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07-06-2018, 07:11 AM | #1 |
endlesssummerofthedamned
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From before the dawn of ARAH, GI Joe had become rooted in various fantasy themes. Which makes sense: it was devised as a toy line for children and meant to stimulate their imagination. I believe the majority of us here grew up with ARAH, which further embraced those fantasy elements. Realistically at first, but as it evolved disbelief became as suspended as much as the uniform regulations relaxed.
So where does your personal Joe universe sit? On the near end with plausible future technologies and moderately believable military protocols? Or way out, with space aliens, cyborgs, time travel and undefined laws of physics?
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07-06-2018, 07:25 AM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
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I try to keep my Joe verse on the more realistic side of things. My Joes follow standard military regulations and I try to only buy the real world looking ones. As for cobra it is almost the same however Dr. Mindbender occasionally gets to make a super weapon.
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07-06-2018, 07:25 AM | #3 |
JARHEAD
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My line was drawn after serpentor, cloning, gene splicing believable and real today but Cobra la was just to much for me, even back then as a kid.
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07-06-2018, 07:40 AM | #4 |
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I'm ok with most SciFi concepts for my Joe's, including some supernatural stuff like possession and zombies, but I don't like to break the laws of physics.
Cobra-la wasn't too ridiculous to me, but watching that trailer of the new Rock movie, where he is running from a crane to jump onto a skyscraper over 30 ft away, while having a below the knee amputation. Now that's ridiculous.
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07-06-2018, 09:21 AM | #5 |
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Well as a kid i would have said my line gets drawn just after Serpentor. Gene splicing and cloning futuristic technology all works for me especially with cobra. An ancient race of snake people, space aliens, fatal fluffies are on the opposite side of that line. I have found with time these things amhavd grown on me enough to accept them onto the joe mythos but are still not my perfered cup of tea.
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07-06-2018, 09:27 AM | #6 |
Cobra Soldier
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This is my first post, so I hope it's cool for me to chime in, but for me I think of GI Joe a lot like the old pulps such as The Shadow and Doc Savage where they would run into mystic things but somehow it was still pretty grounded. ARAH had giants and weird spirits and things like that and to me those sort of fit since they don't go too far. That said, at the same time, Larry Hama's stories are pretty well based in reality and I don't know of any better Joe fiction so there's that too. Everything is explained through genetics or robotics or something along those lines, which is perfect.
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07-06-2018, 09:31 AM | #7 |
B and H Comics
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In my Joeverse I keep everything fairly realistic. That being said I do have bits and pieces of sci-fi incorporated into my Joeverse. For example Serpentor is not a clone but was a trooper who was moving up through the ranks. He was chosen to have the DNA of the world past leaders spliced into his DNA by nanomites. The MASS Device, is like the IDW one, it can only do one person at a time and no metals (I use the Retaliation Cyber Ninja as the MASS Device Troopers). I have Venormous Maximus, but he was a failed Serpentor project, with the side effect being his mutated arm. Several other components as well. I have Pythona, but haven’t figured out a “real world” explanation for her yet. Cobra la will not exist in my Joeverse. I also have ancient relics (Indiana Jones line) that Cobra Commander “collects” for his own purposes. As well
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07-06-2018, 09:36 AM | #8 |
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Well as a kid i would have said my line gets drawn just after Serpentor. Gene splicing and cloning futuristic technology all works for me especially with cobra. An ancient race of snake people, space aliens, fatal fluffies are on the opposite side of that line. I have found with time these things amhavd grown on me enough to accept them onto the joe mythos but are still not my perfered cup of tea.
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07-06-2018, 09:58 AM | #9 |
endlesssummerofthedamned
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I always like healthy doses of practicality and realism in my universe as well, but I enjoy as much fantasy. Because as an adult, there is nothing more tedious than real life. I include paranormal phenomenon and psychokinetic abilities (though extremely rare - not many people witness these events or have these powers), but it is obviously something Cobra is interested in - much like the Nazi Ahnenerbe during WWII. All other kinds of weirdness parallel to Hellboy’s BPRD or the SCP Foundation get thrown in the mix as well, like cryptozoology and reality-contorting anomalies. There are also Lovecraftian elements, so Cobra-La has a place, but nothing like it was depicted in the cartoon movie. And then there are the bizarre but true elements, such as General Stubblebine’s “First Earth Battalion” initiative.
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07-06-2018, 10:05 AM | #10 |
Iron Grenadier
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my line is drawn at stupid. or campy. I can go with time travel, if done well, I can go with Space Shuttles but no those damn fluffies. I 100% have Transformers in my universe and love Jurassic Park dinosaurs, zombies etc. Just not stupid
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