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{{quote|''"G.I. Joe is the code name for America's daring, highly-trained special mission force. Its purpose: to defend human freedom against COBRA, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world."''}}

The second incarnation of the franchise began in 1982, four years after Hasbro's rival Kenner launched their popular ''[[Star Wars]]'' toyline. Unlike ''G.I. Joe'', which had 12" action figures, ''Star Wars'' figures were 3 3/4" tall, allowing them to also sell playsets and vehicles and make even more money. [[Follow the Leader|Seeing the massive profit Kenner was making]], Hasbro decided to relaunch ''G.I. Joe'' in the new scale and hired [[Marvel Comics]] to create a story, characters, and media tie-ins for the line. Marvel eventually came up with a premise that is still the core of the franchise today - G.I. Joe was no longer one person <ref>Except in some continuities, where the team is named in honor of General Joe Colton, the man responsible for its creation</ref>, but the name of an elite American military unit engaged in a battle against the terrorist organization Cobra and its plans to [[Take Over the World]]. To promote the line (now dubbed ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero''), Marvel launched two tie-ins:

 

* [[Western Animation/GI Joe A Real American Hero|An animated series from Sunbow Productions]]. Though the more remembered of the two continuities today, the cartoon is also infamous for its less realistic depiction of violence: [[Family-Friendly Firearms|both sides used lasers instead of bullets]], [[Nobody Can Die|there were no deaths]], and whenever an aircraft was destroyed its pilot had to be shown parachuting out of it. Sunbow produced two seasons and a movie intended for theatrical release, but the failure of ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' caused it to instead be released direct-to-video. [[DiC Entertainment]] took over following the movie and produced two more seasons before ending the show in 1991.

** ''[[G.I. Joe: The Movie]]''. The 1987 film of the series.

By 1994, ''A Real American Hero'' was officially dead at retail, but Hasbro has since launched several other incarnations of the franchise, though none have ever gained the longevity of the original. The versions of the brand released since the end of ARAH include:

 

** This eventually led into ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme]]'', a 1995 series about a new Joe team being formed to fight the masked dictator Iron Klaw and his evil SKAR organization. Embracing the visual style of [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]], the series ran for two seasons and ended in 1997.

* [[Comic Book/GI Joe Devils Due|GI Joe Devils Due]]. In 2001, Devil's Due Publishing (a spinoff of [[Image Comics]]) acquired the comic rights to ''G.I. Joe'' and launched a new series, set in the same continuity as the Marvel Comic. They published an ongoing title - once again called ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', but later renamed ''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' - and several miniseries exploring the backstories of the characters, as well as a more realistic [[Alternate Continuity]] book called ''G.I. Joe: Reloaded''. Devil's Due lost the comic rights to IDW Publishing in 2008, and their final issue was printed that July. All of these books have since been declared [[Canon Discontinuity]] and are now known as the "Disavowed" comics.

* As mentioned above, IDW acquired the comic rights to the franchise in 2008 and began publishing [[Comic Book/GI Joe IDW|their own comics]] in 2009. This time, instead of continuing the Marvel/Devil's Due storyline, IDW opted to start over from the beginning and create a brand new canon. They are currently publishing three ongoing titles in the new continuity (''G.I. Joe'', ''Snake Eyes'', and ''Cobra'') and a second, Larry Hama-penned revival of the original Marvel series.

* ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute|G.I. Joe Resolute]]'', a 2009 animated miniseries written by [[Warren Ellis]]. Aimed at the now-adult original fandom, ''Resolute'' is easily the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest animated entry in the franchise]]: both sides fire actual bullets, blood and death are shown, and the entire city of Moscow is destroyed within the first five minutes.

** ''[[G.I. Joe: Retaliation|G.I. Joe Retaliation]]'', a sequel to ''Rise of Cobra'', is scheduled for a spring 2013 release<ref>It was originally set for a June 2012 release, but was bumped up a year later due to the studio wanting to add 3D, as well as some reshoots of certain scenes.</ref>. Featuring a new director, [[Dwayne Johnson]] and Bruce Willis and about half the original cast returning, the movie quickly turned heads by just how different it felt from the first film while still being clearly set in the same universe.

* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades|G.I. Joe Renegades]]'', a 2010 animated series airing on [[The Hub]], a network owned jointly by Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Taking inspiration from ''[[The A-Team]]'', ''Renegades'' recasts the Joes as a group of soldiers falsely accused of terrorism, and the series follows their efforts to clear their names and expose the real enemy: the sinister [[Mega Corp]] Cobra Industries. After one season, the show was put on hiatus; it is currently unknown if it will ever return.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: In part 3 of ''Arise Serpentor, Arise'', Cobra Commander remarks, ''"I would have made an excellent stand-up comedian."'' His voice actor, Christopher Latta (aka Collins) had a standup comedy career.

{{quote|'''Chris Collins''': "William Shatner is an actor, and everybody else here is a comedian. But I'm not like them. ...what I am, is ''a psychotic that's learned to market his problem''"--On Caroline's Comedy Hour on A&E in the late 80s.}}

* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Lifeline

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Sgt. Stalker

* [[A-Team Firing]]

** Only in the original animated series. Mostly averted in the comics, which had many of the main character often suffering from gunshot wounds and some were actually killed. Made a shocking return in [[G.I. Joe: Resolute]] where Duke and Scarlett stand smack in the middle of a crossfire against twenty Cobras and don't get hit once. This was likely in reference to the original series.

** A similar origin is given for Timber in the IDW Origins comic, where Snake-Eyes frees Timber from barbed wire whilst infiltrating an airbase, setting off an alarm in the process.

** And again in Renegades, where the caught in a trap trope is played again, with Timber immediately sensing kinship with Snake Eyes and helps him throughout the episode afterwards.

* [[Art Shift]] (when DIC took over)

** Also prevalent in the comic during its end days, when everyone at Marvel seemed to try and emulate [[Rob Liefeld]]'s style.

* [[The Baroness]]: The [[Trope Namer]]

* [[Base on Wheels]]: During the heyday of the toyline there were a whole series of massive vehicle playsets; the Defiant shuttle launch complex, Rolling Thunder, Mobile Command Centre...

* [[Big Bad]]: Cobra Commander, even though he screws up constantly in the animated series.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Not every episode had a happy conclusion. "Computer Complications" was essentially a tie between G.I.Joe and Cobra; "Sink the Montana", despite concluding with the Joes foiling Cobra's plot, still had a somewhat depressing ending.

* [[Catch Phrase]] and [[Battle Cry]]: "Yo Joe!"

** Fans often suggest Cobra Commander's [[Catch Phrase]] is "RETREEEEEAT!"

** Action Force, The UK adaption changed the battle cry to "Full Force!"

* [[Cat Fight]]: Lady Jaye and Zarana have a ''nasty'', knock down, drag out one in an issue of the comic...while all the male Joes and Cobra watch in stunned silence.

** Daina of the Oktober Guard averted this in the comics by wearing a BDU and being a badass sniper. Her cartoon counterpart on the other hand wore a pink outfit [[Pretty in Mink|with a white fur hat]], an ensemble that was clearly not fit for combat.

* [[Clingy Costume]]: In IDW's rebooted [[Comic Book]] series, Destro is trapped inside his metal suit due to a [[Freak Lab Accident]].

* [[Code Name]]: The characters will only rarely refer to each other by their real names, and the IDW series goes so far as to have Hawk tell one potential recruit that if she joins, her Code Name will ''be'' her name. Invoked hardest with Snake-Eyes, as [[Larry Hama]] has never revealed whether or not the character was ever given a name. (The most that has been revealed is that his first name ''might'' start with N and his last name with J.)

** Somewhat subverted by Duke in the original cartoon; he often introduces himself by his rank and last name (First Sgt. Duke Hauser). Of course his code name IS his IRL nickname (his real first name is Conrad).

