Tetsuya Nomura is best known for his design oeuvre on Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts ( for skilful orfor worse ) . But he ’s also sleep with for contrive theworld ’s most gonzo Batman build , which turned the Dark Knight into … well , the jumbo Final Fantasy dragon - god Bahamut , basically . Now he ’s back to do the same to the Joker , and it ’s just as bats .
Made for Square Enix ’s Play Arts Kai line of DC action figures , Nomura ’s Joker might look pretty sedate at first — although after plough Batman into a multi - armed cyber dragon , anything would look meek in compare . I have in mind , the clothes are lavish , but they ’re within the Joker ’s colouration system and antecedently established mode . The bandanna with the grimace painted over it is a neat spin on the classical Joker artistic , too .
It ’s only when you notice that the Joker has a Seth of crawling automaton weapon system surgically bolted onto his back that you realize thing have gotten unearthly .
And those robot implements of war are also a wheelchair , if you wanted to use the alternate head in this lot that wrick the Joker into an old serviceman on life financial backing ?
Or maybe you wanted to turn him into a more of an “ Under the Red Hood ” sort of facial expression ?
badly , this figure is n’t just sick for the bizarro mech subdivision , but it also comes with like , a bazillion unlike alternate heads for the Joker .
Aside from bandana side , old world , and the Red Hood , there ’s a more normal Joker , a lavish Harlequin masquerade party ( that ’s more than a little resonant of Kefka from Final Fantasy VI ) that count totally harebrained on this public figure , a fiend - corresponding face and then … Cloud from Final Fantasy VII , a theatrical role Nomura designed personally ?
Yeah , that ’s straight - up Cloud as the Joker . God , to be a fly on the wall at the meeting Nomura pitch this at .
The bizarro Tetsuya Nomura Variant Joker will be available in Japan in September , for the whopping equivalent of $ 260 . A half-baked price for a half-baked character . [ Toyark ]
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