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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[January 15]], [[2020]]<br />
|coverdate=October 2019<br />
|editor=[[David Mariotte]]<br />
|chronology=July [[1969]]<br />
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'''[[Human|Man]] walks on the moon, [[Dire Wraith|Wraiths]] wait in the darkness, and [[Space Knight|Knights]] are not there to save them.'''<br />
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==Contents==<br />
This issue contains two stories:<br />
*"[[One Small Step for Dire Wraith-Kind, Part 1]]"<br />
*"[[One Small Step for a Spaceknight, Part 1]]"<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Originally scheduled for release in October, this issue arrived 3 months late due to art delays.<br />
*Guy Dorian dedicates this issue to his wife Marnie Dorian.<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' An astronaut plants a flag, unaware the threat of Dire Wraiths loom, by [[Luca Pizzari]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Dire Wraiths converge on the lunar module, by [[Corin Howell]] and [[Josh Perez]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' [[Rom]] stands above a captured [[Dhorian]], surrounded by a Dire Wraith, astronauts, and [[Nikomi]], by [[Guy Dorian Sr.]], [[Sal Buscema]], and [[Ross Campbell]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes|Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow]]'' #16<br />
|prev=Serpent's Shadow, Part 3<br />
|next=Target: Snake Eyes Prelude<br />
|image=SnakeEyes16 cvrB.jpg<br />
|title="Serpent's Shadow Conclusion"<br />
|caption=<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[August 29]], [[2012]]<br />
|coverdate=August 2012<br />
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]<br />
|art by=[[Robert Atkins]] and [[Atilio Rojo]]<br />
|inks by=[[Juan Castro]] and Atilio Rojo<br />
|colors by=[[Simon Gough]] and [[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|assistant editor=<br />
|editor=[[John Barber]] and [[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
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'''Ambushed by Cobra, the Arashikage must escape from the Commander's mansion.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Though the forces of [[Cobra]] have [[Storm Shadow]] and [[Rika]] surrounded, [[Snake Eyes]] watches from above, and drops multiple smoke grenades down to give his fellow [[Arashikage]] members the chance to escape. With the distraction of the smoke, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes are together able to wipe out the [[Viper]]s holding them prisoner, while Rika deals with her own captor, [[Savane]].<br />
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''The young Snake Eyes arrives at the [[Soft Master]]'s dwelling, and on entry, is treated to a barrage of insults and goading words from his new teacher. In response to the master's dismissal of his abilities, Snake Eyes hurls a pair of knives at him, only for his target to be revealed as a dummy, the Soft Master being elsewhere in the hut. The boy throws another knife at the real master, who catches it out of the air, pledging to instill in Snake Eyes some sense of guile. Some time later, the Soft Master gives his student a puzzle: two jars, one containing acid and the other a neutralizing agent. The Soft Master commands the boy to drink from both jars, finding the truth of their nature and the correct order to drink in the Soft Master's words... but the boy instead throws both jars in the man's face, burning him horribly.''<br />
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In the temple of the [[Coil]], [[Krake|Cobra Commander]] marvels at the sword of [[Genghis Khan]], lying on an altar. Genghis Khan is, indeed, the man whose rule through fear the Commander wishes to emulate; and to do so, he requires a force of assassins, a role in which the Arashikage previously served, but now must be provided by the fanatics of the Coil. Serpentor pledges his men to Cobra Commander as assassins, and is warned not to disappoint him, for those that betray Cobra Commander do not live long.<br />
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Having brought a set of coordinates to [[Dial-Tone]], [[Agent Helix]] is informed that they belong to a [[Khamiristan]] mansion previously owned by the [[Romanovs]]. Dial-Tone offers to find out who owns the place, and notes that Scarlett — who isn't on board with Helix's side adventures — will have more questions... but Helix has already left.<br />
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The three Arashikage ninja aim to escape the Commander's mansion, but are cut off by Vipers before they can reach their intended exit. Storm Shadow orders Rika and Snake Eyes to find their own way while he pursues a different exit, but Rika — still believing that Snake Eyes is a traitor — intends to kill him to ensure her oyabun's survival. Instead, though, he simply knocks her out and carries her to the mansion's docks, killing the guards and stealing one of their [[Moray|hydrofoils]] to escape in; and though Rika, on regaining consciousness, accuses him of abandoning Storm Shadow, he turns the boat around to retrieve the Arashikage leader, who is coming out the front door — though Rika is shot by a Viper in a [[Flight Pod]] before they can escape. As she lies dying, Rika asks Storm Shadow to tell Snake Eyes that she is sorry, something that troubles him during her funeral.<br />
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And elsewhere, Rika's son [[Tomo]] recieves her letter, along with her robe and a pair of ancestral swords. Having read the letter, he now wishes to take revenge on Snake Eyes... as does his teacher, the badly-scarred Soft Master!<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[Arashikage]]|c1=<br />
* [[Rika]] (4)<br />
* [[Storm Shadow]] (5)<br />
* [[Snake Eyes]] (6)<br />
* [[Soft Master]] (7)<br />
* [[Tomo]] (12)<br />
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* [[Krake|Cobra Commander]] (1)<br />
* [[Viper]]s (2)<br />
* [[Savane]] (3)<br />
* [[Serpentor]] (8)<br />
* [[Coil]] soldiers (9)<br />
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* [[Dial-Tone]] (10)<br />
* [[Agent Helix]] (11)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You have speed. That is good. You lack guile. That is bad. Can I teach you guile? Can I instill in you the complexities of intrigue? Can anyone turn this rough child into a lethal weapon? Well, if '''anyone''' can, it would be the '''Soft Master'''."<br />
:—The '''Soft Master'''<br />
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"Have you '''changed''' your mind? Or was this all a ruse from the '''beginning'''? We shall see at the '''end''', eh? Are you '''truly''' Arashikage? Or have you only returned to see us all at the '''mercy''' of our enemies? What does your silence conceal, Snake Eyes?"<br />
:—'''Rika'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The sword of Genghis Khan, along with the body of its owner, was found by [[Dice]] back in [[Snake Eyes issue 4|''Snake Eyes'' #4]]; though Dice hasn't been seen since then, he apparently gave the sword over to the Coil — something that makes sense, as the Coil considers Genghis Khan one of the "champions" of their divine Serpent, as established in [[Serpent's Tale Part Two: The Nest|''Cobra'' #6]].<br />
===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*The [[Moray]] hydrofoil that Snake Eyes steals is based on [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/hydrofoil/ a 1985 toy].<br />
*The Soft Master makes his first appearance in IDW continuity here; he's very different to his Marvel counterpart, who was a short, fat and kindly mentor to Snake Eyes rather than a skinny, manipulative sadist.<br />
===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes come out of a window fighting, by [[Alex Cal]] and [[Aburtov]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow in the outline of Cobra Commander's cape, by [[Lee Ferguson]], [[Sal Buscema]] and [[Joanna Lafuente]]; this cover was apparently intended as a retailer incentive cover for [[Serpent's Shadow, Part 3|the previous issue]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Snake Eyes vs Zartan, by [[Robert Atkins]] and [[Simon Gough]].<br />
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[[File:CobraII 6 Serpentor rises.jpg|thumb|(THIS IS WHAT SERPENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.)]]<br />
By all outward appearances, '''Steven Menasian''' is merely a celebrity self-help guru with a kinda creepy snake motif; a writer of books like "''[[Shedding Your Skin]]''", who runs a philosophical group popular world-wide with celebrities and civilians alike. But behind closed doors he cuts a far darker figure: '''Serpentor''', worshipped as a messiah by his followers, the cult of the [[Coil]].<br />
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A power-hungry manipulator willing to practice brainwashing, kidnapping, murder and ritual sacrifice to increase his own status, Serpentor has allied himself and his cult with the international terrorist conspiracy [[Cobra]], whose [[High Command]] he serves as an advisor. Though it's unknown if he ''truly'' buys into his own hype about being chosen by the divine [[Serpent]] to save the world, it's clear that he will exploit that belief in his followers to any extent he can.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Steven Menasian was born on [[July 17]]th of [[1972]] in [[Ventura]], [[California]]. His mother worked at a library, while his father, a {{w|stevedore|dock worker}}, died in an accident in [[1985]]. Steven had an epileptic brother named [[Ben Menasian|Ben]], three years younger than him; when Steven was 14, Ben fell into a pond, with Steven jumping into save him. Ben, however, died of pneumonia, and Steven left home at 16, travelling the world, including visiting [[India]]. Eventually, he returned to California in [[1992]], getting into local politics in [[Ojai]]. From Ojai, Menasian founded what he presented as a self-help group called the Coil, based on a pamphlet that he distributed by {{w|bulletin board system|BBS}}; however, the Coil was in fact a cult that worshipped the snake-god [[Golobulus]] and held Menasian to be his prophet, "Serpentor", a combination of the greatest qualities of the conquerers who came before him. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part Two: The Nest|The Nest}}<br />
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The Coil quickly grew in scale and global influence, eventually reaching almost a million members, including several prominent celebrities. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part One: The Nest|The Nest}} Menasian's first book, published in 1998, made him a millionaire, with the money trail disappearing shortly afterwards; over the following decade, Menasian adopted seven minority children, fathered an illegitimate son in [[Seattle]], and anonymously became wanted for murder and kidnapping in [[India]] and [[Indonesia]]. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part Two: The Nest|The Nest}} At some point, Serpentor and the Coil became part of the global criminal conspiracy [[Cobra]], {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part Three: Green Dreams|Green Dreams}} practicing brainwashing, coercion, and even human sacrifice, which Serpentor would perform himself.<br />
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As a public figure, Menasian presented himself as a self-help guru, appearing on [[Dana Abrahm]]'s television show to promote the Coil's Nests and "path to success"; though initially happy to be present, Menasian was angered when Abrahm brought up the large numbers of people associated with the Coil who had disappeared, claiming that they had either departed the Coil or simply chosen not to have contact with their families. In the aftermath, he ordered that nobody in the Coil should go on Abrahm's show again, and that she should be off the air within six months. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part One: The Nest|The Nest}}<br />
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At around the same time, Serpentor became aware of a {{w|Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer}}-winning former journalist and private investigator, [[Leonard Michaels]], who was investigating the Coil and the accusations of kidnapping against them. Serpentor arranged to have Michaels dosed with hypnotics when he visited the [[Coil Center]] in [[West Adams]], and had him imprisoned and drugged after he infiltrated the Coil's inner sanctum. Over the coming weeks, Serpentor indocrinated Michaels into the Coil's ideology; he believed that even as a journalist Michaels had never done anything meaningful, and that his focus on the "facts" stopped him from seeing the ''truth''. Through repeated cycles of the same conversation made hazy by drugs, Michaels was slowly persuaded to write about Serpentor as he wished. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part Two: The Nest|The Nest}}<br />
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Though Michaels was broken out of the Coil's custody by a [[Concerned Viper|conflicted guard]], Serpentor allowed it to happen, secure in the knowledge that their brainwashing would eventually drive him back "home" to the Coil. After Michaels completed his writing about Serpentor and the Coil, he volunteered as a human sacrifice for their lunar ceremony, allowing himself to be killed on an altar by Serpentor. {{storylink|Serpent's Tale Part Five: Viper's Nest|Viper's Nest}}<br />
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At some point, Serpentor became aware of [[Breaker]], a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] operative who had fallen in with the Coil, and began directing [[Pythona]] on how best to manipulate him to their needs. {{storylink|Cobra vol. 2 issue 2|Cobra vol. 2 #2}}<br />
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Following the death of [[Cobra Commander]], multiple members of Cobra High Command were gathered for the announcement of [[Cobra Civil War|a contest]] over who would take his place as Cobra's next leader. While Serpentor was not selected as a candidate, he intruded on the meeting anyway, {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0|Cobra Civil War #0}} and during the contest he offered his services to candidates for Commander; though [[Major Bludd]] rejected his assistance, {{storylink|Cobra vol. 2 issue 4|Cobra vol. 2 #4}} [[Tomax Paoli]] took his advice to get revenge for the death of [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] by assassinating [[Hawk]], and the [[Baroness]] used information he provided to have several Joes killed in [[Ecuador]] — though Serpentor held back how he obtained that information. {{storylink|Cobra vol. 2 issue 2|Cobra vol. 2 #2}} However, his ability to use Breaker as a source came to an abrupt end when [[Black-Out]] — a mole within the Joes for Major Bludd — killed and framed Breaker to remove suspicion from himself. {{storylink|Cobra vol. 2 issue 4|Cobra vol. 2 #4}}<br />
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After [[Krake]] ascended to the position of Cobra Commander, Serpentor was worried by his more aggressive policies, believing his position as an advisor would become less wanted. Though Serpentor's associate [[Crystal Ball]] believed that their new leader still had weaknesses, when Serpentor was taken to meet with the new Commander, he was ordered to massively increase recruitment in Asia; their leader was unimpressed with the single [[Nest]] opened in [[Singapore]], wanting five more within two months. {{storylink|Cobra vol. 2 issue 8|Cobra vol. 2 #8}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Serpentor's surname was spelled "Minasian" in the "[[G.I. Joe: Cobra II|Serpent's Tale]]" story arc, but "Menasian" from "[[Cobra Command]]" onwards. This wiki is assuming that the latter is the correct spelling.<br />
*The cult of the Coil claims that Serpentor combines the greatest aspects of the Serpent's past champions, including {{w|Grigori Rasputin}}, {{w|Alexander the Great}}, {{w|Genghis Khan}}, and {{w|Napoleon}}. This is a reference to the otherwise very different {{w|Serpentor}} of classic ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' media, who was a genetic chimera created by combining the DNA of history's greatest villains, including — you guessed it! — those four.<br />
*Serpentor's skin tone has varied wildly over IDW's various comics, ranging from "tanned white guy" to a dark brown. As such, it's hard to know what his ethnicity is meant to be.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/86/serpentor.shtml Serpentor at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Serpentor}} at TFWiki.net<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' #5<br />
|prev=Snakes and Tigers, Part 4<br />
|next=The Boy Most Likely To... Part 2<br />
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|caption=Do you want to read a comic about a member of a military unit from a children's toyline going on Reddit, becoming a Men's Rights Activist, and turning evil? Great news!<br />
|title="The Boy Most Likely To... Part 1"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[August 7]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=August 2013<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Werther Dell'edera]]<br />
|inks by=[[Emilio Lecce]]<br />
|colors by=[[Arianna Florean]] and [[Azzura M. Florean]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editorial consultant=[[John Barber]]<br />
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'''Clockspring thinks on his past and changes his future.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''As a big kid, the boy who would one day become [[Clockspring]] played football in high school... though he didn't enjoy it and wasn't very good at it, and ended up breaking a leg on the field. Needing two surgeries and four months of bed rest, he ended up gaining even more weight, but he didn't mind thanks to [[Cate Aiken]]. Cate was a "rally girl", a cheerleader assigned to assist him as a member of the football team, but Cate did far more than what was expected of her — she spent hours with him at the hospital, sharing gossip from the halls and watching movies together... due, in part, to the abusive family waiting for her at home. Still, "Clockspring" knew that ''he'' was what she needed and would be safe with, and after he got out of the hospital, he decided to make it official... but on seeking her out for his romantic gesture, he saw Cate kissing a rower from the varsity team.''<br />
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Clockspring jumps when [[Firewall]] asks him what he's looking at, making excuses about looking at {{w|Reddit}} for work in order to learn {{w|Python (programming language)|Python}}, but the administrator sees straight through his words and isn't impressed. She doesn't even care that he's goofing off and taking a breather; she's more bothered about the excuses he makes, and how he flinches when he sees her. To do what he does, Clockspring doesn't just need to be smart, he needs to be ''tough'', and Firewall isn't confident that he can handle it. In the hall outside, [[Lady Jaye]] greets him as "Chrome-Dome", and he nervously corrects her, irritating Jaye; Clockspring's inability to take a joke and know a friendly nickname when he hears it seems to prove that he isn't enough of a member of the team.<br />
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''Without his place on the football team and with his new-found hatred of Cate, "Clockspring" felt more alone than ever. With nothing else going on in his life, he retreated to his computer and got deep into programming and writing freeware, which led — two years later — to [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. Even there, however, he felt like an outcast, unable to summon the passion of the radical, politically-minded geeks that were the "cool kids" at the college — and besides, his trouble with women bothered him more than any "government oppression". After breaking up with a girl who he found boring, "Clockspring" met [[Holly]], a coffee shop barista trying to save money to get away from a scummy boyfriend; fascinated as she was by computers and information manipulation, the young man showed her some legally-grey techniques to help her out.''<br />
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[[Tomax Paoli]] enters Clockspring's workspace, knocking on the door as a "precautionary measure" since learning that there are cameras in [[Chameleon]]'s shower unit. Clockspring is outraged by Tomax's jabs and by the suggestion that he take his mind off Chameleon with one of the many more available women in [[Las Vegas]]; Tomax sees his response as stemming from his pride — pride that is well-deserved, though he may not feel like it is, surrounded as he is by "warriors". Paoli points out that Clockspring is one of the most exceptional men on the planet, with skills that maybe a hundred other people have, but that the rest of his team — while they might appreciate it — hardly ''respect'' it. He suggests that Clockspring talk to [[Bet]], one of the Joes' captive [[Night Creeper]]s, and though Clockspring is appalled by the idea of speaking to the terrorist, he can't help but be intrigued when Tomax explains that Bet built a {{w|Van Ekk phreaking}} device with incredible range and accuracy — and that he's currently being interviewed by grunts far less qualified to do so than Clockspring.<br />
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''One night, while messing around on the {{w|deep web}}, "Clockspring" found a message from a group looking for highly intelligent individuals — an elaborate scavenger hunt of clues leading to ever more difficult clues. Believing it to be planted by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]], the student followed the clues despite the dead ends and decoys, even writing his own piece of decryption software to crack the code, and eventually found the final message: a meeting time and place... but the agency that met him there wasn't the NSA, but [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]! Working as an I.T. specialist for the Joes was a dream for Clockspring, who was able to work on anything he wanted with an unlimited budget to make the Joes' tech better... until he was assigned to the [[G.I. Joe Intelligence|intelligence unit]] and had his resources and responsibilities cut down, and started working closely with Chameleon.''<br />
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Clockspring has never been in a war, but his systems and software have taken — and saved — countless lives... and as he sees it, Flint doesn't care, and thinks that he's saving the world by himself. He and the Joes are mistreating Chameleon, taking her out into the field when she should be safe and doing clerical work — and he could fix it. He could ''protect'' her. He's the good guy, even if she doesn't see it, and would rather be with Flint. But as he travels down to the detention level where Bet is being held, Clockspring makes a decision... if the good guy can't win, it's time to stop being the good guy.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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{{collist|2|*[[Clockspring]] (1)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (3)<br />
*[[Lady Jaye]] (6)<br />
*''[[Duke]]'' (11)<br />
*''[[Snake Eyes]]'' (12)<br />
*''[[Scarlett]]'' (13)<br />
*''[[Brainstorm]]'' (14)<br />
*''[[Chameleon]]'' (15)<br />
*''[[Agent Helix]]'' (16)<br />
*''[[Flint]]'' (17)<br />
*''[[Ronin]]'' (18)}}<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*''Clockspring's parents'' (2)<br />
*''[[Cate Aiken]]'' (4)<br />
*''Cate's boyfriend'' (5)<br />
*''Carnegie Mellon cool-kids'' (7)<br />
*''"Boring" girl'' (8)<br />
*''[[Holly]]'' (9)<br />
*[[Tomax Paoli]] (10)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"What the hell are you looking at?"<br />
<br>"Gah! '''Firewall'''! It's, uh... a website called Reddit. It's kind of a social news site. But this is for '''work'''. I'm trying to learn Python because so many -"<br />
<br>"Don't try to confuse me with computer jargon. I took my '''name''' from computer jargon. Also, I'm the ops administrator of this installation. I know the difference between '''working''' and '''goofing off'''."<br />
:—'''Firewall''' isn't buying '''Clockspring's''' excuses.<br />
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"Have you spoken at all to '''Bet'''? He's one of the two '''Night Creepers''' we have in detention."<br />
<br>"'''Spoken''' to him? Tomax, he's a '''terrorist'''!"<br />
<br>""Terrorist." Pf. The man is a '''capitalist'''. A thief at the worst. He unencumbers governments of dangerous technologies and makes them available to the people that financed them in the first place. Or those that would be illegally targeted. The man is '''Robin Hood'''."<br />
:—'''Tomax Paoli''' shares his... ''unusual'' perspective with '''Clockspring'''.<br />
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"It really should tell you something that the only person who even '''talks''' to me around here is a criminal mastermind and '''terrorist'''. If he's the only one who goes out of his way to be nice to me, what does that say about the '''rest''' of these people? I know I could make Chameleon '''see''' that. See how wrong she is to be with '''him'''."<br />
:—'''Clockspring''' is kind of a creep.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Bet and [[Dalet|his comrade]] were captured by the Joes in [[Snakes and Tigers, Part 4|the last issue]], in which Clockspring also shaved his head.<br />
*Along with Firewall, [[Duke]] is also present to recruit Clockspring after he cracks the code. This was apparently a standard part of his job before he started running the Joes; notably, he was sent to recruit [[Beachhead]] in [[Origins issue 11|''G.I. Joe: Origins'' #11]].<br />
*The flashback panel of Clockspring's first arrival in [[the Pit]] is heavily based on the two-page spread in which it was first seen way back in [[G.I. Joe issue 1|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 1 #1]], albeit simplified to fit [[Werther Dell'edera]]'s more abstracted style. Along with Duke, [[Scarlett]] and [[Snake Eyes]] can be seen there; in the next panel, Clockspring shakes hands with a Fobbit whose bouncy curled coif marks him as IDW-original Joe scientist [[Brainstorm]].<br />
*Another flashback shows Snake Eyes next to [[Agent Helix]]. The Joe agent with the magic brain chemistry and mysterious past was a near-constant presence at the ninja's side from [[M.A.S.S. Destruction, Part 1|her second appearance]] to [[Cobra Command, Part 8|Snake Eyes leaving the Joes]].<br />
[[File:Cobra files 5 forever alone.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Unlike [[Homefront, Part 2 of 5|"Gangnam Style" references]], this was weird even in 2013.]]<br />
===Real world references===<br />
*This issue opens with a full-page shot of a meticulously-drawn "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forever-alone Forever Alone]" {{w|image macro}} that really has to be seen to be believed.<br />
*The title of this two-issue mini-arc is a reference to "awards" sometimes given to students in high school {{w|yearbook}}s: "Girl most likely to be on TV", "Boy most likely to become president", and so on. Appropriately enough, this issue and the next focus on the backstory — specifically, the school years — of the Joe intelligence unit's two male members.<br />
*The general characterization of Clockspring in this issue — a computer geek who browses Reddit, resents both women for not falling in head-over-heels in love with him and the "jocks" that can get girls far more easily, coupled with his eventual "nice guys finish last" epiphany — is all ''very'' evocative of the mid-2013 reactionary, {{w|antifeminism|antifeminist}} {{w|Men's rights movement|Men's Rights Activist}} subculture. (Looks like [[Mike Costa]] doesn't approve.)<br />
===Other notes===<br />
*The screens of Clockspring's computer in this issue are evidently screenshots of Werther Dell'edera's desktop... complete with, uh, the script for ''this issue'' visible in the background. Uh-huh.<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Clockspring makes a change, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Everyone but Tomax turns their back on Clockspring, by [[Werther Dell'edera]] and [[Stefano Simeone]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Tomax plays chess with our heroes, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<br />
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By [[Mike Costa]] and [[Werther Dell'edera]] with [[Emilio Lecce]], [[Arianna Florean]] and [[Azzura M. Florean]].<br />
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First published [[August 7]], [[2013]].<br />
<br />
[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|intelligence unit]] operative [[Clockspring]], feeling underappreciated by his teammates, looks back on the events and choices that shaped his life... even as prisoner and intelligence asset [[Tomax Paoli]] preys on his insecurities and shapes Clockspring's outlook for his own gain.<br />
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Once, '''Mercy Gale''' was one of the most loyal agents of the [[Action Man Programme]], running intelligence for the elite division of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and helping to organise missions for the incumbent [[Mike Brogan|Action Man]]. But the constant tug-of-war between terrorist organisations and the forces that fight them weighed heavily on Mercy, and when she saw her chance, she took on the mantle of the supervillain '''Doctor X''' to secretly manipulate Europe into a brighter future.<br />
<br />
While Doctor X lacks the raw scientific genius of her predecessor, she makes up for it with her skillful manipulation of her terrorist empire and ability to play the "heroes" against one another for her own benefit. For a time, X was able to control both the Action Man Programme and her villainous servants to accomplish her goals, but even after the new Action Man [[Ian Noble]] revealed her deception to the world, the bad doctor has little trouble getting what she wants... ''for the good of the world'', of course.<br />
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First published [[August 7]], [[2013]].<br />
<br />
[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|intelligence unit]] operative [[Clockspring]], feeling underappreciated by his teammates, looks back on the events and choices that shaped his life... even as prisoner and intelligence asset [[Tomax Paoli]] preys on his insecurities and shapes Clockspring's outlook for his own gain.<br />
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By [[Chris Ryall]], [[Christos Gage]] and [[David Messina]] with [[Michele Pasta]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]].<br />
<br />
First published [[February 8]], [[2017]].<br />
<br />
On the idyllic world of [[Elonia]], the life of young student [[Rom|Rom K'atsema]] is changed forever when he loses his family to the monstrous [[Dire Wraith]]s — setting in motion events that will lead to the rise of the greatest [[Space Knight]] ever to serve the [[Solstar Order]].<br />
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By [[Mike Costa]], [[Antonio Fuso]] and [[Lovern Kindzierski]]<br />
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First published [[September 1]], [[2009]].<br />
<br />
The Crimson Twins reflect on their lives in the aftermath of [[G.I. Joe: Cobra|a fateful meeting]]... and while [[Tomax Paoli]] is more secure than ever in his place in the world, his brother [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]] has newfound doubts.<br />
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By [[Mike Costa]] and [[Werther Dell'edera]] with [[Emilio Lecce]], [[Arianna Florean]] and [[Azzura M. Florean]].<br />
<br />
First published [[August 7]], [[2013]].<br />
<br />
[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|intelligence unit]] operative [[Clockspring]], feeling underappreciated by his teammates, looks back on the events and choices that shaped his life... even as prisoner and intelligence asset [[Tomax Paoli]] preys on his insecurities and shapes Clockspring's outlook for his own gain.<br />
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By [[Chris Ryall]], [[Christos Gage]] and [[David Messina]] with [[Michele Pasta]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]].<br />
<br />
First published [[February 8]], [[2017]].<br />
<br />
On the idyllic world of [[Elonia]], the life of young student [[Rom|Rom K'atsema]] is changed forever when he loses his family to the monstrous [[Dire Wraith]]s — setting in motion events that will lead to the rise of the greatest [[Space Knight]] ever to serve the [[Solstar Order]].<br />
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<br />
First published [[September 1]], [[2009]].<br />
<br />
The Crimson Twins reflect on their lives in the aftermath of [[G.I. Joe: Cobra|a fateful meeting]]... and while [[Tomax Paoli]] is more secure than ever in his place in the world, his brother [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]] has newfound doubts.<br />
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<br />
[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|intelligence unit]] operative [[Clockspring]], feeling underappreciated by his teammates, looks back on the events and choices that shaped his life... even as prisoner and intelligence asset [[Tomax Paoli]] preys on his insecurities and shapes Clockspring's outlook for his own gain.<br />
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Once, '''Mercy Gale''' was one of the most loyal agents of the [[Action Man Programme]], running intelligence for the elite division of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and helping to organise missions for the incumbent [[Mike Brogan|Action Man]]. But the constant tug-of-war between terrorist organisations and the forces that fight them weighed heavily on Mercy, and when she saw her chance, she took on the mantle of the supervillain '''Doctor X''' to secretly manipulate Europe into a brighter future.<br />
<br />
While Doctor X lacks the raw scientific genius of her predecessor, she makes up for it with her skillful manipulation of her terrorist empire and ability to play the "heroes" against one another for her own benefit. For a time, X was able to control both the Action Man Programme and her villainous servants to accomplish her goals, but even after the new Action Man [[Ian Noble]] revealed her deception to the world, the bad doctor has little trouble getting what she wants... ''for the good of the world'', of course.<br />
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By [[Mike Costa]] and [[Werther Dell'edera]] with [[Emilio Lecce]], [[Arianna Florean]] and [[Azzura M. Florean]].<br />
<br />
First published [[August 7]], [[2013]].<br />
<br />
[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|intelligence unit]] operative [[Clockspring]], feeling underappreciated by his teammates, looks back on the events and choices that shaped his life... even as prisoner and intelligence asset [[Tomax Paoli]] preys on his insecurities and shapes Clockspring's outlook for his own gain.<br />
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'''[[The Boy Most Likely To... Part 1|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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By [[Chris Ryall]], [[Christos Gage]] and [[David Messina]] with [[Michele Pasta]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]].<br />
<br />
First published [[February 8]], [[2017]].<br />
<br />
On the idyllic world of [[Elonia]], the life of young student [[Rom|Rom K'atsema]] is changed forever when he loses his family to the monstrous [[Dire Wraith]]s — setting in motion events that will lead to the rise of the greatest [[Space Knight]] ever to serve the [[Solstar Order]].<br />
<br />
'''[[Cold Fire|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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By [[Mike Costa]], [[Antonio Fuso]] and [[Lovern Kindzierski]]<br />
<br />
First published [[September 1]], [[2009]].<br />
<br />
The Crimson Twins reflect on their lives in the aftermath of [[G.I. Joe: Cobra|a fateful meeting]]... and while [[Tomax Paoli]] is more secure than ever in his place in the world, his brother [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]] has newfound doubts.<br />
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|title="The Boy Most Likely To... Part 1"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[August 7]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=August 2013<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Werther Dell'edera]]<br />
|inks by=[[Emilio Lecce]]<br />
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'''Clockspring thinks on his past and changes his future.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''As a big kid, the boy who would one day become [[Clockspring]] played football in high school... though he didn't enjoy it and wasn't very good at it, and ended up breaking a leg on the field. Needing two surgeries and four months of bed rest, he ended up gaining even more weight, but he didn't mind thanks to [[Cate Aiken]]. Cate was a "rally girl", a cheerleader assigned to assist him as a member of the football team, but Cate did far more than what was expected of her — she spent hours with him at the hospital, sharing gossip from the halls and watching movies together... due, in part, to the abusive family waiting for her at home. Still, "Clockspring" knew that ''he'' was what she needed and would be safe with, and after he got out of the hospital, he decided to make it official... but on seeking her out for his romantic gesture, he saw Cate kissing a rower from the varsity team.''<br />
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Clockspring jumps when [[Firewall]] asks him what he's looking at, making excuses about looking at {{w|Reddit}} for work in order to learn {{w|Python (programming language)|Python}}, but the administrator sees straight through his words and isn't impressed. She doesn't even care that he's goofing off and taking a breather; she's more bothered about the excuses he makes, and how he flinches when he sees her. To do what he does, Clockspring doesn't just need to be smart, he needs to be ''tough'', and Firewall isn't confident that he can handle it. In the hall outside, [[Lady Jaye]] greets him as "Chrome-Dome", and he nervously corrects her, irritating Jaye; Clockspring's inability to take a joke and know a friendly nickname when he hears it seems to prove that he isn't enough of a member of the team.<br />
<br />
''Without his place on the football team and with his new-found hatred of Cate, "Clockspring" felt more alone than ever. With nothing else going on in his life, he retreated to his computer and got deep into programming and writing freeware, which led — two years later — to [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. Even there, however, he felt like an outcast, unable to summon the passion of the radical, politically-minded geeks that were the "cool kids" at the college — and besides, his trouble with women bothered him more than any "government oppression". After breaking up with a girl who he found boring, "Clockspring" met [[Holly]], a coffee shop barista trying to save money to get away from a scummy boyfriend; fascinated as she was by computers and information manipulation, the young man showed her some legally-grey techniques to help her out.''<br />
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[[Tomax Paoli]] enters Clockspring's workspace, knocking on the door as a "precautionary measure" since learning that there are cameras in [[Chameleon]]'s shower unit. Clockspring is outraged by Tomax's jabs and by the suggestion that he take his mind off Chameleon with one of the many more available women in [[Las Vegas]]; Tomax sees his response as stemming from his pride — pride that is well-deserved, though he may not feel like it is, surrounded as he is by "warriors". Paoli points out that Clockspring is one of the most exceptional men on the planet, with skills that maybe a hundred other people have, but that the rest of his team — while they might appreciate it — hardly ''respect'' it. He suggests that Clockspring talk to [[Bet]], one of the Joes' captive [[Night Creeper]]s, and though Clockspring is appalled by the idea of speaking to the terrorist, he can't help but be intrigued when Tomax explains that Bet built a {{w|Van Ekk phreaking}} device with incredible range and accuracy — and that he's currently being interviewed by grunts far less qualified to do so than Clockspring.<br />
<br />
''One night, while messing around on the {{w|deep web}}, "Clockspring" found a message from a group looking for highly intelligent individuals — an elaborate scavenger hunt of clues leading to ever more difficult clues. Believing it to be planted by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]], the student followed the clues despite the dead ends and decoys, even writing his own piece of decryption software to crack the code, and eventually found the final message: a meeting time and place... but the agency that met him there wasn't the NSA, but [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]! Working as an I.T. specialist for the Joes was a dream for Clockspring, who was able to work on anything he wanted with an unlimited budget to make the Joes' tech better... until he was assigned to the [[G.I. Joe Intelligence|intelligence unit]] and had his resources and responsibilities cut down, and started working closely with Chameleon.''<br />
<br />
Clockspring has never been in a war, but his systems and software have taken — and saved — countless lives... and as he sees it, Flint doesn't care, and thinks that he's saving the world by himself. He and the Joes are mistreating Chameleon, taking her out into the field when she should be safe and doing clerical work — and he could fix it. He could ''protect'' her. He's the good guy, even if she doesn't see it, and would rather be with Flint. But as he travels down to the detention level where Bet is being held, Clockspring makes a decision... if the good guy can't win, it's time to stop being the good guy.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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{{collist|2|*[[Clockspring]] (1)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (3)<br />
*[[Lady Jaye]] (6)<br />
*''[[Duke]]'' (11)<br />
*''[[Snake Eyes]]'' (12)<br />
*''[[Scarlett]]'' (13)<br />
*''[[Brainstorm]]'' (14)<br />
*''[[Chameleon]]'' (15)<br />
*''[[Agent Helix]]'' (16)<br />
*''[[Flint]]'' (17)<br />
*''[[Ronin]]'' (18)}}<br />
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*''Clockspring's parents'' (2)<br />
*''[[Cate Aiken]]'' (4)<br />
*''Cate's boyfriend'' (5)<br />
*''Carnegie Mellon cool-kids'' (7)<br />
*''"Boring" girl'' (8)<br />
*''[[Holly]]'' (9)<br />
*[[Tomax Paoli]] (10)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"What the hell are you looking at?"<br />
<br>"Gah! '''Firewall'''! It's, uh... a website called Reddit. It's kind of a social news site. But this is for '''work'''. I'm trying to learn Python because so many -"<br />
<br>"Don't try to confuse me with computer jargon. I took my '''name''' from computer jargon. Also, I'm the ops administrator of this installation. I know the difference between '''working''' and '''goofing off'''."<br />
:—'''Firewall''' isn't buying '''Clockspring's''' excuses.<br />
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"Have you spoken at all to '''Bet'''? He's one of the two '''Night Creepers''' we have in detention."<br />
<br>"'''Spoken''' to him? Tomax, he's a '''terrorist'''!"<br />
<br>""Terrorist." Pf. The man is a '''capitalist'''. A thief at the worst. He unencumbers governments of dangerous technologies and makes them available to the people that financed them in the first place. Or those that would be illegally targeted. The man is '''Robin Hood'''."<br />
:—'''Tomax Paoli''' shares his... ''unusual'' perspective with '''Clockspring'''.<br />
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"It really should tell you something that the only person who even '''talks''' to me around here is a criminal mastermind and '''terrorist'''. If he's the only one who goes out of his way to be nice to me, what does that say about the '''rest''' of these people? I know I could make Chameleon '''see''' that. See how wrong she is to be with '''him'''."<br />
:—'''Clockspring''' is kind of a creep.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Bet and [[Dalet|his comrade]] were captured by the Joes in [[Snakes and Tigers, Part 4|the last issue]], in which Clockspring also shaved his head.<br />
*Along with Firewall, [[Duke]] is also present to recruit Clockspring after he cracks the code. This was apparently a standard part of his job before he started running the Joes; notably, he was sent to recruit [[Beachhead]] in [[Origins issue 11|''G.I. Joe: Origins'' #11]].<br />
*The flashback panel of Clockspring's first arrival in [[the Pit]] is heavily based on the two-page spread in which it was first seen way back in [[G.I. Joe issue 1|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 1 #1]], albeit simplified to fit [[Werther Dell'edera]]'s more abstracted style. Along with Duke, [[Scarlett]] and [[Snake Eyes]] can be seen there; in the next panel, Clockspring shakes hands with a Fobbit whose bouncy curled coif marks him as IDW-original Joe scientist [[Brainstorm]].<br />
*Another flashback shows Snake Eyes next to [[Agent Helix]]. The Joe agent with the magic brain chemistry and mysterious past was a near-constant presence at the ninja's side from [[M.A.S.S. Destruction, Part 1|her second appearance]] to [[Cobra Command, Part 8|Snake Eyes leaving the Joes]].<br />
[[File:Cobra files 5 forever alone.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Unlike [[Homefront, Part 2 of 5|"Gangnam Style" references]], this was weird even in 2013.]]<br />
===Real world references===<br />
*This issue opens with a full-page shot of a meticulously-drawn "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forever-alone Forever Alone]" {{w|image macro}} that really has to be seen to be believed.<br />
