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05-15-2021, 04:54 AM | #151 |
Crimson Guard
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The modern-era Cobra Commander, not so much. The CC from post-200 and on is really a fragment of the man he used to be. He's showing his age, Cobra has largely fallen apart, he's lost or given up most his bases, his enemies can get to him almost any time but don't seem to have the enthusiasm to get at him. Mindbender follows him around with a clipboard telling him (or desperately trying to inform him) of the mounting financial troubles of the Cobra organization. They're really not doing good right now. They've been hemoraging money and it's a real subtle but persistent minor sub-plot. He even lost the Crimson Guard. At this late stage in the storyline, Mindbender and Cobra Commander are really good friends. It's pretty obvious, they're basically co-equals. They are very much a codependent / abuser dynamic. Mindbender is constantly doting on CC, and CC is constantly putting him down or physically beating him. It has to be on purpose from Larry, because they're like the perfect target audience for Melody Beatty. I don't think that Mindbender and Cobra Commander are in a relationship and I don't think they would need to be in order to be complex. They kind of depend on each other. Since 155.5 they've been in some ways one of the major constants of the series. However Mindbender could easily be gay. He has the flamboyancy, he reproduces through cloning, he was a pro wrestler. Larry has hinted at existing characters being gay in his mind but not ever displaying it on the page and he seems like an easy choice. Earlier tonight I realizes that I've always envisioned the end of Cobra as a gigantic end-all military exchange blowout. But what if one day Cobra Commander just checked back into reality and realized that his son is dead, most of his hardware is unfueled, there isn't a way to pay the troops and besides, the ranks are getting pretty thin. And I'm just too old for this. And he walks away from it all and decides to make another life for himself.
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05-15-2021, 08:41 AM | #152 |
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I always read CC as too paranoid to let anyone close enough to him for intimacy... especially after his wife left him and took his son. That betrayal would have been the last straw where women were concerned.
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05-17-2021, 01:19 AM | #153 |
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Yeah that makes the most sense to me too.
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05-17-2021, 10:28 AM | #154 |
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Its cool by me, what’s not cool by me is when they race or sex-change an established character for their own woke agenda and ignoring many different cultures, race oriented characters that never see the light of day in these universes, talking Warner Brothers DC live-action TV and movie characters here, some Marvel too!
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05-24-2021, 11:25 AM | #155 |
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8. No porn and/or discussion of sexual activity No links to pornographic sites or content/discussion will be allowed whatsoever. This includes nude cartoons (hentai). No discussion on pornographic or sexually related activities. There are many sites on the internet that cater to sexual topics. HissTank.com is not one of them. Name something involving the Alphabet People that doesn't involve sex.
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