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02-10-2009, 10:47 AM
Loose Cannon
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Hey fellas,
Here's a question I have: What do we know about the history of the "Red Shadows"? I mean more than what DDP did with them. Didn't they originate with Action Force in Britain? Does anyone know the deal with that? Loose Cannon, you usually know a lot about the international Joe stuff. Do you know anything about this?
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He's got every single issue online and it was a weekly comic! Losts of fun reading. It started like any other classic morally corrupt individual trying to take over the world. I'm not sure if the toy line came first or the comic. It originated at about the same time as the GIJoe universe. Baron Ironblood and his henchmen were much the same as Cobra. I think his Red Shadow soldiers were suppose to be clones. He was somehow able to generate and endless supply.
Where it really gets messed up is when the action force line ends and becomes GIJoe. Baron Ironblood kills everyone in the Red Shadows to hide his own disappearance and then reemerges as Cobra Commander. Jackel, Who is just a repainted Destro, now becomes Destro, and Storm Shadow and Firefly start appearing. I guess it must have been around 84 and the toyline had become all Hasbro mold based.
So a few of those original characters had a pretty good history before they switch everything over. Gung-Ho is Gaucho, Snake-Eyes is actually called Stalker, Stalker is called Jammer. And half these guys were from some other European Country.
What DDP did is they took the name Red Shadows, and although it is never confirmed, they took the Black Major Character and said he's Wilder Vaughn. I think that is the only connection. The Black Major was Baron Ironblood's brainwashed ex-SAS right hand man.
I'm sure there are those Action Force fans who hated the shift to GIJoe. It's pretty poorly done, and after a while you just accept it.
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