Cobra - Cartoon Fascism and Cultural Memory
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- Arguably the pinnacle of the mythologized fascism of '80s pop-culture, GI Joe's faceless but inclusive enemy embodies all the elements of the "Nazi Echo" and (at least in the comic book series) explores them with surprising depth.
Never thought I'd see a disseration on COBRA that hits hard and true but here it is. COBRA being essentially born from disenfranchisement from the American Dream TM and radicalizing those who were burned by it makes it a fascinating parallel with the Joes who are as the tagline goes, "Real American Heroes". Whoever wrote that original run of comics was onto something excellent.
Thank Larry, Hama. He did a majority of the run back in the eighties and nineties until it was discontinued, he then came back in the early 2010s to relaunch GI Joe once again
What an interesting video. I always love when children's media has adult themes. No kid wants to read a book about fascism, but give them a comic book and they can learn valuable lessons and maybe connect the dots when they're older.
This is the best breakdown of Cobra I’ve ever heard. Well done sir.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
at 1:30 - I was today years old when I realized that Cobra Commander and Starscream had the same voice actor.
Good for Starscream, he finally got to be the leader!
Literally the same character
There is a G.I. Joe tabletop RPG published by Renegade Game Studios.
When I was stationed in Germany in '88 & '89, I tried to get our unit to use a rallying cry of "Yo SWO!". SWO stands for "Staff Weather Office(r)". We were Air Force weather support for the US Army 3rd ID.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
The other half is unfettered violence.
It's funny just how interesting and thought provoking, and timeless an 80s cartoon meant for kids could be, and still have potential for more to this day and probably beyond, g.i joe may waver in popularity, but will never lose its relevance.
A big reason why I'm a fan to this day. Keep up the videos man you make some good stuff.
My parents hated that I loved the toy line, cartoons and comics. As a post Depression era WW2 generation I can see how that makes sense. It also makes sense how this franchise still maintains some appeal. The kids who were raised on the 80's toys are still hooked for more than the obvious reasons of nostalgia, there were cultural signs that resonated from our parent's generation and then were resurrected for the Cold War generation. Even today there is an essence of modern society and conflict found in the GI Joe vs Cobra theme. When you think about the state of modern politics it may become more difficult to discern who is playing the heroes from the villains anymore.
The Cobra of Larry Hama's comics was simultaneously hilarious and terrifying. It was solely about greed rather than any sort of religious ideology which made them more like 1920s Chicago gangsters than actual terrorists but they used the symbolism of revolution and fascism as a means rather to gain capital. The Baroness was all about the anti-capitalist revolution but became very disillusioned and left with her lover, Destro, who formed the Iron Grenadiers; an extraterritorial arms sales organization based in Scotland. Oddly, Cobra was anti-drugs and took out a drug syndicate led by the Headman as he was addicting Cobra civilians to junk.
There was also a Cobra accountant who also raised birds of prey and thus dressed like a bird to make them happy.
One part of the comic I recall is a scene where after plot releases Cobra Comander and Destro from imprisonment, Destro asks CC if he knows how to hot wire a car, and CC basically goes, "Hot wire? Come on we're heading to the nearest car dealership. I'll show you how a pro steals a car."
Cut to them driving down the highway in a sportscar with CC explaining how he got the dealer to tangle up the paperwork so thoroughly that it would be at least a week till the car could be reported as missing. Also he had the paperwork to drive across state lines.
That is the Cobra Commander I want to see. I'm tired of the whiny, useless figurehead. MY Cobra Commander can baffle with bullshit.
This was great.!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this..
I was born in 83, my best memories were G.I. Joes, and
COBRA COMMANDER, is and always will be the bad ass villain of all time..
My favourite version of Cobra Commander comes from GI Joe: Renegades. It a prequel that actually tries to explain Cobra's limitless funding and decade-plus technological lead on the U.S. military.
The idea of Cobra as an even more evil Wal-Mart or Amazon covertly shipping weapons to the back rooms of fortified warehouses and building tanks in underground bunkers in preparation for a day when they cement control of the global economy with a military overthrow of the United States is my perfect blend of unhinged.
Cobra can be thwared but never defeated because Cobra has already *consumed and replaced* too much machinery essential to the global economy.
The reality that billionaires have turned the world into an idle game where wealth has to be increasingly expressed in scientific notation just feels like a complete lack of imagination and ambition in comparison.
