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02-08-2011, 02:34 PM | #11 |
Crimson Guard
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He's more interesting to me as a Cobra.
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02-08-2011, 02:37 PM | #12 |
Banned
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Ninja's are overrated.
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02-08-2011, 02:39 PM | #13 |
Hisstank Ninja
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I prefer my Storm Shadow to have a purpose. I like the idea of him being a vet and having an honor bound purpose. Snake Eyes to me is a Commando first with martial art training as a second where as Storm Shadow gave up his guns in 'nam and dedicated his life to the family heritage. And of course since all that goes to hell, him hell bent on revenge as being the honorable course to clear his name. So for me a Joe or Cobra doesn't really matter, he's a guy that will use both sides to get his objective met then try to reestablish his clan. But, if I had to choose a side then after he has rebooted his clan I see him being more or a Joe than Cobra. He fought in 'nam and look who his buddies are, real hero's. He's more Joe than a just a dude working for money trying to terrorize the world.
Firefly... that's the dude working for trying to terrorize the world. In my mind, Storm Shadow is exactly what's above - a mix of good and evil, bot mostly bent on honoring the clan by any means necessary. He's the perfect foil to Snake-Eyes, and one of the reasons the story is so enduringly interesting. Storm Shadiow is almost an equal to Snake-Eyes, but not quite. Snake-Eyes possesses a natural ability that Storm Shadow was never quite able to equal, which is why he was always jealous of Snake-Eyes, and why Snake-Eyes became favored in the clan. What makes them such an even match every time they cross swords is that while Storm Shadow knows Snake-Eyes is better than him, he also knows that Snake-Eyes cares about him, which levels the field. On the other hand, Firefly is an equal to Storm Shadow in terms of ability and skill, and neither would mind seeing the other dead, making Firefly Storm-Shadow's perfect foil. Firefly represents what Storm Shadow is afraid of becoming, the truly evil version of himself. But yeah, once the clan is rebooted, and Storm Shadow has restored the clan's honor, he's a Joe - his loyalties are no longer divided.
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02-08-2011, 02:40 PM | #14 |
Im Charming
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i prefer him as a freelance bio exorcist
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02-08-2011, 03:23 PM | #15 |
Cobra Viper
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I like him as a Joe. I like that he's a man of honor who was brought into to do evil but his good friend brought him back from the brink. Now he works to undo some of the things he's done while serving Cobra. Not the my opinion matter anywhere but my shelves full of figures.
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02-08-2011, 05:21 PM | #16 |
Ninja Commando
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i personally prefer Storm Shadow as the main Cobra Ninja, but what if Snake Eyes joined cobra to fight along side his sword brother?
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02-08-2011, 06:16 PM | #17 |
Crimson Guard
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I didn't mind SS changing from Cobra to freelancer to Joe, if anything, it represented real character development, someone learning to master his inner capacity for evil and become a better person.
But the whole brainwave scanner thing that brought him back to Cobra bothered me too. And also the whole returning from the dead thing - Baroness shot him in the head. Ninja are badass but they don't have nine lives. As far as the Marvel comic went, SS was in many ways more likeable to SE, it's much more often that we got to see SS's humanity in a believable sort of way. Having SE not speak was a unique and interesting signatire character attribute, but it meant that he largely got to express himself through violence. Sure, I felt sorry for him, but SS seems less tortured and easier to root for somehow. |
02-08-2011, 07:20 PM | #18 |
Hisstank Ninja
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The Joes would all be dead.
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02-10-2011, 01:05 AM | #19 |
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02-10-2011, 01:08 AM | #20 |
Cobra Viper
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I think his best uniform is when he went Joe. The whole nemesis theme is fun, but him as a Joe is pretty cool and a slap in the face of Cobra. Fuel to the fire of hatred of the GI Joe by Cobra!
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