History Toys / MarvelLegends

* WolverinePublicity: Ironically, Wolverine himself is kept to the X-Men-focused waves, so he's actually not a big example of this. No, the big example is Iron Man, who is included as often as possible with endless armour variations. It got to the point that ''two'' Iron Man characters (AI Tony and Civil Warrior) were included in the wave for ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', while Katy, a key supporting character from the film, was instead made a store exclusive[[note]]Granted, there ''is'' a plausible connection in that Iron Man's traditional ArchEnemy, The Mandarin, [[RoguesGalleryTransplant is the film's]] BigBad[[/note]]

* NotQuiteStarring: Some of the movie figures have had rather off-model likenesses of the actors, such as Jean Grey from ''X-Men 3: The Last Stand'', Mary Jane from ''Spider-Man 2'', Electro from ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'', Gamora from ''Guardians of the Galaxy'', Ms. Marvel from ''The Marvels'' and Star-Lord from ''Guardians of the Galaxy''.

* WolverinePublicity: Ironically, Wolverine himself is kept to the X-Men-focused waves, so he's actually not a big example of this. No, the big example is Iron Man, who is included as often as possible with endless armour variations. It got to the point that ''two'' Iron Man characters (AI Tony and Civil Warrior) were included in the wave for ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', while Katy, a key supporting character from the film, was instead made a store exclusive.

The line is a 6-inch scale line that features characters from Marvel comics, films, TV shows and video games. A very wide-ranging line, the figures set the standard for 6-inch action figures. Characters both A-list and obscure get figures, and most waves include a "Build A Figure" that comes in pieces with figures in a wave, which is also generally how waves are named if there is no reasonable alternative, such as if it is focused on a particular piece of media.

* ActionDad: Reed Richards in the ToyBiz Fantastic Four box-set, Peter Parker from the ''Renew Your Vows'' 2-pack and Peter B. Parker from the ''Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'' wave.
* AnIcePerson: Iceman has been released several times including the Colossus wave and the ''Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends'' three-pack.

** The early figures came packaged with detailed, diorama-like display bases, usually depicting some sort of recognizable location or vehicle from the Marvel Universe (such as Ghost Rider's motorcycle, a destroyed Sentinel, or part of Doctor Doom's castle). The display bases were eventually phased out in favour of the Build-a-Figure concept, wherein each toy in a wave would come packaged with a piece needed to complete a special bonus figure.
** The Toy[=/=]Biz-era figures also usually included a comic book featuring the character in question, something that Hasbro discarded when they took over the license.
** One of the most striking differences was the general lack of movie characters in the early years of the line. While a select few films like ''Blade II'', ''The Punisher'' and the aforementioned ''Daredevil'' received a single Marvel Legends figure each, the general trend was for ToyBiz to do separate movie lines that featured the same sculpt and articulation style used in Legends, but without actually labelling them as such. This meant that the big Marvel movies of the early 2000s like ''Spider-Man 2'', ''X2: X-Men United'', ''Hulk'' and ''Fantastic Four'' did not have any presence in Marvel Legends, with the line instead focusing almost exclusively on comic book figures. When Hasbro took over the line in 2007, they did some Marvel Legends figures for ''X-Men: The Last Stand'', ''Spider-Man 3'' and ''The Incredible Hulk'', but generally stuck to ToyBiz's strategy of focusing on comic figures instead. However, starting with ''Iron Man 3'' in 2013, they completely threw out that idea and began integrating characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with each subsequent MCU movie getting its own dedicated Marvel Legends wave.
** As Marvel Legends was originally a Spin-Off of the Spider-Man Classics line, characters from the Spider-Man franchise were also noticeably absent from Legends during the ToyBiz days. Only Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, Spider-Woman (both Julia and Anya), The Kingpin and Spidey himself were featured in Legends under ToyBiz, while a few other villains like Black Cat, Carnage, Kraven The Hunter, Electro, the Lizard, the Vulture, the Rhino and Venom were included in box sets. Once the license transferred to Hasbro, Spider-Man characters began appearing in the series far more regularly.

** ToyBiz's line included "Chase Variants" of figures, which usually featured a different head, color scheme or some other change. While these were often just the same character with a repainted outfit, these variants were sometimes brand new characters built on the same body, such as Captain Marvel's variant being his son Genis-Vell, or the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman's variant being Julia Carpenter. Hasbro continued this idea for a few years, but dropped it around 2014.

* FlippingTheBird: Marvel Legends has figures that featured individual finger articulation are able to flip the bird, such as The Thing from the Legendary Riders wave, Super-Poseable Spider-Man from ''Spider-Man 2'', the three gigantic Haslab figures (Galactus, Sentinel and the upcoming Giant-Man), Spider-Hulk from ''Spider-Man Classics'', Savage Dragon from Legendary Comic Book Heroes, Rhino from the Fearsome Foes box set, the Blob build-a-figure and Icons Wolverine.

* HeroicDog: Cosmo the Space-Dog got a build-a-figure in 2023.

* LegoBodyParts: The Wrestler Spider-Man from the Spider-Man movie series, Walgreens Exclusive Mr. Fantastic and the Retro Card Mr. Fantastic have swappable parts.

* OfficialCosplayGear: Also in the line are several replicas of items featured in the Marvel Universe, such as Iron Man's Helmet, Captain America's Shield, Mjolnir, Magneto's helmet, Spider-Man's mask, the Tessaract cube and the Infinity Gauntlet, all at a premium price however they are very high-quality and well made.
* RedheadInGreen: Marvel Girl from the Tri-Sentinel Build-A-Figure, and the retro card Gwen Stacey figure comes with an interchangeable Mary Jane Watson head.