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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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11-16-2009, 07:20 PM
zuludelta
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I imagine General Flagg II would share some of the traits of the Civil War Confederate Lt. General James Longstreet, for which I'm assuming he is named by the writer.
Well, the thing is the "Longstreet" middle name was only added after Hama stopped writing the filecards (post-1991 or so). In the early comics, the General Flagg who founded the Joe team, the one who was retroactively re-named as James Longstreet Flagg II after the 1992 Battle Corps figure of his son ("James Longstreet Flagg III) came out, was always referred to as James Lawrence Flagg. The second General Flagg never appeared in the comics, so I don't know if in the "comics-verse" Hama would have renamed him James Lawrence Flagg II (it's just one of those toy/comic discrepancies, sort of how like Payload was a black dude in the original Marvel comics, but was a redheaded white dude in toy form).
As for what historical figure inspired the General Flagg name... I always thought that "Flagg" was sort of a nod to "Bragg" (as in Civil War General Braxton Bragg). Heck, Braxton Bragg even had a ship named after him (the USS General Braxton Bragg), which sort of parallels the USS Flagg name scheme. Just my two cents.
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