{"id":19991,"date":"2015-07-23T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=19991"},"modified":"2015-07-23T08:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:14:35","slug":"batman-arkham-knight-funko-pop-figures-exude-appropriate-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/batman-arkham-knight-funko-pop-figures-exude-appropriate-righteousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Arkham Knight Funko POP! Figures Exude Appropriate Righteousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Funko revealed a quartet of POP! Vinyl figures today drawn from the recently released\u00a0<em>Batman: Arkham Knight.\u00a0<\/em>Though the existence of such figures isn&#8217;t surprising &#8211; the series has inspired more than a few figures in the past &#8211; the addition of the titular villain to the cast is certainly worth note.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Knight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19992\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Knight.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Batman: Arkham Knight POP Figure\" width=\"765\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Knight.jpg 765w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Knight-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also of note: seeing these four reminds me just how self-righteous Batman characters can be &#8211; villain or foe &#8211; and one figure does stand out from the rest in opposition to that theory. Here&#8217;s looking at you, Harley Quin, for not giving a toot in the same vain of your similarly insane mentor. Maybe that&#8217;s what makes those two stand out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Harley-Quinn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19993\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Harley-Quinn.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Batman: Arkham Knight POP Figure\" width=\"765\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Harley-Quinn.jpg 765w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Harley-Quinn-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a>And then you&#8217;ve got the required Batman update, decked out in perhaps the most technological armor he&#8217;s ever had, sans some fan-fiction Steampunk variation that most certainly exists. There&#8217;s a classic tint to the coloring going on here as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19994\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Batman: Arkham Knight POP Figure\" width=\"765\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure.jpg 765w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a>Finally, the weakest of the bunch, is the Scarecrow. Though the character dips in and out of hamminess from one variation to the next, it&#8217;s safe to say this visualization lacks the kind of oomph the preceding three present.\u00a0It doesn&#8217;t help that he more resemples a\u00a0<em>Lord of the Rings\u00a0<\/em>character than something out of a noir super hero comic book.<a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Scarecrow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19995\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Scarecrow.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Batman: Arkham Knight POP Figure Scarecrow\" width=\"765\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Scarecrow.jpg 765w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Batman-Arkham-Knight-POP-Figure-Scarecrow-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a>According to IGN, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/23\/batman-arkham-knight-gets-funko-pop-figures?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&amp;utm_medium=IGN%20(front%20page)&amp;utm_content=5&amp;utm_campaign=Blogroll\" target=\"_blank\">debuted the figures<\/a>, they&#8217;ll all sell for the standard $11 when they hit stores in September.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week we also wrote up the <a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/funko-fallout-pop-figure-menacing-adorable-now-sale\/\">large collection of\u00a0<em>Fallout\u00a0<\/em>figures<\/a> on sale already, with a group of minis to hit stores in the fall. Each of those seven figures deserves a quick look see if you enjoy what you see here.<\/p>\n<p>You could always just head to <a href=\"https:\/\/funko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Funko&#8217;s website<\/a> and peruse the ever-growing catalog\u00a0of POP! Vinyl figures for yourself. Or you could just wait for me to write about them, which will definitely keep happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funko revealed a quartet of POP! Vinyl figures today drawn from the recently released\u00a0Batman: Arkham Knight.\u00a0Though the existence of such figures isn&#8217;t surprising &#8211; the series has inspired more than a few figures in the past &#8211; the addition of the titular villain to the cast is certainly worth note. Also of note: seeing these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":19992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[223,1232,25],"class_list":["post-19991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-batman","tag-funko","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20001,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19991\/revisions\/20001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}