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|seriesissue=[[G.I. Joe vol. 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3]] #15<br />
|prev=Siren's Song<br />
|next=The Fall of G.I. Joe Part One<br />
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|caption=In which Siren has already been successfully searched for!<br />
|title="The Search for Siren"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[April 30]], [[2014]]<br />
|coverdate=April 2014<br />
|written by=[[Paul Allor]]<br />
|art by=[[Steve Kurth]]<br />
|inks by=[[Allen Martinez]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editorial consultant=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editor=[[John Barber]]<br />
|specialthanks=[[Max Brooks]]<br />
|chronology=<br />
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'''The G.I. Joe field team must escape from a Cobra training camp for child soldiers, but prove to have traitors in their midst.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Hashtag]] is horrified at the sight of [[Cobra]]'s [[L'il Viper|child soldier]] training camp, and immediately starts thinking of how to rescue the children, but Cover Girl shuts her down — they aren't prepared for a rescue mission at all, and need to get out without being caught to come back with a stronger force, because if they get caught, they'll lose the opportunity to mount a rescue. They make to leave, but immediately walk right into one of the trainees — and though a quick-thinking Hashtag tries to assure her that they're "playing a game" where they try to hide from the other adults — the young girl cries out to alert the children's drill instructor, [[Big Boa II|Big Boa]], to the intruders. With a change of plans forced, the Joes open fire on the [[Viper]]s moving in towards them, but are unwilling to risk hitting the children who come running in, armed with batons, to attack them at Boa's urging. In the chaos, [[Siren]] grabs her son [[Isaac Craft|Isaac]], assuring him that the soldiers are here to help them... though she doesn't confirm when he asks if they're G.I. Joe.<br />
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In the midst of the gunfight, one of the children asks [[Roadblock]] to help him, and the Joe makes a command decision; shouting out for any children that ''want'' to be rescued to follow him, Roadblock and the other Joes flee through the old castle. A rocket launcher-armed Viper tries to use his weapons to take out the Joes at once, but his comrade — worried for the safety of the "L'il Vipers" — grabs his arm and knocks off his aim, saving the children's lives but sending Hashtag and Isaac tumbling to the floor. As the Vipers are taken out with headshots, Roadblock moves to go and collect them; Siren insists that she is coming too, but Roadblock refuses as she'd slow him down, and Cover Girl pulls the Cobra agent away.<br />
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Unharmed by the fall, Isaac takes Hashtag by the hand and offers to show her a way out, but as they run, one of the other trainees calls out to Isaac... who is the trainees' unit commander, and a Cobra loyalist all the way through. Angry that his plan to infiltrate the Joes was thwarted, Isaac draws a knife and stabs Hashtag in the side; as she pulls the knife out and tries to drag the struggling Isaac away, the other trainee asks if the Joes can ''really'' get her out. Hashtag wants to, but her attention is caught up in keeping the kicking, biting Isaac under control... but decides that if she can't save them both, she has to save the one who ''wants'' to be rescued. Letting Isaac run away, Hashtag accompanies the girl instead.<br />
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Having knocked out a room full of Vipers, Roadblock is presented with a new threat: Big Boa, a towering woman who stands even taller than the massive Joe. Launching quickly into an attack, Boa knocks Roadblock back with a vicious headbutt before he can do anything; the two fight brutally, slamming each other into the stonework of the crumbling castle, but Boa eventually gets the upper hand, Roadblock prone as she punches him into submission. Boa taunts the machine gunner, claiming to have trained ten-year-old girls tougher than him... just as the girl Hashtag was rescuing runs into the room and strikes the instructor across the knees with her baton, sending her to the ground writhing in pain.<br />
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Roadblock carries the girl out to the Joes' [[Shark 9000|boat]], where a small number of rescued children are being helped aboard. With the team preparing to leave, Siren is furious that Isaac has been left behind; she knew that he was being indocrinated by Cobra, which is why she contacted the Joes seven months before. Unwilling to leave her son behind, Siren stays on the shore and fires at the departing vehicle; and soon, the training facility is being packed up into waiting ships to take the children to a new site. In a quiet corner, Isaac tells his mother that though he loves her, they both belong with Cobra... and that if she betrays them again, he will kill her himself.<br />
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Back in [[New York City|New York]], the rescued children are reunited with their families. Though Cover Girl encourages Hashtag to go down and speak to the families, the communications specialist confesses that it doesn't feel like a victory to her — if they had gone in sooner and with more force, they could have rescued ''all'' the children. Though she seems to take Cover Girl's advice to focus on the win that they have made rather than treating it like a defeat, in the dark command center of [[Fort Jay]] that she later retreats to, Hashtag rewatches the message from the desperate Siren... and wishes that she could have done better.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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|h1=[[G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
*[[Hashtag]] (3)<br />
*[[Quick Kick]] (4)<br />
*[[Roadblock]] (6)<br />
*[[Cover Girl]] (7)<br />
*[[Shipwreck]] (12)<br />
*[[Duke]] (13)<br />
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*[[L'il Vipers]] (1)<br />
*[[Big Boa II|Big Boa]] (2)<br />
*[[Siren]] (5)<br />
*"Intruder alert" girl (8)<br />
*[[Viper]]s (9)<br />
*[[Isaac Craft]] (10)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*Rebellious girl (11)<br />
*Rescued children's parents (14)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Too bad. I really thought you were gonna be a challenge. But I've trained ten-year-old-girls who are tougher than you."<br />
<br>''(The trainee hits Big Boa across the knees.)''<br />
<br>"Aim for the kneecaps? Right? '''Aim for the kneecaps?'''"<br />
<br>"I like your gumption, kid. But when you're fightin' someone that big, you'd best skip the quips and just '''run'''."<br />
:—'''Big Boa''', the '''rebellious trainee''', and '''Roadblock'''<br />
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"Isaac, you are the most important thing in my life. I would do '''anything''' to make sure you're safe and happy."<br />
<br>"I am happy. And with Big Boa looking after us, we're probably the safest kids on Earth. I love you, mom. But we're where we belong. You need to accept that. Because if you betray Cobra again? I'll kill you myself. Now give me a hug. People are watching."<br />
:—'''Siren''' and '''Isaac Craft'''. That's one creepy kid you've got there, lady.<br />
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"We did the best we could do, under the circumstances. I know that. In my head, I know that. It's just... if we'd gone in sooner, gone in bigger... ...there were a lot of other kids in that compound. I just wanted one clean victory. That's all."<br />
<br>"This '''is''' a victory, Hashtag. And we don't get a lot of them. You start treating them like defeats, you'll drive yourself crazy."<br />
:—'''Hashtag''' is encouraged by '''Cover Girl'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*This issue confirms that the events of ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 took place over the space of 7 months; pretty much all of that time must have been spent on unseen missions between [[Homefront, Part 5 of 5|issue #5]] and [[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|issue #7]], with [[Threat Matrix, Prologue: Cover Girl|issue #6]] falling somewhere nebulous in between.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*"L'il Vipers" is ''definitely'' not correctly abbreviated; it should be "Lil' Vipers" or "Li'l Vipers".<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*As with [[Siren's Song|the previous issue]], no title for this issue appears within, so we're using the first line of the solicitation in lieu of any other title. It's admittedly not a great one, since there's no actual "Search for Siren" taking place in this issue; maybe "Siren's Song Part 2" would be more appropriate?<br />
*This is the last issue of ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3; with ''[[G.I. Joe: Special Missions]]'' coming to an end the same month, IDW's own-continuity ''G.I. Joe'' titles would go on hiatus prior to the launch of [[G.I. Joe vol. 4|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 4]] four months later (though [[Larry Hama]]'s ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' continuation carried on releasing, while ''{{t|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe}}'' debuted the next month).<br />
*At the end of this issue is a page of thanks for everyone who contributed to ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3: [[Arthur Adams]], [[Paul Allor]], [[Robert Atkins]], [[John-Paul Bove]], [[Alex Cal]], [[Juan Castro]], [[David Garcia Cruz]], [[Mark Deering]], [[Juan Doe]], [[Ryan Dunlavey]], [[Chris Evenhuis]], [[Romulo Fajardo, Jr.]], [[S.L. Gallant]], [[Simon Gough]], [[Carlos Guzman]], [[Clint Hilinski]], [[Jamal Igle]], [[Steve Kurth]], [[Joana Lafuente]], [[Gilberto Lazcano]], [[Shawn Lee]], [[Tom B. Long]], [[Allen Martinez]], [[Phyllis Novin]], [[Atilio Rojo]], [[Tim Seeley]], [[Neil Uyetake]], [[Fred Van Lente]], [[Nicole Virella]], [[Freddie E. Williams II]], and [[Kito Young]]. Phew!<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Hashtag and Siren behind shattered images of the Cobra trainees and the G.I. Joe team, by [[Steve Kurth]], [[Allen Martinez]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' The volume 3 G.I. Joe team, by [[Freddie E. Williams II]] and [[Priscilla Tramontano]].<br />
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[[Category:G.I. Joe vol. 3 issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Origin_of_Roadblock&diff=10010The Origin of Roadblock2018-04-17T01:11:06Z<p>Creedence: /* Covers (3) */</p>
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|seriesissue=[[G.I. Joe vol. 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3]] #11<br />
|prev=Threat Matrix, Part 4 of 4<br />
|next=G.I. Joe vol. 3 issue 12<br />
|image=GIJoev3-11 cvrA.jpg<br />
|caption=Tragically, Fred Van Lente left before giving us IDW versions of ''Resolute'', ''Rise of Cobra'', or ''Renegades''.<br />
|title="The Origin of Roadblock"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[December 11]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=December 2013<br />
|written by=[[Fred Van Lente]]<br />
|line-art by=[[Steve Kurth]]<br />
|inks by=[[Allen Martinez]] and [[Clint Hilinski]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]] and [[David Garcia Cruz]]<br />
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]<br />
|editorial consultant=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editor=[[John Barber]]<br />
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'''Roadblock hasn't always been a member of G.I. Joe...'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Years ago, Sgt. [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] yells at his cousin [[Heavy Duty|Lamont]] over an internet connection from his cubicle at [[Fort Aberdeen]], [[Maryland]]. The two are playing ''[[Sigma 6]]'', a video game created by the army for team-building exercises, but the two are squabbling over their inability to effectively cooperate, each blaming the other. Lamont's avatar unveils an oversized piece of "heavy duty" ordnance, confusing Marvin, who was unaware of the patch allowing users to customize their weapons; as he admits, he doesn't read the update emails, only being stationed at the "geek station" of Fort Aberdeen temporarily until he gets the okay to re-deploy to [[Trucial]]. Lamont accuses his cousin of simply being jealous of his skill at the game, and challenges him to a deathmatch session the next week... but before he signs off, he thanks his cousin for hooking him up with the game, which has been a great source of recreation in his boring jungle posting.<br />
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The next week, Sgt. Hinton is particularly ticked off at one of the other cooks in the Fort Aberdeen kitchens, disgusted at the poor quality of the marinara he's created. As Hinton sends the soldier to the pantry for additional cooking supplies, he is approached by a general, who asks if his cousin is Lamont A. Morris. Hinton gives an affirmative, though Morris's current posting is classified... and is going to remain so. As the general explains, Lamont was killed in the line of duty that morning, laying down his life to help his fellow soldiers get to safety. Marvin is stunned into silence, and over the coming weeks—as he informs his family of what happened, and attends his cousin's funeral—he silently grieves, not allowing his emotions to show.<br />
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Some time later, Marvin logs onto ''Sigma 6'' once more to take out some of his frustration, and goes on a rampage of destruction against the game's robotic enemies. After taking down a giant foe, he sees another player engaged in battle... one armed with a familiar piece of heavy duty weaponry. Marvin calls out to what appears to be his late cousin's avatar, but as soon as the other player sees him, he disconnects from the game. Confused, Marvin visits computer specialist Lt. [[Lacroix]], and asks if he can locate another player based on their I.P. address; the lieutenant confirms that he ''could''... but ''won't'', as it's against regulations. Marvin leaves in apparent defeat, but returns with a dish of perfect gulf shrimp in beer and butter sauce... which he couldn't ''possibly'' have taken out of the officers' mess, as that would be against regulations. Lacroix takes the bribe, and tracks down the I.P... which, strangely, points to a [[Pit|long-abandoned Army base]] in [[Nevada]].<br />
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As the sun sets, Hinton stakes out the base, and once it goes down, he avoids automated security systems to sneak inside the modestly-sized compound. As he enters, the ground opens up in front of him as a [[Dragonfly|helicopter]] rises up out of the ground; Hinton takes this as an opportunity, and rappels down through the opening into a vast, high-tech base filled with soldiers of all stripes. Before he can process what's going on, he is confronted with a [[Snake Eyes|black-clad, masked commando]] who hits him with a {{w|Heihuquan|martial arts strike}}. He immediately recoils, wordlessly shocked at how tough Hinton is... and seconds later is knocked out with a headbutt from the brawny soldier! Seconds later, though, Hinton himself is rendered unconscious by a taser bolt, fired by a [[Scarlett|crossbow-wielding woman]].<br />
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When he awakens, handcuffed to a cell in an isolated room, all Hinton is willing to give [[Hawk|the man in front of him]] is his name, rank and serial number... but the man already knows everything about him, explaining that he's breached into a "ghost facility", and asking what a geek from Fort Aberdeen thought he would get from breaking into a top-secret military base. Hinton clarifies: rather than any ordinary Fobbit, his specialty is as a heavy machine gunner, Aberdeen having only been a temporary posting. As soon as he mentions seeing Lamont's avatar in the video game, the man—known as General Hawk—leaves the room to let Hinton stew... and immediately starts to chew out Lamont, now known as "Heavy Duty", for playing ''Sigma 6'' over an open internet connection. Though Hawk doesn't know what to do with the machine gunner that has been inadvertently brought to their doorstep, but Heavy Duty suggests that they [[G.I. Joe (team)|recruit him]]... and notes that in the video game, his callsign was "Roadblock".<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' appear only in the ''Sigma 6'' video game.<br />
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*[[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton/Roadblock]] (2)<br />
*[[Heavy Duty|Lamont Morris/Heavy Duty]] (3)<br />
*[[Rock 'n Roll]] (10)<br />
*[[Duke]] (11)<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (12)<br />
*[[Flint]] (13)<br />
*[[Tunnel Rat]] (14)<br />
*[[Stalker]] (15)<br />
*[[Scarlett]] (16)<br />
*[[Hawk]] (17)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
{{collist|2|<br />
*Fort Aberdeen staff (1)<br />
*''Robot enemies'' (4)<br />
*Kitchen staff (5)<br />
*[[Joe Colton]]? (6)<br />
*Hinton and Morris's family (7)<br />
*''Not-[[Cobra Commander]]'' (8)<br />
*Lt. [[Lacroix]] (9)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You call that a '''marinara''', boy?"<br />
<br>"Uh... I call it tomato sauce, sarge?"<br />
<br>"Well '''I''' call it '''weak''' sauce!"<br />
:—'''Marvin Hinton''' and a '''kitchen soldier'''<br />
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"Did you '''see''' that? Big guy cold-cocked Snake Eyes with his head. His '''head'''! <span style="font-size:90%">That could be the coolest thing I've seen in my life.</span>"<br />
:—'''Scarlett''' has been waiting for this about as long as the readers have<br />
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"<span style="font-size:125%">'''HEAVY DUTY!'''</span> Get '''over''' here! What did I tell you about '''not''' playing that stupid arcade thing on an open internet connection?"<br />
<br>"But — I was almost at the all-time record in '''headshot kills''' —"<br />
<br>"'''I'll show you a headshot kill!'''"<br />
:—'''Hawk''' isn't impressed with '''Heavy Duty'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Okay, let's get this out of the way first: the entire premise of this issue is a big ol' retcon. Back when [[Origins issue 1|IDW's ''G.I. Joe'' continuity first started]], trademark kerfuffles meant that the crew couldn't use the classic character Roadblock, despite him being one of the most beloved and memorable characters in the ''Real American Hero'' line. Instead, they did what several mid-2000s pieces of ''Joe'' media and toys did, and used the ''other'' muscular African-American heavy weapons operator with a sophisticated side from the '80s, Heavy Duty, as a substitute. By the time of the start of [[G.I. Joe vol. 2|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 2]], however, [[Hasbro]] had reacquired the "Roadblock" name, and without any fanfare, it seemed that the Joes' machine gunner went back to using the originally intended name. This issue overturns that, by claiming that founding G.I. Joe member Heavy Duty and volume 3 mainstay Roadblock were two different characters all along.<br />
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===Continuity notes===<br />
*Heavy Duty has to fake his own death to join G.I. Joe, as was their standard policy prior to ''G.I. Joe'' volume 3.<br />
*The Pit returns! The cavernous underground facility, located beneath a decommissioned Army base, was the base of operations for G.I. Joe from its discovery in [[Origins issue 5|''G.I. Joe: Origins'' #5]] to its destruction in [[G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 2 #3]].<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Given that [[Fred Van Lente]] [[Homefront, Part 1 of 5|started]] his ''G.I. Joe'' run by bringing the pre-1980s "G.I. Joe" and "Adventure Team" lines into IDW continuity, and spent the [[Threat Matrix, Prologue: Cover Girl|middle]] [[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|of it]] bringing in elements of the 1990s "''Extreme''" and "''Sgt. Savage''" lines, it seems appropriate that he should cap it all off with a homage to the mid-2000s ''{{w|G.I. Joe: Sigma 6}}'' franchise in the form of the ''Sigma 6'' video game:<br />
**The ''Sigma 6'' version of [[Cobra Commander]] appears on the game's title screen (albeit without any Cobra symbols, for obvious reasons), and the game's robotic enemies are based on the [[B.A.T.]]s from ''Sigma 6'', which also inspired the original designs of the IDW continuity B.A.T.s.<br />
**Heavy Duty's in-game avatar is based wholesale on the design of Heavy Duty from that series — and, indeed, the "real-world" Heavy Duty has been redesigned to incorporate aspects of his Sigma 6 design, such as his bandanna and sideburns. Roadblock's avatar, meanwhile, is based on a "Sigma-ized" version of the "[http://www.yojoe.com/action/04/heavyduty9.shtml ''Valor vs. Venom'' Heavy Duty] design, which hails from the period when H.D. was acting as a trademark-friendly replacement for Roadblock.<br />
**The art and coloring for the video game sequences are in a more stylized, "cartoony" style than the real-world sequences, somewhat emulating the appearance of the ''Sigma Six'' cartoon.<br />
*Roadblock and Heavy Duty being cousins hails from the ''{{w|G.I. Joe: Spy Troops}}'' DTV movie, and was prominently brought back in the ''{{w|G.I. Joe: Renegades}}'' cartoon..<br />
*The helicopter that bursts from the Pit in front of Hinton is a [[Dragonfly]], the Joes' classic 'copter. It has a significantly different design to its appearance in [[Homefront, Part 4 of 5|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 #4]], in which it was based much more closely on the [http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/09/dragonhawk/ ''Rise of Cobra'' Dragonhawk] (a renamed update to the Dragonfly).<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*It's not clear whether or not the general that informs Marvin of his cousin's death is Joe Colton or not. He does ''look'' a lot like how Steve Kurth draws him, but Kurth's art does suffer quite a bit from sameface syndrome...<br />
*No name for this issue actually appears on the page. We've taken "The Origin of Roadblock" from the first sentence of the solicitation, which sometimes contains the issue name... and sometimes just has a witty remark. It's kind of a crapshoot, but in lieu of any other title, we're going with it.<br />
*Heavy Duty's name here is given as "Lamont A. Morris", his original name, but when he returned in {{t|The Modern World|''Action Man: Revolution''}}, his name would be given as "Hershel Dalton" — his name from the {{w|G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra|live-action movie}} and ''Renegades'' continuities — per Hasbro request.<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Heavy Duty and Roadblock open fire in tandem, by [[Steve Kurth]], [[Allen Martinez]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Marcy's choice of contractors for the party prove to be unreliable, by [[Ryan Dunlavey]]; part 5 in a series of [[Marcy Malone, Intern of Cobra]] covers.<br />
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[[Category:G.I. Joe vol. 3 issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Origin_of_Zartan,_Part_3&diff=10009The Origin of Zartan, Part 32018-04-17T01:10:17Z<p>Creedence: /* Covers (3) */</p>
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|prev=The Origin of Zartan, Part 2<br />
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|caption=<br />
|title="The Origin of Zartan, Part 3"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[August 18]], [[2010]]<br />
|coverdate=August 2010<br />
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]<br />
|art by=[[Alex Cal]]<br />
|inks by=<br />
|colors by=[[Filippo Flores]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]<br />
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'''With Zartan escaped from Cobra's laboratories, Dr. Taggac orders him brought in at any cost.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Under the orders of [[Dr. Taggac]], a [[Cobra]] retrieval team scrambles for the surface to track down the escaped test subject [[Zartan]]; though they are confused by the doctor's claim that no physical description is relevant, the team are confident that they can take him in with his subcutaneous tracker implant. The team closes in on his position, but as they do, he disappears behind a huge crowd of people — as Zartan, with his shapeshifting abilities, has changed his face to match a celebrity from the cover of a magazine, and been surrounded by adoring fans! While Taggac is confronted over video call by an unimpressed [[Cobra Commander]], Zartan flees through the traffic to the entrance to [[Vigo|the city]]'s subway — only to find himself at gunpoint from the Cobra forces. The team's leader orders him to surrender or die, but Zartan takes neither option; elbowing an unprepared Cobra trooper in the face, he steals the man's shotgun and tells the other men to leave rather than let themselves be caught by law enforcement, and when his gambit fails he flees into the subway, clearing the crowds with his stolen weapon.<br />
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With lethal force now authorised, the Cobra team pursues Zartan into the underground station, and he is forced to jump through the path of an oncoming train to escape their gunfire; as he pulls himself up on the other platform, though, he is confronted by Cobra technician [[Bryson]], whose face he had copied while still learning his abilities. Though Bryson threatens to execute Zartan, seeing him as a monster, the shapeshifter grapples him and throws him into the path of an oncoming train, and he is run over instantly. By the time that the other Cobra forces arrive, all that is left is a puddle of gore and meat... but the chip still transmitting from the remains seems to mark them as Zartan.<br />
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"Bryson", bleeding from his forearm, returns to the public front of the Cobra laboratories, claiming that he was nicked by a bullet. Taggac, in his lab, assures the field team's leader that Cobra will be able to cover up the events of Zartan's escape now that he is dead... but as he hangs up, Zartan enters the room, his arm bandaged and Bryson's gun in his hand! Having ripped his transponder out with his teeth, Zartan has now returned to Cobra; not, as Taggac surmises, because he has nowhere else to go, but because he wishes to truly ''be'' Zartan — and to do that, he must understand who [[Emil Zartan]] was. Taggac insists that the clone only resembles his predecessor, and is not truly him, but Zartan disagrees — he escaped an inescapable lab, outfoxed expert Cobra security, and infiltrated the laboratory once more. He can do everything that Emil Zartan could do... but even more so.<br />
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Zartan has Taggac put him through to Cobra Commander, who is none too happy to be disturbed; with the assurance that Cobra may do with him what they will if he fails to convince the Commander, Zartan lays out his case. If Emil Zartan was a valuable asset to Cobra before his death, he must now be indispensable — a skilled assassin with a thousand faces; the Commander admits that he sees the potential in Zartan, and so the shapeshifter sets out his three conditions: his freedom, his own unit within Cobra... and that only Zartan and the Commander know his secret. As the meaning of Zartan's words sink in on a horrified Taggac, Cobra Commander agrees to the terms, and Zartan executes his "creator". He wonders out loud why the Commander trusts him so much, but Cobra Commander claims that he doesn't — and yet he has no fear of Zartan, for despite his powers, Zartan has no idea what the Commander looks like beneath his mask.<br />
<br />
When the security team breaks into the lab, the Commander informs the confused men of a change in personnel — and with his freedom secured, Zartan leaves the room, intending to go "home". Some time later, in the Spanish city in which Emil Zartan grew up, his clone finds [[Zartan (film)|the film poster]] from which he took his name, still on the wall affter all those years. His reverie is interrupted by a policeman who claims to know him; but though they did meet once before, it was in a different lifetime... and Zartan sticks his fingers into the man's throat, leaving him to choke as he leaves, the torn shreds of the poster falling to the floor.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2={{collist|2|<br />
*[[Dr. Taggac]] (1)<br />
*[[Bryson]] (2)<br />
*Cobra retrieval team (3)<br />
*Retrieval team leader (4)<br />
*[[Cobra Commander]] (6)<br />
*Police officer (7)}}<br />
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|c4=<br />
*Celebrity (magazine cover, 5)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"If I was of use to Cobra before then, I would be '''indispensible''' now, would I not? A talented assassin with the ability to appear as anyone? A trusted comrade? A sibling? The target himself?"<br />
<br>"There are certain possibilities."<br />
:—'''Zartan''' makes his case to a poker-faced '''Cobra Commander'''.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The man that confronts Zartan in the Spanish city is the same police officer that got kicked in the throat by the young Emil Zartan back in [[The Origin of Zartan, Part 1|''Origins'' #16]]. You really would have thought he'd have learned the first time.<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Zartan's desire for his own unit within Cobra is a clear nod to the [[Dreadnoks]], the biker gang that Zartan led back in the ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' line. It's just a coy reference, though; when the Dreadnoks [[Serpent's Shadow, Part 3|finally appeared]] in IDW continuity, it'd be in an entirely different context.<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*Though the city isn't named in dialogue, multiple background details — including copies of the {{w|Faro de Vigo}}, {{w|ADN (newspaper)|ADN}}, and {{w|La Voz de Galicia}} newspapers, the [http://facebook.com/SousaComics/ Sousa Comics] store, and the restaurant [https://www.facebook.com/El-Porr%C3%B3n-Remate-152492608151733/ El Porrón] — mark it as the city of [[Vigo]] in Spain, the hometown of artist [[Alex Cal]]. The IDWverse version of Vigo apparently has a subway system that the real one lacks, with the station that Zartan flees to being located near the {{w|Balaídos}} stadium. [[Chuck Dixon]] seems to have not got the message, though, as [[Operation: Deadfall, Part 3|a future issue]] refers to Zartan's creation as taking place in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]]!<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*When Zartan is discussing terms with Cobra Commander, "indispensable" is misspelled "indispensible".<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Zartan does a sick bike stunt, by [[Tom Feister]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Zartan mirrored in Cobra Commander's helmet, by [[Alex Cal]] and [[J. Brown]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Virgin version of cover A.<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: Origins]]'' #17<br />
|prev=The Origin of Zartan, Part 1<br />
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|title="The Origin of Zartan, Part 2"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[July 14]], [[2010]]<br />
|coverdate=July 2010<br />
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]<br />
|art by=[[Alex Cal]]<br />
|inks by=<br />
|colors by=[[J. Brown]]<br />
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]<br />
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<br />
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'''Though Emil Zartan is dead, his story does not end there...'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Cobra Commander]] is not happy with the [[Baroness]]. [[Emil Zartan]], a valuable [[Cobra]] assassin, has died thanks to a malfunction of [[Destro]]'s [[M.A.S.S.]] teleporter — and though the Baroness tries to assure him that she will be directly overseeing the M.A.S.S. experiment, the Commander is unimpressed, wanting results over empty promises. Instead, he contacts [[Dr. Taggac]], a Cobra geneticist currently in the process of convincing [[World Health Organization]] director [[Helene Cottilard]] to agree to an illegal procedure to save [[Randolph Cottilard|her son]]'s life. The Commander wants to know if Taggac is capable of re-creating the entire genome of an individual, and though Taggac explains that he would need a complete genetic map of the subject, the Commander believes that he can secure that — along with the funding necessary; as such, he calls [[Dr. Mindbender]], who is overseeing an experiment in Cobra's [[Section Nine]] facility. Though Mindbender isn't happy to be called away from his work (which explodes catastrophically without him), the doctor reluctantly agrees to the Commander's orders to travel to [[Section Zero]] — ostensibly to assist with the M.A.S.S. experiment, but his true mission is to establish a secret uplink with the device's [[Relay Star]] satellite. As Cottilard's son recovers from his heart surgery, she offers Taggac payment, but he doesn't want money — as the director of the WHO, she has the authority to lift restrictions on the failed antiviral [[Zuprestin]]. Cottilard objects, but Taggac advises her to keep in mind what a group with the power to save her son's life could do to her if angered.<br />
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With the link to the Relay Star established, Taggac downloads Emil Zartan's genetic code and replicates it in a plasmid serum, before selecting a genetic blank "vessel" to host it. Activating the body, Taggac injects it with the serum, and the subject's features shift to resemble those of Zartan... only for it to start screaming in pain and horror! Something has clearly gone wrong with the process, as the writhing clone's body becomes deformed with tumors and biological failures; the scientists attempt to subdue it, but the super-strong clone fights its way past them until being tazed into submission by Taggac. The other scientists believe that the experiment cannot possibly live long, but Taggac sees something different in the misshapen clone — something wondrous...<br />
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With bio-magnetic pads attached to "Zartan" to keep his biology stable, Taggac takes it upon himself to teach the clone language, mathematics and general knowledge. During one of Zartan's lessons, [[Bryson|a Cobra technician]] enters his room to speak to Taggac, and Zartan notes that the other man is of the same height as him... and alters his face and skintone to match! Taggac chastises Zartan as the technician flees, wanting him to keep his abilities a secret, though Zartan wishes to leave and experience the world for himself. Some time later, after the stabilizing pads have been implanted beneath Zartan's skin, Taggac sings the praises of the clone to Cobra Commander; though he is not truly Emil Zartan, he has the potential to become a perfectly loyal asset and assassin — and what's more, the results are potentially replicable.<br />