*The title of this two-issue mini-arc is a reference to "awards" sometimes given to students in high school {{w|yearbook}}s: "Girl most likely to be on TV", "Boy most likely to become president", and so on. Appropriately enough, this issue and the next focus on the backstory — specifically, the school years — of the Joe intelligence unit's two male members.<br />
*The general characterization of Clockspring in this issue — a computer geek who browses Reddit, resents both women for not falling in head-over-heels in love with him and the "jocks" that can get girls far more easily, coupled with his eventual "nice guys finish last" epiphany — is all ''very'' evocative of the mid-2013 reactionary, {{w|antifeminism|antifeminist}} {{w|Men's rights movement|Men's Rights Activist}} subculture. (Looks like [[Mike Costa]] doesn't approve.)<br />
===Other notes===<br />
*The screens of Clockspring's computer in this issue are evidently screenshots of Werther Dell'edera's desktop... complete with, uh, the script for ''this issue'' visible in the background. Uh-huh.<br />
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*'''Cover A:''' Clockspring makes a change, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Everyone but Tomax turns their back on Clockspring, by [[Werther Dell'edera]] and [[Stefano Simeone]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Tomax plays chess with our heroes, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<br />
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|title="Siren's Song"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[March 19]], [[2014]]<br />
|coverdate=March 2014<br />
|written by=[[Paul Allor]]<br />
|art by=[[Steve Kurth]]<br />
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'''G.I. Joe communications expert Hashtag investigates a mystery, but the truth is more disturbing than she expects.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Cobra]]'s rescue of children from a slaving ring is all over the news, but [[Hashtag]] is more concerned with making a good first impression on her new teammates in [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. Though she agonises over how to introduce herself, she is quickly snubbed by field commander [[Duke]]... and after the [[Warrenton]] mission goes badly wrong, General [[Joe Colton]] meets with her in the hospital to explain that dropping a social media practitioner into the field was a bad idea; and so the embedded journalist program is being shut down. Hashtag has other ideas, however: she isn't just a blogger, but a soldier and the best communications expert around; and so, she wants to be allowed to properly join G.I. Joe, believing that it's the best way for her to make a difference. Taken aback, the generals agree, and Hashtag joins the command center on [[Governors Island]], with her first task being to remove the G.I. Joe social media accounts from her ''previous'' job. As she deletes them, however, she recieves a message from "Singer's Son": an encrypted, damaged video file.<br />
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Though Duke believes that the anonymous message isn't a priority, Hashtag is convinced that it could be important, and works on it on her own time over the next few months, eventually making enough progress on the encryption to make out a human figure... but Duke is still unwilling to provide military resources towards cracking it, and is unhappy with her spending so much time on it even off the job, wanting her more focused on priorities like Cobra missile transportation in South America.<br />
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The next day, she monitors satellite images of a convoy in South America made up of Cobra vehicles, stripped of their insignia — Cobra evidently having partnered with "el Presidente". Thanks to Hashtag's confirmation, Duke — on the ground with his team — has [[Roadblock]] take out the lead truck with an RPG, but when the cargo comes spilling out, the vehicle seems to contain not weapons but medicine. The Joes move in to investigate, only for the trucks to open up and reveal an army of [[Viper]]s, moments before their radio cuts out! Unable to raise the field team, Hashtag immediately contacts the [[Special Missions team]] to have them extracted from the ambush.<br />
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After hours of agonised waiting, Duke picks up, revealing that his team is alright — it seems Cobra planted the intelligence, causing the Joes to either attack the convoy and create an international incident, or allow the missiles to get through. Relieved that the team is unharmed, Hashtag hangs up, before collapsing from weariness and stress. She gets no respite when the team returns, either, as [[Cover Girl]] and Duke argue over the team's shoddy intelligence, leading Duke to snap at Hashtag when she wearily snarks about the situation under her breath. After returning home, she once again gets to work on the encryption of the "Singer's Son" video... and suddenly she hears snatches of understandable speech: [[Siren|a woman]] asking for the G.I. Joes' help!<br />
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Over the next two weeks, Hashtag repairs enough of the video to understand the message: the woman is a Cobra agent named Siren, whose son is being held by Cobra, and who needs help in rescuing him — but when she takes her findings to Cover Girl, the other Joe dismisses it, assuming that the Cobra agent is lying. It's only when Hashtag mentions that it seemed like Duke wanted to bury it that Cover Girl agrees to have a word... not with Duke, but by going over his head to General Colton.<br />
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Soon, Cover Girl and Hashtag have deployed along with [[Shipwreck]], [[Roadblock]] and [[Quick Kick]] to the coordinates provided: a castle off the coast of North Africa. While Shipwreck stays behind to keep the [[Shark 9000|attack boat]] ready, the other Joes quickly take out the [[Viper]]s guarding the door, and with Roadblock quite literally kicking the door in they are able to infiltrate the building; they soon find a set of barracks with bunkbeds, but Hashtag is perturbed to find a toy [[H.I.S.S. tank]] lying on the ground! Moments later, an intruder walks in on them — Siren herself. With Roadblock holding the Cobra agent at gunpoint, Hashtag explains that they got her message and are here to rescue her son... but in consternation, Siren explains that things have changed in the months since the video was sent. Though Hashtag assumes the worst, Isaac is still alive and around; and while Siren could tell them the story of what happened, she instead shows them. In the courtyard below is a mass of children performing exercises and military drills, presided over by a [[Big Boa II|masked taskmaster]]... because the Joes have walked in on Cobra's child soldier training camp!<br />
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*[[Joe Colton]] (10)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You showed extraordinary bravery in the field, soldier. Your country thanks you for that. But a counter-terrorism unit requires '''focus'''. Clarity. Their job requires them to make impossible decisions on a moment's notice. Dropping a '''social media''' practitioner in the middle of all that... it was just a bad idea. Plain and simple."<br />
:—'''Joe Colton''' was against all this from the start.<br />
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"I was actually a little '''surprised''' to see you show up again. After what happened in '''Ohio'''... the work we do didn't seem like it would hold much '''appeal'''."<br />
<br>"It's just good to be one of the '''good guys''', ma'am."<br />
<br>"'''Right'''. The good guys. That's '''us'''."<br />
:—'''Cover Girl''' and '''Hashtag'''<br />
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"Go to your quarters and cool your heels, then we're going to have one '''hell''' of a "serious discussion"."<br />
<br>"<span style="font-size:90%">Another great day for the good guys.</span>"<br />
<br>"You have something to say, Hashtag?"<br />
<br>"No, sir. Nothing at all."<br />
:—'''Duke''' is unimpressed with '''Hashtag'''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> attitude.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The "rescue" of Siren's son from a slaver ring, and their subsequent using him to forcibly recruit Siren, was the subject of the [[G.I. Joe vol. 3 issue 12|previous]] [[G.I. Joe vol. 3 issue 13|two]] issues of ''G.I. Joe''. That arc was unclear on where it fell in the timescale, but the start of this issue places it a week before the events of "[[Homefront, Part 1 of 5|Homefront]]". Speakin' of...<br />
*The first bit of this story fills in some gaps around the aforementioned first arc of ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3, showing Hashtag's first meeting with Duke and her subsequent request to be made a full member of the Joes. It performs a... ''soft'' retcon on Hashtag's character, portraying her as more "unjustly overlooked" than "completely incompetent"; her description of herself as a "soldier", in particular, seems at odds with the character who [[Homefront, Part 2 of 5|tried to reject a gun]] thanks to not believing in them.<br />
*The subsequent parts of this story must, then, take place in between [[Homefront, Part 5 of 5|issue #5]] and [[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|issue #7]], as Cover Girl is suspicious of Duke but he's still in charge. However, see "Errors", below.<br />
*Duke is unwilling to provide resources to Hashtag's pet project, as he wants them focused on the [[Threat Matrix]], which debuted in issue #7.<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Seen in the background when Hashtag first reports in is an [[Equalizer]], a [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/89/equalizer/ G.I. Joe artillery tank] from the "Slaughter's Marauders" subline.<br />
*The helicopter that brings the Joes back after the South America mission goes bad is a [[Tomahawk]], from the [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/86/tomahawk/ 1986 range of toys]. That vehicle's traditional pilot is [[Lift-Ticket]], but the pilot here is so underdetailed that it's impossible to tell if it's him — though it seems to have rolled up sleeves that no version of Lift-Ticket does.<br />
*The boat that the Joes take to the castle, meanwhile, is a [[Shark 9000]], from the [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/93/shark9000/ 1993 "Battle Force" line].<br />
*The toy H.I.S.S. that Hashtag finds is based on [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/83/hiss/ the original toy] from 1983. For some reason, though, the markings on its side only read "78", where the original had "788".<br />
*Hey, Big Boa! There's been [[Big Boa|a Big Boa]] before in IDW continuity, but in keeping with the more serious and realistic tone of the [[G.I. Joe: Cobra II|''Cobra'' series]], he looked pretty much nothing like his outlandish classic counterpart. The idea to "bring him back as a woman" came from artist Steve Kurth, who jokingly suggested the original to fill the "drill instructor" role.<ref>[http://comicsalliance.com/g-i-joe-cobra-siren-song-paul-allor-interview-idw-publishing/ Paul Allor Reveals The Secret History of Cobra In 'G.I. Joe'] on ComicsAlliance</ref> In contrast to the helmetless, serious boxer from the ''Cobra'' series, this one basically just takes the original costume and puts it on a lady.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*Hashtag claims that she was working on the video for two weeks after Cobra's attack on Governors Island. Assuming she's talking about their attack on [[Statue of Liberty|''Liberty'' Island]], which occurred in issues #[[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|7]]-[[Threat Matrix, Part 2 of 4|8]], rather than an entirely off-panel story, that doesn't really work — Duke is still in charge and Cover Girl is still suspicious of him, which implies this story is set before the Threat Matrix arc, which took place over the space of a single day.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*As with "[[The Origin of Roadblock]]", no title for this issue appears within, so we're using the first line of the solicitation (which was used as the title of the trade paperback containing this issue) in lieu of any other title.<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Every member of the ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 cast ''except'' Hashtag, by [[Steve Kurth]], [[Allen Martinez]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Cover Girl and Hashtag sneak past Vipers, by [[Freddie E. Williams II]] and [[Priscilla Tramontano]].<br />
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Once, '''Mercy Gale''' was one of the most loyal agents of the [[Action Man Programme]], running intelligence for the elite division of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and helping to organise missions for the incumbent [[Mike Brogan|Action Man]]. But the constant tug-of-war between terrorist organisations and the forces that fight them weighed heavily on Mercy, and when she saw her chance, she took on the mantle of the supervillain '''Doctor X''' to secretly manipulate Europe into a brighter future.<br />
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Once, '''Mercy Gale''' was one of the most loyal agents of the [[Action Man Programme]], running intelligence for the elite division of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and helping to organise missions for the incumbent [[Mike Brogan|Action Man]]. But the constant tug-of-war between terrorist organisations and the forces that fight them weighed heavily on Mercy, and when she saw her chance, she took on the mantle of the supervillain '''Doctor X''' to secretly manipulate Europe into a brighter future.<br />
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While Doctor X lacks the raw scientific genius of her predecessor, she makes up for it with her skillful manipulation of her terrorist empire and ability to play the "heroes" against one another for her own benefit. For a time, X was able to control both the Action Man Programme and her villainous servants to accomplish her goals, but even after the new Action Man [[Ian Noble]] revealed her deception to the world, the bad doctor has little trouble getting what she wants... ''for the good of the world'', of course.<br />
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After graduating from [[King's College]] in the [[University of Cambridge]], Mercy Gale was recruited by [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] and was a loyal agent of the [[United Kingdom]]. Within 5 years of her recruitment, before she turned thirty, she was headhunted for the [[Action Man Programme]] by then-director [[Patrick Cain]], becoming head of intelligence within 10 months. In her new position, she worked alongside quartermaster [[Ernst Sinclair]] in preparing Action Man [[Mike Brogan]] for missions against international terrorist threats, most frequently including [[Doctor X]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook#Issue 1|Doctor X profile}} While tracking down a chemical compound, she concluded Doctor X had it and sent Brogan to take care of it. He crashed through the roof and fought off the 1500 college students mutated by Doctor X using the chemical. When all was said and done, Gale realised how there seemed to be no end to the constant react-and-counter modus operandi of organisations like the Action Man Programme. While investigating the site, she happened upon the dead body of Doctor X himself, buried under rubble that Brogan caused. Being the only one who knew of the doctor's death, Gale took the opportunity—she would assume his position. <br />
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As Doctor X and as Agent Gale, she was able to manipulate both sides to accomplish her goals. One which included protecting [[London]] from the 2008 {{t|Surge (event)|Decepticon invasion}} of [[Earth]]. Another was acquiring an interplanetary propulsion system, but [[Ian Noble]]'s interference as a spy caused one of her agents to overload the [[antimatter generator]] {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}} and Mike Brogan was forced to sacrifice his life to save the world. {{Storylink|To the Victors the Spoils}} Ian Noble would subsequently become the next Action Man, which Gale didn't mind; Brogan would have not fit into the world she envisioned, while Noble could be tempted. {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}}<br />
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In 2016 in her day job, Gale, with [[Terrence Salmons|Agent Salmons]], assisted Ian in cleaning up a derailed train and comforted Action Man on his guilt over the death of his predecessor. {{Storylink|Absolute Beginners}} Gale conceived a new plan: to acquire an [[O.S. codex]] and the IP addresses of American agents so that she could decode all secret American communications and access their information on alien technology. {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}} The O.S. codex was in Hauteville House in [[Guernsey]] {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}} so, via the mercenary [[Colditz]], {{Storylink|England, Half English}} {{storylink|Out of the Way}} she hired a group to act as extremist separatists to force [[Pauline Bestley|Director Bestley]] to retrieve the O.S. codex. Ian succeeded at doing so. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}} In the meantime, Gale was assigned to rescue the hostages the separatists had kept, but Ian took care of that aspect as well. {{storylink|England, Half English}} After getting the codex, she had the [[Professor]] at the [[Chateau]] scrape IP addresses from American agents. {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}} Gale meant for Ian disguised as Colditz to walk in and acquire the data and leave without issue, {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}} but the [[doorman]] having had a fling with Colditz blew Ian's cover, and Gale was forced to improvise. After apparently killing Salmons, she revealed to Ian that she was Doctor X. {{storylink|Out of the Way}}<br />
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Taking Ian to a secluded spot in the [[Bavaria]]n [[Alps]], she faked her death while giving a monologue to Ian about her motivations and plans. The surprise survival and appearance of Salmons gave Ian the opportunity to break free of his restraints and hitch a ride with Gale to her airship rendezvous with her associate, [[Storm Shadow II|Storm Shadow]]. The arrival of Bestley and [[Bryce Chan|Chan]] put the kibosh on this meeting, and the airship was destroyed.<br />
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Despite the AMP's belief, Doctor X and Storm Shadow survived the explosion and proceeded on a plan with former AMP antagonist Baron Ironblood to ensure the survival of their planet. {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}}<br />
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After somehow running afoul of the criminal {{t|Geddis brothers}}, Gale met with them at their {{t|Redcliffe Club}} in London, where she foiled their attempts at killing her by having Storm Shadow and her [[Red Shadows]] massacre them and their henchmen instead. While partaking in the Geddis' wine, Gale and Ironblood met in person for the first time and the villain revealed to her that he was in fact the presumed dead American war hero [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]]. Though she was rather unimpressed by Colton's whole "pretending to be a supervillain" shtick, she still listened to him as he explained that he'd come to her to offer a place on [[Iron Ring|his team of villains]] willing to end the Cybertronian problem once and for all. However, she remained unconvinced and sicced the Red Shadows on Colton, but he managed to disable Storm Shadow with a shock from his prosthetic hand. Offering to enhance the ninjas even more than Mercy already had through the power of the [[Talisman]], Colton earned Storm Shadow's interest and Gale agreed to work with Colton even though she wanted no part of the actual mission to destroy {{t|Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron}}. {{tstorylink|The Origins of Evil, Part One: Redcliffe Club|Redcliffe Club}} These Talisman enhanced Red Shadows were sent on a mission in [[Japan]] where they ran afoul of the international [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team, who were aware that Doctor X was behind their upgrade. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}}<br />
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After taking over the abandoned [[Cobra]] moonbase [[Section Sabine]], Doctor X and Ironblood had the Talisman moved there for study by the [[Oktober Guard]]. However, the Guard inadvertently ended up dragging Action Man there along with them when they teleported away. Despite Ironblood believing they'd be better off killing him, Gale refused to, believing he could still be swayed to their side. Meeting with Ian, she introduced him to Ironblood before having Storm Shadow hold him at swordpoint, warning him that she didn't want to kill him but also couldn't just let him go. Even after Ian began fighting back, Gale insisted that her allies not harm him. When Action Man's [[Revolutionaries (team)|allies]] came to the base looking for him and the Talisman, Doctor X and the others were forced to retreat, leaving both Ian and the Talisman behind. {{tstorylink|Enter The Shadow}} <br />
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Doctor X and Baron Ironblood visited [[Tomax Paoli]] to convince him to take on the mantle of [[Cobra Commander]]. Paoli refused until he was persuaded by their other ally, [[Centurion]]. {{tstorylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}} After completing preparations for the [[Project Ice Man]] facility in [[Brasnya]], Doctor X radioed her allies to inform them of her progress and boasted that she'd like to see the Revolutionaries try to take them on. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}} Despite her confidence, she still planned to get clear of the facility after she readied the [[M.A.S.S. Device]] to transport Kreiger and Ironblood in to finish their scheme, believing the heroes would be quite cross when they discovered what Ironblood and co. had been doing to the [[Atomic Man]]. {{tstorylink|Strange Visitors}}<br />
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With Kreiger now in custody of the Revolutionaries at an {{t|Onyx}} facility in Buenos Aires along with the Talisman, Doctor X and Storm Shadow infiltrated the facility as part of a plan to retrieve their ally and the artifact. As the plan went into motion, Doctor X made her presence known to Ian and Bryce, holding the two of them at gunpoint. {{tstorylink|When Eagles Scream}} After shooting Bryce with a stun gun, Doctor X smirked and remarked that she felt a twinge of pride when Ian was able to bring himself to shoot at her in retaliation. What she didn't realize was that Ian wasn't actually aiming at her but rather the locks of the containment pods for the mutated citizens of [[Schleteva]]. With the hordes of mutated civilians chasing after her, Doctor X barely survived long enough for {{t|Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan}} to broadcast a wave of energy that cause them to become human once again. With her and Storm Shadow remaining at the Onyx facility while their allies teleported away, Doctor X and her ninja partner staggered over towards the Talisman. Ignoring [[Mayday]]'s calls for her to stand down, Gale apologized to Ian for what she was about to do, wishing that he would've joined them, and teleported away with the Talisman in tow, causing another wave of mutating energy to surge in her wake. Though Ian was almost turned into one of the [[Dire Wraith]]-like creatures, Centurion having a last second change of heart spared him and the other humans from that fate.<br />
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With the cabal now grouped back up in the [[Iron Klaw]]'s [[Iron Castle|castle]], Doctor X gave an affirmative "Yo, Joe" in response to Ironblood's call for his ultimate plan to finally be put into motion. {{tstorylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}} While Ironblood and the others began their attack on Cybertron, Doctor X remained on Earth, with [[Dial Tone]] locating the Doctor and keeping tabs on her. {{tstorylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}}<br />
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Doctor X was amongst the heroes and villains gathered inside {{t|Trypticon (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Trypticon}} to defend the Earth against {{t|Unicron (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Unicron}}. {{tstorylink|Unicron issue 5|Unicron #5}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Doctor X}} at the TFWiki<br />
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==March 2019==<br />
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Once, '''Mercy Gale''' was one of the most loyal agents of the [[Action Man Programme]], running intelligence for the elite division of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] and helping to organise missions for the incumbent [[Mike Brogan|Action Man]]. But the constant tug-of-war between terrorist organisations and the forces that fight them weighed heavily on Mercy, and when she saw her chance, she took on the mantle of the supervillain '''Doctor X''' to secretly manipulate Europe into a brighter future.<br />
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While Doctor X lacks the raw scientific genius of her predecessor, she makes up for it with her skillful manipulation of her terrorist empire and ability to play the "heroes" against one another for her own benefit. For a time, X was able to control both the Action Man Programme and her villainous servants to accomplish her goals, but even after the new Action Man [[Ian Noble]] revealed her deception to the world, the bad doctor has little trouble getting what she wants... ''for the good of the world'', of course.<br />
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'''[[Mercy Gale|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==January 2019==<br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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'''[[Professor Plum|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2018==<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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'''[[Snake Eyes|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
==August 2018==<br />
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'''[[Axiom]]''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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'''[[Axiom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2018==<br />
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When [[Emil Zartan]], [[Cobra]]'s living weapon, was killed by a [[M.A.S.S. device|teleporter accident]], his story did not end. On the orders of [[Cobra Commander]], the organization's scientists were able to create a clone of the assassin: a new '''[[Zartan]]''', capable of changing his face and skin-tone to match any man on the planet.<br />
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Able to infiltrate any facility with ease and steal or kill completely undetected, Zartan — who sees himself as his predecessor, reborn and perfected — is one of Cobra's greatest assets. His unique abilities and belief in his own perfection, however, have given him an egotistical streak and a petulant, narcissistic sense of entitlement. Because of this, his behavior tries his commanders' patience to the point that he may have outlived his usefulness...<br />
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'''[[Zartan|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2018==<br />
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'''[[Stormer]]''' is the stage name of '''Mary Phillips''', the keytarist and songwriter for [[The Misfits]]. While her caring and compassionate nature stands in sharp contrast to her bandmates, Stormer has nevertheless come to serve as the heart and soul of The Misfits and her songwriting skills have defined their sound. Though she often disagrees with their cutthroat approach to gaining success, Stormer still cares very deeply for her fellow Misfits and has a somewhat love-hate relationship with the band's frontwoman [[Pizzazz]].<br />
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Recently, Stormer has become romantically involved with [[Kimber Benton]], keytarist for The Misfits' chief rival [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. She is also the sister of [[Craig Phillips]].<br />
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'''[[Stormer|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHSourcebook Larissa profile.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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The woman called '''[[Larissa]]''' is an enigma. A skilled scientist, medic and warrior who wields '''Orbital Defender''' force-field technology powered by her own biology, she prefers to remain secretive about herself, keeping her past hidden from her allies and enemies alike.<br />
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Joining [[Oziron Rael]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s through a quirk of fate, she may not fully trust her new allies, but is dedicated to their mission of saving [[Microspace]] from the twin threats of the [[Entropy Cloud|entropy cloud]] and [[Baron Karza]]. However, she might know more about the latter than she lets on...<br />
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'''[[Larissa|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2018==<br />
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==March 2018==<br />
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In his heart, '''[[Tomax Paoli]]''' believes a single truth: slavery is freedom. As his connection to [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] and their victory over [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]] prove, man can only be content when he must answer to another.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be peerless businessmen, Tomax and his brother learned on the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] in their youths that the true measure of success in war is profit, not destruction; and they have since applied these lessons to profit ruthlessly in the boardroom, selling security through their [[Crimson Guard]] and growing their empire with [[Extensive Enterprises]].<br />
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Ultimately, Tomax sees the truth of what [[Cobra]] is: control, and he believes in it wholeheartedly. With his fervent belief, he has the potential to rise to the [[Cobra Commander|highest echelons]] of the organization.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">In his heart, '''[[Xamot Paoli]]''' wants one thing: freedom from slavery. Ever since he was left humiliated by [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]], he has felt no connection to [[Tomax Paoli|his brother]], and no longer wishes to answer to anyone but himself.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be a peerless soldier, Xamot finds no joy in playing politics in the boardroom, and his heart years for the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] that he fought on in his youth, where success could be measured in destruction, not just profit. He is miserable growing the empire of [[Extensive Enterprises]], and would rather be fighting alongside the [[Crimson Guard]] than selling their services.<br />
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Now, Xamot sees [[Cobra]] for what it is: slavery, and he wants no part of it. Trapped in the system, when he finally cuts loose, he has the potential to cause huge trouble for the organisation...</div><br />
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==February 2018==<br />
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'''[[Livia]]''' is one of the [[Solstar Order]]'s earliest and most formidable [[Space Knight]]s. Once a young university student with her lover [[Rom]], she was quick to join the Order after the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s attacked her home world of [[Elonia]]. Her dedication to the Order's mission to annihilate the Wraith scourge from the universe has earned her a reputation amongst the Knights, as well as the partnership with their leader, [[Orphion]].<br />
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At heart however, Livia is a natural daredevil and risk taker. War without end has not only fermented these impulses but gave rise to a near-insatiable bloodlust and increasingly narrow sense of good and evil along with a strong belief in the innate moral superiority of the Solstar Order. Dedicated to victory at any cost, Livia always adheres to protocol and is always willing to make any number of sacrifices (usually other people's) in the name of the greater good. In the end however, these traits may very well result in Livia finding herself consumed by not only the war but her own bloodlust... <br />
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'''[[Livia|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==January 2018==<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|Matthew "Matt" Trakker]]''', codenamed '''Spectrum''', is the leader of the [[M.A.S.K.|Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]]. Matt is an engineering genius, but he's had a rebellious and troubled history ever since the death of his father, [[Cornelius Trakker]]. As the inexperienced leader of M.A.S.K., he's had to face the betrayal of his mentor, [[Miles Mayhem]], and the loss of several teammates under his which, two events which have haunted Matt and led to insecurity about his own abilities. Luckily, he has friends, like his M.A.S.K. teammates and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] leader [[Scarlett]], to catch him when he falls. In the field, Trakker drives the [[Thunderhawk]] vehicle and wears the powerful Spectrum [[Mask]].<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==December 2017==<br />
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General '''[[Joe Colton|Joseph B. "Joe" Colton]]''' is known better by his codename: '''G.I. Joe'''. A highly decorated officer in the [[United States Army]] with a strong grip, Colton has had his fair share of fantastic adventures during his time as leader of the [[Adventure Team]]. Colton became so famous that the Adventure Team's replacement, the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, was given another name: [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], after Colton's old nickname. Since their existence was revealed to the public by [[Cobra]], Colton has led G.I. Joe in their continuing fight for freedom.<br />
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However, after an encounter with the [[Dire Wraith]]s, Colton realized that G.I. Joe was not enough. Needing to remain in hiding, he adopted the persona of '''Baron Ironblood''', a sinister, masked villain. Creating the "[[Iron Ring]]", Colton has allied himself with some of the most world's most dangerous villains in pursuit of the artifact codenamed the [[Talisman]] to achieve his ultimate goal: saving the [[Earth]] by destroying all {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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'''[[Joe Colton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==November 2017==<br />
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'''[[Jerrica Benton]]''' is the manager, co-songwriter, and former lead singer of [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. Unbeknownst to those outside of the band, she's also the current lead singer as well! While Jerrica has a passion for music, she's rather shy by nature and has a severe case of stage fright, making her a rather awkward fit for the frontwoman of a hot, up and coming band like the Holograms. One day, however, Jerrica stumbled upon [[Synergy]], a "holographic computer" created by her [[Emmet Benton|late father]] that has the power to create a wide array of dazzling, lifelike, hard-light holograms! With the power of Synergy, Jerrica was suddenly able to create a persona that would allow her to perform in front of an audience without fear, a persona that would come to be known as '''Jem'''!<br />
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Level-headed and mature, Jerrica is well suited to her responsibilities as both the band's manager and lead singer. However, the burden of always having to be "the grown-up" for her sisters and the considerable workload that comes with managing a band like the Holograms can weigh heavy on her and occasionally cause her to lose her patience. Thankfully, her responsible nature ensures that she's able to avoid any temptations to avoid the stresses of her life by living as her alter-ego... right?<br />
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'''[[Jerrica Benton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2017==<br />
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Some would call '''[[Baron Karza|Baron Hraal Karza]]''' power-hungry—a tyrannical ruler exploiting the crisis [[Microspace]] faces for personal gain. But nothing could be further from the truth. Everything that Karza does, he does for his people. He knows that he represents Microspace's best chance for survival, and will not allow anybody to stand in the way of his plans, no matter the cost. If some individuals must be sacrificed to save the universe, so be it.<br />
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Recently, Karza has had a lot of time to himself to think, and his ideas have moved in a more radical direction. Microspace must still be saved, but couldn't things be made even better with a strong leader at its head? Someone to guide—to ''shepherd''—the people down the right path. Someone... just like Baron Karza?<br />
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'''[[Baron Karza|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==September 2017==<br />
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Once, he was called '''Phillip M. Provost'''; but in recent years, you're more likely to have met him as Jason Wright, or Derrick Attell, or Marcus Quinn, or one of a hundred other names. His true identity, though, is '''[[Chuckles]]''': undercover [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] agent, reporting to [[Hawk]] on the criminal organisations of the world; a task that he's naturally suited to with his gregarious charm and ruthless willing to do whatever's needed to complete his mission.<br />
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As an undercover agent, Chuckles is not officially on file as a member of G.I. Joe; instead, he contacts the Joes through his handler [[Jinx]], with whom he's begun a romantic relationship with.<br />
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Recently, he's discovered the existence of a global terrorist conspiracy called [[Cobra]], and is infiltrating it as a prospective agent. What could go wrong?<br />
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'''[[Chuckles|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==August 2017==<br />
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The ancient enemies of the [[Solstar Order]], the '''[[Dire Wraith]]s''' are a race of parasitic alien shapeshifters bent on conquest. Capable of taking over the bodies of other life-forms and transforming them into more of their kind, the Dire Wraiths wield dark magics powered by the lifeblood of other creatures, and can take any form they wish.<br />
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Having been scattered across the galaxy after the destruction of [[Dire Wraith homeworld|their homeworld]], they are pursued in their invasions by the Solstar Order's [[Space Knight]]s, and above all else they fear the greatest of their number, [[Rom]]. But having arrived on [[Earth]], the planet is unique among those the Dire Wraiths have come to, and its qualities may provide them with new weapons in their war with the Space Knights...<br />
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'''[[Dire Wraith|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2017==<br />
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General '''[[Miles Mayhem|Miles "Mayhem" Manheim]]''' is a military man. A soldier since his youthful days, he later served under [[Joe Colton]] as part of the [[Adventure Team]]. During this time, Manheim got his nickname from Colton because of his innate talent for causing disruption and chaos among enemy forces. Miles was a brilliant soldier and one of Joe's best friends. <br />
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However, Mayhem's heroic actions soon gave way to villainous intentions. Carrying a deep desire for wealth and power, Mayhem is methodical and a master manipulator. He is able to use the people around him like pawns in a game of chess. He is incredibly cold and is willing to sacrifice anyone, deeming human lives an "acceptable loss." His ultimate desire is control over the world, and he's more than happy to sell out his allies and side with whomever he must to gain what he believes he deserves.<br />
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'''[[Miles Mayhem|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2017==<br />
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'''Action Man''' is known as "the greatest hero of them all", but '''[[Ian Noble]]''', the current holder of the title, might not quite live up to that description. He's reckless, impulsive and irreverent, and not exactly one for subtlety, so it's hardly surprising that he struggles to live up to [[Mike Brogan|the previous Action Man]]'s legacy.<br />
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Despite that, he wasn't made the new Action Man for no reason. Ian is a brave, dedicated agent with a strong sense of loyalty and justice, skills that impressed even his predecessor, and a sharper mind than most would give him credit for... even if he does mostly use it for making bad puns. When he sets his mind to a task, you can count on him to carry it out, though he might derail a train into a wildlife park in the process.<br />
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'''[[Ian Noble|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2017==<br />
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'''Phyllis Gabor''', better known by her stage name '''[[Pizzazz]]''', is the frontwoman, occasional guitarist, and all around public face of [[The Misfits]]. Unfortunately for the rest of her band, however, her face is one that can often be found screaming in the faces of others. Loud, abrasive, and short tempered, Pizzazz is an extremely driven musician who strives for perfection in her music and doesn't take kindly to anyone or anything she perceives as a threat to The Misfits' success. Though she can be incredibly rude and hurtful towards her bandmates, deep down she does harbor a deep affection for them, seeing them as a second family of sorts to replace her distant [[Harvey Gabor|father]].<br />
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'''[[Pizzazz|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2017==<br />
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The taciturn '''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]''' forgoes his own name, going instead by that of the breed of [[Acroyear (group)|genetically-engineered super-warriors]] to which he belongs. One of the last surviving first generation Acroyears, he narrowly escaped destruction with the help of [[Oziron Rael]], and now fights as part of the [[Pharoid]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s.<br />
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Acroyear is a warrior without parallel, able to [[enerchange]] turbines for flight and summon a powerful sword from subspace. For him, no opponent is too tough, no obstacle insurmountable, no odds too slim, even in a [[Earth|world of giants]]. In truth, the only time Acroyear truly feels out of his depth is when the battle is over – the absence of threat leaves him feeling intensely uncomfortable. Luckily for him, that's not a problem he has so much these days.<br />
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'''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==March 2017==<br />
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'''"[[Cobra Commander|Commander]]"''' is the title given to the supreme leader of [[Cobra]]. Elected once every seven years in an occult ceremony from a pool of candidates chosen by the [[Cobra Council]], the Commander dons a mask to hide their face from the world and directs all Cobra's operations from the shadows. There have been many commanders in Cobra's centuries-long history, but the mystery man who lead the organization for the last quarter of the twentieth century was one of the most successful.<br />
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'''[[Cobra Commander|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2016==<br />
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One of the Space Knights has followed the trail of the [[Dire Wraith]]s all the way to [[Earth]]. This one the Dire Wraiths fear more than all others. This one has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. This one alone could wipe them off the face of creation. <br />
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He is '''[[Rom]]''', Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! '''''Rom, the Space Knight!'''''<br />
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'''[[Rom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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|inks by=[[Michele Pasta]]<br />
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'''The origin of Rom!'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
On the planet [[Elonia]], a series of asteroids land on the planets surface, penetrating the energy shield that surrounds the planet. A group of meteorites land near the [[Thrail Mountains]], in front of the home of the K'atsema family. Mothers [[Benna K'atsema|Benna]] and [[Shah K'atsema|Shah]] go outside to investigate while their youngest son [[Reyn K'atsema|Reyn]] goes to collect rocks. Benna and Shah decide to call their older son, a geologist named [[Rom]], to help them examine the rocks. Reyn pulls one of the stones out of the ground to show his mothers and it begins to glow in his hand. Rom heads home with his university friends [[Livia]] and [[Fy-Laa]], excited to see what secrets the asteroids hold. As they near his house, they see the building explode.<br />
