- Second and third alternate costumes
Gain between two and four levels with a character. Alternately, defeat 30 enemies with a character to unlock his or her second costume. Overcome 175 enemies with a character to unlock his or her third costume.

- Play as Blade
Be victorious in the toy grab mini-game at the Carnival in Murderworld to unlock Blade.

- Activate Cheats
Insert one of he following codes at the indicated screen to obtain the corresponding effect. Notice: Achievements are disabled when cheats are activated.

2 Points
Play as Silver Surfer Go to a S.H.I.E.L.D. save zone and select 'Change Team'. Delete all selected characters by pressing X. Once all of your team slots are empty, quickly push Down, Left(2), Up, Right, Up, Down, Left, Begin to unlock Silver Surfer. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Notice	This code may also be activated at the main menu. Alternately, complete all Comic missions.
All cinematics At the Review menu, quickly push Up, Left(2), Up, Right(2), Up, Begin to unlock all cinematics.
Touch of Death While you are playing this game, quickly push Left, Right, Down(2), Right, Left, Begin.
All concept art At the Review menu, quickly push Down(3), Right(2), Left, Down, Begin to unlock all concept art.
All comic book covers At the Review menu, quickly push Left, Right(2), Left, Up(2), Right, Begin to unlock all comics.
All wallpapers At the Review menu, quickly push Up, Down, Right, Left, Up(2), Down, Begin to unlock all wallpapers.
Filler While you are playing this game, quickly push Left, Right(2), Left, Up, Down(2), Up, Begin. Your extreme attack will always be available with no energy cost.
3 Points
All characters At the main menu or a S.H.I.E.L.D. save zone menu, quickly push Up(2), Down(2), Left(3), Begin to unlock all characters. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.
100,000 Gold Coins At the team menu, quickly push Up(3), Left, Right, Left, Begin.

- Easy Scared Of Heights and Widowmaker achievements
Play the Galactus Boss battle. When he slams his fists and swipes at you, it will not hurt at all and you will get back up immediately. You are up on a ledge and his Punishers do not stop respawning. You can just keep grabbing and throwing them off in either direction. To avoid being caught in his hand and button tapping, go to the left side of the screen on that corner.

- Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference
After the third level, go to Iron Man's lab, and talk to Spider-Man. He will say 'The only thing that could make this worse is if Earth was blown up to make an intergalactic highway.'

- Character specific items
Character specific gear is very valuable. When picking up character specific items, such as 'Iron Man's Coil', it is described as doing +3 Damage and +3 Rocket Uppercut. This is not +3 to damage for the hit; it means that it adds three dots in the Powers area. With this single item you can go from 129 Damage to 289 Damage.

- Easy Iron Man Comic mission
When you get to the end of the mission to battle Ultimo, run back to the door you came in. Ultimo is so big he cannot pass the edge of the room he is in. You can just keep hitting him with your ranged attacks, then when needed, fly in and collect the health and energy vials he drops.

- Fourth alternate costume
Successfully complete the Combat Training challenge for a character to unlock his or her fourth costume. Alternately, get a 'Bronze' rank in a character's Comic mission.

- Play as Nick Fury
Successfully complete the game to unlock Nick Fury.

- Play as Black Panther
Acquire the five Black Panther action figures (one is found in each Act) to unlock him.

- Easy experience and money
When lighting the candles in Mephisto's Realm, there is an area where you are supposed to throw the demon jumpers into the fire to lower the pedestal. If you stand by the edges of the level where the jumpers respawn, you can kill as many as desired. Try this as Spider-Man or any rapid fire projectile character. The enemies constantly drop money and energy refills. If one walks too far away, hopefully your teammates will chase after them and you can use the momentum move to wipe them out. Keep doing this for easy experience and money.

- Easy Comic missions
To complete all the Comic missions easily and unlock Silver Surfer and get gold at the same time, wait and play all the missions at the end of the game when your characters have leveled up and have decent powers. If some are still to difficult to complete, play some Versus mode missions with those characters to level them up and/or pick up some Shield Tokens to add to their costume.

- Recommended team
Use the following trick to make a hard to kill team. Create a team consisting of Wolverine, Blade, Luke Cage, and Ghost Rider (Bad To The Bone team). The team bonus will be that 5% of all damage will be regained as health. Also, all these characters have a way to regenerate health. Equip the following outfits. For Wolverine, Astonishing, max out Health Regen and Defense. For Blade, Ultimate, max out Health Regen and Defense. For Luke Cage, New Avengers, max out Health Regen and Defense. For Ghost Rider, Original, max out Resurrect Ally and Defense. It is also recommended that Ghost Rider be equipped with The Heart Of Mephisto (10% of attack damage turned into health) or a similar item because he is the only character without a Health Regen. Equip other characters with gear that increases defense or dodging capabilities. Not only will your team be difficult to hurt, but they will be absorbing and regenerating most of the damage they take. If a teammate dies, Ghost Rider will have about a 50% chance of resurrecting them. Notice: Ghost Rider is the weak character. He does not regenerate, and if he dies resurrection is lost. Also, Wolverine will regenerate the fastest because he has an inherit ability to regenerate in addition to the suit's bonus.


