Entire figure: Darklon
The Iron F.I.S.T. (Forced Infiltration Strike Team)
Darklon was sort of the black sheep of the McCullen family, always preferring brawn over brains, even into adulthood. Rather than follow much of his family to Ivy League colleges and business schools, he dropped out of high school and joined the Special Air Service out of Scotland.
But the long reach of James McCullen even went deep into the British military, and he pulled Darklon from active service, landing him a desk job. He thought he was doing his nephew a favor, but Darklon grew resentful, and actually became more determined than ever to start a fight where one did not exist, and grew to crave action even more than he had.
Darklon's cousin quickly gained notoriety in the arms dealer and manufacturing circuit, and he eagerly looked for family members and people he trusted to work by his side. Darklon and Destro had always been fairly close, so Darklon confided in Destro that he had no desire to work boardrooms and meetings. Destro swore to him that the type of person he was looking for would not be sitting behind a desk.
Darklon joined Destro's side, working behind the scenes for a while, but once Destro formed the Iron Grenadiers, Darklon became a high-ranking member. But again, he started to get shoe-horned into a management role, and began again to get restless and spiteful. Destro's conflict with COBRA Commander was taking a front seat, but Destro promised Darklon that if he stuck with it for a little while, he would arrange for a position more to his liking. Darklon begrudgingly agreed.
Soon afterwards, Destro became an unwitting pawn of COBRA Commander, thanks to his mind-control device, the Brainwave Scanner, and Darklon sat by while his cousin became engulfed once again in the COBRA cause. However, even under COBRA Commander's strict control, Destro remembered the deal he had made his cousin...he arranged for a hapless decoy to be placed in Darklon's uniform while he destroyed his castle with a missile. As COBRA Commander celebrated a victory and Darklon's death, the real Darklon was slipping unnoticed into the European underworld.
A few years later, the two cousins met back up, after Destro had regained his composure and his control over his mind. Per their agreement, Darklon had fallen in with some of Destro's compatriots and had been training with the Iron Grenadiers in the ways of hand to hand battle, strategic planning, and armed combat. Darklon's foundation in the SAS helped with this training, and soon enough, he was a skilled combatant and a competent field commander. Destro put him in command of his "Iron F.I.S.T." team, a top secret Black Ops branch of the Iron Grenadiers designed to do the dirty work that Destro did not want his troops to be seen doing. Darklon leads a team of highly skilled Annihilators who participate in secret military operations against rivals and even against governments of the world. Darklon excels at his position and is finally happy doing what he does.
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I've always been a big Darklon fan, but like everyone else, I had questions about his color. I've recently discovered the joys of RIT Dye, and slapped a black base on the figure, then spiced it up with some gold and red paint.
