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Comic book fans typically express their love for their favorite characters in the form of cosplay, where dudes work all year on a cardboard Iron Man costume and wear it to Comic-Con to sweat even harder.
Henry Damon had a different idea.
The Caracas native wanted to take things a little farther, and through a series of increasingly disgusting plastic surgeries has transformed his appearance into a demented homage to Marvel arch-villain the Red Skull. (The below pic follows his transformation from normal human to comic book supervillain.)
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Since childhood, Damon has been obsessed with the Red Skull, and now he's finally taken the opportunity to make his obsession permanent. First he had a series of silicone implants placed into his forehead and brows, then his eyes tattooed a grisly black.
But it was the next step in his transformation that really put him over the edge. To fully capture the grisly features of the Red Skull, Damon had the cartilage and flesh of his nose removed, leaving his nostrils transformed into two vertical slits. He then covered most of his face with red and black tattoos to complete the effect.
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The man behind the changes is Emilio Gonzalez, a medical school dropout who shifted his focus to extreme body modification. He took an extensive survey of Damon's physiology to make sure that he could handle all of the changes to his face, but doesn't see anything wrong with his desire to emulate a famous fictional arch-villain.
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This isn't the first time somebody's gone to the doctor to transform themselves into a comic book character. Herbert Chavez, a Filipino man, has undergone 19 surgeries over 16 years to look as much like Superman as any mortal can. Starting at the age of 21, the formerly acne-ridden Chavez has received hip implants, a chin cleft, three nose jobs, multiple steroid injections and skin whitening in his quest to be the Man of Steel.
And, you know, we get that. Superman is an inspiration to humanity. He's supposed to represent the best in us, so modeling your physical appearance after him, while a little "outside the box," still makes sense.
Let's give you a little backstory on Henry Damon's favorite character. Born Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull has been bedeviling Captain America since March of 1941. During his late teens, Schmidt was working as a hotel bellhop when Hitler took an interest in him and decided to mold him into the "perfect National Socialist." As he rose through the ranks, he was given a fearsome red mask that made his head look like a crimson skull.
The Skull clashed with Cap and other heroes for decades, dying at least once. In the 1980s, he took a faceful of his trademark "dust of death" poison and, through the kind of irony that only happens in comic books, had his face disfigured to look pretty much exactly like his mask. Since then, he's committed a near-endless number of crimes against humanity, including mass murder.
So basically he's a murderous neo-Nazi who literally wants to kill the embodiment of freedom. He's a bad guy - one of the worst. And Damon is a guy with kids. How is he going to explain his appearance to them when they get older?
"You see, Daddy is really into an imaginary genocidal racist who is responsible for the deaths of thousands and once tried to transplant his consciousness into a fetus in the womb, oh, and he was Hitler's best friend."
Damon still has chin and cheek implants left to complete his look, which his surgeon hopes to do soon. We don't know if he has any plans to seize the Tesseract and bring on the Fourth Reich, but we hope not.
H/t CBR
Clik here to view.
Comic book fans typically express their love for their favorite characters in the form of cosplay, where dudes work all year on a cardboard Iron Man costume and wear it to Comic-Con to sweat even harder.
Henry Damon had a different idea.
The Caracas native wanted to take things a little farther, and through a series of increasingly disgusting plastic surgeries has transformed his appearance into a demented homage to Marvel arch-villain the Red Skull. (The below pic follows his transformation from normal human to comic book supervillain.)
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Since childhood, Damon has been obsessed with the Red Skull, and now he's finally taken the opportunity to make his obsession permanent. First he had a series of silicone implants placed into his forehead and brows, then his eyes tattooed a grisly black.
But it was the next step in his transformation that really put him over the edge. To fully capture the grisly features of the Red Skull, Damon had the cartilage and flesh of his nose removed, leaving his nostrils transformed into two vertical slits. He then covered most of his face with red and black tattoos to complete the effect.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
The man behind the changes is Emilio Gonzalez, a medical school dropout who shifted his focus to extreme body modification. He took an extensive survey of Damon's physiology to make sure that he could handle all of the changes to his face, but doesn't see anything wrong with his desire to emulate a famous fictional arch-villain.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
This isn't the first time somebody's gone to the doctor to transform themselves into a comic book character. Herbert Chavez, a Filipino man, has undergone 19 surgeries over 16 years to look as much like Superman as any mortal can. Starting at the age of 21, the formerly acne-ridden Chavez has received hip implants, a chin cleft, three nose jobs, multiple steroid injections and skin whitening in his quest to be the Man of Steel.
And, you know, we get that. Superman is an inspiration to humanity. He's supposed to represent the best in us, so modeling your physical appearance after him, while a little "outside the box," still makes sense.
Let's give you a little backstory on Henry Damon's favorite character. Born Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull has been bedeviling Captain America since March of 1941. During his late teens, Schmidt was working as a hotel bellhop when Hitler took an interest in him and decided to mold him into the "perfect National Socialist." As he rose through the ranks, he was given a fearsome red mask that made his head look like a crimson skull.
The Skull clashed with Cap and other heroes for decades, dying at least once. In the 1980s, he took a faceful of his trademark "dust of death" poison and, through the kind of irony that only happens in comic books, had his face disfigured to look pretty much exactly like his mask. Since then, he's committed a near-endless number of crimes against humanity, including mass murder.
So basically he's a murderous neo-Nazi who literally wants to kill the embodiment of freedom. He's a bad guy - one of the worst. And Damon is a guy with kids. How is he going to explain his appearance to them when they get older?
"You see, Daddy is really into an imaginary genocidal racist who is responsible for the deaths of thousands and once tried to transplant his consciousness into a fetus in the womb, oh, and he was Hitler's best friend."
Damon still has chin and cheek implants left to complete his look, which his surgeon hopes to do soon. We don't know if he has any plans to seize the Tesseract and bring on the Fourth Reich, but we hope not.
H/t CBR