G.I. Joe Head Canon & Fanfic Filecards

It's interesting - a lot of newer, post Marvel/Sunbow Joes had intelligence as their primary or secondary, but early on it's very female character heavy: Scarlett, Lady Jaye, Jinx, Glenda, plus Chuckles, and Recondo. (I'm probably missing a few others). Also super irritating that Jaye and Jinx were both "clerks" as their secondary specialty but I suppose given women were banned from ground combat til waht, 1983? It was just a sign of the times.
 
Chooch555 said:
I thought perhaps it was a now feminist Clutch being quoted.
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So now my head canon is Clutch is definitely working with Cover Girl but they have a sign in the garage that says "it has been X days since Clutch accidentally said something sexist" and it never gets more than double digits and every time it happens he's like "OH COME ON, I DIDN'T MEAN IT"
 
I kinda equate it to my dad's racism. He is all for equal rights, "has black friends" etc, but he was raised a certain way and still has a certain sense of humor so things certainly slip out and his intention is what should matter more than anyone else's feelings.
 
Ru1977 said:
I kinda equate it to my dad's racism. He is all for equal rights, "has black friends" etc, but he was raised a certain way and still has a certain sense of humor so things certainly slip out and his intention is what should matter more than anyone else's feelings.
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My father does not view himself as racist at all. I think he believes it, because he doesn't think having preconceptions about who a person is based on race is racism. He only views racism as 'I hate everyone of X color/ethnicity.' So when he says things like "I really like the new guy they hired at my work, he works really hard for a black guy" - he honestly believes he's saying something nice and being inclusive. Because he has -chosen- to 'accept' this black man at work (you know, provided said black man proves he has value first). And being able to 'accept' a black person is good at something, to him, means he CANNOT be racist. Because a racist would never do that, you see.
Ingrained sexism and racism are fucking WILD, and I don't think you necessarily have to be the worst person on earth to think and believe some of the worst things. You just have to be raised a certain way, often in a certain time, and never have those positions challenged until you're so deep into adulthood that your brain has mostly settled in on how it's going to be wired.

I can definitely see some Joes being like that, and having to be slowly pulled out of bad behaviours/beliefs. Much as I love the idea of the Joes just being -good-, I'm not sure that style of good actually exists and it definitely cannot exist if we want to assume something even approaching our own real world. I also think it's more important for the heroes to be trying to be better than to be inherently perfect. Inherently perfect isn't aspirational.
 
I only pick on Clutch because canonically he's been a pig to Cover Girl specifically in the comics and so while I do believe people can change, if I'm going to pick one Joe who might unironically tell someone to cool her tits and then not know why that might get a letter from HR, it's him. But also in this fantasy alternate timeline I'm working with, we've all agreed that the Joes really are, at the heart of things, the best of us, so Clutch's sexism is "oops fuck dammit sorry I did it again I'm trying please don't make fun of me AGAIN" sexism versus actually being committed to pig-dom.

Ru1977 said:
I was wondering, @docsilence, I know inspiration can strike any time, but are there any Classified figures you can't see yourself using?
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I'm sure there are, but I haven't really thought too much about it. I feel like I can find a two-paragraph nugget of a story about anyone - or, at least, about anyone whose file card Larry wrote. Some of the later Joes clearly had their bios phoned in, but the way that man could give you six to eight sentences and you knew exactly who that guy is, that's pretty remarkable.
 
docsilence said:
I'm sure there are, but I haven't really thought too much about it. I feel like I can find a two-paragraph nugget of a story about anyone - or, at least, about anyone whose file card Larry wrote. Some of the later Joes clearly had their bios phoned in, but the way that man could give you six to eight sentences and you knew exactly who that guy is, that's pretty remarkable.
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Agreed. Well, I guess Serpentor is the one that really got me wondering. And I know we've discussed him here and there. I think when you did Big Boa though, that really said a lot, heh.
 
Ru1977 said:
Agreed. Well, I guess Serpentor is the one that really got me wondering. And I know we've discussed him here and there. I think when you did Big Boa though, that really said a lot, heh.
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I really thought Big Boa was impossible, but blame the main thread for that.

Serpentor... I really want to lean in on the sci-fi horror of him. He both shouldn't exist and is also potentially the biggest existential threat to the Lewis administration because he's everything CC is not.
 
Damn, you clearly did it! What would be funny if scandal after scandal fails to majorly affect his believers etc, but the Frankensteined ultimate conqueror is what it takes.
 
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