The roster for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is now complete. Arc System Works and Sony have revealed the final three playable characters joining the game's fifth and last team, and the reveal trailer packs in more Easter eggs per second than most games manage in an entire marketing campaign.
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The Samurai Outriders round out the full roster
The fifth team is called Samurai Outriders, and it slots in alongside the previously announced Ghost Rider to form a four-character squad. The three new additions are Blade, Deadpool, and Loki, giving fighting games fans a mix of street-level grit, chaotic comedy, and god-tier manipulation all in one team.
Deadpool is voiced by Nolan North, reprising a role he's made his own across multiple Marvel games over the years. The character's moveset leans hard into meta-humor, which is exactly what you'd want. His trailer appearance alone references Mortal Kombat's 'Toasty!' callout, Johnny Cage's Ball Buster, and the Jack-O'-Pose from Arc System Works' own Guilty Gear series. That last one is a nice bit of self-awareness from a developer that clearly knows its audience.
There's also a quick nod to fan speculation that the team would be called the Midnight Sons, which was a popular prediction given the roster's darker, more supernatural flavor. Arc System Works acknowledged the theory directly through Deadpool, then went a different direction. Classic.
The Polygon Man moment nobody saw coming
Here's the thing: the most talked-about detail in the entire trailer has nothing to do with Blade's vampire hunting or Loki's trickery. At the 1:43 mark, Deadpool unleashes a move he calls "random bulls**t go!" and as part of that attack, he repeatedly batters his opponent with the geometric floating head of Polygon Man.
For anyone who missed the PlayStation history lesson: Polygon Man was the original intended mascot for Sony's PlayStation brand in North America back in 1995. A giant purple face made of angular geometric shapes, he was scrapped before the console even launched and spent years as a piece of forgotten gaming trivia. He resurfaced in 2012 as the main antagonist and final boss of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, the crossover fighting game that also featured Dante from Devil May Cry.
The fact that he's showing up here, in a PlayStation-published game, as a prop in Deadpool's moveset, is the kind of detail that rewards players who've been around long enough to remember the console wars of the mid-90s.
Open beta dates and what to expect before launch
Sony also confirmed an open beta running July 24 through 26 on both PS5 and PC. That's a three-day window to get hands-on time with the game before its August 6 launch, and given the character variety now confirmed across all five teams, there's a lot to test.
Deadpool's fourth-wall breaks and character-specific banter are worth paying attention to in the beta. The trailer already teases some of that dynamic when he goes up against Wolverine, and if Arc System Works' track record with Guilty Gear's character interactions is anything to go by, the dialogue system alone could be a reason to run multiple matchups.
Blade and Loki round out the Samurai Outriders with a very different energy from Deadpool's chaos. Blade brings a grounded, methodical fighting style that should contrast well against the team's more unpredictable members, while Loki's kit looks built around deception and misdirection, which fits perfectly in a tag-based format where reading your opponent is half the battle.
The full roster is now locked in ahead of the August 6 release. For players looking to get up to speed before the open beta, the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls guide collection is worth bookmarking now.