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Members of the [[Solstar Order]], including evidence recorder [[Whrrr]], Lieutenant [[Diavod]], and Commanding Officer [[Orphion]], arrive on the scene, detecting energy signatures matching those of the [[Dire Wraith]]s, as well as Shah, who survived the explosion. They take her to the [[Solstar Academy Medical Center]] where Diavod informs Rom and Livia that while they're doing everything they can, she's likely already infected. Rom suspects the meteor shower was an attack since they only landed near settlements and wants to know who killed his family. Diavod is hesitant to tell him, but the three then notice the victims sitting up. Rom asks what is going on, only to be attacked by "Shah" now transformed into a Dire Wraith. Diavod readies his [[Neutralizer]], but loses it in battle with the Wraith. Realizing that this creature is not his mother, Rom grabs the Neutralizer and fires at the Wraith, knocking it back and forcing the Wraiths to flee as Solstar officers [[Maur]] and [[Q'b]] arrive. Diavod is impressed with how Rom handled his Neutralizer and offers him a place in the Solstar Order.<br />
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After Rom, Livia, and Fy-laa are inducted into the Order, they are briefed on the Dire Wraith and the threat they represent. Rom is angry that Imperator [[Carax]] didn't tell the Elonians about the Wraiths sooner, but resolves to eliminate the threat now. As the trio begin their training, Orphion tells Diavod of his doubts they will accomplish much. Rom and Livia also grow more romantically entangled, much to the chagrin of Fy-laa. After graduating to cadets, the three are assigned to guard a potential Wraith command post at the Thrail Mountains. Rom is frustrated that the Order won't give them a real mission, but Orphion tells him that if he wants respect, he should earn it by doing his job. <br />
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As the group prepares to settle in for the night, they are attacked by a cadre of Wraiths, including the one that infected Shah. Livia calls Orphion for backup, but the Wraiths easily knock away their Neutralizers and strike Livia, destroying one of her eyes. As his Wraith-infected mother tells Rom to submit, Rom grabs his Neutralizer and fires it into the ground, blowing a hole in the ground and leading the three to fall down one of the mine shafts. Rom tells the others to run as he holds them off, but his Neutralizer's power is empty after its prior use. Refusing to go down without a fight, he grabs a stone from the ground, to which the Wraiths react in fear. The "[[Space Knight armor|Ore]]" as the Wraiths call it then begins to surround Rom's arm. One of the Wraiths approach the Elonian, but he strikes it, managing to actually hurt it. The Ore surrounds Rom's body, causing him to convulse over in pain before standing up, revealing his entire body covered in crystalline armor. He reaches for his Neutralizer, only for the armor to absorb it, allowing him to fire its energy from his hands. Livia and Fy-laa also grab some of the Ore to create armor for themselves. The trio use the enhanced abilities of the Ore to destroy the Wraiths. However, when they try to remove the armor, it refuses to come off. They are now permanently bonded to the Ore.<br />
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Later, the Solstar Order has begun to harvest the Ore for research, seeing the potential of its use against the Wraiths. Rom is hesitant to believe their current situation is a blessing, but Livia and Orphion both agree that regardless of the cost, this armor is the best chance they have to combat the Wraiths. Orphion volunteers to undergo Ore conversion and says that he will lead the Knights of the Solstar Order, but that all future Knights must be experienced warriors who volunteer. As Orphion and the others leave to return to the test site, Rom flies back to the remains of his home, using his Neutralizer to shine a beam of light into space as a reminder to both himself and the universe what he is fighting for. So swears Rom, the Space Knight!<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
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*[[Rom]] (5)<br />
*[[Fy-Laa]] (6)<br />
*[[Livia]] (7)<br />
*[[Whrrr]] (8)<br />
*[[Orphion]] (9)<br />
*[[Diavod]] (10)<br />
*Other Order personnel (11)<br />
*[[Maur]] (15)<br />
*[[Q'b]] (16)<br />
*[[Carax]] (17)<br />
*[[Nikomi]] (18)<br />
*[[Prim]] (19)<br />
*[[Butin]] (20)<br />
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*"Shah" Wraith Hawk (13)<br />
*Converted Elonians (14)<br />
*Wraith high priest (21)<br />
*Two Wraith grunts (22-23)<br />
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*[[Reyn K'atsema]] (1)<br />
*[[Benna K'atsema]] (2)<br />
*[[Shah K'atsema]] (3)<br />
*Newscaster (4)<br />
*Other Elonian victims (12)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"I'll need my Neutralizer back now, boy. But the way you handled it... maybe we can get you one of your own."<br />
:—'''Diavod''' to '''Rom'''<br />
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"The Wraiths are parasites. They merge with us and kill. But the armor is symbiotic... it makes us ''stronger''."<br />
:—'''Rom'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Elonian religion apparently has ''six'' hells. That is awesome.<br />
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===Continuity notes===<br />
*Rom has mentioned the devastation of his homeworld by the Wraiths in [[Earthfall: Part One|''ROM'' #1]] and several issues since.<br />
*[[Reinforcements, Part 1|Issues #5]] and [[Reinforcements, Part 2|#6]] mentioned a previous relationship between Rom and Livia that ended, which happens in this issue.<br />
*Several Space Knights seen in a flashback in [[Earthfall: Part Two|issue #2]] receive names in this issue.<br />
*The Space Knights' armor is revealed in this issue to be a strange extraterrestrial ore discovered on Elonia. Coupled with the fact that in {{t|O Ship of State|''Revolution'' #3}} Rom's armor responded to the presence of a Cybertronian {{t|Space bridge|spacebridge}}, and that the Dire Wraiths seem to have some connection to it much as they did with [[Ore-13]] in ''[[Revolution]]'', it seems to be ''heavily'' implied that the armor is formed from one of the {{t|Regenesis}} ores created by the {{t|Transformer|Cybertronian}} {{t|Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave}}. This would later be confirmed in {{t|Our Darkest|''Unicron'' #0}} with the armor being Ore-12.<br />
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===ROM References===<br />
*The early Neutralizers used by the Solstar Order are based on the original Neutralizer toy.<br />
*When Rom first merges with the Ore, his armor has the "mitten hands" of his original toy.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*Towards the beginning of the book, Rom complains that he isn't considered a "true Knight of the Order", yet later questions Orphion's use of the phrase "Knights of the Solstar Order" as if it were the first time he's heard it.<br />
*When this issue was first released digitally, it was missing its last page, making it look like Rom just sort of trailed off before saying his name. This was subsequently fixed.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*Originally solicited for release in January, this issue arrives a month late in the second week of February.<br />
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===Covers (5)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Rom and Livia hold one another, by [[David Messina]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Rom gaining his armor in homage to a [http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Fireside_Book_Series_Vol_1_10 Bob Larkin Hulk cover], by [[J.K. Woodward]].<br />
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===Advertisements===<br />
*''ROM'' #8<br />
*''ROM'' #9<br />
*''ROM'' #10<br />
*''ROM'' Vol. 1 trade paperback<br />
*"The Hasbro Tribune" editorial page promoting January's [[Hasbro Universe]] ''[[Reconstruction]]'' titles, including {{t|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 2|''G.I. Joe'' #2}}, [[M.A.S.K. issue 3|''M.A.S.K.'' #3]], {{t|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|''Lost Light'' #2}}, {{t|New Cybertron Part 3: Behind My Bleeding Back|''Optimus Prime'' #3}}, {{t|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|''Till All Are One'' #7}}, {{t|Enter The Shadow|''Revolutionaries'' #2}}, [[Micronauts issue 9|''Micronauts'' #9]], [[Micronauts Annual 2017|''Micronauts'' Annual 2017]], this issue, and [[Reinforcements, Part 3|''ROM'' #7]].<br />
*''{{t|Revolutionaries}}''<br />
* IDW "Annual Offensive"<br />
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[[Category:ROM issues]]</div>Broadsidehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=IDW_Hasbro_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal&diff=10784IDW Hasbro Wiki talk:Community Portal2019-02-08T15:35:29Z<p>Broadside: /* Will this wiki be around for awhile? */</p>
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== Transformers Character Pages: How Much Is Too Much? ==<br />
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[[Kup]], and [[Skywarp]]'s pages are VERY truncated, reducing entire events/storylines down to just one storylink. [[Optimus Prime]] and [[Windblade]] are a lot more detailed. I feel like we need to keep our TF articles consistent, so we need to pick a style and stick with it. I personally prefer the more truncated style of Kup and Skywarp, although I do question if we need all the TF-only background info. --[[User:DanielAdkins|DanielAdkins]] ([[User talk:DanielAdkins|talk]]) 21:54, 1 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I added the Earth-based background info for Skywarp and Kup since I thought it gave appropriate context to the rest - GI Joe fans don't need to know about Skywarp's early days in Megatron's army, but they might be interested to know that he blew up Beijing. That said, yeah, I vote for the truncated style. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 08:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
::I also think the truncated style of Kup and Skywarp works, though perhaps a slight expansion could be useful. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 11:53, 2 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::When you say "truncated style" do you mean just giving the short version of their TF specific history or making everything, including the shared universe relevant stuff truncated? Because I definitely agree we don't need to get super in depth about everything Skywarp did before he became a Joe but I do think there's some merit to having a more detailed description of what he's doing now that he is.[[User:Unitremover|Unitremover]] ([[User talk:Unitremover|talk]]) 14:52, 2 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
::::I think perhaps for characters who are going to be appearing on a regular basis in Hasbroverse material, that's a good idea. Characters like Windblade and Optimus, less so. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 18:18, 2 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::::Sure, that sounds reasonable. So we'd basically just be swapping the style Skywarp/Kup's pages are written with the style Prime/Windblade's are and vice versa? [[User:Unitremover|Unitremover]] ([[User talk:Unitremover|talk]]) 22:07, 2 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::::Okay, so over a week later I realize that what I said in my last reply doesn't actually solve the problem Daniel brought up at all. I guess I'll say again that I think I prefer the more detailed way Prime/Windblade's pages are structured but it looks like I'm in the minority there. So are we officially going with the truncated style?[[User:Unitremover|Unitremover]] ([[User talk:Unitremover|talk]]) 04:30, 11 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::::Pretty much, I think. We might expand coverage of recurring characters to be a bit more robust, but I'm not certain that's necessary right now. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 13:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Abbreviations in page names ==<br />
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What's going to be our policy for this? Should it be [[B.A.T.]] or [[BAT]], [[M.A.R.S. Industries]] or [[MARS Industries]]? Given [[G.I. Joe (team)]] and [[M.A.S.K.]], I assume the former, but most pages link to the latter take. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 16:25, 31 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:It's probably more "correct" to type them out with the dots but at the same time I don't think I'd mind too much if we didn't need to. [[User:Unitremover|Unitremover]] ([[User talk:Unitremover|talk]]) 17:17, 31 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I say we go with the former since most of the time they're written out on panel, its with the dots. --[[User:DanielAdkins|DanielAdkins]] ([[User talk:DanielAdkins|talk]]) 18:25, 31 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
::IIRC, earlier Joe books didn't use the dots, but later ones do. I'd say keep the dots, since that's how Hasbro always stylises those names. [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 21:36, 31 May 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Spam + abuse filters ==<br />
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Hello everyone! I'm Samantha, a member of the ShoutWiki team. I'm contacting all you about the spam since I've there's been a bit of spam here today. I took some precautions and set up abuse filters so that there'll be less spam occurring. Abuse filters are essentially a collection of rules written in a [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter/Rules_format|special syntax]] that are checked against an edit, and if edit matches the patterns, then you can choose to either:<br />
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* prevent the edit from going through<br />
* let the edit go through but have it tagged<br />
* show a warning, remove the user's rights<br />
* revoke the user's autoconfirmed status<br />
* auto-block the user/IP from editing<br />
* only trigger actions based on a rate limit<br />
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Would this community this wiki be interested in having rights configured so that administrators can edit and create filters? Let me know, and if the community is interested in this, I can set these rights up.<br />
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[[User:SamanthaNguyen|SamanthaNguyen]] ([[User_talk:SamanthaNguyen|talk]]) <staff /> 19:01, 21 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Hi, Samantha! That'd be great, thank you. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 20:30, 21 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
::I've gave some abusefilter rights to the administrator group. Also, [[mw:Extension:AbuseFilter#User rights|some rights]] have been limited, so for example <code>abusefilter-private</code> and <code>abusefilter-view-private</code> isn't granted because it conflicts with our Privacy Policy, but you'll still be able to create, edit, and delete filters. I hope you understand. Cheers! [[User:SamanthaNguyen|SamanthaNguyen]] ([[User_talk:SamanthaNguyen|talk]]) <staff /> 22:24, 21 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::Many thanks! [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 02:06, 22 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Character Histories: How much non-IDW Stuff do we cover? ==<br />
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The characters we cover all have prior histories from before IDW began making comics for them. Would it be appropriate to create pages based on the non-IDW Stuff, such as ROM's Toyline or Marvel Comics Series? Or the M.A.S.K cartoons? If this is meant to be a sister wiki to TFWiki, and they a similar level of depth is warranted.<br />
:We have franchise overview pages: [[ROM (franchise)]], [[M.A.S.K. (franchise)]], etc. Otherwise, we don't really need that - our coverage is purely for the sake of the shared universe rather than being a general "Joe, MASK, Jem, Rom, Micronauts and Action Man" wiki. (Also, please sign your talkpage edits with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 22:25, 23 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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==Clue==<br />
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IDW just released a new Clue comic based on the game by Hasbro & it had a "Welcome to the Hasbro Universe" page at the end of the comic, so should it get a page or no? --[[User:Darth Gonzo|Darth Gonzo]] ([[User talk:Darth Gonzo|talk]]) 04:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
:...Huh. You know, I haven't read it, but it could be that we should cover it based on the "why not" ethos that we cover Jem with. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 08:35, 29 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
::What about other IDW's series based on Hasbro properties such "Magic" and "Dungeons & Dragons"? I think they're should be covered on wiki too.<br />
:::No. This is just for the Hasbro Universe and things that fit if you squint. MTG, D&D, and MLP are right out. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 16:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
::::Well they are out for now you mean. They could be added in the near future. --[[User:Darth Gonzo|Darth Gonzo]] ([[User talk:Darth Gonzo|talk]]) 21:31, 29 June 2017 (UTC)<br />
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==Army Ants==<br />
In the upcoming G.I. Joe Unmasked will be the first appearance of Hasbro's Army Ants in fiction. --[[User:Darth Gonzo|Darth Gonzo]] ([[User talk:Darth Gonzo|talk]]) 20:09, 21 July 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== "Hasbro Universe" subheadings ==<br />
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Do we really need them? Surely the Hasbroverse is the "default", and we don't really need to specify? --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 10:26, 25 July 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I find it irritating to see "Aw Yeah Revolution" all by itself in the table of contents. That way, it looks as though "Aw Yeah Revolution" is the main body of fiction. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 05:52, 3 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
::Why are we covering Aw Yeah here, though? Can't that just be left to TFWiki? [[User:Creedence|Creedence]] ([[User talk:Creedence|talk]]) 18:58, 24 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
:::Because it is a parody of the wider Hasbro Universe which we cover, and if someone only cares about, say, Rom, they shouldn't have to go to TFWiki just to see what he did in a little kid book. --[[User:DanielAdkins|DanielAdkins]] ([[User talk:DanielAdkins|talk]]) 20:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Other comics ==<br />
Hi, everybody. Non-canon ''Aw Yeah Revolution'' comic is covered on wiki. So, why not include IDW's other out-of-continuity series based on Hasbro properties (for example, ''Street Fighter X G.I. Joe'', ''A Real American Hero'' and ''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe'')? I suggest this because there's no wiki which covers those comics.<br />
:At this point, we are only focused on the main IDW Hasbro Universe and related works. Aw Yeah! is a parody of the mainline Revolution book, thus it is worth including. --[[User:DanielAdkins|DanielAdkins]] ([[User talk:DanielAdkins|talk]]) 20:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)<br />
::That said, the Aw-Yeah-verse ''is'' covered in its entirety on TFWiki, so maybe we should do "main article" link-outs for those sections...? --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 11:38, 10 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== VOTE: "Hawk" vs "General Hawk" for pagename ==<br />
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So, there's quite a bit of disagreement on this, so we should put it to a vote: should the page for G.I. Joe's original leader be at "Hawk" or "General Hawk"?<br />
* The argument for "General Hawk": He's almost universally referred to in IDW with the "General" outside of the Larry Hama issues, and he's the ''only'' character who gets a title appended to his codename other than the likes of Major Bludd and Doctor Mindbender. Most page writeups are going to be referring to him as "General Hawk", because that's how he's addressed in the story.<br />
* The argument for just "Hawk": His codename is traditionally (and presumably still is in IDW) just "Hawk", so it's not an equivalent to "Major Bludd", etc.<br />
So... yay/nay? --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 11:36, 10 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
:I prefer Hawk. --[[User:DanielAdkins|DanielAdkins]] ([[User talk:DanielAdkins|talk]]) 13:54, 10 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
::In this case I vote General Hawk. [[User:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47]] ([[User talk:S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47|talk]]) 14:25, 10 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
:Hawk. [[User:Creedence|Creedence]] ([[User talk:Creedence|talk]]) 19:56, 11 October 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Will this wiki be around for awhile? ==<br />
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OK, we all know the "Shared Universe" ended with Unicron and this wiki understandably has a lot of holes. I've been focusing more on this wiki lately vs the Transformers one but if this going away anytime soon, someone let me know so I won't waste my time. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] ([[User talk:MistaTee|talk]]) 14:38, 8 February 2019 (UTC)<br />
:There's no plans to get rid of it. --[[User:Broadside|Broadside]] ([[User talk:Broadside|talk]]) 15:35, 8 February 2019 (UTC)</div>Broadsidehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=M.A.S.K._issue_5&diff=10759M.A.S.K. issue 52019-02-08T02:10:08Z<p>Broadside: </p>
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'''The first confrontation with V.E.N.O.M. comes to a conclusion.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
With [[V.E.N.O.M.]] surrounded by [[M.A.S.K.]], [[Matt Trakker]] orders their foes to surrender, but [[Miles Mayhem]] is unimpressed with his bravado. With a button on his belt, Mayhem summons his [[Switchblade]] helicopter to burst through the roof, guns blazing; he orders his underlings to run for their own vehicles while he sees their foes eliminated, but at the last moment, Matt manages to save his friends from death with a scattering field projected from his "Spectrum" [[mask]], which harmlessly detonates the missiles fired by the Switchblade. While Mayhem escapes in his vehicle, [[Gloria Baker]] realises a new issue - she's detected a massive Ore-13 battery on a subterranean level of the facility, but Matt decides to prioritise the escaping V.E.N.O.M. team, not wanting them to get away.<br />
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Gloria chases after [[Sly Rax]], who has been charged by Mayhem with escaping with the data on "[[Project Slither]]". Though she is forced to make a detour when Rax uses his "Stiletto" mask to create a barricade across the street, she manages to pursue him off the [[Toronto]] docks in the [[Shark]]'s submarine mode... but as soon as she does, Rax's [[Piranha]] fires a missile salvo that tears the Shark apart. Matt is horrified to see Gloria's communications go dark, but as he tells [[Brad Turner]] to convert to copter mode to find her, the team is attacked by [[Bruno Sheppard]] and [[Vanessa Warfield]]. Bruno seemingly grabs Brad off the [[Condor]] and tears his mask off, only to find that the face underneath is ''his own'' -- moments before the ''real'' Brad flies through the illusion he created, grabbing Bruno's remote-control belt and causing the [[Rhino]] to crash! Meanwhile, Vanessa has cornered [[Julio Lopez]], forcing him out of the [[Jackhammer]]. Vanessa threatens to use her "Ice Queen" mask to freeze Julio to death, but he warns against it, revealing that he's used his own to increase the size of dust mites in the mask and damage the moisture regulator; if she fires a freeze beam, it'll kill her. Vanessa reluctantly removes her mask... and Julio knocks her out, having been bluffing the whole time.<br />
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Sly's delight at his destruction of the Shark is cut short when Gloria rockets out of her vehicle using the [[Caterpillar Propulsion Drive]], attaching an explosive device to the Piranha and dragging the unconscious Rax to the surface. Her teammates have a bigger problem, however: Mayhem is using the Switchblade to airlift away the Ore-13 battery, which has turned unstable and is ready to detonate. A ranting Mayhem uses his "Viper" mask to slice off a wing of the [[Thunderhawk]], but Matt takes the opportunity to test a function of his mask: using Spectrum to heat and cushion the air around him, he glides through the air to the battery and cuts it free of the helicopter! The battery drops out of the sky, with Julio using his mask to shrink it to a more manageable size, while Matt is caught by Brad; however, the two are still under fire from Mayhem. To take their foe down, Matt attempts a desperate final gambit, siphoning power from Brad's mask to overload his own and fire an energy beam that tears Switchblade apart, though Mayhem launches a rocket-powered ejector seat at the last moment. His mask's power spent, Matt falls from the sky, but Brad uses the last of his "Eclipse" mask's energy to create a net that catches Matt before he lands.<br />
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Later, M.A.S.K. stand by as [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] take V.E.N.O.M. into custody. Despite Mayhem's escape, the team's leader [[Scarlett]] congratulates them on their work, and assures them they will have the Joes' full support in the future. Brad is happy to note that his bike is the only vehicle that got out unscathed — but Julio quips that nothing will fix his teammate's hairdo.<br />
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Some weeks later still, the M.A.S.K. team visits a [[Miami Beach]] nightclub to unwind. While Gloria persuades Matt to drop his "brooding hero" act and come dance, Brad gets a call from someone claiming to be an "old friend", who asks to meet him across the street from the club. Venturing across the street and into the alleyway, Brad looks for his mysterious caller... only to see, and be knocked out by, ''himself.'' As his minions drag the unconscious Brad away, his duplicate's face changes to that of the shapeshifting [[Zartan]], who has decided to keep an eye on the newest players in the game...<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic'' text appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[M.A.S.K.]]|c1=<br />
*[[Matt Trakker]] (1)<br />
*[[Gloria Baker]] (5)<br />
*[[Brad Turner]] (8)<br />
*[[Julio Lopez]] (7)<br />
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|h2=[[V.E.N.O.M.]]|c2=<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (2)<br />
*[[Miles Mayhem]] (3)<br />
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (4)<br />
*[[Sly Rax]] (6)<br />
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|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=<br />
*? (10)<br />
*[[Scarlett]] (11)<br />
*G.I. Joe guards (12)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*Street passersby (9)<br />
*Other club patrons (13)<br />
*[[Zartan]] (14)<br />
*Zartan's henchmen (15)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
* Zartan! Cobra's resident shapeshifter hasn't been seen since ''[[G.I. Joe: Special Missions]]'' [[Operation: Deadfall, Part 3|#7]]. He makes a vague allusion to his "colleagues"; this might be a reference to Cobra, though the concurrent [[G.I. Joe vol. 5|''G.I. Joe'']] title establishes Cobra to be defunct — but, well, ''M.A.S.K.'' isn't exactly big on continuity.<br />
* And thus all of V.E.N.O.M. except Miles Mayhem is captured, but as evidenced by the [[The Deathstone|2017 ''M.A.S.K.'' Annual story]], they won't be in jail for long.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
* Miles' mask, based on the classic "Viper", was [[M.A.S.K. issue 3|previously]] named as "Python", the name of his ''other'' classic mask; however, in this issue, its name is given as "Viper".<br />
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===Wait, what?===<br />
* Why does Brad describe his theft of Bruno's remote control in the past tense in a panel where he's in the process of stealing it?<br />
* If Matt has never tested his mask's anti-gravity capabilities before, why does it have an "anti-grav" command phrase?<br />
* oh ''god'' that line about not thinking of Gloria as a "sister" is ''creepy as hell'', why<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*Solicited for release in March, this issue arrives a month late in April.<br />
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===Covers (4)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' <br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' <br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' <br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' <br />
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|date=[[March 1]], [[2017]]<br />
|coverdate=January 2017<br />
|written by=[[Brandon Easton]]<br />
|art by=[[Juan Samu]]<br />
|colors by=[[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
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|editor=[[David Hedgecock]]<br />
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'''Tensions run high in M.A.S.K. as the team plans another attack against V.E.N.O.M.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Reeling from the discovery that [[Miles Mayhem]] killed his [[Cornelius Trakker|father]], [[Matt Trakker]] sits alone on the edge of the ship's deck. [[Gloria Baker]] joins him, asking him to open to her, and the two share a tender moment. As they are about to kiss, the ship is attacked by another vessel. [[Julio Lopez]] asks if the attackers are V.E.N.O.M., but Matt doesn't think so. Gloria takes the [[Shark]] to launch a counterattack, but her torpedoes are unsuccessful in breaching the enemy ship's hull. Gloria uses her Aura [[Mask]] to hack into the ship's computer, overriding the navigation and propulsion to send the ship into a rocky shoal, wrecking it. Gloria then downloads the ship's records onto Aura.<br />
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Back on the ship, Gloria tells the rest of [[M.A.S.K.]] that the attacking ship, the ''[[Tee-Bawb]]'', belonged to a crew of drug smugglers based out of Miami. [[Brad Turner]] reveals that the ship they used to reach [[Barbados]] also belonged to the ''Tee-Bawb'' crew, with Brad using some of his old [[Drug Enforcement Administration|DEA]] connections to borrow it. Learning that Brad's work for the DEA was less than clean, Matt tells Brad that he needs to be able to trust his teammates. Gloria shows the team a map, marked with locations and timestamps, she found hidden in the ''Tee-Bawb'''s database. Brad confirms that it isn't a drug pipeline, but does recognize some of locations marked on the map, theorizing it to be a series of invitation for smugglers around the world. Suspecting Mayhem, the team decides to infiltrate the next meeting.<br />
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A week later, the team arrives in [[Toronto]], [[Canada]]. Matt, Gloria, and Julio go ashore, while Brad remains behind on the ship to recover. Matt tells Julio to stay behind in the [[Jackhammer]] while he and Gloria infiltrate the meeting. Upon entering, the team confirms that Mayhem is indeed the organizer of this meeting, where Mayhem is auctioning off a set of Masks. Matt refuses to see his father's work being sold to criminals, and he and Baker charge into battle. Matt destroys the Masks with a blast from his Spectrum Mask and goes after Mayhem, but he is cut off by [[Bruno Sheppard]], still seeking revenge against Matt. Bruno uses his Thunderflame Mask to burn Matt, but Gloria activates the building's fire suppression system, allowing Matt to break free of Bruno's hold. However, she is then captured by Mayhem's Python Mask, while [[Vanessa Warfield]] appears and freezes Matt in place with her Ice Queen Mask. Matt blasts Mayhem and Warfield, allowing him and Gloria to break free. As Matt corners Mayhem, ready to kill him, Matt's [[Alessandra Trakker|mother]] appears out of nowhere, telling her son to spare Mayhem's life. Shocked to see his mother, Matt freezes. Mayhem pulls a gun out and grabs Alessandra, aiming the pistol at her head. Mayhem tells Matt that he makes far too many empty threats before pulling the trigger on the gun.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic'' text appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[M.A.S.K.]]|c1=<br />
*[[Gloria Baker]] (1)<br />
*[[Matt Trakker]] (2)<br />
*[[Julio Lopez]] (3)<br />
*[[Brad Turner]] (5)<br />
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|h2=[[V.E.N.O.M.]]|c2=<br />
*[[Miles Mayhem]] (7)<br />
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (8)<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (9)<br />
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|h3=Others|c3=<br />
*''Tee-Bawb'' crew (4)<br />
*Auction attendees (6)<br />
*[[Alessandra Trakker]] (10)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You M.A.S.K. idiots are far too easy to manipulate and defeat. Clearly, you know nothing of the subtle aspects of wartime strategy."<br />
:—'''Miles Mayhem'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Brad borrowed a ship from the crew of the ''Tee-Bawb'' back in [[M.A.S.K. issue 1|issue #1]].<br />
*Brad is still recovering from the injuries [[Sly Rax]] gave him back is the first issue.<br />
*This is the first issue to showcase Julio and Miles using their M.A.S.K. powers.<br />
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===M.A.S.K. references===<br />
*The drug smuggler ship that attacks the M.A.S.K. team at the beginning of the book is called the "''Tee-Bawb''," a reference to the character of T-Bob from the original ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)|M.A.S.K.]]'' cartoon.<br />
*Though Mayhem's mask is visually based on his classic "Viper" mask, its name in this issue is given as "Python", the name of another of Miles' 80s masks. This was presumably a change made to avoid confusion with the [[Viper|Cobra mooks]] — though, confusingly, [[M.A.S.K. issue 5|''M.A.S.K.'' #5]] uses the "Viper" name.<br />
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===Real world references===<br />
*One of the buyers in Toronto is wearing a {{w|Hell's Angels}} jacket.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*The Shark is once again blue.<br />
*Julio is somehow able to use his Gulliver Mask's power on Matt and Gloria's Masks, despite not being in range of them.<br />
*Bruno's cybernetics appear completely different from how they were drawn in the [[M.A.S.K. issue 2|last issue]], now appearing on his right side instead of his left and only covering his eye rather than the entire half of his head. <br />
*Matt threatens to rip Mayhem out of his armor, even though Mayhem is clearly just wearing his military uniform.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*Originally scheduled for release in January, this issue arrives two months late in March.<br />
*Backmatter for the issue consists of Part 3 of 5 of an interview with ''{{w|M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.}}'' voice actor {{w|Doug Stone (voice actor)|Doug Stone}}, conducted by cover artist [[Tommy Lee Edwards]], and a fan showcase page of art, cosplay and memorabilia.<br />
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===Covers (4)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Gloria Baker and the Shark, by [[Tommy Lee Edwards]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' V.E.N.O.M. in their classic 80s cartoon look, by [[Dan Schoening]] and [[Luis Antonio Delgado]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Nothing but lies, by [[Ron Joseph]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' M.A.S.K. using their Masks, by [[Marcello Ferreira]] and [[Jordi Escuin]].<br />
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===Advertisements===<br />
*"The Hasbro Tribune" editorial page promoting January's [[Hasbro Universe]] ''[[Reconstruction]]'' titles, including {{t|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 2|''G.I. Joe'' #2}}, this issue, {{t|Dissolution Part 2: Anomie|''Lost Light'' #2}}, {{t|New Cybertron Part 3: Behind My Bleeding Back|''Optimus Prime'' #3}}, {{t|Desperate Measures (Till All Are One)|''Till All Are One'' #7}}, {{t|Enter The Shadow|''Revolutionaries'' #2}}, [[Micronauts issue 9|''Micronauts'' #9]], [[Micronauts Annual 2017|''Micronauts'' Annual 2017]], [[Cold Fire|''ROM'' Annual 2017]], and [[Reinforcements, Part 3|''ROM'' #7]].<br />
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<div>This page serves as an archive of all of the IDW Hasbro Wiki's past [[:Category:Featured articles|featured articles]].<br />
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==January 2019==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Clue2 cover professor plum.jpg|120px]]</div><br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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'''[[Professor Plum|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Snake Eyes mainpic SEAoC1.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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'''[[Snake Eyes|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
==August 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Axiom]]''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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'''[[Axiom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Zartan origins16 cover.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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When [[Emil Zartan]], [[Cobra]]'s living weapon, was killed by a [[M.A.S.S. device|teleporter accident]], his story did not end. On the orders of [[Cobra Commander]], the organization's scientists were able to create a clone of the assassin: a new '''[[Zartan]]''', capable of changing his face and skin-tone to match any man on the planet.<br />
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Able to infiltrate any facility with ease and steal or kill completely undetected, Zartan — who sees himself as his predecessor, reborn and perfected — is one of Cobra's greatest assets. His unique abilities and belief in his own perfection, however, have given him an egotistical streak and a petulant, narcissistic sense of entitlement. Because of this, his behavior tries his commanders' patience to the point that he may have outlived his usefulness...<br />
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'''[[Zartan|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Jem5-StormerFullBody.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Stormer]]''' is the stage name of '''Mary Phillips''', the keytarist and songwriter for [[The Misfits]]. While her caring and compassionate nature stands in sharp contrast to her bandmates, Stormer has nevertheless come to serve as the heart and soul of The Misfits and her songwriting skills have defined their sound. Though she often disagrees with their cutthroat approach to gaining success, Stormer still cares very deeply for her fellow Misfits and has a somewhat love-hate relationship with the band's frontwoman [[Pizzazz]].<br />
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Recently, Stormer has become romantically involved with [[Kimber Benton]], keytarist for The Misfits' chief rival [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. She is also the sister of [[Craig Phillips]].<br />
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'''[[Stormer|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHSourcebook Larissa profile.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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The woman called '''[[Larissa]]''' is an enigma. A skilled scientist, medic and warrior who wields '''Orbital Defender''' force-field technology powered by her own biology, she prefers to remain secretive about herself, keeping her past hidden from her allies and enemies alike.<br />
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Joining [[Oziron Rael]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s through a quirk of fate, she may not fully trust her new allies, but is dedicated to their mission of saving [[Microspace]] from the twin threats of the [[entropy cloud]] and [[Baron Karza]]. However, she might know more about the latter than she lets on...<br />
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'''[[Larissa|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2018==<br />
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==March 2018==<br />
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In his heart, '''[[Tomax Paoli]]''' believes a single truth: slavery is freedom. As his connection to [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] and their victory over [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]] prove, man can only be content when he must answer to another.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be peerless businessmen, Tomax and his brother learned on the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] in their youths that the true measure of success in war is profit, not destruction; and they have since applied these lessons to profit ruthlessly in the boardroom, selling security through their [[Crimson Guard]] and growing their empire with [[Extensive Enterprises]].<br />
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Ultimately, Tomax sees the truth of what [[Cobra]] is: control, and he believes in it wholeheartedly. With his fervent belief, he has the potential to rise to the [[Cobra Commander|highest echelons]] of the organization.<br />
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'''[[Tomax Paoli|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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<div style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">In his heart, '''[[Xamot Paoli]]''' wants one thing: freedom from slavery. Ever since he was left humiliated by [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]], he has felt no connection to [[Tomax Paoli|his brother]], and no longer wishes to answer to anyone but himself.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be a peerless soldier, Xamot finds no joy in playing politics in the boardroom, and his heart years for the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] that he fought on in his youth, where success could be measured in destruction, not just profit. He is miserable growing the empire of [[Extensive Enterprises]], and would rather be fighting alongside the [[Crimson Guard]] than selling their services.<br />
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Now, Xamot sees [[Cobra]] for what it is: slavery, and he wants no part of it. Trapped in the system, when he finally cuts loose, he has the potential to cause huge trouble for the organisation...</div><br />
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'''[[Xamot Paoli|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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==February 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ROM5-Livia.jpg|200px]]</div><br />
'''[[Livia]]''' is one of the [[Solstar Order]]'s earliest and most formidable [[Space Knight]]s. Once a young university student with her lover [[Rom]], she was quick to join the Order after the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s attacked her home world of [[Elonia]]. Her dedication to the Order's mission to annihilate the Wraith scourge from the universe has earned her a reputation amongst the Knights, as well as the partnership with their leader, [[Orphion]].<br />
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At heart however, Livia is a natural daredevil and risk taker. War without end has not only fermented these impulses but gave rise to a near-insatiable bloodlust and increasingly narrow sense of good and evil along with a strong belief in the innate moral superiority of the Solstar Order. Dedicated to victory at any cost, Livia always adheres to protocol and is always willing to make any number of sacrifices (usually other people's) in the name of the greater good. In the end however, these traits may very well result in Livia finding herself consumed by not only the war but her own bloodlust... <br />
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'''[[Livia|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==January 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:MattTrakkerModel.jpg|200px]]</div><br />
'''[[Matt Trakker|Matthew "Matt" Trakker]]''', codenamed '''Spectrum''', is the leader of the [[M.A.S.K.|Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]]. Matt is an engineering genius, but he's had a rebellious and troubled history ever since the death of his father, [[Cornelius Trakker]]. As the inexperienced leader of M.A.S.K., he's had to face the betrayal of his mentor, [[Miles Mayhem]], and the loss of several teammates under his which, two events which have haunted Matt and led to insecurity about his own abilities. Luckily, he has friends, like his M.A.S.K. teammates and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] leader [[Scarlett]], to catch him when he falls. In the field, Trakker drives the [[Thunderhawk]] vehicle and wears the powerful Spectrum [[Mask]].<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==December 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Revolution2 Colton profile.jpeg|155px]]</div><br />
