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{{quote|''"All games end today."''}}
A [[Darker and Edgier]]
In [[Washington DC]], Major Bludd is found dead at the Lincoln Memorial, his corpse left there as a warning to would-be Cobra traitors. In Alaska, Destro and the Baroness seize control of the HAARP array, using it to superheat the ionosphere and disrupt global communications. Somewhere in the Pacific, the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier USS ''Flagg'' is nearly sunk due to a sabotage attempt by Storm Shadow. Meanwhile, at the [[United Nations]] headquarters in [[New York City]], Cobra Commander addresses the delegates with an ultimatum: give Cobra control of the world within 24 hours or the organization will launch devastating attacks against civilian targets. As a show of force, the Commander has [[Moscow]] destroyed with a particle beam weapon, instantly killing 10 million people.
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Struggling to recover from the attack on the ''Flagg'', and with Snake Eyes leaving to fight Storm Shadow in Japan, the rest of the Joes launch a desperate counterattack, hoping to thwart Cobra's plans and defeat the terrorist group once and for all.
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* [[Animesque]]
* [[A-Team Firing]]: Duke and Scarlett stand smack in the middle of a crossfire against 20 Cobras and don't get hit once. This was likely in reference to the original series.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]
** In the original series, while GI Joe was always depicted as a paramilitary team made up of soldiers (i.e. trained killers), thanks to [[A-Team Firing]] and broadcast standards, rarely if ever did the good guys ever kill anyone. In Resolute, Snake Eyes is at his most deadly, Scarlett mercilessly snipes Cobra men and Duke is seen stabbing one to death. The later live action movie continued this trope.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Cobra Commander has clearly been watching all his old episodes and taking notes (he even [[
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Duke manages to figure out everything there is to figure out about Cobra's direct-energy weapon and reprogram it to fire on the Cobra base...in under 20 seconds, with plenty of spare time to get out of the Cobra base himself.}}
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: [[Warren Ellis]] states that he was completely unfamiliar with the [[G.I. Joe]] franchise when he wrote the script. That might be, but it definitely at least appears as though he's played ''[[Command
** It wasn't that he wasn't familiar with GI Joe as such, just that no one told him till afterwards that GI Joe was the Action Man he played with as a kid.
* [[Executive Veto]]: Warren Ellis originally planned for Cobra Commander to obliterate Beijing, but the Hasbro executives shot that down. They were OK with destroying Moscow though.
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* [[Not So Harmless]]: Cobra Commander, vaporizing Moscow just to prove a point, addresses a cadre of Cobra goons. He states that his [[General Failure]] tendencies were all [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], designed to make his subordinates think and weed out traitors. Now that it no longer suits him, he's no longer going to tolerate disobedience or failure.
* [[Pin-Pulling Teeth]]: Duke during the Russia infiltration mission.
* [[
* [[Race Lift]]: Ripcord, just like anywhere else.
* [[Subverted Kids Show]]: A rare example of this trope taken seriously.
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