The Stranger (Qimir)

BORTLES!!! Little is known of the dark sider who has been training Mae Aniseya in secret, hiding his face from his pupil. When needed, he has adopted the alias Qimir, acting as a shiftless drifter. Huh, "spoilers," I guess. I know there are were some fans who claimed that it was too easy to figure out that Mae's only friend was also her secret master, but come on: no it wasn't. There's a difference between "figuring something out early" and "blindly guessing a thousand things and having one of them happen to be right." The Simpsons doesn't predict the future, it's just been running since the days of our grandparents and we've meanwhile fostered a world that's indistinguishable from parody. Besides, the real surprise in all this was that, despite all appearances to the contrary, Qimir was not being played by Ezra Miller, just an incredible simulation. Qimir was actually played by Manny Jacinto, aka "Jason in The Good Place." But you have to admit: the greasy, stringy hair, the dirtbag mustache... it's an understandale mistake to make. Or possibly it's just that, between this figure and Druig, I for some reason think every scrawny, pale-skinned dude with dark hair looks the same. Of course, that's not an issue when he's wearing his Sith helmet. It's made from cortosis, the anti-lightsaber metal that showed up in The Clone Wars, and its golden hue and giant, smiling mouth make it look like nothing so much as a sinister metal Pac-Man. It's rough and cracked, suggesting it's something he built himself, and the general shape of it is meant to reflect Kylo Ren's helmet, with the implication being (since we know his own master eventually got a different apprentice) that he was the first Knight of Ren. You know how Stewie Griffin wears long sleeve shirts under short sleeve shirts under long sleeve shirts? Because The Stranger wears sculpted robes under softgoods robes under sculpted robes. Since the Stranger helmet is a separate head and not just a piece that fits over Qimir's head, they have to be removable from the neck joint. And when you do that, you can also take off his outer layer shawl, a sculpted PVC piece, and the longer, fuller cape beneath that, made from cloth. Get those off, and he's sculpted wearing his black "Mortal Kombat ninja" vest and a wide belt, while his pants are again baggy cloth, worn over the tighter, sculpted legs beneath. My heavens! He wears a cortosis bracer on his left arm, so he can block more lightsaber attacks in battle. The articulation is unsurprising: balljoints for the heads and necks, pec hinges, swivel/hinge shoulders and elbows, balljoint wrists, balljoint chest, balljoint hips, swivel thighs, swivel/hinge knees, swivel shins, and swivel/hinge ankles. If you raise the legs forward when he's wearing the PVC smock, that will get pushed out of the way, but having cloth pants mean the legs do generally move fine. Considering The Acolyte had some of the best Force-user fights put to screen, him being able to move like this was important, and the toy doesn't let him down. If we had to pick a flaw, it would be that the placement of the knees feels too low on the leg: like, if you just grab the leg through the softgoods pants and try to bend it, you're probably going to be expecting the joint to be at least ¼" higher than it actually is. There was apparently some debate, before the show aired, as to whether The Stranger would be a Sith or not. I mean, he wears black clothes and has a red lightsaber; what other qualifications for being a Sith are there? Does he have to pass a Sith citizenship test? His saber is one of the cooler ones we've seen recently, in that it looks like just a normal lightsaber, but the end of the hilt can separate and turn into a little short one, kind of like Ahsoka's blades if the small one was a secret. The two are packaged separately in the tray, but if you remove the blade from the tiny hilt, the remaining hole fits perfectly with the bump on the end of the large hilt. There's a ring at the end of the combined form, but no hooks or anything on his belt that would accommodate it. It's certainly taken a while for The Stranger to be released, but at last Mae and Osha have someone to deal with. And all the other Acolyte Jedi are in trouble. -- 12/13/25 What would be on the Sith-izenship test? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.