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G.I. Joe Crack Fic Ideas
Be sure to credit and share a link if you use any of these. I’d love to read them!
-Cobra Commander takes up knitting and stabs someone for insulting his handiwork. (Granted, his Joe voodoo dolls are truly hideous, as are his sweaters...)
-Snake Eyes gets tired of always wearing the same mask and goes to a costume store. He freaks out random Joes with his new selections.
-Storm Shadow, missing the tastes of home, just can’t seem to find a decent Japanese restaurant. He’s never been one for cooking, but he decides to whip up a dish himself. (You decide whether this results in success or failure.)
-Zartan leaves Cobra to seriously pursue a career as a rock star. He finds out he’s actually better at girl pop, instead, and unexpectedly becomes a new sensation. (Bonus: The Dreadnoks, realizing they’ve lost their leader to legions of adoring fans, decide to put a stop to this. But one of them becomes a fan themselves.)
Some awesome Cold Slither fan art!
You can’t tell me hard drug usage didn’t go into his transformation. Listen to that laugh!
Just Some Zartan Pics
Found these on Pinterest. If you recognize your art, please tag so I know who the talent is!
You’re a master of disguise and the leader of a mercenary biker gang? Hoodie.
Adding to this, Monkey Wrench’s real name is Bill Winkie, which is a reference to the Scottish nursery rhyme “Wee Willie Winkie.”
Did you know?
The original three Dreadnoks names are:
Tom Winken (Torch), Dick Blinken (Buzzer), and Harry Nod (Ripper). The surnames are a reference to Wyken, Blynken, and Nod, from the childrens poem “The Fishermen Three”. Their forenames read Tom, Dick, and Harry. Placeholder names for unimportant persons! Just more proof that Larry Hama has a terrific sense of humor.
#nowyouknow
I wouldn’t have the heart to kill any of my boys.
Though half of them deserve a good beat down, not gonna lie. (And Nyarlathotep can’t be killed so there’s that.)
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Look at those eyes. Zartan definitely radiates cat energy.
And it’s always been my headcanon that he’s more of a cat person than a dog person, which makes him the odd one out among the Dreadnoks. Most of the gang are definitely dog people.
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After My Post About Zartan Being a Cat Person, I’m Cooking Up a Little Something for AO3
I’ve been missing my sister’s cats and need to get back into writing again, so this is the perfect opportunity.
Can’t guarantee it will be very long (it will probably be more a vignette than anything), but it’s an old headcanon I developed with my sister back when I would obsess over comic characters with her, and I’m feeling very nostalgic lately.
Will post a link when finished!
(Oh, and @radarsdomain, I would love to see your drawing of Zartan when you’re done. Glad I could give you some inspiration!)
He’s beautiful. I don’t even care if he’s just lip-synching!
Awesome art!
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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.
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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