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The character sheet for the Live Action G. I. Joe Film Series.

G.I. Joes

Duke

A soldier who joins the Joes in the first movie, the first film's protagonist. Real name: Conrad Hauser.

Played by: Channing Tatum

• A Father to His Men
• Badass: Though not to the level of Snake Eyes.
• Dating Catwoman: With The Baroness.
• Demoted to Extra: Gets killed off early on in the second movie.
• The Generic Guy
• The Hero
• Honorary Uncle: Roadblock's kids call him "Uncle Duke", establishing that the two are close friends.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sacrifices himself to save Flint in Retaliation.
• Killed Off for Real: In the second movie, when a truck explodes during the COBRA attack.
• Love Redeems
• Sacrificial Lion: In Retaliation.
• Sergeant Rock
• Standardized Leader
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome

Gen. Hawk

The leader of the Joes. Real name: Clayton Abernathy.

Played by: Dennis Quaid

• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Four Star Badass
• Nice Hat
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know if he was killed during the events of the second movie nor is he ever mentioned in the second movie.

Scarlett

The G.I. Joe team's intelligence expert. Real name: Shana M. O'Hara

Played by: Rachel Nicols

• The Ace
• Action Girl
• Badass Biker Babe
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: For very long, at least.
• The Chick
• Fiery Redhead
• Friendly Sniper
• Heroes Want Redheads: In this medium, it's Ripcord.
• Hollywood Atheist: Possibly.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Her crossbow.
• Improbable Aiming Skills
• Red-Headed Hero
• Spy Catsuit
• The Squadette
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know if she was killed during the events of the second movie nor is she ever mentioned in the second movie.

Ripcord

An soldier who joins the Joes in the first movie, the team's expert pilot. Real name: Wallace Weems.

Played by: Marlon Wayans

• Ace Pilot
• Badass: Just not as much as Duke or Snake Eyes.
• Black Best Friend: To Duke in the first movie.
• Dogged Nice Guy: To Scarlett.
• Improbable Piloting Skills
• The Lancer
• Race Lift: Was white in all canon before the movie (i.e., the cartoon series from the 1980s and 2000s and the action figures that corresponded to the cartoons).
• Sidekick: To Duke
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't know if he was killed during the events of the second movie nor is he ever mentioned in the second movie.

Snake Eyes

An American who studied martial arts under the Arashikage ninja clan, taking a vow of silence. He is the rival of Storm Shadow. Real name: Classified.

Played by: Ray Park

• Actor Allusion: He fights Storm Shadow when the latter is wielding a double bladed sword.
• Badass: So very much.
  • Badass Longcoat
• The Big Guy: Shared with Heavy Duty (from the first movie) and Roadblock (from the second movie).
• Combat Pragmatist
• Cool Mask: To the point that it covers his face and head completely.
• Determinator
  Baroness: He gave up.
  Storm Shadow: He never gives up.
  Their car gets hit by a train
• Dual Tonfas
• The Faceless
  • In the second movie, they got rid of the lips on his mask, as it proved distracting to the audience and to reinforce the fact that he never speaks.
• Fake Nationality: Though he never talks, Snake Eyes is played by the Scottish Ray Park.
• Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted. He only beats Storm Shadow (both as a child, and in the climax) when he switches to bladed tonfas.
  • This may be a case of Fridge Brilliance, since one of the best strategies in martial arts if your opponent is just as skilled in the same way you're fighting them, you change your tactics. In the flashback, Snake Eyes loses every fight with Storm Shadow when they use the same weapon. He only wins when he changes tactics. Given his Combat Pragmatist roots, it makes sense.
• McNinja: Is the world's best ninja despite being American. In a bit of a subversion, the world's second best ninja seems to be Korean.
• Ninja
• Number Two: To General Hawk.
• The Quiet One: The low sigh he utters at Storm Shadow's apparent death is the most he's ever said in any continuity.
• The Rival: To Storm Shadow.
• You Killed My Master: Why he wants to take down Storm Shadow.

Heavy Duty

The field commander of G.I. Joe and the team's heavy machine gunner. Real name: Hershel Dalton.

Played by: Adewale_Akinnuoye-Agbaje

• Bald of Awesome
• The Big Guy: Shared with Snake Eyes
• Expy: Of Road Block.
• Gatling Good
• Scary Black Man
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl
  "Don't make me shoot a woman."

