This is the weird place for me, being more into my tween/teen years when DEF and Eco-Warriors came out, because I was still “playing” with my toys (like I’ve ever stopped, ha ha), but my “storylines” got much MUCH darker. Like I remember staying up watching New Jack City while playing with my DEFs/Headhunters, playing out really grim Robocop-style scenarios with Robo-JOE and Cyber-Vipers, massive torture scenes with the Interrogator, and pre-Resident Evil bio-horror with Cesspool and company. The figures were brighter (not the Headhunter faction, they were grim as fuck), but my *mind* was darker, so the 90s villains went to much more neo-noir and action-horror places for me. Even the trad-military stuff played dark as hell with me, being in Gulf War era with all the “shine” rubbed off the military for me. Neon 90s ARAH was definitely not bright and sunny for me, and I loved that.