RIP to Christopher Collins VO for Cobra Commander, and Starscream. gone too soon for such an actor who played the Heel like a BAWSE
At the end of the day. I would rather have Cobra Commander than what we have today. Hail Cobra !!!
I can't say you're wrong.
@@feralhistorian I'm your 208th subscriber.
@@MAZEMIND I'm glad you're here and I hope you get something out of this oddball mix of content.
Oddly corporate fascists makes sense for era then and now.
Hes very trumpian.
Cobra is easily in my top 10 favorite villains of all time list, especially the one from those Marvel 1980s/90s comics. Wish they'd reissue those in print collections like they did with a bunch of older Punisher comics.
Now if only we could've gotten a great GI Joe video game for current consoles and pc. That last one was bad...
Great commentary man! I posted on Facebook just now on how cartoons for kids aren’t this deep. But we live in a time where kid’s entertainment is very fractured. If you watch mainstream tv, kids shows are really neutered. But this is time where their are hundreds of outlets, so if your a kid that likes cartoons, you can find animated versions of Bat Man: Killing Joke, Neon Genesis Evangelone, or whatever. When I was a kid, you only had a few places that put kid’s entertainment out their so all the kids saw the same shows, so the stuff I watched was watched by every kid in my cohort. That makes a difference. I suppose that the internet now ensures that after a certain point kids can watch anything they want, ranging from Mandolorian to ISIS recruitment videos, but a lot of parents might steer them to Magic School Bus or Disney shit. We got stuff that was the moral equivalent of Captain Crunch Cereal and that was great. We got to figure out our morals outside of a carefully controlled scheme. Shit my parents let me watch slasher movies. I like that freedom of letting kids explore the world on their own and not trying to design their minds for maximum productivity.
The story expressed in awesome and accurate fashion, thank you so much for this
5:28 OH I love that line. It's often the Revolutionary who calls their opposition Reactionary, but when you look at Revolutionaries, they are almost always "THE REACTIONARY" force.
No better example than the Short German Civil War that happened when the Weimar Republic was established. The Social Democratic Party took power, and wanted to install a Democratic Government. The more Marxist elements of the SPD split away, into two different factions, the Independent Socialist, and the Communist, and both joined forced and tried to overthrow the newly Founded Weimar Republic. They viewed the leaders of the SPD were not Revolutionary enough, and had stolen their "GLORIOUS" revolution out from under their feet and have betrayed the working class.
After the original attempt to take the capital of Berlin failed the Independent Socialist negotiated a truce with the Social Democratic, but the Communist, also known as the Spartacus refused to Negotiate at all. Well the result was pretty lets say, obvious being the Army had the back of the Social Democrats.
What is funny is the Marxist since had tried to portray the Spartacus uprising as a "peaceful" revolution in spite of the fact they were armed to the teeth. This same scenario also played out in Bavaria months later. They called the Weimar Republic the Reactionary Force in that conflict despite it was these revolutionaries who tried to overthrow an already established revolutionary government.
Fun and interesting fact. Sepp Dietrich, Adolf Hitler and Julius Schreck were official members of the Communist government in Bavaria in early 1919. Though Hitler held a very low rank, being an elected representative of his garrison. But I find it interesting the most famous Waffen SS General was once a Communist, and so was Julius Schreck the founder of the SS.
The whole Weimar period is its own interesting mess that defies a lot of modern categories. Hitler, Dietrich etc weren’t so much “communists” as anti-democrats and disgruntled veterans caught up in events. Modern thinking tends to look at Nazism and communism as polar opposites but if we look at that period from 1918 to about 1925 we can see Nazism form as a sort of mutant offshoot of radical communist and socialist ideas, taking the pieces that they could use and discarding what they didn’t want, mix in a lot of the Freikorps militarism and sense of betrayal about the war, and it starts to look like a story of men looking for answers, quickly deciding that communism wasn’t it, but being flung off in a new direction by it.
Their early involvement with the SPD does give some insight into the time.
@@feralhistorian Personally for Hitler I think it may go much deeper but it's sadly speculation. Reason I believe this is because he was a known Patron of Cafe Central in Vienna Austria. In his youth, which was a major Socialist hot spot. There has been much discussion on where Hitler learned his energetic, emotion infusing style of Speech. Being nearly identical to how Social Revolutionaries would give public speeches. I personally believe it was from his time in Cafe Central. There is evidence that during his time in Vienna Hitler had met Lenin. The degree of their relationship is a mystery though. Hitler himself completely white washed his past including controlling his own narrative which for how foggy his past is, many still cite Mein Kampf about his past. Which if we're honest can not be trusted in the slightest. But to me there is enough to claim he was a Marxist before WWI.
