Lilith

Lilith, Daughter to the Lord of Hatred Mephisto, conspired with the angel Inarius to escape an Eternal conflict between the Heavens and Hells. Together, they created the secret world of Sanctuary, to which they escaped and later created the Firstborn spread, and Lilith set out to protect her "children" through a vicious purge of her allies. For her deeds, Lilith was banished to the Void by Inarius. Millenia [sic] later, Lilith escaped... and wanders Sanctuary once again... Now, I know even less about Diablo than I know about most things (which is truly saying something, considering my legendary dumbness), but I'm pretty sure of two things: one, that that's not referring to the Lilith or the Mephisto you're thinking of, and two, there's a word or words missing between "Firstborn" and "spread," because that sentence makes no sense. It should be something like "...created the Firstborn. This new race and its cultures spread...". The succubi of Diablo were originally like any other pop culture succubus, topless pin-up devil girls wearing thongs and thigh-highs. Eventually the lore in the sequels began to speak about Lilith, the succubus' queen, and she was properly introduced in Diablo IV. She's still a sexy lady, but her demonic features are more prevalent, for instance with her having horns instead of hair, and having those horns curve upward like a crown. Her clothing is surprisingly demure. Like, yes, she has an ornate, armored corset, and the neckline of her dress comes all the way down betweenher breasts, but it's a dress, not lingerie. It has long, billowing sleeves, and it hangs loosely below her waist. There's even a second under-layer that may be a big raggedy along the lower edge, but is still a loose-fitting skirt that goes all the way to her ankles. Blizzard outgrew the "horny teenager" mindset when it came time to design Lilith, and it's to the character's benefit. She wears a little bit of armor on her shoulders, a bit scaly and spiky to remind us that she's a demon, and she has bands on her biceps and wrists. The belt has a long loincloth hanging from the front, and a thing on the back that ends up looking like a forked tail made of metal. As she's the queen of the succubi, it makes sense that she looks so regal. But also she's a demon, so there is a gigantic pair of wings growing from her back. They're so large they're packaged separately behind the figure in a second tray. They're large, bat-like wings, with leathery membranes between long fingers. The "arm/finger" parts are dark blue-grey, matching her shirt, while the central bits are a ruddy fleshtone, much darker than the rest of her skin. They don't have any articulation, other than where they meet the torso, so don't expect to fold them behind her dramatically or anything. This is the second "Elite Edition" release, putting Lilith in the same line as Dark Ages Doomguy, and like that figure, her paint is pleasantly intricate. The ribs of her corset (which are horizontal, rather than vertical, which is part of what makes it look more like decoration than something functional) are golden, but with black in between them so they don't become one big, undetailed mass. The softgoods parts of her top match the painted plastic fairly well, and the dark lines creeping down from her eyes are crisp and clean. Her skin is pale, and her lips are a dark burgundy... except for the set that's covered in blood. McFarlane Toys has been including swappable faces with some of their DC figures of late, and Lilith gets that feature, too. There's one neutral face, one with a sinister smile, one getting utterly angry, and one with blood dripping down her chin. They swap easily, with the ridged, organic horns helping hide the seam (the top of the plate is where that red gem on her forehead sits). If you have trouble differentiating between the plain and annoyed faces, check the space between her eyebrows - they're more different than the mouths are. Because so much of her clothing is done as softgoods, her articulation is on par with any modern McFarlane figure: barbell head, swivel/hinge wings, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel/​hinge/swivel wrists, balljointed chest and waist, swivel/hinge hips, swivel thighs, double-hinged knees, swivel/​hinge/swivel ankles, and hinged toes. Her legs are wrapped in plastic in the package, so the dark dye from her dress won't stain the light plastic. There are eight hands included: open wide, clawing, fists, a clutching left hand, and a... trigger finger right hand? Time for Lilith to borrow a gun from Commando Spawn and utterly break the power curve of her game! The figure includes an unusual red sheet, bagged separately from everything else, that at first doesn't make any sense. However: as you move through the world of Diablo IV, you find spots where you can trigger a flashback cutscene showing what Lilith was doing there in the past; these locations are marked by what appear to be flower petals somehow made of blood. This mystery accessory is a sheet of blood petals! You just have to punch them out yourself, and then you can scatter them around her feet however you like. Personally, since she does include one of those display stands so she can hover (or possibly just to make sure her wings don't make her fall over), we'd have made the bottom part of it a new sculpt designed to look like a pile of petals on the ground, but this is a much more creative idea. An early piece of concept art depicted Lilith holding the skull of Diablo himself, and although it doesn't appear in any part of the game, it's a striking image in a statue and with the Figma version, and so McToys has included it as well. It's too good to pass up! The skull is mostly red, with light colored fangs and the horns fading to black near the points. It doesn't have any specific hand-holds for the toy to use, so it will just be resting on her palms, but it looks remarkably cool nonetheless. Off the top of my head, the only thing I knew about Diablo as a franchise was that time Blizzard embarrassed themselves at their own convention by teasing there would finally be a new installment in the series, then announcing nothing but a mobile game. When they were (rightly) booed for that, their response was infamously a pathetic "do you guys not have phones?" Wow, pathetic. How do you misread a room that badly? The only cheer was when one fan asked if this was an out-of-season April Fools' joke. But apparently Diablo IV does things right again (at least for the first half, when the story is going on), and even if the ultimate baddie this time isn't a cross between Tim Curry in Legend and the Balrog, she's a cool demonic design that's served well as an Elite Edition release. -- 09/04/25 Do you not have a phone? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.