DEMONA

One of my main memories about Gargoyles aside of Goliath, of coruse, is Demona: some time before the serires was on TV my parents buy for me her action figure by Kenner, soo she was my very first glimps to Gargoyles and leave on me a pretty strong impression, when the serires started on TV i was really startled by her: not only she was beautifull but pretty tragic and sad and incredible evil and malignant as well, one of the most brillant villains i ever seen on TV and she kept her strong presence until the end.

So naturally, when NECA pick up the license i was really hyped for Demona, actually expecting to get her at the same time as Goliath tough Thailog and Bronx cames first, the wait for her was long and she is also a Target exclusive, pretty rare in my country and much more expensive than the rest of the characters, and yet she is really worth the price.

Demona is a head smaller than Goliath, in perfect scale with him and she is articulated on the head, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes, ankles, half feet and tail as well as both wings. All articulations are ball joint soo they have a huge range of movement and since she dosnt have Goliath´s big muscles, she have a much wider range of movement, her hair and loincloth are made with soft plastic soo they dosnt get in the way.

And she can stand on her own...sometimes...sort of...problem is, her wings are as heavy as Goliaths´s but her legs are much more thin and with all those ball joints her legs really strugle to keep her standing, her ankles joints get lose pretty easy so make her stand is really a test of patience, also her tail is shorter than Goliath´s soo it barelly can support her big wings.

I really didnt expect this, i tough Goliath or Thailog would have much troubles stading thanks to theyr huge frame, but while Demona have a much lighter frame, she feels like a card castle ready to crumble with the thinyest movement.

The sculpt is brillant, beautifull, perfect. Her build is very muscly and athletic and it matches perfectly the character design of the series. The texture on her loincloth and bra is very different to that of Goliath´s loincloth, it have a pattern that makes it feel extremelly realistic and yet dosnt looks busy.

 I love the small hands on her wings, tough th wings have a very leathery texture like Goliath´s  and even fingers dividing the membrain. In the cartoon she dosnt have fingers and her wings are just clean purple, i always tough of them like a velveth cape, tough that wouldnt be realistic i guess for the wings of an animal.

The hair is the most difficult part to make in 3D but the design here really matches the shape of her hair on the cartoon and is pretty easy to recognize her. Her face is pretty, soo pretty, with the golden tiara on her forehead and chiseled face features. From a low angle, her smile looks pretty childish, almost playfull and her long ears make her looks like some kind of elf or magical being, from a top angle, her smile looks pretty devilish and perverse, and the look on her eyes is really scary and menacing. 

Is pretty rare when a face sculpt says soo much of a character, is trully outstanding.

The color matches the sculpt perfectly too since she is mostly cast on soft blue with only a few shades of shadow that gives volume to her musculature, but is soo discrete is almost difficult to see it. The purple of her wings is mixed with some black and the back side of her wings have the same black pearly paint Goliath have.

Her red hair stand out a lot with the blue palette as well as her crimson red lips. Her eyes are perfectly defined and theres not a single drop of paint in the wrong place. This figure looks perfectly as the prototype show on the box, this really put to shame the shody and lousy job Super 7 has been doing with the Thundercats....

Another detail worth mentioning is that her jewerlly is realy, the rings on her ears as well as the bracelet on her ankle are real metal and really enhance the overall look of the figure, an awesome detail of feminity for a monster.

Her accesorys consist on 3 different sets of hands: closed fist, open claws and hands to hold her accesorys. Each hand can be exchanged pretty easy.

Then there is an extra face. Yes, not a head, but a face, a kind of plate that fits with two pegs under her hair. This extra face have her screaming with red eyes and if the normal face is impresive and menacing, this second face is just terrifiying!! Her mouth totally open, you can see the wrinkles on her nise as well as her tiny fangs, her face is totally distorted and is easy to see all the rage, fury and raw power thanks to such a brillant sculpt.

But the eyes....those eyes...they shine brightly in red without using a led light at all. They are just white with some airbrush crimson paint around them, but the paint is soo meticulous they have a strong light effect, they almost shine even from a distant....

She also comes with the Grimorium Arcanorum, the book Magus used to cast the spell on her clan, the book she steal from Brooklyn, the book that is soo relevant in the serires and the sculpt and paint on it is just perfect, it looks aged, old, heavy, with two winged snakes circling a sword in the cover, the texture and paint are soo natural it almost looks real.

This item cant be more perfect? Well, the strap on front can be removed and the book actually opens to reveal ancient pages with text on them and some missing pages...the pages Demona tear off in chapter 7 "Temptation". The attention to detail of NECA is sometimes really disturbing.

Another of Demona´s trait is her use of high techn weapons soo her other accesory is a rocket launcher that Xanatos gives her on chapter 5 "Awakening Part V". The sculpt is easy to recognize and full of intrincate details with a brown and green palette that also includes some grey scratches to make it looks real. Its fits perfectlya dn is easy to install and is kind of reminiscent to the rocket launcher her Kenner figure have. Even the laser sight fits perfectly with her eye.

And her last accesory is a laser blast, another weapon, the one she use to hunt Goliath and Hudson in chapter 11 "The Long Way to Morning". This weapon is huge and looks very futuristic, more sci-fi than the rocket pauncher (and is full of pretty delicate tubes as well) but the brown and green color palette make it looks almost cyber-punk.

Out of the 4 figures, she is the one loaded with more accesorys and the quality of them is really astonishing and fits perfectly to such a perfect figure.

Tough her lack of balance really bugs me, and i cant remove her wings at all thanks to her small frame, she feels more delicate than the other gargoyles, the fear to broke the pegs on her wings or tail is too real and i hear a lot of horror stories from collectors on the internet that complaing that her wings articulations are just flacid and lose. Mines are pretty strong, almost way too strong tough soo i am very lucky.

Despite her fragility and how hard to handle is her thanks to those huge wings, is really nice to finally have a Demona figure that looks like Demona since the Kenner figure leave a lot to be desired since 1994.

This figure is really amazing, along with Goliath she is the the most important figure for the display that lave in shame even female figures from other serires and companys and she is more than worth the price tag on her head.