Season one begins today

Franchise mash-up brawlerMultiVersusslams into season one today, despite only recently beingpostponed indefinitely. Although nothing has been announced yet, it appears that DC Comics supervillain Black Adam and Gremlins antagonist Stripe are new characters being teased for the game’s roster of fighters. Players are sharing screenshots and footage of ads for MultiVersus that show off the gruesome twosome.

Images and video of ads showing the so-far unannounced characters have been shared online:

And here’s the highest quality version of the Black Adam and Stripe image so far!#MultiVersusHuge thanks to@infkaefor the help!pic.twitter.com/HAZlCTVX8s

MultiVersus hasn’t forgotten about Rick And Morty though. Morty’s scheduled to go live on August 23rd, with his gramps Rick popping up later in the season. The new free character rotation with the start of season one is Arya Stark, Batman, LeBron James and Steven Universe, which runs until August 30th.

Devs Player First have said that the season one patch will arrive in two stages over the next few days, with the initial part arriving today. Not every change coming is going to be immediately obvious in the game because of this staggered patching. MultiVersus’s season one battle pass also launches with the start of season one, and has already beenconfirmedto include 50 tiers and cost around £8/$10/€10.

MultiVersus is free-to-play onSteamand theEpic Games Store. Season one begins today, August 15th. You can read the full patch notes for the season one updatehere.