Why he chose to not aid the Communist in Bavaria could very well be because the Great War turned him into a Nationalist. Despite his Socialist tendencies. It was only a few months after the Communist were defeated that he joined the German Worker's Party as a spy originally. A Racist, Nationalist, Anti-Communist Socialist party which would captivate him. Most of the cornerstones of Nazism were pretty much already there before he joined the party.
TIKhistory describes the Nazis as Racial Socialist. Which fits quite well. If the Race is the Collectivist Group you build your Socialism around. Of course you're not going to keep all ideas lets say Marxist Socialist support.
There’s plenty of evidence that Hitler was a nationalist before the Great War, not least his going out of his way to avoid serving in the Austrian Army and instead enlisting with Germany. But I think it’s clear that he was heavily influenced by the socialist/communist movements swirling around pre-war Vienna and especially post-war Germany. In grossly simplistic terms, Nazi ideology is a fusion of equal parts radical socialism, freikorps militarism, and esoteric/occult nationalism.
I’m 99% certain that the whole “Hitler met Lenin” story is complete fiction. The only evidence I’ve ever seen cited is the famous chessmatch drawing, which depicts a guy that looks like 1930s Hitler (in 1909) playing against a guy with a full head of hair when photos of Lenin from the period show him clearly going bald. Now I concede it’s possible that they could have met, but we have no reason to think they did.
One of the problems with researching this period is that everything is propaganda. Mein Kampf and all the post-war memoirs (Speer, Guderian, etc) are self-serving narratives and the immediate post-war histories tend to be rooted in wartime assumptions, like they still have to convince us that Nazis are bad guys. The fact that we still have these debates about who influenced who speaks to how murky it all is.
Will you ever cover "The Brotherhood of Nod" from the Command & Conquer Series. It too, predicted a lot of the modern things we are dealing with now despite being in a alternate sci-fi timeline.
Not anytime soon. I haven't played much Command and Conquer and I try to stick to lore I've lived in for awhile and really know. But C&C is high on the list for next time I go on a retro gaming bender.
Nod is like a cross between Cobra and Shadaloo from the Street Fighter movie.
I'm fairly certain that thanks to Cobra we got Nod.
I seem to recall that a big part of Hama's GI Joe development was that he originally pitched a Nick Fury/SHIELD revival, which didn't take, but when he got involved with the new GI Joe toyline, he repurposed a lot of his SHIELD ideas, so SHIELD became the GI Joe organization while Hydra became Cobra. I forget how it all fits in detail, but anyway, Hama is a very good writer.
An excellent breakdown of Amway meets ISIS meets Scientology. And yes, it does continue to resonate.
Wow. Excellent way of putting it.
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As someone who was born in the mid 90's I saddly didn't saw or experience mostly of the 80's classic cartoons like Gi Joe, Transformers etc. As mostly of south american kids I grew up watching anime like Dragon Ball, Saint Seya and my favorite Robotech or Macross wich is about how earth fights off an alien invasion using f-14 that can transform into mechs.
Macross was great, at least I remember it being great. Looking back, it had just enough story scaffolding to imply some interesting ideas without getting to the heart of them.
Not sure It'll happen, but I do have some notes for a potential Robotech video in the future.
@@feralhistorian, that would be awesome! Robotech was one of my favorite early anime, even though it was an amalgamation of 3 different shows. There was a book series that really did a much better job of tying them together, but I still re watch the entire series from time to time, it hasn't aged as well as other shows but there's still something about it that always brings me back.
Love your videos!
🤣Dude I don't think you have to explain Robotech.
_Macross_ is one of those shows that sounds as if it started as a parody (Defend Earth from alien invasion with transforming mecha (even the hero-ship/base transforms!) and the power of music!) only then they decided to take it seriously before they got out of pre-production.
_Sailor Moon_ hits that spot, too, as a crossover between magical girls and _tokusatsu._
The thing that amazes me when I look back on beloved cartoon series of the eighties is that they were all basically glorified adverts for the toy lines. Transformers, GI Joe, Thunercats, Visionaries, MASK, He Man, Centurions. Then thinking back on the tiys I had as a kid they were very succesful at doing that.
