GI Joe

the comic origins is boring.

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The toyline interfered with the storyline. Hasbro created Serpentor and wanted him in the show, and then later Cobra Commander became a snake man.

>>94740143
>Doug Walker makes a video /co/ related
>/co/ claims to hate him but promptly makes a thread anyway

>>94740205
T non comic-reader
>>94740143
he was a Vietnam veteran who failed at selling used cars and began a homegrown terrorist organization

>>94740279
>>94740143
Basically this.

The comic writers refused to incorporate Cobra-La into the comics, it was the last straw.

>>94740143
I like to think that snakeman Cobra Commander is an imposter and the real one was like the one from the comics.

>>94740143
The cartoons did whatever the hell they wanted and they were based on the comic but didn't necessarily followed it.

Like Duke for example, Hama didn't make Duke and he disliked the character.

>>94741043
>he was a Vietnam veteran who failed at selling used cars and began a homegrown terrorist organization
Seriously?

Here’s what happened (and it goes back to what I was saying about the inherent absurdity in certain ideas): At the start of the second season I proposed a story that would have been called “The Most Dangerous Man In The World”. The premise was that Cobra had been holding a mysterious prison in isolation in a secret cell; when he escapes Cobra immediately suspends all operations around the world and begins an intensive search for him. The Joes also begin searching, not knowing who the prisoner is but figuring he must be potentially harmful to Cobra. They get him first and discover he is the Karl Marx / Friedrich Nietzsche of Cobra, the man who created their basic philosophy but who, when he saw how Cobra Commander was misapplying it, criticized Cobra’s leadership and earned their enmity since he’s the only one capable of invalidating their whole raison d’etre. The Joes soon learn he is a prickly and obnoxious sort and in the end when he escapes from them they let him go, figuring he’s more of a threat to Cobra than he is to the rest of the world.

>>94741703

To my delight, Sunbow and Hasbro accepted the idea but before I could begin work on it they told me there was a new character being added to the line-up: Cobra Emperor a.k.a. Serpentor.
I said, “Excuse me?” and asked how he fit into the Cobra chain of command. He’s the supreme leader, they said. I said, “Excuse me?” again and pointed out that we had done nothing to date to indicate there was anyone above Cobra Commander in the line-up and that we couldn’t very well drop him in without explanation. They mulled it over and told me to come up with a suitable origin.

So I developed two ideas. The first, the one I favored, would have Cobra create Serpentor from the DNA of history’s greatest military leaders as a replacement for Cobra Commander’s ineptitude. The other was that there was a heretofore unknown larger, even more secret organization that used Cobra as a pawn. I turned both ideas in. A few days later they called and said great, do it. “Which one?” I asked. Both, sez they.

Well, that pretty much torpedoed “The Most Dangerous Man In The World” because if Cobra was founded and secretly run by a mysterious organization, they wouldn’t go about drawing attention to themselves by proclaiming their philosophy.

>>94741724

So the creation of Serpentor became the plot for the 2nd season opening mini-series, and the story of the super secret organization behind Cobra would become the movie. Now the question became one of where the super secret mysterious organization was located. Since Sunbow and Hasbro didn’t want this organization to be identified with any known country, I suggested it be located in some remote part of the world like Antarctica, the Sahara, or the Himalayas. They liked the Himalayas and then I made my fatal mistake: So that we would know what we were referring to when we wanted to talk about the secret organization, I gave them a placeholder name of “Cobra-La” thinking surely no one would accept that as the final name.

Guess what: They did. (My advice to other writers is never ever come up with a placeholder name you’re not prepared to live with.)

So there you have it: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

>http://alonefancryinginthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-archives-my-animated-conversation.html

>>94741661
Yes

>>94741661
Actually, IIRC it was his brother who was the Vietnam vet; but the used car salesman bit is accurate.

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>>94741661

>>94741821

He went kinda crazy when his brother died in a car crash (the other car containing a young Snake Eyes, incidentally).

>>94740917
People talk about GI Joe on this board pretty often, anon.

>>94741751
Cobra La was annoying because after hyping up Serpentor for so long HE gets made a minion himself for Golobulous. Also, it threw a wrench in what was clearly a coup plot by Cobra Commander

>>94741882
Sounds very gay
>>94741854
This Cobra Commander seems like a fun guy

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>>94741927
Cobra Commander is always a fun guy.

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Remember that time Cobra Commander was an old man complaining about how terrorism was so much better in his days?
>>94741951
But I heard that he kicks puppies

>>94740279
I wanna fuck pythona

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>>94742009
Old Snake was a cool guy.

