GI Joe Movie 1987: Serpentor Assassination Attempt

Cobra Commander leads Cobra's senior lieutenants on a wild goose chase in a bid to have his arch-rival Serpentor liquidated by a very capable assassin.

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[44excalibur]

GI JOE cartoon creator Ron Friedman was a no-talent hack who totally corrupted Larry Hama's far, far superior GI JOE comic book storyline. That's why the comics outlasted the cartoon by over a decade.

[karlkole]

@44excalibur

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Agreed.

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The cartoon storyline was just OK, but the animation was certainly the best available, especially when compared to garbage such as He-Man & most of the crap found on Saturday mornings in the 1980s.

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The Joe cartoons are also way better than what is found today, with the exception of Justice League, Batman, & the Batman Beyond animation series.

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Storyline wise, nothing beats the comics, with the relations between Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, & the Soft & Hard Masters.

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[44excalibur]

@karlkole Funny you should mention HE MAN, because the GI JOE cartoon started to resmble that series when they began the Cobra-La/Serpentor nonsense. And you're right, nothing beats the depth of the comics and Snake Eyes' storyline with Storm Shadow and the ninja Masters, Zartan killing the Hard master, the Baroness blaming Snake Eyes for her brother's death and her plot to take revenge, and of course, Snake Eyes' epic romance with Scarlett.

[karlkole]

@44excalibur

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The G.I. Joe Comics started going downhill when stupid stuff like Battle Force 2000 started appearing in the 1990s. You just knew that Hasbro decided it was more important for them to sell G.I. Joe toys than it was to continue with the great storylines.

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I really miss those comic book days with the Cobra Lawyers & the colorful, 5-dollar word slogans.

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Crypto-fascist, warmongering oppressor of the proletariat & of the freedom-loving workers of the world !!!

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8D

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[ourimaler]

You know, the way the Cobra brass rags on Cobra Commander while worshipping Serpentor really cracks me up.

Because, from what I remember, CC was actually USEFUL. He had PLANS. Some of them were even halfway decent, by the standards of 80s villains.

Serpentor, in contrast, was just as useless as they're accusing CC of being. He never contributed any idea, never came up with a good plan - and he ruined a few with his sheer pig-headedness.

Cobra was more dangerous with the Commander in charge.

[death2utubenow]

I remember this when it came out. As a kid it blew me away.

The animation and the story were really good.

Thanks for jogging my memory!

[MDthornton83]

@fiskefyren Yep. Toei Animation makes some of the best animation of all time.

[fiskefyren]

this is... pretty well animated O_O

[deathshadow2492]

@ourimaler But Destro, Baroness, Tomax, Xamot, and Mindbender did have a few good points.

[gonzo361]

hey cobra commander may have fucked up many times but serpentor was an idiot all that dna of an elite warrior garbage and his 1st orders is to take washington dc head on seriously....cobra commander should of had mind bender imprison because serpentors actions nearly destroyed all of cobra

[zionistslut]

@OgreMECH

this cartoon is based on fact

snakes from another dimension run the government

[ZukusScaenicus]

Press 5 for LIES! LIES!  LIESSS!!!

[TheRealThreeP]

Boy, they tore into Cobra Commander, good.

[Ksawarrior]

Thumbs up if you notice how they made breaking into the terror drome look hard to show how cool Pythona is when the Joes seemed to do it easily every week.

[osa0072]

In cartoon storyline are mising some part but i think it is Very Good. The oryginal Cobra Commander form the movie 1987 or the series with Criss Latta voice is the best character ever or almost ever. COBRA ! ! !

[OgreMECH]

We now have constant surveillance, TSA crushing our freedom, and even fucking VIPR teams. Cobra wins in the end.