Marvel Legends Rogue and Destiny review (2024)

Destiny and Rogue were the two final members of Mystique’s original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants squad. Hasbro has delivered an excellent Blob, Pyro and Spiral. We’ve also got a decent enough version of Avalanche and Mystique. All that was missing was the group’s precog, Destiny, and Mystique’s adopted daughter, Rogue.

The catch with Rogue was her original Brotherhood outfit was the same attire she wore for her early days with the X-Men including during the first Secret Wars. This two-pack theoretically should have been a perfect way for Hasbro to complete one team and basically be finished with another one. All it needed was a simple accessory inclusion that was omitted.

Let’s see if this two-pack can still deliver well enough or if it’s going to be one of the few Marvel Legends misfires from the 2024 calendar.

Packaging: The packaging isn’t the most exciting as it’s just the basic black with a prominent X-Men logo in the center. On the left side is a cut up of the Rogue and Destiny original art from John Guyda. Over on the right is a bit of the plastic window, the character’s names and a smaller version of the artwork.

The full art is on the back done in a comic book cover style. Typically, there’s no point getting bothered by lackluster Marvel Legends bios, but this one is pretty decent in terms of setting up the story of Rogue and Destiny. I’d love to see it break down more of the characters’ powers, but the backstory is better than nothing.

Likeness: Destiny is really nicely done. Despite being portrayed as much older than the average mutant when she debuted in X-Men, she wore a fairly revealing costume with a low-cut top and thigh high boots. Surprisingly for the somewhat bashful Marvel Legends team, her original outfit is the look we get for her figure. Destiny isn’t a character we needed several versions of in the line, so it was important for them to get this first (and likely only) version right.

For the most part, Destiny is pretty simple using the Shriek body. The unique elements come with her cape, which drapes over her shoulders and her alien-like helmet and mask. Her head sculpt really captures that cone head visual with the golden mask to hide her age and features. This is how Destiny looked in the comics and the figure does a nice job of capturing that appearance.

Rogue is mostly the same with a few noticeable exceptions. In the comics, when she was a member of the Brotherhood she was drawn with a much older and harsher appearance with her hair styled somewhat like Wolverine with raised greyed tips.

The Marvel Legends BOEM version of Rogue tries to have it both ways. Rogue’s head sculpt is styled with her more heroic X-Men hairdo and an expression that is less villainous and more supremely overconfident. Her costume is about 97% right. The wider hood is laid flush against her shoulders. The lining on her gloves is sculpted though it does not carry over to her boots.

Rogue’s jacket lining is sculpted. It’s almost right, but the left lining should hang lower than the right section.

Scale: Rogue and Destiny are both listed at 5’8″. That makes both taller than the 5’7″ Pyro while both should look up at the 5’10” Mystique.

Paint: The paintwork is fine for both figures though again Destiny has less issues than Rogue.

Destiny’s golden mask has some extra paintwork to reflect how it would look against light. This is frequently how it’s colored in the comics though the mask tends to be colored brighter making the darker color lining less distracting.

Rogue’s hair should have the white on both temples as opposed to down the middle like it magically shifted to when she became an X-Man. Her outfit lining is a light green while it should be more of a yellow green based on the covers. In the comics interior, Rogue’s lining was actually colored white.

This is somewhat of an understandable “mistake” though it really feels like there’s enough issues with Rogue that she would warrant a Retro release with some head sculpt and paint alterations.

Articulation: Rogue is a quick striking brawler utilizing her speed and flight for more hit and run style attacks. She definitely would benefit from butterfly shoulders and a mid-torso cut for more poseability. Both of those are omitted for the sake of the aesthetic, which I get, but their absence is noticed.

Destiny doesn’t do much attacking at all. She’s a sit from a distance and advise Mystique on strategies via her cheat sheet powers that give her an edge over the Brotherhood’s enemies.

Destiny and Rogue have:

• neck
• ball-jointed shoulders
• bicep
• elbow (double-jointed)
• wrist
• wrist hinge
• torso
• waist
• hip
• knee (double-jointed)
• ankle

Accessories: Hasbro has released plenty of Marvel Legends two-packs in 2023 and 2024. The Destiny and Rogue two-pack by far had the weakest number of accessories.

Destiny gets a swappable set of fists. Considering how rare Destiny actually got directly involved in any action, that was a curious inclusion. That’s it as far as accessories for her go. It seems like more a more useful accessory for her could have been an alternate head sculpt without her mask and helmet.

Rogue is far more egregious with her weak accessories. She gets a swappable set of open hands with spread fingers. The most obvious accessory here would have been a less sinister, heroic head sculpt to signify her redemption as a member of the X-Men. This is why getting the default head sculpt accurate was so key.

Worth It? This set is $50, which is really pushing it for what we get with these two figures. Yes, that’s the price of two Marvel Legends figures, but most ML figures don’t have such a pitiful number of accessories.

Rating: 9 out of 10

I’m torn with the score here as the lack of accessories really hurts. The figures are both solid though Rogue really could have used a better evil head sculpt and a more heroic one.

Where to get It? I’m pretty sure this set is just exclusive to Amazon.

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