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Did you know that most cobra commander's va's also voiced starscream. Also cover girl was impregnated by a transformer

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>>94742101
It is a strange world in which they live.

>>94742148
What is this

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>>94742188
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

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>>94742235

>>94741882

The other car contained Snake Eyes' parents and sister. Everyone died and Cobra Commander blamed Snakes Eyes.

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>>94742272
>CC with a snake head

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>>94742029
I'll stick with Jinx, less risk of being dissolved by acid claws

>>94742392

Well, he WAS once a man...

>>94742417
Oh yeah? Well how do you explain the heels then, the heels that are almost as tall as the ones that baroness has on her

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>>94742397

>>94742459

Well he has to coordinate, doesn't he?

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>>94740143
This movie is such bullshit, even for it's time.

Cobra-La wants to exterminate humanity through a mutagen but the Cobra Army consists entirely of human beings (including Serpentor), yet they still obey them despite having nothing to gain from that plan and everything to lose. The only member of Cobra who could have benefited from it, Cobra Commander, is mutated anyway as a punishment.

No wonder it was basically ignored for all future projects, it's so fucking retarded and at odds with what came before...

>>94741102

It's just two different continuities, anon. It's like how the Transformers comic and cartoon versions of Shockwave were completely different characters.

>>94742506
but that intro tho

>>94742506
Actually there was a new series that counties after the movies. Where CC is still a snake and Serpentor was in charge of Cobra

Until the old crew turned CC back (while still having some mutations) and then CC turned Serpentor into a snake.
>>94742496
Well when you put it like that

>>94740143

The comic version of Cobra Commander didn't have his origin revealed until years into the series, mostly during the time he was believed dead. The cartoon origin may actually have been revealed first.

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>He's in a Coma

>>94742704
>He has woken up from his Coma
But honestly who gave a shit about Duke? Flint was better

>>94742704
Duke dying to save his shithead baby brother would've worked 80s babies into a shoot even harder than Prime's death did

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>>94742748
Remember when they called up Flint for orders, and he was just standing around on the roof with Lady Jaye and Scarlett in swimsuits?

>>94742567
>Actually there was a new series that counties after the movies. Where CC is still a snake and Serpentor was in charge of Cobra
>Until the old crew turned CC back (while still having some mutations) and then CC turned Serpentor into a snake.
So basically, they just shit on Serpentor and admits CC was right about his suckiness?

>>94742795

More like Hasbro had more CC toys to sell.

>>94740143
>>94742506
>>94742534
If CC had a shitload of eyes and needed that metal plate see, why could he just wear a simple hood?

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>>94742867
I think the extra eyes came from his second exposure to the mutation spores.

>>94742903
if I remember right they were showed popping out the first time he was exposed in the flashback about him

>>94742788
He was scouting for drones

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>>94742926
I'll take your word for it. I don't feel like watching the movie to double check.

>>94742966
luckily we have youtube
https://youtu.be/nT_KSx3hRCc?t=2m22s

>>94743086
If only CC raised the argument that humanity was much stronger then expected

>>94742795

The original cartoon, made by Sunbow, ended with the movie in 1987. A 3rd season was planned, but they lost the license to DiC.

The DiC cartoon didn't start until 1989, and focused on characters who were part of the toy line at the time (plus Scarlett, Lady Jaye, the Baroness and Zarana, due to a lack of new female toys).

The DiC cartoon followed on from the Sunbow series, and tried to maintain continuity with it, so Serpentor appeared in the opening episodes, despite his toy no longer being in production, so Cobra Commander could return and mount a coup.

Serpentor was 'temporarily' turned into an iguana, leaving it open for him to return Hasbro made a new figure.

> So basically, they just shit on Serpentor and admits CC was right about his suckiness?

It's more like Cobra Commander takes over, and then Cobra become a group of idiots who are no threat to children.

>>94742931
He was a robot?

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Is Sigma 6 any good?

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>>94743234
He was a man.

>>94740143
>Why was he given a lovecraftian snake origin? What was wrong with his backstory in the comics?
Transformers vs GI Joe handled Cobra Commander's origin best in my opinion, he starts out with his Marvel origin, but as Cobra grows ends up discovering the remnants of Cobra La and integrating it's technology and belief systems(and some surviving members of the civilization) into that of Cobra the organization

as well as eventually turning himself into

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>>94743281
How does baroness interrogate her captives

>>94741043
Sounds like General Bethlehem of the Holnists in Postman.

>>94742101
>>94742148
>>94742235
>>94742272
Why is this art so repulsive?

