She may be seventh, but she's really number one.
Quick, agile, and deadly, the Seventh Sister Inquisitor was one of the Empire's elite Jedi hunters dispatched to find Ahsoka Tano and her rebel friends.
The idea of the Inquisitors was introduced in 1987, but was reintroduced to the modern continuity in Rebels, giving the titular group a Force-sensitive antagonist without needing to put Darth Vader into the show and diluting him via over-use. Initially it was just the Grand Inquisitor, but Season 2 expanded that, introducing the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister, telling us two things at once: the Inquisatorius was not just a collection of normal spies and agents led by one Force user, and since these were Five and Seven and not Two and Three, the organization could be far larger than we knew.
The Seventh Sister has not had her real name revealed yet, but we do at least know her species: she's a Mirialan, same as Luminara Unduli
and Barris Offee. Her tattoos are more subtle than theirs, just little speckles instead of large squares, but she's got black eyes with Sith-colored irises, which looks darn cool. The dark circles around the eyes are photo-printed, to best control how heavy the shadows are and where they fade out. The character hadn't been designed when Sarah Michelle Gellar recorded her voice lines, so the animators were able to base the character's mannerisms
Septimus wears a silly little pointed helmet which was
inspired (in our world) by the ones worn by the Nightsisters in The Clone Wars. Is there some in-universe connection there, as well? We know the Nightsisters were still around recently enough that she might have had contact with them during her time as a Jedi, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. Hers has a retractable mask, and while that wouldn't work too well on an action figure, they've suggested it by molding the helmet and mask as two separate pieces that plug together, so you can remove the mask if you want.
Like all the Inquisitors, S Club 7 wears a black uniform with both cloth and armored sections. The toy doesn't quite match the stylized cartoon proportions - as with the other Rebels figures, she's been untooned, though she's not quite fully "human wearing a costume"-shaped, either. The black is broken up by silver accents and a few small touches of red, like on her boots, the outside of her pantlegs, har palms, collarbones, and even on the top of her helmet in a way that suggests spider eyes.
The outfit has a fitted skirt piece,
which means the legs aren't as fully poseable as they might have been. She's got all the current articulation - swivel/hinge ankles, swivel/hinge knees, swivel thighs, balljointed hips, balljoint chest, balljoint wrists, swivel/hinge elbows, swivel/hinge shoulders, pectoral hinges, balljointed neck, and barbell head - it's just that the hips get unavoidably restricted. They've tried to alleviate that by putting a split in the back and having the front flap overlap naturally, but there's only so much that can be done.
The Seventh Sister gets her silly Inquisitor lightsaber, which (like all the other toys') is not designed to actually spin the way it should. The blades can be removed, so you can hang it on her hip, and since this is a Black Series figure released in 2026, she also includes two of the dumb "lightsaber blur" blades. We can't outgrow this phase fast enough. The ring of her saber has a clean design, with two small hooks poking off the edges, and curved supports where the hand-hold meets the exterior section.
There's one more accessory, though. Seventh Sister isn't above using technology in her hunt for surviving Jedi, which is why
she's often accompanied by a flock of ID9 seeker droids. ID9s look like baby Imperial Probe Droids, with a flat little head and several dangly arms underneath, and they feature a single round red eye. Since she carries them in the back of her armor, the toy version can have the head and legs pop apart, allowing you to plug the head into the specially designed hole in her back. Four of the legs are just molded in position (which does allow you to have it scuttling along the ground nicely), while the fifth is on a swivel joint, giving this little accessory a grand total of two points of articulation. Which is two more than expected.
This is a "Fan Channel and Amazon" exclusive, which is just a fancy way of saying "anywhere except Walmart and Target." I lucked into finding her on Amazon for $20, the price these figures should actually be, rather than the $30 Hasbro's trying to get these days. The Seventh Sister was a cool part of Rebels, and I'm excited to finally have a figure of her to cause the good guys some trouble.
-- 08/08/26
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