I am starting to see why this figure is so sought after...

To be honest it does look great, but I'd rather wait it out for this one.
Or the war of kings one in doom's signature.
http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel//u...arkhawk442.jpg

There are a couple variants of the armor.

There's the v1 classic, v2, then the WoK which combines both and has even more armor types.

What we have right now is the basic Razor/WoK Ascension Darkhawk.
It's not too far off from his classic, but has more of a point on the helmet. The classic doesn't have silver point on the top, just ont he front. Plus the wings are black and purple-ish red on the classic.

Honestly no clue what the classic will look like difference-wise, only those that saw the slides might know if it was shown. He hasn't hit retail yet, and won't probably until the revision cases. Even a fresh case of this wave doesn't have the variant.


I do hope they do head variants for Talon and Gyre though. As well as whatever other Darkhawks pop up later in the comics. Razor/Darkhawk/Chris Powell is the red visored Red Gem one. Blue gem is Talon, green gem is Gyre.

Ohhh so the one we have been seeing is the classic. I don't know anything about this character.

ok, so i found one yesterday, and i cant keep the wings on to save my life. i might bond them to the wrist if it keeps happening. At least falcon had the right idea. On the outside, its a great addition to cosmic MU, and it makes me even more pumped for Nova next year. Nova is probably gonna be in demand by next year cause hes being brought back to life(no surprise there, cause haha comics).

I had the same problem with the wings and finally glued them in. To be fair to Hasbro, the tolerances have to be be pretty small for the wings to be able to be plugged in and stay in but easy enough for a kid to remove them without breaking them. One stayed in pretty well, but the other was horrible. Falcon does better, but I still might glue his in because - unlike Darkhawk - his wings don't retract.

How about a side by side comparison?

No...the original helmet is different- more boxy- same with the shoulders- and the colors are al wrong- the first outfit was black with purple wings- only the gauntlet parts were silver.
this is the first version:
http://clzimages.com/comic/large/77/...7Sacrifice.jpg

http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/C...hawkManley.jpg

I'm waiting for a "crazy heavy weapons" version!http://creative.myspacecdn.com/group...Cover_Redo.jpg

I like this Darkhawk figure, but I'd rather not see Hasbro waste budget on tooling for a variant of this guy. There are hundreds of characters that need special tooling and we already have one Darkhawk now. I like the Talon repaint idea above.

Sooo.... Anyone for a Raptor Boxed set?

Also...

Everything mentioned here by me is a dirty lie. The obvious one being that is Talon and RAZOR. Not Talon and Darkhawk. Damn Raptors all look alike.

I thought darkhawk was razor's actual name, and he only got the name darkhawk when chris controls him.

Also I like the grey alien in Darkhawk's helmet.

If what you said is true, Razor is his own character now and Darkhawk is also his own. Also, I'm also downloading War of Kings to read just to figure out who's who. Because I'm confused all to shit right now.

Sort of, when I was reading into it it said that there's a whole bunch of them, it's like the interplanetary league of assassins, the guy who was controlling the raptor was apparently a skrull archeologist, he lost control of it and the A.I. kicked in which apparently was talon.

Haven't seen or heard of a darkhawk variant.

Wow and the pics continue. lol How many slightly different Darkhawk armors are there? Looks to me like every artist took license with the angles of the armor as they saw fit. I just hope the variant actually looks different. Thanks for the pics guys.

is the war of kings under that title if I were to go look for it at my lcs?or would it be under darkhawk?

It would be War of Kings (I think). The 2 main Darkhawk stories are War of Kings: Darkhawk and War of Kings: Ascension.

*un crosses eyes* come again lol?

custom question but it pertains to darkhawk,I had to do some touch up on his mask(thanks hasbro qc and my ocd)the only color that matched was a silver sharpie,if I apply a coat of testors gloss clear coat will it work over sharpie paint?

In other words it's under War of Kings.

Anyways,
I'm ready some Darkhawk stuff, and it's pretty confusing but it looks like Razor is the gem that Darkhawk uses? So Darkhawk is the guy, while Razor is the armor (which has it's own mind apparently?).

That's about the skinny of it, apparently he can only control him so well because he's human, skrull guy didn't do so well.

It gets even weirder when you read up on evilhawk.

Well...it's like this:
There's War of Kings which is the big event crossover main title and the Darkhawk miniseries which was tied closelt to WoK) was Darkhawk: Ascension.

Both kick crazy ass but are best read together.

Noting beats seeing the Sh'Iar Imperial Guard stomp the holy hell out of the Inhumans!
Great art too!

As to Darkhawk's armors- it's like this: Darkhawk (all Raptors) use an artifical construct bodyw with integrated armor systems. The various modes the armor has been shown to have so far are:
Default (original costume).
Speed (the version the MU figure is)
Stealth (all transparant black, no wings)
Heavy Weapons

The armor also can project a hologram around itself to blend into crowds- making it look like a generic version of the people around it.

So does that mean his latest costume is an upgrade? Or was his old one destroyed?

I think it's the same costume but he just unlocked its full capabilities.

Lots of good (albeit confusing) information about Darkhawk here. Never was that into the character until his MU figure was announced, and now I'm finding him more and more intriguing as I learn about him.

Fixed :)