Review: Marvel Legends Cassandra Nova from Deadpool & Wolverine
- Mephitsu
- 33 minutes ago
- 6 min read
"The Void is a paradise. I can wield my power here without shame."
When Deadpool & Wolverine hit our screens in 2024, it was clear that there was a large raft of characters who took part in the movie who we as collectors might want to join our Marvel Legends display. The first wave for the movie was relatively modest, with figures of Deadpool, Wolverine, and a pack featuring Headpool and a civilian Logan from the early bar scenes. We’ve had to wait until Spring of 2026 for the next batch of Deadpool & Wolverine MCU movie figures, with a full six-figure wave released and headed up by a 7th Deluxe release of Dogpool and Deadpool. From the single boxed wave, our review here looks at the movie’s primary villain, Cassandra Nova.
Cassandra Nova is packed in the standard Legends box, black in tone, with the Marvel Legends logo at the top left and the movie logo across the bottom, underneath the window. The character name is shown via a side callout, printed to look like a rip in the box.
To the right-hand side of the box is a full image of Cassandra staring directly at the camera. This image is used again, but smaller, on the opposite spine and on the back of the box. The box reverse has a short piece of text which explains her relation to Charles Xavier as his twin sister and her banishment to the Void. Underneath this, and in another ‘torn out’ panel, is a checklist for the accompanying single-figure wave with headshots of each of the figures included.
Cassandra Nova is packed into the usual inner plastic tray, and that is then sat in a folded cardback sleeve. This sleeve is the same as is being used across the entirety of the 2026 wave, a white/grey finish and covered in Deadpool doodles. These inserts do focus heavily on Deadpool and Wolverine, rightly so in terms of the movie's main characters, but it would have been a nice touch to see some doodles by DP about Cassandra Nova and how he perceives her.
Cassandra is a new figure and is designed on her long-coated look from her initial appearance in The Void when Deadpool, Wolverine, and Johnny Storm are captured and taken before her. The trousers are tan coloured with cloth textures and folds and tuck into a pair of knee-high darker brown boots with sculpted, but unpainted, lace details and a grey sole.
The torso is an open white shirt, beneath which is Cassandra’s tan coloured vest, with the ‘X’ design on the straps which cross just under her neck. This torso has been assembled in parts, so the white of the shirt is one piece, and the inner vest is inserted into this, keeping the join between the two crisp and neat compared to what it might look like if the two pieces had to be painted.
The coat is another sleeve over the torso, cast entirely in a tan brown with buttons and pockets, the buttons being picked out in a darker brown finish. The arms of the figure replicate that of the coat in both colour and texture, with the hands cast in a pale skin tone.
The head sculpt, of which we get just the one, is a blank, serene but intense expression as carried by Cassandra Nova in many of her scenes. There is a facial print application, giving an excellent likeness overall to actor Emma Corrin in costume and with her bald head.
Cassandra features four different plain hand options, all cast in a skin tone and featuring a plug-in peg that slots into place easily. These vary from a single clenched fist for her right hand, to a pair of open hands, and a final left hand with two fingers outstretched as though gesturing her mind-powers towards a victim (such as Johnny Storm) or being held to her head to project her will.
Suited body not included, this is attached to the Matt Murdock body in these pictures
The final accessory is a fifth hand of sorts, but one that is attached to a sculpted head of Mr Paradox. This head, a great likeness to Matthew Macfadyen as he is being tortured, still features all the usual details of a Legends head, including sculpted hair and photo-real printing. The difference here is that Cassandra’s fingers are poking through his face, as seen when she tortures Paradox towards the movie’s finale.
Suited body not included, this is attached to the Matt Murdock body in these pictures
This is another example in this wave of universe building, and Hasbro's forward thinking on including parts that are compatible with other releases. For Paradox, the head is designed to fit perfectly on a Legends Suited body, and that means if you have a spare or chase down a cheap one like the Matt Murdock body we’ve used (purists may want to paint the tie red), you get two figures out of a single release. The head and hand plug into Cassandra’s arms as normal, with the hand intended to be her left hand as we see in the scenes. In reality, it can work on either side, and I found utilising this hand & head on the right-hand side was perhaps better for display.
Juggernaut helmet is an accessory included with X-23 in the same wave as Cassandra Nova
In another example of Universe building, the Juggernaut helmet that Deadpool & Wolverine use to subdue Cassandra Nova is included in the X-23 release, so if you have both figures, you can also have the Juggernaut helmet put onto Cassandra Nova to play out that scene. The fit is not great, and I think Hasbro has left the Juggernaut helm suitably generic to fit other figures, but once positioned, it is a nice addition for display on Cassandra.
In terms of articulation, Cassandra Nova has 18 points of articulation. Her legs include a full set of joints, benefiting from a bootcut swivel thanks to the assembly process. But the legs are held back by the long coat, and while they keep her posed upright really well, there is not a huge amount more she can do.
The arms have sufficient movement to recreate much of Cassandra's gesturing and how she employs her powers, but there is not quite enough bend in the single-jointed elbow to have her holding her own head as we see her do in the movie, a mannerism we also see used by her twin, Charles Xavier. The torso sits on a swivel waist, while, unusually for a Legends figure, the head and neck are a single piece and jointed where the neck plugs into the torso. This allows a good range of movement, but not quite the level we’d have where the neck was jointed top and bottom, which allows the neck to remain stable and the head to be turned or cocked to the side.
Cassandra Nova is a very visual release, pretty accurately to the onscreen look, save a layer of weathering of dust from The Void. The long coat look is specific to the first half of her scenes, and considering the coat is removable, perhaps a set of alternative arms might have given us both looks in the same release, considering when she arrives to take control of the Time Ripper and subsequently tortures Paradox, she is without her coat altogether. I do think this might be a figure we see in the future, or at the very least, one the aftermarket 3rd party people might lean into with a set of alternative arms.
Articulation is not bad, but the elbows could do with more range to mirror the character's posing with her hands holding her head. And maybe the head should have followed the usual design with neck and head separate and jointed together for a wider range of motion. The Paradox head is both an interesting inclusion and a bold choice, asking collectors to either purchase an older release or to sacrifice one they already own to display Paradox - but then this is perhaps preferable to what would have been a single release of Paradox himself, or a two-pack.
With Cassandra in hand, what we now need is some of her goons to display with her. I personally want to see Pyro, Juggernaut and Azazel in terms of how visual each of them is. Roll on more Deadpool & Wolverine figures before we get caught up in the avalanche of further figure options that Doomsday will bring.
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