I just went down a rabbit hole watching all the animated appearances of Zatanna I could find. Since she is not typically thought of as a character who associates with Batman or Gotham City, I have wrongly thought for ten years that this was a Bruce Timm design from Justice League. (I say 10 years because this sculpt was originally released by DC Collectibles back in 2016). But when I compared her to the Justice League Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl figures, the scale and style didn't match. So I came to the conclusion that this figure is indeed a representation of her single-episode BTAS appearance in 1993 (S1E50 "Zatanna"), despite appearing in at least 7 episodes of Justice League Unlimited (FYI I believe she wears a white bowtie in all her JLU appearances). The TNBA stand this figure comes with further confused me. I watched Zatanna's single BTAS episode twice before I realized she was the dark-haired plainclothed wedding guest sitting with Jason Blood. (Like I said, quite the rabbit hole tonight).
I haven't picked up a lot of the McFarlane re-releases of the Timm-verse figures, but I always regretted not getting this one back in 2016, so I was pretty happy to grab her this time around. Let's check out Zatanna below!
Zatanna comes with a cane and three sets of hands.
Zatanna also comes with the Pelvis and Legs of the Collect-to-Build Clock King figure.
She also comes with a TNBA figure stand.
I assume she was intended to have a BTAS stand since her only TNBA appearance was an un-costumed cameo.
This first image is one of her JLU appearances. The rest are from her BTAS episode.
And here is an image of her 2016 DC Collectibles figure that I swiped off eBay.
Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
Here is Zatanna with Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl.
I took this photo when I assumed she was a Justice League Unlimited character.
But I see now her face sculpt and scale is clearly BTAS.
Cheers!
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