Jessica Cruz
Chance: 85%. Jessica Cruz is one of Green Lantern Corps from DC Comics, an intergalactic organization full of people powered by sheer willpower. The different sources for their powers vary from person to person, but in the case of Jessica it comes from checks notes her will to continue living after witnessing the horrific murder of all of her friends in front of her. Yeah, uh, not the happiest life for Jessica... In fact, she didn't even want to be a Green Lantern at first; the role was more or less thrust onto her...
Despite not having been datamined in the game, it is worth noting that a Green Lantern power core has already appeared in the game's first CG trailer, which seems to be an intentional tease towards the character(s).
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It's cool to see cameos in advertising like this!
Now, while this means a Green Lantern is all-but-confirmed to eventually happen in my opinion, the problem with this is that the Lantern Corps has... a very large amount of Green Lanterns. We got Hal Jordan, who is the most famous version of the character and also the lead in the infamous Green Lantern movie, but there's plenty of other options... The upcoming HBO Max series Green Lantern is set to feature Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and, frankly, probably more of them... So the question is... Which one are we getting?
The power of will turns out to be... pretty darn powerful.
Well, Jessica Cruz has a lot of things going for her on her own! She's one of the leads of DC Super Hero Girls, where she's a lot less traumatized and a little bit less straight. She's a lead one of the animated Justice League movies, which generally adapts the core beats of her comic book origin. She's also going to be the Green Lantern of the upcoming film DC League of Super-Pets, where Ch'p (a squirrel Green Lantern from the comic) will be reimagined as her pet. Like a couple other characters we've discussed already, she was playable in the mobile game version of Injustice, a game that definitely exists, and she's playable in the published-by-Nintendo game DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, which means she is technically eligible for Smash Bros (this is a joke please do not get mad at me).
She's also in the LEGO games and everything you'd expect; I just decided to list the more interesting ones...
However, my main question about Green Lantern is... Why pick just one? There's tonnes of Green Lanterns with their own fanbases. Multiversus has a "Variant" system where there's plenty of alternate skins based on entirely different characters with unique VO and all - basically echo fighters, but under a different name. I don't see a reason they wouldn't just include a multitude of lantern corp members as variants, even if it takes a little while to collect all of the notable members...
In terms of crossover history, Green Lanterns in general have had... a lot of weird crossovers, frankly, but Jessica's most notable outing is being the Green Lantern chosen to rep the corps in the RWBY crossover comic. Otherwise, DC Super Hero Girls itself has crossed over with Teen Titans Go! several times, most recently being in the form of a movie (kind of, the movie is like 95% DC Super Hero Girls and is pretty transparently an effort to get more people to watch the show).
There's also another KFC crossover comic; I just couldn't fit it in this post without reaching another line... IDK why DC is so close to KFC...
Overall, yeah, I'm very confident in a Green Lantern getting into Multiversus eventually and I'm pretty confident Jessica will be one of the Green Lantern variants, even if she isn't the first one chosen for the job.
Want: 98%. I really like Jessica! The emotion-controlled powers of the lantern corps has a lot of interesting storytelling potential and I think Jessica's will coming from a place of guilt is an interesting twist on the formula, even if it also seems like being a Green Lantern has "someone you know gets brutally murdered" as a prerequisite sometimes - and, heck, Jessica herself has been brutally murdered multiple times (don't worry; she got better)... I also quite like the DC Super Hero Girls incarnation of her as a more laid-back activist... The moveset potential of a Green Lantern in Multiversus almost goes without saying and Jessica would likely be my go-to version of the character if she got included.
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Joust
Chance and Want: Abstain. I have some thoughts, but don't know how to put a number to them.
Joust is a classic arcade game. Functionally similar to the Nintendo classic Balloon Fight, Joust is a game about poking your foes with your spear.... like... y'know... jousting... It's a solid arcade title and a total classic.
This is a game I love to play whenever I go to an arcade... It is truly a classic.
In terms of Multiversus though? It doesn't... have that much to offer, at least in my mind? That said, I could see it getting a Game-and-Watch-style or Duck-Hunt-Trio-style character where you include Joust among other Midway Arcade classics.
For crossover history, Joust has appeared in... most of the places you'd expect a Midway Arcade game to appear (such as LEGO Dimensions) as well as cameoing in Mortal Kombat and having a role in the Adam Sandler film Pixels - alongside the aforementioned Duck Hunt Dog.
I have not seen Pixels... I do not plan on changing that anytime soon.
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Nominations: All on Princess Bubblegum
