History Trivia / GIJoeTheMovie

** Despite still being dubbed in the same city and studio, (Los Angeles, CA at Magnum Studios), the Latin American Spanish dub changed the entire voice cast from the TV series, with the sole, odd exception of Gloria Gonzalez as both the Baroness and Lady Jaye. Oddly enough, some voice actors from the TV series now voice different roles in the movie, like Alejandro Abdallah, who previously voiced General Hawk, now voice Golopulus here.

** Also in said script, Enforcer was meant to fight Snake-Eyes in the final battle; however, due to executive meddling behind the scenes, they changed targets and had Enforcer battle Slaughter instead.
* TheWikiRule: Joepedia, the [[https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/Joepedia_-_The_G.I._Joe_Wiki G.I. Joe Wiki]].

** The very first draft of the film, titled ''The Most Dangerous Man In The World'', had Cobra stop all its plots to go after one man, the creator of Cobra's political philosophy, who was about to publish a paper discrediting said philosophy in favor of a newer one. Buzz Dixon eventually released it as an Ebook.
** In earlier drafts, Lt. Falcon was either the brother or son (accounts vary) of General Hawk. Hence the avian motif in their codenames. According to Buzz Dixon it was changed because at some point someone realized how bad it'd look if the general was covering for his son. Thus the change to make Falcon Duke's brother.

** When the film first began production, the movie's iconic Statue of Liberty opening battle was going to be the climax meant to be the final battle while Rawhides and the Renegades fight Cobra-La. The context of the battle was eventually revealed in the Ebook mentioned above.

** In the original script of the story, Enforcer was meant to fight Snake-Eyes in the final battle; however, due to executive meddling behind the scenes they change it to battle Slaughter instead.

** Duke was originally [[DroppedABridgeOnHim supposed to die]] in the film, and the scene was scripted and filmed as such. This was when ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'' was first on the slate of the three Sunbow films to be released. However, due to scheduling conflicts, it was pushed back, and Hasbro liked (AT THAT TIME, it must be stressed) the edginess of Duke being KilledOffForReal -- this was around the time when ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Robotech]]'' had been among the first to show actual death in a (ostensibly) kid's show with Roy Focker being killed off -- and demanded the writing staff of ''Transformers: The Movie'' to do the same to Optimus Prime. And as it happened, ''Transformers: The Movie'' was released first. The reaction was, to say the least, not the one the execs were expecting from ''[[AnimationAgeGhetto six-year-olds and their parents]]'' and suddenly demanded last-minute voice-over inserts to establish that Duke had lived (and the resurrection of Optimus Prime in the two-part third season finale of ''The Transformers''). The voice inserts are painfully obvious; mute the sound at the right moments, and you get the death scene it originally was. The one of the worst decisions was Cobra-La being the ones behind Cobra and creating Serpentor despite there was no clues of their existence on the show, and worst is the opening intro scene was meant to be the final scene of the movie where all the Joes are fighting at the Statue of Liberty while Rawhides and the Renegades fight Cobra-La.

* TropeNamer: WasOnceAMan.

** When the film first began production, the movie's iconic Statue of Liberty opening battle was going to be the climax. The context of the battle was eventually revealed in the Ebook mentioned above.

** Duke was originally [[DroppedABridgeOnHim supposed to die]] in the film, and the scene was scripted and filmed as such. This was when ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'' was first on the slate of the three Sunbow films to be released. However, due to scheduling conflicts, it was pushed back, and Hasbro liked (AT THAT TIME, it must be stressed) the edginess of Duke being KilledOffForReal -- this was around the time when ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Robotech]]'' had been among the first to show actual death in a (ostensibly) kid's show with Roy Focker being killed off -- and demanded the writing staff of ''Transformers: The Movie'' to do the same to Optimus Prime. And as it happened, ''Transformers: The Movie'' was released first. The reaction was, to say the least, not the one the execs were expecting from ''[[AnimationAgeGhetto six-year-olds and their parents]]'' and suddenly demanded last-minute voice-over inserts to establish that Duke had lived (and the resurrection of Optimus Prime in the two-part third season finale of ''The Transformers''). The voice inserts are painfully obvious; mute the sound at the right moments, and you get the death scene it originally was.

** In earlier drafts, Lt. Falcon was either the brother or son (accounts vary) of General Hawk. Hence the avian motif in their codenames.

