[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Why are the girls the only ones to not have their names on the packaging? All of the males get their names in nice fonts and stuff, the girls just get MARVEL.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

Sadly, because unless you are Black Widow or an X-Woman you don't have the film name recognition to have earned your name in marketing. A fact that I strongly wish would change. I feel that most of Marvel's most compelling and interesting characters are their females.

Two points

1 - The girls have "Marvel" on their packaging where there would otherwise be a title logo - note how MCU Strange/Mordo/Astral Strange have the film 'Doctor Strange' logo, Voodoo/Comics Strange have the comic 'Doctor Strange' logo, and Iron Fist has the 'Iron Fist' logo. Nico and Enchantress, if they followed suit, would have to have 'Runaways' and, probably, 'Thor' logos, which might have been deemed 'too confusing' or something like that, since neither Nico nor Enchantress are headliner characters in their own books (Voodoo is a regular in Strange's current comic, hence why he can share the logo with Strange)

2 - Nico and Enchantress both have the 'Mystic Rivals' denotation, just as Comics Strange and Voodoo both have the 'Masters of Magic' one. While I still can't say for certain why Hasbro does this, it seems to be some sort of 'cost-saving' measure, doing 'shared' boxes/releases like this (hell, the Absorbing Man and Red Onslaught waves were almost entirely 'shared' title waves, barring Venom for the former and Cap for the latter). One box that works for two figures must shave a few cents off somewhere along the line.

I agree though, it's utter crap that this seems to happen mostly to female characters - either this, or the occasional 'double-up' on a particular BAF piece (the Rhino and UGG torsos, anyone?). There seems to be a bit more of an effort to change this in recent waves, but it's still a weird and kind of off-putting practice.