General Hux — Star Wars The Black Series #13

Overview

Red Line #13 is General Hux — Armitage Hux, the First Order’s youngest and most fanatically ideological general, commanding Starkiller Base and delivering the speech that establishes his character as the sequel trilogy’s officer-class true believer. This is the only Black Series General Hux ever produced. No accessories, no helmet, no disguise — just the man himself in the First Order dress uniform, which is simultaneously his figure’s greatest display challenge and most honest representation.

Hux is a human character with a specific face — Domhnall Gleeson’s angular features and barely-contained contempt — and this is a pre-Photo Real figure. The portrait approximates the likeness at this production era’s standard. The dress uniform sculpt is the figure’s more durable element: the long black First Order greatcoat, the rank insignia, the gloves and polished boots are all accurately rendered at Red Line production quality. MSRP $19.99.

The Character

General Hux is the First Order’s ideologue made officer — the son of an Imperial officer who grew up in the remnants of the Empire and absorbed its ideology as gospel. He is fanatically, performatively committed: the Starkiller Base speech — the Nuremberg-rally-aesthetic moment where he addresses massed First Order troops before destroying the Hosnian system — is among the most deliberately unsettling First Order scenes in TFA, designed to make the political aesthetic of the First Order explicit.

His relationship with Kylo Ren is the film’s most interesting officer dynamic: two people in apparent authority who despise each other, working toward the same end through completely different internal logic. Hux believes in the First Order as institution; Ren believes in the dark side as personal destiny. Neither can fully subordinate to the other, which becomes structurally important across the trilogy.

The dress uniform is the specific costume of the Starkiller Base sequences — the speech, the weapons systems control room, the oversight of the planet’s firing. It’s the costume of Hux in his element, doing what he was designed to do.

Accessories

No accessories. This is unusual in the Red Line wave — Hux carries no weapon in his primary TFA appearances (he’s a general, not a front-line soldier, and the dress uniform configuration implies a command context rather than combat). The absence of accessories is accurate to the character rather than a production shortcoming.

Articulation: 19 points via the standard Red Line scheme. The long greatcoat limits lower body articulation demonstration, but standing poses with the cape draping naturally are the appropriate display configuration for this character.

The Only Black Series Hux

One release. No Archive reissue, no Galaxy Collection update, no variant. The Red Line #13 is the single definitive Black Series Hux. His trajectory across the trilogy — from fanatical true believer to Palpatine’s puppet to bitter antagonist to Resistance informant for the worst possible reasons — makes him one of the sequel trilogy’s more fascinating supporting characters, but none of that complexity has translated into additional Black Series releases.

For the First Order command display: Hux alongside Kylo Ren #03 and Captain Phasma #06 creates the TFA First Order leadership trio. The three figures at consistent Red Line production quality represent the command structure visible in the film’s Starkiller Base sequences.

Secondary Market

The Red Line Hux holds modest above-retail secondary market prices — unique character, no replacement. The pre-Photo Real portrait is the figure’s primary limitation, but the dress uniform sculpt is strong enough to hold display value. No significant variants documented.

Verdict

There is no alternative. Buy for the First Order command display, the Starkiller Base scene context, or Red Line sequence completion.

The Starkiller Base Speech and Hux as Character

Hux’s defining TFA moment is the Starkiller Base speech — a sequence the production design team explicitly built around real-world political rally aesthetics, with the massed First Order troops in formation as the visual backdrop. The speech is the moment TFA announces that the First Order isn’t just the Empire with a new name; it’s a fascist movement with a deliberate relationship to fascist aesthetics. Hux delivers it with total conviction. He believes every word.

Domhnall Gleeson’s specific approach to the character — the barely-contained fury, the sense of someone who has constructed a persona of absolute certainty over a foundation of genuine zealotry — is what makes Hux genuinely unsettling rather than a generic villain. The pre-Photo Real portrait approximates but doesn’t fully capture that particular quality. At display distance, in the dress uniform, he reads as the First Order officer.

Display in First Order Command Context

The First Order leadership display: Hux at one end of the command table, Kylo Ren #03 at the other, Captain Phasma #06 between them. These three figures represent the complete First Order command structure visible in TFA’s Starkiller Base sequences, and they’re all available at consistent Red Line production quality for a period-accurate display.

Collector Notes

The only Black Series General Hux. No variants documented.

Hux without accessories is a deliberate figure choice that makes a collector argument. The absence of weapons signals that this is a command character, not a combat character — someone whose authority derives from institution and ideology rather than personal force projection. Displayed alongside armed figures like Kylo Ren #03 and Captain Phasma #06, Hux’s empty hands communicate the specific kind of power he represents. The three First Order figures together cover all the First Order’s modes of authority: Hux’s institutional control, Phasma’s military command, and Ren’s Force-backed will.

General Hux as a display piece rewards understanding who he is in the scene. Display him mid-speech — arms slightly extended, weight shifted forward, the bearing of someone performing certainty they genuinely feel — and the figure captures the specific Hux that makes him interesting. The Black Series articulation doesn’t include the shoulder butterfly joints that enable dramatic gesture poses, but the standard 19-point scheme achieves a convincing oratorical stance that’s appropriate for a character whose most important scene involves standing on a stage and speaking.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Red Line. Related: First Order faction | Kylo Ren #03 | The Force Awakens | Starkiller Base scene.