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McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Superman 2025 Movie Superman Battle Damaged Review
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00:00Boy and Blue, more like Black and Blue.
00:03Here's your look at McFarlane Toys, DC Multiverse, The Superman Movie, Gold Label Collection,
00:07Battle Damage Superman.
00:25Both a son of an otherworldly Krypton and planet Earth's small town Smallville,
00:29the metahuman superhero Superman, a.k.a. Metropolis's Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent,
00:34must now juggle between jobs and personas while under the most severe attack he's ever faced.
00:39If Lex Luthor has his way, Superman will soon see the last of Earth, and Earthlings will rejoice.
00:44I think Ma Kent's going to need something tougher than Tide to get that kind of stain out.
00:48You know, it's kind of interesting if Clark Kent spends so much time trying to conceal his identity,
00:53and meanwhile his mother's hanging out his laundry on the front porch.
00:56Let's go ahead, though, and take the tape measure, shall we?
00:58and see how tall the Gold Label Collection Battle Damage Superman stands.
01:01This Superman is essentially just going to be the regular-release Superman with just some darker, dingier colors.
01:07Also, as well, the figure's going to be staying the same, yeah.
01:09So he's only going to be 7 inches in height.
01:11Saying only, and then 7 inches, that's still a pretty tall figure.
01:15That's also going to work out to be a figure that's 18 centimeters tall.
01:18So if you're familiar with that Superman, you'll be obviously familiar with this Superman.
01:21It's maybe interesting the way I've got it posed right now, that the regular, cleaner version of Superman actually seems to stand a little bit taller.
01:28He has the exact same face.
01:29He also is unfortunately relegated to only having a plastic cape.
01:33If you were lucky, though, enough to get the deluxe theatrical edition of Superman, it's going to still keep the same body.
01:38But as we've already covered, established in the other review, this one's also going to have now a fabric cape.
01:42He's going to also have some swappable face plates.
01:44Now, that doesn't make, though, for a perfect Superman.
01:46One of the big problems with this one is the fact that you can't see the seam line.
01:49For him to remove his face, there's a big, very noticeable line right across the side of his face.
01:56Also, to help aid Superman healing, I have recently looked at the Superman robot.
02:01This is Superman Robot 4, but I'm sure we're probably going to be getting more of these.
02:04Here's also what the figure looks like with Lex Luthor, who also happened to be a deluxe theatrical edition.
02:09And here's also what the figure looks like with movies Metamorpho.
02:11While his Supes may have a darker deco, the accessories on him remain the same.
02:16The figure, first of all, does come in clear with a display stand.
02:18I'm just going to reach this side here and grab the other display stand that came in clear with the regular version of Superman.
02:23It's a little bit lighter, but again, like, the coloring of these plastics that they use change from time to time.
02:28In fact, I actually have gotten myself a couple of DC Multiverse stands that are even lighter than this.
02:32But they work the exact same way.
02:33I mean, obviously, they only have one peg that can plug into either one of Superman's boots.
02:37And, of course, there's a DC logo.
02:38So, psst, psst, branded down below.
02:42The figure does also come in clear with a trading card.
02:44Now, the thing about the trading card, this is the one that comes included with the gold label collection.
02:48This is the one that comes included with the regular version.
02:51Exact same Superman.
02:52Being that this is really just a color variation, there's no retooling.
02:56There's nothing that's done differently on this figure.
02:58I can't really expect them to spend the budget to give us a different card.
03:00So, the cards are going to be identical.
03:02The read-ups on the back are also going to be exactly the same.
03:05So, there's nothing changed at all there.
03:06The figure does, unfortunately, also mean that he comes with the exact same hands.
03:12Now, so, to grab the hands that we got from the other Superman was just a pair of flight hands.
03:16See that?
03:17Now, if you were to look at this, and then you look at this, this is the battle-damaged Superman.
03:23I really should have just called him Dirtied Superman.
03:26Exact same hands, just this one's a little bit more scuffed up.
03:29And this color, by the way, the wash that they've added, is also obviously on this hand.
03:35Oh, no, no.
03:36It's on this hand.
03:38And it's also on the hands that he has right now on the ends of his forearms.
03:41If you did want to change out those hands, by the way,
03:44darker or dingier or otherwise, you basically just hold on to the forearm.
03:47Hold on for dear life.
03:48And then just twist that off the peg.
03:50Take the hand that you want to use.
03:52Line up, of course, the hole to the peg.
03:54And there we go.
03:55Just plug it in place.
03:56Now, Superman can either salute or, again, if you want to give him a flight pose.
04:00Granted, though, the figure doesn't have a flight stand, so you'll have to kind of be creative.
04:04You can get yourself some fish in line.
04:05You can get yourself a flight stand.
04:07You could have Superman displayed that way.
04:08Although, unfortunately, with this Superman,
04:10still seems to be an issue where you can't get his head to angle completely up.
04:14For the body and the build, it's also exactly the same.
04:18So just to bring in the regular version of Superman,
04:20the bodies are the same.
04:22The capes are the same.
04:23The only thing that's different from one and the other is just this darker color treatment.