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Zartan once more asks to be free, to join the world, but Taggac again forbits him, claiming that he needs preparation and experience that he doesn't have. Zartan disagrees, though; his media consumption and learning has lead to the conclusion that humanity is made up of greedy, cowardly sheep that he has nothing to fear from. Taggac, concerned by his words, maintains that Zartan needs practical experience, and the clone appears to bow to his judgement... but the next time that a member of the kitchen staff enters Zartan's cell to serve him a meal, Zartan attacks him, stealing his clothes and shapeshifting to match the boy. When Taggac enters the cell, he realises what has happened, and sets a team to hunt Zartan down; because if he has reached the surface, he could be anywhere — or anyone.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2={{collist|3|<br />
*[[Cobra Commander]] (1)<br />
*[[Baroness]] (2)<br />
*[[Dr. Taggac]] (6)<br />
*[[Stephan]] (7)<br />
*[[Dr. Mindbender]] (8)<br />
*[[Zartan]] (9)<br />
*[[Bryson]] (10)<br />
*Kitchen boy (11)<br />
*[[Viper]]s (12)}}<br />
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|c4=<br />
*[[Randolph Cottilard]] (3)<br />
*[[Helene Cottilard]] (4)<br />
*[[Dr. Denver]] (5)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Don't be in such a hurry, Zartan. The world is a dangerous place. You need preparation. Knowledge."<br />
<br>"I disagree. I have read hundreds of books. Viewed thousands of hours of television. Explored the internet. Humanity is made up of self-serving, greedy, cowardly sheep. I have nothing to fear from them."<br />
:—'''Dr. Taggac''' and '''Zartan''' debate.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The first part of this issue must be set during Destro and the Baroness's [[Dreadnaught|submarine ride]] in [[The Betrayers Part 3|''G.I. Joe'' #9]], as the Baroness refers to taking control of the M.A.S.S. experiment but Mindbender has not yet moved to Section Zero.<br />
*It's Cobra Commander! The big bad of the G.I. Joe franchise first appeared in IDW continuity via telepresence in [[G.I. Joe issue 16|''G.I. Joe'' #16]], and then in person the next month in [[Cobra II Part 4: Cold-Blooded|''Cobra II'' #4]].<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Now that's more like it! Emil Zartan wasn't a whole lot like the classic version of the character, but his clone draws on his traditional portrayal as a master of disguise; he shares his original counterpart's chameleonic skin, based on the color change gimmick [http://www.yojoe.com/action/84/zartan.shtml his original toy], but while the original used make-up and holograms to disguise himself, the IDW version is a full-blown shapeshifter.<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*While watching TV, Zartan's features imitate those of caustic reality TV personality {{w|Simon Cowell}}.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*Cobra Commander refers to himself as the head of the [[Cobra Council]], something that doesn't line up with its subsequent portrayal during [[Cobra Command]] as a body which the Commander is answerable to.<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Zartan's face in collage, by [[Tom Feister]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Zartan experiences the pain of being brought into existence, by [[Alex Cal]] and [[J. Brown]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Virgin version of cover A.<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: Origins]]'' #16<br />
|prev=Origins issue 15<br />
|next=The Origin of Zartan, Part 2<br />
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|caption=Wow, what a badass! I'm sure ''he'll'' live a long, fulfilling life!<br />
|title="The Origin of Zartan, Part 1"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[June 3]], [[2010]]<br />
|coverdate=June 2010<br />
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]<br />
|art by=[[Alex Cal]]<br />
|inks by=<br />
|colors by=[[J. Brown]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<br />
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'''Cobra assassin Emil Zartan's success is short-lived when his indiscretion draws the ire of the Baroness, with fatal consequences.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Directed by the pilot of his helicopter, a man wearing a high-tech glider suit descends onto a passenger jet below, using a grappling gun to break into the vehicle. The assassin effortlessly kills the response teams and security guards that try to stop him as he makes his way to his target: the jet's primary passenger, President [[Rumanapar]]. The assassin, [[Emil Zartan]], brings out a laptop computer with a message for Rumanapar; a message from the [[Baroness]], who chastises him for his intent to announce a change to his country's trade policies at the [[London]] summit that he is travelling to, against the terms of his agreement with [[Cobra]]. As such, Zartan will be accompanying the president to the summit as an escort... and will kill him if he doesn't do as Cobra wishes.<br />
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One week later, on the [[Côte d'Azur]], the Baroness congratulates Zartan on his success, which has allowed her to rise to membership in [[Cobra High Command]]. As payment, she provides him with one million euros, and a woman with whom he attends a luxurious casino that evening; as he plays a game of baccarat, however, a scar-faced man named [[Raphael]] flirts with his companion — something that the woman seems receptive to, prompting Zartan to throw Raphael into a casino table. Zartan's companion is outraged at his embarrassing, possessive actions, and leaves, calling him an animal as she does — words that weigh heavily on Zartan as he fitfully falls asleep in his casino suite.<br />
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''A nameless street urchin is cornered on the streets of a [[Spain|Spanish]] city by a pair of police officers, who accuse him of being the "orphan bastard" that has been stealing from tourists. When the men ask for his name, the boy takes inspiration from [[Zartan (film|a film poster]] behind them, giving his name as "Zartan" and dropping his stolen riches on the ground as a "peace offering"... but when one of the policemen bends down to pick up the money, Zartan knees him in the throat and flees.''<br />
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Emil Zartan is awoken by Raphael and his two armed men; the scarred man wants payback for his earlier humiliation. Waking him was a mistake for Raphael, however, as Zartan uses his assassin's skills to dispatch the two enforcers before chasing after their employer; Zartan shoots him in the back as he flees, causing him to plummet through a window and down to the restaurant tables below. The Baroness comes to retrieve the assassin before the [[Surete]] can arrive, but is unimpressed with her agent, who threaten her position in Cobra with such a public display. As punishment, she gives him a new assignment — acting as the Baroness's representative to [[M.A.R.S. Industries]], who are experimenting with a new, promising weapon...<br />
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At [[Castle Destro]], Zartan is suited up for his assassination of [[Nicodemus Mandilobilis]], for which he will be sent through the [[M.A.S.S.]] teleportation device. As soon as [[Destro|Laird McCullen]] transports him to Mandirobilis' villa, Zartan opens fire... but before he can kill his target, a strange affliction overcomes the assassin, and Zartan is forced to watch as his own body crumbles to dust. From the castle, Destro ruefully relays the failure to the Baroness — they have no guarantee that Zartan succeeded in his assassination, and he fears that Zartan has been killed by the device, reduced to inert molecules. The Baroness suggests that they view the events as a positive — if Zartan disappeared with no witnesses, there is nothing to tie the assassination back to Cobra. But even as she says so, a [[Snake Eyes|masked warrior]] is investigating the assassin's remains...<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*[[Emil Zartan]] (1)<br />
*Cobra pilot (2)<br />
*[[Baroness]] (5)<br />
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|h3=[[M.A.R.S. Industries]]|c3=<br />
*[[Rory MacDougal]] (11)<br />
*[[Destro]] (12)<br />
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|c4={{collist|3|<br />
*Rumanapar's response team (3)<br />
*President [[Rumanapar]] (4)<br />
*London press (6)<br />
*Zartan's arm-candy (7)<br />
*[[Raphael]] (8)<br />
*''Spanish cops'' (9)<br />
*Raphael's goons (10)<br />
*[[Nicodemus Mandirobilis]] (13)<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (14)}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"I will '''not''' go with you! You embarrass me! He only wished to buy me a drink!"<br />
<br>"And take you from me."<br />
<br>"You do not '''own''' me! You are an '''animal'''!"<br />
:—'''Zartan's date''' isn't impressed with '''Emil Zartan's''' behavior.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The majority of this issue is a lead-in to [[G.I. Joe issue 1|''G.I. Joe'' #1]], in which the ill-fated assassination attempt on Mandirobilis was first shown. Zartan sports the same body armor that he did in that issue, though it wasn't apparent before now that he had anything to do with the classic master-of-disguise Zartan.<br />
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===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*The outfit of Zartan's pilot is based on that of Cobra pilot [http://www.yojoe.com/action/84/wildweasel.shtml Wild Weasel].<br />
*The figure on the "Zartan" film poster that the young Emil Zartan takes his name from sports a low-hanging hood that casts a shadow over his face, and white eyes without pupils, making him look a lot like [http://www.yojoe.com/action/84/zartan.shtml Zartan's classic design].<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*In addition to the inspiration it takes from "Zartan classic", the film poster Zartan is also a clear riff on pulp hero {{w|Zorro}}.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*In an error carried over from multiple issues of the main [[G.I. Joe (comic)|''G.I. Joe'' series]], Mandirobilis' name is misspelled "Mandrilobus".<br />
*It could be treated as artistic license, but the Baroness is notably drawn with her classic design's big, round glasses, rather than the more sleek and stylish pair she's typically sported in IDW continuity.<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Zartan (but not the one in this issue), by [[Tom Feister]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Emil Zartan in action, by [[Alex Cal]] and [[J. Brown]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Virgin version of cover A.<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra]]'' #1<br />
|prev=Silence<br />
|prev2=The House Always Wins - Heart to Heart<br />
|next=The Dark Sister<br />
|image=SnakeEyesAOC1 regcvr.jpg|<br />
|caption=Be honest. You didn't believe the title for a second, did you?<br />
|title="Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra Part One:<br>The Tin Man"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[January 21]], [[2015]]<br />
|coverdate=January 2015<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editorial consultant=<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<br />
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'''Five years on, Destro is rescued from imprisonment by Cobra's newest asset... the Arashikage ninja and former G.I. Joe commando Snake Eyes!'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
[[Destro]] is finding it harder and harder to feel anything through his metal skin. He squeezes oranges to a pulp when he picks them up, and is able to heat his elbow to 300 degrees on a stove before he feels anything; and now, as he is pulled through a breach in the roof of a prison transport by [[Snake Eyes]] in the midst of a raging storm, he cannot feel the rain on his face. As the guards close in on the ninja and the confused Destro, Snake Eyes swings his prisoner into the path of their bullets as a human shield before throwing him off the bridge and into the river below, then diving in after him. Fitting Destro with an oxygen mask, the ninja leads his quarry downstream, where they surface, and are met by the waiting forces of [[Cobra]]! The frantic Destro orders the Cobra soldiers to kill Snake Eyes, only for the ninja to hold his sword to Destro's neck... so that he can see the Cobra symbol emblazoned on the hilt. The lead [[Crimson Guard]]sman explains that Snake Eyes has been working for Cobra for months, but Destro isn't impressed, believing Crimson Guard leader and new head of Cobra [[Tomax Paoli]] to be responsible for his being captured by the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|Mounties]] in the first place; shooting the Guardsman in the head, Destro tells the other Cobras to let Tomax know that his message was recieved... and this is Destro's message back.<br />
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''Many years ago, the young James McCullen is taken out for a riding lesson by a stable-hand, though he hates the horses and their smell. After the servant praises his horsemanship, James orders him to steal apples for his horse from the orchards of the neighboring [[Laird of Cyaer]], but though the older boy manages to steal the apples, they are found out and confronted by Laird McCullen. James lies, saying that the "disrespectful" stable-hand stole them of his own voltion, and the Laird has him punished and dismissed from his service... but the elder McCullen knows that his son is lying, and has him beaten as punishment for botching the theft and "wasting" the stable-hand. That night, though, with bruised and bleeding legs, James takes pleasure in the last apple that he managed to keep for himself.''<br />
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In [[Steelhead Bait Shop]] in [[Alaska]], Destro notes that the [[Baroness]] was likely responsible for Snake Eyes being sent into his service; with Destro as a wildcard competitor to Paoli's business and military endeavors, he believes that Tomax betrayed him and had him imprisoned, and wouldn't have offered such a gift without being persuaded. Thinking aloud to himself, he observes that Snake Eyes is a double-edged sword; too dangerous to trust, and too potent to turn away, the ninja was sent to Destro as a test of loyalty — even in this, if he failed or betrayed Cobra, only Destro would be affected. With nothing to lose, Destro offers Snake Eyes a mission; to retrieve a "package" taken from [[G.I. Joe]]'s [[Las Vegas]] [[G.I. Joe intelligence|installation]] by [[Ronin|a woman]], who has vanished into the wind. The Joes never knew what they had, but now Destro wants it, as it would be disruptive to Tomax's position.<br />
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Though Destro knows how dangerous the ninja can be, he facilitates Snake Eyes' travel the globe, hunting down leads and information on where the other ex-Joe might be. His path eventually leads him to [[Jakarta]], and to the home of another woman: Erika Le Tene, once the G.I. Joe agent [[Chameleon]]. Though shocked to see the ninja working for the terrorist organization, she realises that he isn't there to kill her: if Cobra knew where she was, the Baroness would come to kill her personally. She still doesn't know what information she could provide, as the files that she took out of Las Vegas contain nothing that Cobra doesn't already know... until Snake Eyes holds up a picture of his target. Snake Eyes is looking for [[Billy Kessler-Latta]], the late [[Cobra Commander]]'s son!<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' appear only in flashback.<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*[[Destro]] (1)<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (3)<br />
*[[Crimson Guard]] (4)<br />
*[[Viper]]s (5)<br />
*''Stable-hand'' (6)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*Prison guards (2)<br />
*''Laird McCullen'' (7)<br />
*[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]] (8)<br />
*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (image only, 9)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (image only, 10)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
''(Snake Eyes shows Destro the Cobra symbol on his sword.)''<br />
<br>"That's supposed to impress me? I sold weapons with '''smiley faces''' etched onto them. It doesn't mean the men that used them were '''hippies'''."<br />
:—'''Destro'''<br />
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"Do not look so satisfied, boy. You must make your face a '''mask'''. You lied to me. And worse, you sent a fool to do a dangerous job. You used the wrong man, and now you've botched that job and wasted a tool that would be useful to you elsewhere."<br />
:—'''Laird McCullen''' gives some fatherly advice.<br />
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"This ghoul who has come into my service has no face to read. He has no voice to give him away. He communicates in the slower, implacable language of stones and trees. Great dignity. Great strength. A vast and bottomless patience that will drown you. But this man will kill for me, I think. Because he has a need, like every man does. A need to be useful. A need to do what he was made to do. I've begun to imagine that, should some extraordinarily lucky fool get behind his guard and actually remove the mask, there'd be nothing inside at all."<br />
:—'''Destro''' monologues on Snake Eyes.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*As with the concurrently-running [[G.I Joe vol. 4|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 4]] ongoing, this issue takes place 5 years after the events of [[G.I. Joe vol. 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3]], ''[[G.I. Joe: Special Missions]]'', and ''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' — though the establishing of the [[Hasbro Universe]] in 2016 means that that ''probably'' has to be retconned into a shorter stretch of time.<br />
*As ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 4 establishes, Tomax is now in control of Cobra, though it remains unclear what happened to [[Krake|his predecessor]].<br />
*Snake Eyes returns! The ninja hasn't been seen since [[Target: Snake Eyes Part 6|his apparent death]] at the conclusion of "[[Target: Snake Eyes]]", though the [[Silence|subsequent issue]] revealed that he had faked his death and gone into hiding. It's not made clear here ''why'' he stopped faking his death and joined up with Cobra, and, well... though his placing in Cobra {{t|The Iron Klaw|would eventually be explained}} to be him being a deep cover agent for G.I. Joe, it remains to this day a mystery why he came out of hiding at all.<br />
*Destro's metal skin has been a fact of life for him for a while; originating as a metal containment suit to save his life after a faulty [[M.A.S.S. device]] transfer in [[G.I. Joe issue 6|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 1 #6]], it was fused into his skin in [[G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 8|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 2 #8]]. Its ability to deflect bullets comes from upgrades Destro performed, as established in [[Destro Must Die, Part 4|''Special Missions'' #13]].<br />
*The [[Crimson Guard]] have appeared a lot in IDW, mostly as "elite mooks" mixed in with Cobra's other grunts, but this issue reiterates their traditional position as followers of Tomax and [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]]; that status was first established for IDW continuity in the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra|Cobra]]'' miniseries, which depicted them as a "legitimate" private military hired out to governments and corporations in unstable nations.<br />
*The metal masks seen on the walls of Castle Destro during Destro's childhood, a reference to the Marvel Comics version of the character, were previously seen in [[G.I. Joe issue 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 1 #3]] and [[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 1 #7]]. (Laird McCullen's line about making one's face a mask also, obviously, references the original Destro's mask.)<br />
*Destro assumes the Baroness was responsible for having him rescued; despite a rocky start, the two eventually had a brief [[Threat Matrix, Part 2 of 4|romantically entanglement]], though it was broken up by the incumbent Cobra Commander, who chased Destro out of Cobra. Though the Baroness pledged that she would win the Commander around on Destro, it seems he doesn't get on any better with the leader's replacement.<br />
*G.I. Joe's Las Vegas-stationed intelligence unit collapsed, [[The Gemini|its headquarters]] destroyed, in the [[The House Always Wins - Heart to Heart|final issue]] of ''The Cobra Files''. Ronin fled with Billy, who was a target of Cobra assassins thanks to his status as the son of Cobra Commander, to protect him; Chameleon, meanwhile, left for a new life, with Tomax lying to [[Flint]] that she was dead.<br />
*Chameleon knows what working for "the other side" is like, having [[Cobra II Part 3: Fangs|defected]] from Cobra to the Joes.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*On page 19, Erika's third speech bubble ("You're working for the '''other side''' now") is missing punctuation at the end.<br />
===Other notes===<br />
*Following a one-year hiatus with the end of ''The Cobra Files'', [[Mike Costa]] returns to G.I. Joe comics with this issue. While it certainly ''has'' a lot of Snake Eyes, if we're being honest, the focus on plot threads from Costa's previous ''Cobra'' works makes it feel a little like he was offered the chance to wrap up the story of Chameleon and the gang if he put Snake Eyes' name on it to sell more issues.<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Snake Eyes does his ninja moves on an ominous red backdrop, by [[Paolo Villainelli]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Snake Eyes poses against a wall of his past in an homage to Jim Steranko's cover for [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/4/45/Nick_Fury%2C_Agent_of_S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_4.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080820024634 ''Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D.'' #4], by [[Drew Johnson]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]].<br />
*'''Amazing! Comic Convention exclusive cover:''' Snake Eyes hits the ground, by [[Rob Liefeld]] and Romulo Fajardo Jr..<br />
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[[Category:Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Silent_Warrior&diff=10005The Silent Warrior2018-04-17T01:08:49Z<p>Creedence: /* Covers (2) */</p>
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|title="Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra Part Five:<br>The Silent Warrior"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[May 13]], [[2015]]<br />
|coverdate=May 2015<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
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'''Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow battle to the death for the fate of Cobra Commander's son.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
As [[Snake Eyes]] and [[Storm Shadow]] face off in the pouring rain, the ninja in white feels good about his chances. He is well-rested and prepared, while Snake Eyes has come a long way on little notice; and though, when he runs at his erstwhile brother-in-arms, first blood goes to Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow still has reason to believe he will make many more mistakes — [[Billy Kessler-Latta]] and [[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]] are also there, and their fates will distract him. Erika, however, speaks up, pointing out that though Storm Shadow could kill them, the distraction would give his foe the opportunity to get behind his guard; and really, does he ''want'' to bring outsiders in rather than defeating his old enemy one-on-one? Le Tene's words get through to Storm Shadow, and he turns his attentions back to Snake Eyes as the woman helps Billy to limp away.<br />
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Throwing off his cloak, Storm Shadow meets Snake Eyes in combat once more, the two clashing blades and evading each others' strikes until Snake Eyes' sword becomes stuck in a broken tree after a mistimed attack. Unable to free his weapon, and with his submachine gun sliced in half by his opponent, the silent ninja draws a knife to hold off Storm Shadow's attacks — but it isn't enough, and Snake Eyes is caught across the shoulder, second blood going to the man in white. Storm Shadow presses his advantage, throwing a hail of shuriken, but is caught off guard when Snake Eyes uses one of the throwing stars, impaled in his palm, to slash Storm Shadow across the eye. As his opponent recoils, Snake Eyes grabs his broken gun from the floor and fires it, causing a wild blast that blows Storm Shadow's armored mask from his head; and when his foe retaliates, his attacks are sloppy, and a kick from Snake Eyes drives him into the point of the sword still embedded in the tree trunk. Storm Shadow laughs to himself, realising that he has lost... but, as he tells his old friend turned enemy, the other ninja will not be the one to kill him. And thus, he holds up a pin pulled from a grenade on Snake Eyes' belt...<br />
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Out in the jungle, Erika and Billy hear the grenade's detonation... and moments later, a wounded, exhausted Snake Eyes comes stumbling out of the trees, alone.<br />
<br />
In [[Castle Destro]], [[Destro]] holds a video call with [[Cobra]] leader [[Tomax Paoli]]. Though Destro still believes that Tomax had him imprisoned (an idea which Tomax refuses to entertain), he is more interested in talking about the means of his rescue; though he is a dealer in weapons systems, [[Snake Eyes]] — an irregular commando with [[Arashikage]] training — is more effective than any he has seen. He requests that a few Arashikage warriors be sent to him to act as extractors and bring profit to Cobra, but Tomax feels Destro is mistaken; Snake Eyes is an exception to the rule, and the effectiveness of the Arashikage stems only from subterfuge and their dreaded reputation. "Happy" to know that Snake Eyes has served Destro well, he requests that the ninja be returned to him... but after Destro hangs up the call, he laughs, knowing that Tomax — though he won't admit it — knows that Snake Eyes was responsible for decimating the Arashikage and obtaining the prize he sought. Though he is disappointed that Erika, the "Chameleon", had to die, he is happy that — whether Storm Shadow died or not — Snake Eyes has brought his prize to him... a small metal pin. Though he orders Snake Eyes to return to Tomax, he wants the ninja to be ready for Destro to reach out again.<br />
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In the [[Russia]]n city of [[Bolshoy Kamen]], Erika — who still lives, despite Destro's belief — explains to Billy what Cobra and the Arashikage were after: a pin implanted in Billy's femur after a skiing accident, on the covert orders of his father, [[Cobra Commander]]. That pin was encoded with huge amounts of priceless information that only a brilliant administrator like his father would have access to, implanted in Billy's leg to keep it hidden; and though evidently somebody in Cobra knew about it, they waited for Cobra to become "legitimate" before they went looking for it. Billy doesn't understand why he's still alive if the pin has been given to Cobra, but it hasn't — the pin that Snake Eyes gave to Destro was a fake, encoded with Erika's files on the organization and a lot of fake information she came up with.<br />
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Billy isn't happy to be brought back into the war between Cobra and [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] — the same war that killed [[Ronin]] — but as Erika sees it, ''nobody'' chooses the war, and the ones that survive are those who realize it. If they accept that fact, and learn to "love" the war, they can make the choices that will keep them alive.<br />
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And just so, Snake Eyes — as silent and mysterious as ever — returns to Cobra's embrace once more.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (2)<br />
*[[Destro]] (5)<br />
*[[Tomax Paoli]] (6)<br />
*[[Crystal Ball]] (ominous specter, 7)<br />
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|h3=[[Arashikage]]|c3=<br />
*[[Storm Shadow]] (1)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (3)<br />
*[[Erika Le Tene]] (4)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Death catches you in inches. In '''split seconds''' of hesitation. I've been in country an entire '''day'''. I'm fresh and prepared. I've been waiting half my life for this. I am '''ready'''."<br />
:—'''Storm Shadow''' is overconfident.<br />
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"I'm an arms manufacturer, and though I've ignored eastern mysticism as mostly superstition and bluster... I can't ignore '''results'''. I deal in weapons systems, and I admit that I've seen none finer than one irregular commando with Arashikage training. I could make great use of that clan. Send a few of their warriors to me. Let me take advantage of their expertise, and Cobra will profit. You've shown me their value as '''extractors''' in particular."<br />
<br>"You were right the first time, Destro. The Arashikage are effective mostly through subterfuge and their outsized reputation. I've sidelined them to their own pointless intra-clan warfare. They're backward and silly and you have nothing to learn from them."<br />
:—'''Destro''' has high hopes for the Arashikage that '''Tomax Paoli''' is happy to dispel.<br />
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"So I'm back with the Joes again."<br />
<br>"Hah. This is a closed city. You watched me buy this building from a low-level Russian mafia goon with a change purse full of uncut alexandrite. We've been living off '''Russian seafood'''. You think that's how G.I. Joe does things?<br />
:—'''Billy Kessler-Latta''' and '''Erika Le Tene'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Storm Shadow appears to die in the grenade detonation here — and indeed, [[Storm Shadow II|a successor to the name]] would appear [[Mr Love and Justice|a few years later]] — but Destro raises the possibility that he still lives. {{t|M.A.S.K.: First Strike|Keep that in mind.}}<br />
*The pin's significance was first hinted at when it was brought up in [[The Lost Boy|issue 3]] of this series.<br />
*Erika suggests that [[Crystal Ball]], Cobra's creepy behind-the-scenes manipulator, was aware of the pin's existence; she's [[Cobra II Part 2: Scales|had her own run-in]] with him before.<br />
*Erika mentions that Cobra has gone "semi-legitimate", referring to their position as "legitimate" private peacekeepers, established in [[The Fall of G.I. Joe Part One|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 4 #1]].<br />
*Snake Eyes is revealed to not ''really'' hold allegiance to Cobra or Destro, but his actual reasons for doing what he does remain unexplained. {{t|The Iron Klaw|''Revolutionaries'' #4}} would eventually explain him as being a mole for G.I. Joe.<br />
===Other notes===<br />
*With ''G.I. Joe'' vol. 4 having ended the previous month, this issue would end up being the last IDW-universe ''G.I. Joe'' title published for over a year until the release of the first part of the {{t|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|''Revolution'' prelude}} in {{t|Applicable Skills|''Till All Are One'' #2}} in July 2016 (though [[Absolute Beginners|''Action Man'' #1]], released the previous month, made reference to "General Colton's team").<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Snake Eyes cradles a cloaked body, by [[Paolo Villainelli]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Storm Shadow has Snake Eyes at his mercy, by [[Drew Johnson]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]].<br />
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[[Category:Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Lost_Boy&diff=10004The Lost Boy2018-04-17T01:08:33Z<p>Creedence: /* Covers (2) */</p>
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|title="Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra Part Three:<br>The Lost Boy"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[March 25]], [[2015]]<br />
|coverdate=March 2015<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|editorial consultant=<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
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'''Billy Kessler-Latta's life in hiding is ended when an act of heroism draws unwanted attention.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
For [[Billy Kessler-Latta]], life in [[Thailand]] hasn't been too bad. The food is good, the people are friendly, and it feels good to be able to help people. The only problem is that he is being hunted by the most dangerous people on [[Earth]]... and because of that, his protector [[Ronin]] doesn't want him speaking to anyone. Billy is bored out of his skull, unable to leave their treetop dwelling, but Ronin's job is to keep him safe, not entertained — and as long as he isn't reckless, he's safe where he is.<br />
<br />
''Years ago, in [[Vienna]], the young Billy returns home after searching for his father at the city's {{w|Vienna City Hall|Rathaus}}, but his mother explains that his father doesn't work there; he does ''different'' important work — with the government, of course. After the boy and his mother enter their home, a band of armed [[Viper]]s bursts from the back of a nearby van and blows their way into the house; wielding a shotgun, Billy's angry mother does her best to fend them off, but is shot down while shouting a warning to her son. The Vipers intend to kill Billy, too, but are stymied when a flashbang detonates; and moments later, a group of [[Crimson Guard]] burst into the room, taking down the attackers! The last Viper is silenced by the Guard's leader... a man who, despite the mask of [[Cobra Commander]] that he wears, Billy recognises as his father. Comforting the boy, the Commander promises to send him somewhere safe, where he will not be touched by [[Cobra]] again.''<br />
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As Ronin changes after a waterfall shower, Billy admits to himself that he is in love with Ronin... not that she acknowledges it, though he's sure he knows. His rest is interrupted when a Thai boy comes up, shouting for his help; Billy assumes he's after more chocolate, but the boy drags him to the river, where a pair of tourists have been thrown out of their raft by the violent waters. Cursing his own stupidity, Billy ties a line around a tree and swims out to the tourists with it — but though he manages to get hold of them, a wall of water with a fallen tree floating inside comes rushing towards him...<br />
