Marvel Rivals is finally live in its wide release, and among all the Web-Slingers, Super Soldiers, and Gods of Thunder that populate the game's expansive roster of Marvel characters, one special li'l guy is capturing players' hearts (or in some cases swallowing them up and spitting them into a ravine). I'm talking of course about Jeff the Land Shark, the strangely adorable, sorta Pokemon-esque Strategist hero whose steady healing output and havoc-wreaking ultimate are already becoming as notorious as his cherubic-yet-deadly smile is beloved.
Jeff the Land Shark may seem like a particularly odd hero to include as a playable character in Marvel Rivals, and he certainly is. But his popularity goes all the way back to comics, where he started out as a kind of mascot for a previous iteration of the West Coast Avengers, and has gone on to become the star of some of his own comics.
