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04-08-2014, 03:04 PM | #41 |
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I missed a good portion of the issues from 86-91 right when Special Missions was at it's height. I always loved the Special mission issues. I'll have to check it out. I alwasy felt like Scoop would have made a better Computer expert or another Radio guy. In my verse he hangs back at headquarters Information center with Mainframe and Sgt. Hacker and Harddrive. (Although Harddrive might be one of those super Joes when you look at his qualifications. )
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04-08-2014, 03:13 PM | #42 |
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I missed a good portion of the issues from 86-91 right when Special Missions was at it's height. I always loved the Special mission issues. I'll have to check it out. I alwasy felt like Scoop would have made a better Computer expert or another Radio guy. In my verse he hangs back at headquarters Information center with Mainframe and Sgt. Hacker and Harddrive. (Although Harddrive might be one of those super Joes when you look at his qualifications. )
http://www.yojoe.com/images/resize/w.../harddrive.jpg Similar to Lightfoot and Lifeline. The others Joes didn't like them, but they proved they were true Joes and could be counted on to watch your back.
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04-08-2014, 03:16 PM | #43 |
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Totally agreed, Falcons not the wimpy youth recruit the movie showed.
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04-08-2014, 03:27 PM | #44 |
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To me the cobra troopers are the lowest of the lowest, then you become a viper, and then a specialty viper so i always tought Mercer was an average cobra but with great potential to be a goo Joe.
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04-08-2014, 03:36 PM | #45 |
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Is Mercer a badass? It depends on how realistic you want your Joe universe to be I think. If Cobra was a real organization, then Vipers would be primarily made up of mercenaries and PMC guys that signed up for a steady paycheck. Who's to say that a Viper isn't a former Seal or SF, Marine, Ranger, or perhaps spent 5 years in an elite Serbian or Nicaraguan commando team? All of these guys had to have come from somewhere before they joined Cobra. I'm sure that to some extent, Cobra recruits young kids with no training and molds them into Vipers, troopers, etc, but for the most part I see Cobra recruiting guys with prior military background.
It also depends on how you view Vipers. I don't see them as incompetent, despite the fact that they are sometimes portrayed that way. Personally I see mercer as one of the most competent and important Joes. Besides whatever prior military background he may have had, and his viper training, he also received additional training from Sgt. Slaughter. I feel he is important because he has insight into the Cobra organization that others don't, and because of what he represents as a man who chose to change his path in life. |
04-08-2014, 04:04 PM | #46 |
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I think some people may be confusing incompetent with useless or unnecessary.
They are two wholly separate things. Scoop is certainly competent at what he does, as is Lifeline. Tripwire is an incompetent clutz...unless he is working on explosives. Cool Breeze had no idea what he was doing, suggested an idea he had no idea about the consequences, and then got himself killed. That is incompetence. ( sorry I had to bring him back into this but to me he exemplifies incompetence.) Now is Mercer incompetent? No. Mercer knows his job and does it right. I have too much time on my hands today...off work.
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04-08-2014, 04:31 PM | #47 |
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i thought cool breeze took a bullet for stalker? so his idea didn't get him killed he sacrificed himself i believe...his idea worked
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04-08-2014, 04:54 PM | #48 |
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his idea was to jam Cobra's comms. Unfortunately that meant the recon team had to create a diversion to get cobra off the trail of the ninjas or the mission would have been blown. His idea put the recon team and the ninja team in danger. Stalker then told him not to suggest things he did not know the consequences of. That was the idea I was talking about. Not his taking a bullet.
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04-08-2014, 06:09 PM | #49 |
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Agreed, he had the worst excuse for quitting. If he joined cobra to kill people, surely his parents wouldn't matter.
Plus, he had a weird role… I get archiving footage of battles, but his design was weird, and usually they get neutral guys to film most likely, so theres a less chance of bias.
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04-08-2014, 07:59 PM | #50 |
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Never cared for Scoop. Regardless of which you prefer - comics or cartoon - filming a special ops group pretty much defeats the purpose of having a special ops group in the first place. He might be good at his job, but he should be working at channel 3, not with the Joes.
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