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Times When GI Suffered The Most Loses
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06-06-2020, 09:02 AM
J32J1
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Newton, MA
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I just finished the Arise, Serpentor, Arise 5 Parter in my GI Joe re-watch and I don’t think the Joes ever took more Ls in the Sunbow series than there.
By their nature 5 Parters have the Joes losing a lot but here it’s even more staggering. The plot revolves around Cobra collecting DNA of famous (mostly dead) world leaders to create Serpentor. Most episodes revolve around the Joes guarding the final resting places of these leaders. In every instance Cobra successfully gets the DNA of the leader except ONE: Sun Tzu, and even then they briefly captured it. It is just the case they used to capture the DNA was damaged by Sgt. Slaughter so it was not usable.
Speaking of Slaughter they also capture his DNA to replace Sun Tzu's DNA. That one is again rendered unusable when Cobra is in the process of creating Serpentor.
At one point Hawk is going over all the DNA Cobra has stolen. He lists the battles lost that we've seen over the course of this 5 parter then says "dozens more".
By dozens lets take it to mean at two dozen (24). By definition this would be the lowest amount he could mean. There are at least 6 battles the Joes fought over the course of this 5 parter (I didn't bother counting) only 2 of which they won (the battle for Sun Tzu's DNA, and liberating Slaughter's DNA). So out of at least 30 cases, the Joes were only successful TWICE. Worse still most of these cases Hawk says they didn't even know about until after the DNA was stolen which is an even worse failure in my book.
For G.I. Joe that's a win percentage of less than 7%.
And to cap it all off Cobra succeeds in their grand ambition of creating Serpentor, who at least in theory is supposed to be the greatest threat the Joe team has ever faced.
The Joe team celebrating at the very end of part 5 aside, Cobra kicked G.I. Joe's butt in Arise, Serpentor, Arise.
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