>>94743671

Serpentor has the greatest interrogation technique of all time.

https://youtu.be/47iAjCnyPPU?t=1m22s

>>94744183
Because your taste is shit.

>>94743177

It also went down the eco friendly craze a lot of cartoons did in it's last season to promote the 'Eco Force' toys.

Also I didn't get why Gnawgahyde and Metalhead was in every fucking episode at one point, Metalhead even in the arcade game as a boss.

>>94745281
Metalhead was great though.

Especially since Garry Chalk of all people voiced him,

>>94745281

It got really weird at the end.

Ninja Force, Eco Force, Tiger Force, Star Brigade...

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>>94746567

Were the Lunartix aliens the weirdest it got?

>>94746686

Only because they cancelled the Manimals.

>>94746686
Lobotomax

>>94746686

Hm, Lobotomaxx...

You guys ever see Laserblast?

>>94743086
Why the heck didn't Cobra take Snake Eyes' sword?

>>94746567

>That time in 1990 when the toy ads were pushing Sgt Slaughter and Overlord as the leaders of GI Joe and Cobra

https://youtu.be/TvIOS_QW3gA

>>94742272
>>94742235
>>94742148
>>94742101


can't even post the most insane sequel-hook because of the content.

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>>94741063
>The comic writers

There was only one anon...and he was enough.

>>94747835
>Why the heck didn't Cobra take Snake Eyes' sword?

Why the fuck didn't they take his grenades?!?

Do you guys prefer the helmet or hood?

>>94740143
The first season of the cartoon teased a lot of things too.

Like the time Destro walked in on Cobra Commander eating and it grossed him out seeing him without a mask.

And the fake interview where CC was talking about all the various nation uprisings he was a part of.

what was Destro backstory anyway, why was he made of metal

>>94741854
>Destro
>White
dropped

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>>94747836
And a year later Sgt Slaughter allied with Irak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yru-bIqX0WQ

>>94741854
>>94741927

Yeah, this seems as much a setup for a wacky Destro/CC shenanigans story as much as anything else.

Like the whole thing should end up about being them trying to get Dr. Mindbender laid.

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>>94751119
Scottish ancestor was a dick. So he was forced to wear a mask

>>94751147
James McCullen Destro XXIV is a Scot.

>>94741854
>his master plan involves being aboveboard and non-forged legal documents
damn

Cobra Commander had the best plan ever about how to ruin Christmas

>>94751147
>>94752839
there's a fucking reason they got Eccleston to play him

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>>94752876
The shrink ray plan?

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>>94753576
>>94753585

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>>94753610

>>94753626
That episode was fucked up. Poor shipwreck

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>>94753645

>>94753626
>>94753657
a fucking nightmare

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>>94753675
Sure was toasty

>>94751119
Scottish Lord that supplied arms to the loyalist and rebel factions in the English civil war, got caught doing so and forced to wear the face mask (can't kill him he had the good shit). Later gens started the arms trading company and kept the mask to hide their identity and family tradition. the Destro we know is like the 20th one

>>94753585
>tiny parachutes

dying

>>94747987
it was a published comic book it cant be that bad
or is it
ponies

>>94752876

My favorite Cobra plot was when they tried to steal a space shuttle by throwing a rope net over it during the launch.

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>>94754586
Nothing beats Cobra Commander stealing advanced technology just so he can carve his face in the moon. What makes it better is how pissed off it made Destro.

The Commander was insane and I love him for it.

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Preview de GI Joe #8

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>>94754747

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>>94754768

>>94754768
Why is everyone fat

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>>94754781

>>94740143
I just realized that Cobra was just a bunch of reptilians. something something conspiracy, who knows of reptilian origins here?

>>94754651

>Ring ring.
>Ring ring.
>Hello?
>Issss thisss Chairface?
>Speaking.
>Look out the window.
>Wh- oh, son of a bitch!
>AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

>>94742029
The V.A. for Pythona also voiced Irma from TMNT '87 and Princess Aeka from Tenchi Muyo

>>94754883
>capoera
>a legitimate fighting style

Oh i am laughin.

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>>94751147

Destro's original costume had that open collar exposing his chest. How do you not notice he's White?

>>94748935

The one glaring error in the movie (aside from where Firefly and Zartan disappear to, I guess), was that they never changed the character-models to fully disarm the captive Joes of any knives, pistols, and grenades they had strapped to their uniforms, and the same thing happens when the Renegades are supposed to be going on a mission with no weapons.