*** Another two-part episode in the original series has Cobra finding out several of the Joe's secret identities (Scarlett, Barbeque, Shipwreck, and Duke, among others). In an interesting continuity nod (unusual for 80s cartoons known for hitting the [[Reset Button]]), episodes afterwards had Cobra using this knowledge (IE against Shipwreck in "There's No Place Like Springfield" and Cobra Commander would often address Duke as Sergeant Hauser).

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Lowlight.

** A parody of this show on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' called "Cheat Commandos" even called the villains Blue Laser.

* [[Composite Character]]: General Flagg and his assistant General Austin from the comics were merged into one character for the [[Five Episode Pilot]] of the animated series who bore Flagg's name and Austin's appearance.

* [[Crossover]]: Multiple times with [[Transformers]] in the comics; once, sort of, in the TV show.

* [[Cultural Translation]]: In the UK, the good guys were called Action Force, and the theme tune called them International Heroes instead of Real American Heroes. Over time this slowly changed to "GI Joe, The Action Force" (it was as awkward as it sounds) before eventually just using the GI Joe name.

* [[Custom Uniform]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''GI Joe Extreme'' and ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]''

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: In ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]'', Cobra Commander has clearly been watching all his old episodes and taking notes (he even lampshades this on several occasions). Fortunately, he still manages to be incredibly entertaining since, despite being significantly more murderous, he's still completely bonkers.

** His escape plans were a lot more thought-out in the cartoon, though. Probably because he had [[Dirty Coward|a lot of practice]].

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Quick Kick and his student Teiko from "Cobra Quake".

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In [[The Seventies]], Miller had just launched a memorable campaign for their light beer focusing on drinkers arguing whether it "tasted great" or was "less filling". One scene of the kid-friendly cartoon had the biker punk Dreadnoks violently disagreeing about... whether [[wikipedia:Certs|something]] was a "breath mint" or a "candy mint". Which was based on an old Certs ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5AeYLQrkpo

* [[The Dragon]]: Destro

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Sergeant Slaughter and Beach-Head. In the ''Reloaded'' continuity, ''before'' he joins the Joes, Beach-Head is teaching pretty much every single special ops division in the US armed forces.

** Also instigated by the Joes and {{spoiler|non-evil alternate Baroness}} in the cartoon's [[Alternate Universe]] storyline.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: GI Joe and their Soviet counterparts the Oktober Guard were often forced to team up against Cobra

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: Scarface, a lowly Cobra trooper who proves utterly instrumental in the group's operations, and Kwinn.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In the original MASS Device pilot miniseries, Snake Eyes is thought to be fatally irradiated. Major Bludd keeps the Cobra troopers from firing on him for this, and has a brief twinge of sympathy as he said he wouldn't wish what happened to Snake Eyes on his worst enemy, adding "Poor blighter."

* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]]: The laser guns in the cartoon.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Cobra Commander is left an unresponsive vegetable on Earth when Hawk absorbs the power of the Matrix of Leadership. The body of Serpentor Prime that the Commander was mentally controlling then short-circuited as a result, leaving the robot's body a wreck, and the Commander's mind separated from his human body}}, in the end of volume 3 of ''GI Joe vs. the Transformers''.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: Hawk

* [[Five-Token Band]]: The later series' that paired down the team would do this. Tunnel Rat, who was never a big character in the original line, keeps regualarly getting work in the new Joe shows, cause, well, he's the only Asian they have (besides Jinx, but they already have a girl and a ninja).

* [[General Failure]]: Cobra Commander

* [[Giftedly Bad]]: Maj. Bludd, whose poetry almost left the Commander at a loss for words.

* [[Gratuitous French Phrases]]: In the comics, the Cajun Gung-Ho sneaked a French phrase into practically every sentence he spoke... but they were all the kind of things you learn in French 1 in high school.

** It was dropped eventually - Diable!

** Zartan, Destro and Baroness also went through both of the above in the comics, though they were more neutral than Storm Shadow after the first turn.

