DC Multiverse DC Collector Edition Deadshot review (2025)
Deadshot is probably the most Boba Fett-type villain of Batman’s rogues. He’s got a cool look, and his specialty is all about his steady hand and cavalier demeanor.
He’s also been a long-term fixture of the Suicide Squad and Secret Six rosters. Plus, he’s a movie star so it felt like just a matter of time before he would get added to the McFarlane Multiverse line. Of the various options to release him, he didn’t seem like an obvious candidate for the more expensive deluxe Collector Edition line.
Let’s see if Deadshot hits the target or if this figure is shooting blanks.
Packaging: Deadshot has the standard Collector Edition packaging, which is just a wider version of the base package setup with silver accents instead of white.
The side label states this is simply the classic version of Deadshot. I’m pretty sure the back features artwork from Luke McDonnell, the Suicide Squad artist who really helped to revitalize the character.
Likeness: Like Deathstroke, some of the coolness factor with Deadshot is he has a shrouded eye. Instead of his other eye being visible, it’s covered by a targeting sight. It’s such a unique visual and really makes him look imposing. Like all he wants to do is use people for target practice.
His figure is a combination of parts from the Speeding Bullets mold and new parts. The new parts are really well done with some impressive adherence to the source material.
Deadshot has a timeless outfit, so it’s been extremely hard for designers to improve on his first costumed look. They’ve tried, but all other attempts have just served to make his costume look busier, not better. There is some reuse here, but the McFarlane Toys sculptors did include his unique ribbed neckline costume element leading to the center mass target leading to a vertical ribbed section.
He wears armbands with circular pods on both arms. These are done via paintjob instead of being sculpted, but his lined belt is properly done. Deadshot should have two small lines along his upper thighs, which are absent. His boots with cuffs are mostly correct save the ribbed lining. Deadshot’s wrist mounted gauntlets are new — naturally — and are properly sized. They’re not too large or small. There is a minor issue with them, but it’s more a result of the paintjob than the sculpt.
The lone issue with the Speeding Bullets reuse is the arms and legs, which have paneling on them. They’re less annoying here since Deadshot doesn’t have much color breaks along his arm, or legs, but it’s still just a matter of McF using a plain blank body for some figures.
Scale: In the comics, Deadshot is 6’1″, which puts him just an inch shorter than Batman. The figure is about eye to eye, but I don’t quibble over an inch off.
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Paint: I was torn on Deadshot’s colors as I thought his secondary color was white. This is a constantly shifting color based on the specific colorist. Sometimes it’s more of a silver tint, other times it’s more of a flat grey and in others like with the figure, it’s more of a blue-ish grey.
The rest of the paint from the yellow panel lining to the white stripe through his boots are clean. His center target is just slightly askew. The one paint area that’s off is the red from his wrist peg. It should either be the blue-grey or yellow.
It looks like he’s wearing the wrong size gauntlet with this visual.
Articulation: Each McFarlane figure has 22 points of articulation. Deadshot can strike some really dynamic poses thanks to the Speeding Bullets mold. There’s nothing restrictive with it and allows for a great range of motion, which is helpful for a character who uses gun gauntlets as his main form of attack.
His costume elements don’t hinder any range of movement though I do wish his neck had a bit more up and down/side to side movement. That would aid for conveying more personality especially since he’s got a masked portrait.
Deadshot has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders with ratchet rotator cuff joint
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- wings
- waist
- hip
- thigh
- knee
- ankle
- toe
Accessories: Deadshot is one of the few Collector Edition figures that doesn’t have a large enough rollout of gear to justify the deluxe price point.
He’s got two additional sets of hands — one featuring pointing index fingers and the other a set of c-grip hands.
The latter would be very useful if Deadshot came with a rifle for his long-range assassination efforts. But since this figure lacks the ‘not a toy’ designation you’ll have to borrow one from another figure. Or just get the McFarlane accessory pack (available on Amazon).
He also has four different blast effects for his wrist mounted machine gun gauntlets. They’re all of varying lengths and have different gradients of orange, brown, grey and yellow.
Deadshot absolutely should have gotten an unmasked head sculpt since he regularly had it down when he wasn’t on missions.
As always, Deadshot gets the smaller circular stand and a trading card with a bio.
Worth It? As a Collector Edition figure, Deadshot has the highest price tag of $30. Given his meager accessories that’s not a great value. I was able to get him for $21.99, cheaper than a normal figure. That’s a much better price point for him.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Deadshot is a really good figure that just suffers from the reuse of the arms and legs from the Speeding Bullets figure and the unfortunate red carryover at his wrist peg.
Where to Get It? I found Deadshot at the sale price at Best Buy, but Amazon tends to price match their sales.
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