04:28They've just essentially taken the same mold and just washed across.
04:31Now, some could maybe really look at this and see this.
04:33This is just a Simpsons, Malibu, Stacey case.
04:35I mean, it's not even the case, really, that Superman has a different hat, for example.
04:39It's just the same figure, and it's just with this wash of paint that changes from one to the other.
04:44I understand why this figure has to exist.
04:47Based, at least from what we see in the movie,
04:49this Superman gets beat up a lot, apparently.
04:50I think in every part of the scenes, every scene that they show in the trailer,
04:54Superman's getting handed to him.
04:56And, of course, he has to then rely on his Superman robots to go and heal him.
05:00My plan, though, eventually, is to probably get this Superman
05:02and then get another three of those robots
05:04and kind of have him recreating the scene where he's being carried in.
05:07That also reminds me, too, I never got the chance to bring back in Krypto.
05:10Poor Krypto gets neglected every single time we've done recent reviews of these figures.
05:14Krypto, of course, grabs his cape,
05:16drags him through the snow.
05:19Superman just remains helpless, apparently.
05:21And then the robots proceed to then heal him.
05:23So I understand why a figure like this has to exist.
05:26I feel like, if anything, if you want to get this figure,
05:29because you already have this figure, and you think to yourself,
05:31well, I need the one that has the darker wash,
05:33even though that's, I'm sure, something you'd probably have gone in and done yourself.
05:35I feel like there should have been some nudge,
05:39something to be rewarding the collectors to get a figure like this,
05:42whether it be an extra accessory that's nowhere found anywhere else,
05:45whether it be a different head sculpt, for example,
05:47or even just some swappable hands.
05:48I feel like there needed to be an investment made to this figure
05:51so that, as collectors, we would invest to get a figure like this
05:54where it isn't just this figure again in a darker wash.
05:58It doesn't necessarily take anything away from him.
06:01I think the face sculpt is still really good on it,
06:03bearing quite still the likeness of David Cora Sweat,
06:07who, of course, plays the role of Superman.
06:09We don't know how well that role is actually going to be.
06:11But everything on the outfit is just, again, like the same body, same mold.
06:15As you can see, though, it just has a dark wash that's added across the front of it.
06:20Looking at this also, too, it looks like they've,
06:22and I think it's just the way that they've washed it,
06:23but it does almost look like there's not enough yellow on his emblem.
06:26And I think, though, that the emblem is probably painted correctly.
06:29But then when you start to wash anything over top of it,
06:31it then gives the result of, like, the yellow almost even looks like it's not completely painted.
06:37The wash is also across the front of his chest, down the side of his arm, down the side of his leg.
06:42It's even actually in his boot as well.
06:44It's not just a case where I feel like they just slapped on some paint.
06:47They were smart at least where they applied it.
06:49Whether you think that this is really just phoning in a figure or not,
06:52at least they added some dark kind of soot color on the top.
06:55They've also dingy the color of his emblem on the back of his cape as well.
06:58So there is at least some effort that has been made.
07:02I mean, if you were to lift the cape up, you can clearly, though, see that there's no paint at all
07:06on the really, like, the back of his body.
07:08Not on his torso, not on his thighs either, and not even on the back of his trunk.
07:12So it really is only on the front of the figure's body and really his cape that gets the extra bit of wash.
07:18Still, I understand, again, like, why a figure like this has to exist.
07:21Collectors out there won't mind at all, I'm sure, to get a variant of Superman that's just darker like this.
07:25But again, like, from that, you have to kind of give and take.
07:29I feel like really McFarlane Toys, too, release a figure like this that is just a carbon copy,
07:33accessories, mold, stand, and trading card, to throw something else into the mix,
07:39I think would have been a nice little nudge that we needed as collectors to get this figure again.
07:43Maybe even if it just revolved, involved, giving him a different face sculpt.
07:48Now, to go back and look at, like, for example, the theatrical version of Superman,
07:51the deluxe version of him, it came with some swappable faces.
07:54Maybe had they used one of the faces, or came up with a face that would be unique to him,
08:00but then could have been a face swap to him, then at least you would say to yourself,
08:04you know, even though it's a dark Superman that's basically just, again, the same body,
08:08I can at least get behind this one, because this looks like,
08:11even if they had just given Superman a bloodied nose, or a bloodied mouth,
08:15just more bruised and battered, you can do that with his outfit,
08:18but I feel like you need to have done it to his face as well.
08:21For the figure's articulation, if you're familiar with the other Superman,
08:24you'll be familiar with this one as well.
08:26Head's going to rotate all the way around via a ball joint.
08:29The head can look down okay.
08:30Looking up, though, is a little harder.
08:32You really feel like you have to fight against it,
08:34just because there's so much hair on the back of his body, or the back of his head.
08:38The head can still move back and forth.
08:40I really did feel like there was going to be a ball joint at the base of the neck,
08:42but it does not seem to be the case.
08:45As for his arms, though, they rotate all the way around.
08:47And rotating them, too, when you have the arms up like this,
08:50you can really even obviously see the parts that aren't painted.
08:54Again, probably better to have the arms down.
