G.I. Joe Classified Series

docsilence said:
We could go full Shadows of the Empire and call him Duuke, like the Knockoff Luke clone.
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Too good for him. That guy's name is fucking Blakely, and Duke is just his stepdad, a fact that Blakely reminds Duke of every time he asks him to take out the garbage or tells him to stop using Duke's credit card to order goofy paramilitary sweatpants from the back of Guns N' Ammo.
 
All this ninja and visor talk has me wanting a proper V2 remake since the original release(s) were still Classified up. Probably the most faithful of those early designs from the game, but I want a redo.
 
As a Wing Chun guy, when I look at v3 Snake I see "eight-chopping blades," aka butterfly swords--especially since they are traditionally used in pairs.
 
TENIME said:
"Hey, I support everyone to live their lives how they want, just don't shove your agenda down my throat!"
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I have SO MUCH head-canon to overwrite the possibility of some Joes being racists or MAGA Nazis or whatever. Like Beach-Head: ok, he’s a hard-bitten Alabama boy, but he’s also pansexual and collects Pops of 80s action films. Duke? Struggling to come out of the closet. Leatherneck? Loves his trans daughter like crazy, and of course he is dating Wet Suit. Salvo? Dom-daddy in his time off. Cross-Country . . . nah, there’s no excuse for him. In my head canon, even Cobra wouldn’t take a guy who dresses like that.
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Damn. I almost made a joke about Dook being closeted, then thought maybe I shouldn't make that joke. Thank you for proving me severely wrong.
 
Ru1977 said:
Damn. I almost made a joke about Dook being closeted, then thought maybe I shouldn't make that joke. Thank you for proving me severely wrong.
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Whoa whoa whoa: I’m talking about Duke, not Dook. 🙃

[Dook is also closeted, but he’s one of those guys who will scream slurs at you on the football field all day and then stares creepily at you in the showers after practice]
 
AceofKnaves said:
I have SO MUCH head-canon to overwrite the possibility of some Joes being racists or MAGA Nazis or whatever.
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Oh no, don't put the idea of problematic Joes into my head...although I already struggle with the inherent military jingoistic propaganda aspect of the existence of this line...but I can compartmentalize that somehow.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Whoa whoa whoa: I’m talking about Duke, not Dook. 🙃

[Dook is also closeted, but he’s one of those guys who will scream slurs at you on the football field all day and then stares creepily at you in the showers after practice]
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That's more where I was going with it. "don't shove your agenda down my throat" being subconscious reverse-psychology.
 
akajomiha said:
already struggle with the inherent military jingoistic propaganda
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Yup! I can totally relate!
Hell, that’s why my mom didn’t want me to even have Joes in the early/mid 80s.
I big-time struggle with that, and I think it’s a main reason why I prefer Cobra and haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate Sunbow Duke. I admit, my play pattern often veers into “yes, Cobra forces, strike down the Reaganomics imperialists!! Aim for the guy in the tan shirt who looks like Hitler’s description of the Overman!”
But, like, I can’t really get any traction out of Cobra Commander as the “good guy”.

This is why my Joe world is basically “Snake-Eyes and friends vs weird evil”.
 
AceofKnaves said:
This is why my Joe world is basically “Snake-Eyes and friends vs weird evil”.
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That is exactly what I ended up doing. Sometimes it was Snake Eyes in Die Hard, but a lot of times it was him and my next five favorite guys covertly taking out everyone in their way to Cobra Commander. Snake Eyes lost some good men on those missions, and Duke was never one of them. In fact, he was definitely among the Joes I used to inflate the Cobra ranks.
 
I was a martial arts kid (and a martial arts adult, come to that), so the Joe team was basically the background characters for my constant Snake-Eyes missions. Everyone would inevitably run out of ammo and have to karate-fight.
I also spend—er, spent hours just playing Cobra base drama. Lots of meetings, lots of backstabbing, LOTS of torture of captive Joes at the hands of Mindbender and the Interrogator.

Which reminds me: we NEED the Interrogator. Easily the most badass latter-day Cobra character.
 
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