Getting Started with C3G?

[toyhandle]

I'd probably find out which characters they are most interested in generally, and work from there. But IMO, the go-to 10 figures to introduce someone to C3G are the Fantastic Four and Original X-Men. Orig X-Men are a big chunk of six, but luckily, there's a lot synergy and alternate versions within them, and more than I'll list.

Mr. Fantastic
Invisible Woman
Human Torch
Thing (Adds to Fighters/Crime Fighters)

Prof X
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Angel
Iceman (Adds to Fan4)
Beast (Adds to Visionaries and Avengers)

Throw in 10 other iconic Marvel Heroes:
Captain America (Adds to Fighters)
Iron Man (Adds to Visionaries)
Black Panther (Adds to Visionaries)
Doctor Strange (Adds to Visionaries)
Wolverine (Adds to Fighters/Crime Fighters, and Mutants)
Spider-Man (Adds to Fighters/Crime Fighters, Fan4 and more)
Thor
Hulk
Hawkeye
Scarlet Witch (Adds to Mutants)

But with all those Fighters/Crime fighters, you might want Luke Cage, Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Punisher.

Sadly, I didn't put any villains or DC on the list.
The Faction Strategy guides are really useful as well for finding out which units go together.
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[Splash]

Personally after the Marvel set, I started by grabbing the 10 characters who never got released in that Hasbro Marvel booster and a few of my favorites, of course, the addiction kept going from there.

I would start with some of your favorite characters whoever they may be. Pretty much every major character has at least one figure that is only a dollar. The actual sculpt used doesn't matter a whole awful lot.

As said earlier, for popularity, anyone who was in a movie, if you don't have a sense you could just Google most popular marvel/DC characters, or you could just ask your friends who they'd wanna play (it's why I have Doctor Who stuff).

One thing that I'm not sure has been mentioned is leaderpieces/OM hubs.
240pt Captain America (Steve Rogers Avengers) and Star-Lord are some generalist leaders, 250pt Doctor Octopus (Sinister Six), Nightwing (Titans), and Professor X are some factional leaders. And of course Mister Fantastic leads the Fantastic Four.

[reverie]

GL (John Stewart), Hawkeye (Skycycle), Robot, and Red Skull (I) are some units that play well with others due to movement and/or bonding-ish powers. What are some other units like these (that aren't faction limited)?

[IAmBatman]

Martian Manhunter (I), Zombie, a lot of the Avengers stuff is more or less generalist ....

[Tornado]

Oracle and Baron Zemo(public one by Yodaking) offer great OM flexibility.
If you want a little classic flavor, try mixing in Walkers.
I like how they play with Spawn.
Should really fix the title here.