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If Square Enix Designed Batgirl

Batgirl gets the Play Arts Kai treatment.

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Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix has announced the next addition to its Play Arts Kai figure line. This time, the company has provided a new take on iconic DC Comics character Batgirl, based on her appearance from the "A Matter of Family" expansion pack for Batman: Arkham Knight.

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As outlined by ToyArk (via Game Informer), the Batgirl figure stands 10" tall and comes with a hard plastic cape. Also included are interchangeable hands (closed fist and fingers extended), as well as a batarang and grapple gun.

This design is not as out-there as some of Square Enix's other Play Arts Kai figures, like Tetsuya Nomura's wild spin on Batman. It arrives for sale in August in Japan, priced at ¥12,800 (about $117).

To get a closer look at the new Play Arts Kai Batgirl figure, click through the images in the gallery above.

The Matter of Family expansion for Arkham Knight was released in July 2015. For the first time in the history of the Arkham series, it allowed you to play as Batgirl. The expansion is set prior to the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and sees Batgirl teaming up with Robin to rescue Batgirl's father, Commissioner Gordon, who has been kidnapped by Joker.

This is just the latest third-party character that Square Enix has created a figure for. You can check out some of the others through the links below.

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That's the most masculine thing SquareEnix has produced in 10 years.

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@blackbetty1974: But they gave her those big breasts, hehe.

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its time to ban square enix I'd say

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The first one that doesn't look japified and anime.

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I'd rather not play "Batgirl" I don't see these same people killing off one of the most famous super heroes in the comic book industry to replace them with a man I don't see that happen but we sure as hell do see the male characters being turned into female super heroes funny how that works.#

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@Keitha313: /slap

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@Keitha313: I hoped you're not serious lol Batgirl has been around for ages

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@Keitha313: Batgirl has been around for almost 60 years. Please at least know what you're talking about before you complain.

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@Zorlac: she should be batwoman or batlady now then.

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@Keitha313: Normally, I'd agree with you. but Batgirl has been around for ages. I think since the 60's. So she's an established character in the Batman mythos. She isn't replacing anyone.

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if-square-enix-designed-batgirl??

That's exactly her Arkham Knight outfit.

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I guess somebody's buying this stuff because they keep making new ones.

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@oroelf: Someone buys everything, this isn't news.

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How is this different from her Arkham Knight design exactly? looks the same to me.

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Compared to the other designs, this one looks really boring.

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Thats so badass

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Looks a lot better than I was expecting.

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I thought she had no nipples. Bat symbol needs to be a brighter yellow.

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I thought to myself: "Man those are some bruised up boobage."

Then I saw the next couple of pictures, oh that's a bat symbol on her chest...I swear to god SQEX chose the color on purpose.

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Looks great, I want one.

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I call bs that this is from square. Not enough zippers and straps.

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Looks almost exactly like Batgirl in Arkham Knight, nice original design square enix...

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@System4Ever: Good thing that they didn't explicitly state that they modeled the figure after that game or anything...

That would be especially embarrassing if it were in the first paragraph.

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@System4Ever: That is exactly what I thought. No real change from recent designs.

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I want it. Need it to add to my collection

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This is lacking underboob.

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not much different from the actual batgirl, pretty good

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This is probably the closest to what the actual character normally looks like of any from this entire line.

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Pretty bog standard conventional looking compared to some of their recent imaginings.

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That's... surprisingly normal.

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What if SQE remember what made the great? These days all they been doing is running and ignoring what made the great.

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What If square enix made a good game instead ?

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@El_Zaggy:
Valkyrie Profile would be on consoles, Tetsuya Nomura would be at the designer department where he belongs, Parasite Eve wouldn't need to have suffered that 3rd Birthday crap, the Drakengard team would have a far larger budget / priority since day 1, Star Ocean 4 would've surpassed 2... stuff like that.

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@El_Zaggy: I'm pretty sure they're done with that. From here on out, it's all marketing and flooding the market with a diversified panoply of products based on each IP in a fatuous money-grab. I mean, just look at FFXIV. They couldn't just make the game...no no...they had to make all sorts of spin off nonsense too. And, frankly, if anyone didn't catch on to the gross sellout vibe SE is giving off when they built Coleman product placement right into FFXIV, then they must be sleepwalking through life.

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@esqueejy: 14 is absolutely fantastic. You dont' seem to have a clue what you're talking about.

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@Zorlac: Typo...I meant FF15. To be fair, I actually played 14 and liked it alot playing primarily WHM until the end-game grindiness feeling started to set in. It had an entertaining little story to it and the expansion was pretty decent too. I also thought they did a decent job making it work on console. So yeah, my bad on the typo and to be fair, I would exclude that one from the criticism, which was intended primarily for 15 and its way over-hyped and over-extended marketing ploys.

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@esqueejy: I mean, I know you're from the future so you know FF15 is overhyped, and not what they say it is. Tell me more please.

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@Zorlac: I mean, I don't have to be from the future, cited facts already known and in existence and you're just a butthurt crybaby attacking me for what is merely my opinion. Everything from the Coleman product placement crap to the various spinoff movies and other nonsense that they've stuffed up the marketing pipeline screams of overly hyping it and overly commercializing it and having too much of a focus on the commercial aspect of the thing, rather than whether it is actually a good game. we've seen this freekin movie before.

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@esqueejy: Your opinion on a game that's not even out yet. Because you know, that's a valid opinion right?

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@Zorlac: What part of me citing the facts upon which I'm basing my opinion don't you understand?

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@esqueejy: You're basing your opinion on a game that's months away as though it were already released. You're worried far too much about marketing. This is nothing new at all for a company to heavily market a game.

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@Zorlac: No, I am decidedly not. Reread what I wrote and see if you can spot the facts I used.

And yeah, it is sortof new, or at least very rare, for a company to not just be releasing a game but an entire panoply of products based on the IP all at the same time as if they are trying to flood the several different markets with it at once.

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@esqueejy: Lol what? FF14 is great.

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@rolento25: See above.

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Yes, but can you squeeze her boobs?

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@elheber: Just rub them like any other Barbie dolls lol.

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Looks okay for your Batgirl standards design. Also please do one for Supergirl.

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That'd hold up pretty well in a movie......the look and art style I mean......

some of these SE designs of famed characters are actually pretty cool, I notice they don't go insane with em just accent what's already there which is interesting.....

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not bad

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