The mask is the fight. A perfect oval eye with the licensed ratio reads as a copy even if the rest of the page is a farmyard gag. We widen the eye, break the stitch line, or let a caption sit on the brow like a plaster.
Belt pouches are the second tell. Official figures stack them like product photography. A parody belt can be wrong on purpose: one pouch labelled with a joke, a missing buckle, a kitchen spatula where a grenade would sit.
Katanas need a decision before pencils. Crossed on the back is the poster pose. One blade used as a pointing device is a cover pose. Two blades that match a toy exactly is a stall we refuse.
Speech is part of costume on this character. If the mouth cannot open, the caption has to do the talking, and the caption has to be visibly unofficial in lettering weight. We use a hand-cut balloon, not a house font from a film poster.
Bring a figure you own to the briefing if you like. We will still change three things on it. That is the point of paying for a parody rather than scanning the blister pack.