
So is the secret point of this Universal Horror Mystery Minis line basically just "wait, that's from Universal? Oh okay."
In 2015, Key & Peele did a sketch about OutKast's
Big Boi and Andre 3000 running into each other at a coffee shop. It's almost comically easy, with Keegan-Michael Key playing the goofy Andre and Jordan Peele as the serious Big Boi, to view it as a sketch about the actors themselves, now that Peele is a major, respected name in horror directing, while Key is voicing animated movies in any role that allows him to sound and act exactly like himself. Like, Transformers One is great, but Chris Hemsworth sounded like Optimus Prime, Scarlett Johansson sounded like Elita-1, and Bumblebee sounded like Keegan-Michael Key. But I'm getting off-topic.
2019's Us, inspired by the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Mirror Image," sees the Wilson family tormented by a group of strange, jumpsuited people while on vacation - people who look exactly like them. Its message isn't as blatant as Get Out's, but it still has a point to make.
There are three Us minis in this series, but at a 1:6 ratio, this is the most common. It's based on the movie poster, which saw Lupita Nyong'o peering out at the viewer
from behind a mask of her own face: symbolism that reads perfectly clearly when you've seen the film, but was still fully unsettling when you haven't. The figure is just standing straight up, but much like The Nun's painting, she's actually holding a separate mask in front of her. Unlike the Nun, the piece seems to be glued into her forehead, rather than just being free-floating. Matching the poster, the eyes on the mask are hollow, meaning you can see the figure's painted eye peering through. A teardrop is painted rolling down her right cheek. Considering the poster image was just from the chest up, it seems like a missed opportunity to not have Red holding a pair of scissors in her "off screen" left hand. The tan leather glove and the thin straps of her sandals are painted cleanly.
