G.I. Joe/Characters/Film Series

The character sheet for the Live Action G. I. Joe Film Series.

Duke
A soldier who joins the Joes in the first movie, the film's protagonist. Real name: Conrad Hauser.


 * Badass: Though not to the level of Snake Eyes.
 * The Generic Guy
 * The Hero
 * Sergeant Rock
 * Standardized Leader
 * Sergeant Rock
 * Standardized Leader

Gen. Hawk
The leader of the Joes. Real name: Clayton Abernathy.


 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Four Star Badass
 * Nice Hat
 * Reasonable Authority Figure
 * Screw the Rules I'm Doing What's Right

Scarlett
The G.I. Joe team's intelligence expert. Real name: Shana M. O'Hara


 * The Ace
 * Action Girl
 * Badass Biker Babe
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: For very long at least.
 * The Chick
 * Friendly Sniper
 * Gainaxing: On the treadmill
 * Heroes Want Redheads: In this medium, it's Ripcord.
 * Hollywood Atheist: Possibly.
 * Hot Amazon
 * Impossibly Cool Weapon: Her crossbow.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills
 * Redheaded Hero
 * Spy Catsuit
 * The Squadette

Ripcord
An soldier who joins the Joes in the first movie, the team's expert pilot. Real name: Wallace Weems.


 * Ace Pilot
 * Badass: Just not so much as Duke or Snake Eyes.
 * Black Best Friend: To Duke.
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Scarlett
 * Improbable Piloting Skills
 * The Lancer
 * Race Lift: Was white before this movie, now he's black.
 * Sidekick: To Duke

Snake Eyes
An American who studied martial arts under the Arashikage ninja clan, taking a vow of silence. He is the rival of Storm Shadow. Real name: Classified.

"Baroness: He gave up.
 * Actor Allusion: Ray Park fights Storm Shadow when the latter is wielding a double bladed sword.
 * Badass: So very much.
 * Badass Longcoat
 * The Big Guy: Shared with Heavy Duty.
 * Determinator

Storm Shadow: He never gives up."


 * Dual Tonfas
 * The Faceless
 * Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted. He only beats Storm Shadow (both as a child, and in the climax) when he switches to bladed tonfas.
 * This may be a case of Fridge Brilliance, since one of the best strategies in martial arts if your opponent is just as skilled in the same way you're fighting them, you change your tactics. In the flashback, Snake Eyes loses every fight with Storm Shadow when they use the same weapon. He only wins when he changes tactics. Given his Combat Pragmatist roots, it makes sense.
 * Large Ham: A silent version of it.
 * McNinja: Is the world's best ninja despite being American. In a bit of a subversion, the world's second best ninja seems to be Korean.
 * Ninja
 * Number Two: To General Hawk.
 * The Quiet One: To the best of this troper's knowledge, the low sigh he utters is the most he's ever said in any continuity.
 * The Rival: To Storm Shadow.
 * You Killed My Master: Why he wants to take down Storm Shadow.

Heavy Duty
The field commander of G.I. Joe and the team's heavy machine gunner. Real name: Hershel Dalton.


 * Bald of Awesome
 * The Big Guy: Shared with Snake Eyes
 * Expy: Of Road Block.
 * Gatling Good
 * Scary Black Man
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl

Breaker
The Joe's communications specialist and hacker. Real name: Abel Shaz.


 * Fate Worse Than Death: Breaker gets
 * Hollywood Nerd
 * Hollywood Hacking: Hacks a dead man's brain.
 * Interrogating the Dead: Via MacGyvering a palm pilot.
 * Non Action Guy
 * Race Lift: Was white before this movie, now he's a Moroccan Arab.
 * The Smart Guy

Cover Girl
The team's special weapons officer and Personal assistant to Gen. Hawk. Real name: Courtney Kreiger.