Breaker

The Joe's communications specialist and hacker. Real name: Abel Shaz.

Played by: Saïd Taghmaoui

• Fate Worse Than Death: After the Paris incident, he's been exiled from French soil for as long as he lives.
• Hollywood Nerd
• Hollywood Hacking: Hacks a dead man's brain.
• Interrogating the Dead: Via MacGyvering a palm pilot.
• Non-Action Guy
• Race Lift: Was white before this movie, now he's a Moroccan Arab.
• The Smart Guy

Cover Girl

The team's special weapons officer and Personal assistant to Gen. Hawk. Real name: Courtney Kreiger.

Played by: Karolína Kurková

• Actor Allusion
• Adaptation Dye Job: Arguable since Cover Girl has had multiple hair colors in the comics and cartoon.
• Demoted to Extra: Many didn't even realize she was supposed to be Cover Girl.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Killed Off for Real: Courtesy of Zartan.
• Sexy Secretary

Sgt. Stone

G.I. Joe's special operations instructor who teaches combat training. Real name: Geoffrey Stone IV.

Played by: Brendan Fraser

• Expy: Sgt. Stone seems to be a replacement for professional wrestler Sgt. Slaughter. Oddly, he's not the first Expy of him, with Beachhead having also filled the role.
  • He also aligns with multiple "Lt. Stone" characters in Joe cartoons and comics.
• The Cameo
• Drill Sergeant Nasty
• Identical Grandson: According to Brendan Frasier, he's a descendant of Rick O'Connell.
• Nice Hat
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, he seems much more pleasant than most iterations of the Joe's Drill Sergeant.

Gen. Joe Coulton

The original G.I. Joe, who helps out Roadblock, Lady Jaye, and Flint.

Played by: Bruce Willis

• Badass Grandpa
• Bald of Awesome: He is played by Bruce Willis, after all.
• Crazy-Prepared: He's got a lot of weapons hidden in his kitchen, including a pair of grenades hidden in a bowl of fruit.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Intergenerational Friendship: Develops one with Lady Jaye.
• Retired Badass: "President says I can't come out of retirement. They didn't say anything about reenlisting."
• The Southpaw.

Roadblock

G.I. Joe's infantry heavy weapons specialist and cook. Real name: Marvin F. Hinton.

Played by: Dwayne Johnson

• Badass
• Badass Baritone
• Badass Beard
• Bald of Awesome
• Black Best Friend: To Duke, but not as much as Ripcord. More like black good friend.
• The Big Guy: Shared with Snake Eyes and Heavy Duty from the first movie.
• Composite Character: His background has several elements from Stalker in the comics, such as being involved with a gang when growing up in the city, being best buddies with Snake Eyes, and having kids.
• Gatling Good: His Weapon of Choice.
• Genius Bruiser: He's not only strong, but he's also pretty smart and good at coming up with strategies.
• The Leader: Takes up the role after Duke's death.

Lady Jaye

The covert ops specialist and the only female member in Roadblock and Duke's squad in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. She is also a guns specialist. Real name: Jaye Burnett.

Played by: Adrianne Palicki

• Action Girl
• Badass Bookworm
• Ms. Fanservice
• Lady in Red
• The Smart Girl

Flint

Special Forces Warrant Officer in Duke and Roadblock's Squad. Real name: Dashiell R. Faireborn

Played by: D.J. Cotrona

• The Lancer: To Roadblock following Duke's death.
• Race Lift: Mildly, as he's played by Hispanic-American actor D.J. Cotrona.

Mouse

Played by: Joseph Mazzello

• Friendly Sniper
• Killed Off for Real
• We Hardly Knew Ye

Jinx

Another ninja in the service of the G.I. Joes. She is Snake Eyes' protege. Real name: Classified.

Played by: Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe: Retaliation)

• Action Girl
• Ascended Extra: Had a brief cameo in GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra, but becomes one of the main Joe characters in Retaliation.
• Dressing as the Enemy: Disguised herself as a Cobra red ninja to get close to the Cobra Commander, Firefly and Zartan along with Storm Shadow, who was going after Zartan because he murdered the Hard Master.
• Fake Nationality: Played by French Actress of Asian descent, Elodie Yung.
• Ninja
• The Quiet One: Though she has a few lines, unlike Snake Eyes, she's relatively taciturn.
• Sidekick: To Snake Eyes.

