646f9e108c After yet another defeat inflicted by G.I. Joe, the immediate subordinates of Cobra&#39;s leader, Cobra Commander, have finally come to the end of their patience with his apparent incompetence and his inability to achieve real victories. The leader of the research and interrogations wing, Dr. Mindbender, receives a dream showing the solution. His plan is to collect the genetic material of great warriors and military leaders to create a composite clone that would be the perfect leader for Cobra. Now they set out to put this scheme into motion, and G.I. Joe has very little time to learn of this plot before Cobra becomes that much more a dire threat to the world. The G.I. Joe force learn that Cobra is out to clone a new leader for the organization, making them a greater threat than ever before. WARNING: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS GALORE. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.<br/><br/>It was all so perfect…<br/><br/>The maniacal madman, Cobra Commander. The ambitious right-hand man, Destro, and his mistress, the Baroness. The master of disguise, Zartan, his equally cunning sister, Zaranna, and his crew of bikers, The Dreadnoks. The mysterious Ninja assassin, Stormshadow. Cobra&#39;s financial backers, the Crimson Twins, and their Crimson Guardsmen.<br/><br/>The main thing that drove G.I.Joe, in the cartoon and in the comics, was the ongoing tension between everyone in the Cobra ranks. The constant back-biting in Cobra was actually far more interesting than anything the Joes were doing!<br/><br/>Unfortunately, all that would come to an end…<br/><br/>Cobra&#39;s resident mad scientist, Dr. Mindbender, would get dreams that coerced him to gather up everyone in the Cobra ranks to travel around the world and dig up corpses (I wonder how THAT concept got past the PTC!) so he can create a new leader…the empiror, SERPENTOR!<br/><br/>Serpentor ranks right up there with Robotech&#39;s Lynn Minmeione of the most irritating characters ever created!! He is nothing but a spoiled 2-year-old in a grown-up body, constantly yelling and screaming his stilted dialogue. This character is solely out of place, making the series move away from the pseudo-militaristic feel to a forced sci-fi feel. His mere presence ruined every episode he appeared in. Even worse, the constant tension between everyone in the Cobra ranks, the main thing that drives the G.I. Joe series, was instantly killed the moment Serpentor shows up,everyone in Cobra does nothing but kiss up to the whiney Serpentor, while Cobra Commander is reduced to a pathetic lackey!<br/><br/>As muchCobra was going through, the Joes weren&#39;t doing much better. The usually tough-as-nails/always-on-the-ball G.I.Joe was reduced to clumsy dimwits, just so they can be whipped into shape…by a bloated, overated pro-wrestler, SGT. Slaughter (how this guy got world title pushes while the likes of Tito Santana &amp; Ricky Steamboat never held a world title is a mystery to me)!<br/><br/>This miniseries planted the seeds of G.I. Joe&#39;s demise, justreplacing Optimus Prime with the ungrateful punk Rodimus Prime killed the Transformer franchise. From here, they would attempt to write off Cobra Commander even further, by making him a snake in the G.I.Joe movie, and having Cobra consist of a bunch of grotusque aliens.<br/><br/>So, if you are wondering why G.I.Joe isn&#39;tprominentthey used to be, it started with THIS miniseries. Nowadays, in the current G.I.Joe toyline and the current comics from Image/Devil&#39;s Due Comics, you won&#39;t find hardly ANY mention of Serpentor, or the plots from the &#39;movie&#39;. And it is best kept that way! This was a tough change that I thought never should have came. The losing of Cobra Commander was not a good move. Serpentor eventually I got used to in the series. The whole time, everyone knew that they just wanted the Commander back. The movie and everything that went on..undermining what Cobra Commander did in the first place. I guess I liked them because I liked GI-JOE.. but this was where everybody started to doubt what was happening in the show and really started thinking it was a little shady. I didn&#39;t like the fact that I was reduced below the ridiculous Serpentor. I guess he was still cool.. whatever…
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