>>94745068
its a pity, had the movie had a higher age rating, it coulda had a much better torture scene, that was just pitiful

>>94748244

He was absolutely right to refuse to use Cobra-La in the comics, it would have permanently changed the tone and direction of the series. But anyone who claims it was too weird for the cartoon was clearly not watching that show.

>>94752858
Seems like he had his shit together before trying to be M. Bison 1.0...

>>94755112
It's not, against skilled opponents. Landing Capoeira techniques in a real fight just shows how good you are. So this kid is apparently The Shit (tm). What issue is this?

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>>94742009
>>94742059
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDwTDndm4b8

>>94755487

It's an animated movie aimed at children, and a super-strong guy is slapping a normal human in the face, and you actually see blood.

That's probably as good as you're going to get from a GI Joe cartoon interrogation or torture scene, anon.

>>94743281
There was some nice action early on but I couldn't get past the stupid kid and robot dog they needed to shoehorn in.

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>>94754390
>robots

>>94755513
>e
Get rid of the stupid turtleneck.

>>94754586

The best part is that it was actually working, too.

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Scarlett is best girl

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>>94758363
Lady Jaye > Scarlett

>>94740143
Your mistake is to think they are contradictory.

>>94753657
What was the deal with shipwreck's wife

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>>94758460
She was a Cobra trooper turned into a mermaid. She went into hiding and then later Cobra tricked Shipwreck into thinking he was married to her. Turned out she was a pile of goo made to look like a person.

Unironically tell me why does Cobra Commander wear the mask.

>>94742009
What episode/season? Sounds great

>>94758545
I thought he had a real wife though

>>94758590
https://youtu.be/NuFngsb0wD4

>>94740143
Executive meddling. Thankfully it's never been referenced since in any other continuity.

>>94752839
>>94755425
>Scots
>white

>>94753657
That was probably the scariest fucking episode I've ever seen as a kid.

NEW G.I. JOE AND TRANSFORMERS HUMBLE BUNDLE:

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>>94758798
Fanboys tend to dismiss everything from the 80s as the dark age of animation but sometimes writers had fun

>>94742506
>Cobra-La wants to exterminate humanity through a mutagen but the Cobra Army consists entirely of human beings (including Serpentor), yet they still obey them despite having nothing to gain from that plan and everything to lose.

Yeah, it kind of annoyed me that Destro for example was eagerly going along with Cobra-la's plan when in the past he wasn;t afraid to call out Cobra Commander on some his more stupid plans..Then there are Zartan and the Dreadnoks, mercs who aren't afraid to screw over Cobra if it'll be more profitable for them. Yet somehow it never occurred to them that whatever cash or gems they get from Cobra-la will be useless once the rest of humanity has been genocided or turned into ravenous, mutated beasts.

>>94759079
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0cymPrVfW0

>>94745281
I've only seen two episodes of the 90s series, but I honestly found Metalhead to be fun as fuck.

>>94759172
this is from that episode when Cobra owns a TV station, right? I bet the writers were laughing while writing this episode.

Who is best ninja

>>94757701

Yeah, that visual of the booster rockets straining against the net is one of the funniest things in the entire series.

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>>94760529

https://youtu.be/gg0Tq0RQ1Q8

>>94759098

To begin with, when Cobra Commander leads them to Cobra-La, the defeated remnants of a Cobra army don't really have any options except to go along with the snakemen or be killed by the snakemen.

And then Serpentor bends the knee to Golobulus, and seems to have been genetically programmed to obey Cobra-La.

Once Cobra-La reveals it's plan to wipe out humanity, it is a flaw of the movie that none of Cobra have a problem with this, and really think Cobra-La will still have any use for them afterwards. Maybe no-one wanted to allow a Joe/Cobra team-up against the bigger threat.

A reminder that Cobra Commander used CGI to change the ending of King Kong.

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>>94761077
>Maybe no-one wanted to allow a Joe/Cobra team-up against the bigger threat.
This is weird considering Joe and Cobra team-up a couple of times on the show and selling the movie as a Joe/Cobra team up against a menace so big that it make these 2 bitter enemies to join forces sound like a great publicity stunt

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>>94761687
They nearly got their shit pushed in by a toy army.

>>94741951
pic unrelated?
i dont see Cobra Commander anywhere in your pic

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>>94761806
>A bunch of people pumping to release penis-missiles. Then pressing a 'release' button.
I feel like making a joke but it's already done.

>>94755425

what? I thought that was a shirt. ITS ORANGE!

