[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

I mean, to be fair, characters that we think of today as having worn straight-up pants with no trunks, including Daredevil (and Captain America, among others) often were drawn with trunks the same color as their pants earlier on:





Although that what the figure has does sound more like a straight-up error rather than an homage to a now-dropped costume element.

I agree...it was not uncommon for superheroes to wear their briefs over their costume (Superman and Batman come to mind) but the shaded effect they went foe just came out all kinds of wrong. The arms are also a different shades of red from the torso, as is the head. My eyes might be fooling me, but there are at least 3 different colored intensities of red plastics being incorporated. I'm not sure what happened at the factory with the inconsistent plastics, or if it was an intentional design decision.

A shame because if they needed an example of how it should be done, they should have looked at the Spider-Man classics DD, or the more recent Cyclops from the Dark Phoenix two pack, which came out VERY good and had an excellent black wash on it. Toxin also did the shaded reds pretty good as well.