Grunt

Clutch

Stoop

MARS/Cobra

The Doctor/ Cobra Commander

One half of the Big Bad Duumvirate of the first film, which makes sense because he's the Big Bad of the franchise. He assists McCullen in his evil plans, but secretly has plans of his own. Real name: Rex Lewis

Played by: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra); Luke Bracey (Body), Robert Baker (Voice) (G.I. Joe: Retaliation)

• Badass Longcoat: Sports one in Retaliation.
• Batman Gambit
• Big Bad
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With McCullen.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: Slightly subverted. While he does leaves the dirty work to his Vipers and McCullen, he does use his tools in wanting to torture Duke. Which makes sense since Rex blames Duke for his apparent death.
• Cool Mask: The Doctor has one to assist with his breathing.
  • Cool Helmet: Once he becomes Cobra Commander. More so in Retaliation, where he dons his classic mask from the cartoon.
• Composite Character: Is a merger of Doctor Mindbender and Cobra Commander.
• Evil Genius
• Evil Sounds Deep / Guttural Growler
• For Science!: The Doctor's motivation for all the evil he does seems to be this.
  • In fact he seems interested in world domination like Destro. A New World Order using nanobots to control people creating a totalitarian paradise under his rule. Given his character, it's also For Science! as said paradise will probably favor unimpeded scientific progress (ie. unimpeded by, say, ethics or human rights).
• Large Ham / Evil Is Hammy: Even before he becomes Cobra Commander, he had his hammy moments. He's a bit calmer in Retaliation.
• Mad Scientist: Oh hell yes! For one thing, he creates the Vipers.
• The Starscream: He succeeds in overthrowing Destro as well.

Destro

The other half of the Big Bad Duumvirate of the first film, though more of The Heavy. A weapons designer and founder of the Military Armament Research Syndicate (MARS). His terrorist agenda sets up the movie's plot. Real name: James McCullen XXIV. Destro's company manufactures 70% of the world's armaments.

Played by: Christopher Eccleston

• Arms Dealer
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Batman Gambit
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With The Doctor, which later becomes The Dragon when The Doctor's true intent is revealed and becomes Cobra Commander.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: Has DeCobray's husband killed and tries to have Duke turned into a Viper. Destro does not like having rivals.
• The Heavy: While he's one half the Big Bad Duumvirate, Destro's a bit more proactive than The Doctor.
• Karmic Transformation: After being badly burned, he was forced to have a face of metal, just like his ancestor. Though this is nanotech metal and not actual metal.
• Large Ham
• Legacy Character
• Scotland

The Baroness

Cobra Intelligence Officer who married a wealthy European aristocrat before she has Storm Shadow kill him/ Real name: Ana Lewis aka Anastascia DeCobray.

Played by: Sienna Miller

• All Women Love Shoes
• Badass Longcoat
• The Baroness: No surprise here.
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Dark Action Girl
• Dark Chick
• Dating Catwoman: With Duke
• Easily Forgiven: Averted.
• Guns Akimbo
• High Heel Face Turn
• More than Mind Control
• Ms. Fanservice
• Spy Catsuit
• The Squadette

Storm Shadow

Member of the ninja clan Arashikage, trained under his uncle, the Hard Master. He is the rival of Snake Eyes. Real name: Thomas Arashikage.

