Favorite GI Joe/ Cobra

[Kevin Hamilton]

Polls? We don't need no stinking polls!

But this just popped in my head and thought I'd ask the rest of y'all who was your favorite character in one of the bestest cartoon advertisements for an action figure line there ever was?

Mine was Shipwreck
www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/shipwreck.html

Dunno why, just always thought he was cool, the fact that he sounded like Nicholson probably helped.

Flint was a close second for my favorite 'Joe

On the Cobra side of things I was a big Destro guy, and of course dug the Baroness.


Now watch Snakeeyes run away with the rest of the forum's heart.

[humanoid]

Gotta say Stormshadow, and because I'm a wrestling fan, Sgt. Slaughter.

[THE Dinobot]

Cobra
Major Blood - The dude had an eye patch AND a cockney accent. That's just doubling of the pleasure type of stuff right there.

Joe
Hmm, this is the difficult one. Quick Kick was rad, as was Shipwreck, Roadblock and Lady Jaye. But will as usual go with Flint, for the aweesome beret.

[erisi236]

Alpine no doubt, coolest guy ever.

And doing quite well these days

;D

[Joe Neglia]

The one with kung-fu grip and life-like beard.

[humanoid]

admin said:

The one with kung-fu grip and life-like beard.

My mom?

[Joe Neglia]

You said it, not me.

[humanoid]

admin said:

You said it, not me.

Duffman says a lot of things. Oh Yeah!

[samachine]

Cobralalalalalalala

[Joe Neglia]

samachine said:

Cobralalalalalalala

That's the one with the long rubber snake tail, right? HATED that thing. Had a friend who thought it would be "funny" to slap me in the face with it once.

[samachine]

admin said:

samachine said:

Cobralalalalalalala

That's the one with the long rubber snake tail, right? HATED that thing. Had a friend who thought it would be "funny" to slap me in the face with it once.

I only watched GI Joe when it was on Cartoon Network at like 11, that guy stood out to me most.

[humanoid]

admin said:

samachine said:

Cobralalalalalalala

That's the one with the long rubber snake tail, right? HATED that thing. Had a friend who thought it would be "funny" to slap me in the face with it once.

I'm guessing by the quotation marks that you didn't think it was that funny.

[Joe Neglia]

humanoid said:

admin said:

That's the one with the long rubber snake tail, right? HATED that thing. Had a friend who thought it would be "funny" to slap me in the face with it once.

I'm guessing by the quotation marks that you didn't think it was that funny.

I think I was too busy making sure all my teeth were still in place to find the humor.

[humanoid]

admin said:

humanoid said:

I'm guessing by the quotation marks that you didn't think it was that funny.

I think I was too busy making sure all my teeth were still in place to find the humor.

Uh...Don't hate the player, hate the game...?

[Joe Neglia]

humanoid said:

admin said:

I think I was too busy making sure all my teeth were still in place to find the humor.

Uh...Don't hate the player, hate the game...?

No, think I hated the player too. For such a good friend, I only started to realize later in life what a total dick he was. ****er shot me in the ass with a BB gun, too.

Twice.

[humanoid]

admin said:

humanoid said:

Uh...Don't hate the player, hate the game...?

No, think I hated the player too. For such a good friend, I only started to realize later in life what a total dick he was. ****er shot me in the ass with a BB gun, too.

Twice.


The good news is now you command an army of loyal wrestling fans, just say the word...

[Daveman]

G.I. Joe: Flash. He didn't get much coverage in the comics and usually only appeared in background roles in the cartoon, but he's still my favorite. There's something appealing about having a character whose background you can make up to fit your own stories. (Yeah, I had running storylines with my toys, so what?) Also, he had a laser gun. Honorable mentions: Beachhead, Jinx, Ripcord, Recondo.

COBRA: COBRA Commander. What an amazing character. I could rewrite this, but I feel it needs to be presented in full:

n his early career he was a used car salesman. While struggling to keep his business afloat, he learned that a car crash had taken the life of his older brother, Dan, who had been driving drunk. Embittered by this tragedy, Cobra Commander became obsessed with vindicating his brother's death. He took specific interest in the surviving son of the family killed in the accident with Dan. That man was the soldier better known as Snake-Eyes.

Cobra Commander managed to track Snake-Eyes to Japan, where he was training to become a member of the Arashikage ninja clan. The Commander hired a mercenary called Firefly to kill him, but Firefly soon realized he was no match for his target, instead referring Cobra Commander to another assassin, Zartan, who infiltrated the clan and shot at Snake-Eyes with an arrow stolen earlier from another ninja, Storm Shadow. However, it was not Snake-Eyes who was hit, but the clan's leader and Storm Shadow's uncle, Hard Master. Storm Shadow was blamed for the murder and fled in search of the killer.

Cobra Commander returned to his domestic life, but after his wife gave birth to a son, Billy, she found out about what had happened in Japan. He took the child and left his wife, becoming increasingly paranoid and blaming all his problems on "the system". He traveled across America with Billy, seeking out people who shared his desire to topple big business and the government, using money he had earned from pyramid schemes to attract followers.

He then moved to the town of Springfield, where the businesses were struggling and the population had become disillusioned with existing policy. He applied his influence to corrupt the township and eventually took control of it. Within the town, he established a clandestine terrorist group called Cobra. For reasons and in ways unknown, Billy leaves his father, and joins the anti-Cobra underground organization. Storm Shadow's search for his uncle's killer eventually led him to Cobra, which Storm Shadow joined, pledging loyalty to Cobra Commander as his personal bodyguard.

Cobra's agents spread throughout the world, overturning or subverting unstable third-world governments, and becoming an international threat.

The Snake-Eyes bit is a little meh, but I love the rest of his backstory. Honorable mentions: Major Bludd (who doesn't love a mercenary who fancies himself a poet?), Destro.

[Hassan bin Sober]

G.I. JOE: Falcon

Dude was easiest the best looking Joe from 1987. People say he was a Flint knock-off but he looked better than Flint.

COBRA: Cobra Commander

It's really hard to choose though. Storm Shadow, Major Bludd, Zartan, Dreadnoks, Destro . . they were all great.

[Funkyjumbo]

COBRA: Destro, I love the way that he is able to supply weapons under a chocolate confectionary visage

G.I.JOE: Beach-head, zero tolerance attitude and his deodorant amnesty

[Bob Schlapowitz]

G.I. Joe - Dusty

Cobra - Zartan (does he count as Cobra?)