** Duke was originally [[DroppedABridgeOnHim supposed to die]] in the film, and the scene was scripted and filmed as such. This was when ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'' was first on the slate of the three Sunbow films to be released. However, due to scheduling conflicts, it was pushed back, and Hasbro liked (AT THAT TIME, it must be stressed) the edginess of Duke being KilledOffForReal -- this was around the time when ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Robotech]]'' had been among the first to show actual death in a (ostensibly) kid's show with Roy Focker being killed off -- and demanded the writing staff of ''Transformers: The Movie'' to do the same to Optimus Prime. And as it happened, ''Transformers: The Movie'' was released first. The reaction was, to say the least, not the one the execs were expecting from ''[[AnimationAgeGhetto six-year-olds and their parents]]'' and suddenly (in addition to resurrecting Optimus at the end of the third season of ''Transformers''), demanded last-minute voice-over inserts to establish that Duke had lived (and resurrecting Optimus Prime in the two-part third season finale of ''The Transformers''). The voice inserts are painfully obvious; mute the sound at the right moments, and you get the death scene it originally was.

* FakeBrit: Kristoffer Tabori affects a British accent as Mercer.
* FakeNationality: American actor Creator/EarlBoen voices Taurus with a Turkish accent.

** Hector Ramirez reporting on the spores.

** When the film first began production, the movie's iconic Statue of Liberty opening battle was going to be the climax. To this date the context of the battle has not been revealed.

* TroubledProduction: Though hard to notice, the voice actors did all their lines without much, or any, interaction with each other.

** Sgt. Slaughter, Falcon, and the Renegades running away from Cobra Troops to make it to the Joe Base to help with fight back.

** Wetsuit, Leatherneck, and other Joes setting up bombs to blast their way into Cobra-La, which Slipstream ignites by leading an airstrike on Cobra-La with Ace and other Joe pilots.

** A scene in which the Cobra characters interact with the citizens of Cobra-La, with Tomax and Xamot planning to take advantage of their ignorance of economics.

** A pair of scientists (voiced by Creator/PeterCullen and Vereen Watson-Johnson) studying Cobra-La's spores with the help of Blowtorch.
** SGT. Slaughter, Falcon, and the Renegades running away from Cobra Troops to make it to the Joe Base to help with fight back.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The name "Cobra-La" was intended as a placeholder name by the writers until they could think of a better name, but Hasbro loved the name and forced them to [[PermanentPlaceholder keep it]]. Comic writer Creator/LarryHama, however, hated the concept and refused to write a single Cobra-La story for over twenty years, and openly reassured readers of the comic in the letters page he would never include Cobra-La. Hama finally relented for a commemorative Cobra-La figure release with the packaging even advertising it as "The first Cobra-La story written by Creator/LarryHama!"

* ExecutiveMeddling: The name "Cobra-La" was intended as a placeholder name by the writers until they could think of a better name, but Hasbro loved the name and forced them to [[PermanentPlaceholder keep it]]. Comic writer Creator/LarryHama, however, hated the concept and refused to write a single Cobra-La story for over twenty years, finally doing so for a commemorative Cobra-La figure release. The packaging even advertised it as "The first Cobra-La story written by Creator/LarryHama!"

* DeletedScenes: As with Transformers The Movie, the end credits list characters that don't speak in the film, with some not even appearing, hinting at scenes that didn't make the final cut. These included...

* ExecutiveMeddling: The name "Cobra-La" was intended as a placeholder name by the writers until they could think of a better name, but Hasbro loved the name and forced them to keep it. Comic writer Creator/LarryHama, however, hated the concept and refused to write a single Cobra-La story for over twenty years, finally doing so for a commemorative Cobra-La figure release. The packaging even advertised it as "The first Cobra-La story written by Creator/LarryHama!"
** Duke was originally [[DroppedABridgeOnHim supposed to die]] in the film, and the scene was scripted and filmed as such. This was when ''G.I. Joe: The Movie'' was first on the slate of the three Sunbow films to be released. However, due to scheduling conflicts, it was pushed back, and Hasbro liked (AT THAT TIME, it must be stressed) the edginess of Duke being KilledOffForReal -- this was around the time when [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Robotech]] had been among the first to show actual death in a (ostensibly) kid's show with Roy Focker being killed off -- and demanded the writing staff of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' to do the same to Optimus Prime. And as it happened, ''Transformers: The Movie'' was released first. The reaction was, to say the least, not the one the execs were expecting from ''[[AnimationAgeGhetto six-year-olds and their parents]]'' and suddenly (in addition to resurrecting Optimus at the end of the third season of ''Transformers''), demanded last-minute voice-over inserts to establish that Duke had lived (and resurrecting Optimus Prime in the two-part third season finale of ''The Transformers''). The voice inserts are painfully obvious; mute the sound at the right moments, and you get the death scene it originally was.

* TheWikiRule: Joepedia, the [[http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Joepedia_-_The_G.I._Joe_Wiki G.I. Joe Wiki]].

** When the film first began production, the movie's iconic statue of liberty opening battle was going to be the climax.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Of a sort: Cover-Girl seemed to have grown her hair out again, which can be seen in the opening scene and the Cobra-La air raid.
* ShoutOut: WordOfGod says that the fight scene between [[spoiler:Jinx and Pythona]] was based on one from a soap opera called ''Series/FalconCrest''.