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KidRobot TF vs GI Joe Vinyl Figures and Merchandise:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/kidrobot-tf-vs-gi-joe-vinyl-figures-and-merchandise/39293/

Don't die on me

>>94753657
>>94753709
>>94753626
>We can't show guns because parents groups
>But melting people is totally cool

>>94761687

It could've been a great end to the movie (maybe have Serpentor break free from Cobra-La's control, or maybe just have Destro take over Cobra), but a similar thing happened with the Transformers movie. Everyone was fighting Unicron, but they make sure not to actually show the Autobots and Decepticons working together, and no Decepticons can be seen during victory speech where Rodimus proclaims the war is over.

Both movies introduce a bigger threat and we don't get to see the heroes and villains team up against it.

>>94765373
At least the Decepticons weren't helping actively Unicron to destroy Cybertron because reasons

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>>94760529

The Faceless Master.

>>94741352
Me too he sucks

>>94765710
Firefly was so cool back then

>>94761191

And he did this years before CGI was even a thing.

Reminder that Cobra also stole fossils to clone dinosaurs, years before Jurassic Park was published as a book.

>>94765222
Silly anon, Synthoids aren't people.

>>94758404

OP's mistake is thinking the comics had even given us Cobra Commander's origin by the time of the movie.

The full comic origin wasn't revealed until #84, in 1989, 2 years after the movie.

>>94753626
As if the Giant Bacteria from SWAT Kats wasn't bad enough...

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>>94765222
They converted all their guns to shoot lasers.

>>94765886

It's a shame they never made a figure of him in that costume for the Anniversary line.

>>94766084

And also to shoot apples, which was useful one time.

>>94761769

Wasn't that guy implied to be an alien or at the very least superhuman?

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>>94767373
Well he did seem to have super human strength.

>>94761191
>https://webmshare.com/jzo1g

That was the exact same network executive mentality the Buddy Bears were a parody of on Garfield and Friends.

>>94740143
The cartoon basically had nothing to do with the comic book as far as I recall.
Looking back the "snake origin" seems really odd but as a kid it was cool as hell.

What came first? GI Joe the movie or "Lizard people secretly run the planet" conspiracy theories?

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When will Mark Hamill voice Cobra Commander in a 4 hour R rated Live Action GI JOE movie?

>>94760864
why are all the Arashikage ninjas blue-eyed?

>>94758545
Whose the medic?

>>94767869
Not before Steve Blum voices him.

>>94762152
Of course you wouldn't talk about it Baroness. You get to wear the least ridiculous outfits out of the lot of them.

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>>94767910
Just a generic sailor. The Joes seem to have some mooks around here and there from time to time.

>>94741724
>A few days later they called and said great, do it. “Which one?” I asked. Both, sez they.
Jesus Christ, it's like nothing ever changes about executives with shitty ideas and explanations.

>>94748244
That might be the best shirt I have ever seen.

>>94758401
That episode easily had like 50-75 recognizable fetishes throughout. I kind of wonder if it's the single most fetish-prolific cartoon episode in history.

>>94761769
Oh Gawd I forgot...EVERYBODY on the Joe team could pilot/drive ANY vehicle couldn't they?

>>94740143
GI Joe the movie was a mistake.

>>94745068
Finally, a sound effect even more ridiculous than the one used in Bud Spencer films!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhZwnQNPCM

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>>94745068
>that weak ass slap

>>94767581
It's weird how Reaganism pushed this shit so hard while it sounds so much like communism.

>>94742000
>http://alonefancryinginthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-archives-my-animated-conversation.html
one of the best comics in the series anon

>>94742558
church

>>94742009
>>94742059
Can we ignore the movie and just assume Commander Cobra is just a really old dude on the Transformers episode and not some snake guy?

>>94758858
What's Cobra on other continuities? Any decent stuff besides the original show and cartoon?

>>94775365
Actually, when DiC got to do the next GI Joe series, they started off with a 5 part miniseries called Operation Dragonfire that restored the status quo: Serpentor was removed, Cobra Commander was restored to Humanoid form, and this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcy9YaYxkc

>>94775541
Bitches love Destro

>>94775541
Yeah I know but Cobra is still a snake guy under his mask. I guess it can't be helped, the movie killed the 80s show

>>94745068
>Slapping like a little girl and acting tough
>Screaming and almost crying when getting shot at
Serpentor's a lil bitch

>>94779915
That outfit is compensating for a lot

>>94762110
>>94762152
I love how hilarious and sad this is; Cobra Commander is ruling the world, but it's become so boring that he pines for the days of sowing batshit crazy chaos.

Unless there's a context here I'm missing.

>>94775096

The idea that it was impossible to compete with the Soviets without becoming more like them was pretty common back then. Especially when it came to education, which is why they kept revising methods of teaching math and science.

