"The war's out there, Colonel, not in here. If we're going to win, it won't be with me stuck behind a desk."
Captain Peggy Carter, one of the key protagonists of the first season of Marvel’s What If? was released in the Marvel Legends line in 2021. She was part of the first wave of What If releases that also featured Season 1 characters such as T’Challa, Spider-Man, and Strange Supreme. The wave also featured a build-a-figure of The Watcher with Captain Carter coming packed with The Watcher’s arms. The packaging was the standard scooped sides packaging with a black backdrop and animated style artwork to the sides and the reverse.
Captain Carter is a full new figure in the line, and depicted in her Union Jack inspired uniform from her initial appearances in What If? after she takes the Super Serum and then sets about fighting Hydra during World War 2. This is essentially a blue suit with painted red trim that is very much inspired by the original MCU Captain America uniform. The chest piece is configured into a sculpted Union Flag and painted in red white and blue with the lower section continuing onto her stomach. The uniform is completed by leather brown gloves, boots and a belt.
The head sculpt is new and a good likeness to actor Hayley Atwell and while there is a marginal animated look to the facial printing the likeness and proportions of the body overall do not look out of place alongside other MCU figures - allowing the figure to become a stand-in for the Multiverse Captain Carter we see in the Multiverse of Madness.
Cap comes with one accessory, her shield, and this is a smaller version to the one used by Steve Rogers but with a similar construction of an outer gloss front, plain interior, and a pair of leather brown painted straps that are looped to go over Peggy’s forearm. The front of the shield features individual sculpted rings which are painted in blue, white, then red with the central Union Flag a sticker or decal of some kind considering how neat and tidy it is.
Peggy only has the hands she is provided with, a right that is clenched into a fist and the left that is a wide open grip. The shield will fit on either arm but the design of the hands makes fitting on the left harder work, and on the right slightly unsecured unless the elbow is bent.
Articulation is all pinless with 18 points in total that present Captain Carter with a wide range of movement in the arms and legs, but with some restrictions in the torso that lacks much forward motion - and in the neck due to the sculpt and flow of her hair. She also suffers a little from ankle rockers that do not sit her feet quite flat on the floor and this is hampered further by the wide cut of the boot above that sits over the ankle joint and restricts it further. So while Peggy has plenty of poses open to her, getting her standing upright and in a stable pose is more difficult and often requires the thigh swivels to be turned outwards creating a more visible disjointed line in the upper legs.
Captain Carter was released at the same time as the Hydra Stomper piloted by Steve Rogers, and it was intended for her to be able to ride the Hydra Stomper into battle. As we found in our review for the Stomper, this is not engineered well at all across either figure. While the Stomper provides a handle, Peggy’s sole gripping hand is too wide to create a secure hold. Peggy’s feet are also not sized to fit snugly in the foot wells provided on the stomper.
It is worth noting that the Marvel’s Rides Captain America Motorbike works well with Captain Carter albeit with a single handed grip by that wide set left hand. This is not quite the same bike she rides in her early appearances during What If? but it certainly looks the part if you have it available and Steve doens’t mind sharing.
Captain Carter is a strong figure within the What If? series of releases and sits more in the realistic real-world setting than the more animated proportions we see on T’Challa Star-Lord. This will allow Peggy to work in a Multiverse of Madness setting if needed. The figure has a good visual look overall with the Union Jack elements of the uniform bright and clear. She did really need extra hand options as well as some tweaking around the ankle rockers but these can be worked around for display and she allows us to start to build the Guardians of the Multiverse for our collections.
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