General '''[[Joe Colton|Joseph B. "Joe" Colton]]''' is known better by his codename: '''G.I. Joe'''. A highly decorated officer in the [[United States Army]] with a strong grip, Colton has had his fair share of fantastic adventures during his time as leader of the [[Adventure Team]]. Colton became so famous that the Adventure Team's replacement, the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, was given another name: [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], after Colton's old nickname. Since their existence was revealed to the public by [[Cobra]], Colton has led G.I. Joe in their continuing fight for freedom.<br />
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However, after an encounter with the [[Dire Wraith]]s, Colton realized that G.I. Joe was not enough. Needing to remain in hiding, he adopted the persona of '''Baron Ironblood''', a sinister, masked villain. Creating the "[[Iron Ring]]", Colton has allied himself with some of the most world's most dangerous villains in pursuit of the artifact codenamed the [[Talisman]] to achieve his ultimate goal: saving the [[Earth]] by destroying all {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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'''[[Joe Colton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==November 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:JemCover8-JerricaCrop.jpg|275px]]</div><br />
'''[[Jerrica Benton]]''' is the manager, co-songwriter, and former lead singer of [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. Unbeknownst to those outside of the band, she's also the current lead singer as well! While Jerrica has a passion for music, she's rather shy by nature and has a severe case of stage fright, making her a rather awkward fit for the frontwoman of a hot, up and coming band like the Holograms. One day, however, Jerrica stumbled upon [[Synergy]], a "holographic computer" created by her [[Emmet Benton|late father]] that has the power to create a wide array of dazzling, lifelike, hard-light holograms! With the power of Synergy, Jerrica was suddenly able to create a persona that would allow her to perform in front of an audience without fear, a persona that would come to be known as '''Jem'''!<br />
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Level-headed and mature, Jerrica is well suited to her responsibilities as both the band's manager and lead singer. However, the burden of always having to be "the grown-up" for her sisters and the considerable workload that comes with managing a band like the Holograms can weigh heavy on her and occasionally cause her to lose her patience. Thankfully, her responsible nature ensures that she's able to avoid any temptations to avoid the stresses of her life by living as her alter-ego... right?<br />
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'''[[Jerrica Benton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:WOK1crop-BaronKarza.jpg|175px]]</div><br />
Some would call '''[[Baron Karza|Baron Hraal Karza]]''' power-hungry—a tyrannical ruler exploiting the crisis [[Microspace]] faces for personal gain. But nothing could be further from the truth. Everything that Karza does, he does for his people. He knows that he represents Microspace's best chance for survival, and will not allow anybody to stand in the way of his plans, no matter the cost. If some individuals must be sacrificed to save the universe, so be it.<br />
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Recently, Karza has had a lot of time to himself to think, and his ideas have moved in a more radical direction. Microspace must still be saved, but couldn't things be made even better with a strong leader at its head? Someone to guide—to ''shepherd''—the people down the right path. Someone... just like Baron Karza?<br />
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'''[[Baron Karza|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==September 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Cobra 1 cover Chuckles.jpg|175px]]</div><br />
Once, he was called '''Phillip M. Provost'''; but in recent years, you're more likely to have met him as Jason Wright, or Derrick Attell, or Marcus Quinn, or one of a hundred other names. His true identity, though, is '''[[Chuckles]]''': undercover [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] agent, reporting to [[Hawk]] on the criminal organisations of the world; a task that he's naturally suited to with his gregarious charm and ruthless willing to do whatever's needed to complete his mission.<br />
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As an undercover agent, Chuckles is not officially on file as a member of G.I. Joe; instead, he contacts the Joes through his handler [[Jinx]], with whom he's begun a romantic relationship with.<br />
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Recently, he's discovered the existence of a global terrorist conspiracy called [[Cobra]], and is infiltrating it as a prospective agent. What could go wrong?<br />
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'''[[Chuckles|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==August 2017==<br />
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The ancient enemies of the [[Solstar Order]], the '''[[Dire Wraiths]]''' are a race of parasitic alien shapeshifters bent on conquest. Capable of taking over the bodies of other life-forms and transforming them into more of their kind, the Dire Wraiths wield dark magics powered by the lifeblood of other creatures, and can take any form they wish.<br />
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Having been scattered across the galaxy after the destruction of [[Dire Wraith homeworld|their homeworld]], they are pursued in their invasions by the Solstar Order's [[Space Knight]]s, and above all else they fear the greatest of their number, [[Rom]]. But having arrived on [[Earth]], the planet is unique among those the Dire Wraiths have come to, and its qualities may provide them with new weapons in their war with the Space Knights...<br />
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'''[[Dire Wraith|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2017==<br />
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General '''[[Miles Mayhem|Miles "Mayhem" Manheim]]''' is a military man. A soldier since his youthful days, he later served under [[Joe Colton]] as part of the [[Adventure Team]]. During this time, Manheim got his nickname from Colton because of his innate talent for causing disruption and chaos among enemy forces. Miles was a brilliant soldier and one of Joe's best friends. <br />
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However, Mayhem's heroic actions soon gave way to villainous intentions. Carrying a deep desire for wealth and power, Mayhem is methodical and a master manipulator. He is able to use the people around him like pawns in a game of chess. He is incredibly cold and is willing to sacrifice anyone, deeming human lives an "acceptable loss." His ultimate desire is control over the world, and he's more than happy to sell out his allies and side with whomever he must to gain what he believes he deserves.<br />
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'''[[Miles Mayhem|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2017==<br />
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'''Action Man''' is known as "the greatest hero of them all", but '''[[Ian Noble]]''', the current holder of the title, might not quite live up to that description. He's reckless, impulsive and irreverent, and not exactly one for subtlety, so it's hardly surprising that he struggles to live up to [[Mike Brogan|the previous Action Man]]'s legacy.<br />
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Despite that, he wasn't made the new Action Man for no reason. Ian is a brave, dedicated agent with a strong sense of loyalty and justice, skills that impressed even his predecessor, and a sharper mind than most would give him credit for... even if he does mostly use it for making bad puns. When he sets his mind to a task, you can count on him to carry it out, though he might derail a train into a wildlife park in the process.<br />
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'''[[Ian Noble|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2017==<br />
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'''Phyllis Gabor''', better known by her stage name '''[[Pizzazz]]''', is the frontwoman, occasional guitarist, and all around public face of [[The Misfits]]. Unfortunately for the rest of her band, however, her face is one that can often be found screaming in the faces of others. Loud, abrasive, and short tempered, Pizzazz is an extremely driven musician who strives for perfection in her music and doesn't take kindly to anyone or anything she perceives as a threat to The Misfits' success. Though she can be incredibly rude and hurtful towards her bandmates, deep down she does harbor a deep affection for them, seeing them as a second family of sorts to replace her distant [[Harvey Gabor|father]].<br />
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'''[[Pizzazz|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2017==<br />
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The taciturn '''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]''' forgoes his own name, going instead by that of the breed of [[Acroyear (group)|genetically-engineered super-warriors]] to which he belongs. One of the last surviving first generation Acroyears, he narrowly escaped destruction with the help of [[Oziron Rael]], and now fights as part of the [[Pharoid]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s.<br />
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Acroyear is a warrior without parallel, able to [[enerchange]] turbines for flight and summon a powerful sword from subspace. For him, no opponent is too tough, no obstacle insurmountable, no odds too slim, even in a [[Earth|world of giants]]. In truth, the only time Acroyear truly feels out of his depth is when the battle is over – the absence of threat leaves him feeling intensely uncomfortable. Luckily for him, that's not a problem he has so much these days.<br />
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'''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==March 2017==<br />
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'''"[[Cobra Commander|Commander]]"''' is the title given to the supreme leader of [[Cobra]]. Elected once every seven years in an occult ceremony from a pool of candidates chosen by the [[Cobra Council]], the Commander dons a mask to hide their face from the world and directs all Cobra's operations from the shadows. There have been many commanders in Cobra's centuries-long history, but the mystery man who lead the organization for the last quarter of the twentieth century was one of the most successful.<br />
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'''[[Cobra Commander|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2016==<br />
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One of the Space Knights has followed the trail of the [[Dire Wraith]]s all the way to [[Earth]]. This one the Dire Wraiths fear more than all others. This one has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. This one alone could wipe them off the face of creation. <br />
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He is '''[[Rom]]''', Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! '''''Rom, the Space Knight!'''''<br />
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'''[[Rom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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On the idyllic world of [[Elonia]], the life of young student [[Rom|Rom K'atsema]] is changed forever when he loses his family to the monstrous [[Dire Wraith]]s — setting in motion events that will lead to the rise of the greatest [[Space Knight]] ever to serve the [[Solstar Order]].<br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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'''The Crimson Twins reflect...'''<br />
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He reflects on a truth he has learned: slavery is freedom, which he believes is demonstrated in the powerful connection between himself and his brother, and their life. Raised from birth by the secretive [[Corsica]]n organization known as the [[Unione Corse]], they were trained to be peerless soldiers, businessmen, and slave traders. Tomax believes man can only be at peace when he must answer to another, and that this is the reason for him and his brother's serene existence: they must answer to each other.<br />
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In turn, all others answer to them, as they seize power across the globe. When fighting in the [[Chad]]ian-[[Libya]]n war as youths, the brothers learned that true victory comes from profiting from, not ending, conflict. Subsequently, the twins cannibalized Unione Corse's business ventures to found [[Extensive Enterprises]], selling the "security" of their [[Crimson Guard]]. Eventually, they were approached by [[Cobra]], and their power grew yet more.<br />
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Recently, they have toyed with an [[Chuckles|undercover agent]], ultimately teaching him the freedom found in the absence of choice. Those events, Tomax feels, have made the brothers stronger than ever before, and begun a new chapter in their lives.<br />
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Everything is different now.<br />
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|style="padding-left: 1em;"|Everything is different now.<br />
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Chuckles' attack made Xamot feel vulnerable in a way he never before had: powerless, small, weak. Recovering from the incident, which has left his cheek scarred, he came to realize that he no longer felt a personal connection with his brother, and begun questioning the routines of his life. Now, as he and Tomax continue their business manipulations, Xamot finds himself losing perspective, and longing for the wars of their youth where victory was as simple as leaving more bodies in your wake.<br />
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Growing their empire is now thankless and hollow for Xamot, something from which he derives no sense of adventure and which he feels has taken away his freedom. Rebelling, he has begun to ignore his brother's summonses, and seek time alone, desperate to find himself free from the influence of anybody else. His work leaves him in misery, but for now he must pretend otherwise, so as to remain comfortable.<br />
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In truth, Xamot no longer feels much connection to his brother, and considers abandoning the last of his family, willing to throw everything away for freedom from being a slave. He shaves his hair short, no longer the mirror image of his twin.<br />
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His name is [[Xamot Paoli]].<br />
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*This issue follows on from the conclusion of the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra|Cobra]]'' mini-series, in which Chuckles gave Xamot his injury.<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Extensive Enterprises is the traditional name for Tomax and Xamot's front company.<br />
*The twins are briefly seen driving a [[H.I.S.S.]].<br />
*Xamot has acquired the scar on his right cheek that is his traditional distinguishing feature.<br />
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===Real-life references===<br />
*The issue's mirrored layout is inspired by a similar one used by issue #5 of ''{{w|Watchmen}}''.<br />
*A variety of real-life people, groups and events are mentioned, included {{w|Unione Corse}}, the {{w|French Foreign Legion}}, the "{{w|Toyota War}}" and {{w|Muammar Gaddafi}}.<br />
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*The entire issue is mirrored down the middle, with panel composition, layouts and captions mirroring each other to some degree between the front and back halves of the issue. When the point of view changes from Tomax to Xamot at the mid-point, page numbers begin counting back down from 11 to 1. So that both "page 11"s fall on a double page spread, the issue features an extra credits page at its start, which is then literally mirrored, with reversed text, at the issue's end. Suitably enough, the comic's title is a palindrome as well.<br />
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*'''Cover A:''' Tomax and Xamot, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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{{Bigquote|'''Professor Plum.''' Polymath. Orphan. Both the smartest and dumbest man in every room.|[[Clue issue 1|''Clue'' #1]]}}<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Plum was the illegitimate son of [[Ambassador Peacock]], who grew up in an orphanage aided by a regular grant from the Ambassador, much to the distaste of his wife, [[Mrs. Peacock]]. Growing up as a gay, Pakistani orphan, he ended up reading everything that he could and eventually came to believe in a {{w|Determinism|deterministic}} universe, believing that everything was following some kind of [[Paul Allor|cosmic script]]. After Plum turned 18, the payments from Ambassador Peacock continued to him directly, but after twelve years — after Peacock was murdered — his widow Mrs. Peacock cut off the payments. {{storylink|Clue issue 2|Clue #2}} Unbeknownst to Plum, the reclusive [[Dr. Black]] and his [[Dr. Orchid|adoptive daughter]] were keeping an eye on him throughout his childhood, making sure he was offered opportunities and scholarships that would lead him into pharmaceutical research. Working at [[Ludo University]], Professor Plum collaborated with [[Dr. Orchid]] of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] on finding a way to grow the ''[[Surobi zinnia]]'' flowers in captivity, but their efforts met with failure thanks to a lack of sufficient samples. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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Ten months after the Ambassador's death, Professor Plum was invited, along with several other guests, to the home of Mr. [[Dr. Black|A. Boddy]] for a dinner party. Meeting with Dr. Orchid in the foyer of the mansion, he greeted his old friend warmly, but was cut off when he began to speak of their shared history, Orchid not wanting the other guests to overhear. During the dinner, Plum was outraged when [[Mr. Green]] threatened [[Miss Scarlett]] to prove a point about the relative value of lives; after Mr. Boddy tried to calm things down by having [[Upton]] bring mango cheesecake for dessert, the Professor tried to entertain the guests with the "funny story" behind 90% of all mangoes sold in the United States coming from the same source, though Upton didn't find it particularly amusing.<br />
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Shortly after dinner, Plum was standing in the mansion's foyer with Orchid, Upton, [[Colonel Mustard]], and [[Senator White]], when a gunshot was heard; running upstairs to the house's library, the guests and the butler found Mr. Boddy dead of a gunshot wound, something that was quickly discovered to apparently be the work of [[Mrs. Peacock]]. Shortly after the police arrived, Plum spoke to Dr. Orchid about how he had always dreamed of living somewhere like Boddy's mansion; {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}} with the two scientists in seclusion together, the Professor asked Orchid whether she had followed through on her long-stated desire to slip laxatives into Mr. Green's food to prove that he was "full of" some euphemistic substance. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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Soon after Mrs. Peacock was herself killed, Detectives [[Detective Ochre|Ochre]] and [[Detective Amarillo|Amarillo]] discovered Mr. Boddy's "[[blackmail room]]", containing large amounts of personal information on each of the guests, including Professor Plum; in his case, it included both video footage of Plum in the orphanage as a child, and a ledger detailing the 30 years of payments that had been made to the orphanage and the Professor from Ambassador Peacock, stopping the month after the Ambassador died. The detectives showed Plum the footage of himself as a child; he was unable to give them any insight into why Boddy would have such material, and was angered and upset by what he was shown, and when Upton offered Plum his services, the Professor angrily yelled at the butler to get him something to read.<br />
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Deciding to escape from the house and find out why Boddy had so much information about him on file, Plum recruited Dr. Orchid to come with him. The two made their way to the blackmail room, though Plum inadvertently allowed all the other guests to overhear their plan; and when they got there, they were encountered by Detective Ochre, who confronted Plum with the ledger of payments from Ambassador Peacock. Ochre suspected that Plum had killed Mrs. Peacock as revenge, either for keeping him from his father or purely for cutting off his money, which the Professor denied; when Ochre took out his handcuffs to take the two guests back to the interrogation room, Plum knocked him down with a book that he was holding, and the two academics fled out of the window, climbing to the ground via a drainpipe. Orchid and Plum took a moment to regroup in the mansion's greenhouse, but were shocked by what they found in there: a roomful of ''Surobi zinnia'' flowers, thought to be impossible to grow in captivity, and something that—according to Plum—"a lot of people would kill to control". {{storylink|Clue issue 2|Clue #2}}<br />
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Plum, shaken over having assaulted an officer of the law and being trapped by the flooded river, was slapped out of his panic by Orchid in order to plan their next move. When Orchid brought up the murderer on the loose, Plum confessed that he thought that ''she'' was the killer, but before he could explain the two were interrupted by Detective Amarillo, who believed them to have killed Ochre. The two scientists were forced to dive into the river to escape, much to the chagrin of Plum, who would rather have surrendered to the law; Orchid, however, pointed out that Senator White's deregulation would mean that Mr. Green and his ilk would be able to take full control of the ''Surobi zinnia'' and the "miracle drugs" extracted from it, persuading Plum to help get to the bottom of the mystery. {{storylink|Clue issue 3|Clue #3}}<br />
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The two found their way into the house's pantry, where Plum used ketchup to create an elaborate diagram on the floor, helping him to figure out how the various players in the house fit together, though not who was responsible for all of it—until, despite discouragement from Dr. Orchid, he decided to covertly follow Upton as he took pills upstairs, where he found Mr. Boddy to still be alive. {{storylink|Clue issue 4|Clue #4}} Orchid nevertheless tried to persuade him not to enter the room and confront Boddy, but Plum was undeterred... and was quickly overpowered by the annoyed Boddy, who was irritated at having to confront the scientist ahead of schedule. Plum kicked Boddy in the shins and the two scientists fled to the pantry once more, only for Boddy to burst out of a secret passage and knock Plum out with a chemical-soaked rag. {{storylink|Clue issue 5|Clue #5}}<br />
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On awakening, the dazed Professor Plum revealed that he had deduced Mr. Boddy's true identity: he was, in fact, Dr. Black, the infamous and reclusive CEO of [[Black Pharmaceuticals]]. Though he had figured out Black's plan, which he was impressed by the audacity and brilliance of, Plum was taken aback at the revelation that Black intended to offer him employment—and that Orchid was, in fact, Black's adoptive daughter, who had been keeping Plum safe and under guard during the night's events. As he followed Black and Orchid through the tunnels leading away from the Boddy mansion, Plum realized the true genius of Black's plan: that "Mr. Boddy" and "Upton" didn't exist, leaving the investigators with no clues as to what had really happened. Though he was unimpressed by Dr. Orchid's request that he be part of their family, Professor Plum reluctantly agreed to work for Black—both for the money, for the opportunity to do good with the products of the ''Surobi zinnia'', and for the fact that he had realized that if he refused, he wouldn't leave the tunnels alive. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Professor Plum originates as one of the playable characters in the original 1949 edition of {{w|Cluedo|''Cluedo''/''Clue''}}. His IDW incarnation retains his classic glasses and role as an academic, but lacks the character's signature bow tie and pipe.<br />
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First published [[September 1]], [[2009]].<br />
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The Crimson Twins reflect on their lives in the aftermath of [[G.I. Joe: Cobra|a fateful meeting]]... and while [[Tomax Paoli]] is more secure than ever in his place in the world, his brother [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]] has newfound doubts.<br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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'''Professor Plum''' gives the impression of being an old man in a younger man's body. A genius polymath with an endless supply of trivia for any situation, Plum almost seems like he's going senile—constantly distracted and unable to read a room. But at least some of his scatterbrained nature may be an act—he has a past with [[Dr. Orchid]] that his fellow scientist would rather keep hidden, and when pushed, he's been known to display a shrewder, ''darker'' side...<br />
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{{Bigquote|'''Professor Plum.''' Polymath. Orphan. Both the smartest and dumbest man in every room.|[[Clue issue 1|''Clue'' #1]]}}<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Plum was the illegitimate son of [[Ambassador Peacock]], who grew up in an orphanage aided by a regular grant from the Ambassador, much to the distaste of his wife, [[Mrs. Peacock]]. Growing up as a gay, Pakistani orphan, he ended up reading everything that he could and eventually came to believe in a {{w|Determinism|deterministic}} universe, believing that everything was following some kind of [[Paul Allor|cosmic script]]. After Plum turned 18, the payments from Ambassador Peacock continued to him directly, but after twelve years — after Peacock was murdered — his widow Mrs. Peacock cut off the payments. {{storylink|Clue issue 2|Clue #2}} Unbeknownst to Plum, the reclusive [[Dr. Black]] and his [[Dr. Orchid|adoptive daughter]] were keeping an eye on him throughout his childhood, making sure he was offered opportunities and scholarships that would lead him into pharmaceutical research. Working at [[Ludo University]], Professor Plum collaborated with [[Dr. Orchid]] of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] on finding a way to grow the ''[[Surobi zinnia]]'' flowers in captivity, but their efforts met with failure thanks to a lack of sufficient samples. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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Ten months after the Ambassador's death, Professor Plum was invited, along with several other guests, to the home of Mr. [[Dr. Black|A. Boddy]] for a dinner party. Meeting with Dr. Orchid in the foyer of the mansion, he greeted his old friend warmly, but was cut off when he began to speak of their shared history, Orchid not wanting the other guests to overhear. During the dinner, Plum was outraged when [[Mr. Green]] threatened [[Miss Scarlett]] to prove a point about the relative value of lives; after Mr. Boddy tried to calm things down by having [[Upton]] bring mango cheesecake for dessert, the Professor tried to entertain the guests with the "funny story" behind 90% of all mangoes sold in the United States coming from the same source, though Upton didn't find it particularly amusing.<br />
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Shortly after dinner, Plum was standing in the mansion's foyer with Orchid, Upton, [[Colonel Mustard]] and [[Senator White]], when a gunshot was heard; running upstairs to the house's library, the guests and the butler found Mr. Boddy dead of a gunshot wound, something that was quickly discovered to apparently be the work of [[Mrs. Peacock]]. Shortly after the police arrived, Plum spoke to Dr. Orchid about how he had always dreamed of living somewhere like Boddy's mansion; {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}} with the two scientists in seclusion together, the Professor asked Orchid whether she had followed through on her long-stated desire to slip laxatives into Mr. Green's food to prove that he was "full of" some euphemistic substance. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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Soon after Mrs. Peacock was herself killed, Detectives [[Detective Ochre|Ochre]] and [[Detective Amarillo|Amarillo]] discovered Mr. Boddy's "[[blackmail room]]", containing large amounts of personal information on each of the guests, including Professor Plum; in his case, it included both video footage of Plum in the orphanage as a child, and a ledger detailing the 30 years of payments that had been made to the orphanage and the Professor from Ambassador Peacock, stopping the month after the Ambassador died. The detectives showed Plum the footage of himself as a child; he was unable to give them any insight into why Boddy would have such material, and was angered and upset by what he was shown, and when Upton offered Plum his services, the Professor angrily yelled at the butler to get him something to read.<br />
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Deciding to escape from the house and find out why Boddy had so much information about him on file, Plum recruited Dr. Orchid to come with him. The two made their way to the blackmail room, though Plum inadvertently allowed all the other guests to overhear their plan; and when they got there, they were encountered by Detective Ochre, who confronted Plum with the ledger of payments from Ambassador Peacock. Ochre suspected that Plum had killed Mrs. Peacock as revenge, either for keeping him from his father or purely for cutting off his money, which the Professor denied; when Ochre took out his handcuffs to take the two guests back to the interrogation room, Plum knocked him down with a book that he was holding, and the two academics fled out of the window, climbing to the ground via a drainpipe. Orchid and Plum took a moment to regroup in the mansion's greenhouse, but were shocked by what they found in there: a roomful of ''Surobi zinnia'' flowers, thought to be impossible to grow in captivity, and something that—according to Plum—"a lot of people would kill to control". {{storylink|Clue issue 2|Clue #2}}<br />
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Plum, shaken over having assaulted an officer of the law and being trapped by the flooded river, was slapped out of his panic by Orchid in order to plan their next move. When Orchid brought up the murderer on the loose, Plum confessed that he thought that ''she'' was the killer, but before he could explain the two were interrupted by Detective Amarillo, who believed them to have killed Ochre. The two scientists were forced to dive into the river to escape, much to the chagrin of Plum, who would rather have surrendered to the law; Orchid, however, pointed out that Senator White's deregulation would mean that Mr. Green and his ilk would be able to take full control of the ''Surobi zinnia'' and the "miracle drugs" extracted from it, persuading Plum to help get to the bottom of the mystery. {{storylink|Clue issue 3|Clue #3}}<br />
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The two found their way into the house's pantry, where Plum used ketchup to create an elaborate diagram on the floor, helping him to figure out how the various players in the house fit together, though not who was responsible for all of it—until, despite discouragement from Dr. Orchid, he decided to covertly follow Upton as he took pills upstairs, where he found Mr. Boddy to still be alive. {{storylink|Clue issue 4|Clue #4}} Orchid nevertheless tried to persuade him not to enter the room and confront Boddy, but Plum was undeterred... and was quickly overpowered by the annoyed Boddy, who was irritated at having to confront the scientist ahead of schedule. Plum kicked Boddy in the shins and the two scientists fled to the pantry once more, only for Boddy to burst out of a secret passage and knock Plum out with a chemical-soaked rag. {{storylink|Clue issue 5|Clue #5}}<br />
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On awakening, the dazed Professor Plum revealed that he had deduced Mr. Boddy's true identity: he was, in fact, Dr. Black, the infamous and reclusive CEO of [[Black Pharmaceuticals]]. Though he had figured out Black's plan, which he was impressed by the audacity and brilliance of, Plum was taken aback at the revelation that Black intended to offer him employment—and that Orchid was, in fact, Black's adoptive daughter, who had been keeping Plum safe and under guard during the night's events. As he followed Black and Orchid through the tunnels leading away from the Boddy mansion, Plum realized the true genius of Black's plan: that "Mr. Boddy" and "Upton" didn't exist, leaving the investigators with no clues as to what had really happened. Though he was unimpressed by Dr. Orchid's request that he be part of their family, Professor Plum reluctantly agreed to work for Black—both for the money, for the opportunity to do good with the products of the ''Surobi zinnia'', and for the fact that he had realized that if he refused, he wouldn't leave the tunnels alive. {{storylink|Clue issue 6|Clue #6}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Professor Plum originates as one of the playable characters in the original 1949 edition of {{w|Cluedo|''Cluedo''/''Clue''}}. His IDW incarnation retains his classic glasses and role as an academic, but lacks the character's signature bow tie and pipe.<br />
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'''Miles Mayhem fills the captured Matt Trakker in on his evil schemes for world domination.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''A young [[Matt Trakker]]'s playtime is interrupted by a knock at the door, and when [[Alessandra Trakker|his mother]] answers it, she recieves some horrific news: [[Cornelius Trakker|Matt's father]] is dead. But as she tells her son this, she morphs before his eyes into the [[mask]]ed [[Miles Mayhem]], who taunts the young Trakker that he will be joining his father in death soon...''<br />
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...and Matt awakens with a start, shackled to the walls of Mayhem's base next to [[Gloria Baker]] with his mother's body on the floor before him. Matt is disgusted with Mayhem's casual murder of his mother, but Miles — scoffing at his description of her as an "innocent woman" — dismisses the body, revealing it to be a hard-light hologram created with remote access to [[Brad Turner]]'s "Eclipse" mask. As [[Vanessa Warfield]] leaves for their auction of the [[Project Spectrum]] technology, Matt asks whether the older man ever considered him a friend — to which Mayhem merely sneers at his stupidity.<br />
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Aboard [[M.A.S.K.]]'s borrowed yacht, the still-injured Brad teleconferences with [[Julio Lopez]], who has seen Matt and Gloria's communications go dead. As Brad notes in confusion that his mask's battery has seemingly been drained, Julio examines a spike of [[Ore-13]]-based transmissions detected by [[Jackhammer]]'s systems — but no sooner has he done so than the armored vehicle is thrown off-balance by an outside force! With the communications line going dead, Brad dons his mask ready for action...<br />
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[[V.E.N.O.M.]] strongman [[Bruno Sheppard]]'s attempt to overturn the Jackhammer is stopped when Julio converts the vehicle to battle mode, catching Bruno in the face and sending him flying. Jumping out of the vehicle and setting it on autopilot, Julio faces off with Bruno and [[Sly Rax]] on foot; when Bruno tears a chunk out of the ground to throw at Julio, the M.A.S.K. agent uses his "Gulliver" mask to massively increase the size of the rubble, causing the ground to collapse below his foe. Sly takes matters into his own hands, using his "Stiletto" mask to fire metal javelins, but Julio merely shrinks them back and allows them to fall harmlessly to the ground.<br />
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With their powers at a stalemate, Julio offers a more traditional fight, and the two engage in a fist-to-fist battle. Sly, accusing M.A.S.K. of betraying them, takes the upper hand, but is stopped from killing Julio when Brad arrives to intervene — and, despite his injured arms, takes Sly down with the leg-based {{w|Muay Thai}} and {{w|tae kwon do}}. Though the M.A.S.K. agents intend to take Rax to the local police, they are blindsided by Bruno, who grabs his unconscious teammate and flees into a sewer.<br />
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Matt demands to know what Miles wants — after all, he seemingly has everything he could ever ask for — and the V.E.N.O.M. leader is happy to oblige: he wants to be humanity's "lord and savior", controlling the path of its evolution through economic domination and psychological expertise, granted by the thousands of test subjects he will obtain by selling the high-tech masks. Gloria doubts his ability to plan for a potential counter-insurgency against him, but Mayhem brags that any "clients" that go against him will just find themselves dying of Ore-13 radiation poisoning — against which, as Gloria surmises, Mayhem and the rest of V.E.N.O.M. are innoculated.<br />
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Mayhem's boasting was ill-advised, however, as a code word from Gloria shocks him and Vanessa into submission, her "Aura" mask havin used that time to hack into their hardware! Remotely using blasts from his "Spectrum" mask to free them, Matt mocks Mayhem's stupidity as he places him under arrest. Miles furiously has Vanessa self-destruct their prototype masks as a distraction while the two run, only for the Jackhammer to smash through the wall in front of them, preventing their escape. Using Julio's "Gulliver" mask to resize the miniaturized [[Thunderhawk]] and [[Shark]] to full scale, as Bruno and Sly arrive, the M.A.S.K. team stands reunited and ready to take down V.E.N.O.M. once and for all!<br />
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*[[Julio Lopez]] (9)<br />
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*[[Miles Mayhem]] (5)<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (7)<br />
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*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (11)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"So all those years of being a confidant... it was all a lie? Did you ever consider me to be your friend?"<br />
<br>"'''Not even you could be that stupid.'''"<br />
:—'''Matt Trakker''' and '''Miles Mayhem'''<br />
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"Your arrogance blinded you to the fact that M.A.S.K. was forcing V.E.N.O.M. into the light. I never assumed that you could be that stupid."<br />
:—'''Matt''' turns the tables on Mayhem<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Vanessa Warfield notes that [[Extensive Enterprises]], the corporation owned by [[Tomax Paoli]], is among the purchasers for the masks.<br />
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*Gloria's "code word: Boulder" references the [[Boulder Hill]] base of the M.A.S.K. team from the original cartoon and toyline.<br />
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===Other Hasbro franchise references===<br />
*Two of the toys in Matt's flashback/nightmare appear to be {{t|Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys#Robots in Disguise (2015)|Optimus Prime}} and {{t|Bumblebee (WFC)/toys#Robots in Disguise (2015)|Bumblebee}} from the {{t|Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' toyline}}.<br />
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===Wait, what?===<br />
*Why would Alessandra Trakker be wearing high heels while she's indoors?<br />
*In what ''possible'' way has Mayhem "plunged the world into an endless conflict with Cybertronians"? Not only was human-Transformer conflict around for years prior to Mayhem's schemes coming into play, but the "[[Revolution]]" event that he was responsible for led to a ''thawing'' of relations between human governments and [[Autobot City]].<br />
*Why is Gloria's first thought automatically that V.E.N.O.M. have been dosed with a serum, rather than any other protection from Ore-13 radiation?<br />
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*Solicited for release in February, this issue arrives a month late in the last week of March.<br />
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*"The Hasbro Tribune" editorial page promoting February's [[Hasbro Universe]] titles, including {{t|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 3|''G.I. Joe'' #3}}, this issue, {{t|Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced|''Lost Light'' #3}}, {{t|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|''Optimus Prime'' #4}}, {{t|Rubicon|''Till All Are One'' #8}}, {{t|Ghost Stories|''Transformers'' Annual 2017}}, [[M.A.S.K. Annual 2017|''M.A.S.K.'' Annual 2017]], {{t|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb|''Revolutionaries'' #3}}, [[Micronauts issue 10|''Micronauts'' #10]], and [[Reinforcements, Part 4|''ROM'' #8]].<br />
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'''The masked crusaders must face off against both V.E.N.O.M. and the law as they make their new start.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Matt Trakker]], acting commander of [[M.A.S.K.|Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]], reflects on recent events, and in particular his betrayal by [[Miles Mayhem]], the group's founder. With Mayhem's nefarious schemes revealed, the remaining members of M.A.S.K. must now scrape together intel from the villain's abandoned [[Mask]] in order to try and stop him.<br />
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For the time being, however, they have more immediate concerns: a series of attacks on military installations by advanced vehicles like M.A.S.K.'s has brought the police and federal agents to the doors of the [[Project Spectrum]] base. Under heavy fire, Trakker leads [[Gloria Baker]], [[Brad Turner]], and [[Julio Lopez]] in abandoning their former base, with [[Thunderhawk]]'s weaponry blowing open the deactivated hanger doors. With the authorities hot on their heels, the M.A.S.K. team drives into a mine tunnel known as the [[Dutchman's Doorway]], and Brad's "Eclipse" Mask casts a holographic illusion of a cave-in to cover their tracks.<br />
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Later, still underground, the team discuss their next moves in the [[Jackhammer]] vehicle's miniature HQ. There are concerns that the [[Ore-13]] batteries being used to charge the Masks could lead to unpredictable reactions, whilst Gloria's decryption of Mayhem's Mask cannot continue until they find a stable base. She has, however, uncovered video files labelled "[[Cornelius Trakker|C. Trakker]]". Unsurprisingly, the footage depicts Matt's father, Cornelius, at work on the early prototypes of the Masks. However, a group of masked soldiers enter and hold Cornelius at gunpoint... with Miles Mayhem at the lead!<br />
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Elsewhere, Mayhem is currently plotting his next moves in the plan to capture and reverse-engineer all the {{t|Transformer|Cybertronians}} on [[Earth]], and profit massively from the results. He dispatches his [[V.E.N.O.M.|own team]] to intercept M.A.S.K., before boarding the [[Switchblade]] to head off on business of his own.<br />
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Under cover of both darkness and "Eclipse"'s powers, the M.A.S.K. team travel to one of Cornelius Trakker's hidden laboratories, its location in the [[Everglades]] decrypted from Mayhem's Mask. Gloria hacks their way inside, and whilst the facility has been long-abandoned, it will serve perfectly as a short-term base for the team. On a computer terminal, Trakker stumbles across his father's journal entry from the day of Matt's tenth birthday, not long before Cornelius's murder. Thinking back, Matt explains to Gloria how he began acting out in the aftermath of his father's death, first being sent to a school for "gifted delinquents" before running away to fight injustice around the world with his gift for engineering. He is interrupted when Julio brings news of a massive Ore-13 energy spike in [[Barbados]]...<br />
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Despite concerns they are heading into a trap, Brad uses his drug trafficking contacts to arrange transport for the team and their vehicles, and a few days later, they set out to gather intel in [[Bridgetown]]. Gloria quickly schmoozes useful information out of a local: [[Harrison's Cave]], a tourist trap cavern, has recently been sealed to all visitors. That evening, M.A.S.K. moves in, and detect huge Ore-13 deposits in the cavern. Before they can investigate further, they come under fire from the Switchblade. Julio is badly wounded, and all four team members pile into the Thunderhawk and retreat underground.<br />
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In the caverns, the team finds no Ore-13, and quickly realize that Mayhem has been able to access their Masks and falsify their readings. Before they can go any further, Brad is suddenly hit in the shoulders with a pair of energy spikes, fired from a Mask! Stepping from the shadows, Miles Mayhem unveils to M.A.S.K. his new V.E.N.O.M. team. But this introduction is also to be a goodbye, and all three recruits fire upon M.A.S.K.!<br />
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*[[Gloria Baker]] (4)<br />
*[[Brad Turner]] (5)<br />
*[[Julio Lopez]] (6)<br />
