Marvel vs. Capcom/Akuma

For more information about Akuma, please see his Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter III, and Street Fighter EX entries.

Akuma was the first Capcom character to appear in any of Capcom's Marvel fighting games, even before it became a cross-over series. He was first added as a secret character to X-Men: Children of the Atom, as an in-joke referring to the fact that Akuma's first appearance was in Super Street Fighter II X in Japan, thus making him a sort of X-Man in his own right. Based largely on the SSF2X version of Akuma, he was fairly unaltered, gaining the ability to super jump, a damaging retaliation move, and access to both Ken and Ryu's super moves. Unfortunately, the motions required for them were so similar, it was difficult to consistently perform the specific move you wanted.