G.I. Joe Classified Series

Wowzers. I really like that Budo. But why the fuck is he left-handed? What is the Joe team's obsession with making everyone left-handed?
 
The only thing Budo is missing is a sword permanently stuck in the scabbard like the original. Maybe they'll correct this oversight on IG Destro. I think I played with them for years before I figured out people didn't swing them around with scabbards on in real life.
 
Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was quietly happy that so many Joes are accidentally lefthanded in this line. I'm such a nerd - I intentionally do things like, put the punching hand on my Spidey figures on the left. Thor holds his hammer lefty. Obi-Wan holds his lightsaber lefty. So it makes me laugh so much that like 85% of Classified are set up for 10% of the population. Makes me laugh EVERY time.

Also Badducci? I love how comics and comics adjacent stuff just make up fake Italian last names. Eeeeeh sounds Italian enough, let's go with that. Thousands of real Italian names they could choose from out of a phone book and they get Badducci. I feel like there's a 90% chance if you see an Italian last name in comics or cartoons, it's a mad-libbed pile of consonants and vowels that almost sound like a restaurant in the North End.

(I just researched Jesso to see if it was even remotely Japanese and... Kyle is definitely a cosplay ninja. I love GI Joe. It's so fricken silly and that makes it even better.)
 
Jesus. I had no idea there was so many lefters here.

I think I only have two left handed Joes so far, one is Beachhead. And I have one left handed Cobra Officer.

Also, my understanding as someone who has never actively studied Kendo etc, is even left handed samurai still use the right hand at the top of the handle to aim the strike and the left at the bottom to deliver the power behind it.
 
Chooch555 said:
Maybe they'll correct this oversight on IG Destro.
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I cannot express how much that damn sword-in-scabbard bothered me as a kid.

That said: they already corrected it in the modern era 3 3/4 line, and also Classified Iron Grenadier (who suffered the same scabbard malady in ARAH) does indeed have a fully-removable sword.

So here’s hoping!
 
docsilence said:
I just researched Jesso to see if it was even remotely Japanese and... Kyle is definitely a cosplay ninja.
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I always assumed he was mixed-race and got his last name (and his first, I suppose) from whichever generation had a daughter marry a local California guy.
 
Apparently Flash and Wet Suit are the other two figures in the next wave with Night Viper and... I forget the fourth one.

EDIT: Sci Fi.
 
Flash. Wet Suit Sci-Fi. and Night Viper????? This wave is going to cross three of my top figures off the list in one swoop? NICE.
 
I really am joking about Budo's name. Badducci does make me laugh though because if you google Badducci you ONLY get Nunchuck's bio, and suggestions for three other Italian names that are similar but... actually real names. Although I think Budo got me laughing because Larry was so precise with all of his bios early on, like you could see the craftsmanship on how he chose those random names, and Kyle Jesso doesn't feel like a top shelf Joe name. This is a line that named someone Kurt Schnurr after all, and Schnurr is a legit name.
 
You're right, some of the names in the first few years are fantastic. I also always love learning the birth places. I'd love to see a map with pins showing where they were all born.
 
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