I . . . uh . . . I also like wearing leather masks.

Aheheheheh. Not for “that”, though. Just because I’m weird.

Snake-Eyes is also kind of a “shadow” figure for me because he can’t use his face or his voice, and everything I do revolves around my face and my voice. Always worth thinking “what would Snake-Eyes do?”

Or, as I frequently say to my wife: “You know what Snake-Eyes would say in this situation? NOTHING. Cuz he’s mute, man.” 😉

This is brilliant.

I also work in public service, go out of my way a lot to help friends, and have a much easier time standing up to bullies and such on their behalf than my own.

I own two black balaclavas, and wore one in public during the first week of Covid, heh. I was Snake Eyes for halloween one year, even with a toy Uzi (back when you could easily purchase a completely black, realistic looking toy gun). (Also,the following year I was Lt. Falcon.)

My dog is a rescue, whose mom was an aussie shepherd but I'm pretty sure her dad was something feral because she is damned wolf like not just in appearance but manner as well.

My wife is NOT a red-headed ninja. I went another way, as she has raven-dark hair, wears glasses, is definitely of an indeterminate foreign land, and unquestionably badass.

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My wife is NOT a red-headed ninja. I went another way, as she has raven-dark hair, wears glasses, is definitely of an indeterminate foreign land, and unquestionably badass.

Hey... swinging the Baroness to the side of the angels is a noble endeavor, my man.

@panthercult you're a good friend, PantherCult.

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 Flint (sorry I don't care for Flint all that much).

Blasphemy. 

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It's Falcon that really annoys me. Nepotism aside, it's always annoying when some junior officer is put in charge of experienced enlisted and warrant officers.

Always annoyed me too. Circling back to Flint, I had a Chief Master Sergeant that I had known for years, since he was a Tech Sergeant that had the same kinda vibe. I was deployed with him and at the beginning of every shift, our unit commander who was a Major, would give a run down of the days events. The guy was good at paperwork and not much else. So as soon as he left, the Chief would call everybody around and tell everybody what really was gonna go down and what his expectations where, because frankly, the Major didn't really have the forethought to ask. The coolest Lt Col I worked with always stated in meetings that his decisions where always based on whatever his enlisted leadership advised. Any officer who doesn't, aint getting the job done.

The hell happened to Admiral Flagg?  Isn’t he supposed to be up there in leadership?  Maybe because he’s always out at sea people kinda forget about him?  I actually want him as a classified figure this year. Sure he won’t have his vehicle, but it would be nice to finish more of the Joe leadership soon. In the meantime he can command Shipwreck to navigate the Fortnite boat. 

@leor Slight correction: Gen Flagg was the overall original Gen in charge of Joe. He dies, Hawk replaces him, the aircraft carrier was named after him, commanded by Adm Keel-Haul. I believe that he was command of all Joe sea operations. In real world in joint operations, if a commander of a unit (let's say an Army gen), no finds their operations in the purview of someone under the (let's say a Navy Capt), they may deffer command responsibilities to that individual. Basically "We're at sea and need to get objectives x,y,z done, do what you gotta do to get it accomplished" So it seems with Joe, it's less about what rank someone is and more of what their overall roll is in the organization.

Is anyone else interested in the Phoenix Guard? Basically GI Joe's version of the Thunderbolts, with Copperhead, Zarana, Wild Weasel, Firefly, and Scrap Iron posing as a new elite military team.

I'd buy the Phoenix Guard, fer sher. 

I love how almost universally the "new dashing lead character" from GI Joe: the Movie instantly set off alarm bells in so many of us kids like "who dis and who does he think he is." Like if we had the term nepo baby back then, we absolutely would've called Falcon a nepo baby. I don't remember disliking him in the comics at all and I did love the action figure itself but Don Johnson becoming the lead when we had Duke, Flint, Hawk, Snake Eyes, Scarlett, Roadblock, Stalker, hell Shipwreck Rock n' Roll Bazooka and Alpine all right there to be the lead of the movie... it's really funny how both the Joes movie and Transformers both thought they were commercials to sell new toys and the kids themselves were like "where are the characters I actually LIKE?????" 

Grownups, man. 

Another sin: Chuckles being a mute in the movie. The guy who... can talk to anyone, charm the pants off anyone, go drinking with Cobra officers and steal their ID badges AND their underwear... can't talk. Good job, movie guys. Five stars. 

(Staying on topic: will they ever re-release Chuckles? I have the exclusive one and he's easily a top five figure for me, I LOVE that figure, but I could see them giving him the retro card treatment too.) 

I think it's really Don Johnson we have a problem with. And rightfully so. I think the half brother angle was only in the movie, and he was a way better character in the comics.

I was flipping through the comics, actually quickly scanning through from around #85 pretty much to the end of the marvel run, just taking it in, and one thing I really took notice of was, sure, they always introduced the new vehicles coming out that year, and the new guys would get some time, but characters like Baroness, who only ever had one figure in 1984, were ALWAYS featured heavily. Scarlet too, despite not getting a second figure until ninja force. So yeah he pimped the toys a bit but he told the stories he wanted to tell.

Yes to Phoenix Guard. Bonus points if they do what they should have done ages ago in Marvel Legends with the original Thunderbolts lineup: A two pack with "villain" and "hero" identities. The villain identity could be v2 (v3 in Copperheads case), of the character.

File card Falcon is *my* Falcon. Hard-fighting, seasoned badass who bites the heads off snakes. Movie Falcon just got *noped* over in my mind because . . . well.

Flint, though, is A+ in all incarnations. Like comics/file card roguish Rhodes Scholar is tops, but “smarter, cooler and less annoying Duke replacement” from Sunbow is also awesome. He’s even cool as by-the-book “cop” in Renegades with his “that championship season” football rivalry with Duke.

I still like how they had their "three best guys" guarding Serpentor. Chances were high Cobra would try to break him out so maybe have him be mega-guarded? 

@spongyblue Holy crap you mean to tell me that since 1985 I’ve been thinking General Flagg was Admiral Flagg?  Aw hell. Lol. 

Ok then we need a General Flagg and an Admiral Keel Haul in classifieds soon. 

@leor Only if they include pieces for a BaF (Build a Flagg) to be completed over the next 50+ waves.