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The original was posted on /r/gamingleaksandrumours by /u/MyMouthisCancerous on 2025-06-14 19:02:53+00:00.
DISCLAIMER: All credit goes to u/MasterofKombat for finding this. I would never think to look this hard enough
SECOND DISCLAIMER: Possible spoilers for Marvel Tokon since it’s newly announced and despite this being a subreddit about leaks, rumors and speculation, I still respect people who may want to go into a new game with fresh eyes. Also lots of yapping about comics and lore
I was browsing the Fighters subreddit and came across a zoomed-in screen cap from the Marvel Tokon reveal trailer. When the Wall Break happens and the fight between Star-Lord and Robbie Reyes continues in the Hell’s Kitchen area, with the Damage Control truck, there’s a graffiti mural on the side of the Nelson/Murdock law offices that when looked at closely, reads “Fear The Champion”, and as the OP on the Fighters sub pointed out, it could be a very reasonable allusion to a character in Marvel Comics lore that could serve potentially as a final boss for whatever the arcade mode or even story mode of Fighting Souls ends up being, since it would be in the tradition of other Arc System Works games to have a substantial single-player offering.
In the comics, Tryco Slatterus is a member of the Elders of the Universe, which are a group of cosmic beings that were their respective species’ last survivors, and who discovered that they all shared infinite longevity that was entirely sourced in their willpower to keep on living. They’re basically immortals who are brute forcing life. People who are familiar with the MCU will recognize at least a few members of the Elders because they include Taneleer Tivan/The Collector, Ego the Living Planet, and En Dwi Gast/The Grandmaster, the organizer of the Contest of Champions who often plays games of chance with other heroes and villains that usually have the resurrection of a loved one at stake.
Slatterus is The Champion of the Universe. He was born eons ago on a planet called Ancrindo Nebula and essentially dedicates his life to proving himself as the known universe’s greatest combatant, often engaging in unarmed fights with people across the cosmos, and eventually staging a journey towards Earth where (because comics), his liason Promoter Supreme (another Elder) recruits a bunch of heroes to a boxing match against The Champion in New York’s Madison Square Garden. They’re all taken to train on an alien ship where some heroes like Namor refuse to comply with the ruleset, or others like Doc Samson succumb to how rigorous the training process is and as such, are deemed unworthy and sent back to Earth. Others like Hulk, Colossus and Sasquatch from Alpha Flight are all either defeated or disqualified for not following the Champion’s rules for the match. The Thing is the last guy who faces him and although Champion does knock him out, he ultimately decides to spare Earth from destruction seeing that Grimm was able get back up and attempt to continue fighting regardless. This happens in his first appearance which is Marvel Two-In-One Annual #7 (June 1982).
The Champion’s other escapades also include traveling to another planet called Skardon where he becomes its ruler after defeating its most powerful warriors in arena combat before being dethroned by She-Hulk, and facing all the Deadpool Corps, only to be tricked into joining them, going to a completely deserted planet with no combatants at their request, and being left stranded. He rides a rocket-fuel powered motorbike.
In addition to just alluding to the Champion by name, the mural in the Hell’s Kitchen stage is also clearly color-coded red and orange, with blue and yellow outlining, after his comics outfit, which is a navy blue tee, a yellow WWE/UFC-type championship belt, and bright red pants in addition to him having orange hair. His whole premise of just being a dude who travels the universe looking for worthy challengers and fuelling his desire for combat lends itself almost too well for a fighting game, not to mention the nature of the Elders being that they’re a bunch of immortals who are fueled by their own will to persevere in life. They’d honestly be right at home in something like a Marvel vs. Capcom game and it would not surprise me at all if either in the Arcade mode or a possible Story Mode, the whole system of tagging in someone and transferring a literal “Fighting Soul”, imbuing them with the will to fight their opponent, was something provided by The Champion themselves for the purposes of whatever narrative they do introduce.