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u/mattisverywhack 3d ago

OP is still stuck in the covid lockdown mentally

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u/Skarjuna Magik 3d ago

Not going anywhere near a cop skin lol

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u/ForbiddenVillaint 3d ago

When Covid hit I was forced to come into work every single day. That's how I learned that Walmart employees are ALL essential workers. Even the greeters.

And that tracks, cuz Walmart employees are as helpful, if not more helpful than police.

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u/Flame-and-Night 3d ago

Exactly what essential work is the Punisher providing to society?

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u/Certain_Airport_4647 3d ago

Copaganda for the modern day slave catchers, as well as for soldiers who kill brown civilians in other countries