>>11126677And then over the horizon the looming license renewal, where the license could be pulled and all he had worked for could be rendered for naught.
It must have felt to Todd as if everyone was betraying him. The adult collector market, the DC fans who had previously supported such figure lines, those responsible for poor choices at DC, even his own loyal customers.
I think this is when Todd made a pivotal decision, which would forever change the path of the DC Multiverse line. I believe he chose to abandon his toy design philosophy, to give the loudest voices what they wanted. They wanted sculpted joints, they would have them. They wanted formless, basic classic costumes, they would have them. They wanted figures of looks and characters that hadn't been relevant since the 1980s, they would have them. They wanted Marvel Legends and that is what they would get, but they would get all the laziness and cost cutting that came with it as well. He brought in a man who knew all too well how to make such a line. And thus did Todd shatter the line and divest himself of it, leaving it to become an empty husk of reused parts and pieces, bereft of any style or artistic value, that would cater to whatever deranged nostalgia possessed the mind of DC fans. And that is when Todd became a villain.
Sometimes one does not become a villain by what one does, but instead by what one does not do. By abandoning the line to become a cesspit of commercialized nostalgia rather than continuing to stay with his initial artistic leanings for the line even if it meant the line would not have long to continue, it appears Todd chose money over art in the end.
