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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 (Franchise)/Film Series/Characters|Character Page]].
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* [[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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* [[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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* [[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.
* [[Cowboy Bebop
* [[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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** 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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** [[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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* [[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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* [[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}}
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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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* [[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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