Trivia / G.I. Joe: Renegades

• Actor Allusion:
  • Khary Payton voices an African-American that winds up becoming half-human. Sounds familiar.
  • Charlie Schlattler's played a doctor before...
• Died During Production: Lead character designer Clement Sauvé passed during the series' run.
• In Memoriam: The episode "Brothers of Light" was dedicated to Sauvé.
• Predecessor Casting Gag: Duke's parents are voiced by Michael Bell and B. J. Ward, the original VA's for Duke and Scarlett.
• Promoted Fanboy: Eugene Son is a big G.I. Joe fanboy and even co-founded the fansite Yojoe.com in the early days of the internet, and got to write the episodes Dreadnoks Rising and Union of the Snake.
• Role Reprise:
  • Charlie Adler reprises his role as Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe: Resolute. However, this is the only role he reprised (Gung-Ho doesn't appear and Hard Master, Flint, and Stalker had different voice actors).
  • Michael Bell returned as Duke for the Hub's dream sequence segment.
• Screwed by the Network: It was announced that before the first season ended that the show would go on hiatus in order to "keep creative continuity with the upcoming live action film", a hiatus from which the show would never return.
  • And in the show's first run, the episodes were aired out of order. For better or for worse, they did this to time the two-part Christmas episode "Homecoming" correctly. This required additional shuffling around because Storm Shadow appears in it, so the also-two-part "Return of the Arashikage" had to be moved as well to introduce him first. After this, the airing order was correct.
  • And the tie-in toyline got screwed by Hasbro as well, being hurriedly inserted in the 30th Anniversary assortments, suffering from loss of equipment to cut costs, show characters Airtight and Law being little more than 30th Anniversary toys shoehorned in to pad out the Renegades stuff and worst of all, the line being cut abruptly before the five main characters could even get a toy release (Roadblock got the shaft). Oi.
• X Meets Y: The heroic fugitive soldiers ofThe A-Team seasoned with a dash of Utopia's evil conspiratorial corporation... but with Hasbro characters.
• What Could Have Been: The second season was planned to have Cobra Commander go on the run, and Cobra becoming a full-on terrorist organization (referred to by co-writer Henry Gilroy as "going full Osama Bin Laden"), with the Joes — now government-backed — pursuing Cobra. However, the Hasbro higher-ups thought this was too similar to the setup of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra; it didn't help Hasbro had an internal rule against having too many similar toy lines around at the same time, so the second season was axed. It also didn't help that other Hasbro execs wanted to make the Joes into more superhero-type characters to capitalize on the success of the The Avengers (2012).

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