Do you know the story of Darth Plagueis the Wise Lilith, the first wife of Adam? It's not a story the Jedi Bible would tell you.
Lilith, the Goddess of the Underworld, is on a millennium-long quest to conquer the world as the Mother of Demons.
Supposedly Lilith was made from the same dirt as Adam, and therefore saw no reason she should be subservient in their relationship; so she was cast out of Eden, and a new wife was made from Adam's rib. More from Jewish folklore than Christian, the story of Lilith as it's recognized today didn't appear until the Middle Ages and is a combo of three different oral traditions, inspired by ancient Isaraelites mingling with Babylonians and Chaldeans and picking up some Assyrian myths in the process. Diversity win! In the comics, she was introduced in 1992 and was the villain that brought all Marvel's dark mystical heroes together in the "Rise of the Midnight Sons" crossover.
Lilith had a very memorable look, which has been captured well by this figure. Her skin is white, with black and purple markings around her eyes, and her forehead rises up into two vertical spikes even more exaggerated than Nova had. Her hair stretched between the two spires almost like cloth, and looked more like smoke as it reached the tips. That's a very hard thing for a physical toy to capture, but this one does it excellently. The hair is sculpted like tattered cloth, and molded from translucent black plastic.
You can tell Lilith was created in the '90s, because her costume is fishnets, fishnets, and more fishnets! Fishnets on her legs
above her silver boots, fishnets on her chest between her pueple swimsuit and her choker, fishnets on her arms worn over top of her sleeves. She wears gloves that are as white as her skin, green earrings, and a green demi-cape hanging from the middle of her back. The tampographed lines kind of turn into a mess where the different paint masks meet, but at least they made the effort. The paint on here eyes is great, though! What's white on your eyes is yellow on heres, with whitish iris and black pupils. It's a creepily unearthly look, and modern paint-printing techniques mean it looks crisp and flawless.
Lilith is built on the most common standard body,
with a new chest because she needs a hole back there for her cape to plug into, and the AoA Rogue mold, which does have holes, also has cloth wrinkles that wouldn't work with the bare expanse of Lilith's skin. You can tell they're hoping to reuse this later, though, because her choker and the cups of her top are just painted, not sculpted. Neither her cape nor her hair really get in the way of the articulation at all, which shows good design work. She has fists and open hands, but no other accessories. They could have given her some green energy blasts, if nothing else. (There's no way some miniature demons would have ever cost out. I wonder how much the old Legendary Heroes Darkness figure is going for these days?)
She does at least have a Build-A-Figure part: Blackheart's right arm.
We really don't have a lot of Midnight Sons figures (the Darkhold Redeemers and [two-thirds of] the Nightstalkers aren't exactly the most toyetic characters around, and a Grizzled '90s Trenchcoat Johnny Blaze is probably way down Hasbro's to-do list, even if it could easily be repainted into Grizzled '90s Trenchcoat Nomad to reuse any new molds), but if nothing else, Lilith here will give Ghost Rider, Morbius, and Blade someone new to fight.
-- 03/09/25
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