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Originally Posted by Nexodusrex

I really want a Black Cat announced. either basic or Claws version. I know the cleavage is a factor, but damnit, I want her and would even pay for a good custom if I could find one.

Why does everyone keep saying that?

Where have we had any evidence skimpy outfits are a limiting factor in figures? Not to mention Black Cat isn't exactly skimpy. It's only obscene if some juvenile 13 year old comic book artist who's never seen a woman in his life and only gets off on comic books draws her. They can most certainly release one with a normal belly baring outfit. We got X-23 and Storm (as in bare bellies), after all. Black Cat's outfit shows no more skin than the two Storm figures we've gotten. Hell, it shows less.

Same with Emma Frost. She has plenty of normal costumes to choose from that aren't that ridiculous X symbol one.

The reason we haven't gotten a lot of female figures until now is the same issue every line faces. The ones making the decisions insist females don't sell (based on old data from toy lines like Turtles and GI Joe, where there's only ONE female character anyone wants). Then after a few years of data, we start getting them. Just look how many are in this year's assortments already. Two in one wave every other wave is rather unheard of.

The same thing happened to the Simpsons line. Playmates insisted on nothing but Bart and Homer, until they finally convinced them that fans wanted other characters.