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*[[Miles Mayhem]] (1)<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (8)<br />
*[[Sly Rax]] (9)<br />
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (10)<br />
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*''{{t|Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity family|Kup}}'' (3)<br />
*''[[Cornelius Trakker]]'' (7)<br />
*[[Martinique]] (11)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Allow me to introduce my squad... V.E.N.O.M., meet M.A.S.K. And farewell!"<br />
:—'''Miles Mayhem'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The montage on the first page includes [[Kup]], who M.A.S.K. were responsible for capturing during the events of ''[[Revolution]]''.<br />
*Miles Mayhem's nefarious plans were revealed in ''Revolution''. The recovery of his Mask from the battlefield was not something seen in that series – it was last seen on Miles' head as he rammed [[Baron Karza]] with the Switchblade.<br />
*Matt's backstory was previously described in his bio in {{t|O Ship of State|''Revolution'' #3}}.<br />
*This is the first appearance of Bruno's "Thunderflame" Mask.<br />
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===M.A.S.K. references===<br />
*Gloria Baker is originally from [[Mumbai]]. This might be a nod to the franchise's previous character of Indian heritage, "Ali Bombay", with {{w|Mumbai}} being the modern name for Bombay.<br />
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===Real-life references===<br />
*The hologram of rocks blocking the tunnel entrance is titled "Roadrunner/Coyote", referencing {{w|Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote from ''Looney Tunes''}}.<br />
*Julio repeatedly quotes Admiral Ackbar's infamous "It's a trap!" line from ''{{w|Return of the Jedi}}''.<br />
*Gloria jokes about Matt being a "{{w|social justice warrior}}".<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*The mask belonging to Mayhem shown to have been found on the battlefield is his classic "Viper" mask—but Mayhem has never been shown to wear this mask, having spent the entirety of ''Revolution'' with the same modern mask-design he has on this issue's final page.<br />
*The M.A.S.K. team does not recognize the Switchblade, despite Mayhem piloting it during ''Revolution''.<br />
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===Wait, what?===<br />
*Despite Mayhem claiming that with M.A.S.K. on the run from the law he can focus on his true goal of hunting down Cybertronians, he immediately orders his team to intercept and take out M.A.S.K.<br />
* Why would you include a "doing the voice" joke in an entirely visual medium?<br />
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===Notes===<br />
*Having been miscolored orange in ''[[M.A.S.K.: Revolution]]'', the [[Shark]] is now colored blue rather than the classic white and yellow used in ''Revolution'' itself; this will, for whatever reason, stick in all future appearances outside of the [[The Deathstone|2017 ''M.A.S.K.'' annual]].<br />
*Though he doesn't appear in the issue proper, [[Dr. Mindbender]] appears on the character list under the name "Verstal Bender", retaining the new name he had in ''M.A.S.K.: Revolution'' rather than his previous real name in IDW's comics, Armand Singh (which internal narration in the previous issue used to refer to him in a caption). The [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook]] would eventually explain "Verstal Bender" to be a pseudonym.<br />
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*Backmatter for the issue consists of Part 1 of 5 of an interview with ''{{w|M.A.S.K. (TV series)|M.A.S.K.}}'' voice actor {{w|Doug Stone (voice actor)|Doug Stone}}, conducted by cover artist [[Tommy Lee Edwards]], and a fan showcase page of art, cosplay, and memorabilia.<br />
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*'''Regular cover:''' M.A.S.K., by [[Tommy Lee Edwards]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Matt Trakker and Miles Mayhem, by [[Joe Suitor]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' M.A.S.K., by [[Andrew Griffith]] and [[Jordi Escuin]].<br />
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*'''Retailer incentive cover A:''' Graffiti of Matt, Brad, and Vanessa, by [[Sara Pitre-Durocher]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover B:''' Matt, Gloria, Miles, and the Thunderhawk in retro package art style, by [[Sonny Liew]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover C:''' Brad on the [[Condor]], by [[Paul Pope]] and [[Jordie Bellaire]].<br />
*'''Diamond UK Retailer Summit variant:''' Line-art for subscription cover B.<br />
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[[Category:M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand issues]]<br />
[[Category:Reconstruction issues]]</div>Broadsidehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=M.A.S.K.:_Revolution&diff=10631M.A.S.K.: Revolution2018-10-16T14:37:26Z<p>Broadside: /* Notes */</p>
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|seriesissue=''[[M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]]:''<br />
|next=M.A.S.K. issue 1<br />
|seriesissue2=''[[Revolution]]'' one-shot<br />
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]], [[Ted Adams]]<br />
|date=[[September 28]], [[2016]]<br />
|coverdate=September 2016<br />
|written by=[[Brandon Easton]]<br />
|art by=[[Tony Vargas]]<br />
|colors by=[[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]<br />
|editor=[[David Hedgecock]]<br />
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'''The Krusade begins.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''In a remote military base, [[Miles Mayhem|Miles Manheim]] observes [[Matt Trakker]], [[Gloria Baker]], [[Julio Lopez]], and [[Brad Turner]] as they prepare for deployment. As the [[M.A.S.K.]] team mobilizes, Matt has his doubts about their readiness, but Manheim announces his faith in them, all the while reflecting inwardly on their failures. They will serve him well in the upcoming fight, but after they've served their purpose, he'll happily "retire" them...''<br />
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One year earlier, ten recruits arrive for [[Project Spectrum]]: Matt Trakker, Gloria Baker, Julio Lopez, Brad Turner, [[Vanessa Warfield]], [[Sly Rax|Sylvester "Sly" Rax]], [[Bruno Sheppard]], [[William Evans]], and [[Marcia Watkins]]. Manheim explains that Project Spectrum is a secret government training program designed to find pilots that can protect the world from new threats, and remarks that "nobody washes out". After this first meeting, the various recruits begin to mingle, with Turner and Lopez discussing what Manheim meant by "no wash outs", whilst Rax tries to hit on Baker, who doesn't appreciate his cheap sleight-of-hand tricks. Trakker, meanwhile, thanks Manheim for getting him out of hot water with the law, who in turn asks that Matt simply live up to his potential—if not for him, then for Matt's father. Manheim then meets with Dr. Armand Singh, formerly the [[Cobra]] scientist known as [[Dr. Mindbender]], whom Manheim has recruited to help psychoanalyze his recruits.<br />
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As training proceeds, Manheim quickly takes note of Vanessa and Sly, the former becoming his right-hand woman, while expressing disappointment in Matt's lack of killer instinct. During the first field test of Project Spectrum's transforming vehicles, Evans and Watkins are killed when the cars are pushed too hard and explode. Trakker, Baker, and Lopez are shaken by seeing two colleagues die, while Sly and Bruno are willing to accept death as an occupational hazard. Matt confronts Manheim, who responds with a story of his time as a prisoner of war—if he could withstand a year's daily torture, the death of two willing volunteer can be chalked up as collateral damage. <br />
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Later, Manheim presents the troops with their specialized weapons: [[Mask]]s that grant the wearer special abilities. Trying to hit on Gloria again, Sly accidentally fires a harpoon from his "Stiletto" Mask, which she is able to catch and send flying back to him. Before it can do any harm, Trakker blasts it with the "Spectrum" Mask.<br />
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Manheim then sends the recruits to their final test in the Canadian Rockies, making it from the end of a moving train to the engine. Aboard, Bruno and Matt see that the train cars' construction makes them liable to explode any minute, and then discover a car full of people. Matt tries to save them as car begins to explode, but the others pull him back and deatch the end cars, telling him there's nothing he can do. In truth, the people were a hologram created by by Brad's "Eclipse" Mask, a test by Manheim to see how the recruits reacted to variables outside their control. Manheim reflects on the truth of the story he told Matt—he ''did'' give out under torture, causing his allies' deaths, but murdered his captors in return—before convening with Vanessa. Only Sly and Bruno are fine after the test, with the others displaying demoralization that Manheim knows will make them easier to control. As his right-hand woman compliments his cunning, Manheim remarks that he has more yet to come, looking at a screen that says "[[V.E.N.O.M.]]"...<br />
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''The M.A.S.K. team arrives at their destination, [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] headquarters, where Manheim introduces [[Scarlett]] to the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand!''<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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*[[Matt Trakker]] (1)<br />
*[[Brad Turner]] (2)<br />
*[[Gloria Baker]] (3)<br />
*[[Julio Lopez]] (4)<br />
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*[[Miles Mayhem]] (5)<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (6)<br />
*[[Sly Rax]] (7)<br />
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (9)<br />
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*[[William Evans]] (8)<br />
*[[Marcia Watkins]] (10)<br />
*[[Dr. Mindbender]] (11)<br />
*[[Scarlett]] (12)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Scarlett, this is my special-ops team leader, '''Matt Trakker.''' Codename: Spectrum. And this is the rest of the team. They're known as <big>'''Mobile Armored Strike Kommand!'''</big>"<br />
:—'''[[Miles Mayhem]]''', failing to explain why "command" is spelled with a "K".<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The flashback portion of this issue starts one year prior to the events of ''[[Revolution]]''. Whilst "{{t|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}" implied that technology from the captive {{t|Blitzwing (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Blitzwing}} would be used to create M.A.S.K.'s vehicles, this large time gap places the beginnings of Project Spectrum before that prelude issue.<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheJohnBarber/status/781532481782550529 Tweet by John Barber, 2016/09/29]</ref> Instead, it seems, Blitzwing simply allowed the vehicles to be finalized—perhaps fixing the error that caused the deaths of Evans and Watkins?<br />
*Mannheim's military background was established previously by his appearance as part of the [[Adventure Team]] in the ''Revolution'' prelude "Secret Raiders".<br />
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===M.A.S.K. references===<br />
*The prototype Masks and vehicles share the exact same design as their original 1985 counterparts.<br />
*The first two vehicles to get test driven are the [[Gator]] and the [[Jackhammer]], though the Gator's defense mode looks very different.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
[[File:MASK Revolution Orange Shark.jpg|240px|thumb|"It's not quite a Shark, and it's not quite a Gator, but ''man''! (laughs) So to answer your question, I don't know."]]<br />
*Mayhem quotes Lopez as saying the prototypes were just "Cars from the eighties", when it was Matt who questioned the vehicles.<br />
**This is corrected in the first trade collection for ''M.A.S.K.''<br />
*Word balloon placement makes it look like Sly Rax is mocking himself while trying on the Masks.<br />
*Mayhem's flashback depicts him with white hair, despite the fact that "Secret Raiders" (as well as issues of ''[[Revolutionaries]]'') established a young Miles Mayhem as the red-headed Sea Adventurer.<br />
*The [[Shark]] is miscolored orange on the final page of the issue, presumably due to confusion with the [[Gator]] that appeared earlier in the issue.<br />
*The final scene of the issue is at odds with {{t|The Divine Source of Liberty|''Revolution'' #2}}, in which Mayhem does not introduce Scarlett to the M.A.S.K. team until they have already set up shop in the basement of G.I. Joe headquarters. ''Revolution'' also presented the V.E.N.O.M. recruits as members of the M.A.S.K. team, despite no indication of that in this issue.<br />
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===Wait, what?===<br />
*Oh ''wow'', that is ''not'' how {{w|Schrödinger's cat}} works or what it's for. It's not about testing morality. Like, ''at all''. <br />
*It's not clearly stated in the story, so anyone unfamiliar with IDW's ''G.I. Joe'' may not realize that Dr. Armand Singh is the Cobra scientist [[Dr. Mindbender]]. However, right after referring to him with his given name in narration, Mayhem calls him "Doctor Bender", which is backed up by [[M.A.S.K. issue 1|issue #1]]'s character list, where his name is given as "Dr. Verstal Bender". Though the first trade collection for ''M.A.S.K.'' changed the name given in Mayhem's narration to "Dr. Verstal Bender", and the ''[[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook]]'' entry for Dr. Mindbender later explained that "Verstal Bender" was a pseudonym Armand Singh adopted after the fall of Cobra, the way it's presented leads to a lot of confusion.<br />
*Mayhem states that Julio and Rax's Masks both perform the same ability, which Julio (or Rax, or someone else, depending on who the word balloon is supposed to be attributed to) describes as "shrink non-living materials or make them much larger".... but Rax's Mask, Stiletto, proceeds to just fire a projectile with no apparent trace of shrinking or growing involved, as with its classic ''M.A.S.K.'' counterpart. It would take Stilleto's ''Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook'' entry to explain that Rax uses his mask in conjunction with a set of razor-sharp metal darts, which he grows and hurls at his opponents, but ''none'' of this is explained in the issue.<br />
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===Covers (4)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' [[Matt Trakker]], [[Brad Turner]] on the [[Condor]], Matt Trakker in the [[Thunderhawk]], the [http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/hurricane.html Hurricane] (which has not yet appeared in IDW continuity), and the [[Gator]], by [[Tommy Lee Edwards]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' [[M.A.S.K.]] stands with their vehicles V.E.N.O.M.'s heads loom above, by [[Dan Schoening]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Blank cover for sketches.<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Matt Trakker, [[Gloria Baker]], [[Julio Lopez]], [[Sly Rax]], [[Vanessa Warfield]], [[Bruno Sheppard]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] stand masked, by [[Ken Christiansen]], part of an interconnecting image with the twelve other ''Revolution'' issues.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/09/preview-of-m-a-s-k-revolution-1/ Preview]<br />
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[[Category:Revolution issues]]</div>Broadsidehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page/Featured_articles&diff=10610Main Page/Featured articles2018-10-08T19:18:50Z<p>Broadside: </p>
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<div>This page serves as an archive of all of the IDW Hasbro Wiki's past [[:Category:Featured articles|featured articles]].<br />
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==October 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Snake Eyes mainpic SEAoC1.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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'''[[Snake Eyes|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
==August 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Axiom]]''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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'''[[Axiom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Zartan origins16 cover.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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When [[Emil Zartan]], [[Cobra]]'s living weapon, was killed by a [[M.A.S.S. device|teleporter accident]], his story did not end. On the orders of [[Cobra Commander]], the organization's scientists were able to create a clone of the assassin: a new '''[[Zartan]]''', capable of changing his face and skin-tone to match any man on the planet.<br />
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Able to infiltrate any facility with ease and steal or kill completely undetected, Zartan — who sees himself as his predecessor, reborn and perfected — is one of Cobra's greatest assets. His unique abilities and belief in his own perfection, however, have given him an egotistical streak and a petulant, narcissistic sense of entitlement. Because of this, his behavior tries his commanders' patience to the point that he may have outlived his usefulness...<br />
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'''[[Zartan|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Jem5-StormerFullBody.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Stormer]]''' is the stage name of '''Mary Phillips''', the keytarist and songwriter for [[The Misfits]]. While her caring and compassionate nature stands in sharp contrast to her bandmates, Stormer has nevertheless come to serve as the heart and soul of The Misfits and her songwriting skills have defined their sound. Though she often disagrees with their cutthroat approach to gaining success, Stormer still cares very deeply for her fellow Misfits and has a somewhat love-hate relationship with the band's frontwoman [[Pizzazz]].<br />
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Recently, Stormer has become romantically involved with [[Kimber Benton]], keytarist for The Misfits' chief rival [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. She is also the sister of [[Craig Phillips]].<br />
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'''[[Stormer|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHSourcebook Larissa profile.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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The woman called '''[[Larissa]]''' is an enigma. A skilled scientist, medic and warrior who wields '''Orbital Defender''' force-field technology powered by her own biology, she prefers to remain secretive about herself, keeping her past hidden from her allies and enemies alike.<br />
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Joining [[Oziron Rael]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s through a quirk of fate, she may not fully trust her new allies, but is dedicated to their mission of saving [[Microspace]] from the twin threats of the [[entropy cloud]] and [[Baron Karza]]. However, she might know more about the latter than she lets on...<br />
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'''[[Larissa|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2018==<br />
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==March 2018==<br />
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In his heart, '''[[Tomax Paoli]]''' believes a single truth: slavery is freedom. As his connection to [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] and their victory over [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]] prove, man can only be content when he must answer to another.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be peerless businessmen, Tomax and his brother learned on the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] in their youths that the true measure of success in war is profit, not destruction; and they have since applied these lessons to profit ruthlessly in the boardroom, selling security through their [[Crimson Guard]] and growing their empire with [[Extensive Enterprises]].<br />
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Ultimately, Tomax sees the truth of what [[Cobra]] is: control, and he believes in it wholeheartedly. With his fervent belief, he has the potential to rise to the [[Cobra Commander|highest echelons]] of the organization.<br />
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'''[[Tomax Paoli|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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<div style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">In his heart, '''[[Xamot Paoli]]''' wants one thing: freedom from slavery. Ever since he was left humiliated by [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]], he has felt no connection to [[Tomax Paoli|his brother]], and no longer wishes to answer to anyone but himself.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be a peerless soldier, Xamot finds no joy in playing politics in the boardroom, and his heart years for the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] that he fought on in his youth, where success could be measured in destruction, not just profit. He is miserable growing the empire of [[Extensive Enterprises]], and would rather be fighting alongside the [[Crimson Guard]] than selling their services.<br />
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Now, Xamot sees [[Cobra]] for what it is: slavery, and he wants no part of it. Trapped in the system, when he finally cuts loose, he has the potential to cause huge trouble for the organisation...</div><br />
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'''[[Xamot Paoli|(Continued...)]]'''<br />
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==February 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ROM5-Livia.jpg|200px]]</div><br />
'''[[Livia]]''' is one of the [[Solstar Order]]'s earliest and most formidable [[Space Knight]]s. Once a young university student with her lover [[Rom]], she was quick to join the Order after the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s attacked her home world of [[Elonia]]. Her dedication to the Order's mission to annihilate the Wraith scourge from the universe has earned her a reputation amongst the Knights, as well as the partnership with their leader, [[Orphion]].<br />
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At heart however, Livia is a natural daredevil and risk taker. War without end has not only fermented these impulses but gave rise to a near-insatiable bloodlust and increasingly narrow sense of good and evil along with a strong belief in the innate moral superiority of the Solstar Order. Dedicated to victory at any cost, Livia always adheres to protocol and is always willing to make any number of sacrifices (usually other people's) in the name of the greater good. In the end however, these traits may very well result in Livia finding herself consumed by not only the war but her own bloodlust... <br />
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'''[[Livia|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==January 2018==<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|Matthew "Matt" Trakker]]''', codenamed '''Spectrum''', is the leader of the [[M.A.S.K.|Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]]. Matt is an engineering genius, but he's had a rebellious and troubled history ever since the death of his father, [[Cornelius Trakker]]. As the inexperienced leader of M.A.S.K., he's had to face the betrayal of his mentor, [[Miles Mayhem]], and the loss of several teammates under his which, two events which have haunted Matt and led to insecurity about his own abilities. Luckily, he has friends, like his M.A.S.K. teammates and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] leader [[Scarlett]], to catch him when he falls. In the field, Trakker drives the [[Thunderhawk]] vehicle and wears the powerful Spectrum [[Mask]].<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==December 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Revolution2 Colton profile.jpeg|155px]]</div><br />
General '''[[Joe Colton|Joseph B. "Joe" Colton]]''' is known better by his codename: '''G.I. Joe'''. A highly decorated officer in the [[United States Army]] with a strong grip, Colton has had his fair share of fantastic adventures during his time as leader of the [[Adventure Team]]. Colton became so famous that the Adventure Team's replacement, the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, was given another name: [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], after Colton's old nickname. Since their existence was revealed to the public by [[Cobra]], Colton has led G.I. Joe in their continuing fight for freedom.<br />
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However, after an encounter with the [[Dire Wraith]]s, Colton realized that G.I. Joe was not enough. Needing to remain in hiding, he adopted the persona of '''Baron Ironblood''', a sinister, masked villain. Creating the "[[Iron Ring]]", Colton has allied himself with some of the most world's most dangerous villains in pursuit of the artifact codenamed the [[Talisman]] to achieve his ultimate goal: saving the [[Earth]] by destroying all {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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'''[[Joe Colton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==November 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:JemCover8-JerricaCrop.jpg|275px]]</div><br />
'''[[Jerrica Benton]]''' is the manager, co-songwriter, and former lead singer of [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. Unbeknownst to those outside of the band, she's also the current lead singer as well! While Jerrica has a passion for music, she's rather shy by nature and has a severe case of stage fright, making her a rather awkward fit for the frontwoman of a hot, up and coming band like the Holograms. One day, however, Jerrica stumbled upon [[Synergy]], a "holographic computer" created by her [[Emmet Benton|late father]] that has the power to create a wide array of dazzling, lifelike, hard-light holograms! With the power of Synergy, Jerrica was suddenly able to create a persona that would allow her to perform in front of an audience without fear, a persona that would come to be known as '''Jem'''!<br />
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Level-headed and mature, Jerrica is well suited to her responsibilities as both the band's manager and lead singer. However, the burden of always having to be "the grown-up" for her sisters and the considerable workload that comes with managing a band like the Holograms can weigh heavy on her and occasionally cause her to lose her patience. Thankfully, her responsible nature ensures that she's able to avoid any temptations to avoid the stresses of her life by living as her alter-ego... right?<br />
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'''[[Jerrica Benton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:WOK1crop-BaronKarza.jpg|175px]]</div><br />
Some would call '''[[Baron Karza|Baron Hraal Karza]]''' power-hungry—a tyrannical ruler exploiting the crisis [[Microspace]] faces for personal gain. But nothing could be further from the truth. Everything that Karza does, he does for his people. He knows that he represents Microspace's best chance for survival, and will not allow anybody to stand in the way of his plans, no matter the cost. If some individuals must be sacrificed to save the universe, so be it.<br />
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Recently, Karza has had a lot of time to himself to think, and his ideas have moved in a more radical direction. Microspace must still be saved, but couldn't things be made even better with a strong leader at its head? Someone to guide—to ''shepherd''—the people down the right path. Someone... just like Baron Karza?<br />
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'''[[Baron Karza|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==September 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Cobra 1 cover Chuckles.jpg|175px]]</div><br />
Once, he was called '''Phillip M. Provost'''; but in recent years, you're more likely to have met him as Jason Wright, or Derrick Attell, or Marcus Quinn, or one of a hundred other names. His true identity, though, is '''[[Chuckles]]''': undercover [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] agent, reporting to [[Hawk]] on the criminal organisations of the world; a task that he's naturally suited to with his gregarious charm and ruthless willing to do whatever's needed to complete his mission.<br />
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As an undercover agent, Chuckles is not officially on file as a member of G.I. Joe; instead, he contacts the Joes through his handler [[Jinx]], with whom he's begun a romantic relationship with.<br />
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Recently, he's discovered the existence of a global terrorist conspiracy called [[Cobra]], and is infiltrating it as a prospective agent. What could go wrong?<br />
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'''[[Chuckles|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==August 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ROM Annual Dire Wraiths.jpg|175px]]</div><br />
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The ancient enemies of the [[Solstar Order]], the '''[[Dire Wraiths]]''' are a race of parasitic alien shapeshifters bent on conquest. Capable of taking over the bodies of other life-forms and transforming them into more of their kind, the Dire Wraiths wield dark magics powered by the lifeblood of other creatures, and can take any form they wish.<br />
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Having been scattered across the galaxy after the destruction of [[Dire Wraith homeworld|their homeworld]], they are pursued in their invasions by the Solstar Order's [[Space Knight]]s, and above all else they fear the greatest of their number, [[Rom]]. But having arrived on [[Earth]], the planet is unique among those the Dire Wraiths have come to, and its qualities may provide them with new weapons in their war with the Space Knights...<br />
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'''[[Dire Wraith|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Revolution3 Mayhem profile.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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General '''[[Miles Mayhem|Miles "Mayhem" Manheim]]''' is a military man. A soldier since his youthful days, he later served under [[Joe Colton]] as part of the [[Adventure Team]]. During this time, Manheim got his nickname from Colton because of his innate talent for causing disruption and chaos among enemy forces. Miles was a brilliant soldier and one of Joe's best friends. <br />
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However, Mayhem's heroic actions soon gave way to villainous intentions. Carrying a deep desire for wealth and power, Mayhem is methodical and a master manipulator. He is able to use the people around him like pawns in a game of chess. He is incredibly cold and is willing to sacrifice anyone, deeming human lives an "acceptable loss." His ultimate desire is control over the world, and he's more than happy to sell out his allies and side with whomever he must to gain what he believes he deserves.<br />
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'''[[Miles Mayhem|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ActionMan1 cover Ian Noble.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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'''Action Man''' is known as "the greatest hero of them all", but '''[[Ian Noble]]''', the current holder of the title, might not quite live up to that description. He's reckless, impulsive and irreverent, and not exactly one for subtlety, so it's hardly surprising that he struggles to live up to [[Mike Brogan|the previous Action Man]]'s legacy.<br />
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Despite that, he wasn't made the new Action Man for no reason. Ian is a brave, dedicated agent with a strong sense of loyalty and justice, skills that impressed even his predecessor, and a sharper mind than most would give him credit for... even if he does mostly use it for making bad puns. When he sets his mind to a task, you can count on him to carry it out, though he might derail a train into a wildlife park in the process.<br />
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'''[[Ian Noble|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:PizzazzPromoArt.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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'''Phyllis Gabor''', better known by her stage name '''[[Pizzazz]]''', is the frontwoman, occasional guitarist, and all around public face of [[The Misfits]]. Unfortunately for the rest of her band, however, her face is one that can often be found screaming in the faces of others. Loud, abrasive, and short tempered, Pizzazz is an extremely driven musician who strives for perfection in her music and doesn't take kindly to anyone or anything she perceives as a threat to The Misfits' success. Though she can be incredibly rude and hurtful towards her bandmates, deep down she does harbor a deep affection for them, seeing them as a second family of sorts to replace her distant [[Harvey Gabor|father]].<br />
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'''[[Pizzazz|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Acroyear profile.jpg|135px]]</div><br />
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The taciturn '''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]''' forgoes his own name, going instead by that of the breed of [[Acroyear (group)|genetically-engineered super-warriors]] to which he belongs. One of the last surviving first generation Acroyears, he narrowly escaped destruction with the help of [[Oziron Rael]], and now fights as part of the [[Pharoid]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s.<br />
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Acroyear is a warrior without parallel, able to [[enerchange]] turbines for flight and summon a powerful sword from subspace. For him, no opponent is too tough, no obstacle insurmountable, no odds too slim, even in a [[Earth|world of giants]]. In truth, the only time Acroyear truly feels out of his depth is when the battle is over – the absence of threat leaves him feeling intensely uncomfortable. Luckily for him, that's not a problem he has so much these days.<br />
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'''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==March 2017==<br />
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'''"[[Cobra Commander|Commander]]"''' is the title given to the supreme leader of [[Cobra]]. Elected once every seven years in an occult ceremony from a pool of candidates chosen by the [[Cobra Council]], the Commander dons a mask to hide their face from the world and directs all Cobra's operations from the shadows. There have been many commanders in Cobra's centuries-long history, but the mystery man who lead the organization for the last quarter of the twentieth century was one of the most successful.<br />
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'''[[Cobra Commander|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2016==<br />
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One of the Space Knights has followed the trail of the [[Dire Wraith]]s all the way to [[Earth]]. This one the Dire Wraiths fear more than all others. This one has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. This one alone could wipe them off the face of creation. <br />
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He is '''[[Rom]]''', Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! '''''Rom, the Space Knight!'''''<br />
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'''[[Rom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2018==<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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'''[[Snake Eyes|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
==August 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Axiom]]''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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'''[[Axiom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Zartan origins16 cover.jpg|140px]]</div><br />
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When [[Emil Zartan]], [[Cobra]]'s living weapon, was killed by a [[M.A.S.S. device|teleporter accident]], his story did not end. On the orders of [[Cobra Commander]], the organization's scientists were able to create a clone of the assassin: a new '''[[Zartan]]''', capable of changing his face and skin-tone to match any man on the planet.<br />
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Able to infiltrate any facility with ease and steal or kill completely undetected, Zartan — who sees himself as his predecessor, reborn and perfected — is one of Cobra's greatest assets. His unique abilities and belief in his own perfection, however, have given him an egotistical streak and a petulant, narcissistic sense of entitlement. Because of this, his behavior tries his commanders' patience to the point that he may have outlived his usefulness...<br />
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'''[[Zartan|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Jem5-StormerFullBody.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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'''[[Stormer]]''' is the stage name of '''Mary Phillips''', the keytarist and songwriter for [[The Misfits]]. While her caring and compassionate nature stands in sharp contrast to her bandmates, Stormer has nevertheless come to serve as the heart and soul of The Misfits and her songwriting skills have defined their sound. Though she often disagrees with their cutthroat approach to gaining success, Stormer still cares very deeply for her fellow Misfits and has a somewhat love-hate relationship with the band's frontwoman [[Pizzazz]].<br />
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Recently, Stormer has become romantically involved with [[Kimber Benton]], keytarist for The Misfits' chief rival [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. She is also the sister of [[Craig Phillips]].<br />
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'''[[Stormer|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:HHSourcebook Larissa profile.jpg|125px]]</div><br />
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The woman called '''[[Larissa]]''' is an enigma. A skilled scientist, medic and warrior who wields '''Orbital Defender''' force-field technology powered by her own biology, she prefers to remain secretive about herself, keeping her past hidden from her allies and enemies alike.<br />
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Joining [[Oziron Rael]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s through a quirk of fate, she may not fully trust her new allies, but is dedicated to their mission of saving [[Microspace]] from the twin threats of the [[entropy cloud]] and [[Baron Karza]]. However, she might know more about the latter than she lets on...<br />
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'''[[Larissa|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2018==<br />
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==March 2018==<br />
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In his heart, '''[[Tomax Paoli]]''' believes a single truth: slavery is freedom. As his connection to [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] and their victory over [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]] prove, man can only be content when he must answer to another.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be peerless businessmen, Tomax and his brother learned on the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] in their youths that the true measure of success in war is profit, not destruction; and they have since applied these lessons to profit ruthlessly in the boardroom, selling security through their [[Crimson Guard]] and growing their empire with [[Extensive Enterprises]].<br />
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Ultimately, Tomax sees the truth of what [[Cobra]] is: control, and he believes in it wholeheartedly. With his fervent belief, he has the potential to rise to the [[Cobra Commander|highest echelons]] of the organization.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right; direction: ltr; margin-left: 1em;">In his heart, '''[[Xamot Paoli]]''' wants one thing: freedom from slavery. Ever since he was left humiliated by [[Chuckles|an undercover G.I. Joe]], he has felt no connection to [[Tomax Paoli|his brother]], and no longer wishes to answer to anyone but himself.<br />
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Raised by the [[Unione Corse]] to be a peerless soldier, Xamot finds no joy in playing politics in the boardroom, and his heart years for the battlefields of [[Chad]] and [[Libya]] that he fought on in his youth, where success could be measured in destruction, not just profit. He is miserable growing the empire of [[Extensive Enterprises]], and would rather be fighting alongside the [[Crimson Guard]] than selling their services.<br />
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Now, Xamot sees [[Cobra]] for what it is: slavery, and he wants no part of it. Trapped in the system, when he finally cuts loose, he has the potential to cause huge trouble for the organisation...</div><br />
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==February 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ROM5-Livia.jpg|200px]]</div><br />
'''[[Livia]]''' is one of the [[Solstar Order]]'s earliest and most formidable [[Space Knight]]s. Once a young university student with her lover [[Rom]], she was quick to join the Order after the evil [[Dire Wraith]]s attacked her home world of [[Elonia]]. Her dedication to the Order's mission to annihilate the Wraith scourge from the universe has earned her a reputation amongst the Knights, as well as the partnership with their leader, [[Orphion]].<br />
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At heart however, Livia is a natural daredevil and risk taker. War without end has not only fermented these impulses but gave rise to a near-insatiable bloodlust and increasingly narrow sense of good and evil along with a strong belief in the innate moral superiority of the Solstar Order. Dedicated to victory at any cost, Livia always adheres to protocol and is always willing to make any number of sacrifices (usually other people's) in the name of the greater good. In the end however, these traits may very well result in Livia finding herself consumed by not only the war but her own bloodlust... <br />
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'''[[Livia|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==January 2018==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:MattTrakkerModel.jpg|200px]]</div><br />
'''[[Matt Trakker|Matthew "Matt" Trakker]]''', codenamed '''Spectrum''', is the leader of the [[M.A.S.K.|Mobile Armored Strike Kommand]]. Matt is an engineering genius, but he's had a rebellious and troubled history ever since the death of his father, [[Cornelius Trakker]]. As the inexperienced leader of M.A.S.K., he's had to face the betrayal of his mentor, [[Miles Mayhem]], and the loss of several teammates under his which, two events which have haunted Matt and led to insecurity about his own abilities. Luckily, he has friends, like his M.A.S.K. teammates and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] leader [[Scarlett]], to catch him when he falls. In the field, Trakker drives the [[Thunderhawk]] vehicle and wears the powerful Spectrum [[Mask]].<br />
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'''[[Matt Trakker|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==December 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Revolution2 Colton profile.jpeg|155px]]</div><br />
General '''[[Joe Colton|Joseph B. "Joe" Colton]]''' is known better by his codename: '''G.I. Joe'''. A highly decorated officer in the [[United States Army]] with a strong grip, Colton has had his fair share of fantastic adventures during his time as leader of the [[Adventure Team]]. Colton became so famous that the Adventure Team's replacement, the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, was given another name: [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], after Colton's old nickname. Since their existence was revealed to the public by [[Cobra]], Colton has led G.I. Joe in their continuing fight for freedom.<br />
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However, after an encounter with the [[Dire Wraith]]s, Colton realized that G.I. Joe was not enough. Needing to remain in hiding, he adopted the persona of '''Baron Ironblood''', a sinister, masked villain. Creating the "[[Iron Ring]]", Colton has allied himself with some of the most world's most dangerous villains in pursuit of the artifact codenamed the [[Talisman]] to achieve his ultimate goal: saving the [[Earth]] by destroying all {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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'''[[Joe Colton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==November 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:JemCover8-JerricaCrop.jpg|275px]]</div><br />
'''[[Jerrica Benton]]''' is the manager, co-songwriter, and former lead singer of [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. Unbeknownst to those outside of the band, she's also the current lead singer as well! While Jerrica has a passion for music, she's rather shy by nature and has a severe case of stage fright, making her a rather awkward fit for the frontwoman of a hot, up and coming band like the Holograms. One day, however, Jerrica stumbled upon [[Synergy]], a "holographic computer" created by her [[Emmet Benton|late father]] that has the power to create a wide array of dazzling, lifelike, hard-light holograms! With the power of Synergy, Jerrica was suddenly able to create a persona that would allow her to perform in front of an audience without fear, a persona that would come to be known as '''Jem'''!<br />
