Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Reveals Knights of Doom — Magneto, Green Goblin, and Carnage Confirmed

Arc System Works showed up to the June 2026 PlayStation State of Play with the villain reveal everyone was waiting for. The Knights of Doom are officially the penultimate team for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and Dr. Doom’s squadmates turned out to be Magneto, Green Goblin, and Carnage. The game launches August 6, 2026 on PS5 and PC, and with only one team left to announce, the full roster is almost completely locked in.

Carnage had been heavily speculated from prior teases, but Magneto and Green Goblin were legitimately surprising additions that nobody had fully predicted. The internet is pretty happy about it. Here’s a full breakdown of the new characters, what they do in-game, and what’s still left to reveal before launch.

The Knights of Doom: Full Team Breakdown

The team is led by Doctor Doom, voiced by SungWon Cho, which was already known. The three new additions are:

Magneto — Voiced by James Arnold Taylor

Magneto’s playstyle is built entirely around the environment. He turns each stage into a weapon, pulling in surrounding metal objects and hurling them at opponents as projectiles. What makes him genuinely interesting from a design standpoint is that the debris he throws doesn’t disappear — it stays on the stage, and Magneto can use the accumulated scrap to further enhance his abilities as the fight goes on. The longer the match, the more material he has to work with. That’s a layered mechanic that’s going to reward people who know how to play him well.

James Arnold Taylor reprising Magneto is a fantastic choice — he’s been one of the definitive voices for the character and hearing him in an Arc System Works fighter is going to feel right to anyone who grew up with the animated series era of X-Men content.

Green Goblin — Voiced by Steve Blum

This is specifically the Norman Osborn version of Green Goblin, and his whole game revolves around the glider. He can ride it directly in combat, or summon it as a separate attack tool, and his toolkit leans hard into high-speed movement and zoning with pumpkin bombs and razor bats. He’s designed to be an annoying, slippery fighter who controls space and harasses opponents from range — which is exactly what Green Goblin should be in a fighting game.

Steve Blum voicing Green Goblin is an interesting note because he’s already in the game as Wolverine for The Unbreakable X-Men. Dual roles are not unusual for voice acting in fighting games, but it’ll be funny if those two characters ever get matched up in a match.

Carnage — Voiced by Kellen Goff

Carnage plays exactly how you’d want him to. He transforms his arms into symbiote weapons, giving him crazy reach and range that translates naturally to a fighting game kit. The standout mechanic is his symbiote-infested debuff system — when Carnage lands hits on an opponent, they temporarily enter an infested state. While that’s active, Carnage deals bonus damage and drains their health. It creates a high-pressure incentive to stay aggressive and keep hitting, which matches the character’s energy perfectly.

Kellen Goff has been putting in serious work across games and animation recently, and Carnage feels like a role that’s going to let him go full unhinged. Good casting.

New Stage: Marvel’s New York (Night)

Alongside the character reveals, Arc System Works also dropped the Night variation of the Marvel’s New York stage, which serves as the home stage for the Knights of Doom. It’s a striking contrast to the daytime version already shown — the city transformed after dark with a completely different atmosphere. The stage is reportedly packed with hidden Easter eggs and references for eagle-eyed fans to discover, which is very on-brand for Arc System Works who have a history of loading their stages with background details.

The Champion: The Game’s Big Bad Gets Teased

The trailer also gave fans their first real look at The Champion, the ultimate villain of Marvel Tōkon’s story and the Elder of the Universe driving the whole tournament. The story framing is that Marvel’s heroes and villains are forced to compete in a tournament — win, and you get a shot at The Champion. Lose, and he destroys your world. It’s a classic fighting game story structure that Arc System Works clearly knows how to work with.

The PlayStation Blog teased that eagle-eyed players might find hidden details in The Champion’s sunglasses and belt buckle. That’s a deliberate Easter egg tease, and the community is already going frame-by-frame on the trailer trying to figure out what’s hidden there.

Full Confirmed Roster So Far

With the Knights of Doom now revealed, here’s every confirmed character across the four teams:

• The Fighting Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Shuri (Black Panther)
• The Amazing Guardians: Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord, Peni Parker
• The Unbreakable X-Men: Storm, Wolverine, Magik, Danger
• Knights of Doom: Doctor Doom, Magneto, Green Goblin, Carnage

That’s 16 characters confirmed. The base roster is 20, split across five teams of four. One team remains — and it’s going to be the one everyone’s most curious about.

Ghost Rider’s Team: The Last Reveal

The final team is headed by Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider, and Arc System Works has described it as a squad of outlaw and anti-hero type characters. “Eccentric” was the word used in earlier hints from the devs at Evo Japan. Fan speculation is going wild with names like Blade, Moon Knight, Deadpool, and members of the Midnight Suns all being thrown around as likely fits for the anti-hero / outlaw theme.

The last team reveal will most likely come in July, though it could come sooner — Arc System Works confirmed that the latest build of Marvel Tōkon will be playable at Evo 2026 in Las Vegas starting June 26, with Magneto available as a playable character in the demo alongside the New York Night stage. If they want to build hype at Evo, dropping the final team reveal at the event would make a lot of sense.

The Game Itself: How It All Works

In case you need a refresher on the format: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a 4v4 tag-based fighting game developed by Arc System Works — the studio behind Guilty Gear Strive, DragonBall FighterZ, and Blazblue. Each player builds a team of four characters, but you don’t start with all of them accessible. You begin with your primary character and one assist, and more teammates unlock during the match by triggering Wall Breaks — a mechanic borrowed from Guilty Gear Strive that fires when you land a combo or high-damage move in the corner.

All four characters on a team share a single Vital Gauge health bar that expands as more teammates become accessible, which creates a genuinely different risk/reward dynamic from most tag fighters. The narrative side is handled through an Episode Mode developed in collaboration with Marvel Games and an unnamed writer, blending comics and manga influences into an original story built specifically for this game.

August 6 is right around the corner, and between this and the rest of what dropped at State of Play, it’s a massive few months ahead for PS5 owners. If you’re catching up on all the announcements, check out everything revealed about Marvel’s Wolverine including Jean Grey and Sabretooth, plus the full Wolverine pre-order and edition breakdown. For something on the horror side of the slate, Silent Hill: Townfall is officially landing September 24. And if you need something to play right now while waiting for all of this, RuneScape: DragonWilds is coming to PS5 as well.