Future Imperfect Hulk And Rocket Raccoon Debut In Marvel Contest Of Champions

Marvel announced earlier today that the Dystopian Hulk from the future, the Maestro, would be returning in the pages of a new Secret Wars series, but the malevolent dictator is also making his way into the Contest of Champions on mobile devices.

Bill Rosemann, creative director of Marvel Games, tells THR that they were looking for a character capable of taking on Thanos to play the shadowy mastermind behind the Collector's games. That's where Maestro came in.

"The game is based on a storyline by Sam Humphries [writer of Legendary Star-Lord and Uncanny X-Force for Marvel], and Sam gave me a call," Rosemann says. "We'd gotten to a point in the game where we would be revealing who the big bad was — we knew that [on-screen villain] the Collector was working with a mysterious benefactor, and the player had already seen Thanos, so we found ourselves wondering who would be the best reveal, who would be a character who could trump the Collector and go toe-to-toe and perhaps even defeat Thanos himself?"

Also being added to the game is Guardians of the Galaxy member Rocket Racoon, and you can see him in action in the video below.

Maestro and Rocket Raccoon are both in game now.