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A Berserk reference featured in a spray included in Sue Storm’s Malice skin bundle in Marvel Rivals is making fans of the manga series lose it.

It’s not unknown that the developers at NetEase are very in tune with the community when it comes to Marvel Rivals, and they don’t shy away from slipping in references from Marvel movies and comics, sometimes even going out of their way to reference non-Marvel media.

Such is the case with a small new detail discovered by the Marvel Rivals community that is entirely missable and won’t make any sense if you’re not into manga.

Players have spotted that a cosmetic item included in one of Sue Storm’s skin bundles is literally a Berserk reference, and fans of Kentaro Miura’s legendary manga series are losing their marbles over this detail.

Sue Storm’s Malice skin bundle spray in Marvel Rivals seemingly references Berserk

The developers certainly know what they’re doing! | Image Credit: NetEase

Guts isn’t a Marvel character, but that didn’t stop the developers at NetEase from quietly slipping in a Berserk reference in Marvel Rivals. The spray featured in Sue Storm’s Malice skin bundle showcases Sue Storm facing left while Malice eerily looks straight ahead from behind her, both their faces half visible.

Seems like a generic spray, right? Except it isn’t. A user by the name of TheIceboltx in the Marvel Rivals subreddit shared an image of Malice’s spray and another image of Griffith and Femto from Berserk, comparing them, and both images have the same composition with their characters.

Not only are they visually similar, but the images are thematically similar too. You see, Malice is the dark manifestation of Invisible Woman’s personality, while Femto is a demonic transformation of Griffith.

Keep in mind, though, Sue Storm was manipulated by Psycho-Man in the comics to become Malice after she suffered a miscarriage, while Griffith went evil and transformed into Femto willingly. So thematically, they’re similar as they both descend into darkness, but their reasoning couldn’t be farther from each other.

So the spray from Marvel Rivals and the image from Berserk both essentially exhibit the same aspect of the two characters, which is: two sides of the same coin or in this case, two forms of the same character.

Another similarity is their colour scheme, as both Sue and Griffith have a white colour scheme, while Malice and Femto sport darker colours, another aspect that denotes their dark transformation. Fans of the manga series are losing their mind after discovering this reference. Here are some of the best reactions from the replies:

This proves that the developers at NetEase actively engage in putting references to other media wherever they feel it’s relevant, and it’s honestly cool, and it just goes to show that the developers themselves like to have fun and are also cultured.

NetEase has no problems with referencing memes in Marvel Rivals either

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While these nods to other media in Marvel Rivals are great, NetEase has also started referencing memes in some of their emotes. We all know Venom’s twerk emote and Emma’s money throwing emote, the combination of which went viral after they were introduced.

In the game’s new Venom’s Bubble Pop Event, NetEase has also added an emote for Jeff the Land Shark that seemingly references the “Tralalero Tralala” brainrot meme, which is hilariously cursed. Nothing’s off the table for the devs, it seems.

Not just that, one of the emoji bundles included in the event’s battle pass also includes a reference to the “umm….actually” meme with Venom wearing nearly glasses and pointing upwards.

Maybe the developers lurk in the Marvel Rivals Reddit community, and that’s where they get ideas on what media to reference or what meme to add. Whatever it is, it’s no problem as it’s all great fun, and including them in the game will only extend its longevity and enhance the overall experience.