Vance Wingfield posed as Destro when the real one was bed-ridden with an illness.
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71 Facts About Vance Wingfield
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Vance Wingfield was meant to be as an enemy to Rocky Balboa, from the Rocky films, even coming with boxing gloves, but the Rocky character was never released as an action figure.
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Vance Wingfield decides to try and take over Cobra by use of a disintegration gun prototype; he is stopped by a bullet in the leg and the theft of the gun.
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Vance Wingfield was selected from the Range Vipers and has seamlessly fit into the unit.
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Vance Wingfield was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and was first released as an action figure in 1991, as part of the Eco-Warriors line.
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Vance Wingfield suffers an accident, dropping him into chemical sludge.
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Vance Wingfield acquires a scar running down the right side of his face, leaving him blind in that eye.
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Vance Wingfield finds Cesspool is dying of cancer due to past exposure to toxins.
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Vance Wingfield served Cobra in South and Central America, before severing ties and becoming a mercenary, but still functions as a Cobra field operative.
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Vance Wingfield later began to abundantly stock Cobra Island's maze-like system of shallow canals and interconnecting waterways, with ravenously hungry man-eating crocodiles, deliberately conditioning them to be hostile, psychotic and fast.
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Vance Wingfield is the seventh son of a seventh son, born of a Romanian father, and an American mother from Bangor, Maine.
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Vance Wingfield's skills allow them to pass through the Joe-provided security with minimal violence.
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Vance Wingfield later appears in the first issue of the Devil's Due Storm Shadow series.
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Vance Wingfield is working with the Night Creepers, whose business conflicts with the ninja's efforts.
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Vance Wingfield appears in a dream sequence in a Devil's Due Special Missions one-shot.
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Vance Wingfield wears a special helmet that gives a special view of the enemy target.
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Vance Wingfield is able to fire with a marksman's accuracy and reload very quickly.
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Vance Wingfield was released as an action figure in 2004, packaged with the Cobra Pulverizer battle suit, as part of the Valor vs Venom line.
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Vance Wingfield has learned how to hunt and track in the most unforgiving environment on Earth.
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Vance Wingfield successfully completed a mission to bring back an experimental mutagen after the lab techs escaped with their research and materials by mutating his own men to earn the promotion.
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Vance Wingfield's birthplace is Montego Bay, Jamaica, and he was first released as an action figure in 1993, as part of the Battle Corps line.
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Vance Wingfield spent months training to join the group known as the "Headhunters".
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Vance Wingfield spent time as the "right hand man" to crime lords, who operated illegal warehouses disguised as legit comedy clubs.
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Vance Wingfield became a Cobra Eel, quickly rising in rank due to his ruthlessness.
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Vance Wingfield designed the Plague training program and selected the unit's members.
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Vance Wingfield is a clone of Hannibal, who was created alongside Serpentor by Dr Mindbender, using the original's DNA and aged a few years.
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Vance Wingfield escaped his foster family to reunite the other Serpentor clones along with Dr Mindbender, and served in the Coil under Serpentor, until being taken into custody after their defeat.
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Vance Wingfield now serves as a general in Cobra, seeking to help Cobra Commander conquer the world.
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Vance Wingfield is willing to sacrifice his own men to win a battle.
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Vance Wingfield was first released as an action figure in 1992, as part of the DEF line.
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Vance Wingfield created a drug empire based on paramilitary standards.
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Vance Wingfield's drug peddling forces come into conflict with the Joes' "Drug Enforcement Force", which includes Bullet-Proof, Mutt, and Shockwave.
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Vance Wingfield appears the Devil's Due comics in Special Missions: Brazil where he is captured by the Joes.
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Vance Wingfield is the main villain of a two-part episode "The Greatest Evil".
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Vance Wingfield intended to break with family tradition of being mad scientists, but was kicked out of school for cybernetic experiments.
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Vance Wingfield sees himself as a pure scientist and is oblivious to his own insanity.
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Vance Wingfield eventually takes part in the final battle between Joe and Cobra in a hidden base in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Vance Wingfield uses Stall's shame at being a called a coward because of a false video tape showing him running from his fellow soldiers.
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Vance Wingfield even managed to prove himself to Cobra Commander when he managed to ferret out a "traitor" in their ranks.
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Vance Wingfield is captured by the Joes and later sent to the Coffin prison in Greenland.
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Vance Wingfield is among the prisoners freed by Tomax and later battles the Joes in Mexico.
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Vance Wingfield is suspected of being a former Crimson Guard member.
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Vance Wingfield advocated 'traditional Cobra values' but this was just to mask his own personal grab for power.
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Vance Wingfield later goes to work for the Jugglers, who send him to Duke's secret base in Iceland.
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Vance Wingfield became obsessed with the avian bloodsport, and discovered that by breeding bigger and stronger birds, and equipping them with steel-tipped talons, they were capable of attacking much more profitable game.
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Vance Wingfield divulged this information to Dr Mindbender, bringing the Cobra scientist to the Commander's supposed burial site.
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Vance Wingfield takes part in a raid on a hospital to kidnap Baroness's baby.
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Vance Wingfield is modeled after the professional wrestler Roddy Piper.
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Vance Wingfield continues his training under Storm Shadow, but spies on him for Cobra Commander.
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Vance Wingfield's greatest strength is his greatest weakness, as he is a lone wolf, preferring to operate alone as opposed to teaming with another or using troops.
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Vance Wingfield worked up the ranks of Cobra's Range Vipers, by being the most vicious of the bunch.
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Vance Wingfield is eventually freed alongside several others, during an assault on The Coffin led by Tomax.
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Vance Wingfield then had a career robbing patrons of rooftop restaurants and escaping via gliders.
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Vance Wingfield then organized the "Night Vultures", a covert air recon unit, which he commands.
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Vance Wingfield takes part in a raid on a hospital to kidnap Baroness's baby.
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Vance Wingfield is described as a lethal warrior with a mantis-like grace and a complete lack of humanity.
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Vance Wingfield is a calculated strategist who is incredibly conceited about his success.
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Vance Wingfield's parents worked hard to support him and his brother, who was killed in the Black Hawk down incident, which changed his worldview to a more radical position.
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Vance Wingfield was personally recruited and influenced by Cobra Commander himself.
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Vance Wingfield was recruited to the Plague due to his modifying his equipment from a targeting system to an offensive laser weapon system.
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Vance Wingfield is well liked by the rest of Plague due to his friendly personality and sense of humor.
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Vance Wingfield is very powerful, difficult to control, and possesses a reptilian focus, insect drive, and mammalian bloodlust.
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Vance Wingfield is affiliated with the Iron Grenadiers as Destro's general and debuted as a toy in 1988.
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Vance Wingfield grew up in the swamps of New Orleans before joining up with the Cobra Organization.
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Vance Wingfield has extensive knowledge of close support aircraft, ranging from jury-rigged civilian conversions, to state-of-the-art flying machines armed with laser-guided missiles and ECM pods.
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Vance Wingfield wears a red flight suit with a helmet that hides his face.
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Vance Wingfield was the leader of the Strike First militia group, which was based in Montana.
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Joe revealed it to be a Cobra training facility, where Wingfield was plotting to detonate a nuclear warhead on Russian soil, in order to initiate World War III.
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Joe, and Vance Wingfield was presumed dead, when he was shot in the back by his wife Shary.
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Vance Wingfield was first released as an action figure in 2008, which was available in two different variations, the standard version, and a translucent blue version demonstrating his invisibility field.
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