* [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]]: The Cobra uniforms, in spades.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In Devil's Due Publishing's "GI Joe vs. the Transformers":

** Cobra, besides the initially-controlled Transformers (referred to as "Battle Android Troopers" by Cobra Commander), also develop powered SNAKE Mecha. Storm Shadow uses this to take on Brawn and Gears (Brawn admits, "That may not have been a REAL Autobot or Decepticreep, but he sure HITS like one"), and in battle beheads Trailbreaker after the Autobot wonders "How can they think this is a good idea?" (Storm Shadow's response? "Don't be hasty. Right human in suit... makes a difference.") Even after Gears, Ratchet and possibly Bluestreak dog pile his SNAKE and rip off the head and chest units, Storm Shadow tries to use the rest to face off against Bumblebee. Baroness uses her SNAKE to stomp Rumble flat before he could harm Destro or Zartan.

** To counter this, The Autobots let GI Joe access their technology at the end of Volume 1. In return for helping them get back to Cybertron, the Autobots help GI create mecha of their own to counter the [[SNAK Es]]. To prevent Cybertron tech from going into the wrong hands, though, Optimus asks the Joes to willingly rid of the mecha around the start of Volume 3. We do have where the mecha-piloting Joes help out the Autobots before the Serpent Organic Robot aka "Serpent O.R." overrides the Joes in the mecha. In particular, Scarlett and Arcee have some "mecha girl to Autobot girl" bonding.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: During the infamous breath mints/candy mints fight, Zandar comes out and clobbers another Dreadnok with an ''alligator''. Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: The Crimson Guards

* [[Intro Dump]]

* [[Invulnerable Knuckles]]: Nearly all the Joes qualify, but Hawk deserves special mention for slugging it out with Destro in the comic, and Sgt Slaughter for punching through a brick wall in the cartoon.

* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: At the end of "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!", Serpentor (having taken control of Washington DC) demands the surrender of the president and several prominent politicians. The president kneels before him...only for him and the rest of the delegation to reveal themselves as disguised Joes, and begin shooting at Cobra.

* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Larry Hama said he only became writer of the comic because [[Jim Shooter]] was turned down by Marvel's other writers, who felt a toy comic was beneath them and would damage their careers. Hama was apparently not to keen on it initially, either - saying he only accepted the job because he had no other writing offers. Well, as noted above, the comic lasted twelve years.

* [[It Works Better with Bullets]]: Done at least twice in the comics.

* [[Janitor Impersonation Infiltration]]: Scarlett attempts it in the [[No Dialogue Episode]] "Hush Job" in ''[[G.I. Joe]] Yearbook'' #3. In an attempt to rescue Snake-Eyes, he sneaks into Cobra HQ disguised as cleaning woman, with Snake-Eyes' wolf Timber hidden inside a cannister vacuum cleaning. However, the Cobra sensors pick up the huge amount of weaponry she is carrying and she is exposed.

* [[Jumping on a Grenade]]: In issue 28 of the [[Marvel Comics]] series, Tripwire attempts to save the lives of other Joes by throwing himself on top of a makeshift bomb. Roadblock safely disposes of the bomb and lectures Tripwire on unneeded heroism.

** Similarly, Flint does this (or tries to) when faced with a nerve agent in the episode "The Spy Who Rooked Me."

* [[Legend Fades to Myth]]: In one episode, the Joes end up in ancient Greece, and their actions contribute to various Greek legends (e.g., Sgt. Slaughter performs one of Hercules' labors).

* [[Lipstick and Load Montage]]: The Baroness gets one at the start of IDW's ''[[G.I. Joe]]: Cobra'' #1 before she infiltrates an enemy mansion in Ecuador. It is contrasted with a more standard [[Lock and Load Montage]] later in the issue.

* [[Long Runners]]: The A Real American Hero franchise has been around for 27 years, while the toyline as a whole has existed for 45.

* [[Magical Native American]]: Spirit

* [[Maligned Mixed Marriage]]: Quick Kick's father is Japanese and his mother is Korean; as a result, he was never accepted by either the Japanese or Korean kids in his neighborhood. And he was [[Humiliation Conga|too short to play basketball]].

