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10-18-2015, 01:06 PM
Loose Cannon
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the only real difference between the USMC and the US Army, according to a thing I read on wikipedia, is that the Marines have everything integrated into one command; air, armour, artillery, infantry.
TBH, I feel if you're going to do a modern update and change things in the Joes, you might just as well sling everything out except their names and basic functions - EG: Steeler being a tank commander from Pittsburgh called Ralph Pulaski. or Torpedo being a Navy SEAL from Hawai'i. It was what I did with my Black Sword fic. hell, I didn't even entirely keep anything beyond their real names and codenames with some, since I made Hit&Run a Delta operator not a light infantryman and I made Cloudburst into a helo pilot and changed several of the helo pilots' service branches.
You could, although one could just as easily invent new characters. but as long as the name stays the same one could argue the character is just improved. This is what IDW did and sometimes I was so confused.
Speaking of Steeler, They totally screwed him up. I think he fills a support role so there may be some connection, but then made him Blackout the undercover Cobra operative. Meanwhile they have a character named Blacklight, and the Mad Monk who looks and acts more like the DDP Blackout. Didn't work for me.
But making Tripwire Rangers or Special Forces I loved. Dropping the whole Klutzy business didn't bother me.
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