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>>94745068

>>94754651
Huh so that's where Charlie Stross got his "Hitler on the moon" idea for that Laundry novel

>>94768669
They only show Ace and Duke. Duke and Scarlett were established as qualified pilots in episode one.
https://youtu.be/4YxovSNjQD4

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First Strike #2 preview:

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>>94781468

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>>94781493

>>94741854
>cute one waved at me

was the beret and fu manchu mustache really IN at the time?

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>>94781504

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>>94781519

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>>94781535

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>>94781555

>>94742949
Just proves his superiority to Duke more, I suppose

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This crossover is the epitome of dumb fun.

>>94742558
>make the intro better than the movie

here's an idea why not just make the intro the ENTIRE movie?!

who the fuck wanted all that snake-man crap?!

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>>94745068
I didn't know what to expect holy shit that slap sound

>>94743281
The first season was pretty bad, but it had some cool moments like Cobra Commander going toe to toe with Duke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHIp2nRZDk
I also enjoyed the episode with Tunnel Rat and Scarlett working together a lot.

Second season was a huge improvement, with the Joes having an aircraft carrier base and the whole dramatic traitor plotline. Stone was a cool Joe, and Firefly was an entertaining bastard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bGFwpm480

Best of all season 2 ditched that ridiculous annoying kid with the robot dog

>>94743281
I'm gonna need a sauce on this pic

pls

>>94755524
Upcoming issue of IDW Joe. (Not the ARAH one.)
And, yeah, I think this issue is basically going to be justifying why GI Joe has a martial artist when they also have a ninja-commando: he's just that fucking good.

>>94758401
True but Cover Girl > Lady Jaye

>>94758574
Concealing his identity
OR
Covering up the fact that he's a snakeman
OR
Traditions of an ancient organisation
Pick one.

>>94762110
>>94762152
Deviations is fucking gold. I want Allor to write more Joe, he's got the chops for it.

>>94758574
Dehumanizing the terrorist baddie

>>94781669
I'll guess palcomix based on the thumbnail alone.

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>>94743281

>>94761191
>Cobra Commander used CGI to change the ending of King Kong.
Truly his evil knows no bound

>>94785362
Remember when Cobra Commander tried to eliminate fiat currency?

https://webmshare.com/NK3Wa

>>94785741
He's a genius

>>94779915

That's an odd moment, Serpentor's character flaws are that he's headstrong and impatient, short-tempered, overconfident, and too brave to know when to retreat. Having him suddenly turn into a screaming coward feels out of character, probably for the sake of putting over the new Cobra-La villains.

>>94745068
>finish him off
>aaaahhhhh help me
Kek

>>94752839
>implying Scottish are white

>>94755425
that aint no white guy chest anon

>>94788244
It's probably a shirt

>>94755425
From the voice and the accent, which is not Scottish at all, I always thought he was African.

>>94789120
There are a lot of different Scottish accents. The va was probably going for a Sean Connery one but be glad he didn't try Glaswegian
https://youtu.be/AXGP4Sez_Us

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>>94789120
Don't forget those luscious lips

>>94767884
because of their Sharingan.

>>94748244
Fucking Larry Hama, man.
Not enough recognize his legendary status

>>94761191

Kinda surprised he didn't colorize it as well since there was a controversy about that process around that time.

>>94755425
>Orange skin?
>Black dude face and voice

>>94762152
>C4
>Combra Comander's Coffee Cup

I'm in love with this. Never knew it existed

G.I. JoeJoe's Action Adventure

>>94755500
Cobra-La was a good idea. But like all ideas, it depends on how you use it. Post-movie Cobra La could have just been cute back to being a large village of isolationists who willingly kick out everyone- no coming here for more ninja training, and just pull the roads up afterwards. They've got libraries started in the bronze age, sciences older than the name Europe, etc. They are the ultimate duex ex machina and Do Not Want to be involved in anything. They've kicked out Cobra Commander, they've moved the spore towers, they've closed up shop. The place looks like snow-covered rock, they've moved underground- physically. No one's home, go away now.
Even CC can't sleaze his way back in. The Joes can't hero they're way in. The story picks up it's toys and moves on back to the war-themed struggle of the Joes.

>>94790209
That handle looks a little funky. It's probably got an explosive in it. Perhaps a grenade pin. When the CC says he wants his coffee hot, that doesn't mean scalding- or else.

>>94741909
Not until the review they didn't. In the past dsys that's a third in a row, all about the highlights of the said review. What a coinscidence!

