Grinning Darns Army

"But there is one army that keeps wanting to disturb the tranquility of one city...an army not belonging to any country, but to a mad professor....the Army of Grinning Darns!"

- Noitu Love's intro

The Grinning Darns Army, oftenly refered just as Army of the Grinning Darns, is a private terrorist organization whose purpose is to destroy Omicron City, mankind, and the world. They are the principal antagonist of the 2005-2009 beat'em up, hack and slash, platform point and click Noitu Love games, created by Joakim Sandbeg (that also created the famous Iconoclasts)

Story
The Grinning Darns Army was founded around 2188 or before, by the evil scientist Darnacus Damnation as his personal army. It is formed purely of Darnacus' robots, The Grinning Darns, or simply Darns, as humans are not allowed in it except from Darnacus himself. The Darns follow some of type of hierarchy among them, so, along to Darnacus to control every Darn without trouble he created Smartest Darns that served at his tophead generals. They terrorized Omicron City for years, but the protective organization Peacekeepers League and their star hero Noitu Love always ended with their plans. However, Darnacus and their generals plotted a plan that would end with Noitu and the civilization forever, planning to turn every citizen of Omicron City in monkeys using a forbidden technology. However, that plan ended up in Darnacus demise and presumpted death, and the remaining Darns were either desactivated or destroyed, thus ending with the army.

(For more information of the in-game story of the first game, see Darnacus)

Revival and rise of the New Darns
Even after Darnacus dissapearence, their headquarters were untrackable thanks to their defense A.I system, '''Tango Source. '''After the armie's destruction, Tango runned amok as she had no master, and plotted a revenge against mankind. He used old data of Darnacus' Darns to mass produce a version of hers, a more powerful, resistant and smart kind of Darn, called New Darns. Also, he revived the old generals that served his master., with new, powerful bodies according to the New Darns' design. With the help of the already revived Grinsley Gunsborough, they started their corrupt funds again, gaining new weaponry and vehicles. The Army was again on the loose, but this time, they went on a more homicidal, genocidal way. However, when Tango got destroyed forever, the fate of the army stays unknown. But with their generals destroyed again, it is likely that the remaining Darns were deactivated, ending with the armie's reign of terror for good.

Darns
They are low-height, crazed, aggressive robots that are mass produced by Darnacus. They are not to strong, but what they lack in strenght they got in numbers, as there are almost an infinite amount of them. They aren't also very smart (specially Darn Dimwits that were programed as dumb for some reason), needing some sort of Darn Leader to give them orders, however, there are strongest Darns than others, being the most powerful ones the generals. It is unknown if they have the ability to talk, as they are often mute, and only the generals are showing speaking. His trademark characteristic are metalic lines carved in the bottom of their faces, shaped as a grin, that gives them their name. Also, they come in different classes and hierarchys, everyone with a different role. This are the basic ones:

Normal Red Darns are the most common of them. thanks to his numbers they can overpower easily amount of armies and armed men. Their only attack are his metallic punchs, a poor weapon that makes them weak if they are alone.They can also use artillery, as seen by Darn Duo, a two-cannon turret controlled by two normal Red Darns.

Hyper Darns are a variation of the normal Darn. They have the same design, but with a brilliant purple-lilac color. They also use their punch, but this variation punches' are more powerful and damaging than normal Darn ones.

Darn Nitwits, as his name suggest, are just flying yellow Darn heads with a propeller on the top. They have no weapons, and only attack by bashing on the player.

Darn Scoundrels are more of the assassin type. They are green, human-sized Darns that attack with knives and bombs. They are more smart than normal Darns, as they are used for sneaking missions. They can turn invisible to ambush their foes, as well as having stunt skills.

Darn Bastards, like Darn Duo are artillery, but this one can go for its own. They are big grey Darn heads with a cannon on the top that shots bombs. They are very popular in warfare missions.

Darn Nincompoop are kitten-shaped blue Darns that shot some sort of laser sphere from their mouth. Their real motive of existence is unknown.

Darn Dimwits are perhaps the most important part of the Darn army, as they are one of the few Darns that are programmed to use vehicles and machines without ruining it or destroying themselves. They are conehead orange Darns that always wear an orange cloak. Despite of that, as their name suggest, Darnacus programmed them to have a dumb personality, oftenly talking with a decaying english or the language they are programmed to talk. They can also attack with weird, sphere like bombs coming out of their cape. The Darns in charge of them are the Practitioners of Dim, that are no longer dumb, but they still trend into talking in a poor, engrish accent. Despite being specialized in vehicles, they are not the only ones that can use them (just like the Darned Eagles from the second game, Darn Fab an ​​​​​​​Sleeper Breakman.

There are special Darns that serves specific generals, such as the Darn Piece of Crap and The Grin Reaper that serve O2-JOY, or Darn Served that works for Grinsley, but they will not be listed here.