08:57I think for my own collection space,
08:58I'm probably going to have this guy kind of hunched over like this,
09:00kind of what I did at the beginning of this review,
09:02to sell the idea that this Superman is battle-damaged.
09:06Again, the arms do rotate all the way around.
09:08You can hinge those arms out at almost a T-pose,
09:12although they're really tight on my figure.
09:14I would say just a little less than 90 degrees, maybe about 90.
09:18We'll stick with 90.
09:19The figure does have a bicep swivel.
09:21He also possesses a double hinge on his elbow,
09:23and the hands rotate all the way around.
09:25All these creaking and clacking and cracking sounds
09:29are all the same sounds that I make when I wake up in the morning,
09:32as you certainly get older.
09:34Upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
09:36Further from that, there's also going to be a ball joint in his abdomen area.
09:39The legs do split out of fairly decent splits.
09:43You can take the legs and move forward and move them back.
09:46You can also swivel at the top of the thigh, but only just by a little bit.
09:49The figure does have a double hinge on the knee.
09:51Articulation is non-existent, null and void when it comes to his lower boots.
09:55His boots basically are just a continued sculpt,
09:57so they probably would have painted this piece to his boot,
09:59and it just would have been molded all in blue plastic.
10:02Ankle pivot, ankle rocker, and like with the other Superman,
10:06he does also have toe articulation as well.
10:07Now, is he worth picking up?
10:10It depends on really how far into this collection you want to really get into.
10:13Some probably would say to themselves,
10:14you know, I only really need to get one Superman.
10:16And if that is really honestly the case,
10:19get this guy to stand again.
10:20If it is a case where your budget is only going to say,
10:23you know, get one figure, man.
10:24Just get one and move forward with it.
10:26I would probably have passed on probably getting the regular versions
10:29and instead beeline it right away to the deluxe theatrical.
10:32The deluxe again has the same body.
10:35It has a fabricate now.
10:36It also has swappable face plates.
10:38And probably just do away with these guys altogether.
10:40If, though, you are one that really likes to collect everything
10:42and anything that Todd's going to be releasing
10:44when it comes to the new Superman movie,
10:45I would say it's still worth to get this guy.
10:47But I feel like, again,
10:49they really should have thrown something else in there.
10:51In the end, though,
10:52this is probably going to be the Superman.
10:53It's going to be displayed with Superman robots.
10:55The four that we have right now,
10:56well, sorry,
10:57the robot four that we have right now,
10:59and probably the other than three
11:01that we're going to be getting eventually down the road.
11:03That Superman's likely going to be displayed,
11:05maybe carried into the Fortress of Solitude,
11:07even though we really don't have a Fortress of Solitude
11:09designed for the seven-inch scale figures.
11:11But it might just have this guy displayed
11:12with my Superman robots,
11:14when eventually we get another three of them.
11:16It's getting concerned,
11:16but apparently Superman robot four
11:17is giving the thumbs up,
11:18so we're in the clear.
11:19Just to make sure, though,
11:21that Superman's getting the proper bedside manner,
11:23Crypto's overseeing everything.
11:24After all, Superman is his meal ticket, after all.
11:26I don't think the robots would realize,
11:28oh, yeah,
11:28we've got to feed this dog from time to time.
11:30They're worrying about also the security
11:32and just making sure everything's going okay
11:34in the Fortress of Solitude.
11:36Crypto, meanwhile,
11:36is looking at his kibble bowl,
11:37thinking,
11:38hey,
11:38is somebody going to come over here and feed me?
11:40That's where Superman comes in.
11:42He's basically his meal ticket.
11:44Yeah,
11:44maybe this figure didn't need to exist.
11:47I mean,
11:47really,
11:47when you're looking at this one
11:48and then you just look at the other figure
11:49that we've already gotten,
11:50same body,
11:51same mold,
11:52same accessories.
11:54And while,
11:54you know,
11:54I maybe had made the argument in this review
11:56that a figure like this could exist in reality,
11:59meaning like he's not a jokerized character
12:01where that I would certainly have questioned
12:04why a figure like that has to exist.
12:05As we see certainly in the movie,
12:07at least from the trailers,
12:08Superman gets it handed to him a lot.
12:10And to have a battered looking Superman
12:12on the shelf isn't a bad thing at all,
12:14even if it just really meant
12:15that we took the body from the original one
12:16and slapped some paint over top of it.
12:18I feel like though,
12:19just maybe something had to go a little further
12:21with this release of this figure.
12:23Maybe whether they could put it,
12:24some scratches,
12:25some bloodied nose,
12:26a bloodied lip on Superman's face,
12:28something just to make it feel
12:30like it's not just the same Superman again
12:32with a little bit of black paint on him.
12:34What do you guys though think
12:35of the battle damaged Superman?
12:36Worth picking up?
12:37Or do you think it's just a total pass
12:39and just a need to use this mold again?
12:40What do you guys think of this figure?
12:41Let me know down below in the comment section.
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12:54We're wrapping up things right now
12:55for the recovery of Superman,
12:57but there will be more reviews coming your way.
12:59As always,
13:00thanks for watching.
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