* [[Market-Based Title]]: Rather more extensive than usual

** At a basic level, the cartoon's [[Tagline]] ("A Real American Hero") was changed to "The International Hero" outside America.

** Later, the 3 3/4" figures were sold in the UK and elsewhere as ''Action Force''. This incarnation reimagined Action Force as a European anti-terrorist organisation based in Europe, which sometimes cooperated with GI Joe.

** The changes later happened in reverse, when the ''Action Force'' comic changed from a weekly to monthly publication schedule, and was renamed ''Action Force Monthly''. This was then sold in America as ''GI Joe: The European Missions''.

*** Then the toys themselves had to complicate matters. A few older toys had partially-unmasked faces under the hood showing him to be a middle-aged white guy with black hair, his mouth covered by a bandanna.

* [[Musical Assassin]]: Metal-Head

* [[Nanomachines]]: ''The Rise of Cobra'' has "nanomites," which Cobra uses for purposes such as [[Monumental Damage|destroying the Eiffel Tower]], [[More Than Mind Control]] and {{spoiler|making up Destro's mask}}.

* [[Ninja|Ninjas]]: Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow, and, by late in the original line, pretty much everyone. The toyline even featured a squad called "Ninja Force". As this was the early nineties, most of them were [[Highly-Visible Ninja|neon]].

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Cobra combat trainer Big Boa was originally part of a plan for a ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]'' tie-in; This fell through, but much later in the comics his history was revealed to be eerily similar to Rocky's, except, like, evil.

* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: The famous "Silent Interlude" issue of the Marvel comic.

*** Although issue 19 of the IDW GI Joe Origins was a silent issue written by Larry Hamma, where Snake Eyes infiltrates an airbase. As another plus, it has Timber!

** "Hush Job" in ''G.I. Joe Yearbook'' #3, which is a follow-up to "Silent Interlude".

* [[Noble Savage]]: Inuit mercenary Kwinn

** The closest the series ever came to killing off a bunch of Joes was in the "Worlds Without End" two-parter, where Steeler, Clutch, and Grunt decided to remain in an [[Alternate Universe]] where Cobra conquered the United States in order to help the Baroness of that world (who was a secretly a Joe sympathizer) rebuilt the Joes. While none of the aforementioned Joes did get killed, we get to see the skeletonized remains of their alternate universe counterparts, foreshadowing their departure from the show.

** Originally, Hasbro wanted Duke to be killed in ''[[The Movie]]'' from the mortal wound from Serpentor's snake-spear. However, the scheduling between this movie and Transformers (where Optimus Prime suffered the same fate<ref>The other franchise in Hasbro's 1986-87 movie blitz, ''My Little Pony'', didn't, obviously, lend itself to bloodshed of that type.</ref>) ended up being released first. When Hasbro saw the intense backlash from kids and parents over Prime's death, Hasbro went into an immediate about face and demanded that Duke ''not'' die. Since the film had already been completed, the best that the production staff could do was to call in the voice cast to make an emergency voiceover, recasting the celebration over having defeated Cobra's plot into a celebration that Duke had pulled out of his coma.

* [[Non-Lethal Warfare]]: Blue and red lasers! Yay!

* [[Not Quite Dead]]

** Don't forget Flint and Lady Jaye. Effectively official in the comics and at least hinted in the cartoons. Assuming the expanded canon also holds, Marissa Fairborne, a major character in Transformers season 3, is their daughter.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Storm Shadow vs. Snake Eyes. In the cartoon, inexplicably, it was Storm Shadow vs. Spirit, whose street brawling managed to hold its own against a ninja master. Presumably there'd be less opportunity for witty fight banter with [[The Speechless|Snakes]].

* [[Organic Technology]]: Everything in the Cobra-La hideout in [[The Movie]]

* [[Paintball Episode]]: The IDW comic has the training exercise variation. A group of Joes armed only with paintball weapons have to attempt to infiltrate the Pit. A pair of Cobra commandos kill most of the group (who mistake them for their opponents), leaving three essentially unarmed Joes (Cover Girl, Downtown and Tripwire) to take on the Cobra soldiers.