Played by: Byung-hun Lee

• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy
• Back from the Dead: He returns in the sequel.
• Badass: He's more than capable of going toe-to-toe with Snake Eyes.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Badass Longcoat
• Bifurcated Weapon: Can combine his two swords into a double-bladed one.
• Bishōnen
• Break the Haughty: As a boy.
• The Brute
• Disney Villain Death: He survives though and appears in the second movie.
• Dressing as the Enemy: In his introduction in the second movie, he pretends to be Snake Eyes so that he can break into the German facility and free Cobra Commander.
• The Dragon: To Destro.
• Enemy Mine: With the Joes in Retaliation.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Killing women disgusts him.
  "For you, Zartan, I make an exception."
• Heel Face Turn: Pulls one off to help the Joes go after Zartan, who was in fact, his master's murderer.
• Highly Visible Ninja: Possibly in contrast to Snake Eyes' all-black suit, he wears one that's all-white.
  • Which kind of makes sense because in Japan white is the color of death.
• I Surrender, Suckers: He willingly gets himself caught as Snake Eyes, and even after being revealed to be Storm Shadow, he pretends his heart rate has gone down so that he can get out of the capsule and free Cobra Commander.
• Made of Iron
• Man in White
• Mr. Fanservice
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast
• Ninja
• Not Quite Dead
• The Rival: To Snake Eyes.
• Sixth Ranger: To Roadblock's team in Retaliation. following his Heel Face Turn.
• Steven Ulysses Perhero: His last name is Arashikage, which means "Storm Shadow".
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: How he kills Zartan in Retaliation.
• “Well Done Son” Guy: As a boy.
• Worthy Opponent
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Is disgusted by the murder of Cover Girl.
• You Killed My Master: Why he goes after Zartan in the second movie.

Zartan

A master of disguises who thanks to The Doctor's experimentation can shapeshift. Real name: Classified

Played by: Arnold Vosloo, Jonathan Pryce (when he's pretending to be the President of the United States)

• Actor Allusion: A couple of references are made to The Mummy.
• Arc Words: Him whistling "Jolly Good Fellow."
• The Bad Guy Wins: By the end of the first movie, he has taken over the presidency of the United States of the America by impersonating the President (and keeping the real President detained). In the second movie, he annihilates most of the G.I. Joes.
• Dies Wide Open
• Dying as Yourself
• Dirty Coward
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the second movie, thanks to Storm Shadow.
• Karmic Death: He murdered a female GI Joe member in front of Storm Shadow, a man who's disgusted with killing women, and one movie later he gets killed by the same man who he killed the woman in front of because he murdered his master.
• Kick the Dog: His murder of Cover Girl.
  • The second movie reveals that he murdered Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow's master, the Hard Master, and framed Storm Shadow for it.
• Killed Off for Real: Courtesy of Storm Shadow in the second movie.
• Laughably Evil: Has his moments in the second movie while disguised as the President. Including one scene where he plays Angry Birds on his phone.
• Master of Disguise: Appropriate, considering his actor's previous role. To the point that he's American President.
• President Evil
• Would Hit a Girl

Doctor Mindbender

A scientist in McCullen's employ who developed the nanomite technology and trained "The Doctor" in the field. His current status is unknown. Real name: Unknown.

Played by: Kevin J. O'Connor

• Decoy Antagonist: A lot of fans familiar with the mythology expected the Doctor to actually be the Rise of Cobra version of Doctor Mindbender. Only at the end, was it revealed that the Doctor is actually Cobra Commander.
• Demoted to Extra: More of an inversion. The character was never intended to have a name, and was only there as a plot device for The Doctor's path to darkness. After the fact, they realized he could easily be Mindbender and threw his name in for the fans.
• For Science!
• Mad Scientist
• Meaningful Name / Names to Run Away From Really Fast

Firefly

Played by: Ray Stevenson

• Ax Crazy
• Beard of Evil
• Demolitions Expert
• The Dragon/The Brute: To Cobra Commander in Retaliation.
• Flipping the Bird: Does this in one scene with both fingers!
  Zartan: Ah, good to see we have the required crazy in this plan! So, you still have all 10 fingers?
  Firefly: Sure do. *waves his fingers toward Zartan's face, then flips him off*
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Roadblock kills him with his own bomb.
• Killed Off for Real
• Land Down Under
• Mad Bomber
• Weapon of Choice: Particularly prominent in Retaliation are his tiny robotic bombs, which fly and have glowing tails, just like actual fireflies.

Zandar

Other Characters:

The President of the United States of America

Played by: Jonathan Pryce

• Kill and Replace: Semi-subverted. Zartan only replaces the President, but doesn't kill him. He was needed for retinal scanning to authorize the Cobra football.
• You're Insane!: To Zartan when he shows what the nanomites are capable of for his disguise when he slices his face with a knife.

Warden Nigel James

Played by: Walton Goggins

• Killed Off for Real
• Senseless Sacrifice

Hard Master:

Played by: The RZA

• Death By Flashback
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Not by Storm Shadow, but by Zartan, who frames the former for it.

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