Company : Blue Box International
Series : Elite Force Terminate
Character : “Scar”
Year : 2000
Ages : 14 & Up
Item # : 34273
Barcode # : 0211342734
“An ex Navy Seal who was discharged from the service for conduct un-becoming.
During one of his missions, things went horribly wrong killing some of his team and leaving him with a hideous scar.
He blames the Seals and not himself and has changed his name to Scar to remind him of his hatred.
He works with Carlos for the sole purpose of vengeance.
He is a very twisted individual and his Seal training makes him a very skilled and dangerous adversary.”
There was a time where I thought this doll was VERY cool. Look, it was the 2000’s and I was playing a lot of Metal Gear and reading Tom Clancey. I was a very dumb person who thought they were pretty smart.
So I loved the idea of a doll that fetishized military tech detail. I liked not only the detail on the guns and flash bangs and such (“ohh, look at the tiny text!” “ahh, the little safety on the gun!”) but what those specific gear choices said about the doll. All the coded language of a skeletal-stock AK with a Russian grenade launcher, the vaguely Arabic scarf, the very airport paperback camp of his “the monster we created!” vengeful SEAL backstory.
Such perfect contrarianism on my part too. “Yes, I do want this doll celebrating the military industrial complex and gun manufacturers and authoritarian military structures… But I want the bad guy one!” This is a recurring pattern of behavior. When I was a child I liked the COBRA toys more than the Joes.
There are still things I like about this doll – but I can no longer imagine a time in my life when I took it seriously. “He changed his name to remind him of his hatred”? Jesus Christ, just put a bullet in me.
The Toy Archivist 