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[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]]'s facial recognition algorithms have found something: a viral video uploaded by Thai tourists, which has an eighty-nine percent match to the man that [[Snake Eyes]] is looking for. As Erika wonders aloud how they are going to make their way to Thailand, she laments the fact that she is working for "these freaks" again.<br />
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Billy awakens in a hospital bed, where a doctor informs him that the tourists were saved, but that he has suffered a broken leg, noting that there is some foreign matter — likely a pin — in there from a previous break. Waving off Ronin's concern, Billy has her go and get him snacks from a vending machine, but as she does so, she notices a janitor entering Billy's room... and brandishing a syringe! Though she stops him from making his attack, the man fights back until she manages to kill him with Billy's IV needle; and as Ronin and Billy escape, having been found out, [[Arashikage]] ninja descend on the hospital...<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' appear only in flashback.<br />
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|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*''[[Viper]]s'' (5)<br />
*''[[Crimson Guard]]'' (6)<br />
*''[[Cobra Commander]]'' (7)<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (10)<br />
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*"Janitor" (12)<br />
*[[Arashikage]] ninja (13)<br />
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{{collist|2|<br />
*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (1)<br />
*Thai children (2)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (3)<br />
*''Billy's mother'' (4)<br />
*Tourists (8)<br />
*[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]] (9)<br />
*Doctor (11)}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You know, the whole reason we came here is because you said Thailand would be a safe place to actually set down roots after years of moving around. "Largely Buddhist country where people keep to themselves and aren't interested in asking questions." Remember that?"<br />
<br>"You're saying you're bored. So I hacked into the live nanny-cam of that puppy daycare place for nothing?"<br />
<br>"First of all, I '''told''' you I'd spend the five dollars for the subscription."<br />
:—'''Billy Kessler-Latta''' and '''Ronin<br />
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"Who are all these '''men'''?"<br />
<br>"These men are with '''me''' now, son. But you'll never have to see them again. You'll never be touched by '''any''' of this again, don't worry. I'm sending you '''away''', Billy. I'm sending you somewhere '''safe'''."<br />
:—The young '''Billy''' and '''Cobra Commander'''<br />
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"Hey, how do you get '''arond''', anyway? No name. No passport. No '''face'''. How do you even '''communicate'''? Do you text? I'm always getting in touch with '''you'''. I have no idea if you're even '''there''' right now."<br />
:—'''Erika Le Tene''' asks questions<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Billy is revealed to have grown up in Vienna. He was established to not be an American citizen back in [[Snakes and Tigers, Part 2|''The Cobra Files'' #2]].<br />
*Though it isn't made explicit, it appears that Billy's father has only just become Cobra Commander in the flashback, and that the Vipers are protesting his appointment; the last remaining Viper says "High Command will never —" before being cut off, and the Commander says that the Crimson Guard are "with me now". That doesn't really jibe with [[The Last Laugh|''Cobra'' vol. 2 #12]], though; that issue claimed that the late Commander had been re-elected five times in a ceremony once every seven years, which would make Billy around 50 years old at the youngest!<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*Billy apparently spends most of his time watching "that horrible British sci-fi crap" ''{{w|Blake's 7}}''.<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Snake Eyes caught in a flood, by [[Paolo Villainelli]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Snake Eyes swims with the Eels, by [[Drew Johnson]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]].<br />
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[[Category:Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Dark_Sister&diff=10003The Dark Sister2018-04-17T01:08:16Z<p>Creedence: /* Covers (2) */</p>
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|title="Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra Part Two:<br>The Dark Sister"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[February 25]], [[2015]]<br />
|coverdate=February 2015<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
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'''Chameleon's efforts to live a normal life are disrupted when Snake Eyes drags her into the search for Cobra Commander's son.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''Four years after she left [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], [[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]] is still struggling to adjust to civilian life, always fearing that her past will catch up with her... and now it has, as she is approached by a [[Japan]]ese man in a [[Berlin]] park. As the man reflects on Berlin's war-torn history and notes that the park was used as an airport during the {{w|Berlin Blockade|Berlin airlift}}, he rolls up his sleeve to reveal a distinctive tattoo, and — pointing out that the former Chameleon's sloppiness with regards to security indicates that she's had enough of hiding — makes it clear that he is there to recruit Erika... or, if she refuses, to kill her. With few options, Erika reluctantly agrees to the man's terms, and comes to work for the [[Yakuza]].''<br />
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[[Snake Eyes]], however, isn't interested in Erika's history, only wanting her help in tracking down [[Billy Kessler-Latta]]. Erika doesn't know where he is, suggesting that he probably died in the collapse of [[the Gemini]] casino, but quickly admits that she doesn't actually believe that; he was most likely taken under the protection of the disappeared G.I. Joe operative [[Ronin]], but Erika can't help the ninja find ''her'', either. Though Snake Eyes continues to stand in expectant silence, Erika refuses to help him beyond giving him what files she has, as his very presence compromises her to the Yakuza... but as she looks furtively out of the window, the glass is shattered by an arrow that hits her in the throat!<br />
<br />
Diving out of the window with the injured Le Tene, Snake Eyes leaves her in the care of two startled auto-rickshaw passengers before leaping into action once more, slicing a hail of arrows out of the sky with his sword. Effortlessly scaling the outside of a building, he impales one of the archers, then pursues three more in the process of fleeing; grabbing a fuel canister and a fire bowl from a street food vendor, he hurls both at the assassins, who are consumed in a firey explosion; though one survives the blaze and leaps at him, he kills the swordsman with his sword, making sure to retrieve Erika's singed files before he leaves the raging inferno.<br />
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Erika Le Tene has long expected to die at the hands of faceless goons to protect pointless secrets, but now — in the back of the frantically-moving rickshaw — it doesn't seem so bad; the streets of Jakarta remind her of her peaceful, quiet youth in [[Chon Thahn]], raised by the doting groundskeeper [[Pham]]. But this is not the end for Erika — she awakens in a hospital bed, her neck bandaged and Snake Eyes standing nearby in a silent gesture of support. Noting the arrow head on the ground nearby, she wonders who the assassins — evidently not the gun-wielding Yakuza — were; and she is shocked at Snake Eyes' response, traced in the dust of the wall: a [[Arashikage|trigram symbol]] formed of nine lines.<br />
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Deep in the jungle, two more Arashikage warriors report the deaths in "glorious battle" of their brothers, but their leader is unimpressed; the woman may yet live, and their erstwhile brother is now aware of them. Dismissing the two warriors as useless to him, their master [[Storm Shadow]] declares that ''he'' will take care of Snake Eyes.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' appear only in flashback.<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*[[Snake Eyes]] (3)<br />
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|h3=[[Arashikage]]|c3=<br />
*[[Arashikage]] assassins (8)<br />
*[[Storm Shadow]] (11)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
{{collist|2|*[[Chameleon|Erika Le Tene]] (1)<br />
*''[[Yakuza]] recruiter'' (2)<br />
*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (image only, 4)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (image only, 5)<br />
*Rickshaw driver (6)<br />
*Rickshaw passengers (7)<br />
*Street vendor (9)<br />
*''[[Pham]]'' (10)}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Ronin was one of the most capable field agents I've ever seen. She's got a '''ninja''' thing going on, so if '''you''' can't find her, I don't know what you're expecting from me. This trail has been cold for '''four years'''."<br />
<br>''(Snake Eyes stands silently.)''<br />
<br>"So this is what it is with you? You just sit there and force people to have both sides of the conversation?"<br />
:—'''Erika Le Tene''' is unimpressed with Snake Eyes' strong-and-silent act.<br />
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''"I can't say I expected to die this way specifically... but getting killed by faceless people for stupid reasons... protecting secrets. Telling lies. It's close enough."<br />
:—'''Erika Le Tene'''<br />
<br />
"Our brothers fell in glorious battle. We will see them in the afterlife."<br />
<br>"Only as '''servants'''. They were '''fools'''. They thought to humble and humiliate our lost brother by killing the woman in front of him. Now they are '''dead''', the woman might yet '''live''', and he is '''aware''' of us. The fact that you see this as worthy of '''praise''' means you are of as little use to me as they were."<br />
:—An '''Arashikage ninja''' and his colleague get chewed out by '''Storm Shadow'''.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*As noted on the page for the [[The Tin Man|last issue]], Billy and Ronin fled from the destruction of the [[G.I. Joe Intelligence]] unit's headquarters in the [[The House Always Wins - Heart to Heart|final issue]] of ''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files|The Cobra Files]]''.<br />
*Erika notes that Ronin has "a ninja thing going on"; [[Oktober Guard, Part 1|''Cobra'' vol. 2 #18]] showed that she had been trained in the arts of stealth and assassination by "clandestine groups" in Japan.<br />
*Erika's neglectful mother, and the fact that she was raised mostly by Pham, were established back in [[Changing Colors|''Cobra: Special'' #2]].<br />
*Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow have a long-standing feud going, which first came up in IDW continuity during "[[Cobra Command]]"; though Storm Shadow seemed content to leave him be following his [[Silence|faking his death]], that apparently only applied as long as he stayed in hiding.<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*Erika says that "the Olympics are coming to Japan in a few years", referring to the {{w|2020 Summer Olympics}}, first announced to be in Japan in September 2013... though this is another instance where the [[Hasbro Universe]] makes the timeline weird; it was evidently written assuming that the 5-year timeskip placed the events of this series in 2018, but the timeline in {{w|Crisis Intervention|''Revolutionaries'' #1}} set it in 2014, which makes it a little odd that she'd say "in a few years".<br />
*The Yakuza group that recruited Erika was apparently the real-life organization, the {{w|Yamaguchi-gumi}}.<br />
*Erika is rushed to hospital in an {{w|auto rickshaw}}, a popular form of transportation in Jakarta, where it is known as a "Bajay" or "Bajaj".<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Snake Eyes and the smirking face of Destro, by [[Paolo Villainelli]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' A game of cat-and-mouse between the Joes, Cobra and Arashikage in an homage to Jim Steranko's cover for [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/4/40/Nick_Fury%2C_Agent_of_S.H.I.E.L.D._Vol_1_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070724115931 ''Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' #1], by [[Drew Johnson]] and [[Romulo Fajardo Jr.]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' #9<br />
|prev=The House Always Wins - Hand to Hand<br />
|next=The Tin Man<br />
|image=CobraFiles9 cvrA.jpg|<br />
|caption="Does anything last forever? I don't know; maybe we're near the end, so darling, oh..."<br />
|title="The House Always Wins - Heart to Heart"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[December 18]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=December 2013<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Antonio Fuso]]<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 />
|specialthanks=<br />
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'''Everything collapses around G.I. Joe's intelligence unit... but will anyone still be standing at the end?'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Erika Le Tene — "[[Chameleon]]" — and [[Tomax Paoli]] have gone through a lot together. In fact, he would say that, outside of his brother [[Xamot Paoli|Xamot]], their relationship is the most significant he has ever had; and though Xamot changed, by the end, Tomax and Chameleon never will. Chameleon assumes that Tomax is there to kill her, but he just wants to talk to her, to make her understand his point of view...<br />
<br />
The {{w|octanitrocubane}} wired throughout [[the Gemini]] is going to blow, and there's nothing that [[Clockspring]] can do about it; when the Joes took over the building, the explosive was deemed too sensitive to remove or defuse, but with Tomax back in control it's armed. While the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] techie can't ''prevent'' the detonation, however, he ''can'' undo [[Bet]]'s meddling to lock down the building's exits; in five minutes, when he sets off the fire alarm, [[Lady Jaye]] will have to evacuate everyone while he keeps the doors open. <br />
<br />
Tomax was playing the Joes all along, of course. When he offered the Joes the location of [[Billy Kessler-Latta]], he used back channels to contract [[Blacklight]] to assassinate him and [[Firefly]] to destroy his headquarters; and though not everything went to plan, Tomax was able to adapt and let things play into his hands regardless... and adapting is a talent that Chameleon also possesses. Chameleon isn't impressed with his monologue or his "we're the same" attitude, and even less so when he brings up how he and his brother were abandoned to the [[Unione Corse]] by their mother; she doesn't see how he can expect her to sympathise... but that's not his intention at all. Being sold to the Unione Corse was the best thing that ever happened to him, and gave him the skills he used to succeed; and while Chameleon continues to mock him, he sees through her "faux disaffection", knowing that her own family life is no better than his. After all, why else would she jump at the chance to work with her [[Baroness|half-sister]], as awful as she is?<br />
<br />
Chameleon's response is a revelation: when she defected from [[Cobra]], she told G.I. Joe that Xamot had warned her of an attempt on her life, but that isn't true. What he ''really'' whispered to her on the night that she ran was a request: to help him murder [[Crystal Ball]], the Baroness... and Tomax. But the surviving twin has already realised this, and forgiven his brother for it... and forgiven Chameleon, too, for her "betrayals". As he sees it, she is seeking out love that she has never had, unlike him; he came to the Joes because it was useful to him, but Chameleon came because she thought they would have her. He insists, however, that they never trusted her — except maybe Firewall, who is now dead... and it's all because Chameleon played her part perfectly, poisoning everything around her as he knew she does. Chameleon believes he's wasting his time if that is what he came to tell her — she already knows how toxic she is — but that isn't what he came for. Everyone in the building is going to die, including her... unless she goes with Tomax, and works for him again. Tomax stretches out his hand as Chameleon sits there in silence...<br />
<br />
Firefly and Bet are heading for the roof when they hear the fire alarm going off, alerting the casino's patrons to exit the building, shepherded by Lady Jaye; Firefly realises that Clockspring must be trying to undo their work, and though the saboteur doesn't much care, Bet goes off to kill him. As [[Ronin]] carries Billy out through the fire exit, following her final orders to get him to safety, [[Flint]] reaches the rooftop, taking aim at Tomax and ordering him to freeze as he climbs into the waiting helicopter. The two are at a standoff, Tomax — who coldly informs his foe that Chameleon is dead — unwilling to step out of the vehicle and Flint unable to kill the villain without Firefly retaliating and killing him with the helicopter's cannons; but as they wait, Bet confronts Clockspring in his cell, taunting him with the fact that he can't stop the countdown. Clockspring knew all along that he couldn't stop it, though... and so he ''sped it up'' instead.<br />
<br />
The building shakes under Flint's feet as the detonations go off throughout the building. Tomax orders Firefly to take off, but as they do, Flint leaps from the rooftop and catches hold of the side of the helicopter; Tomax tries to shoot him off, but Flint instead dives from the vehicle, angling his fall and crashing through the window of an upper-floor hotel room across the street. Flint watches in horror at the utterly destroyed Gemini casino; on the ground, Lady Jaye helps civilians away from the devastation, while Ronin and Billy flee in a stolen car.<br />
<br />
''Tomax sees into Erika's empty heart, he insists, and she can't ever fill it — being one of the "good guys" won't help, because she isn't really one, and they will never accept her; but Tomax accepts her for who she is, and if she goes with him, he won't have to die there. But Chameleon refuses: Tomax embodies everything she rejects, and if she goes with him, she will never earn the redemption she's looking for. "Disappointed" in her, Tomax leaves for the roof.''<br />
<br />
And not knowing where she will go, Chameleon walks away from [[Las Vegas]] for good.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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*[[Lady Jaye]] (1)<br />
*[[Clockspring]] (2)<br />
*[[Flint]] (3)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (4)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (6)<br />
*[[Chameleon]] (8)<br />
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*[[Tomax Paoli]] (7)<br />
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*[[Firefly]] (10)<br />
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*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (5)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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"We've been through a lot together, you and I. In a very real way, you've been the most '''significant''' relationship I've had, outside of family, of course. Though my brother, '''Xamot''', ultimately became a person I didn't recognise anymore by the end. I admit it. He '''changed''' somehow. But you and I. We '''never''' change. You're still the same, scared girl trying manfully to keep her head above the water. And me... I'm the one still throwing you the lifeline. The one man who never '''left''' you."<br />
:—'''Tomax Paoli''', emotional manipulator supreme.<br />
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"'''Freeze!'''"<br />
<br>"God, but you're the most boring man I've ever met. Anyone with even the '''faintest''' heat in their blood would have shot me down before I even knew what was happening."<br />
:—'''Flint''' and '''Tomax'''<br />
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"Hm. I can't deny that was impressive."<br />
:—'''Tomax''' has a fairly low-key reaction to Flint's death-defying stunt.<br />
<br />
"No, Tomax. I'm not going with you. You're vicious and you're evil and you're everything I reject. Maybe I haven't earned what I want, but I won't '''ever''' earn it by dishonoring it now. And if I see you again, I '''will''' kill you."<br />
<br>"I'm disappointed in you. You won't see me again."<br />
:—'''Chameleon''' rejects '''Tomax''' and everything he stands for.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*After discovering Billy's existence in [[Cobra Command Part 6]], Tomax shared that information with the Joes in [[Son of the Snake, Part 1|''Cobra'' vol. 2 #13]]. As revealed here, he was the mysterious caller contacting Blacklight in that issue, and also sent Firefly to [[Alexandria]], as seen in [[Son of the Snake, Part 2|issue #14]].<br />
*Tomax's plan was screwed up when Firefly and Blacklight almost killed each other by chance, and by the fact that Flint had a second intel source in [[Major Bludd]]; both also came from issue #14.<br />
*Tomax and Xamot being raised by the Unione Corse was first revealed in the 2009 [[Lives Evil|''Cobra: Special'' #1]].<br />
*Chameleon's childhood of parental neglect comes from [[Changing Colors|''Cobra: Special'' #2]]; that same issue also heavily implied, without stating outright, that the Baroness was her half-sister.<br />
*Erika fled from her employment in Cobra (as an aide to the Paoli twins) after Xamot whispered ''something'' in her ear in [[Cobra II Part 3: Fangs|''Cobra II'' #3]]. Turns out it ''wasn't'' just a warning like she claimed at the time!<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*This is the last issue of ''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'', and the last issue of Mike Costa's ''Cobra'' saga for a while. It would eventually get an "epilogue" tying up loose ends just over a year later, in the form of the miniseries ''[[G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra|Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra]]'', which revisited the surviving cast of this series as well as [[Snake Eyes|its star]].<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Chameleon in red, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Flint in a compromised security center, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' #8<br />
|prev=The House Always Wins - Eye to Eye<br />
|next=The House Always Wins - Heart to Heart<br />
|image=CobraFiles8 cvrA.jpg|<br />
|caption="Yeeeeah, I was right all along!"<br />
|title="The House Always Wins - Hand to Hand"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[November 6]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=November 2013<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Antonio Fuso]]<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 />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<br />
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'''The Gemini casino falls into chaos as Tomax's plans come together.'''<br />
<br />
==Synopsis==<br />
Holding [[Tomax Paoli]] at gunpoint, [[Lady Jaye]] orders him to take out his earpiece and explain what is going on, but the evil mastermind instead tells the person on the other end of his connection to "do it now". In an instant, the lights shut off and the cell doors open, and captive [[Night Creeper]] [[Bet]] barrels into Lady Jaye; though the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] master-at-arms manages to clock her foe on the head with her pistol, she drops the weapon, and it is picked up by Tomax when the lights come back on. Rounding up Jaye and [[Clockspring]], the villains lock the Joes up in the same cell that Bet had been held in; though Tomax assures the timid Clockspring that he doesn't plan to kill him, it isn't because they're "friends", but because he wants the IT specialist to see everything that happens next — which is all his fault. As Tomax and Bet leave, however, they leave Clockspring's tablet computer on the floor near the cell. Stretching out, the two Joes are together able to reach the tablet and pull it back in to the cell, though Jaye is still furious that Clockspring has essentially handed Tomax the keys to the building and let them escape... but Clockspring admits that the situation is much worse than that. With the information they have access to, the [[Cobra]] forces could kill everyone in the building, which is laced with {{w|octanitrocubane}}!<br />
<br />
As the saboteur [[Firefly]] calmly cuts wires in one of [[the Gemini]]'s power units, he is approached from behind by a guard, who wasn't fooled by the fake alert that the [[Cobra]] saboteur sent out. Before the guard can do anything, his neck is broken by security specialist [[Night Adder]], who is irritated by the presence of guards that he was assured wouldn't be there. The two procede through the building's corridors, using the unconscious [[Flint]] to get through the base's palm-print and retinal scans; though Firefly isn't happy that they can't kill Flint, he has Night Adder hunt down his target while he does his own job.<br />
<br />
In the Gemini's gymnasium, [[Billy Kessler-Latta]] is incredulous to learn that [[Ronin]] uses such primitive weapons as chain sickles against men armed with machine guns. Ronin insists that the weapons are superior to machine guns in every respect... and seconds later, gets the chance to prove it when Night Adder enters, looking to kill the son of [[Cobra Commander]]! The two face off, but Ronin throws the Cobra agent off-balance by kicking a brazier of hot coals at him; before he can recover, she dives through the window, holding on to Billy and using her chain sickle as a grappling hook to avoid falling. Night Adder is unconcerned, intending to simply lean out of the window and shoot them... only for the now-conscious Flint to grapple him from behind, knocking the machine gun out of his hands. Night Adder manages to throw Flint off, but the warrant officer — sick of getting beaten up all the time — squares up to fight him.<br />
<br />
[[Firewall]]'s attempt at coordinating a lockdown is interrupted when Tomax enters her office. Realising that Paoli is making his ''coup d'état'', the administrator calmly faces him down; the businessman had originally intended to break out some time ago with the help of the Night Creepers, and believed his plan ruined when G.I. Joe were set on their trail by Billy... until they brought one of their number back under the Gemini's roof. Though Clockspring was manipulated into helping him by Tomax, ''all'' the Joes had their parts to play in his plan... and Firewall's part is to die, because that will hurt Chameleon the most. As quickly as she can, Firewall draws her pistol and shoots, but her she only grazes him on the cheek... and Tomax returns fire, hitting her thrice in the chest, killing her.<br />
<br />
Flint and Night Adder fight brutally, with the Joe leader grabbing shuriken off the wall to stab his opponent. Night Adder gets the upper hand, but when Flint manages to grab him by the leg during an attempted kick to the head, he is able to hurl the security breaker out of the window to his death. Though a weary Flint has no desire to fight Night Adder's dog when he enters the room after his master, the animal turns out to be friendly; and when Ronin and Billy clamber back into the room, Flint lays out a plan of action: Ronin will get Billy out of the Gemini however she can, as he is a priority target who needs to be kept safe. And Flint is going to find and stop Tomax... because even now, he is closing in on his true target: [[Chameleon]].<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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*[[Lady Jaye]] (1)<br />
*[[Clockspring]] (4)<br />
*[[Flint]] (8)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (10)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (11)<br />
*[[Chameleon]] (13)<br />
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*[[Tomax Paoli]] (2)<br />
*[[Bet]] (3)<br />
*[[Firefly]] (5)<br />
*[[Night Adder]] (7)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Kill him at least?"<br />
<br>"Nah, man. These plates are sensitive to circulation. Also, you bash a dude on the head too hard, eyeball gets a hemorrhage — screws up the retinal scans."<br />
:—'''Firefly''' gets some trade secrets from '''Night Adder'''.<br />
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"Careful! Don't break it!"<br>"I should break your '''face'''. What the '''hell''' were you doing down here?"<br>"It's hard to... I just don't have anyone to '''talk''' to."<br>"Are you kidding me? So join a '''chatroom'''. Do you have '''any idea''' what you've done here?"<br />
:—'''Clockspring''' and '''Lady Jaye'''<br />
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"Haw! You're one tough sonofagun, I'll give you that. But you've got a concussion, and nobody fights all that great six whiskeys deep."<br />
<br>"You didn't know my dad. He was a mean drunk."<br />
:—'''Night Adder''' and '''Flint''' trade banter.<br />
<br />
"See? That guy had a machine gun."<br />
<br>"Oh god."<br />
:—'''Ronin''' and '''Billy Kessler-Latta''', after Night Adder goes flying out a window.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Tomax comments on the irony of his injury. The bullet grazed his cheek, and scarred him, on the ''opposite'' side to where [[Xamot Paoli|his brother]] was scarred [[Cobra Part 4: Eyes|before his death]].<br />
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===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Firefly lets the clock tick down, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Flint lets the chips fall where they may, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' #7<br />
|prev=The Boy Most Likely To... Part 2<br />
|next=The House Always Wins - Hand to Hand<br />
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|caption="Please allow me to introduce myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste..."<br />
|title="The House Always Wins - Eye to Eye"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[October 2]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=October 2013<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Antonio Fuso]]<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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'''With Flint shutting down the G.I. Joe intelligence unit to stave off further chaos, Tomax makes his play at long last.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
The [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] [[G.I. Joe Intelligence|Intelligence unit]] is being shut down, and [[Chameleon]] isn't happy. There isn't anything that [[Flint]] can do about it now that the process has already started, but he's surprised at her reaction; Chameleon is angry that he made the decision without consulting any of them, and though [[Firewall]] points out that he has no obligation to consult them as operational commander, [[Clockspring]] speaks up in agreement. The IT specialist argues that the rest of the team are perfectly suited to the positions that they're in, but now people like him, Firewall and Chameleon will be pushed into far less meaningful roles; he accuses Flint of "selling them out" because he can't hack it as leader before angrily storming off. Despite the high emotions, Flint's position is unmoving, and the team will have to clear out the facility within three weeks.<br />
<br />
Outside, Chameleon accuses Flint of shutting the team down thanks to tension over their relationship, but Flint insists otherwise: the entire ''unit'' is a liability, its cloak-and-dagger mission turning them into something he isn't comfortable with. Visiting Firewall's office, Chameleon asks what they are going to do about the decision, but Firewall instantly shuts her down; she accuses the intelligence agent of being unable to "have nice things", ruining opportunities and relationships because she subconsciously doesn't believe that she deserves them. Pointing out that the relationship with Flint was a bad idea from the start and that the entire unit is getting worse by the day, she apologises for how much the Joes have asked of Chameleon, but makes her position very clear: Chameleon will ''not'' follow her impulses and make things worse... because she is strong, and Firewall believes in her — and Firewall is never wrong.<br />
<br />
Shaken by Firewall's frank assessment, Chameleon is met in the corridor by Clockspring, who offers encouragement, claiming that people like Flint don't consider the people hurt by their actions and praising her "brilliant" work. Tearfully thanking Clockspring for looking out for her, Chameleon kisses him... and immediately recoils, regretting her decision and running off, leaving Clockspring heartbroken. And watching over the facility's surveillance, [[Tomax Paoli]] bursts into laughter at the farcical tragedy, before contacting someone and moving up their timetable, ordering them to be there in three hours...<br />
<br />
[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] walks into [[the Gemini]]'s gymnasium on crutches, where [[Ronin]] is sitting and meditating. He compares her way of dealing with the "bad stuff" to his — giving away lots of money — and when she points out that the money would run out but the "bad stuff" wouldn't, he observes that he should learn to meditate, too.<br />
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In the cell of [[Bet]] the [[Night Creeper]], Clockspring laments how, for a second, everything was like he dreamed before Chameleon took it all back. Bet claims, to the contrary, that she never gave anything — she only kissed him in order to get back at Flint, because women are weak and manipulated by their emotions. Of course, he insists, ''rational'' men like Clockspring can't be manipulated like that... and, praising Clockspring's brilliance, asks a few questions about the Gemini's power system. The two are soon joined by Tomax, and Clockspring is showing them schematics to illustrate his explanations... only for [[Lady Jaye]] to walk in on them, outraged at the breaches of basic security protocol and the presence of Tomax, who is barred from the detention level. Jaye intends to lock Tomax up in a separate cell and take Clockspring in, but Tomax simply responds by contacting someone through an earpiece.<br />
<br />
Drinking in the bar at the casino floor, a heavily built blind man with a service dog sits down next to him, noting that he has the posture of a fellow military man... and the voice of a man with a lot of drinking to do. The two discuss their army service, with the other man revealing that he lost his sight to fumes from an [[Al-Quaeda]] chemical lab in [[Basra]]; though he can't play the games, he's in [[Las Vegas]] accompanying a blackjack-loving friend. In return, he asks Flint what he's doing down at the bar, as he doesn't seem like the brooding type; Flint admits that he's struggling with knowing what the right thing is, and the other man responds with a story from his Army days, about a fellow soldier being forced to shoot his dog after it attacked a young girl. Flint remarks that his point — that there is no "right thing to do", only decisions and their consequences — is pretty dark, which the man agrees with... before smacking his head on the bar and knocking him out.<br />
