He was in the cartoon through the whole Sunbow run but then disappeared after the movie. In the movie all he did was get injured when COBRA breaks Serpentor out of the stockade. He wasn't in the DIC series that I remember. His toy was reissued later in a dress blue uniform that came with a ceremonial sword. I think I rated that as the most useless GI JOE toy. I mean what was the point? Did they need parade marching in the middle of battle?
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The animated movie introduced Cobra-La which was some kind of advanced underground kingdom of snake people led by the evil Golobulus. He had the bottom half of a snake and the top half of a guy. Awesome. He was voiced in the movie by Burgess Meredith of Batman '66, Twilight Zone, and Rocky fame. In the movie he wants to use spores launched into space to turn all humans into mindless beasts. He also reveals that he gave Dr. Mindbender the idea to create Serpentor and puts Cobra Commander on trial for failing him.
That was pretty much it for him. He wasn't in the DIC series and I don't think he was in the comics much. Maybe because it was a stupid concept. A little bit too on the nose. And their war cry was a total ripoff of the Smurfs! Cobra lalalalalalalalalala! Oy vey.
It's kind of funny that Star Wars books ripped off the Cobra-la concept with the Yuuzan Vong about 15 years later. Like Cobra-la they had an advanced civilization that completely relied on bio-organic material instead of machines. But I'm sure GI JOE ripped it off from someone else. That's pretty much how it goes.
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I thought the Marines were kinda picky as in not accepting street brawlers. I guess he was just too bad ass to turn away.
I sure remember Gung Ho.
And those bios in the back of the packages of the action figures! Oh wow, made me feel nostalgic!
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