For easy health, experience, energy, money, and Extreme Momentum Orbs for leveling, create a team consisting of Luke Cage, Elektra, and Dr.Strange. When they each have a full Momentum bar, get a group of enemies around you. Then, use the power. Elektra will stun all enemies with her Curse of the Hand. Then, Dr. Strange will use his Mystic Maelstrom to kill all stunned enemies, causing them to drop Extreme Momentum Orbs for each enemy killed. Luke Cage will use his Sweet Christmas to kill any of the remaining enemies, giving you +472% more money for each enemy killed in the attack sequence. This trick is especially useful for leveling characters, unlocking costumes, and maxing out stats. The best place to do this is in the Shield training simulator on the Thunderball mission. Even if you run out of time you will still get the levels and money; do not worry about killing the Boss. Just get your momentum on Luke Cage, Dr. Strange, and Elektra.

- Hard mode
Successfully complete the game on the Normal difficulty setting to unlock the Hard difficulty setting. Do not be afraid of the Hard difficulty setting. When you begin a game under Hard mode, you can load your characters from a previously saved game. For example, if you have a level 50 Wolverine from Normal mode, you can begin the game with him and all his powers, gear, and costumes that you have gained. It also adds five more dots to level up your powers with. If you have a character maxed out in Normal mode, there is even more room for improvement.

- Team bonuses
Create a team with the indicated characters to receive the corresponding bonus:



The following team bonuses require the Xbox 360 exclusive Heroes/Villains expansion (some original team bonuses can have substitute characters):


- Play as Dr. Strange
Save Dr. Strange in Mandarin's Palace to unlock him.

- Achievements
Do the following things to obtain the corresponding Gamerscore points:

The Trickster (45 points)	Loki was defeated.
Son of a Devil (15 points)	Blackheart was defeated.
Underwater Battle (15 points)	Tigershark and Attuma were defeated.
Doomed Ending (45 points)	Dr. Doom was utterly defeated.
Game Over (15 points)	Arcade was defeated.
Deathbird's Overcome (15 points)	Deathbird was crushed.
Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (30 points)	Nick Fury was unlocked as a playable hero.
Scarlet Swashbuckler (30 points)	Daredevil was unlocked as a playable hero.
Warrior's Path (15 points)	Gladiator was defeated.
Mephisto's Overcome (45 points)	Mephisto was struck down.
Mandarin's Downfall (45 points)	The evil Mandarin was crushed by the forces of good.
Overcomeed Grey Gargoyle (15 points)	Grey Gargoyle was defeated.
Dragon Slayer (15 points)	Fin Fang Foom was defeated.
The Power Cosmic (45 points)	The mighty Galactus was toppled.
Swimming with the Fish (15 points)	The mighty Kraken was defeated.
The Executioner's Blade (15 points)	Executioner and Enchantress were defeated.
Giant Relief (15 points)	Ymir fell to the forces of good.
Surfs Up (30 points)	Silver Surfer was unlocked as a playable hero.
Wakandan Royalty (30 points)	Black Panther was unlocked as a playable hero.
Blue Screen of Death (15 points)	M.O.D.O.K was defeated.
Titanic Victory (15 points)	Titannus was defeated.

There are 25 secret achievements:

The Ultimate Super Hero (50 points)	Overcomeed 4,000 enemies.
Fall to Death (10 points)	Threw 5 enemies off a ledge.
Battle Tested (5 points)	Be victorious in 1 Arcade mode Level.
Ultimate Team Alliance (15 points) Finish 25 levels with three other players.
Battle Hardened (15 points)	Be victorious in 20 Arcade mode Levels.
Comic God (15 points)	Answer 20 Trivia questions correctly sequentially.
Dressed for Success (45 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for every hero.
The Destroyer (25 points)	Be victorious in 100 Arcade mode levels.
Mad Skillz (30 points)	Be victorious in 3 Arcade mode levels consecutively.
Golden Age of Comics (30 points)	Attained Gold on all Comic missions.
Widowmaker (30 points)	Throw 500 enemies off a ledge.
Fledgling Super Hero (5 points)	Overcomeed 10 enemies.
Legendary Super Hero (15 points)	Overcomeed 100 enemies.
Melee Master (15 points)	Performed 50 Finishing Moves.
Marvel Master (10 points)	Answer 150 Trivia questions correctly.
Pugilist (5 points)	Performed 5 Finishing Moves.
Super Hero Team (15 points)	Finish 25 levels with at least one other player.
Marvel Geek (5 points)	Answer 15 Trivia questions correctly.
Scared of Heights (20 points)	Throw 50 enemies off a ledge.
Good Samaritan (20 points)	Finishd Skrull Cityscape level without defeating a single enemy.
Touch of Death (30 points)	Performed 200 Finishing Moves.
I Have A Friend (5 points)	Finish a level with at least one other player.
Teh Mast3r (25 points)	Be victorious in 15 Arcade mode levels consecutively.
Teamwork (5 points)	Finish one level with three other players.
Excelsior! (50 points)	Finish Marvel

The following 12 achievements require the Xbox 360 exclusive expansion:

Symbiote Skins (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Venom.
Teleport Threads (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Nightcrawler
Magnetic Regalia (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Magneto.
Wrong Claws (25 points)	Sabretooth has been mistaken for Wolverine.
Doppelgänger (25 points)	Doom has spoken with himself.
Doom's Duds (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Doom.
Gamma Garb (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for the Hulk.
Creed's Cloth (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Sabretooth.
Mutant Love (20 points)	Cyclops has spoken with Jean.
Archer Apparel (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Hawkeye.
Optic Outfits (20 points)	Unlocked all the outfits for Cyclops.
Fleeting Allies (20 points)	Magneto has spoken to Xavier.

- Play as Ghost Rider
Trade places with Ghost Rider in Hell in order to save his soul to unlock him.