<br />
As he hauls the unconscious Flint through the corridors of the Gemini, using his palm-print to get through the scanners, the man admits that he was lying to Flint: he isn't actually blind, and he isn't actually army, though he ''used'' to be. In truth, he's a member of [[Cobra]], a security specialist named [[Night Adder]]... but he was telling the truth about his blackjack-playing friend. And now, alerted by Tomax, that friend — Cobra saboteur [[Firefly]] — is about to bring the house down...<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
*[[Chameleon]] (1)<br />
*[[Clockspring]] (2)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (3)<br />
*[[Flint]] (4)<br />
*[[Lady Jaye]] (5)<br />
*[[Ronin]] (6)<br />
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|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*[[Tomax Paoli]] (7)<br />
*[[Night Adder]] (8)<br />
*Night Adder's dog (9)<br />
*[[Bet]] (10)<br />
*[[Firefly]] (12)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Carrying on with Flint? That was just stupid. How long did you really think that was going to last? The man is more white-bread than the Pillsbury Dough Boy. But you got your fingers right into his cracks and now his head's all spun around because he thinks '''he''' did something wrong. I have to verbally fence with a psychopath every day, and the man who fixes my internet is having some kind of slow-motion breakdown and I won't have any more chaos in this unit. I won't have it."<br />
:—'''Firewall''' is done with all this nonsense.<br />
<br />
"So, this is what you do, huh? Meditate."<br />
<br>"That and kill people with swords. If you'd like a demonstration of that too, I could arrange it."<br />
:—'''Billy Kessler-Latta''' and '''Ronin'''<br />
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"I gotta say... might be the whiskey, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what that story '''means'''."<br />
<br>"What it '''means''', is that there is no "right thing to do". Ain't no such thing as "honor". There's only the decisions we make, and then following them through to where they go. That's '''it''', man."<br />
<br>"That's... pretty dark."<br />
<br>"Yeah, man. I'm a pretty dark dude."<br />
:—'''Flint''' gets played like a damn fiddle, courtesy of '''Night Adder'''.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Clockspring's snark about where the team will end up mentions Firewall "pushing papers around on [[Ellis Island]] to make [[Duke]]'s team look more diverse" (part of the stated criteria for selecting the members of the public G.I. Joe field team, as mentioned in [[Homefront, Part 1 of 5|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 #1]]), and that he'll be relegated to helping test "that invisibility cloak they're never going to figure out", referring to the (faulty) stealth technology in the Joes' [[air commando glider]]s, as seen in [[Threat Matrix, Part 1 of 4|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 #7]].<br />
*Firefly is back, baby! Though his last major appearance saw him escaping from an [[Egypt]]ian hospital in [[Son of the Snake, Part 4|''Cobra'' vol. 2 #16]], he made a brief cameo since then in [[Homefront, Part 2 of 5|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 3 #2]]... albeit with a Caucasian skin tone. Whoops.<br />
===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*In keeping with Mike Costa's love for deep cuts, here's [http://www.yojoe.com/action/09/nightadder.shtml Night Adder], a toy-only Cobra security officer from the 2009 ''Rise of Cobra'' line! Though he hasn't got the sci-fi mask of his toy, and his vest is just a regular tank top instead of a flak jacket, he retains the dark skin, tattoos, and canine companion of his source material.<br />
===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Tomax casts a diabolical figure, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Lady Jaye and Ronin vs a giant Cobra cobra, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files]]'' #6<br />
|prev=The Boy Most Likely To... Part 1<br />
|next=The House Always Wins - Eye to Eye<br />
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|caption=<br />
|title="The Boy Most Likely To... Part 2"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[September 4]], [[2013]]<br />
|coverdate=September 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 />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<br />
}}<br />
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'''Flint looks past what he wants, and does what G.I. Joe needs.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Informing [[Flint]] about power fluctuations on [[the Gemini]]'s detention level, [[Lady Jaye]] is distracted when she spots Flint's prom photo — he was even the prom king. Jaye is confused at why the unit's leader is still holding on to high school, but Flint feels that it's more than "high school" — it's ''everything'' that they gave up when they joined [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. They need to hold on to reminders of the world outside, because it's what gives them the strength to protect it.<br />
<br />
''Dashiell Faireborn didn't have a great home life. A scrawny kid with an absentee father and an alcoholic mother, Faireborn joined the local swimming team to get away from home, even when he was asked to be their backstroker — despite hating it, he was the fastest on the team at the backstroke, and it was what the team needed. Even doing the backstroke, he was at peace and in control in the water, able to take his mind off having to take care of his mother, study ever harder, and take part-time jobs to keep them going. Things got better when he turned sixteen, able to drive his mother to her meetings at the church in the hope of saving her... but it wasn't enough. About a year later, she was dead, and Dashiell moved in with his grandparents; after they went to bed, he would take long night-time walks and wondering what he was meant to be doing.''<br />
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As Flint goes over the Joe installation's power consumption, [[Firewall]] informs him that he needs to be careful — not about the task at hand, as he assumes, but about his relationship with [[Chameleon]]. Flint doesn't feel that it's any of her business, but Firewall thinks that he needs to hear it from ''someone''; though he's a great commander, she's afraid that Chameleon might be moving into his blind spot, and that he can't trust her... but Flint tries to see the best in everyone.<br />
<br />
''[[Claire Austin]] was love at first sight for Dashiell. A girl three years his senior in his college-level Russian Literature class, he was crazy about her, taking her to prom with him on the best night of his life; though her hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle was hard for him to keep up with, he was still drawn to her, enrolling in [[Rutgers University]] to follow her when she moved to [[New Jersey]], having been kicked out of school. Eventually, though, she got sick of him and moved on, having [[Marissa Faireborn|a kid]] and getting married — and being divorced — twice. Graduating top of his class, Faireborn became a Rhodes Scholar at [[Oxford University]]; he went on an eye-opening tour of Europe with a girl named [[Gianna]], who he met in [[Prague]]. With her wild, spontaneous lifestyle, she got him into a lot of fights, and eventually stopped coming around, melting back into Europe in the same way that she had come into his life — but he missed her and worried about her all the same.''<br />
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Flint is glad to hear that [[Billy Kessler-Latta]] is feeling better... but still can't let him leave. He isn't a criminal, but — with all the Cobra operatives intending to either take control of or kill the son of [[Cobra Commander]] — G.I. Joe custody is the safest place in the world for him. Resigned to his fate, Billy has Flint help him up to the window overlooking [[Las Vegas]], which he finds ridiculous; as they gaze out at the city together, Flint apologises for the situation that he's in, but assures him that his assistance will help people.<br />
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''After finishing at Oxford, Faireborn returned to America, and went straight into the [[United States Army|Army]]. Quickly seected by Special Forces, he excelled in a place where the most important thing was how far you could push yourself to do what was needed; and when he was picked up by G.I. Joe, he was working with the best people and best tools in the world. As the head of the Joes' [[G.I. Joe Intelligence|intelligence unit]], however, he finds resources lacking and the people, like [[Tomax Paoli]], infuriating to deal with. The assignment isn't one that he'd choose — but it's what was needed, so it's where he went.''<br />
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On the Gemini's shooting range, Flint teaches Chameleon how to handle a pistol — without approval from Firewall, who has been holding off on allowing her weapons training. Chameleon indicates that she was hoping for a ''different'' sort of payment for saving Flint's life, but he instead abruptly ends the training... because Firewall is right, in a way — Flint ''can'' trust Chameleon, but when he's around her, he can't trust himself.<br />
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[[Duke]] isn't particularly impressed that Flint has asked him over for a rooftop meeting instead of just calling him, but Flint's request is important enough to be given in person... he wants to be relieved of command, and recommends that the unit be disbanded entirely. The lack of a meaningful chain of command, their unfocused charter and the clash of anti-social personalities is causing huge strain on the unit; Flint doesn't feel that they can keep using their current strategy without losing sight of what they're supposed to be doing. Flint lays out his recommendations for the unit's personnel: Firewall and Lady Jaye are highly recommended for any placement; Clockspring has become sullen and argumentative, and needs to be around people more like himself; Ronin is a useful asset in the field but can't be trusted on a team; Billy still can't be released, but deserves better than being locked up in the middle of the desert; Tomax is both untrustworthy and unneeded; and Chameleon needs immediate psychological help thanks to severe trauma. Duke is surprised, and warns that recommending that it be disbanded is no small thing, but Flint knows that keeping them operational will do more harm than good; Duke accedes, and departs to find places for the unit's people. As his commanding officer leaves, Flint reflects that doing this isn't what he wants, but it's what's needed... and so, it's what he'll do.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' appear only in flashbacks.<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
*[[Flint]] (1)<br />
*[[Lady Jaye]] (4)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (6)<br />
*[[Duke]] (9)<br />
*''[[Ronin]]'' (10)<br />
*[[Chameleon]] (12)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*''[[Claire Austin]]'' (2)<br />
*''Mrs. Faireborn'' (3)<br />
*''Dashiell's grandparents'' (5)<br />
*''[[Gianna]]'' (7)<br />
*[[Billy Kessler-Latta]] (8)<br />
*''[[Tomax Paoli]]'' (11)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"I know it's none of my business."<br />
<br>"It isn't."<br />
<br>"And I know fraternization is technically allowed in this unit."<br />
<br>"It is."<br />
<br>"But you need to hear it from someone, and that someone is obviously going to have to be me."<br />
:—'''Firewall''' gets on '''Flint's''' case.<br />
<br />
"For a guy you can't trust to leave his room, I sure do have a lot of access to your classified files. How do you know I'm not just using all this information to only appear like I know what I'm talking about, and leading you astray?"<br />
<br>"Because we've got other people like you to whom we give slightly different information and we cross-reference your analysis. We're an espionage unit. This isn't our first rodeo."<br />
<br>"Oh yeah? Who else do you have locked up in here? One of the Hussein brothers?"<br />
:—'''Billy Kessler-Latta''' and '''Flint'''<br />
<br />
"What's more, this clash of largely anti-social personalities is creating a powder keg. Firewall has been doing a valiant job of trying to hold it together, but cracks are showing."<br />
<br>"So it's a personnel issue."<br />
<br>"It's an '''everything''' issue. We can't keep attempting to use the enemy's tactics against them, with actual enemies on our side, before we lose sight of what it is we're actually supposed to be doing here. Or at least I can't.<br />
:—'''Flint''' 'fesses up to '''Duke'''.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The power fluctuations on the detention level surely have something to do with Tomax advising Clockspring to talk to [[Bet]] down there in [[The Boy Most Likely To... Part 1|the previous issue]].<br />
*Chameleon's been being refused her own gun since [[Cobra vol. 2 issue 5|''Cobra'' vol. 2 #5]].<br />
===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*Flint as a [[Kansas]]-born Rhodes Scholar comes from the filecard of his [http://www.yojoe.com/action/85/flint.shtml original toy].<br />
*In the flashback to his G.I. Joe glory days, Flint is seen wielding a shotgun; he's traditionally associated with the weapon thanks to his original toy coming with one.<br />
===Errors===<br />
*It might be pedantic, but Flint refers to his Oxford college as "Queens College"; it's actually {{w|The Queen's College, Oxford|''Queen's'' College}}, with an apostrophe (not to be confused with {{w|Queens' College, Cambridge}}.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*The mention of Claire Austin having a kid and getting married-then-divorced seemed throwaway at the time, but years later — after IDW's ''Transformers'' and ''G.I. Joe'' universes were merged into the [[Hasbro Universe]] — [[John Barber]] took advantage of the fact to [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|retcon]] her daughter into [[Marissa Faireborn]], a character who was implied to be Flint's daughter in {{t|Marissa Faireborn|the '80s ''Transformers'' cartoon}}, and who was a major character in IDW's ''{{t|The Transformers: Robots in Disguise}}''. Unbeknownst to Flint when he was narrating this issue, the girl was actually fathered by him, not by Claire's new husband!<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Flint being all grim 'n gritty, by [[Antonio Fuso]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Flint leads his team, by [[Werther Dell'edera]] and [[Stefano Simeone]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Flint under the gaze of Cobra Commander, by [[Riley Rossmo]].<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 />
|image=CobraFiles5 cvrB.jpg|<br />
|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=[[Werther Dell'edera]]<br />
|art by=[[Antonio Fuso]]<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 />
|specialthanks=<br />
|chronology=<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 />
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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 />
<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 />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
{{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 />
}}<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 />
<br />
"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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|seriesissue=''[[Rom & The Micronauts]]'' #4<br />
|prev=Entropy<br />
|next=Rom & The Micronauts issue 5<br />
|image=Rom&TheMicronauts4 regcvr.jpg<br />
|title="Asymmetric Warfare"<br />
|caption=Vs.<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]], [[Greg Goldstein]]<br />
|date=[[April 11]], [[2018]]<br />
|coverdate=April 2017<br />
|written by=[[Christos Gage]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Alessandra Alexakis]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editor=[[David Mariotte]]<br />
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]] ([[2018]])<br />
}}<br />
'''Rom and the Micronauts return to Earth but are they too late?'''<br />
<br />
==Synopsis==<br />
In [[Gokseong]], [[South Korea]], the situation is grim for the heroes. The [[Dire Wraith]]s have pinned down both the [[Space Knight]]s and their [[human]] allies and are moving in for the kill. At the forefront is [[Axiom]], whom the [[Wraith Sorcerer]]s sic on the Knights as they hold them in magical bindings. A sudden [[Neutralizer]] blast slays the Sorcerers and heralds the arrival of [[Rom]] and the [[Micronaut]]s. Axiom decides to immediately report back to [[Baron Karza]], allowing the others to begin mowing down the [[Wraith Hawk]]s. Though Rom remains at [[Microspace]]-size, [[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] observes the [[Repto]] are scaled for [[Earth]] and wonders if Rom may regain his size in such a manner only for [[Camilla Byers]] to overrule that idea. The Repto gained their size via a combination of [[magic]] and science that has the virtually negligible side-effect of causing the subject to violently explode.<br />
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With their numbers ever dwindling, the Wraiths take their leave, allowing the heroes time to regroup and strategize. Though the first conduit has been destroyed, the villains will have rebuilt, there now only hours left to prevent the rise of the [[Presence]]. Fortunately, the Space Knights have tracked Baron Karza to [[Hashima Island]]. Unfortunately, the [[Japan]]ese government has been heavily infiltrated by Wraiths who have turned the populace against the Space Knights. [[Larissa]] proposes an open attack while the Micronauts use their size to sneak in and allow Rom to [[enerchange]] with Karza. Though the plan is reckless, it is the only one they have and [[Orphion]] begins to brief the Micronauts. Rom takes Livia aside and reveals his theory that enerchanging may hold the key to removing [[Space Knight armor]]. Livia however has no desire to remove the armor. She felt helpless when the Wraiths attacked them back in the [[Thrail Mineral Mine|mine]] and she swears to never feel that way again. With that, she takes her leave, declaring she is no longer the woman Rom once loved. The conversation is overheard by [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] who watches Livia's retreating form.<br />
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Within a former mine shaft on Hashima Island, [[D'rge]] is troubled by Axiom's news while Karza considers their foes irrelevant. Atypically, the [[Absence]] shares D'rge's concerns fearing what havoc could be wrought while they continue to mine the [[Entropy Cloud]]. Karza reveals he can accelerate the process but...how strong is the Absence's devotion? The question sends the spectral Wraith into a fury. He has sacrificed much to become who he is and exists solely to serve the Presence. Grinning, Karza begins...<br />
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Back in South Korea, Acroyear approaches Livia and reveals he too is a hybrid of organic and inorganic and his envy of Livia's casual acceptance of such a fate. Livia reveals the loss Rom suffered prior to becoming a Space Knight and that, to him, life as a Knight represents a loss of innocence and family, feeling Livia can empathize with but cannot share. Acroyear reveals his transformation cost him his memories but they have recently begun to trickle back. Livia spies his glance at [[Phenolo-Phi|Phen]] and understand his reasoning now. She reveals that she has witnessed love bloom between all manner of alien life forms, some radically different from their partners (even a Space Knight and a Wraith once found love) but it can only endure when a heart is free from fear. With that, she returns to her weapon testing. Soon after, the group moves out with Acroyear taking Phen aside...and wishing her good luck in the coming battle.<br />
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Arriving at the island, the Hawks and [[Wraith Soldier]]s charge at their foes only for Axiom to take note of how they are deliberately pinned. Noting that "the little ones" are absent, he leaves the foot-soldiers to their fates while he goes after Rom and the Micronauts. Proving too powerful for the miniature heroes, Rom simply enerchanges with Axiom stealing his size and power while banishing him to Microspace (probably). Though restored to his full size, the clock now ticks for Rom and he must enerchange his energies back from Karza to prevent himself from exploding. The heroes follow Karza's signature but begin picking up a second reading, something abjectly evil. Turning a corner, they find they are too late...<br />
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...the Presence has awakened!<br />
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[[Rom & The Micronauts issue 5|To Be Concluded!]]<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[Micronaut]]s|c1=<br />
*[[Larissa]] (9)<br />
*[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] (10)<br />
*[[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] (11)<br />
*[[Phenolo-Phi]] (13)<br />
*[[Microtron]] (14)<br />
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|h2=[[Dire Wraith]]s|c2=<br />
*[[Wraith Sorcerer]]s (1)<br />
*[[Wraith Hawk]]s (2)<br />
*[[Repto]] (3)<br />
*[[Axiom]] (8)<br />
*[[D'rge]] (15)<br />
*[[Absence]] (16)<br />
*''Dire Wraith in love'' (23)<br />
*[[Wraith Soldier]]s (24)<br />
*[[Presence]] (25)<br />
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|h3=[[Space Knight]]s|c3=<br />
*[[Livia]] (5)<br />
*[[Orphion]] (7)<br />
*[[Rom]] (12)<br />
*''Space Knight in love'' (22)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*[[Darby Mason]] (4)<br />
*[[Camilla Byers]] (6)<br />
*[[Baron Karza]] (17)<br />
*''Fire alien's lover'' (18)<br />
*''Fire alien'' (19)<br />
*''{{t|Torchbearer}}'' (20)<br />
*''Torchbearer's lover'' (21)<br />
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}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"If you knew what a Wraith must endure to become an absence, you would not raise the question. I exist but for one purpose: To replace absence with presence. Her Presence. Whatever you require...it shall be done." <br> "Excellent. Then let's begin..."<br />
:-The '''Absence''' may have just tipped his hand to '''Baron Karza'''.<br />
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"Perhaps one day I shall tell you the forbidden tale of '''the Wraith and the Solstar Knight''' whose enmity turned to respect and then love."<br />
:-Tell us now '''Livia'''. Tell us ''now''.<br />
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"Phenolo-Phi...before we go, I wanted to say..."<br> "Yes Acroyear?" <br> "Good fortune in the battle ahead." <br> "''Uh'' thanks, you too."<br />
:-Smooth '''Acroyear''', very smooth.<br />
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"Indeed it has, fools. But don't despair. Rejoice, instead...for you are witness to the second coming of a god! '''The goddess of the Dire Wraiths awakens!'''"<br />
:-'''Baron Karza''' triumphant.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Holy returning villains Batman! Remember [[Axiom]]? The [[human]]/Wraith hybrid first appeared in [[Field Test|''ROM: Revolution'']] and last appeared way back in [[Interlude|''ROM'' #10]].<br />
*Livia alludes to the events of the [[Cold Fire|''ROM'' 2017 Annual]] and the helplessness she felt before being enveloped by her [[Space Knight armor|armor]]. Rom mentions how the armor has formed a seemingly unbreakable bond with all its wearers. The only Knight seen thus far to remove their amor was [[Stardrive]].<br />
*Acroyear mentions the heavily invasive surgeries he underwent to become who he is and the resulting amnesia, established in [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|''HHS'' profile]].<br />
*As established in [[Reinforcements, Part 2|''ROM'' #6]], Livia fires light missiles.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*The Micronauts' ship has now reverted to its appearance from [[Small World|issue #1]]. Is it supposed to be changing appearance based on which universe it's in?<br />
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===Real-world references===<br />
*The [[Repto]] violently exploding after being super-sized is consistent with science's current understanding of the {{w|square–cube law}}.<br />
*The fire based alien in Livia's flashback seems a visual composite of {{w|Firelord (comics)|Firelord}} and {{w|Firestar (comics)|Firestar}}.<br />
*Needing no explanation, Axiom's cry of "What a world, what a world..." is ripped right off from the {{w|Wicked Witch of the West}} who famously screamed the phrase as she melted.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*That one alien in the center of Livia's flashback looks a lot like a {{t|Torchbearer}} doesn't it?<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' [[Rom]] and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] vs [[Baron Karza]], by [[E. J. Su]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Rom, Acroyear and [[Phenolo-Phi|Phen]] fly through space, by [[Giannis Milonogiannis]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Rom and a bunch of alien hands, by [[Robert Csiki]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[Rom & The Micronauts]]'' #3<br />
|prev=Microspace Knight<br />
|next=Asymmetric Warfare<br />
|image=Rom&TheMicronauts3 regcvr.jpg<br />
|title="Entropy"<br />
|caption=This doesn't happen. Like at all.<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]], [[Greg Goldstein]]<br />
|date=[[February 28]], [[2018]]<br />
|coverdate=February 2017<br />
|written by=[[Christos Gage]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Alessandra Alexakis]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editor=[[David Mariotte]]<br />
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]] ([[2018]])<br />
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'''With time, literally, running out, Rom and the Micronauts launch a desperate assault on the enemy stronghold.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
As [[Rom]] and [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] charge at one another, [[Phenolo-Phi|Phen]] throws herself between the two, unwilling to see either perish. This act confuses Rom allowing Acroyear to strike them both. [[Larissa]] contains the warrior in a forcefield long enough for [[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] to perform a scan and recommend that they immediately kill Acroyear. Acroyear soon frees himself and hurls away Larissa and Biotron before returning his attentions to Rom. Phen puts herself in front of the [[Space Knight]] and the sight of her is enough for Acroyear to regain partial control of his body. Rom seizes his chance but does not kill Acroyear, the Wraith infection is young meaning it can be burned out by a [[Neutralizer]] blast. Though Phen and Acroyear attempt to apologize for their assumptions and actions, Larissa cuts off any sentimentalities. This horror ends now, via a direct frontal attack.<br />
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In the pyramids, [[Membros]] marvels at the fusion of [[magic]] and technology but notes to the [[Absence]] that a far stronger conduit will be needed to awaken the [[Presence]]. The Absence has such a conduit: himself. Membros then receives a communication that a Hornetroid has failed to report in. Though it could be due to the [[Entropy Cloud]]'s time bending properties, better safe than vivisected by [[Baron Karza]] so he alerts the guards, [[Ampzilla]] and [[Terraphant]] to be alert. The two quickly sight Rom flying right at them. They open fire but the Knight is able to dodge the barrage with ease before the missing Hornetroid is sighted on the horizon. Much to the alarm of the sentries, the Hornetroid is but a trojan horse from which the [[Micronaut]]s emerge ready for battle. Though the heroes are able to dispatch the two monsters, the pyramid walls are reinforced with both magic and technology making them near-impossible to breach. [[Microtron]] has a solution however and asks everyone to please step aside...as he rams through the walls with their spaceship!<br />
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Microtron trundles out of the wreckage to find the conduit before the Absence phases through the little robot, disabling him. Rom recognizes the Absence and opens fire in a vengeful fury prompting the spectral Wraith to withdraw. Instead, Membros reveals some old friends of the Micronauts: [[Lobros]] and [[Antron]], now upgraded with Wraith aspects. The brutes are now more than a match for the Micronauts but Biotron insists Rom flee. He received some of Microtron's transmission and is convinced that only Rom can destroy the conduit. Conceding, Rom flies off.<br />
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Finding the conduit, Rom is amazed to see the Wraiths putting aside their hatred for science in pursuit of their goal. The technological components of the device have been magically shielded to prevent destruction but the organic Wraith parts? Those the Neutralizer can destroy with ease. The energies of the Entropy Cloud begin flooding the complex, aging anything they touch as Rom flies beyond their reach. Returning, Rom instructs his victorious allies to flee. His armor should protect him from the Cloud's energies. Unexpectedly, Membros speaks in Rom's defence insisting that they all flee. Membros has failed Karza and must now go into hiding. If the heroes kill Karza (unlikely as that may be), then Membros is safe. If Karza kills the heroes, then Membros has time to rebuild what was destroyed. Either way, Membros wins.<br />
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With no time to pursue the madman, Rom and the Micronauts board their ship, rocketing off just in time. Larissa however has no delusions that this is a victory. All they've bought themselves is time. And they need to get back to [[Earth]].<br />
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Back on Earth, Baron Karza is briefed on the destruction of the complex. Though annoying, it is not unexpected...which is why Karza built a ''second'' device which he instructs the Absence to take to Microspace and safeguard in a combined [[Ministry of War]]/[[Dire Wraith]] fleet. Though the Absence feels such a move would leave the alliance short-handed on Earth, Karza assures that he is one step ahead of their foes.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[Micronaut]]s|c1=<br />
*[[Larissa]] (1)<br />
*[[Phenolo-Phi]] (2)<br />
*[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] (3)<br />
*[[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] (5)<br />
*[[Microtron]] (11)<br />
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|h2=[[Dire Wraith]]s|c2=<br />
*[[Absence]] (6)<br />
*[[Ampzilla]] (8)<br />
*[[Terraphant]] (9)<br />
*[[Hornetroid]] corpse (10)<br />
*[[Lobros]] (12)<br />
*[[Antron]] (13)<br />
*Aged corpses (15)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*[[Rom]] (4)<br />
*[[Membros]] (7)<br />
*[[Baron Karza]] (14)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Robots do not pray, Rom. We put our faith in calculation. Measured consideration. Risk/reward ratio. And sometimes...we ignore them all. One side please."<br />
:-'''Microtron''' has his moment.<br />
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"In all likelihood yes. But what if his memory is damaged? Will he be the same Microtron I [Biotron] knew? The sum total of the same experiences? Beings on flesh have an easily understood definition of life. For us, it is more complex."<br />
:-Do [[MT class robot]]s dream of electric sheep?<br />
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"They'll attack. Precisely my goal. Even a failed assault on this last device could damage it. But seeing me vulnerable...the fools will charge directly into their doom. And meet the fate of all who have challenged Karza...never dreaming they danced to the music I composed."<br />
:-'''Baron Karza''' makes plans.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*As a footnote reminds us, we witnessed a still-recent Wraith infection be cut out in [[Reinforcements, Part 2|''ROM'' #6]] where [[Orphion]] shot the Wraith out of [[Camilla Byers]]. It also occurred in ''[[ROM: First Strike]]'' where Rom burned bits of the Wraith flesh off the Micronauts.<br />
*Membros first appeared as an interrogator for the now-defunct [[Ministry of Science]], ''waaaaay'' back in [[Micronauts issue 5|''Micronauts'' #5]] but he recently showed up in [[Micronauts: Wrath of Karza|''Wrath of Karza'']] as the supreme interrogator. His two goons, [[Lobros]] and [[Antron]], also made appearances in the same mini-series as muscle.<br />
*Ampzilla first appeared back in the [[Micronauts Annual 2017|''Micronauts'' annual]].<br />
*Ampzilla reiterates the Wraith desire to possess [[Space Knight armor]].<br />
*Upon seeing the Absence, Rom recalls the pain he inflicted on the spectral being in [[Reinforcements, Part 5|''ROM'' #9]].<br />
*The functional immortality that Space Knight armor grants its wearer was established in the [[Cold Fire|2017 ''ROM'' annual]].<br />
*The {{t|Space bridge|spacebridges}} between the [[Hasbro Universe]] and [[Microspace]] were established in [[Wrath of Karza issue 5|''Wrath of Karza'' #5]].<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' Tiny [[Rom]] in the shadow of a giant [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]], by [[Fico Ossio]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Rom and the [[Micronaut]]s, by [[Chris Evenhuis]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Rom and the Micronauts, by [[James Raiz]]. Sensing a pattern forming with these covers?<br />
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|prev=Small World<br />
|next=Entropy<br />
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|title="Microspace Knight"<br />
|caption=This is how most Ancient Greek stories about giants start.<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]], [[Ted Adams]]<br />
|date=[[January 24]], [[2018]]<br />
|coverdate=January 2017<br />
|written by=[[Christos Gage]]<br />
|art by=[[Paolo Villanelli]]<br />
|colors by=[[Alessandra Alexakis]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]] & [[David Mariotte]]<br />
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]] ([[2018]])<br />
