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{{quote|''"[[Could Say It, But...|Technically, G.I. Joe does not exist, but if it did]], it'd be comprised of the top men and women from the top military units in the world, the alpha dogs. [[Badass Boast|When all else fails, we don't.]]"'' |'''General Hawk'''}}
''GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra'' is a 2009 action movie directed by Stephen Sommers (''[[
Duke was already a candidate for joining the team and with his refusal to pass the warhead mission on to someone else, they let the duo join the team. Unfortunately, their enemy is persistent and managed to complete their mission of stealing the warheads, planning to use it against Paris and other major cities. The only lead they have is Duke's familiarity with The Baroness, and tracking down The Mastermind behind this worldwide terrorist organization.
To be followed by a sequel in March 2013, ''[[G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Here is the [[G.I. Joe
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* [[The Ace]]: Scarlett is so used to being one of the best that she takes any failure much harder than anyone else.
* [[Ace Pilot]]: Ripcord, despite supposedly being U.S. Army Special Forces rather than a pilot ([[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] early on by a [[Chekhov's Hobby|mention]] of him scoring really high in a flight training program, and wanting all along to go into the Air Force). He's even openly referred to as "Ace" once or twice by other characters.
* [[Action Girl]]: Scarlett.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Arnold Vosloo as Zartan, a [[Master of Disguise|Master]] of [[Darkman|Disguise]]. Also after the attack on the Pit, Zartan strolling off wearing mid-eastern garb could easily be a callback to [[The Mummy Trilogy
* [[All Women Love Shoes]]: Baroness forces a woman out of an elevator at gunpoint. Then casually compliments her choice of footwear.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Cobra's siege of the Joes' underground Egypt headquarters, "The Pit".
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: [[Exactly What It Says
** And, someone FINALLY asks what the other half is.
*** Wasn't it [[Stuff Blowing Up]]?
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* [[A-Team Firing]]: A notable aspect of the original animated TV series, averted utterly here.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Steven Sommers certainly seems to enjoy filming two women beating the stuffing out of each other...
** Stephen Sommers claimed that the MARS base was set underwater as a homage to his favorite film, ''[[
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The powered suits in the Paris chase scene. They can't catch up with a vehicle that is weaving through heavy traffic. After the chase, they can't even properly catch up with two people ''on foot''.
* [[Backed
* [[Badass]]: Almost everyone, but especially Zartan, Snake Eyes, and Storm Shadow.
** Even this troper (who disliked the film) is compelled to acknowledge that Snake Eyes was a badass. {{spoiler|In the chase scene, he keeps up with the badguys without aid of a special suit, whilst the main characters barely manage despite them.}}
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** And all of Cobra.
*** Cobra's Neo-Vipers would be this if they had the numbers (only 26 were made at the time of the movie, though there appear to be more).
*** The "More than 26" part was because the Vipers (normal solders) and the Neo-Vipers look the same (Neo-Vipers have metal color chest armour while Vipers are all black, and in the game blue, like they should be)
* [[Badass Biker]] [[Biker Babe|Babe]]: Scarlett.
** It's [[wikipedia:Active camouflage|active camouflage]] a type of stealth that's being researched right now. Nothing that can be mass produced yet, but possible in "the near future".
* [[Badass in
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Snake Eyes has one, Storm Shadow has one, and the Baroness wears one in Paris.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Snake-Eyes in particular (Storm Shadow is his Cobra counterpart), specifically when dealing with the Neo-Vipers. In the Paris chase he manages to do a lot more to try and stop Storm Shadow and Ana than his teammates in [[Powered Armor]]. All without having anything special besides a gun and his sword.
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** Cobra Commander's was even better, {{spoiler|1=he was planning on the larger scheme failing so he could take over McCullen's position as leader and form MARS into COBRA. With Zartan impersonating the President this basically gives the United States to him.}}
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted, momentarily. Scarlet takes a metal pan to the face, and it actually bruises her and leaves scratches, for one scene only. Next we see her, it's like she's had weeks of recovery, or very heavy makeup for a girl who has no interest in physical attraction.
