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Character Portraits done for Renegade Game Studios new game 'G.I.JOE: Battle for the Arctic', available for pre-order now!
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Profiles in Villainy
Destro
James McCullen Destro XXIV, usually referred to simply as Destro, is an international illegal arms smuggler and manufacturer, operating with utmost secrecy, out of his ancestral castle in Scotland.
The silver mask Destro wears is his most distinctive feature. It is forged from Beryllium steel. For centuries, the Destro clan designed and sold weapons. In an incident dating back to the English Civil War, an ancestor of his was caught selling weapons to both sides. He was forced to wear a steel mask for his crimes (neither side were willing to execute him because they still wanted his weapons). Rather than taking it as a sign of shame, the Destro clan turned it into a symbol of pride. The patriarchs passed it down as tradition from father to son for over 20 generations.
As the central supplier of weapons to the terrorist organization, Cobra, Destro has battled against the forces of G.I.Joe on countless occasions. Although a mercenary through and through, Destro has even aided the Joes when it aligned with his self-interests.
Actor Arthur Napier Burghardt provided the voice of Destro; first appearing int he debut episode of G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero, airing on September 12th, 1983.
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October 1983. That's it, that's the show — Cobra Commander (left) and his cadre of opportunists, mountebanks, and scoundrels plot against each other in a scene from G.I. JOE #16. The punchline:
You might well ask what the Commander is planning to do with that wine glass, since he's wearing a full-face helmet. Writer Larry Hama addresses just that point eight issues later, in G.I. JOE #24:
This is really the thing that has kept this ridiculous series alive (it was later revived by other publishers, and recently passed issue #300): Larry Hama's weird sense of humor and flair for eccentricity. The plots are frequently not much and the heroes are mostly no deeper than the plastic action figures on which they're based, but the ludicrous villains are consistently entertaining.
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