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05-28-2009, 01:30 PM
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Hey man, I hear you. But the thing about Duke that really bothers me is how they've written him in the Marvel and DDP series... and who knows how he'll turn out in IDW and the movie (although, in the movie, I hear he's going to be an officer... WHAT?!)
Anyway, as I've said before about Falcon, he never got the attention and development as a character that Hasbro intended. Hama didn't like Duke from the start. He felt that Hasbro pushed the character on him, and that he already had Hawk and Stalker... he didn't need some Hawk look-alike doing Stalker's job.
DDP used him as an ex-Secret Agent whose rank was now on the GS scale... that's not Duke.
I think Hasbro intended him to be an excellent NCO. Stalker wasn't really intended to do that job, but Hama needed a guy for that role in the beginning, and of the characters he had, he chose Stalker and developed him. Like Falcon, if Duke had been written and handled like Hasbro originally intended - as an Airborne Infantry NCO - then we would all probably like him just fine. In fact, we would probably all think of him as one of our favorites. Look at his credentials, Look at his qualifications... the guy won the Medal of Honor. Deep down, I don't think we hate Duke for who he is; I think Hama tricked us all into hating Duke because he found the character inconvenient. If you read the exploits of Duke in the Marvel run, he should have been releaved of duty early on. Hama's Flint was also a real tool/prick.
In all honesty, I think the Cartoon was a much better source for Duke and Flint's personalities. They're likable and competent. Hama played favorites. And so, great characters like Duke, Flint, and Falcon end up looking like schmucks in the Marvel run - and on into DDP.
It was the cartoon that made me hate Duke. I always loved Flint in Marvel's run. Loved his attitude. That issue around #53 where he went after the EELs with his fists so LJ could warn the others... loved it.
But yeah, Hama didn't give any of 'em the due they deserved. But then the cartoon glorified Duke more then it should have.
The cartoon made the situation we face now, with Duke being the figurehead and "known" leader of the Joe team, where in reality he's just the Top Sarge.
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