# Who was your favorite GI Joe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 7, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076 "2003-04-07T15:06:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/1 "2003-04-07T15:06:44Z")
Got to thinking about this the other night after a conversation with my older brother. Out of the GI Joe figures and cartoon characters, who was your favorite? I imagine there will be a lot of votes for Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes. I always like Lifeline myself. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/2 "2003-04-07T15:14:23Z")
Rock and Roll was my original favorite. Later, of course, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/3 "2003-04-07T15:20:19Z")
I guess I’m old. To me, GI Joe doesn’t really have names. They were all 12 inches tall, and all that set one apart from the other was skin/hair color and which branch of the service he was in. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/4 "2003-04-07T15:23:30Z")
The Baroness. :o ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/5 "2003-04-07T15:32:53Z")
The Baroness! Coolest cartoon character ever! I like Shipwreck, Lady Jaye, and Scarlet a lot, too. ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/6 "2003-04-07T15:35:47Z")
I always had a soft spot for Cobra Commander and - of course - Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/7 "2003-04-07T15:45:10Z")
Firefly was my favorite villain, Ripcord (I think that was the name of the HALO trooper) was my favorite Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/8 "2003-04-07T15:55:01Z")
Snake Eyes, Sgt. Slaughter, Shadow Storm, that winged guy from the GI Joe movie, the generic badassed cobra trooper in blue with the black bandanna over his mouth but you could see his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/9 "2003-04-07T16:41:45Z")
Recondo, replaced by Beach Head, replaced by Tunnel Rat (even if a tunnel rat carrying a M60 variant with a nightvision scope was a pretty stupid idea). Maybe honorable mentions for Falcon (the one with the backpack radio and the pump shotgun, not Flint) and Outback. Favorite villain: Destro (first version). How could you not love the kinky steel mask with the open neck jacket and ruby on a chain? Destro was the swingin’ bondage mercenary Austin Powers wishes he could have been. Yeah baby! Honorable mention: Zartan. Look, my skin turns aquamarine in direct sulight! Fear me! ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/10 "2003-04-07T16:43:24Z")
I liked Zartan, Tomax and Xamot, and of course Storm Shadow. For the good guys, I liked Jinx (the baton girl). The good guys weren’t nearly as fun as the bad guys. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/11 "2003-04-07T16:50:20Z")
Love Cobra Commander. Who else can go from used car salesman to wannabe world ruler and still be a real threat? For some reason I always liked Shipwreck. Probably because he didn’t seem the type to take orders well, but he’d do it for the team. And Roadblock (the comic version, not that Nipsy Russell wannabe from the cartoon) earned my respect in an issue of GI Joe Special Missions when the Joes were sent in to an American embassy that was under siege, and Roadblock kindly asked a revolutionist who was about to light an American flag on fire to refrain from doing so, by pointing his .50 calibre machine gun at him. Plus he’s a good cook. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/12 "2003-04-07T17:05:58Z")
\<-- another old guy here. I liked the big GI Joes of early 70s- especially the one that came with the Search for the Missing Idol and the White Tiger Hunt. That “lifelike hair” and the Kung Fu grip were pretty cool, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/13 "2003-04-07T17:59:24Z")
It is trite, unoriginal and sheeplike to say that Snake Eyes is the coolest Joe. It also happens to be true. Sometimes conventional wisdom is actually right. I was never a big comic reader, but back in the day a friend of mine lent me “The Origin of Snake Eyes” series from the Marvel comic. Way cool stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/14 "2003-04-07T18:40:11Z")
Definitely Lady Jaye. I wanted to _be_ her 🙂 And I always liked old Cobra Commander, too. He reminded me of Starscream from Transformers. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/15 "2003-04-07T19:44:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gr8Kat \* > And I always liked old Cobra Commander, too. He reminded me of Starscream from Transformers. He better, since they had the same voice. 😉 Definitely check out the _Transformers_ episode “Only Human,” to see Cobra Commander in the year 2006, if you haven’t already… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/16 "2003-04-07T20:41:07Z")
[Gi Gurdjieff](http://216.232.71.251/~larry/gijoe/gurdjieff.html). What? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/17 "2003-04-07T21:34:43Z")
Good Guys: Duke, Leatherneck Bad guys: Cobra Commander, and…why can’t I think of any bad guys other than C.C. and Destro?? ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/18 "2003-04-07T22:03:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \* > \*\*I was never a big comic reader, but back in the day a friend of mine lent me “The Origin of Snake Eyes” series from the Marvel comic. Way cool stuff. \*\* That was the _coolest!_ I remember reading that and just thinking “Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, blood brothers? Ho-ly. That’s so powerful!” Of course, I was 12 or 13, so it was. And Snake Eyes, of course, was my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/19 "2003-04-07T22:51:23Z")
_Cover Girl_. I found the idea of a fashion-model-turned-soldier rather appealing. I also like the fact that, on the cartoon, she was often the one who took charge in the absence of any ranking officers. Of course, so did Scarlett and Lady Jaye. I wonder if this was deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076/20 "2003-04-07T22:52:58Z")
Destro was always cool, and Nemisis Enforcer from the movie was one major bad-ass. As for the good guys…yeah, Snake Eyes was most assuredly cool. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-favorite-gi-joe/167076.md?page=2)