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>>94754768
>>94754781
>>94754883

Looking pretty Masamune Shirow there.

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>>94790768
I wonder what Hasbro's real big plans for Cobra-La were. In the end, they ultimately only ever wound up releasing three toys relating back to it-- and in a three pack, no less. They had ideas for vehicles, but none ever saw production.

It strikes me as bizarre because even if Transformers failing at the box office made them rethink their plans, it didn't stop Hasbro from staying the course for the robots in disguise.

>>94755095
>Princess Aeka from Tenchi Muyo

Best voice for best girl.

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>>94740279
Trivia: Various concept art exists for a character with the -name- Pythona, but the design cues make it obvious: they're all concepts for the character who would be Serpentor.

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>>94791346

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>>94791369

>>94791346
>>94791369
>>94791392

They could have easily recycled this concept.

>Mindbender and Destro create a bride for Serpentor in an attempt to stop him being so angry all the time.

>>94791094
I like to think that Cobra La was if star trek was built by a long line of Conan the barbarian types, in the "humans in the time of dinosaurs" type of story, but never had any civil wars. They just stayed in the mountains doing weightlifting and super-science, biology and botany.

>>94791094

Hasbro did drop plans for toys of Transformers movie characters like Arcee and Unicron, but in Unicron's case it may be because the prototype was not very good.

The 1987 Cobra-La toys don't look that great, either. If they didn't sell very well, that may be why there was no more.

The Anniversary figure of Nemesis Enforcer is a much better toy, but was renamed 'Nemesis Immortal', as if Hasbro somehow lost the trademark for 'Nemesis Enforcer'. It does make you wonder if they could've made a good figure of Golobulus.

>>94759172
>we must all be white
>we must all be capitalists
>we all have to be one religion
>only then can we achieve world peace

sounds familiar

Thread theme: https://youtu.be/Co0NrpzYozY

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>>94742009
>But I heard that he kicks puppies

Anon, I have some great news for you.

>>94793187
Not bad

>>94793187
That is both horrible and wonderful all at the same time. And there's _more_.

>>94791369

I'm guessing the middle one had a Medusa stare ability.

>>94755544
Wait, this other dude managed to turn some transformers into hollow husks - basically giant robot bodies - and he was going to get rid of them? That's stupid. He's stupid.

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>>94796913

I'm not sssstupid! You're sssstupid! And a jerk! A sssstupid jerk!

>>94797056
>I'm not sssstupid!
Yeah, you're the one who wanted to use them as weapons. You''re not the dumb one here, CC.

>>94797056

I feel like Cobra Commander probably would spend a lot of time on message boards arguing with people.

>>94797279

Cobra Commander would try to take over the entire internet and demand people surrender to Cobra to get access to it.

>>94793187
>Not Cold Slither
You done goofed

>>94797279
>Whaaaat? Who is this "MaskedScot69", and who does he DARE think he is for trying to poke holes in the genius of my latest plan to crush GI Joe?! DESTRO, GET IN HERE! We're going to launch an attack on MaskedScot69's house!"

>>94797525

The main theme of this thread has been the 1987 movie, and different versions of Cobra Commander origins, so it's a fitting enough choice. We can use Cold Slither when we have a Dreadnok-themed thread.

https://youtu.be/bnM-u7rZwtI

You have to love the subtlety of those lyrics and the subliminal messages.

>>94785268
I thought so too, but reverse google search turns up nothing which doesn't bode well

>>94798459
You have to admit, for a cartoon that the adults of the time [strike/]whined[/strike] complained "it's only a big toy commercial", the creators put a winning amount of effort and work into it. The cartoon still manages to be great on it's own merits.

>>94741854
>AWOOOOOOOOO
werewolves of London

>>94743281
The sigma 6 comic is entertaining but the show is pretty dull and generic

also sauce on that pic

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>>94751147

>>94751147
>he wanted this to be blacked

you are a disgusting "c" word person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlIWSfjYVMc

>>94802612
I'm just as surprised as her.

She looks like a tranny with too much botox in the lips

>>94759098
Wasted opportunity for teaming up to fight greater evil cliche metal slug 3 tier

Too bad only DIC used this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoF0MvVqso

>>94740143

TWENTY EEEEEEYES IN MY HEAD

>>94802968
Will gi joe be back ever again

>>94792073
>Hasbro did drop plans for toys of Transformers movie characters like Arcee and Unicron, but in Unicron's case it may be because the prototype was not very good.

Yeah but don't forget that in the 80's toymakers didn't believe boys would buy action figures of female characters, which might've been another reason Arcee got shelved.