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'''Entering Microspace to rescue Rom, the Micronauts discover their universe has been invaded by the Dire Wraiths!'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Within the [[Entropy Cloud]], Rom defends himself from the [[Repto]]s but finds that not only have the creatures been assimilated by the [[Dire Wraith]]s, they ''willingly'' gave themselves over to the Wraiths. Though Rom fights valiantly, he is overwhelmed by the sheer numbers before the [[Micronaut]]s arrive to back him up with [[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] and [[Larissa]] explaining the [[enerchange|enerchanging]] process to Rom. In the light of a fair fight, the Repto decide to retreat and the heroes take the opportunity to regain their strength. On board the med-bay of the Micronauts' ship, Rom is healed by the [[rejuvenator]] before he explains that the enerchange allowed him to glimpse inside [[Baron Karza|Karza]]'s mind for a moment and learnt of the Entropy Cloud. Biotron explains the Cloud's temporal properties to Rom and the projection that it will devour all of [[Microspace]] in 1.4 [[Earth]] years. With that final piece of information, the puzzle falls into place for Rom and he explains everything:<br />
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''Over two centuries prior, the Dire Wraiths invaded Rom's home planet of [[Elonia]] killing many citizens and assimilating others, among them Rom's family. Though the [[Solstar Order]] fought back valiantly against the invaders, they were outmatched. Until that is, Rom discovered [[Space Knight armor|a mysterious ore]] which lead to the birth of the [[Space Knight]]s and the destruction of the [[Dire Wraith homeworld]]. Though the Space Knights believed themselves on the verge of victory since then, Rom found new horrors on Earth that culminated in a horrific endgame. The [[Presence]]. A dark entity whose power could allow the Wraiths to terraform Earth into a new home for their kind and allow them universal conquest. The Presence however can only rise on the "promised day" and the Wraiths sacrificing energy has done little to accelerate the process. The deity will only awaken when the time is right.''<br />
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As Rom finishes his story, Larissa realizes the endgame as well. The Entropy Cloud's time distorting properties can accelerate time around the Presence so she awakens ahead of schedule while simultaneously ridding Microspace of the threat, leaving it worth Karza's efforts to conquer. Biotron realizes that for such a plan to work, there must be another portal between Microspace and Rom's [[Hasbro Universe|reality]] from which the Cloud's energies will be funnelled, doubtlessly the "Stronghold" the Repto mentioned. To track their foes, Rom links his [[Energy Analyzer]] into the ship's systems and the group rockets off to the source of the Wraith-taint.<br />
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Some time later, the Analyzer upgrades have been finalized and though [[Phenolo-Phi|Phen]] wishes for Rom to rest, [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] calls him away to learn about enerchanging. After witnessing the extremely unsubtle sexual tension between Acroyear and Phen, Rom advises Acroyear to pursue their mutual feelings. Acroyear disagrees, showing Rom his monstrous face and that he can only exist for brief periods without his faceplate. This means little to Rom who faces the same dilemma regarding his own armor and how the armor's coldness seemingly spread to [[Livia]]'s heart. For two centuries, Rom has been without companionship and encourages Acroyear to not waste the chance for happiness that has presented itself before him. But then again it's been two hundred years since Rom has been engaged in a romance so maybe he's not the best person to take advice from.<br />
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In a different part of the ship, Larissa launches into her explanation. Enerchanging is a bond on the molecular level normally done with a weapon or a tool. What makes Karza's mastery of the craft so horrifying is that he performs forced enerchanges on unwilling participants. Promising to work up to that, Larissa demonstrates the power of the craft by accessing a centaur form of her own before switching back to normal. Machines however do not need the practice of organics as they can simply download codes to master enerchange, a feat that Larissa hopes Rom's armor can replicate to speed up the process. As his armor begins the download, Rom asks why Larissa makes no use of her own centaur form who reveals she refrains from using it in the fear that her teammates will associate her more with Baron Karza. Rom disagrees, for in the short time he has known her and her father, he is convinced they are nothing alike. Though touched Larissa has seen [[Micronauts Annual 2017|other futures]] that are enough of a deterrent to not access the centaur form.<br />
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The ship soon arrives at its destination and is near immediately beset upon by a [[Hornetroid]] now sporting a Wraith flair. Acroyear is unfazed by the monster and charges in, cleaving off tentacles before attacking the cockpit. Inside however is nothing but more Wraith tentacles that attack Acroyear before a [[Neutralizer]] blast saves him and slays the beast. Ahead of the group looms a Wraith-infected asteroid upon which a green pyramidal structure is channeling the energies of the Entropy Cloud. Before the horror of the sight can be fully processed however, Acroyear sprouts Wraith aspects and attacks Phen. Materializing his blade, Rom meets Acroyear's challenge swearing to end his suffering...by any means necessary.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic text'' appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[Micronaut]]s|c1=<br />
*[[Larissa]] (3)<br />
*[[Phenolo-Phi]] (4)<br />
*[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] (5)<br />
*[[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]] (6)<br />
*[[Microtron]] (7)<br />
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*[[Repto]] (1)<br />
*''[[Wraith Sorcerer]]'' (8)<br />
*''[[Wraith Soldier]]s'' (10)<br />
*''[[Scylla]]'' (16)<br />
*''[[Presence]]'' (17)<br />
*[[Hornetroid]] (18)<br />
*Wraith-Asteroid (19)<br />
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*[[Rom]] (2)<br />
*''[[Livia]]'' (11)<br />
*''[[Maur]]'' (12)<br />
*''[[Butin]]'' (13)<br />
*''[[Q'b]]'' (14)<br />
*''[[Orphion]]'' (15)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You two are '''''exactly''''' alike. Always so stoic. Always pushing yourselves to the the limit. The "Warrior Code". Well I'm '''''bored to death''''' of it. Next time we hit civilization, I'm taking you both out drinking.'''." <br><br />
"We...do not have mouths." <br><br />
"I'll get the booze in you by any means necessary." <br><br />
"''Uh''...very well."<br />
:-'''Phen''' and '''Acroyear''' flirt.<br />
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"Then again, the last time I kissed a woman was two centuries ago. So, it is entirely possible I am speaking out of my exhaust port. Fare you well, my friend."<br />
:-Don't take romantic advice from '''Rom''' kids.<br />
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"And I vow this to you, Acroyear—I will end your suffering...'''''by any means necessary'''''."<br />
:-'''Rom''' vs Acroyear. Round 1.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*Biotron explains the Entropy Cloud to Rom and [[Oziron Rael]] becoming a [[Time Traveler]] to aid the evolved beings in fixing the Cloud but notes that it will take time to abate the Cloud fully. All of which happened in [[Wrath of Karza issue 5|''Wrath of Karza'' #5]].<br />
*In the flashback, Rom gives a brief recap of [[ROM (comic)|his series]] from [[Cold Fire|the 2017 annual]] all the way to [[Long Roads to Ruin, Part 4|''ROM'' #14]].<br />
*The destruction of the [[Dire Wraith homeworld]] was established in {{t|Shining Armor issue 1|''Shining Armor'' #1}}.<br />
*Last issue, [[D'rge]] explained to Karza that the Presence was not sleeping beneath the Earth in the technical sense of the words before he was cut off. Here we learn that she in fact exists in another dimension with the portal to her realm being beneath the Earth's crust.<br />
*When speaking to Acroyear, Rom mentions his old romance with Livia and how the Wraith/Solstar war caused it to fall apart.<br />
*Darby flashes back to the [[Micronauts Annual 2017|''Micronauts'' annual]] and her alternate future counterpart who had embraced her relationship to Karza and [[Shazraella]].<br />
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===Hasbro franchise references===<br />
*On Subscription Cover A, Rom and Karza are lovingly rendered in the style of their original toys.<br />
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===Errors===<br />
*The Micronauts' new ship (which still looks nothing like the [http://www.innerspaceonline.com/astrostation.htm Astro Station] craft from ''First Strike'' one-shots) goes from looking like it did in the previous issue on panel 4 of page 5 but then looks like {{w|Duck Dodgers (TV series)|Duck Dodgers}}'s ship in the next panel and remains that way.<br />
*Butin's (or at least we think it's her) armor is bright green when it's normally a more subdued mint green.<br />
*Rom refers to his armor as "living metal". Previous issues have consistently referred to it as a crystalline ore.<br />
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===Other notes===<br />
*We don't blame you if you missed it last issue since he never received a close-up, but Biotron has undergone a slight redesign in that he now has a more [[human]] and organic like face. It is ''horrifying''. On every level.<br />
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*'''Regular cover:''' [[Rom]] crouches over the [[Micronaut]]s, by [[Juan Samu]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Rom and [[Baron Karza]] face-off, by [[Jeffrey Veregge]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Rom and the Micronauts fly upwards, by [[S.L. Gallant]].<br />
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'''Richard Ruby''', aka '''Bulletman, The Human Bullet''', was a member of the [[Adventure Team]] and a former Navy SEAL and test pilot. Through the use of his [[bullet suit]], he had the ability to fly and plow through objects like, well, a bullet. After the Adventure Team was retired, Ruby went on to pursue his true dream: acting!<br />
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His nom de guerre is sometimes spelled '''Bullet Man'''.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===The Human Bullet===<br />
Richard Ruby was born in [[Clyde]], [[Ohio]]. As a young man, Ruby wanted to be a star, but he knew such a dream was unlikely in his hometown, opting instead to join [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] as an aviator and he was later recruited to SEAL Team Six. After being honorably discharged from service, Ruby became a a test pilot for [[Wolf Avionics]], which led to his his first gig in [[Hollywood]]. He served as a stunt pilot for Hollywood movies, most notably the works of director [[Meyer Wallenstein]]. <br />
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While working on [[J.J. Hackensack]]'s ''[[Space Battle]]'', Ruby met [[Solomon Galt]] of [[International Effects Limited]]. The two worked together to develop an aerodynamic personal jetpack system with high-impact damage resistant metals (which would later become known as the [[bullet suit]].) Ruby took the jetpack to [[California]]'s [[Sierra Nevada]] mountains to begin testing. However, when runoff from a heavy winter's snow threatened the nearby town of {{t|Poverty Flat}}, Ruby sprung into action, creating a makeshift dam and saving the town in the process.<br />
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[[Adventure Team]] members [[Joe Colton]] and [[Atomic Man|Mike Power]] took notice of Ruby's heroism and recruited him to the team. Ruby took the name "Bulletman," serving as the final member of the "Super" Adventure Team. During this time, Ruby became good friends with Mike Power. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Bullet Man profile}}<br />
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During the Adventure Team's mission to rescue [[Garrison Kreiger]] at the [[Tomb of Amtoltec]], Stalker and Mayhem called Bulletman and Atomic Man in for help with the [[IRON Trooper|robotic mummies]]. The pair of enhanced heroes took the robots out with ease, showboating for the "normal soldiers". After Joe called the team for help against [[Soundwave]], Bulletman attacked the {{t|Decepticon}} by plowing into his chest. After Soundwave retreated, Ruby noticed how much interest Kreiger took in the mysterious [[Talisman]] the team had unearthed. {{tstorylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}}<br />
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Bulletman was part of the Adventure Team when they were re-christened "Adventure Force." In [[1994]], Adventure Force broke into Kreiger's [[Project Iceman|Project: Iceman]] facility in [[Brasnya]] in search of Mike Power, who had joined up with Kreiger. However, they arrived too late, and Power had already (apparently) died from one of the project's tests. {{tstorylink|When Eagles Scream}} Ruby blamed Kreiger for the death of his friend, even calling him Mike's murderer years later. {{tstorylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}}<br />
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===Rise to Stardom===<br />
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After Mike Power's death, the Adventure Team was disbanded. Ruby tried to pursue an acting career, but stayed on in the armed forces, helping [[Hawk|Clayton Abernathy]] recruit members to their [[G.I. Joe (team)|successor unit]]. He also began making public appearances in his Bulletman uniform as the Adventure Team's public face, appearing on numerous talk shows and celebrity game shows. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Bullet Man profile}} He made an appearance in costume at the graduation ceremony for [[Duke]]'s [[United States Armed Forces|USAF]] Qualification Course. {{storylink|Homefront, Part 3 of 5}}<br />
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He became one of the contestants on the reality TV series ''[[Survival Extreme]]'', ending up in the final round of the show along with former supermodel [[Cover Girl|Courtney Krieger]]. During filming, while shooting on an island near [[Nanzhao]], the cast and crew were attacked by pirates. After being saved by Courtney, Richard helped her take down the rest of them. He was impressed with how she was able to fight off the pirates and suggested that if she ever wanted a career change, she should talk to a guy named "Hawk". {{storylink|Threat Matrix, Prologue: Cover Girl}}<br />
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After the media coverage of the ''Survival Extreme'' incident, Ruby got several movie offers (one of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination) and maintained a steady stream of appearances in low-budget action movies. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Bullet Man profile}} While shooting a movie, Ruby was approached by [[Ian Noble]], [[Mayday|Ayana Jones]], and [[Garrison Blackrock]], masquerading as a group of movie producers looking to turn one of his Adventure Team stories into a movie. When asked what happened to Kreiger, Ruby simply said that he killed Mike Power and got away with it. Ian then asked if he had ever heard of [[Baron Ironblood]], to which Ruby simply responded that he "doesn't do superhero movies anymore" before returning to set. {{tstorylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}}<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
These are a few of the films and television shows that Richard Ruby is known to have worked on: <br />
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===Films===<br />
*''[[Sky Cowboy]]''<br />
*''[[Space Battle]]''<br />
*''[[Sigma 6 2: Retribution]]''<br />
*''[[Time Away from Home]]''<br />
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===Television===<br />
*''[[Survival Extreme]]''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*The original Bulletman toy seems to be based on the {{w|Bulletman and Bulletgirl|Golden Age Fawcett Comics superhero of the same name}}, right down to a silver bullet-shaped helmet and red outfit. While the Fawcett characters are mostly used by {{w|DC Comics}} nowadays, the Bulletman character had fallen into the public domain, allowing [[Hasbro]] to use his likeness for the toy. <ref>http://thefwoosh.com/index.php/2014/04/the-forgotten-heroes-gi-joe-adventure-team-bulletman/</ref><br />
**The DC Bulletman's appearance in the miniseries ''{{w|Kingdom Come (comics)|Kingdom Come}}'' later drew inspiration from the Hasbro action figure, particularly in the design of the helmet.<ref>http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bulletman_(Earth-22)</ref> Whether this was intentional on the part of artist {{w|Alex Ross}} or not is unknown, though highly likely.<br />
*Bulletman's true identity was never given until the third volume of IDW's ''G.I. Joe'' gave him the name of Richard Ruby.<br />
*Bulletman's name is rendered as "Bullet Man" in his ''[[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook]]'' entry, likely for trademark reasons given the above mentioned use of Bulletman by DC.<br />
*The origin told for Bulletman in the ''Sourcebook'' is a retelling of one of the comic ads for the original Bulletman toy, wherein G.I. Joe and Atomic Man see Bulletman save a town from a flood.<ref>https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/cbishop/lists/bulletman-the-human-bullet-blasts-into-the-gi-joe-/47584/</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Bulletman}} at the TFWiki<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Richard Ruby was nominated for a {{w|Golden Globe Award}} for his work on ''Time Away from Home''. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Bullet Man profile}}<br />
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<div>'''''Time Away From Home''''' is a film. Among its cast was Richard Ruby, former [[Adventure Team]] member [[Bulletman]], in the role of Roger "Bugs" Laffer.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Richard Ruby was nominated for a {{w|Golden Globe Award}} for his work on ''Time Away From Home''. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook|Bullet Man profile}}<br />
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*''[[Micronauts]]'' [[Micronauts issue 1|#1]], [[Micronauts issue 2|#2]], [[Micronauts issue 3|#3]], [[Micronauts issue 4|#4]]<br />
*''[[ROM (comic)|ROM]]'' [[Earthfall: Part One|#1]]<br />
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*''[[Micronauts]]'' [[Micronauts issue 1|#1]], [[Micronauts issue 2|#2]], [[Micronauts issue 3|#3]], [[Micronauts issue 4|#4]]<br />
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'''Interrogator once again finds himself trapped in a sub-surface facility and menaced by an all-powerful, supernatural threat. Funny how life works out, huh?'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Buried in an [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] ice sheet, a [[Cobra]] expeditionary party led by scientists [[Dr. Llund]] and [[Dr. Smith]] find stairs descending to a bizarre, underground temple. Smith is unnerved by the strange carvings and advocates turning back, but Llund, led there by the [[Lovecraft journal]], is entranced, and hears what sounds like music saying her name. Smith is skeptical of the whole thing, and when Llund takes his pick-axe he assumes that she plans to dig through the ice below... but instead she uses the tool to murder her fellow scientist, his blood pooling out and filling in patterns carved into the floor. When the Cobra guards station above come down to investigate, they find Smith's body and Llund digging into the floor, ordering them to help her free the [[Elder God|old ones]].<br />
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One week later, Cobra's [[Interrogator]] listens, unimpressed, to the rantings of Dr. Jacob Mitchell, who is now calling himself "[[Raptor]]". Though he survived [[G.I. Joe: Infestation|his trials under the sea]] thanks to his favorite bird, blood loss and oxygen deprivation drove him to madness, and he now believes that humanity is a plague and that the world should be ruled by the animal kingdom. Assessing Raptor as unfit for duty, Interrogator moves on to the other inmates of Cobra's [[Snake Pit]]: [[Gristle]], a pyromaniac who believes he can control fire, and [[Razor Claw]], a berserk warrior subjected to experimental surgeries by Cobra scientists, both of whom are equally unable to serve. His fourth and final subject for assessment is [[Cesspool]], a brilliant chemist who promised the [[Crimson Twins]] a chemical weapon but failed to deliver; Interrogator is well aware that Cesspool is feigning insanity to hide from [[Tomax Paoli]]'s wrath, but offers to make a deal with the inmate: in exchange for the money the scientist still has hidden in offshore bank accounts, Interrogator will declare him unfit for duty and prevent him from having to leave his cell.<br />
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In the chemical plant above, Interrogator runs down his findings to the Baroness; while he doesn't see the value in keeping the inmates of the Snake Pit, Cobra's R&D facility and [[Cobra Commander|their leader]] both believe that they can be of use to Cobra. Given their previous encounter with the weird, the Baroness has Interrogator listen in on her meeting with Dr. Llund, who presents her finding: a [[door of the Elder Ones]], said to have whispered to [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and formed the genesis for his stories. The Baroness seems unimpressed with it and sees it as a useless trinket, as does [[Crystal Ball]]... but once the advisor is ushered out of the room, the Baroness's tune changes: she knows that Crystal Ball was lying about the artifact, and wants whatever power lies within it. Llund admits that she believes the door can help Cobra, but that she needs test subjects, which the Baroness freely offers her; but having had enough of the bizarre for a lifetime, the Baroness leaves before the doctor begins, having Crystal Ball go back to "wherever he came from" and Interrogator stay behind to observe Llund's tests.<br />
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24 hours later, Interrogator watches in irritation from the back of a theater filled with [[Viper]] recruits, Llund standing robed on a stage before them and speaking in [https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/R'lyehian a strange tongue]. One of the Vipers stands to make fun of the ceremony, and Llund calls him forwards; and while Interrogator silently laments the ridiculousness of the situation, Llund slits the man's throat, and strange music fills the room. Entranced by the song, the Vipers — including Interrogator's guards — start to speak in a strange voice; and before his eyes they ''change'', their bodies becoming twisted and their mouths filled with pointed teeth. Now possessed by the Elder Gods, Llund has the Vipers pursue Interrogator to find what it is that he "lacks" that allowed him to resist possession; the possessed Cobra troops catch up with him, but he is saved thanks to last-minute intervention from [[Storm Shadow]]! While the ninja holds the monstrous Vipers off, Interrogator crawls to the base's elevator, where he is met by Crystal Ball; the mystic explains that Llund has opened the doorway and allowed the Old Ones' song through, allowing the gods to possess those of sound mind who hear it... leading Crystal Ball to bring Interrogator's own sanity into question. With Storm Shadow — whom Crystal Ball has recruited, calling on an old debt — protecting them, the three head to the base's communications array; not to call for help, but to destroy it, preventing the song from reaching the outside world. With the exit tunnels destroyed, Interrogator and the others are thus the only ones who have hope of stopping the Elder Gods... though a few others in the facility remain untransformed. But Interrogator is horrified when he realises who Crystal Ball has selected as reinforcements: the inmates of the base's insane asylum!<br />
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The chemical plant above the Snake Pit is devastated by the explosions caused by Crystal Ball to destroy the exit tunnels, leading to an evacuation of the nearby town... something which catches the eye of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'s watchdog center, who spot the symbols of Cobra among the wreckage! With the terrorists sighted, [[Duke]] arranges a team to head to the plant and investigate... and who should be available but [[Scarlett]] and [[Snake Eyes]], ready to deploy?<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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* Watchdog (16)<br />
* [[Scarlett]] (17)<br />
* [[Snake Eyes]] (18)<br />
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* [[Snow Serpent]]s (1)<br />
* [[Dr. Smith]] (2)<br />
* [[Dr. Llund]] (3)<br />
* [[Interrogator]] (4)<br />
* [[Raptor]] (5)<br />
* [[Eel]]s (6)<br />
* Cobra medics (7)<br />
* [[Gristle]] (8)<br />
* [[Razor Claw]] (9)<br />
* [[Cesspool]] (10)<br />
* [[Crystal Ball]] (11)<br />
* [[Viper]]s (12)<br />
* [[Storm Shadow]] (14)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"It is good to see you again, mother... how is father? Does he know I want to eat his flesh and-"<br />
<br>"Stop it."<br />
:—'''Cesspool''' (badly) feigns insanity for '''Interrogator'''<br />
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"Dr. Llund, I've seen Crystal Ball do some disturbing things. Things I can't describe. Nothing quite as disturbing as him feigning to care for your well-being."<br />
:—The '''Baroness'''<br />
==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*This issue's placement in continuity is difficult to determine, but it apparently takes place during the "[[Cobra Civil War]]" arc — the reading order supplied by [[G.I. Joe: The IDW Collection]] doesn't place it before Cobra Civil War, and at the end of "[[Cobra Command]]", Snake Eyes goes rogue from the Joes. This does, however, make it very confusing that the Baroness and Dr. Llund both refer to Cobra Commander in the present tense; maybe it's instead set after [[M.A.S.S. Destruction Part 5]] but before [[Rattler (issue)|Cobra Commander's death]]?<br />
*Interrogator, the Baroness, and Dr. Mitchell — now "Raptor" — return from the [[G.I. Joe: Infestation|previous Infestation miniseries]] and refer to its events, Raptor having been driven mad by them.<br />
*Crystal Ball has made several appearances in IDW, primarily in the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra II]]'' miniseries, and the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 2|Cobra]]'' elements of Cobra Civil War.<br />
*You won't be aware if you're only reading ''G.I. Joe'', but the idea of Lovecraft's writings letting the elder gods get their claws into the multiverse comes from the {{t|Infestation 2 issue 1|framing story}} of ''Infestation 2''... which otherwise has nothing to do with either the Transformers or G.I. Joe tie-ins. Hmm.<br />
===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*The Cobra troops standing guard at the beginning of the issue are [[Snow Serpent]]s, using their [http://www.yojoe.com/action/85/snowserpent.shtml classic design] rather than the redesign they sported when they appeared in the first arc of ''[[G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes]]''. Also present are [[W.O.L.F.]] snow vehicles.<br />
*The Snake Pit's inmates all originated as toys:<br />
**Chemical plant owner [http://www.yojoe.com/action/91/cesspool.shtml Cesspool] comes from the 1991 "Eco-Warriors" range.<br />
**[http://www.yojoe.com/action/93/gristle.shtml Gristle], though released as part of the "Battle Corps" subline, was originally intended as a "Drug Elimination Force" villain; hence his drug addiction which evidently "fried his mind".<br />
**[http://www.yojoe.com/action/04/razorclaw.shtml Razor Claw] (well, "Razorclaw") originates in the 2003/2004 "Valor vs Venom" lineup.<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Crystal Ball, the Baroness, Storm Shadow, and a door of the Elder Gods, by [[Valentine De Landro]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and a lotta tentacles, by [[Livio Ramondelli]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Storm Shadow menaced by more tentacles, by Valentine De Landro and Livio Ramondelli.<br />
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[[Category:Infestation issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Infestation_2:_G.I._Joe_issue_2&diff=8707Infestation 2: G.I. Joe issue 22018-01-03T04:35:18Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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|date=[[March 28]], [[2012]]<br />
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|written by=[[Mike Raicht]]<br />
|line-art by=[[Valentine De Landro]]<br />
|colors by=[[John Rauch]]<br />
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]<br />
|editor=[[Bobby Curnow]]<br />
|editorial consultant=[[John Barber]]<br />
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'''Interrogator and the inmates of Cobra-La must find a way to stop the rise of the Elder Gods. Also, Snake Eyes!'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
With [[Storm Shadow]] killing the [[Elder God]]-possessed guards, [[Interrogator]] and [[Crystal Ball]] make for the cells of the [[Snake Pit]]'s inmates — the only residents of the facility able to resist the Elder Gods' song — to seek their aid as reinforcements. [[Raptor]] agrees to join their cause for the good of animal and human alike, while [[Gristle]] is merely glad to have an opportunity to blow stuff up; but while Interrogator helps a drugged-out [[Razor Claw]] to his feet, he realises where Crystal Ball is heading for their last recruit. He shouts for Crystal Ball to stop, but it's too late: the mystic has opened the cell of [[Cesspool]], who was only faking his insanity, and been ensnared by the scientist, now possessed by one of the Elder Gods... but Crystal Ball is saved by Razor Claw, who reveals hidden blades from his arms and uses them to slash the monstrous Cesspool apart. With Interrogator balking at the insanity of their plan, Crystal Ball leads the way to the facility's armories, intending to use incendiary weapons to burn their way to the door... a plan that Gristle is more than happy to take part in.<br />
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While the possessed [[Dr. Llund]] calls for more incapacitated workers to fuel her blood sacrifices and keep the doorway open, the former [[Viper]]s report on their digging efforts at the exits, which are also being tackled from the other end: specifically, by a [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team led by [[Scarlett]], who are listening in on what's happening down below thanks to [[Dee Jay]]'s audio equipment. Unfortunately, this exposes him to the Old Ones' song, and he takes of his headphones to broadcast it to those around him, leading all except [[Snake Eyes]] to fall to their knees, entranced. As the Joes rise, possessed by the Elder Gods, Snake Eyes is forced to hold himself back to avoid seriously harming his comrades when they attack him. Other Joes, further away, attempt to come to his aid, but he uses gunfire to hold them back; fleeing into the ruins of the chemical plant, he prepares to make his stand in one of the still-intact rooms.<br />
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The Cobra agents sneak into the Snake Pit's armory, loading up on incendiary weapons; Interrogator is skeptical of the plan, but Crystal Ball assures him that he knows how to deal with the door. Storm Shadow, meanwhile, assures Interrogator that — contrary to Crystal Ball's implications — Interrogator is far from insane; it is his understanding of the mind that prevented him from falling victim to the song. The ninja, meanwhile, has resisted thanks to his [[Arashikage]] training; the same training that renders Snake Eyes immune to the thrall of the Elder Gods. Fully armed, the Cobra team head for the observation room where the door is being kept, Gristle eagerly leading the way with his flamethrower; but the fire does not faze the creatures, Crystal Ball having only intended the others as a distraction while he and Storm Shadow make for the doorway. Gristle goes down, killed by his own grenade, while the other Cobras are forced to fight up close and personal to stop the possessed Vipers from coming for them. Meanwhile, Crystal Ball and Storm Shadow confront Dr. Llund in front of the doorway; Storm Shadow engages her, but his ninja abilities are nothing to the possessed scientist, who effortly smacks him into a wall and knocks him unconscious. Llund's followers force Crystal Ball to his knees, but the mystic reveals the truth: he ''can'' hear the song of the Elder Gods, and in fact ''worships'' them, having longed for their arrival... but not like ''this''. Intrigued, the Elder God possessing Llund is willing to listen...<br />
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Snake Eyes incapacitates his fellow Joes with ease, but he is hesitant to engage with the last one standing: Scarlett. The Old One possessing her recognises that he cares for her, and threatens to blow her head off if the ninja does not step aside... but does not get the chance, for at that moment the Elder Gods seal their deal with Crystal Ball and vanish back through their doorway, undoing the possessions and mutations exerted on the Joes and the Vipers. Though neither the Joes or Interrogator's team know quite ''how'' they won, they're happy enough to accept that they did; Storm Shadow, Interrogator and the inmates escape through a secret [[High Command]] exit thanks to instructions left by Crystal Ball, who has vanished along with Llund and the door. The [[Baroness]] is unimpressed with his decision to evacuate Raptor and Razor Claw rather than the hundreds of Vipers, but Interrogator is grateful to them for saving his life... though when she asks about the artifact, Interrogator describes the experiments as a "complete failure".<br />
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Elsewhere, Crystal Ball forcefully awakens Dr. Llund, surrounded by many other doors of the Elder Gods. Crystal Ball did not close the door because he didn't want the Old Ones to come through, but because he ''did''; just one door is barely a foothold, and to truly bring them through, opening ''all'' the doors is required. Crystal Ball begins threatening torture, wanting to know what it felt like to be possessed by a god, but Llund doesn't remember anything... so it's a pity Crystal Ball doesn't care. As she begins screaming, Crystal Ball remarks that it's like a sweet song...<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
* [[Scarlett]] (10)<br />
* [[Snake Eyes]] (11)<br />
* [[Airtight]] (12)<br />
* [[Mutt]] (13)<br />
* [[Junkyard]] (14)<br />
* [[Dee Jay]] (15)<br />
* [[Beachhead]] (16)<br />
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* [[Crystal Ball]] (1)<br />
* [[Interrogator]] (2)<br />
* [[Storm Shadow]] (3)<br />
* [[Raptor]] (5)<br />
* [[Gristle]] (6)<br />
* [[Razor Claw]] (7)<br />
* [[Baroness]] (17)<br />
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* [[Elder God]]-possessed [[Viper]]s (4)<br />
* Possessed [[Cesspool]] (8)<br />
* [[Dr. Llund]] (9)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"Are we supposed to taunt them to death or what? Not all of them have been improved by the good Cobra doctors... or dentists, I guess."<br />
