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Originally Posted by webz

Already had previous Venom and Carnage releases, Typhoid Mary has zero to do with Venom, as far as I know. I would have preferred She-Venom, Agony, Shriek … ANYONE other than some badly dressed hooker toy. So I passed on the wave as a whole. Glad This Venom is being released separately.

I had Venom and Carnage already, too, but this release did come with some extra stuff the originals didn't. And over all it was to be expected, there was no way Venom and Carnage weren't going to be in the first ever Venom wave, and both (especially Carnage) were going for a bit on the secondary market. It was obvious demand Hasbro wasn't going to ignore.

Typhoid Mary at the time had a lot going for her and was in demand with her eventually debut on Netflix, so I think Hasbro needed somewhere to put her in, and being Ravencroft crazy helped her fit in with Venom rather than to dump yet another street level character into a Spider-Man wave. Sure, you can find other choices to throw in there. She-Venom (especially in hindsight from the movie) would have been better, but I think Hasbro held that back with some other characters for a possible Venom 2. But I don't think Agony had a chance to get a figure in the same wave that already had Scream. And Shriek (who funnily enough I think dresses even more provocatively than your "hooker" Mary) wasn't really being asked for by fans before Hasbro did Doppelganger and started building that Maximum Carnage shelf, and I also think Hasbro is keeping characters like her on the back burner so they don't run out of new women for Spider-Man waves. So I think Mary was fine, the figure was good, and even if you don't like her she makes for good trade and/or custom fodder.