Constance "Clash" Montgomery™ was the first and only non-band member to be added to the Misfits, since Graphix was never added from the 1988 line. Originally like Video, Clash was going to come with a video camera that girls could look through, but her video camera would distort the image as you look through. The first time we see Clash she is not a videographer, but just a groupie who had bracelets with mini symbols on them. In the series her special talent was to disguise herself, first time to steal Jem’s equipment from the Starbright movie set, then as Jem herself and later Sarah to destroy her cousin Video’s carrier. When the doll was released she has a distortion modular, similar concept to her original video camera but Hasbro promoted her as a hologram distorter. Instead of her being Video’s nemesis, Hasbro was turning her into Synergy’s nemesis. That change made Clash feel similar to the Sunbow character Techrat. Clash was Video’s younger cousin. It’s not clear if that came from Hasbro, or not. But I’m pretty sure it did not and the family connection was developed by Christy Marx.

If you thought it was hard to follow Clash’s roll in the series, her hair and make-up is almost as difficult to follow. When Bill Sanders originally developed Clash she was to come with black hair with mylar streaks which should sound very similar because that is the hair Jetta came with. Clash’s fashion was going to be black and purple, so two tone similar to how Jetta was released. When we first see Clash in the series she had splotchy aqua and magenta hair, similar to Danse, but only two alternating colors. By the time the doll was released she had purple hair made up of pinkish purple and blueish purple streaks. The doll make-up also looked different, but it was only inverted in the cartoon, when the doll was released one element was removed. It is not clear if that make-up reversal was a mistake by Sunbow, a change in the make-up at Hasbro or a factory mistake Hasbro just ran with.

It seems Clash was intended for 1988 release like Video and Danse. She would have come in a smaller box and with less accessories and longer hair. Since the 1988 Misfits were canceled it is hard to know if they would have had the same US or North American distribution as the Holograms, but that seems likely. Clash would have been sold in an assortment with the new Misfits Graphix and brand new Pizzazz (new head mold, make-up and fashion).

Similar to the 1986 Fashions Assortments art

If the Misfits had not been dropped from the 1988 line early on, Clash might have had a Misfits version of the new smaller boxes, similar to Astral™. (to the right)