<br>"I did this myself."<br />
<br>"Lovely."<br />
:—'''Gristle''' and '''Raptor''' discuss the latter's sharpened teeth<br />
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"Cthull'rr kund'gth."<br />
<br>"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."<br />
:—The possessed '''Dr. Llund''' and '''Crystal Ball'''<br />
==Notes==<br />
===G.I. Joe references===<br />
*The member of the G.I. Joe squad with mustache and the goggles on his helmet is [[Mutt]], the Joes' dog handler. His faithful friend [[Junkyard]] can be seen going through the rubble of the chemical plant in the first panel of page 7.<br />
===Errors===<br />
*On page 7, Scarlett asks [[Airtight]] a question, but the response comes from Mutt.<br />
===Covers (2)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Snake Eyes vs tentacles, by [[Valentine De Landro]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Storm Shadow in front of an Elder God-thing, by Valentine De Landro, [[Livio Ramondelli]] and [[John Rauch]].<br />
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<div>[[Category:G.I. Joe issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Deviant&diff=8622Deviant2017-12-28T22:12:34Z<p>Creedence: /* Notes */</p>
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[[File:SnakeEyes9-DeviantArt.jpg|thumb|Bipedal tanks: Maybe not the missing link between infantry and artillery after all.]]<br />
What's 10 feet tall, walks like a chicken, has a chainsaw and a chaingun, and seems to be a lot cooler in theory than in practice? Why, it's the [[Cobra]] "'''Deviant'''" mech suit of course!<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
During their invasion of [[Nanzhao]], [[Cobra]] deployed a group of six Deviant mechs equipped with chainsaws south of the [[Salween River]]. As they cut their way through the jungle, they were spotted by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] Team Alpha, who then relayed the Deviant's location to a Thai battery base that then destroyed the mechs in a volley of missile fire.<br />
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Later, as [[Snake Eyes]] and [[Helix]] fought their way through a Cobra base, they came face to face with another Deviant, this one armed with a chaingun in addition to its chainsaw. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 2}} Snake Eyes was able to make short work of it by cutting a hose on one of the Deviant's legs, causing it to wobble and giving him an opportunity to shoot and kill the mech's pilot. The rest of the Deviants were then destroyed along with the rest of the base in an airstrike. {{storylink|Cobra Command, Part 3}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*The Deviants are never referred to by name but are clearly based on the 2010 ''Pursuit of Cobra'' toy. However, the IDW Deviant doesn't feature the toy's grappling hook or weird wrecking ball punching arm thing, instead opting for the chaingun of its G.I. Joe counterpart, the [[Steel Marauder]], and a chainsaw that no version of the toy has; it also sports a green digital camouflage color scheme, matching the other vehicles used by Cobra during "Cobra Command", rather than the red of the toy version.<br />
*According to [[Major Bludd]], a single Deviant costs 74 million dollars. Money well spent!<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/vehicles/10/deviant/ Deviant at YoJoe.com]<br />
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[[Category:Mechs]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wraith_Soldier&diff=7854Wraith Soldier2017-10-28T19:21:00Z<p>Creedence: /* Fiction */</p>
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The backbone of the [[Dire Wraith]] invasion forces, the '''Wraith Soldiers''' are the muscle of the Wraith army. Despite this, their skills are not viewed in high regard by the order of the [[Space Knight]]s and they're not told too much by [[Wraith Sorcerer|their commanders]].<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
While on a training cruise with new cadets, [[Rom]] and [[Livia]] found a mining colony infested with Wraiths. To Livia's annoyance, there were exclusively from the Soldier caste and she viewed the assignment as beneath her time despite Rom insisting that it taking little time meant it was worthwhile to see it through. These Soldiers proved crafty however with one managing to lure the hot-blooded Cadet [[Auxin]] into an ambush for his [[Neutralizer]]. They'd overlooked the nearby car however which soon revealed itself to be [[Stardrive]] who mopped up the Soldiers in a rather one-sided battle. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} The next morning, at [[Vekktral]]'s command, a Soldier attempted to assimilate {{t|Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast}} which resulted in an out of control Wraith/Cybertronian hybrid. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}} Once the fighting spilled over onto {{t|Xetaxxis}}, the Wraiths replenished their forces by assimilating the natives and turning them into Soldiers. The Soldiers posed as Xetaxxians and played on {{t|Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee}}'s sympathies to lure him, [[Sata]] and {{t|Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus}} into a trap. Though they nearly succeeded in assimilating Bumblebee, they proved little match for Ultra Magnus who ordered his allies to depart while he held the Soldiers off. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}} The sheer number of them however proved too much for him and after dispatching a hundred of them, they managed to pin down the Autobot allowing Vekktral to possess him. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}}<br />
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[[File:ROM4 rom vs wraith soldier.jpg|thumb|left]]<br />
In 2016, Rom turned his Neutralizer into its lance configuration and tossed it at a Wraith to slay it. Believing him to now be an easy target, a Wraith Soldier lunged at Rom who extended his blade and engaged the Soldier in melee. Emerging victorious, Rom began torturing it for information and it revealed that alien cloaking technology was behind the recent failures of his [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]]. The Soldier was saved from further torture when [[Darby Mason]] made Rom see what he was doing and [[Camilla Byers]] confirmed to Rom that the Soldier had told all it knew. At Camilla's urging, Rom then quickly executed it. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part Four}}<br />
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When the Wraiths tried to take over the White House, several Wraith Soldiers made an effort to retrieve {{t|Marissa Faireborn}}'s case of [[Ore-13]] but she and {{t|Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker}} managed to defeat them all. {{tstorylink|Thundercracker & Buster Save the World}}<br />
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After arriving on [[Earth]], [[Orphion]] tracked a large amount of Wraith Soldiers to an oil platform. Prior damage to his armor had rendered his Neutralizer offline but he was still too fast for the surface crew who fled. By the time they'd marshalled their courage and broken out their weapons, Orphion's own were back online and he slew them all crushing the last with his tail. After Rom took a stand against his commander, Orphion sent [[Livia]] down below to use the platform to destroy Earth only for a second squad of Wraith Soldiers to make themselves known and attack her. {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 4}} Despite their numerical advantage, she managed to defeat them. {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 5}}<br />
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In 2017, Rom attempted to save a human from being turned into a Wraith soldier but failed. The newly assimilated soldier and two others stood guard for two Wraith Sorcerers discussing the effects of their magical virus before they were attacked by the [[Micronaut]]s who dispatched the Wraith Soldiers with ease, [[Larissa]] offering her apologies to the one who had once been human. {{storylink|Micronauts: First Strike}} After the virus had been stabilized, other humans were turned into Soldiers only for Rom to quickly put an end to their suffering. {{storylink|ROM: First Strike}}<br />
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[[Category:Dire Wraiths]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Wraith_Soldier&diff=7853Wraith Soldier2017-10-28T19:20:06Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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The backbone of the [[Dire Wraith]] invasion forces, the '''Wraith Soldiers''' are the muscle of the Wraith army. Despite this, their skills are not viewed in high regard by the order of the [[Space Knight]]s and they're not told too much by [[Wraith Sorcerer|their commanders]].<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
While on a training cruise with new cadets, [[Rom]] and [[Livia]] found a mining colony infested with Wraiths. To Livia's annoyance, there were exclusively from the Soldier caste and she viewed the assignment as beneath her time despite Rom insisting that it taking little time meant it was worthwhile to see it through. These Soldiers proved crafty however with one managing to lure the hot-blooded Cadet [[Auxin]] into an ambush for his [[Neutralizer]]. They'd overlooked the nearby car however which soon revealed itself to be [[Stardrive]] who mopped up the Soldiers in a rather one-sided battle. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 1|Shining Armor #1}} The next morning, at [[Vekktral]]'s command, a Soldier attempted to assimilate {{t|Sky Blast (G1)|Sky Blast}} which resulted in an out of control Wraith/Cybertronian hybrid. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 2|Shining Armor #2}} Once the fighting spilled over onto {{t|Xetaxxis}}, the Wraiths replenished their forces by assimilating the natives and turning them into Soldiers. The Soldiers posed as Xetaxxians and played on {{t|Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee}}'s sympathies to lure him, [[Sata]] and {{t|Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus}} into a trap. Though they nearly succeeded in assimilating Bumblebee, they proved little match for Ultra Magnus who ordered his allies to depart while he held the Soldiers off. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 3|Shining Armor #3}} The sheer number of them however proved too much for him and after dispatching a hundred of them, they managed to pin down the Autobot allowing Vekktral to possess him. {{tstorylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}}<br />
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In 2016, Rom turned his Neutralizer into its lance configuration and tossed it at a Wraith to slay it. Believing him to now be an easy target, a Wraith Soldier lunged at Rom who extended his blade and engaged the Soldier in melee. Emerging victorious, Rom began torturing it for information and it revealed that alien cloaking technology was behind the recent failures of his [[Energy Analyzer|Analyzer]]. The Soldier was saved from further torture when [[Darby Mason]] made Rom see what he was doing and [[Camilla Byers]] confirmed to Rom that the Soldier had told all it knew. At Camilla's urging, Rom then quickly executed it. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part Four}}<br />
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When the Wraiths tried to take over the White House, several Wraith Soldiers made an effort to retrieve {{t|Marissa Faireborn}}'s case of [[Ore-13]] but she and {{t|Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker}} managed to defeat them all. {{tstorylink|Thundercracker & Buster Save the World}}<br />
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After arriving on [[Earth]], [[Orphion]] tracked a large amount of Wraith Soldiers to an oil platform. Prior damage to his armor had rendered his Neutralizer offline but he was still too fast for the surface crew who fled. By the time they'd marshalled their courage and broken out their weapons, Orphion's own were back online and he slew them all crushing the last with his tail. After Rom took a stand against his commander, Orphion sent [[Livia]] down below to use the platform to destroy Earth only for a second squad of Wraith Soldiers to make themselves known and attack her. {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 4}} Despite their numerical advantage, she managed to defeat them. {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 5}}<br />
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In 2017, Rom attempted to save a human from being turned into a Wraith soldier but failed. The newly assimilated soldier and two others stood guard for two Wraith Sorcerers discussing the effects of their magical virus before they were attacked by the [[Micronaut]]s who dispatched the Wraith Soldiers with ease, [[Larissa]] offering her apologies to the one who had once been human. {{storylink|Micronauts: First Strike}} After the virus had been stabilized, other humans were turned into Soldiers only for Rom to quickly put an end to their suffering. {{storylink|ROM: First Strike}}<br />
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[[Category:Dire Wraiths]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=M.A.S.K._issue_10&diff=7852M.A.S.K. issue 102017-10-28T19:18:13Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]], [[Ted Adams]]<br />
|date=[[October 11]], [[2017]]<br />
|coverdate=August 2017<br />
|written by=[[Brandon Easton]]<br />
|art by=[[Drew Moss]]<br />
|colors by=[[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
|letters by=[[Gilberto Lazcano]]<br />
|editor=[[David Hedgecock]]<br />
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'''It's the end for M.A.S.K.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
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*[[Matt Trakker]] (1)<br />
*[[Gloria Baker]] (2)<br />
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|h2=[[V.E.N.O.M.]]|c2=<br />
*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (3)<br />
*[[Miles Mayhem]] (4)<br />
*[[Sly Rax]] (5)<br />
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (6)<br />
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|h3=Others|c3=<br />
*[[Shawn Berger]] (7)<br />
*[[Julio Lopez]] (8)<br />
*Paramedic (9)<br />
*Mutants (10)<br />
*Townspeople (11)<br />
*[[Zartan]] (12)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*[[Brad Turner]] is referenced but does not appear.<br />
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*Solicited for release in August, this issue arrives two months late in the middle of October.<br />
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[[Category:M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand issues]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Stormer&diff=7851Stormer2017-10-28T19:11:18Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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[[File:Jem5-StormerFullBody.jpg|200px|thumb|''Sometimes I feel so alone and resent''<br>''Sometimes I don't know where to turn''<br>''Or who to call my friend...''<br>''But I'm okay! (I'm okay!)''<br>''I've got faith in myself!'']]<br />
'''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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==Fiction==<br />
===Hasbro Universe===<br />
====Beginnings====<br />
[[File:Misfits2-KidStormer.png|left|thumb|150px]]<br />
Mary Phillips had a passion for music from a young age, writing and singing her own songs from while she was as young as 8. However, the fact that she was overweight led to her often being teased by her classmates for her musical ambitions. {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 2}}<br />
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Undeterred, Mary continued chasing her dreams as she grew into adulthood and became lead singer of the band [[Glow Slap]], channeling her frustrations over being bullied as a child into her music. After a show that ended with her two bandmates arguing over whether or not her music was any good, completely leaving her out of the conversation, Mary was approached by a green haired woman who had been in the audience. Introducing herself as [[Pizzazz]], this woman told Mary that her music had caught her interest and invited her to join the band she was putting together. After Pizzazz noted that she seemed to have a storm inside her, Mary took on the stage name Stormer and became the second member of [[The Misfits]]. {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 1}} {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 2}} Stormer accompanied Pizzazz as they scouted [[Roxy Pelligrini]] and [[Jetta]], thus fully assembling The Misfits. {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 1}}<br />
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At an early Misfits show, a heckler insulted Stormer's weight, leading to Pizzazz diving into the audience and begin beating him up. After she was arrested, Stormer posted Pizzazz's bail and thanked her for defending her like that but also told her she can't just go around beating up everyone who's mean to her. Pizzazz disagreed with that, leaving Stormer somewhat in shock. {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 2}}<br />
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====Misfits VS! & Meeting Kimber====<br />
Within a few years, The Misfits had established themselves as one of the biggest bands in the world. After playing their newest song [[Attack of the Night]] on [[Lin-Z Pierce]]'s show, Stormer told Pizzazz to shush when she began to badmouth Lin-Z after an awkward interview between the two of them regarding the upcoming Mistfits VS! battle of the bands competition. In the green room, while the rest of her bandmates were complaining about the lack of competition from the other bands in the contest, Stormer brought their attention to a rather impressive submission from [[Jem and the Holograms (band)|Jem and the Holograms]]. While Pizzazz flew into a rage, Stormer complimented The Holograms' musical talents and also recognized their keytarist [[Kimber Benton|Kimber]] from her blog. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Two}} Pizzazz eventually got angry enough that she threw her bandmates into the hall outside the green room. While Jetta and Roxy tried to pin the blame on each other, Stormer told both of them to shut up. {{storylink|Rio Pacheco: Boy Reporter}}<br />
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Stormer soon got to meet Kimber at a signing for The Misfits' new single and complimented her on her band's submission. While they talked, Stormer accepted Kimber's invitation to a coffee date once she got done with the signing. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Two}} Pizzazz and the other Misfits spotted the two of them together and ran in to break up the date. Reconvening at Pizzazz's home, Stormer was chewed out by her bandmates for going on a date with "the enemy". Later, as The Misfits practiced, Stormer defended herself and bandmates when Pizzazz told them they sounded weak. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Three}}<br />
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After receiving a text from her, Stormer met back up with Kimber. Letting Kimber know about how her bandmates think that she betrayed them by going on that first date, Stormer sadly tells Kimber she needs to end their relationship. Though Kimber begs her not to, Stormer insists and leaves, but when Kimber chases after her and looks deep into her eyes, Stormer can't resist but pull her in for a kiss. This rendezvous with Kimber made her late meeting the rest of The Misfits as they got ready to give a performance on [[Super Late with Rick Tenenbaum]], her uncharacteristic lateness earning her another chewing out from the three of them. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Four}}<br />
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When Pizzazz learned of the "accident" (which was actually caused by Misfits groupie [[Clash]]) that had occurred at The Holograms' performance at the charity benefit for the [[Starlight Foundation]], Stormer read the newspaper article about the incident to her bandmates after said paper was thrown at her by Pizzazz. Having continued their relationship in secret, Stormer and Kimber met up and briefly spent time together at the carnival that had been built as part of the Misfits VS! competition. They later ran into each other again, this time accompanied by their respective bands. Recognizing Clash from having run into her at the Starlight benefit, Kimber demanded to know how Stormer could try to hurt her and her sisters like that, though Stormer had no idea what Kimber was talking about. The situation eventually escalated into a full on food fight between the two bands, Stormer taking a piece of cake thrown by [[Aja Leith|Aja]] to the face. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Five}} After a meeting with executives from Misfits label [[5x5 Records]] where The Holograms were disqualified from the competition, Stormer demanded to know if Clash really did sabotage The Holograms' show. Wanting to keep some measure of plausible deniability, Pizzazz told Clash not to answer that before threatening to kick Stormer out of the band if she continued her relationship with Kimber. Not replying to the threat, Stormer merely got up and walked to the back of the bus and began frantically calling and texting Kimber, the Hologram feeling far too heartbroken to respond. To make up for The Holograms no longer being part of the show, Stormer and the rest of The Misfits played a full set after the battle of the bands. However, as they took the stage, The Holograms began playing a show of their own in an abandoned warehouse directly across from where The Misfits were, stealing the audience away from them. {{storylink|Showtime: Part Six}}<br />
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After this incident, Stormer and the rest of The Misfits met with [[Elise Harcourt]], the head of 5x5 Records, who was extremely unhappy with how the Misfits VS! competition had played out. Throughout the meeting, Stormer did her best to keep Pizzazz from flying off the handle. Later, Stormer went to the bookstore and invited Kimber there to join her. When Kimber never showed up, she began working on writing a new song, [[Shades of Blue]] expressing her feelings about their relationship. {{storylink|Viral: Part One}} When The Misfits next met and tried playing the song, Pizzazz felt that they needed to speed it up, as a ballad like that would be out of place on the album they were working on. Stormer defended the song as is but Pizzazz insisted that they either had to change it our drop it from the album, leading to Stormer telling Pizzazz to stop acting like she was the boss. Though things briefly got tense, Pizzazz calmly admitted that it was a good song but again repeated that it would be too out of place on the album and that Stormer was attached to it because she wrote it about Kimber. Eventually the two came to an agreement that they'll find a place for it as is on their next album. Soon after this, Stormer was excited to learn that she and her bandmates would be going on a brief west coast tour. {{storylink|Viral: Part Two}}<br />
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When The Misfits sneaked into The Holograms' Halloween and music video premier party with the intention to crash it as revenge for stealing their audience, Stormer was the only one among her bandmates to ask if what they were doing was right. Being told to hush by Jetta and Roxy, Stormer then spotted Kimber from across the room and ran off to another part of the party, feeling unable to deal with that. However, Kimber soon found her and ran after her. Tearing up, Stormer again told Kimber that she had nothing to do with the sabotaging of the Starlight benefit and was surprised to hear that Kimber believed her. Having made up, Stormer and Kimber decided to continue their relationship and agreed that they would stop keeping it a secret. After the party, Stormer called a cab for herself, Roxy, and Jetta as Pizzazz had taken off early without even telling her bandmates after receiving the news that The Holograms would be opening for The Misfits on their tour. {{storylink|Viral: Part Three}} As Pizzazz's emergency contact, Stormer was the first to know that Pizzazz was hospitalized after a car accident that same night. Rushing to the hospital, Stormer was met there by [[Rio Pacheco|Rio]], who'd been the one to find Pizzazz in the first place. The two of them sat together as they discussed Pizzazz, Stormer beating herself up for being mean to Pizzazz earlier in the night after she left her bandmates behind when she evidently trusts her enough to list her as an emergency contact. They continued talking for a while longer, Rio letting it slip that he knew about Stormer and Kimber's relationship, before he eventually went to go tell Roxy and Jetta the news about Pizzazz as Stormer couldn't get a hold of them. Before he left, Stormer assured Rio she'd be okay sitting in the hospital alone as she'd called her [[Craig Phillips|brother]]. {{storylink|Rio Pacheco: Boy Reporter}}<br />
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A few months later, Stormer and the rest of The Misfits attended a holiday party being thrown by 5x5 Records. As part of a plan put together by Harcourt to get the bands used to working together, both The Misfits and The Holograms drew names for a Secret Santa and pulled someone from the other band. Stormer and [[Shana Elmsford|Shana]] pulled each other. Though her bandmates were totally opposed to having to get gifts for their rivals, Stormer knew from Kimber that The Holograms were getting stuff for them and used this information to convince them to do the same. When Christmas eventually came, the fashionable Shana (with some help from Kimber) had sewn a dress specifically for Stormer and in return Stormer gave her the gift of a new, fancy mannequin. {{storylink|Holiday Special 2015}}<br />
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As their joint tour drew closer, The Misfits and Holograms were called in for one last meeting going over the final dates and to get everyone on the same page. Before the meeting, Kimber had gotten her hands on a vial of powder from a fortune teller that, when mixed into a drink, would help ease the tensions between the two bands. However, Kimber didn't listen to the fortune teller's warning that the mixture became a potent love potion in higher doses and mixed the entire vial into a pitcher of water that was served at the meeting, thus affecting everyone in both bands aside from [[Jerrica Benton|Jerrica]] and Jem. As the love potion took hold on her, Stormer found herself falling madly in love with a barista. As her desperate displays of affection to the uninterested woman caught the attention of some nearby fans, Jerrica used [[Synergy]] to project a hologram of the barista to lure Stormer into the backseat of her car, hopefully keeping her from embarrassing herself further. Once Jetta was caught, she was locked in the back of Stormer's car as well, Rio keeping an eye on them until the potion wore off. Once everything was back to normal, footage of Stormer grovelling at the barista's feet made it onto the news, her bizarre behavior being explained away as a marketing stunt for the tour. {{storylink|Valentine Special}}<br />
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{{charstub}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part One}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part Two}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part Three}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part Four}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part Five}} {{storylink|Dark Jem: Part Six}} {{storylink|Ch-Ch-Changes: Part One}} {{storylink|Ch-Ch-Changes: Part Two}} {{storylink|Enter The Stingers: Part One}} {{storylink|Enter The Stingers: Part Two}} {{storylink|Enter The Stingers: Part Three}} {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 1}} {{storylink|Our Songs Are Better: Part 2}}<br />
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===''Jem Babies''===<br />
After a particularly exhausting concert, Kimber had a cinematically influenced dream about The Holograms and The Misfits as babies living in a nursery under the care of Nanny Synergy. When the two bands of infants argued over which group their new pet kitten would be named after, Stormer suggested they compromise and name her Mis-gram, which Shana then refined into Miss Gram. While she was taking her turn playing with Miss Gram, Stormer was approached by Kimber who shyly asked if she could have her turn. Kimber then shared her idea of the two bands working together to put on a show for Miss Gram with Stormer, something that would hopefully allow The Holograms and Misfits to put aside their differences. Agreeing to her plan, Stormer and Kimber got to work writing the lyrics to their new song. Their plan of bringing their bands together proved to be (more or less) a success. {{storylink|Outrageous Annual 2015}}<br />
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===The Starlights' fan fiction===<br />
In the Jem and the Holograms fan fiction written by [[The Starlights]], Stormer was the most trusted advisor of Majestrix Pizzazz, serving as the moral voice to the queen of the universe. However, when Stormer fell in love [[Kimber Benton|Kimber]], a member of a band of rebels who opposed Pizzazz's rule, she found herself banished to the Planet of Lost Souls. She remained there for months, her lover having no idea where she was until she had a dream of them being reunited on the Planet of Lost Souls, something she speculated might have been due to Stormer telepathically sending her a message. Believing that Stormer may be able to help them put an end to Pizzazz's tyrannical rule, Kimber and her fellow rebels began working to rescue her. Once they knew the secret to passing the otherwise impenetrable mists that surrounded the Planet of Lost Souls, The Holograms found Stormer almost immediately after landing their ship.<br />
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Taking her in, Stormer revealed to The Holograms that the reason that Pizzazz's behavior had become increasingly evil was that before banishing her, Pizzazz had torn out her own heart so that she would never have to know pain like Stormer's betrayal had caused her ever again. Using her psychic powers, Shana discovered that Pizzazz hid her heart away in the ball and chain she'd made Stormer wear as part of her banishment and that the only way to get to it was if Stormer's tears fell onto it. Drawing upon the pity she felt for her friend to make herself cry, her tears did indeed cause the ball to melt away and reveal Pizzazz's missing heart inside, but the heart then quickly crumbled into ash. With their plan to reunite Pizzazz with her heart out the window, rebel leader Jem believed music might be the solution to their problem. Setting down on Planet Pizzazz, The Holograms began playing before Stormer came out and took the microphone, singing a soulful ballad that touched Pizzazz so much that it caused her heart to regrow! With this, Pizzazz became a benevolent leader and peace was finally restored to the galaxy. {{storylink|Outrageous Annual 2017}} <br />
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===Hasbro Universe===<br />
A member of The Misfits in this universe as well, Stormer was featured along with her bandmates on a poster owned by [[Ian Noble]] {{storylink|England, Half English}}<br />
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===Jemcorp Universe===<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[File:TransformersAnnual2017-KimberAndStormer.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Cute cameo or hint towards them being {{t|Titan Master}} [[Garrison Blackrock|sleeper agents]]? You be the judge!]]<br />
*In a [https://rzzy0b736k-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/JEM-bio-stormer-final-550x814.jpg profile] put out by IDW ahead of the release of ''Jem''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first issue, Stormer's age is given as 20 years old, making her the youngest of The Misfits. Additionally, IDW ''Jem'' writer [[Kelly Thompson]] gave Stormer's date of birth as July 5 in an answer [https://1979semifinalist.tumblr.com/post/147619682995/do-you-and-sophie-have-birth-dateszodiac-signs| on her Tumblr].<br />
*According to an answer from IDW ''Jem'' artist [[Sophie Cambell]] [http://mooncalfe.tumblr.com/post/147072940145/super-mega-ultra-important-idw-jem-wikia-question| on her Tumblr], Stormer is of Jewish/Middle Eastern descent.<br />
*In the 2017 {{t|Ghost Stories|Transformers Annual}}, a Cybertronian resembling Stormer appears as a background extra alongside another who resembles Kimber in a flashback to pre-war Cybertron.<br />
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Formerly a police officer by the name of '''Orion Pax''', '''Optimus Prime''' is the leader of the {{t|Autobot|Autobots}}. The first true heir to the title of "Prime" and holder of the {{t|Matrix of Leadership}} in millennia, Optimus' commitment to freedom and equality for all sentient beings is backed up by incredible leadership skills that allowed him and his forces to hold the line against the tyrannical {{t|Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron}} and his {{t|Decepticon|Decepticons}} for millennia. Now that the war is over, however, Optimus occasionally feels at a loss with what to do with himself in this time of relative peace.<br />
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After contact was restored between [[Cybertron]] and several of its long lost colony worlds, Optimus found that many of the inhabitants of these colonies viewed him and the corrupt Primes of old as holy figures. While Optimus has always struggled to reconcile who he is with the dark legacy of the title he holds, some worry that the worship of the colonists has gone to his head, leading him to repeat the evils of his predecessors. Of particular concern is his annexation of [[Earth]] into the Cybertronian {{t|Council of Worlds}}, a move he claims was for the planet's own protection but many others see as the beginnings of a new empire...<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
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===Hasbro Universe===<br />
{{MainTF|Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity}}<br />
Though initially interested in more intellectual pursuits during his education, Orion Pax ultimately became a rising star in the Cybertronian police, eventually becoming captain of the {{t|Rodion}} police department. While working as a cop, he learned of a miner and political writer by the name of {{t|Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron}} who had been arrested unfairly. After getting Megatron released, Orion encouraged him to continue his fight against the {{t|Functionism}} that purveyed Cybertronian society, having been quite inspired by his words. {{tstorylink|Chaos Theory: Part 1}} After discovering just how corrupt the Cybertronian senate was, Orion forced his way into the {{t|Grand Imperium}} to make a defiant speech calling out the planet's leaders. Touched by Orion's speech, Senator {{t|Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity family|Shockwave}} befriended the officer, the two bots becoming close allies in the struggle against the senate's corruption. {{tstorylink|Chaos Theory: Part 2}} After the senate discovered Shockwave was plotting against them, they had him arrested and punished by their goons, forcing Orion to go on the run before making contact with {{t|Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta}}, another ally of Shockwave's. {{tstorylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br />