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Level-headed and mature, Jerrica is well suited to her responsibilities as both the band's manager and lead singer. However, the burden of always having to be "the grown-up" for her sisters and the considerable workload that comes with managing a band like the Holograms can weigh heavy on her and occasionally cause her to lose her patience. Thankfully, her responsible nature ensures that she's able to avoid any temptations to avoid the stresses of her life by living as her alter-ego... right?<br />
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'''[[Jerrica Benton|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2017==<br />
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Some would call '''[[Baron Karza|Baron Hraal Karza]]''' power-hungry—a tyrannical ruler exploiting the crisis [[Microspace]] faces for personal gain. But nothing could be further from the truth. Everything that Karza does, he does for his people. He knows that he represents Microspace's best chance for survival, and will not allow anybody to stand in the way of his plans, no matter the cost. If some individuals must be sacrificed to save the universe, so be it.<br />
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Recently, Karza has had a lot of time to himself to think, and his ideas have moved in a more radical direction. Microspace must still be saved, but couldn't things be made even better with a strong leader at its head? Someone to guide—to ''shepherd''—the people down the right path. Someone... just like Baron Karza?<br />
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'''[[Baron Karza|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==September 2017==<br />
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Once, he was called '''Phillip M. Provost'''; but in recent years, you're more likely to have met him as Jason Wright, or Derrick Attell, or Marcus Quinn, or one of a hundred other names. His true identity, though, is '''[[Chuckles]]''': undercover [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] agent, reporting to [[Hawk]] on the criminal organisations of the world; a task that he's naturally suited to with his gregarious charm and ruthless willing to do whatever's needed to complete his mission.<br />
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As an undercover agent, Chuckles is not officially on file as a member of G.I. Joe; instead, he contacts the Joes through his handler [[Jinx]], with whom he's begun a romantic relationship with.<br />
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Recently, he's discovered the existence of a global terrorist conspiracy called [[Cobra]], and is infiltrating it as a prospective agent. What could go wrong?<br />
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'''[[Chuckles|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==August 2017==<br />
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The ancient enemies of the [[Solstar Order]], the '''[[Dire Wraiths]]''' are a race of parasitic alien shapeshifters bent on conquest. Capable of taking over the bodies of other life-forms and transforming them into more of their kind, the Dire Wraiths wield dark magics powered by the lifeblood of other creatures, and can take any form they wish.<br />
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Having been scattered across the galaxy after the destruction of [[Dire Wraith homeworld|their homeworld]], they are pursued in their invasions by the Solstar Order's [[Space Knight]]s, and above all else they fear the greatest of their number, [[Rom]]. But having arrived on [[Earth]], the planet is unique among those the Dire Wraiths have come to, and its qualities may provide them with new weapons in their war with the Space Knights...<br />
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'''[[Dire Wraith|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==July 2017==<br />
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General '''[[Miles Mayhem|Miles "Mayhem" Manheim]]''' is a military man. A soldier since his youthful days, he later served under [[Joe Colton]] as part of the [[Adventure Team]]. During this time, Manheim got his nickname from Colton because of his innate talent for causing disruption and chaos among enemy forces. Miles was a brilliant soldier and one of Joe's best friends. <br />
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However, Mayhem's heroic actions soon gave way to villainous intentions. Carrying a deep desire for wealth and power, Mayhem is methodical and a master manipulator. He is able to use the people around him like pawns in a game of chess. He is incredibly cold and is willing to sacrifice anyone, deeming human lives an "acceptable loss." His ultimate desire is control over the world, and he's more than happy to sell out his allies and side with whomever he must to gain what he believes he deserves.<br />
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'''[[Miles Mayhem|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==June 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:ActionMan1 cover Ian Noble.jpg|160px]]</div><br />
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'''Action Man''' is known as "the greatest hero of them all", but '''[[Ian Noble]]''', the current holder of the title, might not quite live up to that description. He's reckless, impulsive and irreverent, and not exactly one for subtlety, so it's hardly surprising that he struggles to live up to [[Mike Brogan|the previous Action Man]]'s legacy.<br />
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Despite that, he wasn't made the new Action Man for no reason. Ian is a brave, dedicated agent with a strong sense of loyalty and justice, skills that impressed even his predecessor, and a sharper mind than most would give him credit for... even if he does mostly use it for making bad puns. When he sets his mind to a task, you can count on him to carry it out, though he might derail a train into a wildlife park in the process.<br />
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'''[[Ian Noble|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==May 2017==<br />
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'''Phyllis Gabor''', better known by her stage name '''[[Pizzazz]]''', is the frontwoman, occasional guitarist, and all around public face of [[The Misfits]]. Unfortunately for the rest of her band, however, her face is one that can often be found screaming in the faces of others. Loud, abrasive, and short tempered, Pizzazz is an extremely driven musician who strives for perfection in her music and doesn't take kindly to anyone or anything she perceives as a threat to The Misfits' success. Though she can be incredibly rude and hurtful towards her bandmates, deep down she does harbor a deep affection for them, seeing them as a second family of sorts to replace her distant [[Harvey Gabor|father]].<br />
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'''[[Pizzazz|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==April 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Acroyear profile.jpg|135px]]</div><br />
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The taciturn '''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]''' forgoes his own name, going instead by that of the breed of [[Acroyear (group)|genetically-engineered super-warriors]] to which he belongs. One of the last surviving first generation Acroyears, he narrowly escaped destruction with the help of [[Oziron Rael]], and now fights as part of the [[Pharoid]]'s crew of [[Micronaut]]s.<br />
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Acroyear is a warrior without parallel, able to [[enerchange]] turbines for flight and summon a powerful sword from subspace. For him, no opponent is too tough, no obstacle insurmountable, no odds too slim, even in a [[Earth|world of giants]]. In truth, the only time Acroyear truly feels out of his depth is when the battle is over – the absence of threat leaves him feeling intensely uncomfortable. Luckily for him, that's not a problem he has so much these days.<br />
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'''[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==March 2017==<br />
{{FeaturedArchive|text=<div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-top:1em">[[File:Origins17 cobracommander.jpg|135px]]</div><br />
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'''"[[Cobra Commander|Commander]]"''' is the title given to the supreme leader of [[Cobra]]. Elected once every seven years in an occult ceremony from a pool of candidates chosen by the [[Cobra Council]], the Commander dons a mask to hide their face from the world and directs all Cobra's operations from the shadows. There have been many commanders in Cobra's centuries-long history, but the mystery man who lead the organization for the last quarter of the twentieth century was one of the most successful.<br />
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'''[[Cobra Commander|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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==October 2016==<br />
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One of the Space Knights has followed the trail of the [[Dire Wraith]]s all the way to [[Earth]]. This one the Dire Wraiths fear more than all others. This one has hounded them and kept them underground for centuries. This one alone could wipe them off the face of creation. <br />
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He is '''[[Rom]]''', Lord of the Solstar Order! Rom, the Wraithslayer! '''''Rom, the Space Knight!'''''<br />
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'''[[Rom|(Continued...)]]'''}}<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "'''Heitai'''", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} leaving Snake Eyes the only one alive for Storm Shadow to challenge; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} though he survived, Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL to investigate Cobra and the Arashikage, letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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Needing an order of assassins to replace the treacherous Arashikage, Cobra Commander recruited the followers of [[Serpentor]]'s [[Coil]] to serve in that role, and tasked them with destroying the ninja clan. Learning of the attacks on the clan and the abduction of the Soft Master, Snake Eyes took a ninja team to meet with Alondra and the Hard Master, in the process of fleeing from an attack on the deli. After the Hard Master explained what had happened, Snake Eyes intervened to ensure that he and Alondra were allowed to go free, despite the Hard Master's past split from the clan. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}}<br />
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Aiming to plunder Cobra's treasures for themselves, Snake Eyes and the the Arashikage launched an attack on the [[Kuala Lumpur]] headquarters of [[Vendri]], killing the corrupt executives responsible for laundering money for Cobra and stealing a flash drive containing encryption keys leading to countless Cobra vaults. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 1}} Their first target was a vault beneath [[Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank]] in [[Budapest]], but when the ninja broke in, they discovered the riches had already been removed, to be used in the purchase of the country of [[Tryolvia]]. The vault's contents were tracked to [[Ferenc Liszt International Airport]], where Snake Eyes ran off in advance to plant a tracking device on Cobra's plane and track them back to their own base, forcing the other Arashikage to engage the Cobra forces as a distraction. Though [[Juro]], the only ninja to survive the attack, warned Storm Shadow that Snake Eyes was spending their lives too freely, the clan's leader threatened to kill Juro if he questioned Snake Eyes' loyalty again. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 2}}<br />
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Identifying the carrier ship used to transport Cobra's money, the ''[[Neptune Bonanza]]'', Snake Eyes and the Arashikage hid inside shipping containers that were loaded onto the boat in Albania before leaping out to attack the guards once the ship was out at sea. Snake Eyes and Juro eliminated the bridge crew of the ship, before together taking down the towering [[Eisenherz]] even as G.I. Joe forces boarded the ship to capture the Cobra and Arashikage forces at once. Moving below deck to scuttle the ship, Snake Eyes was found by Scarlett, who ordered him to surrender — but, when Snake Eyes killed Juro as the other ninja moved to attack Scarlett, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he walked away. Hiding in a shipping container with a breathing mask, Snake Eyes emerged as the ship sank, and used a man-portable propulsion device to get away.<br />
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With Storm Shadow having finally accepted the truth after seeing footage of Snake Eyes shooting Juro, {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 3}} Snake Eyes traveled to an ancient Arashikage temple in [[Cambodia]], where his enemies had gathered. As he neared the temple, Snake Eyes was attacked by Riya's son [[Tomo]], who believed Snake Eyes had killed his mother; but Snake Eyes easily disarmed the boy and knocked him unconscious before carrying Tomo to the temple with him. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 4}} Entering the temple, Snake Eyes found a drugged and woozy Helix, who collapsed into his arms after having killed countless Arashikage ninja; though Tomo, awake once more, wished to continue their duel, Storm Shadow intervened, telling the boy the truth of his parents' deaths and insisting that Snake Eyes would die at his hands in time, before allowing Snake Eyes to leave and join the arriving G.I. Joe team.<br />
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At G.I. Joe's new base in the [[USS Flagg|USS ''Flagg'']], Snake Eyes was heavily sedated while [[Doc]] worked on his injuries, with Scarlett sitting with him while he recovered; {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 5}} but as soon as he was able, he was up and preparing for combat once again, ignoring Scarlett's pleas for him to rest. That decision proved prescient, as mere moments later, an explosion rocked the aircraft carrier, Storm Shadow having detonated high explosive to destroy the [[Philadelphia Naval Yard]]'s sea gate. Storm Shadow killed his way through the ship's defenders, but when he moved in to execute Helix, Snake Eyes intervened, fully suited up and ready to duel. The two ninja dueled across the gantries above the ''Flagg''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> lower deck, but after seeing that [[Deep Six]] was trapped below a piece of machinery amongst the rising waters, Snake Eyes adjourned the battle to help; cutting off Deep Six's arm to free him, Snake Eyes saved the other Joe's life, only for Storm Shadow to stab [[Cutter]] through the chest as he provided cover for the ninja-commando. While the other Joes escaped, the two ninja continued to fight even as the lower deck was consumed in fire from detonating ordnance. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 6}} Though both men survived, Storm Shadow lost track of Snake Eyes in the chaos, who used the opportunity to fake his own death; leaving his mask with the Hard Master as a message to his one-time brother, Snake Eyes disappeared, content to let the Joes and the world at large think him dead. {{storylink|Silence}}<br />
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Over the following years, though the Joes would use a fake "Snake Eyes" on training exercises, {{storylink|Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|Threat Matrix, Part 1}} the real Snake Eyes remained in hiding. After several years, however, Snake Eyes ceased faking his own death, and instead joined up with [[Tomax Paoli]]'s Cobra {{storylink|The Tin Man}} — which, unknown to the "repentant" terrorist organisation, was actually part of a deep cover mission on behalf of G.I. Joe. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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After months of working for Cobra on minor missions to prove his loyalty, Snake Eyes was tasked with breaking [[Destro]] out of captivity during a prisoner transfer; breaking the Cobra arms dealer out of his prison transport, Snake Eyes flung Destro off of a bridge and into the river below, before diving in after him and leading Destro downriver to a waiting group of [[Crimson Guard]]smen — whose leader Destro shot as a message to Tomax. Regrouping at Destro's [[Steelhead Bait Shop]] in [[Alaska]], Destro — who theorized that the [[Baroness]] was responsible for sending Snake Eyes into his service — tasked the ninja with tracking down [[Billy Kessler-Latta|William Kessler-Latta]], son of the late Cobra Commander, {{storylink|The Tin Man}} and the data-encoded pin implanted within his leg. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}}<br />
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After traveling across the globe while hunting down leads, Snake Eyes eventually made his way to the [[Jakarta]] home of Erika Le Tene, formerly the G.I. Joe agent codenamed [[Chameleon]]. {{storylink|The Tin Man}} Though Erika didn't believe herself able to help outside of providing what files she had and suggesting that Billy had been taken under the protection of AWOL G.I. Joe operative [[Ronin]], she was forced back into the war between Cobra and G.I. Joe when Arashikage assassins attempted to kill her, hitting her in the throat with an arrow. Snake Eyes hastily left the injured Erika in the care of a couple of {{w|auto-rickshaw}} passengers, who rushed her to a hospital while the ninja pursued the assassins, dispatching the other ninja with his sword and a detonated fuel canister before retrieving Erika's singed files.<br />
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Following Erika's recovery in hospital, {{storylink|The Dark Sister}} she and Snake Eyes worked together to find Billy and Ronin; eventually, her facial recognition algorithms found an 89% match to Billy in a viral video uploaded from [[Thailand]]. {{storylink|The Lost Boy}} Stealing a plane from an [[Indonesia]]n airfield, Erika and Snake Eyes stole a plane to fly to Thailand; though Erika begged for an indication that he wasn't just going to kill Billy or hand him over to Cobra, Snake Eyes simply jumped from the plane into the Thai jungle. Snake Eyes found Billy just in time to prevent Storm Shadow — who had already killed Ronin — from executing him; {{storylink|Knight Errant}} Storm Shadow was content to allow Billy and Erika to escape in the name of a final duel with Snake Eyes, and the two clashed in the pouring rain, though Storm Shadow took a momentary advantage, Snake Eyes managed to turn the tables, impaling Storm Shadow on his sword. Refusing to let Snake Eyes kill him, Storm Shadow pulled the pin on one of Snake Eyes' grenades, seemingly committing suicide. Snake Eyes, though exhausted and wounded, survived to rejoin Billy and Erika.<br />
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Rather than bring the real data pin back to Destro, Snake Eyes had Erika create a fake encoded with her own files and a large amount of junk data, and misled Destro into believing that Erika had been killed; content, Destro allowed Snake Eyes to return to Tomax, but asked him to be ready for Destro to reach out again. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}} Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when Duke (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by Scarlett as one the team's core members when she, Joe Colton, and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over Mainframe's survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to Tokyo, Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from Agent Helix on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as Tomax Paoli with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenadier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners, the Baroness and [[Crystal Ball]], had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} In ''Lemuria''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> brig, Snake Eyes and Helix passed the time with an impromptu game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (with the silent Snake Eyes wanting to play as a musical bard), only for a power blackout to allow the two to escape — a blackout caused by Skywarp, who wanted the two humans to accompany him to meet Duke in [[Washington, D.C.]], instructing them to find their own transportation off the base. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}} The three renegade Joes eventually returned to ''Lemuria'' when the base came under attack from {{t|Maximal#IDW Generation 1 continuity|mutant Cybertronians}}, fighting off the robots to rescue the other Joes. {{tstorylink|Last Stand (G.I. Joe)|Last Stand}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed (except in IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis {{t|Witwicky}}"). The jacket that the Snake Eyes was found wrapped in in the IDW continuity, implied to belong to one of his parents, has a nametag; however, only the first letter is visible: "S".<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} leaving Snake Eyes the only one alive for Storm Shadow to challenge; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} though he survived, Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL to investigate Cobra and the Arashikage, letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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====The prodigy returns====<br />
With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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Needing an order of assassins to replace the treacherous Arashikage, Cobra Commander recruited the followers of [[Serpentor]]'s [[Coil]] to serve in that role, and tasked them with destroying the ninja clan. Learning of the attacks on the clan and the abduction of the Soft Master, Snake Eyes took a ninja team to meet with Alondra and the Hard Master, in the process of fleeing from an attack on the deli. After the Hard Master explained what had happened, Snake Eyes intervened to ensure that he and Alondra were allowed to go free, despite the Hard Master's past split from the clan. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}}<br />
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Aiming to plunder Cobra's treasures for themselves, Snake Eyes and the the Arashikage launched an attack on the [[Kuala Lumpur]] headquarters of [[Vendri]], killing the corrupt executives responsible for laundering money for Cobra and stealing a flash drive containing encryption keys leading to countless Cobra vaults. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 1}} Their first target was a vault beneath [[Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank]] in [[Budapest]], but when the ninja broke in, they discovered the riches had already been removed, to be used in the purchase of the country of [[Tryolvia]]. The vault's contents were tracked to [[Ferenc Liszt International Airport]], where Snake Eyes ran off in advance to plant a tracking device on Cobra's plane and track them back to their own base, forcing the other Arashikage to engage the Cobra forces as a distraction. Though [[Juro]], the only ninja to survive the attack, warned Storm Shadow that Snake Eyes was spending their lives too freely, the clan's leader threatened to kill Juro if he questioned Snake Eyes' loyalty again. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 2}}<br />
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Identifying the carrier ship used to transport Cobra's money, the ''[[Neptune Bonanza]]'', Snake Eyes and the Arashikage hid inside shipping containers that were loaded onto the boat in Albania before leaping out to attack the guards once the ship was out at sea. Snake Eyes and Juro eliminated the bridge crew of the ship, before together taking down the towering [[Eisenherz]] even as G.I. Joe forces boarded the ship to capture the Cobra and Arashikage forces at once. Moving below deck to scuttle the ship, Snake Eyes was found by Scarlett, who ordered him to surrender — but, when Snake Eyes killed Juro as the other ninja moved to attack Scarlett, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he walked away. Hiding in a shipping container with a breathing mask, Snake Eyes emerged as the ship sank, and used a man-portable propulsion device to get away.<br />
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With Storm Shadow having finally accepted the truth after seeing footage of Snake Eyes shooting Juro, {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 3}} Snake Eyes traveled to an ancient Arashikage temple in [[Cambodia]], where his enemies had gathered. As he neared the temple, Snake Eyes was attacked by Riya's son [[Tomo]], who believed Snake Eyes had killed his mother; but Snake Eyes easily disarmed the boy and knocked him unconscious before carrying Tomo to the temple with him. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 4}} Entering the temple, Snake Eyes found a drugged and woozy Helix, who collapsed into his arms after having killed countless Arashikage ninja; though Tomo, awake once more, wished to continue their duel, Storm Shadow intervened, telling the boy the truth of his parents' deaths and insisting that Snake Eyes would die at his hands in time, before allowing Snake Eyes to leave and join the arriving G.I. Joe team.<br />
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At G.I. Joe's new base in the [[USS Flagg|USS ''Flagg'']], Snake Eyes was heavily sedated while [[Doc]] worked on his injuries, with Scarlett sitting with him while he recovered; {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 5}} but as soon as he was able, he was up and preparing for combat once again, ignoring Scarlett's pleas for him to rest. That decision proved prescient, as mere moments later, an explosion rocked the aircraft carrier, Storm Shadow having detonated high explosive to destroy the [[Philadelphia Naval Yard]]'s sea gate. Storm Shadow killed his way through the ship's defenders, but when he moved in to execute Helix, Snake Eyes intervened, fully suited up and ready to duel. The two ninja dueled across the gantries above the ''Flagg''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> lower deck, but after seeing that [[Deep Six]] was trapped below a piece of machinery amongst the rising waters, Snake Eyes adjourned the battle to help; cutting off Deep Six's arm to free him, Snake Eyes saved the other Joe's life, only for Storm Shadow to stab [[Cutter]] through the chest as he provided cover for the ninja-commando. While the other Joes escaped, the two ninja continued to fight even as the lower deck was consumed in fire from detonating ordnance. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 6}} Though both men survived, Storm Shadow lost track of Snake Eyes in the chaos, who used the opportunity to fake his own death; leaving his mask with the Hard Master as a message to his one-time brother, Snake Eyes disappeared, content to let the Joes and the world at large think him dead. {{storylink|Silence}}<br />
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Over the following years, though the Joes would use a fake "Snake Eyes" on training exercises, {{storylink|Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|Threat Matrix, Part 1}} the real Snake Eyes remained in hiding. After several years, however, Snake Eyes ceased faking his own death, and instead joined up with [[Tomax Paoli]]'s Cobra {{storylink|The Tin Man}} — which, unknown to the "repentant" terrorist organisation, was actually part of a deep cover mission on behalf of G.I. Joe. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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After months of working for Cobra on minor missions to prove his loyalty, Snake Eyes was tasked with breaking [[Destro]] out of captivity during a prisoner transfer; breaking the Cobra arms dealer out of his prison transport, Snake Eyes flung Destro off of a bridge and into the river below, before diving in after him and leading Destro downriver to a waiting group of [[Crimson Guard]]smen — whose leader Destro shot as a message to Tomax. Regrouping at Destro's [[Steelhead Bait Shop]] in [[Alaska]], Destro — who theorized that the [[Baroness]] was responsible for sending Snake Eyes into his service — tasked the ninja with tracking down [[Billy Kessler-Latta|William Kessler-Latta]], son of the late Cobra Commander, {{storylink|The Tin Man}} and the data-encoded pin implanted within his leg. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}}<br />
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After traveling across the globe while hunting down leads, Snake Eyes eventually made his way to the [[Jakarta]] home of Erika Le Tene, formerly the G.I. Joe agent codenamed [[Chameleon]]. {{storylink|The Tin Man}} Though Erika didn't believe herself able to help outside of providing what files she had and suggesting that Billy had been taken under the protection of AWOL G.I. Joe operative [[Ronin]], she was forced back into the war between Cobra and G.I. Joe when Arashikage assassins attempted to kill her, hitting her in the throat with an arrow. Snake Eyes hastily left the injured Erika in the care of a couple of {{w|auto-rickshaw}} passengers, who rushed her to a hospital while the ninja pursued the assassins, dispatching the other ninja with his sword and a detonated fuel canister before retrieving Erika's singed files.<br />
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Following Erika's recovery in hospital, {{storylink|The Dark Sister}} she and Snake Eyes worked together to find Billy and Ronin; eventually, her facial recognition algorithms found an 89% match to Billy in a viral video uploaded from [[Thailand]]. {{storylink|The Lost Boy}} Stealing a plane from an [[Indonesia]]n airfield, Erika and Snake Eyes stole a plane to fly to Thailand; though Erika begged for an indication that he wasn't just going to kill Billy or hand him over to Cobra, Snake Eyes simply jumped from the plane into the Thai jungle. Snake Eyes found Billy just in time to prevent Storm Shadow — who had already killed Ronin — from executing him; {{storylink|Knight Errant}} Storm Shadow was content to allow Billy and Erika to escape in the name of a final duel with Snake Eyes, and the two clashed in the pouring rain, though Storm Shadow took a momentary advantage, Snake Eyes managed to turn the tables, impaling Storm Shadow on his sword. Refusing to let Snake Eyes kill him, Storm Shadow pulled the pin on one of Snake Eyes' grenades, seemingly committing suicide. Snake Eyes, though exhausted and wounded, survived to rejoin Billy and Erika.<br />
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Rather than bring the real data pin back to Destro, Snake Eyes had Erika create a fake encoded with her own files and a large amount of junk data, and misled Destro into believing that Erika had been killed; content, Destro allowed Snake Eyes to return to Tomax, but asked him to be ready for Destro to reach out again. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}} Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when Duke (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by Scarlett as one the team's core members when she, Joe Colton, and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over Mainframe's survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to Tokyo, Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from Agent Helix on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as Tomax Paoli with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenadier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners, the Baroness and [[Crystal Ball]], had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} In ''Lemuria''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> brig, Snake Eyes and Helix passed the time with an impromptu game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (with the silent Snake Eyes wanting to play as a musical bard), only for a power blackout to allow the two to escape — a blackout caused by Skywarp, who wanted the two humans to accompany him to meet Duke in [[Washington, D.C.]], instructing them to find their own transportation off the base. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}} The three renegade Joes eventually returned to ''Lemuria'' when the base came under attack from {{t|Maximal#IDW Generation 1 continuity|mutant Cybertronians}}, fighting off the robots to rescue the other Joes. {{tstorylink|Last Stand (G.I. Joe)|Last Stand}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed (except in IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis {{t|Witwicky}}"). The jacket that the Snake Eyes was found wrapped in in the IDW continuity, implied to belong to one of his parents, has a nametag; however, only the first letter is visible: "S".<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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====The prodigy returns====<br />
With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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Needing an order of assassins to replace the treacherous Arashikage, Cobra Commander recruited the followers of [[Serpentor]]'s [[Coil]] to serve in that role, and tasked them with destroying the ninja clan. Learning of the attacks on the clan and the abduction of the Soft Master, Snake Eyes took a ninja team to meet with Alondra and the Hard Master, in the process of fleeing from an attack on the deli. After the Hard Master explained what had happened, Snake Eyes intervened to ensure that he and Alondra were allowed to go free, despite the Hard Master's past split from the clan. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}}<br />
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Aiming to plunder Cobra's treasures for themselves, Snake Eyes and the the Arashikage launched an attack on the [[Kuala Lumpur]] headquarters of [[Vendri]], killing the corrupt executives responsible for laundering money for Cobra and stealing a flash drive containing encryption keys leading to countless Cobra vaults. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 1}} Their first target was a vault beneath [[Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank]] in [[Budapest]], but when the ninja broke in, they discovered the riches had already been removed, to be used in the purchase of the country of [[Tryolvia]]. The vault's contents were tracked to [[Ferenc Liszt International Airport]], where Snake Eyes ran off in advance to plant a tracking device on Cobra's plane and track them back to their own base, forcing the other Arashikage to engage the Cobra forces as a distraction. Though [[Juro]], the only ninja to survive the attack, warned Storm Shadow that Snake Eyes was spending their lives too freely, the clan's leader threatened to kill Juro if he questioned Snake Eyes' loyalty again. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 2}}<br />
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Identifying the carrier ship used to transport Cobra's money, the ''[[Neptune Bonanza]]'', Snake Eyes and the Arashikage hid inside shipping containers that were loaded onto the boat in Albania before leaping out to attack the guards once the ship was out at sea. Snake Eyes and Juro eliminated the bridge crew of the ship, before together taking down the towering [[Eisenherz]] even as G.I. Joe forces boarded the ship to capture the Cobra and Arashikage forces at once. Moving below deck to scuttle the ship, Snake Eyes was found by Scarlett, who ordered him to surrender — but, when Snake Eyes killed Juro as the other ninja moved to attack Scarlett, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he walked away. Hiding in a shipping container with a breathing mask, Snake Eyes emerged as the ship sank, and used a man-portable propulsion device to get away.<br />
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With Storm Shadow having finally accepted the truth after seeing footage of Snake Eyes shooting Juro, {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 3}} Snake Eyes traveled to an ancient Arashikage temple in [[Cambodia]], where his enemies had gathered. As he neared the temple, Snake Eyes was attacked by Riya's son [[Tomo]], who believed Snake Eyes had killed his mother; but Snake Eyes easily disarmed the boy and knocked him unconscious before carrying Tomo to the temple with him. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 4}} Entering the temple, Snake Eyes found a drugged and woozy Helix, who collapsed into his arms after having killed countless Arashikage ninja; though Tomo, awake once more, wished to continue their duel, Storm Shadow intervened, telling the boy the truth of his parents' deaths and insisting that Snake Eyes would die at his hands in time, before allowing Snake Eyes to leave and join the arriving G.I. Joe team.<br />
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At G.I. Joe's new base in the [[USS Flagg|USS ''Flagg'']], Snake Eyes was heavily sedated while [[Doc]] worked on his injuries, with Scarlett sitting with him while he recovered; {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 5}} but as soon as he was able, he was up and preparing for combat once again, ignoring Scarlett's pleas for him to rest. That decision proved prescient, as mere moments later, an explosion rocked the aircraft carrier, Storm Shadow having detonated high explosive to destroy the [[Philadelphia Naval Yard]]'s sea gate. Storm Shadow killed his way through the ship's defenders, but when he moved in to execute Helix, Snake Eyes intervened, fully suited up and ready to duel. The two ninja dueled across the gantries above the ''Flagg''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> lower deck, but after seeing that [[Deep Six]] was trapped below a piece of machinery amongst the rising waters, Snake Eyes adjourned the battle to help; cutting off Deep Six's arm to free him, Snake Eyes saved the other Joe's life, only for Storm Shadow to stab [[Cutter]] through the chest as he provided cover for the ninja-commando. While the other Joes escaped, the two ninja continued to fight even as the lower deck was consumed in fire from detonating ordnance. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 6}} Though both men survived, Storm Shadow lost track of Snake Eyes in the chaos, who used the opportunity to fake his own death; leaving his mask with the Hard Master as a message to his one-time brother, Snake Eyes disappeared, content to let the Joes and the world at large think him dead. {{storylink|Silence}}<br />
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====Agent of Cobra====<br />
Over the following years, though the Joes would use a fake "Snake Eyes" on training exercises, {{storylink|Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|Threat Matrix, Part 1}} the real Snake Eyes remained in hiding. After several years, however, Snake Eyes ceased faking his own death, and instead joined up with [[Tomax Paoli]]'s Cobra {{storylink|The Tin Man}} — which, unknown to the "repentant" terrorist organisation, was actually part of a deep cover mission on behalf of G.I. Joe. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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After months of working for Cobra on minor missions to prove his loyalty, Snake Eyes was tasked with breaking [[Destro]] out of captivity during a prisoner transfer; breaking the Cobra arms dealer out of his prison transport, Snake Eyes flung Destro off of a bridge and into the river below, before diving in after him and leading Destro downriver to a waiting group of [[Crimson Guard]]smen — whose leader Destro shot as a message to Tomax. Regrouping at Destro's [[Steelhead Bait Shop]] in [[Alaska]], Destro — who theorized that the [[Baroness]] was responsible for sending Snake Eyes into his service — tasked the ninja with tracking down [[Billy Kessler-Latta|William Kessler-Latta]], son of the late Cobra Commander, {{storylink|The Tin Man}} and the data-encoded pin implanted within his leg. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}}<br />
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After traveling across the globe while hunting down leads, Snake Eyes eventually made his way to the [[Jakarta]] home of Erika Le Tene, formerly the G.I. Joe agent codenamed [[Chameleon]]. {{storylink|The Tin Man}} Though Erika didn't believe herself able to help outside of providing what files she had and suggesting that Billy had been taken under the protection of AWOL G.I. Joe operative [[Ronin]], she was forced back into the war between Cobra and G.I. Joe when Arashikage assassins attempted to kill her, hitting her in the throat with an arrow. Snake Eyes hastily left the injured Erika in the care of a couple of {{w|auto-rickshaw}} passengers, who rushed her to a hospital while the ninja pursued the assassins, dispatching the other ninja with his sword and a detonated fuel canister before retrieving Erika's singed files.<br />
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Following Erika's recovery in hospital, {{storylink|The Dark Sister}} she and Snake Eyes worked together to find Billy and Ronin; eventually, her facial recognition algorithms found an 89% match to Billy in a viral video uploaded from [[Thailand]]. {{storylink|The Lost Boy}} Stealing a plane from an [[Indonesia]]n airfield, Erika and Snake Eyes stole a plane to fly to Thailand; though Erika begged for an indication that he wasn't just going to kill Billy or hand him over to Cobra, Snake Eyes simply jumped from the plane into the Thai jungle. Snake Eyes found Billy just in time to prevent Storm Shadow — who had already killed Ronin — from executing him; {{storylink|Knight Errant}} Storm Shadow was content to allow Billy and Erika to escape in the name of a final duel with Snake Eyes, and the two clashed in the pouring rain, though Storm Shadow took a momentary advantage, Snake Eyes managed to turn the tables, impaling Storm Shadow on his sword. Refusing to let Snake Eyes kill him, Storm Shadow pulled the pin on one of Snake Eyes' grenades, seemingly committing suicide. Snake Eyes, though exhausted and wounded, survived to rejoin Billy and Erika.<br />
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Rather than bring the real data pin back to Destro, Snake Eyes had Erika create a fake encoded with her own files and a large amount of junk data, and misled Destro into believing that Erika had been killed; content, Destro allowed Snake Eyes to return to Tomax, but asked him to be ready for Destro to reach out again. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}} Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when Duke (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by Scarlett as one the team's core members when she, Joe Colton, and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over Mainframe's survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to Tokyo, Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from Agent Helix on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as Tomax Paoli with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenadier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners, the Baroness and [[Crystal Ball]], had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} In ''Lemuria''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> brig, Snake Eyes and Helix passed the time with an impromptu game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (with the silent Snake Eyes wanting to play as a musical bard), only for a power blackout to allow the two to escape — a blackout caused by Skywarp, who wanted the two humans to accompany him to meet Duke in [[Washington, D.C.]], instructing them to find their own transportation off the base. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}} The three renegade Joes eventually returned to ''Lemuria'' when the base came under attack from {{t|Maximal#IDW Generation 1 continuity|mutant Cybertronians}}, fighting off the robots to rescue the other Joes. {{tstorylink|Last Stand (G.I. Joe)|Last Stand}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed (except in IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis {{t|Witwicky}}"). The jacket that the Snake Eyes was found wrapped in in the IDW continuity, implied to belong to one of his parents, has a nametag; however, only the first letter is visible: "S".<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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====The prodigy returns====<br />
With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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Needing an order of assassins to replace the treacherous Arashikage, Cobra Commander recruited the followers of [[Serpentor]]'s [[Coil]] to serve in that role, and tasked them with destroying the ninja clan. Learning of the attacks on the clan and the abduction of the Soft Master, Snake Eyes took a ninja team to meet with Alondra and the Hard Master, in the process of fleeing from an attack on the deli. After the Hard Master explained what had happened, Snake Eyes intervened to ensure that he and Alondra were allowed to go free, despite the Hard Master's past split from the clan. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}}<br />
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Aiming to plunder Cobra's treasures for themselves, Snake Eyes and the the Arashikage launched an attack on the [[Kuala Lumpur]] headquarters of [[Vendri]], killing the corrupt executives responsible for laundering money for Cobra and stealing a flash drive containing encryption keys leading to countless Cobra vaults. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 1}} Their first target was a vault beneath [[Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank]] in [[Budapest]], but when the ninja broke in, they discovered the riches had already been removed, to be used in the purchase of the country of [[Tryolvia]]. The vault's contents were tracked to [[Ferenc Liszt International Airport]], where Snake Eyes ran off in advance to plant a tracking device on Cobra's plane and track them back to their own base, forcing the other Arashikage to engage the Cobra forces as a distraction. Though [[Juro]], the only ninja to survive the attack, warned Storm Shadow that Snake Eyes was spending their lives too freely, the clan's leader threatened to kill Juro if he questioned Snake Eyes' loyalty again. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 2}}<br />
