The Universal Horror Mystery Minis aren't the only ones available this year: there's also a set of Warner Bros. ones, but 1) WB doesn't get called out on the package at all, and 2) they're not actually "mysteries"; no, like the Deadpool Nerdy 30 rereleases, these have a window showing what's inside the box, and seem to be exclusive to Five Below. As in, the Deadpool ones were re-releases from an earlier line, but none of the figures in this assortment have appeared anywhere else at all!

There are six Minis in the set. Two of the characters were done in the previous Horror Classics line years back, one had his own entire line, one I didn't care about much, and one was just stupid, leaving just one that I had to get
the first time I saw them. I mean, this review had a title at the top of the page and this entire paragraph is next to a twice-actual-size photo of the toy, so you can probably figure out who I'm talking about. To borrow one of our own jokes, it's the Nun, who's the nun in The Nun.
Part of "the Conjuring Universe," the series of schlock horror films based on notorious hoaxers, The Nun first appeared in The Conjuring 2: Age of Ultron before getting her own spinoff. In the original appearance, an evil nun was just a random form the main demon, Valak, took in order to taunt Grifty McFrauderson's wife, Mrs. Grifty McFrauderson; that would make for a pretty short orgin film, so the spinoff had to invent something else. Doesn't matter. This mini is based on a scene in the original where we see a shadow crawl along the wall of a room, passing over various objects, but behind a spooky painting you'd never actually hang in your house. Suddenly fingers creep around the edge of the painting and a body emerges from the wall, running at the lady and giving her quite the unexpected fright, eh wot?
The figure is indeed molded holding her painting in front of her face, which is a comical thing to see in any form. The only thing that could possibly be funnier is when NECA did their Toony Terror of her and posed her running like a Scooby-Doo villain.
We don't actually see the Nun's face behind the painting in the scene, but it is done on the toy here; like, Funko could have just made a blank black head, since there's no articulation that will reveal it, but they fully detailed her nonetheless. Good on them! Rather than simply reproduce the idiot painting as it was seen in the stupid movie, they've "Mystery Mini"-tized it, so the cartoony face you'll see on display will match with any other Mystery Minis you want to stand her next to. It's super cute, it made me laugh despite being entirely unfamiliar with what it was representing when I saw the figure on the shelf at Five Below, and that's the entire reason I got it. Her... dress? ["habit" --ed.] is sculpted in such a way that you can tell how long her stride is, and thus how fast she's moving, and her... shawl? ["wimple" --ed.] is blowing back in the breeze as she runs.
In 2023, Bonnie Aarons, who plays the Nun (and also played the person behind the Denny's in Mulholland Drive), sued Warner Bros. because they weren't adequately paying her for merchandising. Hopefully she gets whatever she deserves from this mini (yes, I know Funko stuff generally doesn't require likeness rights, because it's so stylized), because it's a fun piece and I enjoy it more than any part of the entire movie series period.
