“Inquisitors. Many were Jedi who turned to the dark side. Now, they hunt their own kind.”
The Fourth Sister Inquisitor, as seen in Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+, was the last of the on-screen Inquisistors from the Kenobi series to be released after the 2022 Wave 8 and 9 releases of The Grand Inquisitor, Fifth Brother, and Reva. She was an August 2023 release here in the UK, part of Wave 11 of the Galaxy Collection alongside Tala and Obi-Wan (Jabiim) from the Kenobi series. Wave 11 is a windowless wave, still using plastic-free packaging. The colour scheme is blue on black, as per the rest of the Kenobi series releases, with the Fourth Sister number 12 in the collection sitting between Obi-Wan and Tala.
The figure is all new, there is no re-use from the Reva figure as I had expected. In actual fact the Fourth Sister is quite short in stature, a half-head shorter than the Reva figure despite the two of them appearing to be the same height from the scenes they shared together. The Inquisitor armour is cast all in black plastic with a softer plastic shirt piece laid over the legs as opposed to using soft goods. The paint decor applied over the top includes a very muted red trim to this skirt, as well as silver across the wrist devices, belt, and chest armour. A silver Imperial logo sits on the shoulder of each arm, applied most likely as a decal on top of a circular disc that is part of the arm sculpt.
The head is, if I am being honest, disappointing considering how well Hasbro usually does with Alien species in the Star Wars universe. The sculpt is acceptable and reflective of the Fourth Sister to a degree but lacks the snarl or sneer that we see on screen - and indeed in the promo images - and this makes her look to placid. The face also feels a touch too dark in the chosen mustard yellow skin tone, and the red markings fail to pop and like the trim of the uniform are very muted. The face also features a glossy finish (an ongoing issue) and while face print tech applies the eyes and lips it does not add any other shading as was also seen originally on the promo images and the eyes themselves don’t quite include enough red to stand out, reducing her menace even more.
The Fourth Sister is wearing her head cowl, also in black, with her four Leku/Tendrils coming out of the back. These are semi-flexible plastic so as not to restrict the head movement, but the paint is very dirty and patchy.
We get a total of 17 points of articulation with no shoulder butterfly joints that we might have expected from a lightsaber-wielding character. The joints we do get are all pinless and worked into the sculpt and all work as designed with the skirt providing the only real restriction on movement.
The Fourth Sister is armed with the circular Lightsaber hilt with two prongs built into the central shaft that allow it to be mounted into two corresponding slots on her back. The fit of this is good considering the size of these pins and remains relatively secure. When not holstered, the saber hilt fits into either hand, and two included red translucent blades can be clipped into place to reflect a single or dual lightsaber. These clips are quite slim and bend too easily and that can leave the saber blades not sitting straight - particularly in the twin-blade saber position.
While I do accept changes do have to be made between prototypes and production, the Fourth Sister is one of the few figures recently where I have felt disappointed from what is presented in the promo images - and on the box - to what we actually receive in hand. She is undersized, the paint apps are too muted on the uniform and the facial markings, and her overall expression is quite serene and almost ‘Jedi-like’ rather than the sneer we would expect. The lack of butterfly shoulders and the weak lightsaber blade connections only add to the disappointment. The Fourth Sister will round out your Inquisitorius complement from Kenobi and expand your Imperial Forces overall, but she is - as she was in the show - more of a background character.
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