“Every step you took to get here, Lamentis, The Void, I paved the road. You... You just walked down it.”
He Who Remains, as seen in the finale of Loki Season 1, was released in the Marvel Legends series in 2022. He was part of a Disney+ wave that also included Richard E. Grant’s Loki from the show, as well as characters from What If? And WandaVision as well as a Khonshu Build-a-Figure from Moon Knight. The wave was one of the first to see the transition away from window boxes to the plastic-free design that included illustrations of the figure on the box front and side art, with a checklist of contents and the BAF breakdown moving to the side and reverse of the box along with the usual brief background text.
He Who Remains is a brand new figure, and replicates the outfit we see him wearing when he meets Loki and Sylvie at the End of Time. This is made up of a grey/green torso piece sculpted with a central chest emblem that is picked out in gold paint as it swirls away from a central circle. Beneath this are a simple pair of green cast trousers, overlaid with a softer plastic khaki skirt segment. He Who Remains is wearing a soft plastic overcoat in rich purple and a pair of sandals. With the exception of the torso piece and some detailing on the hands and feet, there are no further paint apps with the coat, in particular, relying on the depth of sculpt of the folds and creases to add depth.
The head sculpt is a strong likeness to actor Jonathan Majors and utilises photo-real facial printing to add further details such as the eyes, and the facial hair. The hair is black textured plastic and appears to be an individual plug-in piece which means the transition from skin tone to hair is crisp and even with no unsightly bleeding of one into the other, or flesh-coloured hair where paint has been missed.
He Who Remains comes with a solitary accessory, a green apple that fits into his outstretched right hand. The apple does what is intended in terms of looking like an apple, and adds some character to the figure, but little else and my preference would have perhaps been some form of TVA-themed accessory like a TemPad of TVA handbook - or an alternative head sculpt with varied expression.
Articulation is 16 points in total, all pinless, and inclusive of double-jointed knees, but only single-joint elbows and no butterfly shoulder joints or dual-jointed neck. The joints all work as intended and there are a number of expressive posing options available for He Who Remains (with or without his apple). He does seem to have a tendency to fall backwards once posed. This appears to be an issue with the feet and the ratchet in the ankle rocker not quite seating them flat, rather than a weight distribution issue. One to be mindful of in a cramped display as He Who Remains has wiped out many of my MCU figures during his time in the collection - which I guess is a bit of foreshadowing.
The current situation surrounding Jonathan Majors has certainly seen the enthusiasm for Kang and his variants wane and He Who Remains has been a very consistent peg warmer at deep discount for a number of months now. His recent appearances during Loki Season 2 may now see a renewed interest in the figure, and if he is available at less than the RRP then you will get a good-looking figure, with a crisp colour scheme and adequate articulation for your collection. Like Sylvie and some of the other Loki figures, they perhaps are a bit lack-lustre on their own, but they certainly offer more for an MCU or a more focused Disney+ collection once assembled into a wider group.
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