A to Z Challenge Day 10: Jinx

This is a pretty short entry.  For some reason there's no COBRA figure starting with a J.  Maybe one has a real name starting with J, though most are generic and don't have a real name or their real name is "classified."

Anyway, for the JOEs you have Jinx, a female ninja.  One thing you can say for the GI JOE toys is they were inclusive.  You had all races and females as well as males.  It was a lot more diverse than the regular army at that time.

Have to like the red nail polish.  Just because you're a ninja doesn't mean you can't look good too!

Jinx was jinxed (pun intended) in that she was introduced in the animated movie as a new recruit along with Lt. Falcon, Chuckles, Tunnel Rat, and a couple of others.  She gets sexually harassed by Lt. Falcon and hotwires a helicopter so the new recruits can somehow fly from Joe headquarters to the Himalayas in like two hours.  That helicopter's faster than an SR-71 Blackbird!  Following the grand tradition of veiled sexism in movies, Jinx has to square off with the female Cobra-la agent Pythona.  Like Daredevil she fights best when she can't see because it like heightens her other senses or whatever.  When the DIC show aired they were already on to other characters so there was no room for her.

I think she was a lot bigger in the comics of the time.  They really pushed Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and the whole ninja thing.  So naturally Jinx was part of that.  Despite that, there wasn't a reissue of her until the 21st Century.  They revealed her real name then as Kim Arashikage.

In the 2013 movie GI JOE Retaliation, Jinx was played by Elodie Yung, who went on to play Elektra in Netflix's Daredevil series.  So at least Jinx got some more screen time than in the 80s.