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02-15-2010, 07:47 PM
oliverbox
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Going back to Serpentor (whom I think we were talking about at some point), anybody think of a less goofy name for him (besides DDP's General Phillip A. Rey) if one were to remake GI Joe in a less fantastical context?
Sir Pentaur (maybe make him a knight of the SMOM or any one of the Catholic/Protestant chivalric orders in existence so that the "sir" makes sense? Incidentally, Pentaur was the son of Ramses III who led a failed uprising against his father and was forced to commit suicide as his punishment)
Mark Bellomo mentions a number of code names Larry Hama and Hasbro went through before settling on Serpentor: King Cobra, Cobra Rex, Rama Set, Zor
Anybody got better alternatives?
Well, if you want him to be "knighted" there are certainly other ways of doing it without having him linked in some way to Christianity, or a Christian-based organization. For example, Great Britain still hands out knighthoods to notable people who are seen to gave made great humanitarian contributions.
I'm not so sure there's anything inherently wrong with the name "Serpentor". Is it possible that the name is only so distasteful because of the images it calls to mind? For example, if they made "Serpentor" a last name to a business-type CEO figure who wears a suit and is ruthless... that might not be SO terrible. If they treat it properly, it could possibly narrate the character in a way that we no longer find ridiculous.
I mean, a LOT of fans didn't care for Chuckles before the Cobra series. I think a lot of people have reevaluated their opinion of that character and the code name no longer sounds so crazy.
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