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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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05-05-2010, 07:00 AM
takedown
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I'm always glad when we get a new contributor. But It's hard to just join in. But I know most people don't give the filecards much thought, but deep down they have to realize the importance of the filecards. And occasionally they realize hey these things are starting to suck. My angle to fix it is to get Hasbro to give them some more attention by first just adding something as simple as the Birthplace. Hopefully it will improve from there.
It's difficult to join in a thread with 1318 pages, especially since this thread isnt a game. My thoughts on the future of filecards is that its probably a lost art. Since Hasbro is recycling names, faces and codenames, its gonna be even tougher to keep name, rank, and birthplaces for the right characters. Those of us who said to our friends "BenchPress is Rock'n roll" and "look at AirRaid's, hes Airborne" Our high on filecards is slowly being weakend.
Ever since 1988, editting previous filecards, they tend to edit the wrong information on the filecards to make them either sound super-human, or it makes even bigger logistical problems.
My personal perception of ranks, was largely molded by my dad and Civil Air Patrol, not by Hollywood. When I would see a movie most of the time a squad, platoon, or company was led by a Colonel and I would think to myself, Shouldnt he flying a desk? So when I heard that Hawk was a Colonel and everyone else was a Sergeant or below it was hard to believe.
Then, last year when I read that GI JOE was started in the SHIELD universe. Fury Force led by the son of Nick Fury. It reinforced my believe that Hawk was originally a lower rank. Since he was the son of Colonel Nick Fury, Hawk would have been a Captain or a Major. I wonder if Hasbro pressed Hawk into being a Bird Colonel. If that were the case, if Hawk was intended to be a Major or a Captain that would have not created the hole for a company or platoon officer level position.
When I finally got the comic-books from issue 1-22. I accepted Hawk as the Company Commander, and Stalker as the Top Sergeant. I wonder if the ranks changed that much from Fury Force to GI JOE. Steeler, has a page where it says Sergeant on his back of the comic files and I believe Hama took that from his Fury Force notes. Just like Breaker had a rank of PFC.
I hope the filecards will improve, but I think its up to us.
Btw, errors on filecards. Is it just my Reactive Armor Ripcord that has the "Grade: E-4 (Sergeant)"?
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