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10-13-2009, 04:42 AM | #11 |
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Psh. Duke is awsome. He's the wholesome tough as nails as American as American pie Hero. The poster child for Hasbro. The mold for the perfect soldier. He's Captain America. The most realistic of the characters mentioned. This is, afterall, based on the military before it got all Sunbow'd.
Duke IS the all American quaterback. The role model. I instantly liked Duke. I don't see how he wouldn't be popular.
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10-13-2009, 05:04 AM | #12 |
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10-13-2009, 06:01 AM | #13 |
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He's an all American who refuses promotion to stay on the front line with his troops. There in lies the popularity. He's a hero. Duke is what men wish they could be. Hence the hate. Today people like the anti-establishment, anti-hero.
I fail to see how one can dismiss Duke, yet somehow find nothing but good quality in other troopers. Beachhead. Flint. Hawk. They all have the same argument, yet Duke is only a pretty boy? There are more followers than leaders. I think everyone loves Duke. Begrudgingly or not. Folks just choose to jump on the badwagon of hate and give him grief to what, seem cool? Hawk... in the comics, blue eyes, blonde hair. That's it. Snake Eyes is a blonde haired blue eyed ninja. Ninja's are so 80's.
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10-13-2009, 06:33 AM | #14 |
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Duke isn't flashy or cool like Snake eyes or storm shadow, but he's the guy that will throw himself on a grenade to save his buddies. He is humble, self effacing, self sacrificing, and rises to meet any challenge. These are the hall mark qualities of the Typical American hero character, just like Bruce Willis's Die hard character or any other American hero type in pop culture. It's a tradition that goes back to the old cowboy flicks of Hollywood's golden age.
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10-13-2009, 06:46 AM | #15 |
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Snake-Eyes is popular because of the comic and because of his design/backstory/Ninja-ness.
Duke is popular because of the cartoon and because of his "designated leading man" status. The "leader man" gets pushed in all those 80's properties. G.I. Joe is no exception. |
10-13-2009, 06:59 AM | #16 |
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10-13-2009, 07:45 AM | #17 |
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i really hate all this dukes.. ok hasbro make one or two.. thats enought.!
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10-13-2009, 07:46 AM | #18 |
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Snake Eyes wishes he was Duke. That's why his rubber mask looks so much like him.
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10-13-2009, 08:40 AM | #19 |
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Well, uh...Snake-Eyes was actually blonde-haired and blue-eyed before his "accident" anyhow. So really his rubber mask just looks like his old self. Which also happens to look like Duke.
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10-13-2009, 08:52 AM | #20 |
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Or the pre-face melt scenes shown in flashbacks are just Snake Eyes imagining himself as Duke and when the flash backs were Stalker's, well all white folks look the same to him.
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