Juggernaut in the Avengers video game

[James Fabiano]

A lot of us I don't doubt remember the Captain America and the Avengers arcade game. Some of you might remember that Juggernaut was one of the bosses...only they made him into this:



A somersaulting brute with NO face.

I wondered for years why this was. Any insights?

My guess, and this came from a visit to Yestercades watching someone else play it, is that maybe, Konami had the rights to the X-Men characters for their own beat 'em up in the arcades around the same time, and so to sneak the Juggernaut into the Avengers game, Data East had to change his look and make him act less Juggernaut-like?

(wouldn't explain why Hawkeye gets to be here and in the Sega Spider-Man game though...)

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

This Juggernaut is not going to beat the shit out ya, Charles.

[Bang Bang Bart]

One of the bosses was a robot octopus labeled as 'Mech Taco'.

[A Platypus Rave]

Either creative license or the originally wanted it to be someone/something else and changed it at the last moment. ("OBEY ME OR DIE!" isn't really a Juggernaut line either)

I think the SNES manual mentioned something about a mind control gem.

If it was Konami has the rights to X-men characters he wouldn't look this close to his actual design.

[Deleted]

I don't think they snuck him into the game.

If they did it wouldn't say "Juggernaut" for his name.

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Considering how easy he was beat here, his catch phrase should be "I'm the Juggernaut Bitch!"

[Natural Born Farmer]

Remember how little cultural cache comic book/super hero franchises carried before the original X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002) films?

Kids these days.

[The Foreigner™: OffSZN]

Too bad he didn't get any funny dialogue like "Why should it goes well?"