KR|Enmity Review #9: Gax-Uhr

Toy prototype details

Name: Gax-Uhr^TM

Subtitle: agile lieutenant

Line: KR|Enmity

Item type: action figure - Nº 8 in the line.

Character details

Name: Gax-Uhr

Family name: Amhalgaard^TM

Classification: primivod mammal

Sex: male

Relationships: Tir-Hing's and Ir-Ash's younger brother

Home: Tahron

Era: 20 years before Foundation

Affiliation: Theriom

Rank: lieutenant; gymnast.

Background

First appearance: KR|Enmity #1 - Flares of enmity

Brief bio: King Li-Khon^TM's third born son, Gax-Uhr was the most dynamic and lighthearted of the three royal brothers. After joining the Theriom royal infantry, where he worked alongside Tir-Hing and Ir-Ash, Gax-Uhr gained recognition for his fearless service as a lieutenant. Never failing to look for the good in everyone, even in his foes, he perfected non-lethal methods of combat based on skills such as acrobatics and dexterity, a style his eldest brother always dismissed as foolishly merciful.

Articulation

Standard, plus hinged toes.

Description

Head: predominantly ape-like (similar to a gorilla, even if he's a primivod, a fictional anthropomorphic marsupial), characterised by a thick deep-black fur that surrounds a black-skinned face. The bare face includes the ears, a pair of deep-set blue eyes and a flat nose with large nostrils. Displaying his mouth wide open (which exposes a number of sharp whitish teeth and fangs) gives his face an overall bold expression. Additionally, he wears a metallic light-blue removable helmet with red details

Body: thick deep-black fur (but, like the face, his breast, and most parts of his hands and feet are bald and black-skinned), dark-grey nails; the arms seem a bit longer than the average length. His shoulders and thighs are equipped with pairs of ivory-coloured bony spikes, while the hair on his forearms and lower legs is dark brown-grey rather than black

Wearables: a red armour with light-blue details, two red clip-on wrist guards, two red clip-on shin guards, a red belt and a light-blue fabric loincloth. The wrist/shin guards have nice rivets and jagged edges, and each one is ornamented with a heptagonal light-blue, white-veined gemstone. The belt has diamond-shaped studs, a buckle that resembles the stones on the wrist/shin guards and a pouch of light-brown leather hanging from the back.

Gax-Uhr's stylised helmet.

Gax-Uhr's stylised armour.

Action feature

In the comics, Gax-Uhr is a very skilled acrobat, a talent that he'll eventually pass to his son Mor-Rak. This ability is not transferred to the figure in any ways, except for giving it hinged toes that allow us to display the feet in a grasping pose. I know, not very useful, but still a nice touch in my opinion.

Additionally, the removable helmet, wrist guards and shin guards, together with an alternative harness, make it possible to "transform" Enmity Gax-Uhr into his more undressed Foundation version. The dark-red harness has a weathered leathery texture and is equipped with shoulder pads, jagged edges, painted rivets, diamond-shaped studs and a heptagonal light-blue, white-veined gemstone at the centre of the breast plate. Although the large triangular hole on the abdomen doesn't really make it suitable for combat, I find this outfit pretty nice. It also carries a translucent red cape, which is detachable and sports a cool stencil-like dark version of the Theriom symbol on its surface. There are only two details in this figure that don't match the older version of the character: the combative expression, and the colour of the hair on his forearms and lower legs (which is beige in the Foundation comics). But overall I'm happy with the result.

Gax-Uhr's stylised alternative harness.

Weapons and accessories

Apart from the various removable pieces and the alternative harness, Gax-Uhr comes with a coiled rope that plugs into the back of the belt via a peg, and two versions of it in action as a quirt (with a monkey's fist tied at either end) and as a lasso. In all its versions, the rope is pale brown and has a light-blue handle.

Additionally, the figure includes a Baryanoid, which serves as the second instalment of the Build-a-Figure plan that will lead to the completion of the Baryanoid-Cart. Everything related to this topic has already been covered extensively in Ir-Ash's review.

Final thoughts
Character value: ♦♦♦♦ Gax-Uhr fits right in the KR universe and adds a really nice figure to the otherwise incomplete Amhalgaard family

Articulation: ♥♥♥♥ The hinged toes are definitely a plus

Sculpt and paint: ♣♣♣ Difficult not to see the appeal of an armoured, whip-wielding gorilla-looking character; although a lot of people might be turned off by the red-and-blue colours, his armour makes him an instant standout

Accessories: ♠♠ I wish a non-screaming head was added to the figure of this usually lighthearted character

Playability: ♪♪♪♪ He's just so damn cool looking while he interacts with the other figures

Overall: ☺☺☺ The display needed this prototype and I'm extremely happy with the final result, the future Auxiliary Minister of the Republic of Tahron didn’t disappoint.