The Greatness of Wikipedia.
Posted on June 16, 2008 by giant steps
In a discussion with friends today, we were reminiscing on G.I. Joe and the conversation steered towards Destro’s chrome-dome and why exactly he wore it. No one seemed to know the answer, so I naturally turned to the source of information that never lets me down.
“Born in Callander, Scotland, Destro’s full name is James McCullen Destro XXIV, and is Laird of Castle Destro in the Scottish Highlands. The Destro clan has designed and sold weapons for centuries, and Destro is the head of their current incarnation: M.A.R.S. (Military Armament Research Syndicate). He wears a mask forged from Beryllium Steel, a tradition dating back to the English Civil War, when an ancestor of his was caught selling weapons to both sides. Forced to wear a steel mask for his crimes (neither side wanted to execute the ancestor because they still wanted the weapons he sold), the Destro clan has since turned it into a symbol of pride, passing it down from father to son for over 20 generations.”
Tons more information is available on his Wikipedia page. On that note, has anyone else wondered how people have the time to do this kind of extensive research on their own time without any sort of compensation other than the gratefulness of comic book nerds worldwide?
This is completely unrelated to the above topic but I really like this music video someone spliced together out of old Destro clips, set to Notorious B.I.G’s “Get Money.”
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