History Headscratchers / GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra

*** The thing is that everything else was plausible tech rating fairly high on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness; power armor, optical camouflage, supersonic troop transports, etc. Even the nanotech was really damned limited: not LOL NANNITES - they require unique power sources (supercollider to arm them), can't replicate infinitely(which is why you need a football-full to vaporize the Eiffel Tower), and have to be programmed for specific tasks ahead of time. Even the cybernetic interfaces are based on current designs - just a decade or so ahead of the SOTA, which is enough that the military could have all that stuff either in late development or in the hands of super-units like the Joes IRL RFN. But MARS has freaky rayguns? That can shoot missiles out of the air? The same power sources in the accelerator suits would power energy weapons, but we haven't even a basic theory behind how to make StarWars blasters.

** What bothered ''me'' was less the American / Korean ninja and more the fact that Kid-Who-Would-Be-Snake-Eyes was ''able'' to fight that way. Tiny!Storm Shadow had been trained since he could stand, so okay, but what are the odds a badass little kid would choose to pilfer the one martial dojo where he'd fight ''another'' badass kid and get clan-adopted? Did I miss a prequel comic here? A webisode? If so, links are appreciated. Was Snake Eyes' father a wandering American streetfighter looking to make a name in Japan? Is his real last name [[StreetFighter Masters]]?

*** The thing is that everything else was plausible tech rating fairly high on the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness; power armor, optical camouflage, supersonic troop transports, etc. Even the nanotech was really damned limited: not LOL NANNITES - they require unique power sources (supercollider to arm them), can't replicate infinitely(which is why you need a football-full to vaporize the Eiffel Tower), and have to be programmed for specific tasks ahead of time. Even the cybernetic interfaces are based on current designs - just a decade or so ahead of the SOTA, which is enough that the military could have all that stuff either in late development or in the hands of super-units like the Joes IRL RFN. But MARS has freaky rayguns? That can shoot missiles out of the air? The same power sources in the accelerator suits would power energy weapons, but we haven't even a basic theory behind how to make StarWars blasters.

** Once again not FridgeLogic, but there is a difference: The Team America example caused a lot more damage than the bomb would have done while the GIJoe team managed to reduce the level of damage that would have resulted.

** I'll just quote from the [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra main page]] on the YouFailPhysicsForever example:"Justified It's said on screen that there are tunnels in the ice. Presumably made of metal or concrete that would cause the ice to sink despite it's natural buoyancy." "Very nearly turned into Fridge Brilliance by Scarlett's comment roughly half a minute later, out-and-out mentioning the large quantity of metal lacing the ice directly above them."

** That's not FridgeLogic, which JustBugsMe is about, that's an alternate scene. How would he know which one they'd use? Also the Baronness could probably read him like a book and know if he tried that.

* Just what were ''''Pulse weapons'''' suppose to be anyway? Lasers? plasma cannons? rail guns? all the other tech was loosely based of real world stuff. So to have Cobra randomly whip out [[RayGun Ray Guns]] seems a little... ''{{egregious}}''.

* When the villain threatens to kill his sister in ''Rise of the Cobra'', why doesn't the main character call his bluff? Essentially, say, "You won't do it because if you do, I'll kill you and you value your life more." In fact, that bugs me about almost any movie hostage situation, the villain literally ''can't'' kill the hostage because it would mean their own death and villains always care most about their own lives. Why don't any heroes ever realize this?

*** During Scarlett's motorcycle sequence, she's very clearly ''hit by a car'' while she's driving, but in a clearly CGI moment, she's only shoved a little, and keeps on driving. It's supposed to be BadAss, but it just fries WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for a moment and throws one out of the film.

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