Hope Summers Marvel Legends: The Mutant Messiah Figure You Probably Overpaid For
First mutant born after Decimation. Came with Terrax's head. Still running ~$27 on the secondary market thirteen years later.
Hope Summers showed up in X-Men #205 in January 2008 as the first mutant born after the Scarlet Witch depowered nearly every mutant on Earth during House of M. Cable grabbed her out of a burning building in Alaska, declared her the mutant messiah, and spent the next several years dragging her through the future to keep Bishop from putting a bullet in her. That is a lot of backstory for a figure Hasbro packed into a $19.99 wave slot in 2012.
The Hope Summers Marvel Legends from the Terrax BAF wave came with Terrax's head and Morg's axe — not her own accessories. She is a 6-inch figure in her red bodysuit with cable-influenced design elements, and she got exactly one Marvel Legends release before Hasbro moved on. No repacks. No reissues. No 2.0.
What it actually sells for
Loose Hope Summers figures from the Terrax wave have been averaging around $27 on the secondary market, with a range of $12 at the low (beat up, missing the BAF piece) to $40 at the high (clean, with the Terrax head). AF411 shows four tracked eBay sales averaging $26.92 against a $19.99 retail — so she runs about 35% above what she cost at Toys R Us in 2012. That is not a grail premium, but for a figure with no reissue and only one release window, it is a real floor.
The price ceiling is higher if you are buying the whole wave to build Terrax. Hope has the head and weapon, which means a Terrax builder who finds everything else first will pay more than $27 to close the set. Completionist demand is the real driver keeping her above retail.
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The Terrax wave, ranked for actually finding these
The 2012 Terrax BAF wave is eleven figures and two Ghost Rider variants. Finding them all loose has gotten harder as collections get broken up at estate sales and not at retail. Here is the rough liquidity picture: Iron Man and Thor are the easiest finds (most-wanted for the characters, most produced), Hope and Constrictor are middle-tier, and the Steve Rogers variants are the thin end — not because they are expensive, but because nobody holds onto Captain America variants for thirteen years.
- Ghost Rider (Yellow Flame) — highest average in the wave at ~$42. Hasbro never reissued this exact deco and the yellow flame variant is legitimately harder to find sealed.
- Hope Summers — ~$27, driven by Terrax BAF completionism. Price holds as long as collectors are still building Terrax.
- Thor — ~$25. Common pull but consistently demanded. The market knows what it is.
- Constrictor, Iron Man — at or below retail loose. Serviceable figures, not destination buys.
Why a 2008 comic character from a cancelled run still has a market
Hope's market position is not about nostalgia in the usual sense. She is not a childhood character — she debuted when adult collectors were already collecting. What keeps her moving is the Krakoa era. Jonathan Hickman's House of X/Powers of X put the Mutant Messiah plot threads front and center again, and the Dawn of X finally gave Hope the role the original Messiah Complex promised: running the Five, the resurrection team that kept Xavier's nation alive. Collectors who read that run wanted the figure, and there is still only the one.
There is also no MCU version. The Krakoa books did not become a film, and Hope has never appeared in a Marvel movie or Disney+ series. That cuts both ways. No MCU bump means no massive new casual audience, but it also means no flood of new mass-market figures — what exists from 2012 is still what exists.
Should you buy this figure?
If you read Messiah Complex or the Krakoa-era X-Men, yes — she is the right figure for that shelf. One release, no reissue, a character with genuine history. At $25-30 loose, it is not a risk buy.
If you are building Terrax, factor her in early. The head is what BAF completers need and it is what sellers know to hold. Budget $30-35 for a clean Hope with the BAF piece, and less if you find one without it (the Terrax head is what carries the premium, not the figure itself).
If you are speculating: I would not. There is no MCU trigger coming, no announced new Marvel Legends Hope Summers that would create an anniversary demand spike on the original. The floor is stable. The ceiling is already priced in. Hold what you have if you have it, but do not buy at $40 expecting $80.
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