Darth Revan — Star Wars The Black Series #34

Overview

Red Line #34 is Darth Revan — one of the most demanded figures in the history of the Black Series fan vote programme and the first character from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to enter the line. Revan’s inclusion represents the Black Series expanding its scope beyond film, television, and modern animated series into the video game era of Star Wars storytelling — specifically the Legends-era game that many collectors consider the franchise’s finest RPG and one of its best stories.

The sealed mask and hood design means no portrait quality concerns across any production era — Revan’s specific visual identity is entirely in the costume and equipment, which the Red Line figure renders accurately. 17 points of articulation and 4 accessories make this one of the better-equipped figures in the wave. MSRP $19.99.

The Character

Darth Revan’s story in Knights of the Old Republic is built on one of the finest narrative pivots in Star Wars game history: the player character is Revan, amnesia-wiped and reprogrammed by the Jedi Council to serve as a soldier, and the game spends its entire first act having you discover this alongside the character. You are Revan before you know it. The masked Sith Lord hunting you through the game’s opening hours is a previous version of yourself.

The dual nature of the character — Jedi Knight and Sith Lord, the same person in two configurations, the same set of choices made with different information — is what makes Revan philosophically interesting beyond the mask and the aesthetic. The Black Series release captures the Sith Lord configuration: the distinctive mask, the dark robes, the twin lightsabers that visually reference both the Sith red and something more ambiguous.

Revan’s canonical status in the post-Legends restructure is complicated. The Old Republic MMO and some Clone Wars animated content placed Revan in the official canon in modified form, but the specific KOTOR storyline exists in Legends territory. The Black Series figure is drawn from the Legends game design rather than any canon-specific appearance.

Accessories

Four accessories: two lightsabers (one red Sith blade, one purple — reflecting the canonical dual-wielding configuration), a holocron, and a removable cape. The four-accessory loadout is among the most generous in the Red Line sequence. Both lightsaber hilts fit the hands; the holocron is the small glowing-cube Force artefact associated with both Jedi and Sith knowledge storage. The removable cape adds the floor-length dramatic drape that defines the Revan silhouette.

17-point articulation: ball-jointed shoulders, elbows, wrists, upper body, hips, swivel thighs, above and below knee swivels, ball-jointed ankles. No neck articulation is listed — the hood/mask construction limits independent neck movement to the upper body rotation.

Darth Revan vs Jedi Knight Revan

Two Black Series Revan releases. This Red Line #34 is the Sith Lord configuration — the mask, the dark robes, the red and purple lightsabers, the canonical KOTOR dark side appearance. The Jedi Knight Revan (Galaxy Heroes) (2019) is a GameStop exclusive drawn from the Galaxy of Heroes mobile game, covering the light side Jedi Knight configuration in robes and dual blue/green blades.

For collectors who know the KOTOR game specifically, the question of which to display is a character question: are you displaying the Sith Lord the Jedi Council wiped, or the Jedi Knight who was there before the fall? Both are Revan; neither is the complete character. Display both together and the duality that defines the character across the game’s narrative is present in plastic.

KOTOR’s Legacy and Revan’s Collector Significance

Knights of the Old Republic was released in 2003 and won multiple Game of the Year awards, establishing a generation of Star Wars fans whose primary franchise experience was the Legends-era Old Republic period rather than the films. Revan became one of the most requested Black Series figures for over a decade before the Fan’s Choice votes that led to this 2016 release.

The figure’s inclusion at Red Line #34 — a main-line numbered slot rather than an exclusive — was a significant moment for KOTOR fans: acknowledgment that video game characters from the Legends era could hold numbered positions in the line alongside film and television characters. Hasbro has continued this approach with subsequent Gaming Greats and Legends characters in the Phase 4 era.

Secondary Market

Darth Revan holds sustained secondary market premiums — collector demand has never fully caught up with supply for this figure, and the KOTOR fan base creates consistent pressure that film-only collector demand doesn’t match. No production variants documented.

Verdict

There is no film or television equivalent for this design. Buy for the KOTOR Sith Lord display, the four-accessory loadout, the Legends character significance, or Red Line sequence completion.

The Fan Choice Vote and Black Series Canon Expansion

Darth Revan’s inclusion in the Black Series was the direct result of collector demand expressed through Hasbro’s Fan’s Choice voting processes in the years before the 2016 release. Revan had topped or placed near the top of fan polls repeatedly, making his eventual inclusion both expected and still celebrated when it happened. The figure’s release confirmed that the Black Series was genuinely responsive to collector input rather than purely driven by film or television tie-ins.

This expansion philosophy — games, Legends, EU characters given numbered main-line slots — continued in Phase 4 with the Gaming Greats sub-line and other non-film characters. The Red Line #34 Revan is the specific moment that opened that door in the numbered sequence.

The Old Republic Era in the Black Series

Revan’s inclusion created collector appetite for more Old Republic and Legends-era characters that subsequent waves and exclusives have partially addressed. The Knights of the Old Republic era is approximately 4,000 years before the events of the Skywalker Saga — a period of active Jedi-Sith conflict at a scale the films don’t directly engage. Revan’s figure places that era on the shelf alongside characters from every film era, which is the Black Series at its most comprehensive as a franchise overview.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: Sith faction | Gaming Greats | Legends characters.