Arc System Works has been doling out the MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls roster one team at a time, and after a steady run of reveals, today’s State of Play finally handed the villains the spotlight. The fourth team to assemble is the Knights of Doom, led by Doctor Doom (voiced by SungWon Cho), with three newcomers falling in behind him: Magneto (voiced by James Arnold Taylor), Green Goblin (voiced by Steve Blum), and Carnage (voiced by Kellen Goff). Following the Unbreakable X-Men, the Amazing Guardians, and the Fighting Avengers, it’s the first team on the roster built entirely out of villains.
In gameplay, Magneto turns the battlefield into a weapon, hurling the objects around him at his opponents. Those throws shatter into debris that lingers on the stage, and his skills hit harder when there’s wreckage to feed on, so the Master of Magnetism rewards players who keep the screen cluttered.
Green Goblin, otherwise known as presidential candidate Norman Osborn, leans on mobility, riding his bat-shaped glider for high-speed movement while harassing opponents with Razor Bats and Pumpkin Bombs before swooping in for aerial assaults. Carnage, though, is the opposite, all aggression and no restraint. He turns his arms into blades and lashes out with symbiote tendrils, and landing those tendril hits drops enemies into a temporary “symbiote-infested” state that lets him drain their health and tear through their defenses even while they’re guarding.
Beyond the new fighters, Arc System Works finally pulled the wraps off the game’s central villain. The Champion of the Universe (voiced by Sean Kenin Elias Reyes) is one of the Elders of the Universe, a battle fanatic who has lived for billions of years and travels alongside the Promoter in search of worthy opponents, annihilating any world that fails to entertain him. Earth is next on the list, which sets up the “Challenge of the Champion” tournament, where teams of four fight through preliminaries for the right to take him on. It neatly doubles as the in-fiction reason the whole game is built around squads of four.
The Knights of Doom also claim a home stage in a nighttime version of Marvel’s New York, a moodier counterpart to the daytime version shown earlier, with hidden Easter eggs tucked throughout. The studio capped the reveal with the game’s final key art, drawn by lead character artist Yūki Katō and finished by Arc System Works’ 2D team, putting each team’s leader front and center.
With the Knights of Doom revealed, just one team is still under wraps before the August launch. The game was first playable at Evo Las Vegas in 2025, and Arc System Works is heading back to Evo 2026 in Las Vegas on June 26 with a hands-on demo that adds Magneto and the new Marvel’s New York (Night) stage. MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls launches August 6, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and PC.