** Averted again later after the train crash. The Baroness and Storm Shadow both have head wounds, and seem dazed. They are fully healed by the time they get back to their base, but they might have had high-tech first aid kits in their vehicle.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: More than once.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Ripcord to Duke.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Despite a body count the size of a small town you can count on one hand how many times you see blood in this movie. Maybe everyone in the Joeverse bleeds an invisible liquid mixture of [[Rule of Cool]]+Awesomeness.
* [[Breast Plate]]: Scarlett, who seems to have one several times larger than her actual cup size.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|The Baroness, as it turns out. Presumably, the rest of the Neo Vipers as well to some degree (although most were presumably already M.A.R.S. Industries mooks in the first place).}} Zartan, for his part, is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to casually smash his control chip just before implantation.
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* [[Break the Haughty]]: Apparently what happened in Storm Shadow's backstory, what with his being surpassed by some random street-kid and their teacher being a wonderful example of a [["Well Done, Son" Guy]].
** This is well in accordance with several previous versions of their backstory, though the Old Master is sometimes Stormy's ''uncle''.
* [[The Cameo]]: Brendan Fraser (of ''[[
* [[Captain Obvious]]: "Damn, that ninja's fast."
* [[Car Fu]]: That Hummer2 is ''deadly''.
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* [[Cool Shades]]: The Baroness never forgets hers...even after a train collision.
** She also wears them at night, but that can be justified by their high-tech use.
* [[
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [[Larry Hama]] as a NATO general.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The opening shows the U.S. Army stands no chance of winning against <s>M.A.R.S.</s> Cobra and its technology, the bullets from their rifles pinging off mook armor while they're torn apart by "pulse weapons".
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* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Duke and the Baroness.
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: The Baroness' [[Start of Darkness]] motivation. {{spoiler|Subverted, he isn't dead.}}
* [[Death
* [[Deceptive Disciple]]/[[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Storm Shadow, annoyed that his position as his master's best student got usurped by a street urchin who came in to steal food. May turn out to be subverted, if the sequel follows the novel.
* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: A rather brutal example involving Baroness, Scarlett, a chain, a screwdriver, and a pan of motor oil. The motor oil is only used to defeat the "invisibility suit" though. Played with in that Scarlett is wearing BDUs instead of, say, her workout clothes, and Baroness hits her in the face with the pan.
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* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The Pit, and how! Cobra's [[Underwater Base]] too.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Byung-Hun Lee as Storm Shadow. Plus some other guys.
** [[Good
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Storm Shadow is a ruthless assassin, but refuses to kill women--and is disgusted by Zartan's murder of Cover Girl.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: There are ample cars blowing up in the Parisian chase scene.
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* [[Faceless Goons]]: The Vipers wear full-face masks that cover everything but their eyes. The actually look curiously similar to [[Army of Two|Salem and Rios]].
* [[Facial Recognition Software]]
* [[Fake American]]: The President of the United States is British. If you've played ''[[Command
** The President? That's nothing. Try ''the Baroness''. Which is pretty damn funny, given the character's origins in the comics.
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: The film begins in 17th century France.
* [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]]: Similar to the live action ''[[Transformers (
* [[Fan Service]]: The scene with the Joes working out. All of the men are shirtless, and Scarlett is in a sports bra and track pants. Storm Shadow strips off his shirt during his second fight with Snake Eyes.
* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: The Baroness makes Duke promise that he'll take care of brother and not let him get hurt. He is of course killed, and is her [[Start of Darkness]] . {{spoiler|Subverted, he didn't actually die}}.
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** {{spoiler|"Construction of the presidential bunker has just been completed"}}.
* [[Forklift Fu]]: Ripcord kills a Viper with a forklift.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Scarlett. On a treadmill.
* [[Gatling Good]]: Heavy Duty's weapons and the Delta-6 "Accelerator Suit" powered armors. Heavy Duty describes the Delta's gatlings as gatling sub-machine guns that fire at 50 rounds a second, presumably with an internal magazine with thousands of rounds.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Destro's ancestor finds out the hard way that the French are not falling for the [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]] trap and decide to make an example of him by forcing a red hot metal mask on his face. Unfortunately for them, shoving red-hot metal around his face is clearly going to kill him.
** {{spoiler|Cobra Commander is planning on the evil scheme that he supports failing.}}
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: The Baroness was blonde before she turned to evil, now she has black hair.
