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Catlike characters again? Gladly!
Zartan and Snake Eyes would both be fiercely independent strays who come and go as they please. Zartan and his fellow strays fight dogs, while Snake Eyes is more a rat and snake killer. Among their most serious fights which result in the most injuries are their turf wars with each other.
(A depiction of Zartan and Snake Eyes calmly debating the virtues of Harley Davidson versus Yamaha.)
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Rough Sketch of Zartan’s Cat
Meet Ozzy, Zartan’s rough, semi-feral cat. This original feline character has been causing chaos in my head for a while now, and it was a lot of fun finally putting him on paper in some form. And it always helps to have a visual representation while writing!
I drew Ozzy with brush pens and a white Jellyroll pen for added details. I had initially pictured him as primarily black in color, and hoped to capture all the shades from both a reference photo and one of my furry nephews’ fur. Ozzy had other ideas, though, and turned out slightly more brown than anticipated, but I like it. (Also tried to capture the white fur on the scar, but it didn’t quite turn out how I’d hoped. I would do it differently next time.)
In any case, drawing this rebellious scruff-ball was a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to writing about him and Zartan.
He’s beautiful. I don’t even care if he’s just lip-synching!
Awesome art!
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Great, so you’re telling me Destro and Cobra Commander are that love-hate couple that constantly came in when I worked customer service! 😆
Typo or not, that’s just too funny. I’m just imagining the troopers getting nervous once the Commander and Destro start insulting each other because they’re genuinely not sure if the two of them are going to start blowing kisses or throwing punches. It could go either way!
Dang, the writers of the GI Joe RPG really know what's what with the subtext.
(This is from the "Cobra Codex" sourcebook.)
[Text in image: Destro is one of the most popular and important characters in G.I. JOE. Where is loyalties lie impacts your campaign. He's best known as a loyal member of Cobra. Having him around to bark orders at the PCs and verbally spar with Zartan and Cobra Commander and flirt with Baroness and Cobra Commander adds flavor and context to your campaign. However, an independent Destro adds the Iron Grenadiers as an additional dimension. A wild card faction out for itself but willing to work with Cobra deepens the political interplay the PCs get to interact with.]
I feel like a lot of my blorbos would know exactly what to do in this situation. They’ve survived worse, and know how to perform first aid and field dress their own wounds.
But this weirdo wouldn’t even try to staunch the bleeding:
Assuming Pinhead could be shot at all (could silver bullets or blessed bullets harm a cenobite, perhaps?), he’d either stand there monologuing about sweet suffering like nothing had happened or would dig around in the wound to make the pain more exquisite. Regardless, he’d tear his assailant’s soul apart.
(Snake Eyes image from Snake Eyes: Deadgame, and I’m pretty sure Pinhead’s is from Dead by Daylight. Not sure about the source on Boba’s so if someone knows, please let me know.)
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Cobra Commander Image Dump
Just some random images I’ve collected on Pinterest. Most of them are official artworks to the best of my knowledge. If you see your work, please tag so I know who the talent is!
Loving Cobra Commander with the cobras, but holy shit, Zartan in a maid outfit is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. 😆
Source
You don’t. Once he has your heart, it’s his forever.
COBRA!!!!!’
(Awesome art, btw.)
How do you stop loving a cobra commander?
Snake Eyes would absolutely survive.
Being an Arashikage ninja, stealth is his specialty. He’s also mute.
Even if one of the aliens did hear him, he’d be able to dispatch them quickly before making a silent getaway.
If anyone is surviving this invasion, it’s this guy.
*Referring to A Quiet Place movie franchise in which earth was invaded and taken over by predatory aliens who were all blind, therefore they hunted by their ability to hear even the faintest noise from far away. In the movies, the human characters have to stay extremely quiet at all times in order to survive.
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After seeing covers and panels from this, I’m going to have to start reading the Energon Universe.
Cobra Commander #3
Pinhead:
✅ Intellectually stimulating conversations
✅ Awesome voice/accent
✅ Cat-like, doesn’t cause too much noise
❌ Smells like death, never showers
❌ Chains and blood everywhere
❌ Constantly bringing sketchy friends over (and one keeps raiding the fridge!)
❌ Keeps people in basement
❌ No, I don’t want to open your damn box!
