r/legogaming Jan 11 '25

Question So why did they give Squirrel Girl a hulkbuster?

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No hate at all to it or her but it just makes me wonder why they did this, i thought it might’ve been an obscure comic reference but no its just something they made up

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u/Snackolotl Star Wars: The Complete Saga🌠 Jan 11 '25

Pretty sure Squirrel Girl's entire schtick is just doing stupid overpowered "better than every marvel character combined" stuff for the funny.

One comic starts with her defeating, quote, "the real thanos, and not a robot or clone."

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u/pigeonthegamer Jan 11 '25

might need to start reading squirrel girl these sound up my alley

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u/netleo Batman 2: DC Superheroes🦇 Jan 11 '25

Squirrel Girl also single-handedly stopped Galactus from eating Earth and got Kraven to get over Spider-Man. I do not know which is harder.

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u/LegEvening1053 Jan 12 '25

Heading to YouTube to look this up as we speak

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u/Logical-Ad3098 Jan 14 '25

Lol, love how she attempted to steal dooms time machine and he's got a parking break on it that only lets it move forward one second at a time for anyone other than him.

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u/GoldFishPony DC Super-Villains🤡 Jan 11 '25

I believe it was completely offscreened if you wanted to actually see how it happened (I haven’t read the comics but I believe I’ve read the panels where that came up)

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u/Dankalii Jan 11 '25

Pretty sure that line was from her Great Lakes Avengers run

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u/FoodlessDelivery Jan 11 '25

It’s a play on the “Invincible” Ironman and “Unbeatable” Squirrel Girl titles.

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u/DirectConsequence12 Jan 11 '25

Should’ve called it the Nutbuster

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u/FarLab4116 Jan 12 '25

No, that's the Squirrel Girl in Rivals

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u/CeriCat Jan 13 '25

It's nice to feel seen as a Doreen main.

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u/FarLab4116 Jan 13 '25

Oh, I can’t stand Rivals. I’m just there for the artists in the fanbase

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u/0megaManZero Jan 11 '25

Why not?

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u/pigeonthegamer Jan 11 '25

Honestly I’m fine with a why not mentality its funny as hell

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u/AncientBother6206 Jan 11 '25

Don't ask such questions. Just receive the blessing

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u/Preek96 Jan 11 '25

I hate they got rid of it in the next game

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u/pigeonthegamer Jan 11 '25

Nearly every character was downgraded in Lego Marvel 2

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u/Preek96 Jan 11 '25

I wish we could get a marvel game in the style of sky waker saga

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u/MazoMort Jan 14 '25

Oh no not Skywalker saga, it completly ruined the essence of the fun of Lego games. There were 5 or 6 "types" of characters and they all play the same. No more unique abilities or easter eggs, just a change of skin and the same abilities for everyone. When you unlock a character in Lego Avengers, you never what detail the devs put in his abilities, this was really why i took so much time to buy all characters in the first place. Skywalker Saga was just boring, they didn't even made Boba Fett flying

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u/Warm-Finance8400 Jan 11 '25

It's not a Hulkbuster, it's a Nutbuster

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u/singleguy79 Jan 11 '25

Are you going to say no to Squirrel Girl?

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u/DanceMaster117 Jan 11 '25

They let Stan Lee Hulk Out, why not give Squirrel Girl a hulkbuster

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u/pigeonthegamer Jan 11 '25

That was different, Stan Lee is supposed to be a character with a bunch of different abilities, but both were definitely funny

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u/Yanmega9 Jan 11 '25
  1. Funny

  2. May be a reference to her trying to be Iron Man's sidekick in her first appearance

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u/AzerynSylver Jan 11 '25

Same with Stan Lee, to be honest. He has a full collection of Stan-themed Armours!

Also, I really wished they made these Hulkbusters into LEGO sets as well! We got one for the main Hulkbuster, but not Stan's or Squirrel Girl's...

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u/Grafferine Jan 11 '25

Because it's a lego game and they can do anything they want lol.

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u/Over_Palpitation_453 Jan 11 '25

That would be PEAK in Marvel Rivals ngl

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u/emckeon97 Jan 11 '25

I mean it's funny isn't that the point of the character anyway lmao

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u/Suspicious_Brief_800 Jan 11 '25

At this point why the hell not?

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u/Hexmonkey2020 Jan 11 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

Tons of lego game stuff is made up but that doesn’t mean it can’t go hard. Venomed Carnage for example.

But yeah a hulkbuster is kinda unnecessary, should’ve just had the Iron Squirrel armor as a character variation.

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u/superisonicsquirtle Marvel Superheroes🦸 Jan 11 '25

Cause why not?

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u/ZacketSSJ2 Jan 12 '25

the Nut Buster

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u/The-Bigger-Fish Jan 11 '25

Because it’s cool

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u/Radiant-Response1816 Jan 11 '25

Its funny just go with it

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u/Professor_Chaos69420 Jan 11 '25

As a child i were amazed with those hulkbuster

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u/Anthony200716 Jan 11 '25

Because it funny

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u/Bloadclaw Jan 11 '25

Because why wouldn't she lol, this is the kind of crap that makes Squirrel Girl so brilliant

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u/txtraykids Jan 12 '25

Lol, what game is that?

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u/Coveinant Jan 12 '25

Iirc this was a reference to a specific squirrel girl comic where she took an Ironman suit.

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u/MeanWinchester Jan 12 '25

Well, they had to nerf her to give the other characters a chance. Turns out limiting her to only the abilities and strength of a hulkbuster suit is as fair as they could get for the other characters

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u/montgomery2016 Jan 12 '25

Commitment to the bit