Lady Jaye wasn't quite as glamorous as Cover Girl or as feminine as Scarlett. She was actually kind of lesbian-looking with the short hair and hat. She had kind of a Green Arrow-type gimmick where she threw javelins that could shoot nets or whatever was needed for that episode of the TV show or comic book.
In the TV show especially she had a thing with Flint, though they weren't really doing a lot of romantic stuff because it was a kids show in 1986. I think it was probably the same in the comics, but I don't really remember. In one episode she inherits Destro's ancestral home and finds out that she's a distant relative of him! But it's never mentioned again. Her main contribution to the animated movie was being captured by Cobra-la. It's funny that in the credits her name is listed as "Lady J."
She appeared a few times in the DIC cartoon series but didn't really have a major role. Her figure had been out of circulation for years but I guess the team needed a vagina, so she was kept around. In the 2013 movie GI JOE Retaliation, "Jaye" (she's no lady!) she was played by Adrianne Palicki, who played Mockingbird on Agents of SHIELD and is currently on The Orville. So that's something.
As for COBRA, the best I could do was Lampreys, the driver of the COBRA Moray Hydrofoil. Like with the ice guys, water guys were also fairly limited. Though there were more times when they would be on water than in the snow, so a little more useful than Ice Viper and the WOLF. I don't think we had the Moray, though it might have been cool to play with in the pool versus the little plastic boats from Meijer that cost like a dollar and couldn't fit any GI JOEs on them.
Anyway, I'm sure Lampreys were on the cartoon and in the comic, but just as like a background guy. I mean they wouldn't get a spotlight episode or issue or anything.
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