Zartan:
✅ Entertaining conversations
✅ Fun for parties, does great impersonations
✅ Cat person
✅ Tidy, cleans up after himself
✅ Handy with tech and general repairs
✅ Constant supply of soda and donuts
❌ Rude friends who don’t clean up after themselves
❌ Sketchy business associates
❌ Revving motorcycles at 4 in the morning
❌ Enjoys pranking me with disguises
Godzilla:
✅ No one would dream of breaking in with him around
❌ Never pays his half of rent
❌ Snores loud enough to wake up the entire city
❌ Home? What home? We don’t have one anymore!
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I was just telling my coworker who I’ve introduced to GI Joe media about the Fury Force comic. (He’s an action figure collector who thought they were cool but didn’t really know much about any of the characters he was buying.) I didn’t realize that the women were only included in vehicle packs initially or that Hasbro thought villains wouldn’t sell. The villains are my favorites!
I think Cobra Commander would be an interesting opponent for Nick Fury. The guy simply doesn’t fight fair, and always has at least five tricks up his sleeve. Depending on the continuity, he likes to play weak so his enemies underestimate him, and then once they become too confident, the fangs come out. (Granted, the weakness he preys on in others is very often a reflection of his own. He can become too cocky, as well.) I would definitely pay to see it, to be sure.
I can’t imagine the Dreadnoks being able to face off against Nick Fury for more than five minutes, but I’d like to think Zartan would put up a decent fight. The guy canonically has ninja training, is a world-class infiltrator, and has held his own against Snake Eyes in some continuities. Sure, a lot of the Cobras wouldn’t hold up, but give the man some credit where it’s due!
(Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, who knows? He was a Jedi in a past life!)
There’s no way Cobra Commander can beat Nick Fury, Fury would own him in a sad. Hell any one else in Cobra would fare better against Nick than CC (even Doctor Mindbender) Speaking of GI Joe and Fury, from the G.I. Joe: ARAH Wiki
Prior to G.I. Joe’s relaunch in 1982, Larry Hama was developing an idea for a new comic book called Fury Force, which he was hoping would be an ongoing series for Marvel Comics. The original premise had the son of S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury assembling a team of elite commandos to battle neo-Nazi terrorists HYDRA. Shooter approached Hama about the Joe project [Hasbro wanted Marvel to do a story for their G.I. Joe toys] due to Hama’s military background, and the Fury concept was adapted for the project. Shooter suggested to Hasbro that “G.I. Joe” should be the team name and that they should fight terrorists, while Archie Goodwin invented Cobra and the Cobra Commander; everything else was created by Hama. Hasbro was initially uncertain about making villain toys, believing this wouldn’t sell. Marvel would also suggest the inclusion of female Joes in the toyline, and to include them with the vehicles (as Hasbro again worried they wouldn’t sell on their own).
And now you know.
Zartan, correcting his boss’s mistakes and averting catastrophe.
He and Destro both deserve a raise.
At least the Commander is more polite to Zartan than he is to Destro. Zartan might actually get the pay raise he deserves, providing the Dreadnoks don’t mess things up.
"Oh, sorry about that."
These idiots were probably the ones who set off the alarm in the first place.
Zartan would wake up groggy, trying to rest after a long stint deep undercover, and be like "What did the morons do now?"
Then he'd go and rein the Dreadnoks in like he always does. He can't leave them alone for more than five minutes without something going wrong.
(Dreadnok image is a cover from G.I. Joe Declassified. I don't have an image credit for Zartan. Found it online, and his pissed-off vibe was just too perfect not to share. If anyone knows the source and wants to share, I would be much obliged.)
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The cat ears! I love these so much!
started watching gi joe last week and im predictable soooo
not exactly transformers related but I NEED more cobra commander fics, that’s all. That’s the post
YAY!!!! my amazing friend did it again
But this time, she added another favorite character of mine, Firefly ( g.i joe renegades), and of course, we have erron black ( Mortal kombat) and mael radec ( killzone) are they an odd pair yes! But I feel like they would have a funny dynamic despite being older, erron the second most mature one, and mael is the one who in charge and very mature and is very bossy cause these two just like to screw around to much and firefly the chaotic younger one who erron and mael have to make sure he doesn't blow them or himself up by accident and they honestly don't even know how they became friends in the first place mael only keeps them around cause there actually really good at what they do and could do alot better of they didn't screw around so much and erron been around weird people all his life so he doesn't mind them and firefly Iikes them cause we'll their fun to mess around with and he surprised one of them hasn't tired to shoot him yet ( mael almost did one time but luckily erron stopped him in time)