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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

It's basically a way to cheat the system and put out more figures per wave. Retailers will only buy waves of so many figures, but they're not especially picky about variants. So by putting multiple characters under one name, they can get two or three more characters per wave without technically going past the number of units retailers want in an assortment. It only seems to work with less widely known characters. You won't see Spider-man passed off as a variant for example, he's too well-known.

Ah... clever.