Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for BarbieGreta Gerwig’s Barbie absolutely destroyed the summer box office.
Margot Robbie proved to be the best Barbie we could ever ask for, and the same goes for Ryan Gosling’s Ken.
Gosling’s Ken was far from the only one in the movie, though.
Barbie was sure to feature a number of Mattel creations that you’ve heard of, or in most cases, Mattel really hoped you scrubbed from your memory.
Many of these maligned Mattel creations are delightfully infamous.
There’s Allan (Michael Cera), the lone outcast among a sea of Kens, and the “Happy Family” version of Midge (Emerald Fennell), whose pregnant belly recalls the chest-buster scene from Alien more than it does a living human woman.
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