To carry the question about why it's bad for no females in 12 update char's of UMvC3... it's just lame, lol. -ahem- Fighters normally have a pretty good sense of "balance"; they add characters of different races, sexes, sizes, colors, backgrounds, etc. U-3 is adding 2 guys with semi-quickdraw styles, 2 guys with skintight-lookin outfits with yellow as primary colors, a zombie-looking things and a man who hunts zombies for fun, like 5 total characters who all have blue as a strong color in their default outfit designs... it's just a bit odd. They add a cast list equal in size to SFIICE, but not 1 woman? Has there ever been this many characters added into a series update, without one?
And not a single black guy in the game, lol. 50 characters! And we get Tentacle'd Eyeballs, Racoons, Gargoyles, and growth-stunted armored knights before we get a black male!
As one myself, I do find that pretty "uh.. what the hell?!?", lol. Like Luke Cage or Black Panther couldn't do 70% of what Ghost Rider (a dude with a skull head, wow) does, haha. Oh wait, we got Spencer, right? He has Dreads, so of COURSE he's black, too! LoL.
Not even going to speak for other under/non-represented minorities. A whole comic universe, and all the characters at Capcom's disposal, and THIS is what they come up with? -sigh-
The initial cast of MvC3 just had me expecting something a bit better balanced, cast-rep wise. I'm sure I'll enjoy a lot of these characters from a gameplay standpoint, and when it comes to gameplay, variety of looks don't matter much. But for the amount added, I think they could have had more variety of looks and creeds for these slots.
(Oh, and I'd rather see Megaman X ride of someone with a hover bike / Rider armor, then Ghost Rider with his cycle! As much as I'll enjoy the idea of "Penance Stare!"'n evil to death, can you tell that, as a character, he doesn't excite me at all?)
I hope Iron Fist helps make up for the lack of Gene / Asura (from Asura's Wrath) being there. Though he can't replace Jin and BLODIA! (I prefer Mecha fist to Iron Fist, thanks!)