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>>94791346
>>94791369

>>94802612

Norman? Norman Osborn, is that you?

>>94804326
That isn't Gwen though

>>94804020
>in the 80's

nigger avatar, a widely successful western show, never made a single figure of katara or toph

gi joe sigma 6 never even made a scarlett figure for fuck's sake

>>94802968

Even Cobra draws the line at selling drugs.

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>>94806687
They truly are the best evil organization.

>>94790964
im calling BS on you, i myself made a WAS ONCE A MAN thread last month. also, nemesis enforcer was the best new guy from the gijoe movie. LALLALALALALLA

>>94804020

In the original 1980s-1990s toy line, Jinx was the last new female character to get a toy, in 1987. After that, there was only a new Scarlett as part of the Ninja Force. Presumably the female figures didn't sell very well.

>>94804844

There was a prototype for a Scarlett figure, but the Sigma 6 line ended before it was made.

>>94806727

I think most of us don't know or care what this review is. We're just here to talk about the glory of Cobra-La.

> also, nemesis enforcer was the best new guy from the gijoe movie.

Always remember, that was Optimus Prime himself, Peter Cullen, roaring and growling in the role of Nemesis Enforcer.

>>94806747
i didnt know that about prime being his growls, neat

>>94800763

True. This was some next level trolling of the people complaining about how cartoons were corrupting the children:
https://youtu.be/bH94U2-0VCY

>>94806727
Meh, Nemesis Enforcer was a cheapass. Even blind Roadblock could kick his ass.

>>94806794
yeah, but he looked cool anon, and thats what matters. wings, and those arm sword things. and he didnt talk, so he was mysterious, or retarded

>>94775837
To be fair, Golobulus was neato.
>Burgess Meredith as the voice
>Cool lines like "I will stain my hands with your blood!"

Also, the music was spot on, and CC actually made me sad when he turned into a snake.

>>94797279
He'd probably get 95% of his recruits from 4chan, primarily /co/ /k/ and /pol/.

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>>94806905
The Commander is a very persuasive person.

>>94806844

And he was really, really strong.

https://youtu.be/7n8h5fkzbBM

>>94806878

>"The last thing you will hear... is the cracking of your vertebrae... one... BY ONE! "

Yeah, Golobulus was a genuinely threatening villain.

> Also, the music was spot on, and CC actually made me sad when he turned into a snake.

I feel like there should be less REEEEEEEEing about there being one GI Joe continuity where Cobra Commander is a snakeman, and more appreciation for the voice-acting job Chris Latta did in that movie, for Cobra Commander devolving into a snake and losing his mind.

>>94806939
I was never into Joe, but these comics look awesome. Any collections?

>>94745068
>Punish Cobra Commander, who actually almost won a few times
>Prioritize this pansy

>>94761687
I remember one episode, where Crimson Guards teamed up with Joes to assault a drug kingpin's fortress, because their boss' relative was kindnapped and forcibly addicted, or something. Was pretty cool.

>>94807868
The thing is, the rest of the Cobras outright acknowledged that Serpentor was an asshole. Before the movie, the cartoon was building to some kind of Civil War storyline between the Commander and Serpentor. The Cobra La angle put a damper on that though

>>94807868
Serpentor was a jerk, but he was a tough jerk willing to fight the joes himself. S' was a warrior-king, not a minutia man.
CC was a jerk, but he was the sort of jerk who hauls people out of hiding and shoves them towards the fighting. CC was an organization builder, not a warrior.

>>94740143
Aparently the writter for the movie had a giant boner for "mountains of madness" movie was shit desu.

>>94808367

The movie does deal with it, not in an outright civil war, but with Cobra Commander making an attempt to blame all Cobra's failures on Serpentor, and overthrow him, only to find that none of the higher-ranking Cobras supported him. Destro, the Baroness, Mindbender and the Crimson Twins took turns mocking and insulting Cobra Commander.

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>>94781656
>Duke's voice
Hello, Raph...

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>>94808367
good thing that civil war was in the comic and those are ones of best issues

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Snake Eyes was overqualified

>>94809956
was Snake Eyes gary stu or not?

>>94806878
A lot of the GI Joe Movie's score is stuff they would also use during Season 3 of Transformers, much as Season 1 and 2 used plenty of GI Joe music.

There's been talks FOREVER of releasing an actual soundtrack of Transformers, so maybe you'll finally get some of those tracks instead of fan edits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZfAk_e9fo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTp5j8acvNg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwmZyYnwUY

>>94810162
I want the music from Commander's trial.