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| Lt. Stone was the Duke of the Extreme team |
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| Black Dragon was Snake Eyes with frosted tips. Extreme! |
The GI JOE Extreme line was maybe too extreme for kids; it folded by 1996. As the first graphic says, there was briefly a comic and TV show, but neither outlasted the toys. Bummer, dude.
An actual X is Xamot, one half of the Crimson Guard Commanders. Xamot is the name of his twin brother Tomax spelled backwards. They were introduced in the 1985 set as two rich businessmen who bought their way into COBRA with their own unit called the Crimson Guard. Xamot has a scar on his face so you can tell them apart.
In the TV show at least their company was called Extensive Enterprises. They worked in their New York skyscraper in suits but would then get into their circus outfits to fight. The thing about the brothers is if you hurt one, the other feels the same pain, something often exploited by the Joes.
They were in the first two seasons of the Sunbow series but then disappeared. In more recent comics one of the brothers was killed and the other changed sides or something. I haven't really read them myself but I think Tony Laplume mentioned it.
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For obvious reasons I used to love those guys. That is until kids started teasing us calling us the "evil twin brothers". Still cool though. They always seemed so tight knit and I appreciated that. If one or more did switch sides it would be pretty cool.
G.I. Joe Extreme just sounds desperate.
The comics Pat believes I’ve referenced are indeed excellent. Basically if Mike Costa is a credited writer of. G.I. Joe comic, check it out.
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