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04-07-2014, 05:56 PM
Stormgard
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I got completely and utterly sick of SE due to his overexposure and the way he was treated like a superhero with nine lives. If I were to write a G.I.Joe comic or movie, it would start with SE dying - just to get him out of the way and free up space for other more believable (and frankly more charismatic) characters.
That said I liked how he was used in a couple of stories, where he was a silent mysterious commando, but seemed a little more mortal - like in that Special Missions story arc in China and SE Asia for instance. That's the SE I like to see in action.
A friend of mine who trained in theater made the observation to me (I had simply never thought of this before) that in the Joe universe, the bad guys cover their faces - even the Baroness has those thick rimmed glasses - and that's their uniform and what signifies to the reader that they're bad guys. And of the early Joes (pre Beachhead), SE, was unique in that he did exactly the same thing. He's clad in black and if you were to look at him, you'd expect him to be a bad guy. He looks more menacing than anyone in Cobra, really. And in the comic, he's portrayed as the ultimate superhero on the good guys side, but you know that he has a tremendous capability for ruthlessness and complete destruction.
So it's like he taps into what makes bad guys interesting and cool, but he's on the good guys side. So he allows kids to cheer for a complete badass, because he's on the good guys side.
With SE, we get to have our cake and eat it too.
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