[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

One year only. No heroes at all! Could it be done? Would it sell? Personally I'd love it. If I looked at my wishlist, excluding X-Men related wants, and remove Alpha Flight and a handful of Avengers, Thunderbolts and New Warriors, it's almost all villains. Toy Biz did it with one wave, I challenge Hasbro to do it for an entire year.

I doubt it would happen, only because, while there's a lot of marketable, iconic villains, few could be the "anchor character" of a whole wave. The Cap/Tony/Spidey/Wolvie are solid figures to get a wave to sell, if only when selling it to retailers. Sure, we as buyers would go for all-villain waves, but Hasbro has to sell it to the people who'll sell it to us. They need that support, otherwise the wave doesn't hit shelves.

The only real counterpoint to that is the Venom wave, since Venom, while being an antihero half the time, is still primarily perceived as a Spidey villain. And even there, the wave still included Spider-Ham to have the iconic image of Spider-Man in the wave (sure, there was Poison, but general audience likely didn't know that was a Peter Parker until they read the box).

The best bet to make an all-villain wave happen would be to fudge it into "villains and antiheroes", and use characters who, visually, are similar to the iconic characters to help sell the wave (For instance, use Daken or Albert as the 'Wolverine', USAgent as the 'Cap', etc). Even that might be a stretch.

But hey, if Hasbro made it work, I'd preorder that whole damn wave, even if I didn't want all of it.