Nightbrother Warrior — Star Wars The Black Series #GG 05

Overview

The Nightbrother Warrior at #GG 05 is the Gaming Greats Collection’s Dathomirian Zabrak warrior figure — the territorial and extremely hostile Nightbrother fighters players encounter on Dathomir during the 2019 Jedi: Fallen Order video game. Released March 2022 as a single-boxed GameStop exclusive. MSRP $26.99 (slightly above standard Mural Collection pricing). One accessory: a staff weapon. 21-joint articulation including butterfly shoulder joints. The figure uses the legs, arms, and upper body from the 2022 Black Series Darth Maul figure (id=26031) with a new head, a new skirt, a new weapon, and a new paint application — making it a parts-reuse figure rather than an original tooling.

The Jedi: Fallen Order Dathomir Sequence

Jedi: Fallen Order’s Dathomir sequence is one of the game’s most narratively significant locations — the planet where Cal Kestis confronts the dark side, where the dual-blade lightsaber configuration is unlocked, and where the Nightbrother and Nightsister Dathomirian Zabrak species classes appear as enemy units. The Nightbrother Warriors specifically are the male Dathomirian fighters who have served as the Sith’s combat-trained warriors across various Star Wars properties (Maul and Savage Opress being the most famous individual Nightbrother characters in the broader canon).

For collectors who played Fallen Order, the figure captures the Dathomir sequence’s enemy class in physical form. For collectors who appreciate the Dathomirian species as part of the broader Star Wars canon (across Clone Wars, Rebels, the Ahsoka TV series, and various games), the Nightbrother Warrior is a generic character class representation of the species.

The Darth Maul Parts Reuse

For this figure, Hasbro used the legs, arms, and upper body from the 2022 Black Series Darth Maul figure (id=26031), then added a new head, a new skirt, a new weapon, and a new paint application. This is a meaningful parts-reuse strategy — the Nightbrother and Maul share the same Dathomirian Zabrak species body type, so reusing the body sculpt is anatomically correct rather than corner-cutting.

The new tooling specifically:

• New head sculpt — the Nightbrother Warrior face is generic Dathomirian rather than Maul’s specific likeness, with the species-typical horn pattern but without Maul’s individual facial features
• New skirt — the Nightbrother costume includes a sculpted lower-body skirt that the Maul figure doesn’t have
• New weapon — the staff replaces Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber
• New paint — different facial markings, different body patterns, and different overall colour palette

For collectors who own the Darth Maul figure, the Nightbrother Warrior reads as a different character despite the parts overlap. For collectors building Dathomirian species displays, the parts-reuse strategy means the species’ body proportions are consistent across multiple figures in the line.

The Staff Weapon

One staff weapon was included, which the figure can hold well in both hands. The staff is appropriate to the Nightbrother Warrior character class — Dathomirian male warriors traditionally wield staff and polearm weapons rather than lightsabers (which are reserved for Sith-trained Dathomirians like Maul and Savage). The single-staff loadout is the screen-accurate Fallen Order configuration.

The two-handed weapon-grip support means collectors can adopt the standard staff-combat poses across the figure’s full range of motion — overhead striking, mid-body bracing, defensive blocking. The butterfly shoulder joints (covered below) specifically support these dynamic two-handed configurations.

The Butterfly Shoulder Joints

The butterfly joints in the shoulders give the figure a bigger range of motion on how the arms can be posed. Butterfly shoulders are an articulation upgrade over the standard ball-jointed shoulder configuration — they allow the shoulder to pivot inward toward the chest, supporting two-handed weapon-bracing poses where both hands grip the same weapon centred in front of the body.

This is the right articulation choice for a staff-wielding warrior class. Standard ball-joint shoulders force the arms into wider stances that don’t accommodate centre-grip weapon configurations cleanly; butterfly joints solve that constraint. The Nightbrother Warrior can adopt screen-accurate Fallen Order combat poses that a 17-joint baseline figure couldn’t achieve.

