Seeing Red

Kaine Parker is the second spider clone to take the name of Scarlet Spider. There are a few differences with the comic version of Kaine and Peter Parker. Kaine in the comics is 6'4" and weighs 250 #'s, where as Peter Parker is 5'10" and 165 #'s. Other than being a spider clone of the original Spider-Man, when he was going by just the name Kaine he had powers that Spider-Man did not have and he was able to leave a brand on people that he called the Mark of Kaine usually it was burned into his victim's faces as an ever lasting scar for the remainder of their lives.

This version of the Scarlet Spider does not do any of that as he is trying to be and succeeding at being a hero. His costume is red and black, primarily red with black thrown in here and there to break up the scarlet. Starting at the head Scarlet Spider has a black head with black shoulders, going down his back his black goes to a point that goes down to the middle of his back. The black on his back is broken up by a scarlet spider emblem. His eyes are red, in the center of his chest there is a black spider emblem. Each of his fingers are black. The paint on Scarlet is pretty awesome there is no running, blotching or smudges at all he is painted well.

Articulation on this figure is pretty outstanding I think anyway. His head is on a ball joint with a hinge that allows him to look left, right, up and down very well. Scarlet has an armpit joint that allows him to swing his arm out a little more. His shoulders are ball jointed so he can swing his arms out at a very wide range. He has swivel biceps. double jointed elbows so you can get him into some pretty dynamic poses for a spider character. The wrists are hinge and pin joints. He has a chest/ab crunch, a waist rotation. His legs are where the articulation really is, his upper hips are ball jointed, he has swivel thighs, double hinge knees, hinge ankles and ankle rotation that works great. Kaine's hands are cast in a fist and a thwip fingers.

Compared to the original Scarlet Spider action figure that came out over a decade and a half ago he is an amazing update but he isn't Ben Riley Scarlet Spider. I like Kaine as Scarlet Spider I should have kept reading Scarlet Spider's individual title.