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I enjoyed taking photographs of this latest Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke 10-inch action figure so much that I got carried away so I've quite a lot of pictures to post and ended up with a three-part review of this Deathstroke action figure.
The thing is, I always enjoyed taking pictures of my figures. In the past however, when digital cameras were not the norm, taking pictures can be quite a chore and a pain. You had to buy rolls of film to load into the camera and you could only send your pictures for processing and development after the entire roll of film was finished before you could see how your pictures turned out. By then, time has passed and most times, you couldn't do a re-shoot because the event was over. So you always hoped that the pictures you took were good enough. You wouldn't want to take too many shots of the same subject too because it would mean you had less shots left for other subjects. With the advent of the digital camera, you could just snap as many pictures as you like and view them immediately after you've taken them before deciding whether or not you want to move on to the next subject matter. The digital age certainly has made things so much easier and faster too.
Deathstroke has a number of origin stories because DC has tweaked and reworked it many times to keep things interesting and help with the flow of the character development. One of the origin stories is that Slade Wilson's wife took out his right eye when she discovered that he had endangered their son and caused him to become mute. Afterward, his confidence in his physical abilities was such that he made no secret of his impaired vision, marked by his mask which has a black, featureless half covering his lost eye. Without his mask, Slade wears an eye-patch.
In the live action TV series "Arrow", Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) is stabbed in the right eye by an arrow at the hands of Oliver Queen who would become Green Arrow later on. But enough with the "how" Slade lost his eye story, lets continue with the "show and tell" instead. Here's Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke 10-inch (25.5cm) tall action figure armed with his staff. In the video game on which this figure is based upon, the staff is unique as it's a rifle-staff with a built-in grapple.
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I don't play the "Batman: Arkham Origins" game but I love what they did with the Deathstroke character in terms of the design and I'm glad Square Enix chose to stay faithful to the video game designed character and reproduced him in 1/7 scale in such glorious detail. I'm not too excited with the Play Arts Kai DC variant figures where they tried to tweak the designs with an anime / manga style. I just didn't like the designs they came up with and the faces all looked too cartoonish in a Japanese kind of way.
On the other hand, Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke 10-inch action figure looks very nice indeed. The articulation of the figure is great and due to the design of his costume / outfit, you don't really notice the joints as they are well hidden and not all that obvious.
Here's the Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke 10-inch (25.5cm) tall action figure armed with his staff. In the video game on which this figure is based upon, the staff is unique as it's a "rifle-staff with a built-in grapple" or so I've read. The staff here doesn't do any of those stuff (pun intended). It just looks like a fancy stick.
The staff has been in use as a weapon for a very long time. In medieval times, the quarterstaff (plural quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon and a technique of stick fighting. A bō (棒: ぼう), dong (Korean term), kon (Chinese term), or kun (Okinawan dialect), is a very tall and long staff weapon used in Okinawa and feudal Japan. The Chinese word gun (Chinese: 棍; pinyin: gùn, literally, "rod", "stick") refers to a long Chinese staff weapon used in Chinese martial arts. It is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the qiang (spear), dao (sabre), and the jian (sword), called in this group "The Grandfather of all Weapons".
Check out more pictures taken of Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke 10-inch figure holding the staff with two hands below, including some close-up shots.
And this is "Batman: Arkham Origins" 1/7 scale Deathstroke taking a knee.
NEXT: "Batman: Arkham Origins" fights Play Arts Kai Deathstroke 10-inch (25.5cm) tall action figure. Check out my toy blog post with action shots, and action poses of the battle royale.
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August 18, 2014 – Review of Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Origins" Batman 10.5-inch (26.5cm) tall action figure with lots of pictures posted on my toy blog HERE and HERE
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