The Loose Ankle Joints

A specific quality-control note flagged by detailed reviewers: the Nightbrother Warrior had very loose ankle joints, but it kept its balance well without falling over. This is the same loose-ankle pattern that affects multiple Phase 4 releases (the Cassian Aldhani figure at #AND 01, the Vader Duel’s End at #OWK 15A) — the joint engineering varies in stiffness across production runs, and individual units may ship with looser-than-ideal ankles.

For collectors who receive a unit with loose ankles, the workaround is the standard one: nail polish or floor wax in the joint to add friction, with care not to glue the joint shut. Whether the loose-ankle behaviour is consistent across all production runs or unit-variable is unclear, but the reviewer-tested figure passed the standing-stability test despite the joint looseness.

The Paint Application and Game Match

The paint application and the patterns on the chest, the back, arms, and the face match the video game characters. The Nightbrother Warrior’s distinctive Dathomirian markings — the specific facial pattern, the body tattoos, the colour palette — are screen-accurate to the in-game character class. For a video-game-derived figure where the source material is CGI rather than live-action, the paint match is the test the figure needs to pass, and Hasbro committed to the screen-accurate detail work.

This is more aggressive paint application than most of the Gaming Greats early releases (the Imperial Rocket Trooper, the Flametrooper, Zaalbar all suffer from under-painted finishes). The Nightbrother Warrior’s markings are picked out cleanly across the body, which elevates the figure above the line’s recurring paint critique.

Articulation

21 joints. Ball-jointed top neck, ball-jointed lower neck, butterfly joints in the shoulders, ball-jointed shoulders, ball-jointed elbows, ball-jointed wrists, ball-jointed upper body, ball-jointed hips, swivel thighs, swivel joints above the knees, swivel joints below the knees, ball-jointed ankles. The combination of butterfly shoulders and double-swivel knees is the upgrade over the standard 17-joint Phase 4 baseline, providing the dynamic-pose flexibility that the staff-warrior character class requires.

The Mural Collection Position

The Nightbrother Warrior sits at the fifth position in the Gaming Greats Collection mural display — closing the first wave of releases and bridging into the later 2022-2026 entries. For loose display, the figure works alongside the other Fallen Order figures in the collection (Cal Kestis Deluxe at #GG 02, Flametrooper at #GG 03, Electrostaff Purge Trooper at #GG-E04, Scout Trooper at #GG-E05, Rocket Launcher Trooper at #GG 22) for a Fallen Order Dathomir-sequence ensemble. The figure also works alongside other Black Series Dathomirian characters (the various Maul releases, Savage Opress, the eventual Nightsister figures) for a species-display configuration.

Secondary Market

Single-boxed GameStop exclusive, March 2022. Aftermarket prices on the secondary market have generally tracked at or near the original $26.99 MSRP, with the GameStop-exclusive distribution and the Fallen Order tie-in keeping demand stable. Verify the staff weapon is included; the single-accessory loadout means there’s only one component to lose. No production variants documented.

Verdict

The Nightbrother Warrior at #GG 05 is the right figure for Fallen Order Dathomir-sequence collectors and Dathomirian species completionists. The Darth Maul parts-reuse strategy is anatomically appropriate, the butterfly shoulder joints support the staff-combat poses the character class requires, the screen-accurate Dathomirian markings are paint-applied cleanly, and the 21-joint articulation supports dynamic combat configurations.

The loose ankle joints are a quality-control variable that may or may not affect individual units. The single-staff accessory loadout is appropriate to the character but lean for $26.99 pricing. The Maul parts overlap means collectors building specific-character displays should treat this as a different character despite the body-sculpt similarity.

Buy this figure if you collect Jedi: Fallen Order, if you build Dathomirian species displays, or if you appreciate butterfly-shoulder articulation upgrades in your action figures. The $26.99 MSRP is fair for the engineering and the screen-accurate paint detail, and the GameStop distribution makes it accessible through standard retail.

The Fallen Order Dathomir-sequence enemy class. The Maul-bodied warrior with the new head, skirt, and staff. The figure with the butterfly shoulders that actually use them. GameStop exclusive, March 2022.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Gaming Greats Collection. Related: Cal Kestis (Deluxe) P4-GG-02 | Flametrooper P4-GG-03 | Nightbrother Archer P4-GG-10.