DC Multiverse Jade action figure review (2025)
Jade has been a mainstay in the DC Universe since getting introduced in the All-Star Squadron. She’s been a founding member of Infinity Inc., a Green Lantern, an Outsider and also been a member of both the Justice League and Justice Society. To say she was overdue a figure in the McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse line is an understatement.
The trouble with a character like Jade is she has so many looks to choose from making her costume and era-choice tricky. Now as McFarlane is starting to hit the Infinity Inc. era of Todd McFarlane’s career, it sure seems like the decision to go with a more modern look was a misstep.
Let’s see if Jade can shine through in darkest night or if there’s no need for a spotlight on this offering.
Packaging: There’s no changing up on the packaging and at this point in the line, there’s zero reason for McFarlane Toys to make a change. Jade is presented with the usual black color scheme with white accents Multiverse packaging. She does have the cool red foil embossed sticker stating she’s a Platinum Edition release.
The side states that this is the Green Lantern Corps look for her.
Likeness: Jade has a fantastic head sculpt. It’s got a great focused expression with a nice flow to her hair.
She’s using the Knightfall Catwoman mold, which largely works save the rounded boot tops used instead of the more accurate triangle points at the top.
Jade’s default hands are more of an accessory piece, so I’ll break them down in a bit.
Scale: Jade is typically drawn as a shorter character and certainly shouldn’t be eye to eye with Obsidian, Green Lantern Alan Scott, Kyle Rayner or her Justice League teammate Batman (Dick Grayson). While she is certainly slighter, she’s far too close in height to the guys. She’s 5’3″ and Kyle is 5’11”.
Paint: McFarlane figures don’t tend to have horrible clean paint jobs. Detail work is usually crisp without a lot of spotty, sloppy work.
In Jade’s case the paintwork is still top notch even if there’s some questionable decisions. The first is her chest logo. Ideally, it should be placed lower, but it’s raised above since her bust would make the tampo paint applications trickier to properly lay out. That seems somewhat unavoidable, but it does look a bit odd since it leaves a wide gape of white throughout her torso instead of the logo being applied right in the center.
The next sorta shaky aspect of the paintjob is her outfit colors. In the comics Jade has a darker green bodysuit under the white portions of her costume. To avoid any confusion with her green skin tone, it’s heavily shaded with black where the dark green appears more as the accent. Since this gives Jade too many shades of green, McFarlane Toys probably should have gone that shaded route although that won’t be the hardest for even basic customizers like me to pull off.
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Articulation: Jade is fully a range fighter who prefers tackling her enemies from a distance. The Catwoman mold is fine for getting good energy projection/flight poses thanks to its 22 points of articulation.
This mold also allows for some fun dynamic poses in other stances, but her core signature gestures won’t be that hard to pull off.
Jade has:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- butterfly shoulders
- elbow
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- waist
- hip
- thigh
- knee
- ankle
- toe
Accessories: DC Multiverse figures don’t tend to get a ton of accessories. Jade has a better than normal allotment or at least ones that make more sense for her.
She has a pair of green flame effect pieces, which play along with her more modern power set that makes her way too similar to Fire (who is available on Amazon). The flame trails look fine and since they’re attached to that hand there’s no issue of them falling off like some other Multiverse effect pieces.
As usual, she comes with the trading card and black circular stand. As a flying character, it would have been cool if she had the clear flight stand.
Worth it? Jade clocks in at $26.99, which doesn’t feel like the best value for a standard Multiverse figure, but she seems to be an exclusive so that limits the ability to get her cheaper. Or on discount. She’s not priced poorly although these figures were a much better deal when they were $22.99.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Jade gets a pretty good figure although her attire choice isn’t the best option as McFarlane starts building out the Infinity Inc. roster.
Where to get it? Jade was a GameStop exclusive. She might still be available in stock.
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