Una de las mejores reseñas que he visto de G.I. Joe y Cobra 🤩🤗😎!
As an 80's kid GI Joe will always have a special place in my heart. I see some similarities between Cobra and the SPECTER organization in James Bond. Both were created in part to give the protagonist an apolitical opponent who looks bad at first glance (cartoonishly so) and does not marry the story to current events. Ironically that might have made the villains more adaptable to different periods than the heroes.
>So in an sense, every revolutionary is a reactionary
Ain't that the truth.
No, it isn't the truth
Cobra- All the evil and awesome of the Nazis
Decepticons- All the evil and awesome of the Communists
As a kid I only wanted the cobra figures they looked better than most Joe's never got Cobra commander himself but my brother got Serpentor and I got a lousy Flint that giant skin mark didn't want to trade he traded it for an Ultra Magnus Transformer that he never let me play with 😞
marvel comics came up with a lot of the mythology of gi joe and transformers, and the comics for both are awesome. larry hama's writing was both weird and amazing.
If I remember correctly, the initial concept for G.I. Joe had been for a Nick Fury, Jr, comic book series. That got ditched before ever going into print so the concept was retooled for the soon-to-be-relaunched GI Joe line.
(Everyone forgets that prior to this iteration of GI Joe, they’d been fighting aliens)
Fascinating video. It was a great take on an incredible cartoon/ comic that was so important in my childhood. I look forward to seeing more like this. Thanks.
_World War Z_ author Max Brooks wrote an excellent graphic novel, a series of character vignettes on both the Cobra and Joe sides/
That book...
Was the plan for the pandemic.
There's a video of Mel Brooks guving away the game.
"Yoooo JOEBRA!" Yes, I'm one of the few, the proud, that love the GI Jeff Community episode. The guy that did Cobra Commander's voice in that... perfection.
Wow, I had no idea about the origin story of the comic version of Hydra - dangit, I mean Cobra of course - Commander.
As I recall it, there was a mini series a few years back where Cobra Commander managed to become president of America. Didn't last in the position for the full term, of course.
I wasn't expecting that cosplay, but it made me double-check this wasn't another random ONA video for a sec. Had to restart the vid halfway through 'cause I was still laughing. Great stuff.
Though this cartoon was infamous for being a half-hour commercial for the toy line, "G. I. Joe" nonetheless impressed me with the level of character backstory detail that made the cartoon heroes and villains much more than simple . . . well, typical cartoon heroes and villains. But I had no idea that the backstory was this incredibly deep.
Though the "G. I. Joe" cartoon was "after my time;" when I was in grade school, we would watch a live-action Japanese import titled, "Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot," that featured similar themes and flamboyant, over-the-top villains - and a special organization created to fight them - all with highly developed backstories. The good guys were a G.I. Joe / Megaforce-like group called "Unicorn," while the bad guys - an invading alien terrorist group (who used human "Janissaries,") called "The Gargoyle Gang" in the show - was very much like COBRA, (and, along with Marvel's HYDRA, may have even inspired it.) The Supreme Commander of Gargoyle was a Cthulhu-like being called Emperor Guillotine, and he probably gave more Boomer kids nightmares than Freddy Krueger did to the kids of Generation X.
Please consider applying your research and analytical skills to a study of "Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot," as a future project. Thanks for posting this!
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I've never heard it put so succinctly, but your words amalgamate thoughts I've had on the topic over the years, thank you.
They had their own soda brand. COBRA COLA!!!!
Goddamn, Larry Hama is a genius!
On a related tangent, I'd recommend Captain Power and Exosquad, if you've never seen them. The former is a post-apocalyptic Saturday morning live-action series with some of the first CGI characters to ever hit TV. Tagline: "When man fought machine... and machine won." Written by JMS several years prior to B5. The latter is basically WWII in space, or GI Joe with spaceships and NO EJECTION SEATS. Seriously, ships and mechs blow up all over the place with lots of people on board. Named characters die *on screen*. The lead villain slowly turns more and more into late-war Hitler, complete with the bombastic speeches. It's a wonder how they ever got all that stuff past the censors, even if you allow for the fact that it was a '90s show and there weren't as many restrictions on kids' entertainment as in the '80s.
I SHALL INSCRIBE YOUR NAMES IN STONE.
What a time for this to appear in my feed.