* [[Pirate Girl]]: Sarawak Sally from ''G.I. Joe Special Missions'' #4.

* [[Pirate Parrot]]: Shipwreck's parrot

* [[Qurac]]: Trucial Abysmia

* [[Quicksand Sucks]]: Once or twice in the old Sunbow cartoons. The old Marvel books had it in issues 26, 27 and 143 where Scarlet is the victim and needs rescuing by Rock N' Roll.

* [[Ragin Cajun]]: Gung-Ho

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Averted in the ''MASS Device'' pilot miniseries, when Snake-Eyes gets fatally irradiated... and then implausibly cured by the [[Bedouin Rescue Service]].

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Part of Scarlett's [[Establishing Character Moment]] in the first cartoon miniseries.

* [[Scope Snipe]]

* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Duke

* [[Shoot Your Mate]]: In IDW's ''G.I. Joe: COBRA'' series, Chuckles is asked to kill his lover Jinx, while undercover. {{spoiler|He actually does it. The series goes out of the way to paint G.I. Joe as almost as vicious as Cobra, at times.}}

* [[The Speechless]]: Snake-Eyes, when we are given a reason for his silence

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: The Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: While there have always been a lot more male characters than female in the G.I Joe series the original series did make an effort in trying to avert this as Lady Jaye and Scarlett (and to a lesser extent Cover Girl) for the G.I Joe team did appear often and had good screentime. (While not as successful as G.I Joe, Cobra did make some effort in averting this with Zarana and Baroness.) However the other G.I Joe cartoons that came afterward pretty much played this straight though as unless your names are Scarlett or Baroness you will either be [[Demoted to Extra]] or be on the receiving end of [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]. (With [[G.I. Joe: Resolute]] being the only arguable--and I repeat, arguable--exception.)

** In the comics this was better avoided. Both sides had their token female from the start, Scarlett for the Joes and Baroness for Cobra and neither one was [[The Chick]]. Cover Girl was introduced to the Joes in issue #16, Lady Jaye in issue #32 and Jinx in issue #59. Conversely, Cobra got their second female, Zarana in issue #51. Both the Joes and Cobra have had few other female characters introduced later, but with only very minor appearances.

* [[Snow Means Cold]]: In "The Revenge of Cobra", Destro uses the Weather Dominator to create an instant snowstorm in the desert.

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Storm Shadow makes a habit of this in IDW's continuation of the Real American Hero comic.

* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]

* [[Title Theme Tune]]: Amped up for [[The Movie]]

** And the speech he gives to his troops in episode four is downright awesome.

*** And then he takes five levels in Complete Boob in the climax.

* [[Ultimate Universe]]: Devil's Due attempted an "Ultimate G.I. Joe" with the short-lived but very inventive''G.I. Joe Reloaded''.

* [[Undercover Model]]: One issue of ''[[G.I. Joe]] Special Missions'' had Scarlett, Lady Jaye, Cover Girl and Jinx undercover as dancers on a parade float.

* [[Villain Song]]: Usually averted, but [[The Movie]] added some opening lines to the [[Title Theme Tune]] about COBRA's evil intentions.

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: In one of the comics.

** The original Marvel comic run covered it in issue 27 in that during a mission to the Middle East, an attack in a helicopter badly scarred Snake Eyes while he tried to rescue his love Scarlett. In a later issue, the mission is gone over in more detail with Doc even stating that Snake Eyes could lose his voice permanently if not treated ASAP, but Snake Eyes in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] writes out in the desert sand that the team ''must'' continue the mission. Theres a reason this guy is popular.

** ''Resolute'' has it as a result of getting shot through the throat with the same bullet that killed his master

** The 2009 movie on the other hand has it that Snake Eyes keeps a vow of silence...and the reason is to hide Storm Shadow's crimes. Yeah.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Dr. Mindbender, who also counts as [[Fetish Retardant]].

 

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