Born in Callander, Scotland, Destro’s full name is James McCullen Destro XXIV, and he is Laird of Castle Destro in the Scottish Highlands. The Destro clan designed and sold weapons for centuries, and Destro is the head of their current incarnation: M.A.R.S. He wears a mask forged from Beryllium Steel, a tradition dating back to the English Civil War, when an ancestor of his tried to intervene in a war between the English and the Scots. Forced to wear a steel mask for his meddling (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.