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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"[[ArcWords Be Careful. Survive!"]]]] |
3 | In 2008, Creator/IDWPublishing acquired the publication rights to Franchise/GIJoe, continuing the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel original comic]] where it left off, while also creating [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW their own G.I. Joe universe]] in the same vein as ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'' they began in 2005. |
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5 | Similar to ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'', this series reboots continuity again, with writer Paul Allor and artist Chris Evenhuis as the creative team. |
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7 | In this continuity, Cobra has taken over an unspecified number of countries throughout the world, including the United States, and G.I. Joe is [[LaResistance a small band of rebels]] fighting back. Outnumbered by their implacable foe, the Joe leadership must recruit civilian spies and saboteurs: Ordinary people living in occupied territories who will put their lives on the line to strike back through clandestine but high-impact missions. Rithy "Tiger" Khay, a motorbike deliveryman who has had to resort to contraband smuggling to make ends meet, finds himself embroiled in the struggle and becomes their latest operative. |
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9 | After a run of ten issues, the series came to an end with the one-shot ''G.I. Joe: Castle Fall''. |
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11 | Character page is a W.I.P. |
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13 | !!Tropes Include: |
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15 | * TenMinuteRetirement: Hawk had retired from the military after serving with distinction for at least twenty years, but once Cobra takes over, he comes out of retirement to form LaResistance. |
16 | * AbortedArc: [[spoiler:The series ends without any resolution to Hawk making a deal with Destro or Jinx choosing to fight Cobra on her own terms with the aid of Snake Eyes after Scarlett boots her from G.I. Joe.]] |
17 | * AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While most of the older characters are considerably different than previous depictions, the most prominent are: |
18 | ** While Roadblock is still TheBigGuy, here he is a civilian cook who never had any military experience prior to the rebellion. The first time he has to kill somebody, he takes it [[HeroicBSOD VERY hard]]. |
19 | ** In the original comic, Fred Broca was one of the first Cobra soldiers to join the [[PraetorianGuard Crimson Guard]]. Here, he's a civilian who initially knows nothing of Cobra's true agenda and is horrified when he finds out. He is promptly deemed a security risk and executed. |
20 | * AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Averted. Tiger (the son of Cambodian immigrants) doesn't know how to fight at first, and has to learn from Scarlett. |
21 | * AnyoneCanDie: Played with. Having a starring role in other iterations of the franchise does NOT provide any level of immunity in this series. [[spoiler: Duke is killed early on to prove this point]]. |
22 | * ArchEnemy: Major Bludd is shaping up to be the [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader to Tiger's Luke Skywalker]]. |
23 | * BadassBookworm: Before the war, Lightfoot was a librarian for the University of Chicago and Frontier was a teacher. Now they are the Joes' explosives expert and field commander, respectively. |
24 | * CanonCharacterAllAlong: Near the end of the series, Dr. Mindbender is shown to have an assistant who questions his decisions. [[spoiler:The end of her debut reveals that she's this continuity's Lady Jaye, working as TheMole.]] |
25 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Cobra Commander and Destro, moreso than previous incarnations. Cobra was originally a tech-oriented MegaCorp before it went rogue and took over the world. Destro and his Military Armaments Research Syndicate appear to be manipulating both sides of the G.I. Joe/Cobra conflict for their own agenda. |
26 | * CrapsackWorld: The first issue alone has corner stores advertising gas masks and ration packs, and armored stormtroopers carrying out public executions as a scare tactic to keep the rest of the populace in line. |
27 | * DealWithTheDevil: Hawk makes one with Destro to get additional resources to fight Cobra. |
28 | * DeathByAdaptation: The series kills off a lot of characters who survived to the end in previous continuities. |
29 | ** [[spoiler:Duke]] becomes the first casualty when Major Bludd shoots him. |
30 | ** The ninth issue has Tunnel Rat reveal that Heavy Duty, Ripcord, Dial Tone, Grid Iron, Hi-Tech and Dusty died combating Cobra. |
31 | ** [[spoiler:The series ends with the Baroness and Cobra Commander perishing when their escape helicopter blows up in flames during the Joes' final assault on Cobra.]] |
32 | * TheEmpire: Cobra. They have taken over the United States and rule it in with an iron fist. |
33 | * {{Expy}}: |
34 | ** The writers cite the UsefulNotes/{{SOE}} as an inspiration for this incarnation of the G.I. Joe team. |
35 | ** As a masked supervillain who has conquered (most of) the world and killed off (most of) his heroic opposition, Cobra Commander is a loose one of [[ComicBook/{{Empire}} Emperor Golgoth]]. |
36 | ** Frontier looks like Flint with a beard, and fills Flint's traditional role as field commander/executive officer. He also shares Flint's academic background, being a teacher before the war. |
37 | * GenderSwap: |
38 | ** The Doc of this series, as seen in Issue #4 is female. |
39 | ** The ninth issue shows Dial-Tone to be female like her counterpart in the previous IDW continuity. |
40 | * GrandFinale: The one-shot ''G.I. Joe: Castle Fall'' marks the end of this continuity, having [[spoiler:G.I. Joe finally take down Cobra and encourage the liberated populace that they are free to live their lives on their own terms.]] |
41 | * TheMole: Lady Jaye works with Dr. Mindbender while undercover for the Joes. |
42 | * RaceLift: |
43 | ** Cover Girl and Lightfoot were Caucasian in the original comics; here they are both African American. |
44 | ** Zartan is Latin American. |
45 | ** Snake-Eyes is Japanese-American. |
46 | ** Dr. Mindbender is from India, according to a mini-bio in Issue #10. |
47 | * ShoutOut: The series is essentially a [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty]] {{Deconstruction}} of [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero the Sunbow cartoon]]'s "Worlds Without End" two-parter with its "What if [[TheBadGuyWins Cobra won]]?" premise. Both works briefly mention the Weather Dominator from the cartoon's [[FiveEpisodePilot second five-parter]]. |
48 | * TheStarscream: Major Bludd against Cobra Commander (really, the senior leadership in general). |
49 | -->'''Bludd:''' I know he's untouchable, unless I'm willing to abandon control. Unless I'm willing to destroy myself. And I'm not ready for that... ''not yet''. |
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