 * Adaptation Dye Job: Arguable since Cover Girl has had multiple hair colors in the comics and cartoon.
 * Demoted to Extra: Many didn't even realize she was supposed to be Cover Girl.
 * Sexy Secretary
 * Sexy Secretary

Sgt. Stone
G.I. Joe's special operations instructor who teaches combat training. Real name: Geoffrey Stone IV.


 * Expy: Sgt. Stone seems to be a replacement for professional wrestler Sgt. Slaughter. Oddly, he's not the first Expy of him, with Beachhead having also filled the role.
 * He also aligns with multiple "Lt. Stone" characters in Joe cartoons and comics.
 * The Cameo
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty
 * Identical Grandson: According to Brendan Frasier, he's a descendant of Rick O'Connell.
 * Nice Hat
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, he seems much more pleasant than most iterations of the Joe's Drill Sergeant.

The Doctor/
The Big Bad of the first film,. He assists McCullen in his evil plans, but secretly has plans of his own. Real name:


 * Batman Gambit
 * Composite Character: Is a merger of Doctor Mindbender and
 * Evil Genius
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * For Science: The Doctor's motivation for all the evil he does seems to be this.
 * Large Ham: When.
 * Mad Scientist
 * The Starscream:
 * Large Ham: When.
 * Mad Scientist
 * The Starscream:

Destro
A weapons designer and founder of the Military Armament Research Syndicate (MARS). His terrorist agenda sets up the movie's plot. Real name: James McCullen XXIV. Destro's company manufactures 70% of the world's armaments.


 * Arms Dealer
 * Badass in A Nice Suit
 * Batman Gambit
 * Big Bad
 * Crazy Jealous Guy: Has DeCobray's husband killed . Destro does NOT like having rivals.
 * Large Ham
 * Legacy Character
 * Scotland
 * Scotland

The Baroness
Cobra Intelligence Officer who married a wealthy European aristocrat / Real name:   aka Anastascia DeCobray.


 * All Women Love Shoes
 * Badass Longcoat
 * The Baroness: No surprise here.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Dark Chick
 * Dead Little Brother: Subverted.
 * Guns Akimbo
 * Hot Amazon
 * Ms. Fanservice: Very obviously so.
 * Spy Catsuit
 * The Squadette
 * Hot Amazon
 * Ms. Fanservice: Very obviously so.
 * Spy Catsuit
 * The Squadette
 * The Squadette

Storm Shadow
Member of the ninja clan Arashikage, trained under his uncle, the Hard Master. He is the rival of Snake Eyes. Real name: Thomas Arashikage.


 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
 * Badass in A Nice Suit
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Bishonen
 * Break the Haughty: As a boy.
 * The Brute
 * The Dragon: To Destro.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Killing women disgusts him.
 * Highly Visible Ninja
 * Made of Iron
 * Man in White
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Ninja
 * The Rival: To Snake Eyes
 * Steven Ulysses Perhero: His last name is Arashikage, which means "Storm Shadow"
 * Well Done Son Guy: As a boy.
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Is disgusted by the murder of
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Is disgusted by the murder of

Zartan
A master of disguises who  can shapeshift. Real name: Classified


 * Actor Allusion: A couple of references are made to The Mummy.
 * Arc Words: Him whistling "Jolly Good Fellow."
 * Dirty Coward
 * Kick the Dog: His murder of
 * Master of Disguise:.
 * Would Hit a Girl
 * Would Hit a Girl

Doctor Mindbender
A scientist in McCullen's employ who developed the nanomite technology and trained "The Doctor" in the field. His current status is unknown. Real name: Unknown.


 * Decoy Antagonist: A lot of fans familiar with the mythology expected the Doctor to actually be the Rise of Cobra version of Doctor Mindbender. Only at the end, was it revealed
 * Demoted to Extra: More of an inversion. The character was never intended to have a name, and was only there as a plot device for The Doctor's path to darkness. After the fact, they realized he could easily be Mindbender and threw his name in for the fans.
 * For Science
 * Mad Scientist
 * Meaningful Name / Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * One Scene Wonder: In a Flash Back.