{"id":27680,"date":"2018-12-10T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=27680"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:58:59","slug":"spider-man-marvel-legends-scarlet-spider-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/spider-man-marvel-legends-scarlet-spider-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man Marvel Legends: Scarlet Spider review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edge of Spider-Verse? More like Edgelord<\/b> of Spider-Verse, amirite<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The product of a failed Spider-Man cloning project, Kaine is an unstable villain who dons the suit of the Scarlet Spider.<\/i><\/p>\n

Eh, he's an ex<\/b>-villain. By the time he got this suit, he'd been acting heroic for a while. But still, it's wild that we've already got two Marvel Legends<\/i> of this costume, isn't it? This definitely beats the last one<\/a>, in terms of paint, sculpt, and accessories. In ML5<\/i>, Scarlet Spider used Hasbro's tired take on the Bullseye body, while this one benefits from a newer, larger source<\/a>. He's still red and black, though the specific pattern of black on his shoulders has been cheated a little to better fit with the articulation. Not that anyone is likely to notice, because, come on: it's the Scarlet Spider.<\/p>\n

The figure's masked head is new, with a very thin, pointy chin and small, inset eyes that almost make him look alien. We also get an alternate unmasked head for him, with a sickly skintone, blank eyes, and a beard - which you may be able to guess makes it a repaint of the Cosmic Spider-Man<\/a> head (a perfectly logical choice since, discounting their origins as clones or in alternate universes, they're the same man).<\/p>\n

If that weren't enough, we get alternate hands: you can give him plain fists, or you can give him hands that have his bone spike \"stingers\" extended from his wrists. Those really should have taken a cue from Iron Man<\/a> and skipped the hinge joints: he can't flex his wrists if a bone is poking out through them!<\/p>\n

Scarlet Spider comes with the left arm of SP\/\/dr<\/a>, this series' Build-A-Figure.<\/p>\n

Since there was already one ML<\/i> Scarlet Spider available, no one was really clamoring for another, but there's no category in which this one is not superior.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>