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After Megatron and his new {{t|Decepticon}} army murdered the majority of the senate and their leader {{t|Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime}}, Zeta was chosen to become the new Prime and lead the new, supposedly better senate. Though Orion believed Zeta was a force for positive change, he eventually proved to be just as corrupt and evil as his predecessors. Forming an alliance with Megatron, Orion helped to overthrow Zeta Prime but was betrayed by Megatron. Shot and left for dead, the wounded Orion discovered the long lost {{t|Matrix of Leadership}} and was revived as Optimus Prime. {{tstorylink|The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy}} With the Decepticons having become the thing they once stood against, Optimus Prime took up leadership of the Autobots and waged war against them, even as the conflict all but destroyed Cybertron and spilled off onto other worlds.<br />
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After four million years, the war finally came to a head on [[Earth]]. After a traitor in the Autobot's ranks gave the Decepticons intel that allowed them to make an all out attack against key Autobot outposts, Optimus Prime was nearly killed but made a miraculous recovery just in time to drive the main Decepticon force off Earth, critically injuring Megatron in the process. Unfortunately, Prime didn't recover in time to prevent widespread chaos and destruction all across the planet. {{tstorylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}} Without Megatron's leadership, the Decepticons forward momentum stalled, leading to the Autobots declaring victory over them within a matter of years. {{tstorylink|The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers vol. 1}} In the aftermath of the war's final battle, Cybertron was restored and the Matrix was broken in half. As millions of Cybertronians who'd remained neutral returned home, Optimus found that they viewed him as a symbol of the war that destroyed their planet. Leaving the halves of the Matrix behind, Optimus relinquished his title and went back to Orion Pax before leaving Cybertron to roam the stars in hopes of maintaining peace. {{tstorylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} While off in space, Orion discovered a plot engineered by his old friend Shockwave, one that he eventually found would lead to the destruction of time and space. {{tstorylink|The Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots in Disguise season 1}} Reclaiming his title, Optimus teamed up with a repentant Megatron to stop Shockwave's scheme. {{tstorylink|Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron}}<br />
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===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===<br />
{{Charstub|fiction}} {{storylink|Aw Yeah Revolution!}}<br />
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===Clueniverse===<br />
[[Carlos Guzman]] had a toy and poster of Optimus Prime decorating his office. {{storylink|Clue issue 1|Clue #1}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{t|Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime}} at the TFWiki<br />
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|publisher=[[Ted Adams]]<br />
|coverdate=June, July, August 2017<br />
|written by=[[John Barber]], [[Cullen Bunn]], [[Brandon Easton]], [[Jimmy Johnston]], [[David Mariotte]], [[Chris Ryall]], [[Mairghread Scott]], [[Aubrey Sitterson]]<br />
|art by=[[Robert Atkins]], [[Casey Coller]] [[Jed Dougherty]], [[Max Dunbar]], [[Marcelo Ferreira]], [[Andrew Griffith]], [[Guido Guidi]], [[Ron Joseph]], [[Steve Kurth]], [[Jack Lawrence]], [[Igor Lima]], [[Sam Lotfi]], [[David Messina]], [[Alex Milne]], [[Giannis Milonogiannis]], [[Fico Ossio]], [[Sara Pitre-Durocher]], [[Paolo Villanelli]], [[Kei Zama]]<br />
|colors by=[[Alessandra Alexakis]], [[John-Paul Bove]], [[Sebastian Cheng]], [[David Garcia Cruz]], [[Thomas Deer]], [[Jordi Escuin]], [[Jay Fotos]], [[Simon Gough]], [[Lovern Kindzierski]], [[Joana Lafuente]], David Messina, [[Michele Pasta]], [[Ander Zarate]]<br />
|edits by=[[David Mariotte]] and [[David Hedgecock]]<br />
|TPB ISBN=978-1684050994<br />
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The '''''Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook''''' is a three issue limited series published by [[IDW Publishing]] in 2017 featuring profiles of the various characters of the [[Hasbro Universe]]. Continuing the style of profiles that were first seen as back up material in the ''[[Revolution]]'' miniseries, the profiles are written by the writers of the character's respective series and provide a brief synopsis of their adventures up to that point along with various other biographical information and illustrations provided by a variety of artists. Each issue also contains a short comic story, papercraft projects, and a dual sided pin-up that showcases that issues characters on one side and a map of a Hasbro Universe location on the other.<br />
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==Issue 1==<br />
*Release date: [[June 7]], [[2017]] (official)<br />
*Story: [[Roadies]], by [[Sina Grace]], [[Robert Atkins]], [[Jorge Sutil]], and [[Shawn Lee]]<br />
*Pin-up: The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
*Map: The ''[[Lemuria]]'', by [[Guido Guidi]]<br />
*Papercraft: [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] and the [[Thunderhawk]], by [[Kelly Blake]]<br />
*Characters:<br />
{{collist|4|<br />
**[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]]<br />
**[[Ian Noble|Action Man]]<br />
**{{t|Aileron}}<br />
**[[Arcee]]<br />
**[[Atomic Man]]<br />
**[[Gloria Baker|Aura (Gloria Baker)]]<br />
**[[Axiom]]<br />
**[[Baron Daegon|Baron Daigon]]<br />
**[[Baron Karza]]<br />
**[[Baroness]]<br />
**[[Pauline Bestley]]<br />
**[[Biotron (Micronaut)|Biotron]]<br />
**[[Garrison Blackrock|Blackrock]]<br />
**{{t|Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing}}<br />
**{{t|Bob (IDW)|Bob}}, {{t|Buster (IDW)|Buster the Dog}}, and {{t|D.0.C.}}<br />
**[[Bulletman|Bullet Man]]<br />
**[[Camilla Byers]]<br />
**{{t|Centurion (IDW)|Centurion}}<br />
**[[Bryce Chan]]<br />
**[[Joe Colton|General Joe Colton]]<br />
**[[Cover Girl]]<br />
**[[Crystal Ball]]<br />
**[[Doc II|Doc]]<br />
**[[Doc|Doc Sr.]]<br />
**[[Mercy Gale|Doctor X]]<br />
**[[Countdown|Dave Dubosky]]<br />
**[[Duke]]<br />
}}<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Several of the G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. characters profiled within, by [[Sam Lofti]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' The heroes and villains of Micronauts and ROM, by [[Marcelo Borstelmann]].<br />
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===Notes===<br />
*This issue leaked early on the Apple iBooks store on May 31, 2017, one week ahead of it's intended release date.<br />
*Originally solicited for May, this book ended up being officially released in June.<br />
*Baron Daegon's entry spells his name "Daigon" as it was written when he first appeared in [[Micronauts issue 2|''Micronauts'' #2]], rather than the later used "Daegon."<br />
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==Issue 2==<br />
*Release date: [[August 2]], [[2017]]<br />
*Story: {{t|Upgrade}}, by [[Sean Ryan]], [[Robert Atkins]], [[Jorge Sutil]], and [[Tom B. Long]]<br />
*Pin-up: The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
*Map: {{t|Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan}}, by [[Guido Guidi]]<br />
*Papercraft: [[Scarlett]], by [[Kelly Blake]]<br />
*Characters:<br />
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**[[Brad Turner|Eclipse]]<br />
**[[Marissa Faireborn]]<br />
**[[Grand Slam]]<br />
**{{t|Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock}}<br />
**[[Julio Lopez|Gulliver]]<br />
**[[Gung-Ho]]<br />
**[[Helix]]<br />
**[[Vanessa Warfield|Ice Queen]]<br />
**[[Jazz]]<br />
**[[Steven Klain|Klain]]<br />
**[[Space Knight|Knights of the Solstar Order]]<br />
**[[Garrison Kreiger]]<br />
**[[Kup]]<br />
**[[Lady Jaye]]<br />
**[[Larissa]]<br />
**[[Livia]]<br />
**[[Mainframe]]<br />
**[[Major Bludd]]<br />
**[[Darby Mason]]<br />
**[[Mayday]]<br />
**[[Miles Mayhem]]<br />
**{{t|Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron}}<br />
**[[Microtron (Micronaut)|Microtron]]<br />
**[[Dr. Mindbender]]<br />
**[[Optimus Prime]]<br />
**[[Oktober Guard]]<br />
**[[Orphion]]<br />
**[[Oziron Rael]]<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Miles Mayhem stares directly into your soul while Vanessa Warfield is chased by M.A.S.K. and Kup, by [[Sam Lofti]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' G.I. Joe and Matt Trakker, by [[Marcelo Borstelmann]].<br />
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===Notes===<br />
*As part of the ongoing series of delays that have plagued IDW's books throughout 2017, this book arrived late in the first week of August rather than in June as was originally solicited.<br />
*Digital versions of this issue contain a "Digital Ashcan" for {{t|Aw Yeah Revolution! issue 1|''Aw Yeah Revolution!'' #1}}.<br />
*Grimlock is depicted in his normal G1 design rather than his similar but distinctive IDW design.<br />
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==Issue 3==<br />
*Release date: [[August 30]], [[2017]]<br />
*Story: None (See notes)<br />
*Pin-up: The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]]<br />
*Map: The ''[[Heliopolis]]'', by [[Guido Guidi]]<br />
*Papercraft: [[Rom]] and [[Optimus Prime]], by [[Kelly Blake]]<br />
*Characters:<br />
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**[[Phenolo-Phi]]<br />
**[[Quick Kick]]<br />
**[[Red Falcon]]<br />
**[[Roadblock]]<br />
**[[Rock 'n Roll]]<br />
**[[Rom]]<br />
**[[Terrence Salmons]]<br />
**[[Scarlett]]<br />
**[[Sgt. Savage]]<br />
**[[Shazraella]]<br />
**[[Bruno Sheppard]]<br />
**[[Shipwreck]]<br />
**[[Skywarp]]<br />
**[[Snake Eyes]]<br />
**[[Soundwave]]<br />
**[[Matt Trakker|Spectrum]]<br />
**[[Stalker]]<br />
**[[Starscream]]<br />
**[[Sly Rax|Stiletto]]<br />
**[[Storm Shadow II|Storm Shadow]]<br />
**{{t|Thundercracker}}<br />
**{{t|Victorion}}<br />
**[[Windblade]]<br />
**[[Spike|Spike Witwicky]]<br />
**[[Zandar]]<br />
**[[Zarana]]<br />
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===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Regular cover:''' The characters profiled in the book, by [[Fico Ossio]] and [[Jordi Escuin]].<br />
*'''Subscription cover:''' Rom and G.I. Joe, by [[Sam Lofti]].<br />
*'''Retailer incentive cover:''' Action Man, Doctor X, a group of Autobots, and [[Leoric|a mysterious figure cloaked in shadow]], by [[Marcelo Borstelmann]].<br />
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===Notes===<br />
*Unlike the previous two issues, this issue doesn't contain a story even though it was solicited as having one and the introductory letter from editor David Mariotte specifically calls it out. Based on the description as a prelude to ''[[First Strike]]'' that features characters like [[Garrison Kreiger]] and [[Joe Colton]], however, it would seem that this issue was intended to contain {{t|First Strike issue 0|''First Strike'' #0}}, which was released separately. Presumably this was done so this prelude could actually be released before the book it was supposed to come out before.<br />
*Perhaps to make up for the missing story, the issue does contain a preview for {{t|First Strike issue 1|the first issue}} of ''First Strike''.<br />
*The shadowed figure seen on the retailer incentive cover doesn't match any of the characters profiled in the book, but it ''does'' match the classic design of ''[[Visionaries (franchise)|Visionaries]]'' character [[Leoric]]. ''Visionaries'' was announced to become part of the [[Hasbro Universe]] after ''First Strike'' prior to this issue's release. An odd tease at things to come or an intended reveal gone wrong?<br />
* Rom's profile has been rewritten since its previous appearances, to reflect the events of the 2017 Annual, Revolution and the new plot beginning with issue 5 of his series.<br />
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'''Action Man''' is the greatest hero of them all! <br />
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==Known Action Men==<br />
===Christopher Marlowe===<br />
'''Christopher Marlowe''' was the first [[Action Man Programme|Action Man]].<br />
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===Action Man of the 1960s===<br />
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One of the numerous agents to take the moniker of '''Action Man'''. He was active from the 1960s into the 1980s, and often found himself allied with members of the [[Adventure Team]].<br />
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One of Action Man's missions in the 1960s brought him to the [[United States of America]], tracking a group of [[Brasnya]]n spies trying to smuggle [[IRON Trooper]] parts. The Brasnyans had set up shop in a "haunted house" in [[Pawtucket]], [[Rhode Island]], using hologram technology to create "ghosts" to scare away any snoopers. One such snooper was kid detective [[Atomic Man|Mighty Mikey Power]], who was searching for a missing boy named [[Finney]]. Action Man saved Mikey from the Brasnyans, fighting them off while Mikey found Finney. Action Man was impressed with Mikey's detective work despite his disability, commenting that it was too bad the word wasn't fit for "decent chaps." {{tstorylink|Power and Glory}}<br />
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Sometime during the 1980s, Action Man encountered the [[Adventure Team]]. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} At another time, [[Joe Colton|"G.I. Joe" Colton]] mistook [[Soundwave]] for a piloted mecha and wondered if Action Man was at the helm. {{tstorylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}}<br />
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By [[1994]], this Action Man had been succeeded by a new [[Action Man (1990s)|Action Man]]. {{tstorylink|When Eagles Scream}} In [[2016]], [[Pauline Bestley]] showed images of him and several precursors/successors to [[Ian Noble]] while lecturing the incumbent Action Man on his responsibilities. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}}<br />
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===Action Man of the 1990s===<br />
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The '''Action Man''' of the 1990s! Fittingly for the hero of such an era, he is the leader of [[Team Extreme]]. <br />
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Action Man and his team worked with [[Sgt. Savage]] in the 90s, fighting various villains. {{tstorylink|When Eagles Scream}}<br />
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===Mike Brogan===<br />
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===Ian Noble===<br />
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{{disambig2|the Dire Wraith who impersonated Joe Colton circa the Revolution event|the real Joe Colton|Joe Colton}}<br />
[[File:ExRiD 56 NotJoeColton.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"In the event of say, a full scale alien invasion, how prepared do you think this planet's defences would be? ''Tell me''."]]<br />
While this creature may look like '''[[Joe Colton]]''', [[United States Army|US Army]] General and leader of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], it is actually one of the dreaded [[Dire Wraith]]s! Acting on the part of its masters, "Colton" has taken command of the [[Earth Defense Command]], organizing them against [[Rom]] the [[Space Knight]] and the {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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Luring him onto a [[Tomahawk]] by impersonating someone he respected, {{tstorylink|First Strike issue 0|First Strike #0}} a group of Dire Wraiths attacked Joe Colton intending to transform him into one of them. As one of the Wraiths attempted to infect him, Colton was forced to cut off his hand and jump out of the vehicle into the woods below. Fortunately for the Wraiths, the hand proved to be enough to allow them to absorb Colton's DNA and assume his form. {{tstorylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}<br />
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The [[President of the United States]] unwittingly put the Wraith Colton in charge of the Earth Defense Command, after [[Optimus Prime]] raised a {{t|Metrotitan (Zone)|giant Transformer}} from out of [[Monument Valley]]. Among his first actions were recalling operative [[Spike Witwicky]] to the E.D.C. fleet, and dispatching former Joes [[Scarlett]] and [[Roadblock]] to transfer captured Cybertronian sleeper agent [[Garrison Blackrock]] to a safe house. {{tstorylink|White Light}}<br />
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Colton traveled with Scarlett and Roadblock to [[Vandenburg Air Force Base]] in [[California]] to meet with EDC agents in response to reports of [[Rom|a silver alien]] murdering people. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part One}} However, they soon departed. While over [[Arizona]], Colton cited the {{t|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|greater threat}} in [[Utah]], leaving the lone killer alien problem to the local authorities. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part Two}}<br />
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Wraith Colton and his colleagues [[Riggins]] and [[Kohl]] also approached [[Caleb Awan]] (also a Wraith) and [[Axiom|Aaron Grundy]] of the newly-bought [[DeepWave Technologies]] to upgrade their cybernetic defense armor, using [[Ore-13]] to turn the suited Aaron into the monstrous slave of the Wraiths known as Axiom. {{storylink|Field Test}}<br />
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Colton later met up with Scarlett and General [[Miles Mayhem|Miles Manheim]] to discuss the history of Transformer activity on [[Earth]]. During the meeting, Colton was very vocal about his dislike of the Transformers, and revealed to Manheim that the worldwide deposits of Ore-13 were destabilizing, and on the verge of destructive nuclear fission. Believing this to be {{t|Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime}}’s doing, Colton tasked Manheim with using the technology of a captive and tortured {{t|Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing}} to disrupt Prime’s plans. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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[[File:Revolution 1 RomKillsWraithColton.jpg|thumb|left|200px|So powerful was Rom's blast that one "Z" just wouldn't cut it.]]<br />
Later in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], Colton led a G.I. Joe unit in an attack against the Transformers. The battle was then interrupted by the appearance of Rom, {{tstorylink|Concorde Hymn}} who had learned from battling Axiom that Colton was involved with the Wraiths' Ore-13 activities. {{storylink|Field Test}} Thinking Rom to be another Cybertronian, the Joes fired on him. Colton ordered the Joes to ignore the Transformers and focus their attacks on Rom, only to be destroyed in an instant by Rom's Neutralizer. Scarlett was devastated and, looking at his remains, swore vengeance on the Transformers. {{tstorylink|Concorde Hymn}}<br />
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The corpse of "Colton" was analyzed by [[Doc II|Doc]], who found non-human DNA, alerting the Joes to the Wraith infiltration. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}}<br />
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The exposure of Colton's true fate would hang over the Joes for some time. While beating the [[Wild Bill]] Wraith to death, [[Rock 'n Roll]] angrily demanded to know what they had done to Colton. {{tstorylink|D.T.A.}} Even after fighting alongside Rom in Monument Valley, [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] remained in denial that Rom had not killed the true Colton, {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 1}} and upon meeting Rom again in [[Schleteva]], [[Mayday]] by reflex referred to Rom as the murderer of Colton. {{tstorylink|Crisis Intervention}}<br />
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A remarkably skilled former agent of [[MI6]], '''Terrence Salmons''' is now an elite field agent of the [[Action Man Programme]] and a member of Action Man's support team. During [[Mike Brogan]]'s tenure as Action Man, Salmons was largely considered to be next in line for the title. However, circumstances forced the inexperienced [[Ian Noble]] to be promoted instead. Salmons makes no secret of his frustration at having to both support and train a rookie he doesn't much care for who inherited the title he was once all but guaranteed but is nevertheless a loyal and dedicated agent of A.M.P..<br />
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Terrence Salmons was born in [[London]], [[England]]. An exceptional student, he graduated top of his class from Imperial College London and shortly thereafter became an agent of [[MI6]]. After pretending to defect and join [[Triple-I]], Salmons spent a year gaining the trust of the organization's leader before revealing his true loyalties during the [[Schrödinger's Box Affair]]. This earned him the attention of [[Action Man Programme]] director [[Pauline Bestley]], who then recruited him for her organization.<br />
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A field agent working closely with [[Mike Brogan]], Salmons was considered a shoo-in for next in line for the title of Action Man. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook#Issue 3|Terrence Salmons profile}} However, after Brogan sacrificed himself saving the world and [[Ian Noble]] accidentally revealed himself to the public in the wake of Brogan's sacrifice, Bestley had no choice but to promote him instead. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}} It was no secret that Salmons was immensely frustrated by this, feeling that Ian being chosen over him was at least partially due to racism as well as a general disbelief that an inexperienced rookie like Ian could hold such an honorable title. The job of rectifying Ian's inexperience fell to Salmons, something he was also none too happy with. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook#Issue 3|Terrence Salmons profile}}<br />
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Continuing his role as a member of Action Man's support team, Salmons was occupied dealing with a terrorist group's B team while Action Man dealt with the others as they were attempting to set off a dirty atom bomb aboard a passenger train. With his train threatening to collide with a tanker, Ian decided the best course of action would be to derail the passenger train, sending it hurdling off into a nearby [[Shepreth Wildlife Park|wildlife preserve]]. Arriving on the scene just in time to scare off some tigers who were menacing Ian, Salmons made a point of sharply criticizing his reckless endangerment of civilians. Back at headquarters, Ian and Salmons sparred, with Salmons easily beating him. {{storylink|Absolute Beginners}}<br />
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Despite orders to leave the radical separatists occupying the [[Hauteville House]] to Salmons and focus on his mission of quietly retrieving the [[O.S. codex|sensitive information]] being stored there, Ian couldn't resist leaping into action when he noticed one of the separatists wore a belt buckle marked with an "X", infuriating Salmons when he and [[Mercy Gale]] arrived on the scene. As Ian was chewed out by Bestley for his brashness, Salmons noted that this was what happened when an Action Man was chosen based on his appearance rather than his skills. After they were both thrown out of Bestley's office, Salmons roughed Ian up a bit in the hall before he was interrupted and told to knock it off by A.M.P. quartermaster (and Ian's friend) [[Bryce Chan]]. After Ian snuck out of his room to visit Bryce, Salmons retrieved him and escorted him back. In the hall outside Ian's room, he griped about Noble to Mercy, who was much more understanding towards Ian. While they talked, Salmons noticed that his security card was missing and ran back into Ian's room to discover he was nowhere to be found.<br />
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Tracking him down to [[Bath]], Salmons met up with him as he finished taking out [[Colditz]]. Given that masked villain had just received an invitation to the mysterious [[Chateau]], Salmons asked Ian if he was prepared to go undercover. {{storylink|England, Half English}} While listening in on Colditz's conversation with a [[Storm Shadow II|mysterious individual]] in the shadows before he engaged him, Ian heard him mention a traitor within the Action Man Programme, who he assumed was Salmons given his obvious distaste for him. Though he only told Bryce about this at first, he shared his suspicion with Bestley after his cover at the Chateau was blown. However, he only shared this suspicion after Salmons and Mercy Gale were sent in to provide support for him. Taking the controls of the VTOL after the [[McFeeley|pilot]] was killed by the Chateau's anti-air defenses, Salmons set the craft down as Action Man, surprisingly, still managed to complete his mission. Given that their intel had clearly been compromised, Salmons gave Ian a rare commendation on managing to salvage a mission where he'd been set up to fail. As Ian handed Salmons a data card retrieved from a scientist at the Chateau marked with a symbol that led him to believe Bryce had actually been the traitor, Salmons noted that the card, while similar, was actually different from the kinds of data cards used by A.M.P.. Suddenly, Salmons was then shot in the back by Mercy, who revealed that she had not only been the traitor, but had also been Doctor X all along! {{storylink|Out of the Way}}<br />
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Falling into a snowbank, Salmons played dead and grabbed onto the VTOL as Ian was forced to pilot it while Mercy held him at gunpoint. As Ian landed the craft near a tree, Salmons jumped into said tree as the VTOL made its descent and laid there waiting for the right time to strike. After Ian set him up with a one liner, Salmons jumped from the tree and began firing at Gale, who deflected his shots with a forcefield. Salmons continued to fight with his former partner as Ian struggled to free himself from his handcuffs until Gale took to the skies with her jetpack and Ian used Salmons's back as a springboard to grab onto her.<br />
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After this incident, Salmons visited Ian's hospital room while he made a recovery from his injuries during the mission. However, Ian wasn't nearly as hurt as Salmons believed, which he only discovered when he leapt out of his bed when Bestley arrived to give them their next mission: providing backup for an [[Secret Intelligence Service|S.I.S.]] unit in [[Greece]]. {{storylink|Mr Love and Justice}} Piloting an A.M.P. helicopter while Ian bungee jumped/glided into a giant fissure inside [[Mount Olympus]], Salmons pulled Ian out as he began picking up readings that the [[Ore-13]] inside the mountain was about to explode. {{tstorylink|Concorde Hymn}}<br />
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Hacking into security cameras, Salmons learned that the [[United States of America|American]] [[M.A.S.K.]] team had carried out an operation in [[Athens]], Greece where they captured a [[Kup|Cybertronian]] who was now illegally being held captive at [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'s base on [[Governor's Island]]. In the wake of Ian's rescue mission, he lost contact with A.M.P. headquarters, causing Bestley and Bryce to worry that he may be dead. Salmons didn't share their concern, knowing that that would be far too easy a way for him to inherit the title of Action Man. {{tstorylink|The Modern World}}<br />
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Salmons helped out as the Action Man Programme took the mutated populace of [[Verenya]] into their care. While there, he commented to new A.M.P. agent Kup that even though he'd wanted Ian gone, he never wanted him to just disappear of the face of the Earth like he'd just had. {{tstorylink|Crisis Intervention}} After the mutant [[Schleteva]]ns were transferred to an {{t|Onyx}} facility in [[Buenos Aires]], Salmons sat on the roof with G.I. Joe operative [[Mayday]] and listened to the time-displaced [[Sgt. Savage]] explain his story. Later, as [[Joe Colton|Baron Ironblood]] and his forces arrived to rescue [[Garrison Kreiger]] and take back the [[Talisman]], Salmons joined Mayday and Savage (as well as several other members of the G.I. Joe team) in fighting back against the villains. {{tstorylink|When Eagles Scream}} {{tstorylink|Ghost in the Machine}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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{{disambig2|the Dire Wraith who impersonated Joe Colton circa the Revolution event|the real Joe Colton|Joe Colton}}<br />
[[File:ExRiD 56 NotJoeColton.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"In the event of say, a full scale alien invasion, how prepared do you think this planet's defences would be? ''Tell me''."]]<br />
While this creature may look like '''[[Joe Colton]]''', [[United States Army|US Army]] General and leader of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], it is actually one of the dreaded [[Dire Wraith]]s! Acting on the part of its masters, "Colton" has taken command of the [[Earth Defense Command]], organizing them against [[Rom]] the [[Space Knight]] and the {{t|Transformer}}s.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Luring him onto a [[Tomahawk]] by impersonating someone he respected, {{tstorylink|First Strike issue 0|First Strike #0}} a group of Dire Wraiths attacked Joe Colton intending to transform him into one of them. As one of the Wraiths attempted to infect him, Colton was forced to cut off his hand and jump out of the vehicle into the woods below. Fortunately for the Wraiths, the hand proved to be enough to allow them to absorb Colton's DNA and assume his form. {{tstorylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}<br />
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The [[President of the United States]] unwittingly put the Wraith Colton in charge of the Earth Defense Command, after [[Optimus Prime]] raised a {{t|Metrotitan (Zone)|giant Transformer}} from out of [[Monument Valley]]. Among his first actions were recalling operative [[Spike Witwicky]] to the E.D.C. fleet, and dispatching former Joes [[Scarlett]] and [[Roadblock]] to transfer captured Cybertronian sleeper agent [[Garrison Blackrock]] to a safe house. {{tstorylink|White Light}}<br />
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Colton traveled with Scarlett and Roadblock to [[Vandenburg Air Force Base]] in [[California]] to meet with EDC agents in response to reports of [[Rom|a silver alien]] murdering people. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part One}} However, they soon departed. While over [[Arizona]], Colton cited the {{t|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|greater threat}} in [[Utah]], leaving the lone killer alien problem to the local authorities. {{storylink|Earthfall: Part Two}}<br />
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Wraith Colton and his colleagues [[Riggins]] and [[Kohl]] also approached [[Caleb Awan]] (also a Wraith) and [[Axiom|Aaron Grundy]] of the newly-bought [[DeepWave Technologies]] to upgrade their cybernetic defense armor, using [[Ore-13]] to turn the suited Aaron into the monstrous slave of the Wraiths known as Axiom. {{storylink|Field Test}}<br />
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Colton later met up with Scarlett and General [[Miles Mayhem|Miles Manheim]] to discuss the history of Transformer activity on [[Earth]]. During the meeting, Colton was very vocal about his dislike of the Transformers, and revealed to Manheim that the worldwide deposits of Ore-13 were destabilizing, and on the verge of destructive nuclear fission. Believing this to be {{t|Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime}}’s doing, Colton tasked Manheim with using the technology of a captive and tortured {{t|Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing}} to disrupt Prime’s plans. {{tstorylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}}<br />
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[[File:Revolution 1 RomKillsWraithColton.jpg|thumb|left|200px|So powerful was Rom's blast that one "Z" just wouldn't cut it.]]<br />
Later in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]], Colton led a G.I. Joe unit in an attack against the Transformers. The battle was then interrupted by the appearance of Rom, {{tstorylink|Concorde Hymn}} who had learned from battling Axiom that Colton was involved with the Wraiths' Ore-13 activities. {{storylink|Field Test}} Thinking Rom to be another Cybertronian, the Joes fired on him. Colton ordered the Joes to ignore the Transformers and focus their attacks on Rom, only to be destroyed in an instant by Rom's Neutralizer. Scarlett was devastated and, looking at his remains, swore vengeance on the Transformers. {{tstorylink|Concorde Hymn}}<br />
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The corpse of "Colton" was analyzed by [[Doc II|Doc]], who found non-human DNA, alerting the Joes to the Wraith infiltration. {{tstorylink|O Ship of State}}<br />
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The exposure of Colton's true fate would hang over the Joes for some time. While beating the [[Wild Bill]] Wraith to death, [[Rock 'n Roll]] angrily demanded to know what they had done to Colton. {{tstorylink|D.T.A.}} Even after fighting alongside Rom in Monument Valley, [[Beachhead|Beach Head]] remained in denial that Rom had not killed the true Colton, {{storylink|Reinforcements, Part 1}} and upon meeting Rom again in [[Schleteva]], [[Mayday]] by reflex referred to Rom as the murderer of Colton. {{tstorylink|Crisis Intervention}}<br />
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[[Category:ROM characters]]</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Sigma_6&diff=7836Sigma 62017-10-28T08:11:36Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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'''''Sigma 6''''' is a video game developed at least in part by the [[United States Armed Forces|U.S. Army]] to help with team building among soldiers. It seems to involve shooting lots and lots of robots. It may have something to do with the film ''[[Sigma 6 2: Retribution]]''<br />
