XANATOS

 Theres soo many reason why to love Gargoyles, but one of the most important was its villians. The series had some of the most amazing and deep villians capable to do the worst thing but still being iposible to hate. One of the most prominent representatives of this is Xanatos, the main villian of the series that represent greed, betrayal and all the worst of humanity while packed on a pretty handsome, charming, well manered and kind package.

I says Elisa Maza was the most important human being for the Gargoykes but Xanatos is perhaps pretty close since he put the entire destiny of the gargoyles in motion and i am really surprised that NECA released the Steel Clan Robots before Xanatos as the main villian. But finally, here he is, along side Elisa Maza on his tiny super small package.

Xanatos is taller than Elisa but still shorter than Demona or the rest of the Gargoyles, perfect in scale and unlike Elisa that have some flimsy legs, this man can stand on his own perfectly and stay that way for an infinite amount of time. He is articulated on the head, neck, shoulders, double articulation on the elbows, wrists, waist, legs, kneed, ankles and half feet.

Eevery single ball joint move perfectly and gives him a huge range of motion, despite him being a pretty pasive character. His pony tail dosnt block the head articulation since is made with soft plastic and while his waist only moves left and rigth and his ankles dosnt move that much thanks to his pants, everything else works wonderfully (specially the elbows).

I like his sculpt much more than Elisa´s tough this is maybe because i like him more than Elisa and his face feature are much more complex, with the strong jaw and seductive look on his eyes, even his "base head" looks very expresive. The hair is nicelly sculpted half way between cartoon and ralistic style as well as the pony tail.

His is pretty athletic tough since, under the soft plastic coat, his pecs looks really muscly. Like i said, the coat is made with soft plastic soo it dosnt get in the way of the articulations, it have a very few wrinkles of gravity  in specific places but not too many since i am sure Xanatos iron his entire attire. The buttons on his coat are perfectly sculpted as well as the ones on his shirt underneath as well as the neck collar.

The pants have more wrinkles but overall they are pretty plain as well a his shoes, that are made with more shiny plastic. Theres nothing more there tp talk about since, his entire looks is extremelly simple soo theres not many details too look at, just like with Elisa.

His pants are a mix od black paints with some darker washes here and there while his shoes are clean black while his shirt is gunmetal black and have a pretty nice and soft texture, the coat is painted n dark grey and dosnt have any other tone aside of the black buttons on the sleeve.

The skin tone is perfect (not completelly white but with a ligth taned mediterranean tone) as well as the hair tough i wish the hair had more different colors for shadows and ligth since its just plain brown. The eyes are perfectly definied as well as the lips on his sensual smile, a really good representation of Xanatos.

For the accesorys he have 3 sets of hands: closed fist, hands to hold the floppy disc and Eye of Odin and a pair to hold his riffle. All hands works perfectly and are easy to change. There is also an extra head that exchanges from the neck up and its a little tricky to use, but it works nice too and have Xanatos in a fierce angry expression with his teeth exposed. It looks good on him tough it dosnt have that much difference with the base smiling expresion.

He also comes with a floppy disc, that one fill with all the important information of his corporation and was stolen by a rival company. Yes...very 90s, only in the 90s you could put that much into this little discs...the item is pretty cute, pretty tiny and perfectly painted in grey with a white label and the metalic part on the top.

Nother accesory is the incomplete Eye of Odin nacklace. The sculpt is rpetty delicate and the necklace section is chained with little hooks and can be moved around tough is not flexible, soo it cant be sued as a necklace. The paint is totally gold with some black lines in the necklace section tough is incomplete....NECA FORGOT TO ADD THE PUPIL!! The blue round jewel that acts as the pupil of the ey is missing for some reason and looking at the internet, i seen all copys of the figure have the missing pupil.

While Elisa from the NYPD cant have a gun, Xanatos, as a good USA civilian citizen, comes with a big ass riffle with a pretty cool and futuristic sci-fy design, pretty classic from the 90s. The riffle tough comes in vibrant blues with some baby blue tones and dark blue details. This color make it looks extremelly silly, more like a toy gun or a water gun.

There is also a blast effect with a peg that can be unserted on the riffle mouth. The blast effect is supposed to be a laser soo is transluscent red with some explosion effects in both sides. It looks really good and is much easyer to display than the giant Thailog shooting effect tough, with the blue toy gun, this laser looks more like strawberry water.

And finally, there is Demona´s closed wings. The wings are made with soft plastic and feel very flimsy and delicate since they are not joined in the back, soo the only part that makes them stay close are the little hands on the front. Still i have no issues using this wings on Demona and they ahve the same blue color with the inside puple and metalic black on the outside.

I love tough how, while Goliath´s and Brooklyn´s wings hang from the necks, Demona´s wings hangd from the side of her arms, under the shoulders, much more like a dress. They are really femenine and suits her perfectly soo she can finally be close to Goliath or any other character without the anoying huge open wings.

I like Xanatos, he is one of the best characters of Gargoyles but as an action figure, he suffers the same issue as Elisa: he is pretty boring looking. This is not NECA´s fault of course, the figure itself is really well done except for the Eye of Odin, bit the part that excite me the most in here, in fact, Demona´s wings.

I think this is why NECA added the wings to both Xanatos and Elisa. Also i cant compare with old Kenner version because i never had the Xanatos figure before, only the one on his armor. But oh well, now we are missing only Lexington and Coldstone to finally complete the  collection!!