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01-19-2010, 07:47 PM
zuludelta
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Have any of you read much of the DCU comics? There they have an organization called Kobra. The leader is named Kobra and it's a fanatical religion. They seek to bring about the Kali Yuga, the great destruction and chaos that is needed that will lead to a greater world peace.
All the members are worshipers of Kobra.
But Cobra was never like that. Why would these people keep following Cobra Commander?
I don't know. You'd be surprised at the extent some people will go to in order to get what they feel they deserve, material-wise. If we assume that a majority of Cobra personnel are in it for the money, maybe it's also fair to assume that they have a relatively high employee turnover rate... they probably have a lot of guys who get out of "the game" once they've made a tidy profit for themselves or put away enough money to send Junior to a decent college.
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I think the problem with trying to work out what makes members of Cobra tick is part and parcel with what makes makes Cobra tick and the issue is that they have a bit of an identity crisis..terrorrists? criminals? evil business conglomerate? rogue nation? there's never been a single reason for being and I think that's what impedes how it sees itself. It may have started in the toy line as just the Joe's evil opposite but as the line grew it had to evolve to suit the changing complexities and sophistication of its audience. Does that make sense? Not sure if I'm conveying what I want to say correctly.
I think I'm getting what you're trying to say. The guys behind the toyline (and Hama himself) probably never expected the toys to be so successful across a long span of time and across such a wide age-range that they never really thought to define what Cobra's true objectives were until it was slightly too late and any attempts to crystallise Cobra's goals as an organisation would end up looking arbitrary and ad hoc no matter how well-thought out.
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