* [[Good
* [[Grey Goo]]: The Nanomite warheads (technically Green Goo).
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Baroness seems fond of this. Although when using ballistic weaponry rather than scifi "pulse pistols" she realistically fires them two-handed.
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** [[Snake Eyes]] all the way during a mission to Paris. Black-clad hight-tech ninja on the crowded sunny streets?
*** See the majority of the above.
* [[Hoist
* Hologram: A device projects a holographic image of General Hawk.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Scarlet seems to be either an aversion of this or an example since she doesn't believe in anything unquantifiable, including ''emotions.'' Equally possible, she's just a smart lady trying to push Ripchord away with a very bad line.
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* [[Hot Sub-On-Sub Action]]: Oh, boy, is there ever. So much so it only have been even a more clear <s>ripoff</s> <s>homage</s> imitation of ''[[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]]'' if it had been in space.
* [[I Control My Minions Through...]]: [[Mind Control]], Money ''and'' Sadism.
* [[Impaled
* [[Implacable Man]]: The Neo-Vipers, at least until the Joes figure out how to put them down quicker (really big guns help).
* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: Scarlett's crossbow. It has two bows, one on top of the other, like a double-barreled shotgun. It has ''four'' [[Laser Sight|Laser Sights]]. It has a hi-def camera to allow you to target specific body parts. Its arrows are somehow guided using the camera and onboard computers. The arrows also explode. ''Tell'' me that's not awesome!
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* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: The movie is sometimes only one step away from slapping "IN STORES NOW" on the bottom of the screen... which is perfectly in line with much of the G.I. Joe franchise.
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Anyone else notice that Snake Eyes, who is in the top percentile of his class, happens to be a white former street urchin?
** Amusingly, Snake Eyes being [[
** Oddly, it seems in the movie version both of the top ninjas aren't Japanese, given that both actors for Storm Shadow are Korean; he even speaks Korean in the movie.
** And the actor who plays the younger Storm Shadow is Chinese American. So ''everyone but the Japanese are awesome ninjas''. Good to know.
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* [[Movie Superheroes Wear Black]]
* [[Multinational Team]]: They're real <s>American</s> International Heroes, G.I. Joe is there!
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** General Hawk's "[[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|Knowing is half the battle]]!"
** Rex calls Duke "a real American hero" (as does Baroness in a commercial).
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** Scarlett's apparel during the Paris chase matches her original orange-top dark blue-bottom getup, except she's wearing a jacket and jeans as opposed to a leotard and latex leggings.
** Snake-Eyes suddenly lets go of the Baroness' SUV during the Paris chase:
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'''Storm Shadow:''' He ''[[The Determinator|never]]'' [[The Determinator|gives up]].
{{spoiler|(The SUV is suddenly blindsided by an oncoming train.)}} }}
** At one point General Hawk is restricted to a wheelchair.
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* [[NGO Superpower]]: McCullen is able to afford his own personal army and outfit them with technology surpassing every other army on Earth. Given that he basically ''supplies'' every other army on Earth, that part at least is sensible.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Breaker. Scarlett and Snake Eyes are [[Storming the Castle|Storming The Control Room]], bullets are flying everywhere, and what does he do? He's standing there calm as you please, fiddling with his Palm Pilot. (It's like [[Medium Awareness|he totally knows]] he has [[Character Shield|Character Shields]] or something.)
* [[Not Even Bothering
** He only has to be a citizen by birth, and to have lived there for 14 years. Nothing about living anywhere ''else'' in the meantime.
** Same with Channing Tatum as Duke. The character's backstory has him being from St. Louis (which would most likely give him a neutral Midwestern accent) but Tatum gives him a very [[New Orleans]]-type accent.
* [[Offhand Backhand]]: While infiltrating the Pit, Storm Shadow casually kills a guard standing behind a pillar without looking at him or slowing down.
* [[Oh Crap]]: When Snake Eyes unexpectedly drops out of the Paris car chase, [[The Baroness]] gloats "He gave up!" Cue Storm Shadow -- "He ''never'' gives up." {{spoiler|They get blindsided by a train}}.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[The Mummy Trilogy
* [[One-Way Visor]]: Snake Eyes
** Mantis fighter sub pilots.
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* [[Paint It Black]]: <s>The Baroness</s> Ana was a pretty [[Hair of Gold|blonde]] woman and when she turns evil she becomes a sexy dangerous brunette.