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Identifying the carrier ship used to transport Cobra's money, the ''[[Neptune Bonanza]]'', Snake Eyes and the Arashikage hid inside shipping containers that were loaded onto the boat in Albania before leaping out to attack the guards once the ship was out at sea. Snake Eyes and Juro eliminated the bridge crew of the ship, before together taking down the towering [[Eisenherz]] even as G.I. Joe forces boarded the ship to capture the Cobra and Arashikage forces at once. Moving below deck to scuttle the ship, Snake Eyes was found by Scarlett, who ordered him to surrender — but, when Snake Eyes killed Juro as the other ninja moved to attack Scarlett, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he walked away. Hiding in a shipping container with a breathing mask, Snake Eyes emerged as the ship sank, and used a man-portable propulsion device to get away.<br />
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With Storm Shadow having finally accepted the truth after seeing footage of Snake Eyes shooting Juro, {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 3}} Snake Eyes traveled to an ancient Arashikage temple in [[Cambodia]], where his enemies had gathered. As he neared the temple, Snake Eyes was attacked by Riya's son [[Tomo]], who believed Snake Eyes had killed his mother; but Snake Eyes easily disarmed the boy and knocked him unconscious before carrying Tomo to the temple with him. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 4}} Entering the temple, Snake Eyes found a drugged and woozy Helix, who collapsed into his arms after having killed countless Arashikage ninja; though Tomo, awake once more, wished to continue their duel, Storm Shadow intervened, telling the boy the truth of his parents' deaths and insisting that Snake Eyes would die at his hands in time, before allowing Snake Eyes to leave and join the arriving G.I. Joe team.<br />
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At G.I. Joe's new base in the [[USS Flagg|USS ''Flagg'']], Snake Eyes was heavily sedated while [[Doc]] worked on his injuries, with Scarlett sitting with him while he recovered; {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 5}} but as soon as he was able, he was up and preparing for combat once again, ignoring Scarlett's pleas for him to rest. That decision proved prescient, as mere moments later, an explosion rocked the aircraft carrier, Storm Shadow having detonated high explosive to destroy the [[Philadelphia Naval Yard]]'s sea gate. Storm Shadow killed his way through the ship's defenders, but when he moved in to execute Helix, Snake Eyes intervened, fully suited up and ready to duel. The two ninja dueled across the gantries above the ''Flagg''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> lower deck, but after seeing that [[Deep Six]] was trapped below a piece of machinery amongst the rising waters, Snake Eyes adjourned the battle to help; cutting off Deep Six's arm to free him, Snake Eyes saved the other Joe's life, only for Storm Shadow to stab [[Cutter]] through the chest as he provided cover for the ninja-commando. While the other Joes escaped, the two ninja continued to fight even as the lower deck was consumed in fire from detonating ordnance. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 6}} Though both men survived, Storm Shadow lost track of Snake Eyes in the chaos, who used the opportunity to fake his own death; leaving his mask with the Hard Master as a message to his one-time brother, Snake Eyes disappeared, content to let the Joes and the world at large think him dead. {{storylink|Silence}}<br />
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====Agent of Cobra====<br />
Over the following years, though the Joes would use a fake "Snake Eyes" on training exercises, {{storylink|Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|Threat Matrix, Part 1}} the real Snake Eyes remained in hiding. After several years, however, Snake Eyes ceased faking his own death, and instead joined up with [[Tomax Paoli]]'s Cobra {{storylink|The Tin Man}} — which, unknown to the "repentant" terrorist organisation, was actually part of a deep cover mission on behalf of G.I. Joe. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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After months of working for Cobra on minor missions to prove his loyalty, Snake Eyes was tasked with breaking [[Destro]] out of captivity during a prisoner transfer; breaking the Cobra arms dealer out of his prison transport, Snake Eyes flung Destro off of a bridge and into the river below, before diving in after him and leading Destro downriver to a waiting group of [[Crimson Guard]]smen — whose leader Destro shot as a message to Tomax. Regrouping at Destro's [[Steelhead Bait Shop]] in [[Alaska]], Destro — who theorized that the [[Baroness]] was responsible for sending Snake Eyes into his service — tasked the ninja with tracking down [[Billy Kessler-Latta|William Kessler-Latta]], son of the late Cobra Commander, {{storylink|The Tin Man}} and the data-encoded pin implanted within his leg. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}}<br />
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After traveling across the globe while hunting down leads, Snake Eyes eventually made his way to the [[Jakarta]] home of Erika Le Tene, formerly the G.I. Joe agent codenamed [[Chameleon]]. {{storylink|The Tin Man}} Though Erika didn't believe herself able to help outside of providing what files she had and suggesting that Billy had been taken under the protection of AWOL G.I. Joe operative [[Ronin]], she was forced back into the war between Cobra and G.I. Joe when Arashikage assassins attempted to kill her, hitting her in the throat with an arrow. Snake Eyes hastily left the injured Erika in the care of a couple of {{w|auto-rickshaw}} passengers, who rushed her to a hospital while the ninja pursued the assassins, dispatching the other ninja with his sword and a detonated fuel canister before retrieving Erika's singed files.<br />
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Following Erika's recovery in hospital, {{storylink|The Dark Sister}} she and Snake Eyes worked together to find Billy and Ronin; eventually, her facial recognition algorithms found an 89% match to Billy in a viral video uploaded from [[Thailand]]. {{storylink|The Lost Boy}} Stealing a plane from an [[Indonesia]]n airfield, Erika and Snake Eyes stole a plane to fly to Thailand; though Erika begged for an indication that he wasn't just going to kill Billy or hand him over to Cobra, Snake Eyes simply jumped from the plane into the Thai jungle. Snake Eyes found Billy just in time to prevent Storm Shadow — who had already killed Ronin — from executing him; {{storylink|Knight Errant}} Storm Shadow was content to allow Billy and Erika to escape in the name of a final duel with Snake Eyes, and the two clashed in the pouring rain, though Storm Shadow took a momentary advantage, Snake Eyes managed to turn the tables, impaling Storm Shadow on his sword. Refusing to let Snake Eyes kill him, Storm Shadow pulled the pin on one of Snake Eyes' grenades, seemingly committing suicide. Snake Eyes, though exhausted and wounded, survived to rejoin Billy and Erika.<br />
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Rather than bring the real data pin back to Destro, Snake Eyes had Erika create a fake encoded with her own files and a large amount of junk data, and misled Destro into believing that Erika had been killed; content, Destro allowed Snake Eyes to return to Tomax, but asked him to be ready for Destro to reach out again. {{storylink|The Silent Warrior}} Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when Duke (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by Scarlett as one the team's core members when she, Joe Colton, and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over Mainframe's survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to Tokyo, Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from Agent Helix on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as Tomax Paoli with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenadier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners, the Baroness and [[Crystal Ball]], had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}} In ''Lemuria''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> brig, Snake Eyes and Helix passed the time with an impromptu game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (with the silent Snake Eyes wanting to play as a musical bard), only for a power blackout to allow the two to escape — a blackout caused by Skywarp, who wanted the two humans to accompany him to meet Duke in [[Washington, D.C.]], instructing them to find their own transportation off the base. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 3|Scarlett's Strike Force #3}} The three renegade Joes eventually returned to ''Lemuria'' when the base came under attack from {{t|Maximal#IDW Generation 1 continuity|mutant Cybertronians}}, fighting off the robots to rescue the other Joes. {{tstorylink|Last Stand (G.I. Joe)|Last Stand}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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====The prodigy returns====<br />
With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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Needing an order of assassins to replace the treacherous Arashikage, Cobra Commander recruited the followers of [[Serpentor]]'s [[Coil]] to serve in that role, and tasked them with destroying the ninja clan. Learning of the attacks on the clan and the abduction of the Soft Master, Snake Eyes took a ninja team to meet with Alondra and the Hard Master, in the process of fleeing from an attack on the deli. After the Hard Master explained what had happened, Snake Eyes intervened to ensure that he and Alondra were allowed to go free, despite the Hard Master's past split from the clan. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}}<br />
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Aiming to plunder Cobra's treasures for themselves, Snake Eyes and the the Arashikage launched an attack on the [[Kuala Lumpur]] headquarters of [[Vendri]], killing the corrupt executives responsible for laundering money for Cobra and stealing a flash drive containing encryption keys leading to countless Cobra vaults. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 1}} Their first target was a vault beneath [[Kereskedelmi és Hitelbank]] in [[Budapest]], but when the ninja broke in, they discovered the riches had already been removed, to be used in the purchase of the country of [[Tryolvia]]. The vault's contents were tracked to [[Ferenc Liszt International Airport]], where Snake Eyes ran off in advance to plant a tracking device on Cobra's plane and track them back to their own base, forcing the other Arashikage to engage the Cobra forces as a distraction. Though [[Juro]], the only ninja to survive the attack, warned Storm Shadow that Snake Eyes was spending their lives too freely, the clan's leader threatened to kill Juro if he questioned Snake Eyes' loyalty again. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 2}}<br />
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Identifying the carrier ship used to transport Cobra's money, the ''[[Neptune Bonanza]]'', Snake Eyes and the Arashikage hid inside shipping containers that were loaded onto the boat in Albania before leaping out to attack the guards once the ship was out at sea. Snake Eyes and Juro eliminated the bridge crew of the ship, before together taking down the towering [[Eisenherz]] even as G.I. Joe forces boarded the ship to capture the Cobra and Arashikage forces at once. Moving below deck to scuttle the ship, Snake Eyes was found by Scarlett, who ordered him to surrender - but, when Snake Eyes killed Juro as the other ninja moved to attack Scarlett, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he walked away. Hiding in a shipping container with a breathing mask, Snake Eyes emerged as the ship sank, and used a man-portable propulsion device to get away.<br />
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With Storm Shadow having finally accepted the truth after seeing footage of Snake Eyes shooting Juro, {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 3}} Snake Eyes traveled to an ancient Arashikage temple in [[Cambodia]], where his enemies had gathered. As he neared the temple, Snake Eyes was attacked by Riya's son [[Tomo]], who believed Snake Eyes had killed his mother; but Snake Eyes easily disarmed the boy and knocked him unconscious before carrying Tomo to the temple with him. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 4}} Entering the temple, Snake Eyes found a drugged and woozy Helix, who collapsed into his arms after having killed countless Arashikage ninja; though Tomo, awake once more, wished to continue their duel, Storm Shadow intervened, telling the boy the truth of his parents' deaths and insisting that Snake Eyes would die at his hands in time, before allowing Snake Eyes to leave and join the arriving G.I. Joe team.<br />
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At G.I. Joe's new base in the [[USS Flagg|USS ''Flagg'']], Snake Eyes was heavily sedated while [[Doc]] worked on his injuries, with Scarlett sitting with him while he recovered; {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 5}} but as soon as he was able, he was up and preparing for combat once again, ignoring Scarlett's pleas for him to rest. That decision proved prescient, as mere moments later, an explosion rocked the aircraft carrier, Storm Shadow having detonated high explosive to destroy the [[Philadelphia Naval Yard]]'s sea gate. Storm Shadow killed his way through the ship's defenders, but when he moved in to execute Helix, Snake Eyes intervened, fully suited up and ready to duel. The two ninja dueled across the gantries above the ''Flagg''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> lower deck, but after seeing that [[Deep Six]] was trapped below a piece of machinery amongst the rising waters, Snake Eyes adjourned the battle to help; cutting off Deep Six's arm to free him, Snake Eyes saved the other Joe's life, only for Storm Shadow to stab [[Cutter]] through the chest as he provided cover for the ninja-commando. While the other Joes escaped, the two ninja continued to fight even as the lower deck was consumed in fire from detonating ordnance. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Part 6}} Though both men survived, Storm Shadow lost track of Snake Eyes in the chaos, who used the opportunity to fake his own death; leaving his mask with the Hard Master as a message to his one-time brother, Snake Eyes disappeared, content to let the Joes and the world at large think him dead. {{storylink|Silence}}<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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At the [[Arashikage Castle]] skyscraper in [[Tokyo]], Storm Shadow had Snake Eyes rest before leading the mission to kill Satori's assassin [[Zartan]]. During the night, Snake Eyes jolted awake when a woman apparently entered his room to steal his sword, only to discover that the woman, [[Rika]], was a member of the Arashikage clan whose husband had been killed by Snake Eyes in Nanzhao, and who had volunteered to serve him, holding no grudge. The next day, Snake Eyes was sent with a retinue of five ninja to kill Zartan; but after killing the other ninja himself, Snake Eyes boarded Zartan's train to [[Beijing]] alone to ambush the shapeshifter. Zartan managed to fool Snake Eyes into thinking he had the wrong man by changing his face, and after Snake Eyes was forced to re-enter the train further down its length, Zartan decoupled the rear carriages and escaped. Snake Eyes returned to Tokyo alone, and a saddened Storm Shadow pledged to rethink his strategy, even as Rika became suspicious of Snake Eyes. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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While preparing for the next attempt to kill Zartan, Rika and Snake Eyes trained together, with Rika unexpectedly attacking Snake Eyes in an attempt to understand his fighting style through combat. Their "spirited practice" was interrupted by Storm Shadow, who revealed that Zartan had been sighted less than a mile from where they were; but Snake Eyes, suspicious, secretly sent the footage to Helix, who determined that Zartan had disguised a decoy as himself to draw out assassins. After preparation, during which Rika told Snake Eyes of [[Tomo|her son]], the two ninja broke into the [[Tokyo Imperial Hotel]] in which Zartan had been staying, only to find their "target" dead on the ground, having been shot dead by Cobra aide [[Savane]]. Examining the body, Rika realised that the decoy was wearing a latex mask moments before Snake Eyes knocked her out and pursued the shapeshifter, chasing him to Tokyo's [[Haneda Airport]] in a [[Cosplayers|stolen car]]. Though Zartan's private jet departed before Snake Eyes could catch up, the ninja managed to jump from the moving car into the plane's undercarriage, and planted a bomb before being forced by Zartan's guards to jump out into the Tokyo bay. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}}<br />
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Refusing to believe Rika when she told him of Snake Eyes' betrayal, Storm Shadow welcomed his brother back with open arms, but was angered when [[Krake|Cobra's new Commander]] informed him that Zartan was dead by ''his'' orders. Storm Shadow arranged to meet with Cobra Commander, and on coming face to face with Cobra's leader, stabbed him through the chest — only for the "Commander" to be revealed as a mere dummy, the real Commander having anticipated Storm Shadow's betrayal. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} With Storm Shadow and Rika cornered by Cobra forces, Snake Eyes intervened with smoke grenades, causing a distraction that let the three ninja deal with the Vipers. Though ordered to find a way out with Snake Eyes by Storm Shadow, Rika attempted to kill him in order to prevent further treachery, but he instead knocked her out and escaped through the docks in a [[Moray|hydrofoil]] before turning to retrieve Storm Shadow, who had fought his way out the front door. As they escaped, Rika was shot by a Viper from a Flight Pod, leading her — believing she was wrong about Snake Eyes — to ask Storm Shadow to give him her apology. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}} Shortly after, G.I. Joe obtained footage of Snake Eyes working with the Arashikage, revealing to them that he had survived. {{storylink|Deep Terror Epilogue}}<br />
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====Agent of Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] — a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor — had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix — having returned to rescue Snake Eyes — killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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When Cobra revealed itself to the world by invading the nation of [[Nanzhao]], Snake Eyes and [[Team Foxtrot]] joined the operation despite officially being in recovery from the Rajahistan mission, with Scarlett authorising their presence thanks to Snake Eyes' previous experience in the [[Golden Triangle]] region. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Once on the ground in the country, Foxtrot were deployed to locate the source of Cobra's armored vehicles; after Snake Eyes used a hijacked H.I.S.S. tank to destroy the rest of its column, the Joes followed the tracks back to their source, only to find an apparently empty valley. Use of infrared imaging revealed a sprawling base hidden by high-tech fabric, but a field jamming satellite signals prevented the use of an airstrike to destroy it; as such, while Alpine used his prosthetic running blades to escape the field and radio their coordinates to the Joes, Snake Eyes and Helix descended into the base to take down the tower broadcasting the jamming signal. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} When the two were ambushed by a [[Deviant|Cobra mech]], Snake Eyes clambered over the machine to target its weak points while Helix took over a H.I.S.S. to destroy the tower, allowing Iceberg to call in a cruise missile strike that destroyed the base. With Helix's H.I.S.S. intact, she and Iceberg debated the relative merits of keeping it... only for Snake Eyes to destroy it with a well-placed grenade. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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Investigating an attack on [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[United Nations]] troops, Snake Eyes and his teammates discovered that the peacekeepers were killed with Arashikage arrows, which Helix realised would make for a grudge match between the ninja-commando and his old clan. Snake Eyes contacted Scarlett for coordinates of the Arashikage headquarters within the [[Da Zum Dam]] region, which she found in the form of a clearing in the shape of the Arashikage trigram symbol. Though Iceberg warned of the obvious trap, Snake Eyes parachuted into the nearby jungle, followed by Helix — who, though she didn't realize it at first, Snake Eyes used as bait to draw out the Arashikage. The two soon found the Arashikage base, the [[Temple of Bells]], {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 5}} where Snake Eyes used a knock-out spray to render Helix unconscious and keep her out of harm's way. Entering the temple, Snake Eyes seemed to be alone, {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 7}} but a drop of oil falling from the point of an arrow gave Snake Eyes the moment's notice he needed to avoid a hail of arrows from the Arashikage's archers. Snake Eyes scaled the temple while fighting off other ninja, but was given pause when confronted by Storm Shadow, who asked Snake Eyes to rejoin the clan and fight against their common enemy of Cobra, who had murdered [[Oda Satori|Storm Shadow's ''oyabun'']]. After a moment's pause, Snake Eyes accepted. Though Helix cornered Snake Eyes outside the temple, demanding he surrender and be taken back to the Joes, she could not bring herself to shoot him as he left. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 8}}<br />
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With Snake Eyes believed dead by G.I. Joe thanks to some vaguely-worded statements from Agent Helix, {{storylink|G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 12|G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12}} Snake Eyes returned to the Hard Master's deli to refocus, where he revealed to his master that he intended to bring the clan down from the inside. After discovering that Alondra and her neighborhood were being menaced by a gang called the [[Bang Six]] at the behest of billionaire Mr. [[Nicholas Renzi]], Snake Eyes took it upon himself to deal with them, killing the gang and their patron before returning to the Arashikage. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 12|Snake Eyes #12}}<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] - a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor - had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix - having returned to rescue Snake Eyes - killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}} Traveling to [[Ramstein Air Force Base]], Snake Eyes and Helix investigated the [[Berlin]] offices of [[Ray-Pharm]], Ltd., and abducted executive [[Dieter Stossel]] over the company's ties to Cobra and distribution of the bio-weapon. At swordpoint, Stossel gave up the name of the virus's creator, Commander candidate Dr. [[Rodrigo Vargas]]. Armed with this information, Snake Eyes teamed up with a haz-suited Duke (running on a cocktail of antivirals and steroids) to track down Vargas and find a cure.<br />
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Requisitioning G.I. Joe pilot [[Lighthorse]] for transportation, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 5|Snake Eyes #5}} Duke and Snake Eyes broke into Vargas's [[Bocca di Magra]] mansion and cornered Vargas. Though initially resistant to the Joes' threats, Vargas was persuaded to help them when Duke used his own spit to infect Vargas with the virus, and explained they would need to go to a Ray-Pharm facility in [[Albania]]. Taking Vargas in an environmentally-sealed bag, the Joes left the mansion, though Snake Eyes knocked Duke unconscious on the way out to prevent him from overexerting himself. The soldiers traveled to [[Djacovica]], [[Kosovo]], where Snake Eyes treated Duke with intraveneous nutrition in the back of a [[Red Cross]] humvee. Knowing they needed a way to get Vargas across the border, Snake recruited his old ally [[Kwinn]], calling in a favor he was owed by the Inuit man. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 6|Snake Eyes #6}}<br />
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While Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggled Vargas through a checkpoint, Snake Eyes and Duke crept through the forest, with Duke asking Snake Eyes to kill him if his mind succumbed to the virus. Reuniting on the other side, the group used Vargas to get into the Ray-Pharm facility; while Kwinn parted ways with them once they were in, his debt paid, the Joes reached the lab successfully, Snake Eyes eliminating the security team that saw them with a pair of grenades. Inside the laboratory, Vargas revealed that he had been lying about the existence of a cure; but Snake Eyes prevented the angered Duke from killing the doctor, as Lighthorse pointed out that the lab's scientists may be able to ''create'' a cure. While the Ray-Pharm scientists pulled Vargas into a testing chamber to take samples, Duke and Snake Eyes headed out to hold off the Cobra forces encroaching on them. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 7|Snake Eyes #7}} Though they were initially successful, when Lighthorse called the two back to the lab, Duke succumbed to his illness and fell unconscious, forcing Snake Eyes to carry him; and, when Snake Eyes was cornered on the way back by a trio of [[Toxo-Viper]]s, he was only saved by the intervention of Kwinn, who had come back for the Joes.<br />
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In the lab, Duke was successfully given a first round of treatment, while Lighthorse managed to stop the attack by announcing over the tannoy that everyone within 5 kilometers was infected, and would have to surrender for medical treatment. As the Joes departed, Kwinn noted to Snake Eyes that the ninja now owed ''him'' a debt, and that he knew he would come through. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes reunited with Scarlett at [[Fort Baxter]], embracing her as a saddened, still-weak Duke looked on. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 8|Snake Eyes #8}}<br />
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====The prodigy returns====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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After the death of [[Cobra Commander]], [[Vikrim Khallikhan]] - a high-ranking member of [[Cobra High Command]] and candidate for the Commander's successor - had his enforcers [[Slice]] and [[Dice]] ambush and murder Snake Eyes' [[Ninja Force|students]] in order to lure the ninja-commando into a trap. {{storylink|Cobra Civil War issue 0}} Realising the perpetrator's identity from the Hindi symbol for "Kha" carved onto [[T'gin-Zu]]'s cheek, Snake Eyes infiltrated the [[Noorai syndicate]] for information on the self-styled "Raja", and discovered that Khallikhan had established a stronghold within the [[Xixabangma]] mountain. With Scarlett's skills required at the Pit, Snake Eyes took a team consisting of Agent Helix, cold weather specialist [[Iceberg]] and mountaineer [[Alpine]]. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} Before Snake Eyes left, Scarlett gave him a captured [[Wehrmacht]] compass passed down in her family as a good luck charm, asking him to remember that someone would be thinking of him. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}}<br />
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Making the treacherous climb around Xixabangma to Khallikhan's base "[[Rajahistan]]", Snake Eyes and his team discovered that they had no way of breaking through the elaborate, reinforced hangar doors; but rather than spend days or weeks waiting for someone to open the doors, Snake Eyes indicated they should bring the residents to them. Using Alpine's music player, the Joes lured a pair of [[Snow Serpent]]s out of the base with the refrains of {{w|Superstar (Delaney and Bonney song)|the Carpenters}} in order to ambush them, before Snake Eyes donned the Cobra grunt's uniform as a disguise and entered the hangar, taking Alpine with him as a "prisoner". {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 1|Snake Eyes #1}} With the ruse allowing the Joes to get the drop on the Cobra forces, Snake Eyes hijacked a HISS tank to wedge the hangar door open, and Alpine destroyed the Cobra helicopter by blowing up several barrels of aviation fuel; however, Alpine was shot several times in the process and required both Helix and Iceberg to carry him to safety, while Snake Eyes was knocked unconscious and captured by Khallikhan.<br />
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Snake Eyes was treated by Cobra doctors in preparation for him to fight to the death with Slice and Dice, {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 2|Snake Eyes #2}} and kept chained in a cell, where Khallikhan mocked him for the letter from Scarlett hidden in the compass and the human vulnerability it revealed in the ninja. After the Raja left, Snake Eyes used a set of hidden lockpicks to escape from his cell and fight his way through the base, only to end up in a frozen arena with Slice and Dice; there, he was presented with his original weapons and challenged to beat Slice and Dice in battle, with the life of Scarlett on the line. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 3|Snake Eyes #3}} Though Khallikhan gloated about his imminent victory, he had underestimated the G.I. Joe ninja, who used Dice's own chain-sickle to pull him into the arena's water to his apparent death before cutting Slice down. Khallikhan was driven into a rage by Snake Eyes' victory, but had no chance to act on his blustered threats as Helix - having returned to rescue Snake Eyes - killed him with an assault rife. The two Joes returned to the hangar bay and hijacked the arriving [[Black Sky One]] helicopter, using it to rescue Alpine and Iceberg as they left the mountain.<br />
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Landing on the [[USS John C. Stennis|USS ''John C. Stennis'']], Snake Eyes was contacted from [[Fort Baxter]] by Scarlett, who tasked him with a new mission: helping to find leads on a cure to the [[Orphiophagus retrovirus Z|Cobra bio-weapon]] that Duke had been infected with. {{storylink|Snake Eyes issue 4|Snake Eyes #4}}<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back — which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to Cobra's [[Section Zero]] base as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix swiftly eliminated the guards, before destroying the M.A.S.S. device to prevent further use of it and locking down the chamber so that Cobra reinforcements could not get in; however, Helix was badly wounded in the process. Taking Cobra scientists [[Copperback]] and [[Gerry Orizama|Dr. Orizama]] captive, the Joes made contact with the Pit, only to discover that the Cobra forces were evacuating in order to destroy the base. The duo and their captives were forced to flee, with Snake Eyes hijacking a [[N-997|Cobra transport]]; they weren't far from the base, however, when the base's explosive failsafe detonated, fracturing the ice sheet beneath them and threatening to drop them into the freezing waters below. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 4}} Acting on the advice of Pit techies [[Dial-Tone]] and [[Shareware]], Snake Eyes was able to winch the vehicle to safety before turning over remote control to the Fobbits; though the scientists attempted mutiny, Helix managed to subdue Copperback after she accidentally shot Orizama dead. With Helix incapacitated by her injuries, Snake Eyes was forced to leave Copperback behind as he stole a snowmobile to escape on. The two Joes were picked up by a team codenamed "[[Arctic Thunder]]", who took them back to safety. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5}}<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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[[File:Snake Eyes mainpic SEAoC1.jpg|thumb|"We strike hard, and fade away... into the night."]]<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back - which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to [[Section Zero]] as well. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 3}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 14|G.I. Joe #14}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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The day after Snake Eyes returned to the Pit, he was confronted in his room by Scarlett, who was upset that he hadn't notified her of his return. Though Scarlett tentatively asked whether there was anything more between them, Snake Eyes remained silent and unmoving. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} As part of the uniquely-talented [[Agent Helix]]'s introduction to the rest of the G.I. Joe team, Snake Eyes sparred with her, demonstrating how her [[total organic battlefield awareness]] allowed her to preempt his moves despite his incredible skill. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 1}} Helix began spending increasing amounts of time with Snake Eyes outside of training, something that made Scarlett — long Snake Eyes' sole confidante — jealous. {{storylink|M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 2}}<br />
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Snake Eyes and Helix volunteered as test subjects for [[Brainstorm]]'s attempt at reproducing Cobra's [[M.A.S.S. device]] teleportation technology, replacing the considerably less-eager [[Frostbite]] and [[Low Light]]. That night, Snake Eyes infiltrated the Pit's storage vault to retrieve the card his data had been stored on, only to be caught by Helix, who had had the same idea herself. Minutes later, the two were called up as part of an all-Joe alert deploying them to [[Verde]] to intercept [[Pablito Ortega]], in the hope of putting the hurt on Cobra when they showed up to cut their losses with the drug lord; Helix whispered to Snake Eyes on the flight over, distracting Scarlett and prompting Duke to remind her to "get [her] head in the game". The two Joes were deployed in the vanguard to secure Ortega's helicopter and prevent his escape, but when Cobra teleported in a team of [[Viper]]s to kill Ortega and secure their money, Snake Eyes and Helix deviated from the plan by killing the Cobra troops before getting the survivors to teleport back - which, as Snake and Helix had their data cards with them, brought them back to [[Section Zero]] as well.<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Beware Rangoon====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage, and letting the Joes think he was dead; {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} after six months, however, he began communicating with Scarlett once more, providing her with intel and being given leads in return. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} Duke, aware of Scarlett's back-channel communications with Snake Eyes, was unhappy with her for her continued contact with a rogue agent. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}}<br />
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Around a year after Rangoon, Snake Eyes' investigation led him to the [[Crimean Riviera|Crimean]] home of [[Nico Mandirobilis]], moments after the arms dealer fled from an assassination attempt from [[Emil Zartan|a man]] who appeared out of thin air before crumbling into dust. Snake Eyes collected the would-be assassin's weapon and a sample of his remains, and sent it to Scarlett at the Pit for analysis. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} G.I. Joe operatives tracked Mandirobilis to [[Manila]], but Snake Eyes, wanting to deal with the target himself, cut down a washing line to crash their vehicle and let the arms dealer escape. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe #2}} The Joes moved on Nico after learning that he planned to escape from Manila's south port, but Snake Eyes attacked the Joes directly to let Mandirobilis escape before pursuing the boat on his jet ski, leaving a trio of very confused Joes behind him. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 5|G.I. Joe #5}}<br />
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Boarding the cargo ship his target had fled to, Snake Eyes confronted Mandirobilis, setting up a webcam connection that Scarlett used to interrogate the arms dealer over what he knew about Cobra. At swordpoint, Mandirobilis began sending his encrypted files on Cobra through to Scarlett, but moments later, the interrogation was interrupted when [[Destro|another man]] teleported into the boat to kill Nico. In the midst of the firefight between the assassin and Snake Eyes, Mandirobilis was killed by the other man's dart gun; and when Snake Eyes began cutting shipping containers loose to unbalance the ship, the killer teleported away, leaving Snake Eyes at the mercies of Mandirobilis's goons. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}} Taking the arms dealer's damaged laptop, Snake Eyes sunk the cargo ship and escaped to Hong Kong in a dinghy.<br />
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With Scarlett under arrest for colluding with Snake Eyes, and the transmitted data insufficient to prove her claims, Snake Eyes was forced to take matters into his own hands to prove Cobra's existence. Traveling to [[Seattle]], Snake Eyes tracked down Mainframe, the only other man investigating Cobra. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}} With the laptop's hard drive inaccessible due to an aggressive rootkit, Mainframe — elated to have found someone else believing in Cobra — revealed that he had discovered a [[Cobranet]] server in [[Springfield]], [[Illinois]]. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 2}} The two traveled to Springfield, which had no obvious irregularities, but Mainframe was able to bluff his way into the local electricity company's records; there, they found that [[Lester's Drug Store]] drew an anomalously high amount of power. Taking advantage of a tornado warning siren that caused the locals to run for shelter, Snake Eyes and Mainframe broke into the boarded-up shop; while Mainframe descended through a hidden trap-door, Snake Eyes stood guard outside, only to be attacked by a [[Flight Pod|one-man aircraft]] and its [[Cobra Trooper|pilot]]; {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 3}} after an intense fight that tested the ninja-commando's limits, Snake Eyes managed to dispatch his foe, only to then fall unconscious from his wounds.<br />
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Finding his ally out cold, Mainframe contacted the Pit for an emergency medical evacuation, ending both former Joes' time in hiding. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 4}} Mainframe pulled Snake Eyes to safety below ground just before [[Mamba|another aircraft]] dropped a bomb that leveled the whole street. Within two hours, a team led by [[Stalker]] arrived to take the two Joes back to the Pit. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 5}} While the technical team dealt with Mainframe's flask of bio-storage goo, which contained a virus that shut down the Pit's systems, [[Lifeline]] and his team worked on Snake Eyes' injuries — only to get choked out by a reflexive response from the still-unconscious ninja.<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
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After the bare minimum of recovery from his wounds, Snake Eyes (to Scarlett's disappointment) immediately got up and left the Pit, traveling to New York City to reunite with the Hard Master. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} Over the following weeks, Snake Eyes trained with the Hard Master while working as an assistant at his deli in the hope of centering himself and healing his unbalanced spirit. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 12|G.I. Joe #12}} The Hard Master noted that his disrupted soul would not be healed through combat alone; instead, Snake Eyes took to offering martial arts lessons to [[Alondra]], a teenage girl who he had noticed being bullied. The Hard Master was unimpressed with Snake Eyes' use of his time, but after seeing the girl use her training to turn the tables on her bullies, the amused master realised that he had found his balance by training another. Content, the Hard Master advised his student to return to his family in G.I. Joe. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 17|G.I. Joe #17}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Going rogue====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was knocked cold when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|The Origin of Roadblock}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}}<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}} Using his Silver Star as collateral, Snake Eyes chartered a flight to the compound from a nearby air freight company, donning a flight hat and bandanna after removing his bandages to prove he wasn't trying to hide his identity. When Chimera detonated cratering charges to destroy the runway, Snake Eyes instead had the plane fly in as slow and low as possible before jumping without a parachute, hitting the ground hard but getting up and continuing regardless. {{storylink|Origins issue 4|Origins #4}} Breaking into the facility through an access hatch, Snake Eyes stealthily climbed through the base, making his way towards where Chimera had taken Scarlett prisoner and silently killing the guards.<br />
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As the villain monologued about his scheme, Snake Eyes moved in to stab him, but the terrorist dodged at the last minute — something that caused Scarlett's improvised attack with a flask of solvent to splash over Snake Eyes' mask instead. A gunshot from Chimera missed the commando's head but caused his chemical-soaked mask to ignite, and when Scarlett prevented him from shooting Snake Eyes again, he took aim at her instead — but despite his head being wreathed in flames, Snake Eyes tackled Chimera into an elevator shaft, the terrorist accusing him of being "some sort of demon" sent to drag him to hell as the two fell. Minutes later, as the Joes mourned their teammate's loss, Snake Eyes — badly burned, but still alive — crawled out of the shaft before collapsing into Scarlett's arms. {{storylink|Origins issue 5|Origins #5}}<br />
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In the aftermath of the mission, the Joes adopted the compound — dubbed the "[[Pit]]" — as their new base of operations, {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 1|G.I. Joe #1}} and following Snake Eyes' return to field-readiness, the team met with their namesake, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]], who gave them his approval. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders - A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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====Going rogue====<br />
After emptying his savings accounts to pay off the cost of the flight, Snake Eyes returned to the Las Vegas Motel to return the katana to Bob Light, only to find that the motel had actually been closed for years and was under new ownership; the only thing that Bob had left behind was a copy of the writings of [[Sun Tzu]], with a passage on the folly of weapons underlined. {{storylink|Origins issue 8|Origins #8}}<br />
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Equipped with a new, all-black combat uniform, Snake Eyes headed over to Europe to help his fellow Joes counter the "[[Saeva Indignatio]]" plot; though he had trouble getting through [[Dublin]] customs with his masked face and diplomatic bag full of weapons, he, Duke and [[Stalker]] were diverted to [[Heathrow]] after the terrorists' target was determined to be the U.S. embassy in [[London]]. The Joes reunited with their teammates at the {{w|Animals in War Memorial}}, where Snake Eyes' sword was mocked by British soldiers until [[Heavy Duty]] noted that "it's only a firefight if the other guy gets a chance to squeeze his trigger". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #9}} An extra complication was added to the team's operation when [[Theiss-Pincus|a representative]] of the [[Department of State|State Department]] insisted the embassy itself must be undamaged, forcing the team to go in without projectile weapons; however, Snake Eyes entered through the roof, eliminating the terrorists' beta team. Though the terrorists' leader "[[Esau]]" threatened to detonate their nuclear bomb with a {{w|dead man's switch}}, Snake Eyes got the drop on him, clamping down the man's hand before neatly slicing it off, preventing the detonation. As the Joes took their leave, Snake Eyes tossed "Pincus" — who had masterminded the whole event to have the terrorists taken out by deniable assets — the dead man's switch as a "souvenir". {{storylink|Origins issue 9|Origins #10}}<br />
