History YMMV / GIJOE

** Even more so in the Devils Due comic where he [[spoiler: killed his own son for betrayal and mounted his head on a pike as an example]].

**** Cartoon Cobra Commander was once defeated because he wasted too much time deciding which COUNTRY to wipe out, before deciding to just destroy the entire continent. He once claimed that 80% casualty rate was acceptable so lone as the surviving 20% of Earth's population swore loyalty to COBRA. Just because he was a moron, doesn't mean he wasn't a CompleteMonster.

** The two-part episode "Worlds Without End", in which some of the Joes are transported to an [[AlternateUniverse alternate dimension]] [[VillainWorld where Cobra has conquered the world]]. The characters end up [[spoiler: stumbling over the skeletal remains of the Joes of that world, including their own counterparts]].
** In the episode with Mindbender's dream-projector, Lowlight's own nightmare about the junkyard rats is ''much'' scarier than anything the villain devises, the moreso in that it enacts an actual [[AbusiveParents childhood trauma]]. Mainframe's dream that he's [[BodyHorror turning into an android]] is nasty too, albeit very brief.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Larry Hama, author of the comic, was hired as creative consultant for the movie.
** General reaction to the teaser trailer of the sequel? This is what ''[[GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra The Rise Of Cobra]]'' should have been!
*** [[BruceWillis Bruce.]] [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking.]] [[BadassGrandpa Willis.]] That is all.

* RuinedFOREVER: At first applied to ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', now being applied to its announced sequel.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogEtfIdgjpY Fenslerfilm's dubbed-over PSAs.]]

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The episode "There's No Place Like Springfield" will give anyone nightmares for a week. As will the one with the giant shrieking underwater worms.
** The episode where a rich, old woman wanted a younger woman's face transplanted onto her through some crazy machine. In the end the Joes manage to stop it, but the old woman is left as TheBlank.
** The two-part episode "Worlds Without End", in which some of the Joes are transported to an [[AlternateUniverse alternate dimension]] [[VillainWorld where Cobra has conquered the world]]. The characters end up [[spoiler: stumbling over the skeletal remains of the Joes of that world, including their own counterparts]].
** In the episode with Mindbender's dream-projector, Lowlight's own nightmare about the junkyard rats is ''much'' scarier than anything the villain devises, the moreso in that it enacts an actual [[AbusiveParents childhood trauma]]. Mainframe's dream that he's [[BodyHorror turning into an android]] is nasty too, albeit very brief.
** The Germ gave this Troper nightmares since he was six years old!

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Scarlett, as the main female Joe, has this: OfficialCouple status either with Duke in the cartoon or with Snake-Eyes in the comics, Clutch tried to hit on her in the comics, just like Tunnel Rat in the Sigma 6 cartoon and Ripcord in the live-action movie. Her interaction with Zartan in the TV episode "The Gamemaster" looks almos flirtatious. And there's even people who pair her with [[{{Transformers}} Bumblebee]] due to them teaming-up in the many crossovers.

* AlasPoorVillain: Cobra Commander in TheMovie when he is punished by being exposed to mutated spores, one can only pity him as he lays on the ground writhing in pain.

* OlderThanTheyThink: This started out as a 12'' action figure for decades before the cartoon.
* RuinedFOREVER: At first applied to ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', now being applied to its announced sequel.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Snake-Eyes is one of these personified, including breaking into Destro's castle to save Scarlett and actually taking on Storm Shadow and his ninjas with little weapons, and breaking free during a Cobra torture session, and going upstairs to rescue the people who were supposed to rescue him. In Snake-Eyes-Land, prisoner saves you!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_daZe1kNI The opening for the 1987 film is made up of several of these. Examples include Snake-Eyes stealing a Trouble Bubble in mid air, Cobra Commander getting punched off the Statue of Liberty, and Duke blowing up the Cobra airship.]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Especially the opening theme of the 1987 movie

* NightmareFuel: The episode "There's No Place Like Springfield" will give anyone nightmares for a week. As will the one with the giant shrieking underwater worms.
** The episode where a rich, old woman wanted a younger woman's face transplanted onto her through some crazy machine. In the end the Joes manage to stop it, but the old woman is left as TheBlank.
** The two-part episode "Worlds Without End", in which some of the Joes are transported to an [[AlternateUniverse alternate dimension]] [[VillainWorld where Cobra has conquered the world]]. The characters end up [[spoiler: stumbling over the skeletal remains of the Joes of that world, including their own counterparts]].
** In the episode with Mindbender's dream-projector, Lowlight's own nightmare about the junkyard rats is ''much'' scarier than anything the villain devises, the moreso in that it enacts an actual [[AbusiveParents childhood trauma]]. Mainframe's dream that he's [[BodyHorror turning into an android]] is nasty too, albeit very brief.
** The Germ gave this Troper nightmares since he was six years old!
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Scarlett, as the main female Joe, has this: OfficialCouple status either with Duke in the cartoon or with Snake-Eyes in the comics, Clutch tried to hit on her in the comics, just like Tunnel Rat in the Sigma 6 cartoon and Ripcord in the live-action movie. Her interaction with Zartan in the TV episode "The Gamemaster" looks almos flirtatious. And there's even people who pair her with [[{{Transformers}} Bumblebee]] due to them teaming-up in the many crossovers.

* RuinedFOREVER: At first applied to GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra, now being applied to its announced sequel.

* FetishFuel: TheBaroness!

** The opening for the 1987 film is made up of several of these. Examples include Snake-Eyes stealing a Trouble Bubble in mid air, Cobra Commander getting punched off the statue of liberty, and Duke blowing up the Cobra airship.

** Didn't help the movie at all, in the end.

** Thanks to poor choice in VA and never mentioning he's form Scotland, many cartoon fans bitch about Christopher Eccleston playing Destro.

** As the index itself says, YMMV. The movie was great and full of Hama's writing style, depite him being "just" a consultant.

* RuinedFOREVER: At first applied to GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra, now being applied to its announced sequel. Crosses into UnpleasableFanbase, some fanboys continue to consider the first film [[BeyondTheImpossible the worst movie ever]].

*** That might be because Paramount seems to have only provided advance viewings to a very small number of internet movie bloggers, with [[http://www.avclub.com/articles/gi-joe-deemed-too-good-to-screen-for-critics,31255/ no screening for mainstream film critics]].

* RuinedFOREVER: Already being pre-emptively applied to the upcoming live-action movie
** Much of the hatred seems to have died down recently, though, with most fans either supporting the movie or expressing apathy towards it. And early reviews have [[http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41702 been]] [[http://www.latinoreview.com/news/readers-review-g-i-joe-the-rise-of-cobra-7397 generally]] [[http://www.collider.com/2009/07/15/steve-has-seen-director-stephen-sommers-gijoe-the-rise-of-cobra-and-says-its-the-cartoon-come-to-life/ positive]].

* SpotlightStealingSquad: For a while in the 90s, the comic was retitled ''GI Joes starring Snake-Eyes and Ninja Force''.

* GodModeSue: Helix.