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While ''Sigma 6'' was under development at [[Fort Aberdeen]], [[Roadblock|Marvin Hinton]] (who was stationed there) provided his cousin [[Heavy Duty|Lamont Morris]] with a copy of the game. Though Marvin was frustrated by Lamont focusing more on racking up kills than working together, the two cousins still greatly enjoyed playing the game one another, both of them finding it a welcome respite from their tedious postings. Though it wasn't quite the same, Marvin continued playing the game even after he'd received word that Lamont had been killed in the line of duty. Lamont, however, was alive and well, having been recruited into the top secret [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team, which meant having to fake his death. Though [[Hawk]] warned him against playing the game on an open internet connection, Lamont was unable to give up working on his high score for head shots and continued playing, which lead to Marvin coming across his avatar out in the world. After bribing the base's [[Lt. LaCroix|I.T. specialist]], Marvin traced Lamont's I.P. address back to [[The Pit]], which led to him discovering the top-secret G.I. Joe team. {{storylink|Roadblock (issue)|Roadblock}}<br />
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*''{{w|G.I. Joe: Sigma 6|Sigma 6}}'' was the subtitle of Hasbro's anime influenced attempt of rebooting G.I. Joe franchise in the mid-2000s. Naturally, the ''Sigma 6'' video game takes several aesthetic cues from the series! The game's robotic enemies are based upon the various types of [[B.A.T.]]s from the series while Heavy Duty's avatar is based on the character's appearance in the series. The Sigma 6 version of [[Cobra Commander]] also appears on the game's title screen.<br />
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'''Psyche Out is forced to join forces with the Baroness to stop the sentient virus being unleashed on the world.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
The [[sentient virus]] spreads throughout [[Cobra]]'s [[Outpost CottonMouth]], murdering the personnel with its [[B.A.T.]]s and taking control of the facility. As the oxygen dwindles, Dr. [[Elizabeth Zych]]—who the virus has taken over the body of to act as its control unit—begs it to make a deal with her. The virus ignores her pleas, until she offers it access into the base's other systems... and, after a few seconds of processing, it agrees.<br />
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Pursued through the base's corridors by B.A.T.s, [[Interrogator]] and the [[Baroness]] realise that their captive [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] member [[Psyche Out]] must have been telling the truth about the virus. Fleeing just in time to avoid a Sidewinder missile fired by one of the androids, the two retreat to the interrogation room where Psyche Out is being held, and agree to release the Joe in exchange for his helping them to purge their systems of the virus. Moments later, the B.A.T.s arrive, and the [[Viper]]s' soft ammunition—specially designed to not puncture the hull of the base—does nothing to slow them down; the Cobra forces try to retreat, but a B.A.T.'s missile blows a hole in the outer wall of the outpost, bringing a flood of sea water rushing in. Interrogator, the Baroness, Psyche Out and one of the Vipers manage to flee through to another section of the base, sealing the watertight door behind them, but are trapped, seemingly with no way out.<br />
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Elsewhere, Dr. [[Raptor|Jacob Mitchell]], his assistant, and a unit of Vipers are pinned down by cybernetically implanted animals, driven to attack them by the virus's control. Their salvation seemingly comes when Mitchell's bird "Raptor"—the lone animal without the implants—tears its way into an air duct, but though Mitchell manages to climb in after it, his assistant is grabbed by the maddened chimps below; unable to pull him up, Mitchell apologises before pushing him to his death and following Raptor through the air duct. He emerges through the roof of the room that the Baroness and the others are in, but the animals are close behind him; after the Baroness shoots them dead, the impromptu team crawls through the ducts to reach Dr. Zych's lab. While Raptor flies off, the humans realise that the lab is being protected by a pair of B.A.T.s, but Mitchell and Psyche Out realise that the attack bots have been prioritising armed and attacking targets and ignoring unarmed ones; in a moment of uncharacteristic selflessness, the Baroness offers to have herself, Interrogator and the Viper fight to distract the androids while Mitchell and Psyche Out enter in search of the arm.<br />
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Mitchell and Psyche Out rush in, while the others open fire; but while their plan appears to have been successful at first, the virus soon realises that the two are targeting its "control bot", and have the B.A.T.s change their focus to pursue them. The Baroness, struck by a rare moment of conscience, attempts to go after the B.A.T.s to rescue their targets, but Interrogator realises that it's futile, and the three Cobras head for the base's submarines. In the lab, Mitchell is happy to see that Dr. Zych is alright, but his relief turns to horror when Zych reveals where the arm is: spliced onto her in place of her own forearm — and not only that, but she is now covered in a horrific array of implants and cybernetics that are allowing her to stand, with a bundle of cables connecting her exposed brain to the rest of the base's systems. Mitchell realises that Zych has gone mad with the arm's power, willfully helping the virus to slaughter the staff of the facility and spread to the world outside; but as she monologues, she doesn't notice [[Psyche Out]] sneaking up behind her and chopping the arm off her body with a fire axe! Sadly, this fails to stop her, the virus having merged with her and no longer relying on the arm; but though Zych tries to have the B.A.T.s execute the two men, Psyche Out grabs hold of her, preventing the androids from firing on him for fear of harming her. The Joe tears the cable from her head, cutting off her connection to the base's systems, and as their final action the B.A.T.s fire a hail of gunfire through Psyche Out and Zych, killing them both. Mitchell is left alone with a wounded shoulder, horrified at what Dr. Zych became; and as he stands there, he hears Raptor cawing. The doctor starts to follow his bird's calls, hoping that the animal can save him one last time...<br />
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In submarine launch bay two, the Cobras come to the conclusion that they have no hope of escaping—all of the submarines are broken and the bays are locked down, rendering them incapable of leaving. The Baroness is resigned to drowning in the underwater facility as it floods, but an offhand comment from the Viper leads her to realise that the base included a complement of [[Eel]]s... and they can be used. Some time later, Interrogator and the Viper have collected up fifteen oxygen tanks belonging to the divers, making five each for the three of them... until the Baroness shoots the Viper in the head, to avoid sharing resources. Interrogator is terrified that he will be next, but the Baroness merely tells him to suit up and crank down the airlock door... and to breathe shallowly, for the Viper's share of the oxygen is hers.<br />
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*[[Sentient virus]] (1)<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"It's not enough time. They'll catch them. We have to-"<br />
<br>"Baroness, drop your gun. We can not save them."<br />
<br>"I-you're right. I don't know what came over me. I guess I just had a moment of conscience. Horrific."<br />
:—The '''Baroness''' has a once-in-a-lifetime experience, witnessed by '''Interrogator'''<br />
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"I helped them do it. These terrorists deserved to die. They were using us and I was using them to walk again. I got a better offer. I'm a part of something bigger than Cobra could hope to be."<br />
:—'''Dr. Zych''' might have a point if she wasn't throwing in with a malevolent zombie computer virus<br />
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==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*{{t|Infestation issue 2|''Infestation'' #2}} will establish that Dr. Zych, as a sexy lady in charge of and responsible for spreading the zombie virus, is ''G.I. Joe''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s incarnation of infestation-heralding vampire-zombie {{t|Britt}}. She isn't ever referred to as such in ''G.I. Joe'', though, or shown to house any of Britt's consciousness—apparently, in this case, it's just a spiritual connection.<br />
*Dr. Mitchell's obsession with his bird, which he calls "Raptor", foreshadows his becoming the IDW incarnation of Cobra's accountant-cum-falconer [[Raptor]], as shown in ''[[Infestation 2: G.I. Joe|Infestation 2]]''.<br />
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===Real life references===<br />
*A missile called a "Sidewinder", used by Cobra, seems like it's something that would have been invented for ''G.I. Joe'', but they {{w|AIM-9 Sidewinder|actually exist in real life}}—though real-world Sidewinders are far larger than the B.A.T.-mounted ones seen here.<br />
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*This is probably the only time that the IDW Baroness has ever shown a shred of empathy for her fellow man. Guess zombie robots bring out the best in some people.<br />
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*'''Cover A:''' The Baroness, Vipers, a classic-style B.A.T., and a big ol' zombie head, by [[John K. Snyder III]] (and presumably [[Jason Wright]]).<br />
*'''Cover B:''' The Baroness and Psyche Out (reluctantly) team up, by [[Giovanni Timpano]] and [[J. Brown]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' A zombie hand attacks the Cobra logo, artist unknown.<br />
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Given away by his trademark mustache, sunglasses, and cowboy hat, '''Wild Bill''' is an ace pilot of planes and helicopters alike, putting his skills to use for the elite [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team!<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
Wild Bill was a member of G.I. Joe. [[Sparks]] recommended [[Bankshot]] check with Wild Bill to see if he knew the title of the Chuck Norris movie he was trying to think of the name of. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 2|G.I. Joe vol. 1 #2}}<br />
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Bill joined his fellow Joes in memorializing [[Bazooka]] after he was killed out in the field. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 15|G.I. Joe vol. 1 #15}}<br />
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Wild Bill co-piloted the plane delivering Force Hammerdown to [[Cobra]]'s [[Section Five]] mining facility in [[Patagonia]] with [[Lighthorse]]. {{storylink|Deep Terror; Part 3}} {{storylink|Deep Terror; Conclusion}}<br />
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Wild Bill piloted a [[Dragonfly]] from G.I. Joe's base on [[Governor's Island]] to [[Warrenton]], [[Ohio]] after word got back to base that the team that had been deployed there had been ambushed. {{storylink|Homefront, Part 4 of 5|Homefront, Part 4}} As he and the other Dragonflies arrived, Bill radioed in back to base to inform them that they've had no luck hailing Duke or any members of his team. Shortly after this, the bombs Cobra had planted throughout Warrenton went off, creating a gigantic explosion that horrified Bill. {{storylink|Homefront, Part 5 of 5|Homefront, Part 5}}<br />
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After their mission in southern [[Libya]] went awry, Wild Bill and [[Ace]] picked up Scarlett's team by flying their cargo plane low enough to the ground that they were able to drive the truck they were exfiltrating on up the plane's ramp. {{storylink|Crush Depth, Part 1: A New Beginning|A New Beginning}}<br />
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Joining up with the [[Earth Defense Command]] after [[Joe Colton]] took control of the organization, Wild Bill enthusiastically piloted a transforming mech loaned to the EDC by their allies in the {{t|People's Liberation Army Mecha Force}} on a mission to attack and capture the injured {{t|Transformer|Cybertronians}} while they licked their wounds in the [[Indian Ocean]]. {{tstorylink|White Heat}}<br />
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At some point, Wild Bill was secretly killed and replaced by an alien [[Dire Wraith]]. When the defunct G.I. Joe was reformed as an international organization to take the place of the EDC, this Wild Bill imposter was brought on. Not knowing what happened to him, Scarlett trusted Bill enough to bring him on a mission to investigate why the EDC facility of [[Bikini Atoll]] had gone dark. Staying behind with [[Rock 'n Roll]] and [[Quick Kick]] while Scarlett and [[Roadblock]] tried to approach the base directly, Bill grabbed a knife and began sneaking up on Rock. However, Quick Kick noticed what he was doing and pushed Rock out of the way before Bill had a chance to kill him. Knocking the knife out of his hand, Quick Kick began fighting against Bill but was quickly overwhelmed by his Wraith abilities. Taunting Kick as he began choking him out with his tentacles, Wild Bill met his end when Rock 'n Roll sneaked up on him and began savagely beating him with the butt of his assault rifle. {{tstorylink|D.T.A.}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
[[File:Origins1 maybe Wild Bill.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|A pretender to the cowboy throne.]]<br />
*Wild Bill's real name has never been given in fiction but traditionally it has been William S. Hardy. Hell of a top secret codename if it has your real name in it!<br />
*A pilot with a mustache resembling Bill's pilots the cargo plane used by [[Hawk]], [[Stalker]], [[Duke]] and [[Scarlett]] in [[Origins issue 1|''G.I. Joe: Origins'' #1]], but it's unclear whether it's meant to be him or not. Considering that he doesn't appear when the team gathers in [[Origins issue 3|issue 3]], though, it's most likely that ''Origins''<nowiki>'</nowiki> "Bill" is just a generic pilot.<br />
*It is unknown if Wild Bill was actually killed and replaced by a Dire Wraith or if he was simply a sleeper agent with a constructed identity.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/83/wildbill.shtml Wild Bill at YoJoe.com]<br />
*{{t|Wild Bill}} at TFWiki.net<br />
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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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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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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)</div>Creedencehttps://idwhasbro.shoutwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Remora&diff=7439Remora2017-10-09T05:26:47Z<p>Creedence: </p>
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Named after "that little fish that swims with sharks", the '''''Remora''''' is a prototype submarine developed by [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] that is sometimes a single seat vehicle and sometimes is big enough for at least 5 people to stand up and move around comfortably inside. What technology G.I. Joe used to accomplish this is unknown. In its larger form, the ''Remora'' is equipped with a [[Seapup]] drone.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
The single seater prototype of the ''Remora'' was tested by [[Shipwreck]] at [[The Pit]]'s underground lake. While the test started off promisingly enough, the sub's port-side ballast tank didn't open, causing the ''Remora'' to roll and crash into the bottom of the lake as the cockpit began filling with water. Before Shipwreck could drown, however, new Joe recruit [[Cover Girl]] came to his rescue and released the starboard ballast manually, causing the Remora to flip right-side up and float back to the surface. {{storylink|The Betrayers Part 1}}<br />
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The larger version of the ''Remora'' was stored on board the ''[[Terrapin]]''. When the ''Terrapin'' began picking up some gigantic underwater ship on sonar, the ship's captain had Shipwreck and his crew take the ''Remora'' to investigate. Discovering the [[Cobra]] submarine cruiser ''[[Dreadnaught]]'', Shipwreck had his crew get the ''Remora'' ready for "deep running", sealing up all of the sub's observation ports as they went in for a closer look. Releasing the [[Seapup]] drone and discovering a Cobra drone dropping a nuke into a nearby trench, Shipwreck radioed the ''Terrapin'' to alert them to what was happening before attaching the ''Remora'' to the ''Dreadnaught''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> deck so they could storm the larger sub and stop the nuke from being detonated. {{storylink|G.I. Joe issue 20|G.I. Joe vol. 1 #20}}<br />
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*While it is never stated to be the same type of vehicle or shown to share the vehicle's trademark ability to fly, the ''Remora'' does somewhat resemble the classic Joe vehicle the [[S.H.A.R.C.]].<br />
*Given the {{w|Remora}} fish's ability to attach to larger fish, the ability the ''Remora'' submarine shows with attaching to the ''Dreadnaught'' may be a more appropriate source for its name.<br />
*No explanation is ever given for the discrepancy in size between the ''Remora''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> two appearances.<br />
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|title="The Origin of Cobra Commander"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[January 11]], [[2012]]<br />
|coverdate=January 2012<br />
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]<br />
|line-art by=[[S.L. Gallant]]<br />
|inks by=[[Gary Erskine]]<br />
|colors by=[[J. Brown]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
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'''Krake has risen to the position of Cobra Commander... but from where did he rise?'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
On the edge of a battlefield in the [[Golden Triangle]], as armed men battle over an opium field, [[Krake|a child]] is born. His mother, [[Ngam]], is overjoyed at the birth of her son, who has "the eyes of a tiger"... but her joy is short-lived when the boy's father is killed by a grenade, forcing her to flee south with the women, children and elderly of her nameless village. The years pass, and the boy and his mother find work with a {{w|Shan people|Shan}} tribe, harvesting poppies for the native drug runners; until one day, his mother is assaulted by the local enforcers. The boy steals one of the men's guns and opens fire, but by the time that his clip is empty, his mother lies dead as well, leading the boy to take his masters' weapons and strike out on his own, a soldier as well as an orphan.<br />
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As the boy grows up, he becomes a mercenary leader, killing for money and amassing a group of followers, to whom he is known as "Tiger Eyes". In one instance while out hunting down {{w|Karen people|Karens}} for money, his band of mercenaries are forced to take cover in a rice paddy to stop a [[Thailand|Thai]] helicopter from spotting them, but Tiger Eyes does not hide; instead, he takes aim, and with his rifle shoots the pilot dead, causing the chopper to crash into the ground in a ball of fire. Such incidents give him a reputation of supernatural luck, but privately, he doesn't believe in such things; life is an accident that can end at any time, and you have to make your own luck. Despite this "luck", he is captured and his men are captured by Thai military police and taken to a [[Thai Air Force]] prison at [[Udon Thani]]; there, he is released by a General to perform an assassination for him, but on killing the target and being offered his payment he kills his handler, steals all of the man's money and returns to his old life.<br />
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On arriving to a meeting with a local criminal, [[Trahn]], Tiger Eyes discovers that the man and his associates have all been killed by a squad led by [[Major Bludd]] so that Bludd's employers can take over Trahn's operations. Bludd claims that [[China]]'s anti-drug force were aware of the meeting thanks to a traitor in Tiger Eyes' group, but that they don't know who he is; but rather than try to discover the truth, Tiger Eyes steals one of the guards' pistols and shoots all three of his men dead. With [[Storm Shadow|one of Bludd's retinue]] restraining the young man, Bludd compares him to a krake (a mean, fast [[Australia]]n snake), and impressed with his resolve, recruits "Krake" on the spot to work for Bludd's anonymous masters.<br />
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Needing to know more about his mysterious benefactors, Krake speaks to a [[France|French]] contact over the phone from a luxurious [[Bangkok]] apartment he has earned through his relationship with them; though his contact claims to not know who they are, he is actually being threatened into silence by Storm Shadow, who murders him once he hangs up the call. At the same moment, a unit of [[Viper|armed and armored men]] invades Krake's apartment; however, he fights his way past them, punching out one with his bare hands, before reaching the pistols he keeps under his bed and terminating his attackers. Eventually, though, they get the better of him, and Krake is knocked out, awakening in a cell with the [[Baroness]] in front of him. Though she explains that his benefactors' secrecy is the reason that they survive, the organisation admires his persistence in attempting to find out who they are, and she invites him to join [[Cobra]]... but Krake attacks her, refusing to be anyone's lapdog, and wanting to make his own way and relying only on himself as he has in the past. Subdued by Cobra forces, Krake falls into unconsciousness as the Baroness threatens to show him how bad it can be.<br />
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Krake awakens in [[Kowloon]], [[Hong Kong]], where he is immediately spotted and targetted by local kingpin [[Uncle Ho]]; the mainland [[triads]] have placed a price on his head that Ho intends to collect on. Krake meets up with his sole friend, [[Xiang]], but though Xiang agrees to help arrange transport out of the city, he has already been bought out by Uncle Ho; Ho's men lie in wait for Krake at the docks, but Krake anticipates the ambush and slaughters the men before returning to the city to kill Xiang in revenge, then escaping Hong Kong on his own.<br />
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Eventually, Krake tracks Major Bludd down in [[Bruwunda]], where he is leading a war on behalf of wannabe dictator President [[Mrubu]]; brought before [[Cobra Commander]], Krake makes Cobra an offer, providing intelligence on the mainland triads to let Cobra take control of them in exchange for a position within Cobra, and the money for surgery to change his appearance. Cobra Commander offers Cobra's own surgeons for the task, but Krake refuses, intending to murder them once their job is done; and upon receiving that surgery in [[Zurich]], does just that, before donning a mask so that none know his true face. Providing the Baroness with the intel he promised on the meeting of the triads' leaders, Krake asks for a "final favor": using a [[Flight Pod]], he travels to Hong Kong and murders Uncle Ho and his associates. And in his control center, Cobra Commander explains that with the acquisition of the triads, Cobra's reach is truly global, all thanks to Krake; but despite his description of Cobra's newest member as embodying its true spirit, the Baroness does not trust him, and pledges that she'll be watching to see that when he falls, he will never get up again.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italic'' text appear only in flashbacks.<br><br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
{{collist|2|<br />
*[[Krake|Tiger Eyes/Krake]] (1)<br />
*[[Major Bludd]] (8)<br />
*Cobra soldiers (9)<br />
*[[Storm Shadow]] (10)<br />
*[[Viper]]s (12)<br />
*[[Baroness]] (13)<br />
*[[Cobra Commander]] (18)<br />
*[[Dr. Mindbender]] (20)<br />
}}<br />
|c4=<br />
{{collist|2|<br />
*Krake's father (2)<br />
*[[Ngam]] (3)<br />
*Thai general (4)<br />
*[[Hanuman Parang]] (5)<br />
*Krake's handler (6)<br />
*[[Jummum]] (7)<br />
*Krake's contact (11)<br />
*[[Uncle Ho]] (14)<br />
*[[Xiang]] (15)<br />
*President [[Mrubu]] (16)<br />
*Triad leaders (17)<br />
*Plastic surgeons (19)<br />
}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"You'll die for this..."<br />
<br>"Then I will die. But I will not be a soldier for your precious '''Cobra'''. I have made my way on my own. Owing no one. Trusting no one. I watch my '''own''' back."<br />
<br>"You have made an enemy..."<br />
<br>"Heh! I have nothing '''but''' enemies, Baroness. What is one more?<br />
:—The '''Baroness''' and '''Krake'''<br />
==Notes==<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*A sword-wielding member of Bludd's retinue has the [[Arashikage]] emblem tattooed on his arm; coupled with his white vest and bandana, this would seem to mark him as [[Storm Shadow]].<br />
*Krake's modus operandi, having his face changed by plastic surgeons before murdering them so nobody knows his identity, is near-identical to that of the [[Chimera]] from ''[[G.I. Joe: Origins]]''.<br />
===Errors===<br />
*The name of the [[Phongsali]] region is misspelled "Phongali".<br />
===Other notes===<br />
*Oddly, [[Nanzhao]] isn't mentioned in this issue ''at all'', despite its main purpose being to give context to the invasion of the nation by Cobra that is the focus of [[Cobra Command]]. It ''does'' mention [[Myanmar]], which Nanzhao serves as a fictionalised version of, so... is that evidence that the country Cobra invades was initially intended to be Myanmar...?<br />
*Despite what Bludd says, there's no such snake as a krake in real life.<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Krake as Cobra Commander, by [[Menton3]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Krake as Cobra Commander, by [[Robert Atkins]] and [[Simon Gough]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Either Optimus Prime vs Duke for the fate of the world or Krake as Cobra Commander (it's hard to tell), by [[Robert Atkins]].<br />
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|seriesissue=''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 2|G.I. Joe: Cobra]]'' vol. 2 #12<br />
|seriesissue2=''[[Cobra Command]]'' aftermath<br />
|prev=Cobra Command, Part 9<br />
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|next=Son of the Snake, Part 1: A New Era<br />
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|image=Cobra2-12 cvrA.jpg<br />
|caption=<br />
|title="The Last Laugh"<br />
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]<br />
|date=[[January 18]], [[2012]]<br />
|coverdate=January 2012<br />
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]<br />
|art by=[[Antonio Fuso]]<br />
|colors by=[[Arianna Florean]]<br />
|letters by=[[Neil Uyetake]]<br />
|editor=[[John Barber]] and [[Carlos Guzman]]<br />
|specialthanks=<br />
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'''Chuckles gives his last will and testament.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
''Writing his final report to [[General Hawk]], [[Chuckles|Phillip M. Provost]] makes a decision: he's taking his name back. Having thrown his identity away and changed his name to "Chuckles" to join [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], and then thrown ''that'' away to go out into the cold as an undercover agent, he's been left with nothing but fear and paranoia; so if nothing else, he's reclaiming that name. Growing up fat, poor and academically struggling with an abusive father, Provost was an ideal candidate for the [[United States Army]], but his smart mouth meant he wasn't well-liked by his superiors; Hawk, though, knew exactly what to do with him, and sent him out in the knowledge that he would "break" in a way that would benefit the Joes; because ''that'' is Hawk's true strength: his ability to see weakness. Now Chuckles has "broken", but he won't have to live with what he's done for much longer, so Hawk will have to live with it for both of them.''<br />
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Reading the letter in his office in G.I. Joe's [[Washington, D.C.]] facility, Hawk is interrupted by [[Dial-Tone]], who lets him know that the staff have finished packing up everything for the move to new quarters. [[Firewall]] confesses that she'll miss the D.C. HQ, while Dial-Tone fills him in on the Joes' final clean-up operations; but on returning to his office, Hawk is taken aback at finding [[Chameleon]] in there, having read Chuckles' letter herself. The intelligence analyst is furious at Hawk based on what she's read, but the general doesn't care what she thinks, having been dismissed from running the Joes ; but when he suggests she get back to work, Chameleon refuses, wanting to be done with G.I. Joe entirely. Hawk gets angry, and explains that she ''can't'' go back to civilian life; as a child of the war with [[Cobra]], with a head full of bad memories and regrets and no experience outside of worlds of luxury and privilege, the only possibility for her if she leaves for the outside world is suicide in six months. Chameleon realises that Hawk is actually talking about ''himself'' as well as her, but the general blows her off and orders her to get back to work.<br />
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''Chuckles' mission is over. [[Cobra Commander]] is dead, and he plans to blow [[Section Twenty|Cobra's whole installation]] to kingdom come with a nuclear submarine. But he knows that won't be the end of it: Cobra doesn't have a direct hierachy, instead electing their leaders in an "occult ceremony", with the current leader having been re-elected seven times. No matter what comes next, there'll be [[Cobra Civil War|a lot]] [[Cobra Command|more violence]] to come. His report done, Chuckles has a good laugh at how he knows that Hawk will have read and re-read the whole thing, to make sure he gets every scrap of actionable intelligence out of it; by the time Hawk reads the letter, Chuckles will be one of the lives he's spent, but the undercover agent refuses to let him have that: Chuckles' death is on ''him''. But before he goes to [[King Cobra (issue)|finish his final task]], Chuckles has a joke for the general: how many four-star generals does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one — he holds it in place and the whole world revolves around him.''<br />
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And sitting alone in his office, Hawk quietly chuckles at a hero's final joke.<br />
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==Featured characters==<br />
Characters in ''italics'' are shown only in flashback.<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|h1=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c1=<br />
{{collist|2|<br />
*''[[Duke]]'' (1)<br />
*''[[Chuckles]]'' (2)<br />
*''[[Scarlett]]'' (3)<br />
*[[General Hawk]] (4)<br />
*''[[Jinx]]'' (8)<br />
*[[Dial-Tone]] (9)<br />
*[[Firewall]] (10)<br />
*[[Chameleon]] (11)<br />
}}<br />
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|h2=[[Cobra]]|c2=<br />
*''[[Cobra Commander]]'s corpse'' (12)<br />
*''[[Major Bludd]]'' (13)<br />
*''[[Tomax Paoli]]'' (14)<br />
*''[[Baroness]]'' (15)<br />
*''[[Krake|Cobra Commander II]]'' (16)<br />
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|h4=Others|c4=<br />
*Some twitchy mass-murderers (5)<br />
*Chuckles' parents (6)<br />
*Army drill sergeant (7)<br />
}}<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
"I know your real talent, Hawk. It's not military strategy. It's not administration. And it's certainly not your people skills. You see weakness. You look at a group, or a '''person''', and you can see exactly what will make them break. And '''how''' they'll break when they do. Then you balance the right people against each other, so things break in directions that benefit you. "Cost" doesn't even factor into it."<br />
:—'''Chuckles'''<br />
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"Here's your choice: you stay here and do something with all that anger, or you go out into the world, and in six months you eat your gun. You're not going back to the private sector. We both know that. So there's only one way out."<br />
<br>"You're not talking about me, are you? You're talking about you."<br />
<br>"Don't worry about me. I'm gonna go consult for the movies. You're the one stuck saving the world now. It's not supposed to be '''fun'''. Now, get to it."<br />
:—'''Hawk''' and '''Chameleon'''<br />
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"And the funny part — the really funny part — is that I know you didn't skip any of it. You combed through every word, making sure there wasn't some extra, actionable intelligence in there. And then, even after you were sure there wasn't, you read it again. And then again. Right? Of course I'm right. How many times have you read this thing now? I don't even want to know. You poor, lonely, sad bastard. I think about you there, sitting in that big chair, doing the math on how to spend thirty lives to save forty. You've the world's bloodiest abacus. Must be neat."<br />
:—'''Chuckles'''<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Though billed as an aftermath issue to [[Cobra Command]], this issue is more of one to the Chuckles story that ran through the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra]]'' miniseries and the ''[[G.I. Joe: Cobra II|Cobra II]]'' miniseries-turned-ongoing; it was even included as such in the "G.I. Joe: Cobra: The Last Laugh" hardcover collection of the Chuckles story.<br />
===Continuity notes===<br />
*The narration at the start of this issue confirms that the timespan from [[One Word|''G.I. Joe'' #0]] to the end of Cobra Command — over 3 years in real time — was 24 months, or 2 years, in-universe.<br />
*Dial-Tone mentions [[Faraday]] and [[Kernel]] using environment-suits to wipe the servers in [[the Pit]], which was destroyed by a nuclear meltdown back in [[G.I. Joe vol. 2 issue 3|''G.I. Joe'' vol. 2 #3]]. Those are some resilient servers, huh?<br />
===Errors===<br />
*So, okay, Chuckles must have written this letter in the minutes (or, charitably, hours) between [[Rattler (issue)|shooting Cobra Commander]] and [[King Cobra (issue)|awakening Tomax]]. Okay, seems a little unlikely, but we can suspend disbelief. But how on ''Earth'' did he send it? It doesn't seem likely that [[Section Twenty]] had a post box for him to put his letter in, and even if it did, how would it have got off the island before Chuckles destroyed it with a nuke?<br />
===Covers (3)===<br />
*'''Cover A:''' Chuckles and Xamot, by [[Antonio Fuso]] and [[Arianna Florean]].<br />
*'''Cover B:''' Chuckles has a lot on his mind, by [[David Williams]] and [[Kelsey Shannon]]; the cover also uses art by Antonio Fuso taken from [[Cobra Part 3: Oil|''Cobra'' #3]], [[Cobra II Part 1: Forked Tongue|''Cobra II'' #1]], [[Rattler (issue)|''Cobra'' #12]] and [[King Cobra (issue)|''Cobra'' #13]].<br />
*'''Cover RI:''' Uncolored version of cover A, by Antonio Fuso.<br />
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