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While part of the Joes, Snake Eyes struck up a romantic relationship with Scarlett, vying for her affections with fellow Joe Duke. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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While training in the Pit's gym, Snake Eyes listened silently as Mainframe rambled about the data patterns that implied the existence of a secretive power called "[[Cobra]]", and his unwillingness to leave it hanging. Three weeks later, Snake Eyes tracked Mainframe as he disabled the Pit's security systems to strike out on his own, but was persuaded to let the computer expert leave when he gave an impassioned speech about his need to find the truth. {{storylink|Origins issue 7|Origins #7}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] on his first mission for G.I. Joe, taking down [[Guatemala]]n drug lord [[Manuel Montenegro]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 11}} During an operation in a snow-covered region, Snake Eyes infiltrated a terrorist base to destroy their powerful sonic weapon with the help of [[Snake Eyes' wolf|a wolf]] he had freed from being trapped in barbed wire, to whose mercies he would leave the terrorists' leaders when he was extracted. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}} When Heavy Duty's cousin [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] infiltrated the Pit, Snake Eyes attempted to take him down with a martial arts strike, only to be thrown off guard by the big man's sheer toughness — moments before he was cold-cocked when Hinton headbutted him. {{storylink|Origins issue 19}}<br />
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Snake Eyes was part of [[Operation Boarhound]], a G.I. Joe mission to [[Rangoon]], where he once again encountered his old rival Storm Shadow. Though details were spotty even to the other Joes, it is known that the Arashikage ninja slaughtered Snake Eyes' teammates, and the commando was flung into the sea by an explosion; {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 1}} Snake Eyes subsequently went AWOL, investigating Cobra and the Arashikage. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 6|G.I. Joe #6}}<br />
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====Back in the fold====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, earning the nickname of "the snake-man" for his skills with a knife. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} His missions as a ranger included an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America.<br />
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More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family. Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}} To fake his death, Snake Eyes received a hero's grave at [[Arlington]], which actually contained the body of former military policewoman [[Connie]], who had died helping the Joes to escape.<br />
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Snake Eyes was taken to [[Las Vegas Motel|a motel]] north of Las Vegas to hole up, where an army doctor determined that he had to stay immobile to prevent the damage to his face becoming irreparable. While Duke and Scarlett left to get food, a [[Luke|pair of]] [[John|thieves]] broke into the motel room, but — after one of the men, an ex-Ranger, saw Snake Eyes' (posthumously awarded) {{w|Silver Star}} on the bedside table — the two decided to leave Snake Eyes be, unaware that he had a knife in his hand that he was preparing to throw. {{storylink|Origins issue 2|Origins #2}} The next morning, the remaining members of the founding G.I. Joe team were introduced to each other and briefed in Snake Eyes' room, but the ever-silent Ranger was more interested in what was on TV — a news report about the theft of a {{w|BGM-71 TOW|TOW missile launcher}} from a [[National Guard]] convoy, doubtless the work of Chimera. While the other Joes were deployed to [[Pit|the abandoned compound]] Chimera was heading for to intercept the terrorist, Hawk had Snake Eyes wheel down to the motel office to get him a soda. While using the vending machine, Snake Eyes noticed a katana mounted on the wall, which manager [[Bob Light]] explained that his father had brought back from [[Iwo Jima]] — but though Light believed it was a cheap army-issue sword, Snake Eyes realized that it was a genuine Arashikage weapon. Snake Eyes listened to Light's war stories right up until an annoyed Hawk came looking for his soda.<br />
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When Chimera used a worm to disable all the Joes' communications and phone lines, a panicked Hawk, needing back-up, had Light take him to find a working phone; but while they were gone, Snake Eyes took matters into his own hands, taking the sword from the wall. {{storylink|Origins issue 3|Origins #3}}<br />
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====Going rogue====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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Even before he lost his voice in the explosion that ruined his face, '''Snake Eyes''' was never the talkative type. Raised by the [[Arashikage]] ninja clan, and trained by [[Hard Master|its]] [[Soft Master|masters]], the stubborn but talented Snake Eyes proved to be a prodigy in the ninja arts; something that eventually led him to the [[United States|U.S.]] [[Army Rangers]], and then on to become one of the founding members of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]].<br />
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One of the greatest martial artists alive, Snake Eyes is a fearsome opponent and distrusted even by his allies; something that stems from his silent, solitary nature and his rogue streak that leads him on independent, unauthorized missions. In truth, the only two individuals he can be said to be close to are his former lover [[Scarlett]], and his partner in battle [[Agent Helix]]... and that's how Snake Eyes prefers it.<br />
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In his youth, he was known as '''Heitai''', meaning "soldier".<br />
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{{bigquote|So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?|[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]|[[The Dark Sister]]}}<br />
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== Fiction ==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
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====The ninja prodigy====<br />
The boy who would become Snake Eyes was found as an infant by the [[Hard Master]] of the [[Arashikage]] clan, abandoned and wrapped in the jacket of a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] sergeant; he was adopted into the clan and named "Heitai", meaning "soldier", because of his origins. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} As a child going through the harsh tests of Arashikage ninja training, Heitai formed a brotherly friendship and fierce rivalry with another youth, [[Storm Shadow]], and the two boys came to stand out amongst their peers as extraordinarly talented ninja.<br />
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As part of their training, Heitai and Storm Shadow were made to hang by their arms from a rope above a ravine. When Storm Shadow slipped, Heitai saved him from falling to his death; however, he was chastised for doing so by the Hard Master, as in doing so he risked falling as well, robbing the clan of both of their talents. Later, the Hard Master acknowledged his sense of honor, but claimed it was not proper for a ninja; however, the boy only responded with a silent, sullen glare. Amused, the Hard Master decided that a more appropriate name for him would be "Snake Eyes". {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 1}}<br />
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In another test, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were tasked with placing their hands in a bowl of molten lead; when Storm Shadow hesitated, Snake Eyes displayed the courage his rival did not. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 2}} On a separate occasion, Snake Eyes was very publicly charged with protecting his master's bowl of delicious dragon fruit. Though Storm Shadow managed to steal some, in his fight with Snake Eyes his mask was torn, revealing his identity; the next day, however, Snake Eyes refused to name the thief, even after the Hard Master beat him in front of his classmates.<br />
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Disappointed that Snake Eyes' sense of honor and morality held back his unmatched talents as a ninja, the Hard Master arranged for his student to be sent to train with the Soft Master, hoping to harden his heart and teach him of guile and cold manipulation. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow, Part 3}} This new relationship quickly turned sour, however — Snake Eyes responded to the Soft Master's taunts and insults on their first meeting by attempting to strike him with thrown knives, and in one lesson, was charged with drinking from two jars; one of acid, one of neutralizing agent. To survive doing so, he would have to divine which was which from the Soft Master's words and drink them in the correct order — but rather than doing so, Snake Eyes threw both jars in the Soft Master's face, burning him horribly. {{storylink|Serpent's Shadow Conclusion}}<br />
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After the Hard Master turned against the Soft Master's cruelty and sadism, Snake Eyes helped him to escape from the Arashikage. {{storylink|Target: Snake Eyes Prelude}} The two made their way to the [[United States of America|United States]]; the Hard Master became a humble [[New York City|New York]] [[So Fine Deli|deli owner]], {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 6}} while Snake Eyes, under undisclosed circumstances, joined the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] [[Army Rangers|Rangers]]. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Joining G.I. Joe====<br />
Retaining his Arashikage moniker as a codename, Snake Eyes served as an airborne ranger for several years, including on an "ultra-hush" operation in Central America. More than seven years after that operation, Snake Eyes sustained severe facial injuries during a "black-bag" op, and was taken to a [[Las Vegas]] plastic surgery clinic for facial reconstruction; there, he recognised a [[Green Beret]] psychologist who had served alongside him in Central America before killing his family and going AWOL, who intended to change his face to start a new life after murdering his ''second'' family.<br />
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Snake Eyes sent a fax to {{w|United States Army Criminal Investigation Command|army CID}} to inform them of the criminal's location, only for the psychologist — who dubbed himself the "[[Chimera]]" — blew up the clinic to remove all connection to his past life. Though he was further disfigured and rendered mute by the explosion, Snake Eyes survived, and was taken to the intensive care burn unit at [[North Las Vegas Community Hospital]].<br />
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As Snake Eyes' talents as a commando and knowledge of Chimera had caught the eye of General "[[Hawk]]" and his fledgling team [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], operatives [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] were deployed to recruit him. The two helped the injured ranger to leave the hospital just in time to stop Chimera from tying up the loose end by shooting him in his bed; Chimera pursued the group to their van, but Snake Eyes' improvised use of an IV stand as a weapon kept the killer off-balance long enough for them to escape. Impressed with the commando's skills, Duke formally extended the invitation to join G.I. Joe, which Snake Eyes accepted immediately. {{storylink|Origins issue 1|Origins #1}}<br />
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====Going rogue====<br />
{{bigquote|Ever notice how Snake Eyes' personal life can always be defined as a vital mission?|[[Iceberg]]|[[Cobra Command, Part 5]]}}<br />
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====Undercover in Cobra====<br />
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Eventually, Snake Eyes' deep cover mission came to an end when [[Duke]] (who'd been disgraced and was now working as a mercenary), [[Big Ben]], and [[Isaac Craft]] made their move to destroy Cobra. Though Snake Eyes was forced to kill Isaac, eventually the two former Joes accomplished their task. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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====Rejoining G.I. Joe====<br />
Unfortunately though, G.I. Joe was also shut down around the same time. A couple years later, Snake Eyes was remembered by [[Scarlett]] as one the team's core members when she, [[Joe Colton]], and [[Miles Mayhem]] reminisced about the team as they discussed the Cybertronian influence on Earth. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} <br />
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[[File:O Ship of State Snake Eyes and Micronauts.jpg|thumb|left|150px| [[Micronaut|"I knew we should have taken a left at Albuquerque!"]]]]<br />
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Having fallen out of touch with his old team after G.I. Joe was shut down, Scarlett got back in contact with Snake Eyes and tasked him with infiltrating [[Autobot City]], wanting him to investigate a possible link between the [[Transformer|Cybertronians]] and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}} Using his small size, he managed to avoid both [[Jazz]] and [[Victorion]] before he was confronted by the ''[[Heliopolis]]''. Believing it to be a security drone, he engaged it, attracting the attention of [[Arcee]], whose optic he managed to damage before she pushed him off, leaving him open to be stabbed by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]. The fight was broken up [[Soundwave]] and Snake-Eyes activated his distress signal. As it went unanswered, he played dead for a while before the Cybertronians made it clear they knew he was alive. [[Optimus Prime]] appealed to him, making him see that the Cybertronians were acting in Earth's best interest. Agreeing to aid Optimus, Snake Eyes offered his communicator to contact his superiors for aid in defending Earth.<br />
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Given a new Cybertronian sword, he stood by his new allies as they fought off the combined force of the Dire Wraiths and [[M.A.S.K.]]. He assisted [[Rom]] in fighting off the Wraiths, slicing through their flesh with his sword before [[Baron Karza]] emerged from the nearby [[Space bridge|spacebridge]] and merged with all the Wraiths becoming a towering colossus of power. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} In the confusion of battle, Snake Eyes shot at Rom as he attempted to shoot down [[Matt Trakker]]'s [[Thunderhawk]]. This led to a brawl between him, the [[Space Knight]], and Acroyear that only ended when Optimus Prime intervened, transforming and enveloping the three of them into his alt mode's interior as he pleaded with them and Matt Trakker to remember that Karza and the Wraiths were the real enemy here. As the battle raged on and grew to include the rest of G.I. Joe, Snake Eyes evacuated into Autobot City with the majority of his allies when it began levitating above the mine of Ore-13 it sat atop. Once the plan to stop Karza finally came together and succeeded, Snake Eyes interrupted Scarlett's celebration over [[Mainframe]]'s survival to point out that Optimus Prime seemed to have something to say. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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Following this so-called "Revolution incident", Snake Eyes officially rejoined the newly international G.I. Joe team. On a mission to [[Tokyo]], Snake Eyes dove into action and received advice from [[Agent Helix]] on how best to take out several members of the [[Red Shadows]] ninja clan they'd been sent in to deal with. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 1|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1}} Snake Eyes and Helix later backed up [[Lady Jaye]] and [[Gung-Ho]] after their mission to infiltrate a Dire Wraith-led [[Cobranarchist|anarchist group]] in [[Greece]] went awry, arriving just in time to save them. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 4|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4}}<br />
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Snake Eyes accompanied Scarlett, [[Rock 'n Roll]], and [[Skywarp]] to [[Scotland]] on a mission to hunt down a cell of Dire Wraiths. Though these aliens were no problem for the team, another group of unrelated aliens injured Rock and temporarily shut down Skywarp. In the wake of this attack, Snake Eyes helped Rock make his way to a nearby barn that they'd hide Skywarp inside. {{storylink|Wrath of Karza issue 1|Wrath of Karza #1}}<br />
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Snake Eyes assisted his fellow Joe [[Mayday]] and her [[Revolutionaries (team)|side team]] in their investigation into the [[Kalistan|Kalistanian]] dictator [[Iron Klaw|Count van Rani]]. Allowing a [[Snake Eyes robot|robotic duplicate]] of himself to be built, Snake Eyes himself infiltrated the [[Iron Castle]] by posing as [[Tomax Paoli]] with a voice provided by [[Kup]]. Calling in for extraction, "Tomax" presented his allies [[Baron Ironblood]] and [[Garrison Kreiger]] with human sized Cybertronian [[Garrison Blackrock]]. As the villains experimented on Blackrock by connecting him to the mysterious [[Talisman]], the robotic Snake Eyes made it's presence known to serve as a distraction while Mayday and the others broke into the castle. Though the Fake Eyes was quickly gunned down by [[Iron Grenadier]]s, the true Snake Eyes shed his disguise and began attacking the villains before freeing Blackrock. With the situation only growing more out of hand, Snake Eyes got tired of Blackrock's fretting over the ways him tampering with Kreiger's Taliman emulator could go wrong and smashed the computer with a Grenaidier's arm, successfully disassembling the {{t|Predacons (G1)|Predacons}} elsewhere in the castle. Making a dash for the villain's [[M.A.S.S. Device]], Snake Eyes set up a short range teleport just outside of the castle, allowing them to rendezvous with Kup and [[Ian Noble]] as they made a dramatic escape of their own. {{tstorylink|The Iron Klaw}}<br />
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As the Joes discussed the threat posed by the [[Fatal Fluffy|giant, subterranean monsters]] who'd recently begun making incursions onto the surface, Helix spoke up and volunteered herself and Snake Eyes to confront a monster who'd emerged in [[Ecuador]]. While Helix was looking to develop a way to predict where the monsters would pop up next, Scarlett was solely interested in finding their point of origin and forbade the two from running off and warned them that their AWOL outings were no longer going to fly under her leadership. Undeterred, Helix would later "hack" into [[Shipwreck]]'s computer and authorize her and Snake Eyes taking a [[S.H.A.R.C.]] to go investigate her theory. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 5|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #5}} While they were gone, their absence was noticed as Cobranarchist riots began breaking out all over the world and G.I. Joe's manpower was stretched thin sending out a huge team to handle a mission Snake Eyes could've handled alone. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 6|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #6}}<br />
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After confirming Helix's theory by traveling to three different predicted incursion sites, finishing somewhere in [[Africa]] where Snake Eyes fought and killed the monster who'd emerged there, the ninja and his partner returned to base and found themselves being faced with a Scarlett who was none too happy with them running off. Telling them about how the riots and the fact that their prisoners [[Baroness]] and [[Crystal Ball]] had been taken from them by Duke, Scarlett reprimanded the two for disobeying a direct order. Snake Eyes, troubled by the two ex-Cobras being taken, turned around and prepared to leave again in the S.H.A.R.C. but was stopped by [[Quick Kick]], who warned him that he'd be leaving at his own peril. While Helix found the idea of Quick Kick threatening Snake Eyes laughable, Kick claimed Snake Eyes had gone soft and was now relying on Helix and his guns too much to beat him. Now being directly called out by his fellow martial artist, Snake Eyes accepted Quick Kick's challenge and followed him to his dojo. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 7|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #7}} Handing his guns off to Helix, the fight got off to an inauspicious start for Snake Eyes, with all of his opening blows dodged and deflected by Quick Kick before he got several good hits in on the ninja. As the fight continued, Snake Eyes drew a knife that Kick just barely managed to avoid getting cut by, the only damage done being to his weighted training jacket. After this, the odds seemed to shift in Snake Eyes favor, with him managing to slice through Kick's ''guandao'' and knock the martial artist off his feet and onto the floor. Though he managed to overcome Quick Kick's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu moves, he was left disoriented after Kick choked him out between his thighs. The fight continued for a brief while but ultimately Snake Eyes forfeited as his opponent sent in a fight ending punch, conceding to Quick Kick the title of G.I. Joe's one true martial arts expert. {{tstorylink|G.I. Joe vol. 5 issue 9|G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9}}<br />
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Quite some time after the incident, Snake Eyes and Helix were still being punished for their insubordination. Though [[Roadblock]] wanted them for the team he was building to investigate the revived Cobra's activities in the [[North Pole]], Scarlett refused to authorize their release. {{tstorylink|Scarlett's Strike Force issue 1|Scarlett's Strike Force #1}}<br />
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=== ''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' ===<br />
Snake Eyes was the favorite character of [[Baron Karza]] and for that reason he was (very politely) kidnapped by the Baron in the middle of a battle against [[Cobra]]. Waking up contained in a force field bubble alongside [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], Snake Eyes could do nothing as the villain revealed he planned to siphon off Snake Eyes' coolness with the power of the [[Orbsah Gem]]! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|Aw Yeah Revolution! #1}} After having his coolness absorbed, Snake Eyes watched as a fight broke out between Karza and the [[Micronaut]]s before finally being freed by [[Microtron]]. Once freed, [[Phenolo-Phi|Space Glider]] pleaded with him and the other two that they must return to their home dimension lest their relative hugeness cause all of [[Microspace]] to come undone! As Karza used the Orbsah Gem to make his exit and Optimus Prime chased after him, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] held the portal open to allow Snake Eyes and Rom to leave as well. Unfortunately, the portal deposited them just outside of Cobra's base, where Snake Eyes' old rival [[Storm Shadow]] revealed to them that Karza and Cobra had teamed up and defeated Optimus Prime!<br />
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As he and Storm Shadow resumed their never-ending battle, Snake Eyes was knocked from the mountain's peak by his rival, who then met the same fate at the hands of Acroyear. With both of them now at the foot of the mountain, the two ninjas prepared to resume their duel but were interrupted when suddenly from beneath their feet arose Optimus Prime... now a brainwashed weapon of Cobra! {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 2|Aw Yeah Revolution! #2}} Continuing their battle even as Rom and the Micronauts tussled with Cobra and Optimus, Storm Shadow was scared off when Snake Eyes' fellow [[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]] arrived on the scene! He then stood alongside his teammates and the restored Optimus Prime's {{t|Autobot}}s as they prepared to take on [[Cobra Commander]] and the Orbsah Gem empowered [[Destro]]. {{tstorylink|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 3|Aw Yeah Revolution! #3}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a Snake Eyes action figure in his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==Notes ==<br />
*The original Snake Eyes's codename was spelled '''Snake-Eyes'''. Surprisingly enough, the original spelling has never popped up as a typo in IDW continuity, as far as this wiki can discern.<br />
*In case you're wondering, at no point in the entire ''G.I. Joe'' franchise has Snake Eyes's real name ever been revealed, save for IDW's ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' crossover series, wherein his name is "Francis Witwicky". That however, is rather unlikely to be the case in IDW continuity.<br />
*In {{t|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|''Maximum Dinobots'' #4}}, a boy named {{t|Jimmy (G1)|Jimmy}} played with Snake Eyes action figure. This issue was published in 2009, years before [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] launched their [[Hasbro Universe]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Snake-Eyes}} at the TFWiki<br />
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[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|I can't get a straight answer out of this crazy hemisphere.]]<br />
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'''Axiom''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
[[File:Rom Revolution Caleb and Aaron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|left|"Nine hundred dollarydoos?!"]]<br />
While growing up in Adelaide, [[Australia]], Aaron Grundy was fascinated with computers and technology. His computer interest led him to read all he could about programming, eventually landing a job at defense contractor [[Raymond-Lull]]. Grundy’s work for Raymond-Lull eventually brought him to [[Seattle]], [[Washington]], where, at a tech conference, he met [[Caleb Awan]]. The two men quickly became friends, and began developing what would be their ultimate achievement: the Axiom suit. After several unsuccessful attempts, the two finally began to break ground, and Grundy left Raymond-Lull to begin his own start-up with Awan, [[DeepWave Technologies]]. However, the Axiom suit's mental interface soon ran into more problems, and the two faced either losing their company, and the suit along with it, or selling it to a military think tank, ultimately opting for the latter. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Axiom profile}}<br />
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[[File:Rom Revolution Axiom suit.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|right|"That's a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister. HEY! MR. PRIME MINISTER!"]]<br />
After selling the company, Aaron was nervous about what the military would think when they revealed the Axiom suit's final version had been unsuccessful. However, General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]], who was sent to oversee the suit's development, presented the duo with what he believed would help the suit reach its full potential: [[Ore-13]]. Colton told them that Axiom was needed to deal with the [[Transformer]] situation brewing in [[Utah]]. After a week of development, the armor was fully operational. While Aaron told Colton that it would still take a few months to adapt the suit to anyone else's brain patterns, the General decided it was time for a field test, having two of his associates attack Grundy with "prototype" weapons. The Axiom-clad Grundy easily avoided the attacks and relieved the soldiers of their weapons. Colton concluded the suit was working perfectly. Now it was time to "work on" Aaron, knocking him out. When Aaron awoke, he found himself tied up in "bio-webs", still wearing the Axiom armor, and surrounded by Caleb, Colton, and Colton's associates, who revealed themselves to all be [[Dire Wraith]]s in disguise. The Wraiths then began to infect Aaron, merging him with the armor and transforming him into a monstrous creature. <br />
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[[File:Revolution4 Rom vs Axiom.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|"What kind of a sick country would kick someone with a giant boot?"<br>"Mr. K'atsema, shush. Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense."]]<br />
Grundy, now calling himself Axiom, was deployed to attack the [[Solstar Order|Space Knight]] [[Rom]], who was traveling to Seattle with [[Camilla Byers]]. When Rom's [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]] detected trace amounts of human DNA in Axiom, the Space Knight tried to offer his help. However, Axiom rejected it, thanking the Dire Wraiths for what they had done and reveling in his new form's power. While Rom tried to avoid fighting Axiom to uphold his vow to not harm a human, Axiom goaded him to either fight or die! Relenting, Rom readied his [[Neutralizer]]. However, before Rom could finish him off, Axiom was ordered by the Wraiths to return to base, teleporting him back when he refused. {{storylink|Field Test}}<br />
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Axiom was present when the Dire Wraith leaders, including Caleb, led a group of Wraiths to attack {{t|Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City}} beside [[Miles Mayhem]]'s [[M.A.S.K.]] team. When [[Baron Karza]] [[enerchange]]d with the Dire Wraiths, Axiom was also absorbed into the giant Karza-Wraith monstrosity. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} Following the Karza-Wraith's destruction, Axiom lurked on an Earth rooftop, watching Rom fly off to return to his own adventures. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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[[File:Rom-Micronauts-4 Axiom.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|"Alright, you win. Heh, I see you've played knifey-spooney before."]]<br />
Having survived the destruction of the Karza-Wraith hybrid, Caleb brought Axiom along with him as he went to check up on [[Leonard Song]]'s project of creating a method that would allow Rom's armor to be controlled remotely. Leonard tried to explain why progress was so slow, but Caleb ordered Axiom to kill him. Before he could strike, Leonard's control devices suddenly took control of Axiom, making him stop in his tracks. Axiom was rather unamused by this. {{storylink|Interlude}}<br />
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When the Wraiths had joined forces with [[Baron Karza]], Axiom joined the force in [[Gokseong]] to defeat the [[Space Knight]]s before Rom and the [[Micronaut]]s arrived. In light of the opposition, Axiom chose to flee and report back to Karza on [[Hashima Island]]. When their foes attacked Hashima, Axiom noticed the Micronauts were missing and went off to intercept them. Though initially holding the advantage, Rom [[enerchange]]d with Axiom, stealing the hybrid's size and banishing him to [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Asymmetric Warfare}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[File:Axiom design comparison.png|thumb|right|"Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby."]]<br />
*Aaron Grundy is named after [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ Mysterious Universe] podcast hosts Ben Grundy and Aaron Wright.<ref>https://twitter.com/chris_ryall/status/1025432578654760960</ref><br />
*Axiom sports three very different designs over the course of his appearances. His original [[Ron Joseph]]/[[Jay Fotos]] design in ''ROM: Revolution'' depicts him with blue-grey flesh and a black visor; under [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Sebastian Cheng]]'s pens in ''Revolution'' he sports brown flesh, a glowing red visor and tattered, cloak-like wings; and in ''Rom & The Micronauts'' [[Paolo Villanelli]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]] give him a ''completely'' different design with twisted, shadowy flesh, no visible eyes or mechanical parts, and monstrous exposed gums and teeth.<br />
*Prior to settling on his "final" design, Ron Joseph first sketch saw Axiom as a much more monstrous, "Hulk-like" creature.<ref>https://twitter.com/RonJoseph717/status/1025424535573520384</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Axiom (G1)}} at the TFWiki<br />
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[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|I can't get a straight answer out of this crazy hemisphere.]]<br />
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'''Axiom''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
[[File:Rom Revolution Caleb and Aaron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|left|"Nine hundred dollarydoos?!"]]<br />
While growing up in Adelaide, [[Australia]], Aaron Grundy was fascinated with computers and technology. His computer interest led him to read all he could about programming, eventually landing a job at defense contractor [[Raymond-Lull]]. Grundy’s work for Raymond-Lull eventually brought him to [[Seattle]], [[Washington]], where, at a tech conference, he met [[Caleb Awan]]. The two men quickly became friends, and began developing what would be their ultimate achievement: the Axiom suit. After several unsuccessful attempts, the two finally began to break ground, and Grundy left Raymond-Lull to begin his own start-up with Awan, [[DeepWave Technologies]]. However, the Axiom suit's mental interface soon ran into more problems, and the two faced either losing their company, and the suit along with it, or selling it to a military think tank, ultimately opting for the latter. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Axiom profile}}<br />
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[[File:Rom Revolution Axiom suit.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|right|"That's a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister. HEY! MR. PRIME MINISTER!"]]<br />
After selling the company, Aaron was nervous about what the military would think when they revealed the Axiom suit's final version had been unsuccessful. However, General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]], who was sent to oversee the suit's development, presented the duo with what he believed would help the suit reach its full potential: [[Ore-13]]. Colton told them that Axiom was needed to deal with the [[Transformer]] situation brewing in [[Utah]]. After a week of development, the armor was fully operational. While Aaron told Colton that it would still take a few months to adapt the suit to anyone else's brain patterns, the General decided it was time for a field test, having two of his associates attack Grundy with "prototype" weapons. The Axiom-clad Grundy easily avoided the attacks and relieved the soldiers of their weapons. Colton concluded the suit was working perfectly. Now it was time to "work on" Aaron, knocking him out. When Aaron awoke, he found himself tied up in "bio-webs", still wearing the Axiom armor, and surrounded by Caleb, Colton, and Colton's associates, who revealed themselves to all be [[Dire Wraith]]s in disguise. The Wraiths then began to infect Aaron, merging him with the armor and transforming him into a monstrous creature. <br />
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[[File:Revolution4 Rom vs Axiom.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|"What kind of a sick country would kick someone with a giant boot?"<br>"Mr. K'atsema, shush. Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense."]]<br />
Grundy, now calling himself Axiom, was deployed to attack the [[Solstar Order|Space Knight]] [[Rom]], who was traveling to Seattle with [[Camilla Byers]]. When Rom's [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]] detected trace amounts of human DNA in Axiom, the Space Knight tried to offer his help. However, Axiom rejected it, thanking the Dire Wraiths for what they had done and reveling in his new form's power. While Rom tried to avoid fighting Axiom to uphold his vow to not harm a human, Axiom goaded him to either fight or die! Relenting, Rom readied his [[Neutralizer]]. However, before Rom could finish him off, Axiom was ordered by the Wraiths to return to base, teleporting him back when he refused. {{storylink|Field Test}}<br />
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Axiom was present when the Dire Wraith leaders, including Caleb, led a group of Wraiths to attack {{t|Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City}} beside [[Miles Mayhem]]'s [[M.A.S.K.]] team. When [[Baron Karza]] [[enerchange]]d with the Dire Wraiths, Axiom was also absorbed into the giant Karza-Wraith monstrosity. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} Following the Karza-Wraith's destruction, Axiom lurked on an Earth rooftop, watching Rom fly off to return to his own adventures. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
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[[File:Rom-Micronauts-4 Axiom.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|"Alright, you win. Heh, I see you've played knifey-spooney before."]]<br />
Having survived the destruction of the Karza-Wraith hybrid, Caleb brought Axiom along with him as he went to check up on [[Leonard Song]]'s project of creating a method that would allow Rom's armor to be controlled remotely. Leonard tried to explain why progress was so slow, but Caleb ordered Axiom to kill him. Before he could strike, Leonard's control devices suddenly took control of Axiom, making him stop in his tracks. Axiom was rather unamused by this. {{storylink|Interlude}}<br />
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When the Wraiths had joined forces with [[Baron Karza]], Axiom joined the force in [[Gokseong]] to defeat the [[Space Knight]]s before Rom and the [[Micronaut]]s arrived. In light of the opposition, Axiom chose to flee and report back to Karza on [[Hashima Island]]. When their foes attacked Hashima, Axiom noticed the Micronauts were missing and went off to intercept them. Though initially holding the advantage, Rom [[enerchange]]d with Axiom, stealing the hybrid's size and banishing him to [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Asymmetric Warfare}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[File:Axiom design comparison.png|thumb|right|"Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby."]]<br />
*Aaron Grundy is named after [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/ Mysterious Universe] podcast hosts Ben Grundy and Aaron Wright.<ref>https://twitter.com/chris_ryall/status/1025432578654760960</ref><br />
*Axiom sports three very different designs over the course of his appearances. His original [[Ron Joseph]]/[[Jay Fotos]] design in ''ROM: Revolution'' depicts him with blue-grey flesh and a black visor; under [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Sebastian Cheng]]'s pens in ''Revolution'' he sports brown flesh, a glowing red visor and tattered, cloak-like wings; and in ''Rom & The Micronauts'' [[Paolo Villanelli]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]] give him a ''completely'' different design with twisted, shadowy flesh, no visible eyes or mechanical parts, and monstrous exposed gums and teeth.<br />
*Prior to settling on his "final" design, Ron Joseph first sketch saw Axiom as a much more monstrous, "Hulk-like" creature.<ref>https://twitter.com/RonJoseph717/status/1025424535573520384</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Axiom (G1)}} at the TFWiki<br />
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[[File:HHS Axiom profile art.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|I can't get a straight answer out of this crazy hemisphere.]]<br />
'''Axiom''' is the ultimate weapon of the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Based on a suit of powered armor created by [[DeepWave Technologies]], the company's [[Australia]]n co-founder '''Aaron Grundy''' has been bonded with the suit in a perverse combination of Wraith [[magic]], human ingeniuity, [[Enerchange|micromeld]] technology, and the mineral [[Ore-13]]. Powerful, capricious, sadistic and completely loyal to his Wraith masters, Axiom is able to evade detection from the [[Space Knight]]s' [[Analyzer]]s while exploiting [[Rom]]'s desire to save humans who have been infected by the Wraiths.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
[[File:Rom Revolution Caleb and Aaron.jpg|thumb|upright=0.45|left|"Nine hundred dollarydoos?!"]]<br />
While growing up in Adelaide, [[Australia]], Aaron Grundy was fascinated with computers and technology. His computer interest led him to read all he could about programming, eventually landing a job at defense contractor [[Raymond-Lull]]. Grundy’s work for Raymond-Lull eventually brought him to [[Seattle]], [[Washington]], where, at a tech conference, he met [[Caleb Awan]]. The two men quickly became friends, and began developing what would be their ultimate achievement: the Axiom suit. After several unsuccessful attempts, the two finally began to break ground, and Grundy left Raymond-Lull to begin his own start-up with Awan, [[DeepWave Technologies]]. However, the Axiom suit's mental interface soon ran into more problems, and the two faced either losing their company, and the suit along with it, or selling it to a military think tank, ultimately opting for the latter. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Axiom profile}}<br />
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[[File:Rom Revolution Axiom suit.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|left|"That's a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister. HEY! MR. PRIME MINISTER!"]]<br />
After selling the company, Aaron was nervous about what the military would think when they revealed the Axiom suit's final version had been unsuccessful. However, General [[Joe Colton (Dire Wraith)|Joe Colton]], who was sent to oversee the suit's development, presented the duo with what he believed would help the suit reach its full potential: [[Ore-13]]. Colton told them that Axiom was needed to deal with the [[Transformer]] situation brewing in [[Utah]]. After a week of development, the armor was fully operational. While Aaron told Colton that it would still take a few months to adapt the suit to anyone else's brain patterns, the General decided it was time for a field test, having two of his associates attack Grundy with "prototype" weapons. The Axiom-clad Grundy easily avoided the attacks and relieved the soldiers of their weapons. Colton concluded the suit was working perfectly. Now it was time to "work on" Aaron, knocking him out. When Aaron awoke, he found himself tied up in "bio-webs", still wearing the Axiom armor, and surrounded by Caleb, Colton, and Colton's associates, who revealed themselves to all be [[Dire Wraith]]s in disguise. The Wraiths then began to infect Aaron, merging him with the armor and transforming him into a monstrous creature. <br />
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[[File:Revolution4 Rom vs Axiom.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|right|"What kind of a sick country would kick someone with a giant boot?"<br>"Mr. K'atsema, shush. Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense."]]<br />
Grundy, now calling himself Axiom, was deployed to attack the [[Solstar Order|Space Knight]] [[Rom]], who was traveling to Seattle with [[Camilla Byers]]. When Rom's [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]] detected trace amounts of human DNA in Axiom, the Space Knight tried to offer his help. However, Axiom rejected it, thanking the Dire Wraiths for what they had done and reveling in his new form's power. While Rom tried to avoid fighting Axiom to uphold his vow to not harm a human, Axiom goaded him to either fight or die! Relenting, Rom readied his [[Neutralizer]]. However, before Rom could finish him off, Axiom was ordered by the Wraiths to return to base, teleporting him back when he refused. {{storylink|Field Test}}<br />
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Axiom was present when the Dire Wraith leaders, including Caleb, led a group of Wraiths to attack {{t|Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City}} beside [[Miles Mayhem]]'s [[M.A.S.K.]] team. When [[Baron Karza]] [[enerchange]]d with the Dire Wraiths, Axiom was also absorbed into the giant Karza-Wraith monstrosity. {{tstorylink|The New Colossus}} Following the Karza-Wraith's destruction, Axiom lurked on an Earth rooftop, watching Rom fly off to return to his own adventures. {{tstorylink|Valley Forge}}<br />
<br />
[[File:Rom-Micronauts-4 Axiom.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|"Alright, you win. Heh, I see you've played knifey-spooney before."]]<br />
Having survived the destruction of the Karza-Wraith hybrid, Caleb brought Axiom along with him as he went to check up on [[Leonard Song]]'s project of creating a method that would allow Rom's armor to be controlled remotely. Leonard tried to explain why progress was so slow, but Caleb ordered Axiom to kill him. Before he could strike, Leonard's control devices suddenly took control of Axiom, making him stop in his tracks. Axiom was rather unamused by this. {{storylink|Interlude}}<br />
<br />
When the Wraiths had joined forces with [[Baron Karza]], Axiom joined the force in [[Gokseong]] to defeat the [[Space Knight]]s before Rom and the [[Micronaut]]s arrived. In light of the opposition, Axiom chose to flee and report back to Karza on [[Hashima Island]]. When their foes attacked Hashima, Axiom noticed the Micronauts were missing and went off to intercept them. Though initially holding the advantage, Rom [[enerchange]]d with Axiom, stealing the hybrid's size and banishing him to [[Microspace]]. {{storylink|Asymmetric Warfare}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[File:Axiom design comparison.png|thumb|right|"Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby."]]<br />
*Axiom sports three very different designs over the course of his appearances. His original [[Ron Joseph]]/[[Jay Fotos]] design depicts him with blue-grey flesh and a black visor; under [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Sebastian Cheng]]'s pens he sports brown flesh, a glowing red visor and tattered, cloak-like wings; and [[Paolo Villanelli]] and [[Alessandra Alexakis]] give him a ''completely'' different design with twisted, shadowy flesh, no visible eyes or mechanical parts, and monstrous exposed gums and teeth.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Axiom (G1)}} at the TFWiki<br />
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[[Category:Cyborgs]]<br />
[[Category:Dire Wraiths]]<br />
[[Category:Humans]]<br />
[[Category:ROM characters]]</div>Broadside