Arcade (Marvel)

Arcade is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978's Marvel Team-Up #65, the creation of writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne. The character is a combination of an evil genius and a hitman who carries out his assassinations via various elaborate traps, often referred to as Murderworld.
Arcade's first intended victims were Spider-Man and Captain Britain but since Arcade's Murderworld games always leave the outcome up to chance, the duo defeated Arcade and escaped with their lives. Over the years Arcade has targeted a multitude of Marvel heroes, often focusing on the X-Men and associated members of X-Factor, X-Force and Excalibur. In what is considered the "game changer" for Arcade, Avengers Arena, he managed to kidnap 16 superpowered teens and forced them to kill each other for survival in his latest version of Murderworld; unlike most Murderworld schemes, this endeavor yielded several casualties.
Arcade has appeared in a number of other Marvel properties outside of comic books, in X-Men: Evolution voiced by , and in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series voiced by Eric Bauza. He has also appeared as one of the main antagonists in a number of video games, including X-Men: Madness in Murderworld, Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Spider-Man: Edge of Time and Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
==Idea Wiki appearances==
* Arcade appears as a NPC in Marvel Superhero Adventures: Intergalactic Grand Prix, voiced by Chris Diamantopoulos. He serves as a boss in the game's story mode, and is fought against in the fifth chapter. This version (whose first name is revealed to be Reggie) is stated to have become a supervillain as consequence of traumatic family issues.
**In the Prelude comic, he is revealed to be Reginald "Reggie" Jameson, the younger son of J. Jonah Jameson, whose verbal and emotional abuse of Reggie was the catalyst for Reggie's supervillain life.
* Arcade is an antagonist in The New Warriors, voiced by Ben Schwartz.
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