Behind the final curtain of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls stands The Champion — a boss who, once defeated, becomes a mirror held up to the player. His unlocking asks only that you finish the story once, but his mechanics ask something deeper: can you fight alone, building pride until transformation becomes possible? He is, in both narrative and design, a figure who tests whether isolation can become its own kind of strength.
Marvel Tōkon: How to Unlock The Champion Secret Character
He's a fighter who grows stronger through ego and isolation
Mark
So The Champion is the final boss, but you can actually play as him afterward. That seems like it should feel cheap—like the game is just letting you use the overpowered thing.
Mimi
That's the instinct, but the game doesn't work that way. He's powerful, sure, but he's powerful in a completely different way than the other twenty fighters. He can't call assists. That's a huge restriction.
Mark
Can't call assists at all? How do you build a team then?
Mimi
You still have a team of four. He just can't summon them when he's leading the fight. Instead, every time you try to call an assist, he poses—and that charges his Pride Meter. It's almost like the game is punishing you for trying to play him like everyone else.
Mark
And when the meter fills up?
Mimi
He transforms. Awakened form. New moves, better attacks, and only then do assists come back—but they're projections of him, not his actual teammates. It's thematic. He's a character who gets stronger by standing alone.
Mark
So you have to learn him differently.
Mimi
Completely. Most players come in expecting the standard rhythm of tag-team fighting. With The Champion, you're playing a different game entirely. That's what makes unlocking him feel earned.
Der Puls
- The Champion is sealed behind Episode Mode's conclusion, demanding players push through the full story before he joins the roster.
- His boss fight arrives in two waves — first through The Promoter, then through The Champion's own more powerful second form — raising the stakes at the finish line.
- Once unlocked, his mechanics disrupt everything familiar: as the point character, he cannot call assists, leaving players exposed and forced to rethink their entire approach.
- Each defensive pose charges a Pride Meter that, when full, triggers an Awakened transformation — the only state in which assist-like projections of himself become available.
- After clearing that single Episode run, The Champion becomes fully accessible across all modes, including online play, making the one-time effort a permanent reward.
Behind the final curtain of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls stands The Champion — a boss who, once defeated, becomes a mirror held up to the player. His unlocking asks only that you finish the story once, but his mechanics ask something deeper: can you fight alone, building pride until transformation becomes possible? He is, in both narrative and design, a figure who tests whether isolation can become its own kind of strength.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls conceals its most powerful fighter behind a single requirement: complete Episode Mode once. The Champion, the game's final boss and the figure whose presence drives the entire story, remains locked until you defeat him — at which point he steps off the pedestal and into your hands.
The path is uncomplicated. Choose any of the five available teams, play through to the end, and face The Champion across two consecutive encounters — first through The Promoter, then against The Champion himself in a stronger second form. Clear one Episode, and he joins your roster. Skip the cutscenes, and the whole journey takes under an hour.
What earns him his reputation isn't the unlock process — it's how he plays. Every other character in Marvel Tōkon shares the same foundation: four-person teams, mid-combo swaps, assists called in from the bench. The Champion discards that framework entirely when he leads the fight. As the point character, he cannot summon assists. Attempting to call one triggers a pose instead, leaving him briefly vulnerable.
Those poses, however, are the engine of his identity. Each one feeds the Pride Meter, a resource exclusive to The Champion. Fill it, and he enters an Awakened form — a heightened state with new moves and enhanced attacks. Only here do assists return, though they appear as projections of The Champion himself rather than his actual teammates. The mechanic is a portrait of his character: someone who grows through ego and solitude, who refuses help until he has pushed himself to the edge.
He can still serve as an assist for others on your team, and you can swap to and from him freely. But his restrictions as a point character create a genuinely different rhythm — one that rewards players willing to learn his particular language. Once unlocked, he's available everywhere in the game, a fully realized fighter who plays like no one else on the roster.
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls hides its most formidable fighter behind a single gate: finish the story once. The Champion, the game's final boss and the character whose challenge sets the entire narrative in motion, is locked away until you defeat him—at which point he becomes yours to control.
The path to unlocking him is straightforward. Load into Episode Mode with any of the game's five teams, push through the story to its conclusion, and face The Champion twice: first against The Promoter, then against The Champion himself in his second, more powerful form. That muscular, hulking silhouette you see as the boss—that's the fighter you'll eventually pilot. Complete one Episode, and the character joins your roster. If you skip the comic cutscenes, the whole process takes less than an hour.
What makes The Champion worth the effort isn't just his status as the final boss. It's that he plays like one, even when you're holding the controller. Every other character in Marvel Tōkon operates within the same mechanical framework: you build teams of four, call in assists from your bench, swap between fighters mid-combo. The Champion abandons all of that. When he's your point character—the one leading the fight—he cannot summon assists at all. Try to call one in, and he simply strikes a pose instead, leaving himself momentarily exposed.
But those poses matter. Each one charges the Pride Meter, a resource unique to The Champion. Fill it completely, and he transforms into an Awakened form, a heightened version of himself with new moves and enhanced attacks. Only then do assists return to his toolkit, though they manifest as projections of The Champion himself rather than his actual teammates. It's a mechanic that reinforces his character: he's a fighter who grows stronger through ego and isolation, who doesn't need help until he's pushed to his absolute limit.
The Champion can still function as an assist character on your team, appearing when called to land attacks based on his position in your lineup. You can swap to and from him mid-fight, respecting the game's core team mechanics. But his restrictions as a point character create a fundamentally different experience. Players accustomed to the rhythm of assists and tag-team flow will need to relearn how to fight with him. Like Storm, Black Panther, and Carnage before him, The Champion demands that you pay attention to his resources, that you understand his unique rhythm.
Once unlocked, he's available everywhere: online matches, training mode, every corner of the game. He's not a restricted boss character, not a novelty. He's a fully-fledged fighter with a distinct identity, rewarding the effort it takes to reach him with a character who plays like no one else on the roster.
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