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09-22-2009, 02:39 PM | #1 |
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I was looking at some of the gi joe characters and thinking, "Many of these joes should have been Cobra". The look that I often associate with the joes is straight military. No one looks futuristic or even remotely villainous. This is juxtaposed with Cobra because Cobra as well as all bad guys, all have the coolest stuff.
Joe- Classic Military look Cobra- Futuristic/sci fi I'll start with Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi is a great joe without a doubt, but the futuristic Guyver zoanoid helmet and the armor screams Cobra! I see this leading a team of Techno/Tele/Laser vipers. If Cobra had a technology specialist, it would be him. I always saw him fighting against Flash. Charbroil. Charbroil looks nothing like a joe. Maybe its the insect helmet or the sharp body armor but nothing about this guy screams good guy. Just as Joe had a flamethrower by the name of Blowtorch, Charbroil should have been the bad guy counterpart. Of course, they would have to change his name to Inferno or Fire-ant. I always saw this guy leading a group of Incinerators. Lightfoot. Lightfoot was an awesome character. He could have been the Cobra equivilent to Tripwire or any of the other mechanic characters. Lightfoot looked more or less like a robotics engineer. If one guy was needed to repair the B.A.T.S., it would have been him. Nothing about this character screamed good guy. So who else was out of place in the joe team? What Cobras should have been joes? Last edited by Zoltron; 09-22-2009 at 03:45 PM.. |
09-22-2009, 02:41 PM | #2 |
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I thought Barbeque was cobra for the longest time until my older brother (who had seen the cartoons) set me straight.
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09-22-2009, 02:42 PM | #3 |
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The RoC Flash is the best (or worst) case of this. Red and black coloring with mask AND helmet and as you say very futuristic.
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09-22-2009, 02:55 PM | #5 |
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Yeah. The RoC Lampreys are red and black, so is Ice Storm. If they wanted Flash to look like a good guy they should have given him an unmasked head underneath and did the armor in green shirt olive or RoC baby blue. The design itself is ambiguous, but the colors say "Cobra".
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09-22-2009, 02:56 PM | #6 |
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When I was a kid,many of my joes was part of cobra
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09-22-2009, 03:06 PM | #7 |
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I always wondered why a joe would be called "snake eyes". I always thought they should have switched them from the beginning...
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I agree with this, as SE was unusual in his dress from the other "greenshirts" - masks were reserved back then for the bad guys! And the name is a good point as well.
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09-22-2009, 03:12 PM | #9 |
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he has eyes for snakes so he can blast! also on the ironic tip, fireflies are easy to spot at night and are virtually harmless.
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09-22-2009, 03:29 PM | #10 |
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I always used Beach Head and Low Light as Cobra agents when I was a yung buck. I also gave the Joes Dr. Mindbender because I never did like him, just took off his cape with the Cobra symbol on it and he was a new Joe doctor. Major Bludd was always the first Cobra to get captured or killed by the Joes too, never cared for him and still don't really. Firefly, Beach Head, Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow were all "brothers" from the same elite strike team before the whole G.I.Joe/Cobra war started. In my Joeverse as a kid, it wasn't SS that came to the Joes, it was SE that went to Cobra and joined his "brothers". Low Light was a sniper for Cobra who worked on many missions with Firefly.
I also used the Whale, Phantom X19 and Rolling Thunder as Cobra vehicles and then Cobra usually eneded up capturing the other Joe vehicles and using them against any remaining Joes.
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