* [[Persona Non Grata]]: France does not appreciate it when Paris is torn half to pieces for an unsuccessful car case. French-Moroccan Breaker is devastated, while all the other characters' reactions can be summed up as "Wait, what?"
* [[Pin
* [[Plot Armor]]: The only possible explanation for the Baroness and Storm Shadow to survive their vehicle being hit by a train and catapulted, spinning 30 feet in the air and back down. While their driver dies they hop right out of the wreck and run a good distance.
* [[Point Defenseless]]: Averted with the Cobra gunship, which shoots down several SAMs going for it.
* [[Powered Armor]]: The aforementioned Accelerator Suits.
* [[Power Walk]]: Near the end. "Damn, we look badass."
* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Cobra Commander was given a new look because of the fact that Sommers thought that giving him a hood (or even a ski mask) would make viewers think KKK member when they saw him. Nor would they justify a form-fitting, [[The Blank|featureless steel face-mask]], since they wanted {{spoiler|[[Joseph Gordon
** Similarly, GI Joe becoming an international task force was done due to [[Paramount]]/Sommer wanting a high overseas box office pull for the film and thinking an all-US team of soldiers would not sell tickets outside North America.
* {{spoiler|[[President Evil]]:Zartan}}
* [[Product Placement]]: Double Bubble, Norton AntiVirus, Cisco Systems, Chrysler, Hummer, Opel...surprisingly not one for Hasbro.
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** On the [[DVD Commentary]] the filmmakers outright admit it, even very briefly mentioning a way to use {{spoiler|Storm Shadow}} in the next movie.
** The comic sequel, Operation HISS, shows that {{spoiler|Storm Shadow survived his "death" in the movie.}}
* [[Shared Universe]]: If Brendan Fraser is to be believed, the character he plays in his cameo is [[Identical Grandson|descended from]] the character he played in ''[[
** The novel even implies that the technology seen in the movie was developed further from what Sector 7 had gained studying Megatron's body in the ''[[Transformers (
*** Sounds like a very dangerous universe to be a random pedestrian in.
** It only can't be referenced on-screen because ''The Mummy'' is by another studio (Transformers, at least, isn't).
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** And, of course, there's [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] [[The Nth Doctor|regenerating]] as well.
** Storm Shadow's the one using a double-bladed weapon in a reactor complex, which is funny given Snake Eyes' actor is the one that played [[Star Wars|Darth Maul]].
** Duke likes to kick ass and [[Chew Bubblegum]]. Right before the Paris chase, [[They Live!|he runs out of gum]].
** The [[Firefox|foreign-language-activated superjet]] seems familiar...
** The Eiffel Tower falls in much the same way you can make it fall in [[Twisted Metal|Twisted Metal 2]]
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* [[The Voiceless]]: Snake Eyes, although his reason for being so is different than other continuities. While he's usually rendered mute by an injury, in the film it's mentioned he took a vow of silence after Storm Shadow apparently killed their master. Originally, the end of the movie was going to have him speak to tell a joke, but it was cut, probably [[Internet Backdraft|for the best]].
* [[Water Is Air]]: While not obvious, the effects of particles in the underwater fight scene moved very much like they were in air, not accounting for the difference in density, especially in cold water. In fact, the speed at which it moved was comparable to that in air.
* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: Nanomites come in city eating <s> Grey</s>[[Grey Goo|Green Goo]] form or in [[Made of Iron]] / [[Mind Control]] injections.
* [[Weaponized Car]]: The Baroness's Hummer.
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Storm Shadow {{spoiler|...but not Zartan!}} and Heavy Duty.
** Well, Heavy Duty didnt say that he wouldnt, just that he would prefer not to.
* [[You and What Army?]]: Used, for a change, by the bad guy... with [[Big Damn Heroes|predictable results]].
** Strangely, given the situation, the protagonist in question did not reply, "Technically, it's a navy."
* [[You Killed My Father]]: The reason for Destro's targeting of Paris (see above).
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