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What's Cobra Commanders true origin?
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09-30-2010, 04:14 PM
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As said before you get to pick which one you like best.
Personally I like the comic one up to a point. I like that he's a failed businessman who decided to raise an army of the people that feel they have been left behind by the American Dream (not Dusty Rhodes) it feels very real. I'm not to thrilled about the rest of CC's origin the whole his drunk brother killed SE's family seems a bit of a stretch but I can live with it...where it gets to be too much for me is the Jerwa series where CC and a despondant and unknowing SE go on a campaign of terror.
Its a good story but its just too damn much origin info...I have the same problem with the whole Hardmaster saga were led to believe SS killed him but we are also told later on that he was chasing the true killer which is fine at that point its good story. Its then revealed as Zartan again good story sometime later Zartan even though he did it, its pawned off that Firefly was the man behind Zartan...starting to become unbelievable, and finally we find out CC hired FF who subcontracted Zartan and it all got blamed on SS.
Baroness's origin in the comics has a similar problem...I mean we were all fine with her being a spoiled aristocrat who got bored and turned to terrorism but for some reason we had to loop her into Snake Eyes during his Vietnam era where it looked like he killed her brother and that's what set her off on this path.
All this massive backstory gets weighty especially when you continue to tie EVERYTHING back to Snake Eyes at some point.
Don't any other Joes have any back story? I think this is why I liked G.I. Joe Declassifed so much...we got to learn things about the other Joes. I mean essentailly Grunt, Breaker, Stalker, Steeler, Hawk, Grand Slam and Short Fuse had no backstory at all (I leave Clutch and Rock n Roll out because ocaasionally we saw some of their backstory).
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