The videogame side of the Star Wars universe has continued to have a large foothold in the 6 inch scale Black Series action figure line from Hasbro, delving into more and more new sculpts as opposed to the original repaint exclusive Gaming Greats line. Kyle Katarn is up for release in the next few months, and over the past few years we've received lots of iconic videogame characters like Malgus, Malak, Starkiller, the Republic Commandoes, as well as numerous grunts from Jedi Order and Survivor, not to mention other newer gaming characters like Cal, Merrin, and even Turgle! It has me hopefully that we will see more and more videogame characters entering the line in 2026, with quite a few in my most wanted hopes!
5. Fallen Order/Survivor villains
We've gotten the Second Sister, Dagan Gera, and countless grunt foes from the 'Jedi' game series, but these two games have been chocked full of fantastic villain designs that made for some pretty great boss battles that Cal and Merrin deserve to be posed alongside! Malicos from the first game has a sick villain design, with Bode from the second game serving as a very emotional turn of events. The big one though amongst fans is the Ninth Sister, a deluxe-worthy design fans have been clamoring for since the opening levels of Fallen Order!
4. Darth Traya
With as much love as the classic games are getting it makes me hopeful to see more villains from the older games get plastic representation, such as Traya who has even received a card in the Star Wars Unlimited card series! Sith of all kind always make for compelling action figures, especially Traya's use of lightsabers!
3. More of the KOTOR crew
Black Series has been notorious in the past for not completing teams in a timely fashion (Such as the long wait to get Bodhi Rook, or the appearance that they gave up on Task Force 99 until the recent unveiling of the Cav and Misty two pack), so I'm not surprised that the KOTOR crew has been slow to build. Zaalbar was a surprised when he was unveiled years ago, and Bastila was a very welcome addition at the same time they made Malak. Since then we've had no further additions to this great cast of characters, even HK-47 who consistently ranks as one of fans' favorite Star Wars videogame characters of all time!
2. Darth Sion
Back to the villainous side of things, we have Darth Sion from KOTOR 2. His design oozes with cool action figure potential, just like a lot of these videogames designs (see Malgus and Malak for examples). The sculpting of his exposed skin alone would make him vastly stand out against the swaths of regular characters in the line, and would nicely compliment Nihilus who we got years ago.
1. Starkiller variant
Starkiller was a long time coming to the line when we finally got him, and his popularity was evident in the way Black Series initially released him in an exclusive set before his single release. While the version we got of him is great, and his basic look in the Force Unleashed series, there is another look of his that fans typically reference and its one that would immediately be contender for one of the coolest figures in the line. His costume depicted above is a violent spectacle of villainous armor with sharpened talons on his fingers, and flowing robes for days. One Starkiller is not enough for the Black Series line, we need more!
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