British characters in Heroclix. No, really!

Hi all,

And welcome back. 

As referred to by Paul Cornell, over at his blog http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/2007/12/from-dublin-to-culture-with-tuxedo.html) it would appear that Heroclix are finally branching out into representing some of the more obscure Marvel Characters, in their game. He recently received a Pete Wisdom Heroclix figure, which was sent to him by the kind folks at Forbidden Planet. Now, while I've never actually played Heroclix, I have seen plenty examples of the figures it uses. Frankly, I've never really been overwhelmed by them. Tiny figures on a rotating, stat displaying base. 

There’s never a huge amount of detail on the figures themselves.

Mass produced tiny figures of this scale, perhaps unsurprisingly, tend to often end up with some less than brilliant paint jobs. 

Still, I wanted find out just what a Pete Wisdom Heroclix figure might look like. A quick look at their website revealed the following:

That's not as bad as I feared it might be. Although those 'hot-knives' jutting from Wisdom's fingers actually seem to look a bit more like he's been involved in an unfortunate accident with a bacon slicer, than a bonafide mutant power.

But this got me thinking... How many other British-characters or characters from British-based Marvel titles might have been committed to plastic in this way? The search... was not as successful as hoped. But still not entirely fruitless.

If you think that old Pete's been a bit mangled, spare a thought for poor ex-lover Kitty Pryde:

Not exactly flattering, no. This is not a great figure.

She's not the only face from Excalibur, though. Here's the whole original lineup:

All, except for Rachel Summers. The only Phoenix which Heroclix currently do is Jean Grey. But the others aren't too bad. Meggan in particular looks pretty good for that scale, and Kurt has a sword. Swashbuckling Nightcrawler is the best kind of Nightcrawler  

Away from Excalibur, and on to specifically British characters, You can also find a Union Jack and Spitfire:

A little bit dumpy, but otherwise sound. And at least somebody still remembered them!

And at least they're not as… well. Just look at Chamber:

Is that Psionic Flame or is it an unsightly fungal infection? The choice is yours...

Sadly, however, (And it should hardly surprise me) no figures from the actual Marvel UK line. I want a Death's Head, or a Motormouth, or a Killpower! Now I'm not saying it would ever make me play Heroclix, but it might make me more inclined than I am right now.

Let's start a campaign! Who's with me!? 

No? 

Well, never mind.