

Remember when Cyborg was in the first series of Wendy's DC keshi for no good reason? Series 2 finally brings him some friends! This is an entire Teen Titans-themed box, and since we've already had both a Dick Grayson and a Robin, the star of the set is Raven. Naturally, she's wearing her big, hooded cape, and it flares up behind her shoulders the way it always does - a feature that works much better on a pre-posed M.U.S.C.L.E.-style figure than it does on an action figure. She holds her arms out to the sides, slightly, and the slits up her dress mean she's showing a lot of leg.
The downside to these figures all being a single, solid color comes when you've got a character who is an identifiable color, but can't be it as a toy. For instance, Beast Boy: if you happen to get Set #4 in the green color, that's great, but if you get the gold, red, or blue? You can barely even tell who he is; being green is such a strong part of his look that any other details about him get subsumed. Artist Matt Kaufenberg and sculptor Joe Allard tried their best to make it clear who the toy represented, by designing him so he's got one arm turning into a gorilla's, but again, it doesn't work as well when it's not green.
If you're putting together a Teen Titans set of toys, who are you going to pick
to be the one villain in the set? Who else! Deathstroke. Or, well, "not" Deathstroke, because it's frowned upon to put the word "death" on a kid's toy, same as it's frowned upon to put the word "death" in a kid's cartoon. So the card included in this set takes a cue from Teen Titans Go and just calls him "Slade." On the front. The back does at least identify him as "Terminator," like that's his supranym (Beast Boy's card similarly used "Beast Boy" on the front and "Changeling" on the back). The figure isn't sculpted with any weapons - no guns or swords - but this is the classic costume, not his New 52 mess, so all the chainmail on the arms is fully detailed. The ties on his mask dangle down against his back.
Since we now have four members of the Teen Titans, what are the odds Wendy's does a third series of DC Heroes in the future and includes Starfire? It'd probably be a struggle to choose between the vintage design, like most of these minifigures have gotten, or a more kid-friendly version inspired by the cartoons.


If I remember right the Teen Titans Cartoon from the 2000s was the first to call Deathstroke just Slade.
Honestly sounds more sinister to me that way.
BB probably would worked better with a less humanoid limb. Maybe a tiger claw or bird wing?
I think you're right about the old TT cartoon: of course, it helps that when it's spoken rather than written, there's no difference between "Slade" and "slayed," so it still gets to sound kind of violent while retaining its plausible deniability...
I imagine Starfire would probably get made in her modern one piece costume like her last two action figures. Artemis shows Wendy's isn't completely allergic to newer designs.
Henceforth Deathstroke is officially The Fatal Masturbator! https://bsky.app/profile/waitingforthetrade.bsky.social/post/3laoz5fjjd72v