You know, the more I think about it, the storyline of the Command and Conquer games (the mainline ones), in a lot of ways feels like a more overtly sci-fi (and comparatively darker) spiritual successor to the basic premise of G.I. Joe. The “technologically-advanced and well-armed terrorist organization with mystical/cult aesthetics vs. an elite military organization formed specifically to fight them” is surprisingly similar, albeit in C&C all the sci-fi gadgetry in a modern setting is explained more via the presence of Tiberium. I can’t prove it was a direct inspiration, but the parallels are interesting nonetheless.
Well, looks like Cobra won, back in 79 .
One suggestion for a video I think you would like: Redscotgaming's two-part essay on Killzone, specifically part two. In one version, Cobra is the front for a Yuuzhan Vong-esque precursor civilization, in another, it's a crime syndicate crafted by an angry working joe who now wants to take over the world. Ironically, Cobra Commander was rather similar to Kylo Ren, most of the time.
I will check it out.
@@feralhistorian What did you think? Also, I found an interesting video based around Horde Prime of She-Ra about his Fascist influence.
@@AhsokaFanboy1138 I've only watched part 1 so far, but it did a great job of giving a solid background on the Killzone games. More than the original, I may have to get the emulator working to play Killzone 2 on pc.
@@feralhistorian Glad you enjoyed it. The Helghan Corporation sounded a little like the East India Company.
I still have most of my GI Joes from my childhood.
Still think they are so cool. It started a long obsession with action figures that I can’t shake into my forties. Mostly, they get bought and hung on the wall. But every so often, I dig out the trunk with all of my old toys and let the kids pick a couple out. I end up spending the better part of an afternoon digging through it all and reminiscing.
Oh, to be young again. Late eighties into the early nineties. Carefree. Sunday morning cartoons. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the TV and, for a time, in my cereal bowl.
For a time there, the OJ Simpson trial was destroying my ability to watch cartoons after school. It seemed like it would never end
Absolutely insane analysis, 10/10
He didn’t mention the pedigree of Cobra being a Hydra expie with GIJoe being the US equivalent of SHIELD, and their pedigree stemming from spy thrillers from the 40s-60s such as James Bond, etc. I mean, I guess he sorta mentioned it in a vague ‘cultural trope’…
CC, Destro and let's not forget the majestic Baroness, the 80s were fanastic. #coldwar memories
Larry Hama's Cobra Commander all the way!
In the mid 80s as i remember we always portray or roll play cobra and pretend we are russian,germans and japanese COBRA!
I grew up on g.i Joe comics.. I would talk to military cats about the stuff I learned from there..they were like dayum how did you know so much about weapons I was like huh go Joe comic books.,even the dossiers for each character was on point
HAIL COBRA!
Noncompete did a hilarious communist take on cobra by re voicing a whole cartoon episode.
Thanks, I did get a few laughs from that.
I love this video so much...
I played with the toys and watched the cartoons as a kid. I read the comics later, but all this is pretty deep, particularly where it draws from history and the nature of the rise of totalitarian thought and how it spreads. It just shows how important it is to protect our freedoms and not be swayed by a false prophet who brings down those with him.
COBRA COMMANDER WAS RIGHT.
I'd never considered Cobra through the lens of fascism. I'd always absorbed them as being more like the Muslim Brotherhood. But you make good points. Larry Hama was a damn good writers/editor too.
Nah, Cobra had *massive* corporate interests. Extensive Enterprises was funding them, and MARS industries were their main weapons supplier, and functioned effectively as second in command. The Baroness was nobility from some dispossessed eastern European commie state that got run out by the Soviets. The combination of angry populism and industrialism and anti-communism are hallmarks of fascism.
Interestingly, the Soviet union also had their own anti-cobra task force: “The October Guard.” The Guard and the Joes worked together on occasion, as Cobra was seen as a serious threat to both countries.
@@mahatmarandy5977I liked the October Guard. They were what a gimmicky communist action figure line would have been with dudes from different parts of the Pact and silly balloon wheel vehicles.
There was some comics that dipped into the Cold War. One where the joes are in not-Laos to assassinate a spy. And one where three joes are undercover in a minor eastern state.
Your explanation of COBRA is one of the reasons many people like me did not like the First order from Star Wars.
As a terrorist organization, it makes sense that that would be powerful and a challenge to our heroes, but relatively easy to beat. It makes no sense why they are depicted exactly the same as the galactic empire, more powerful somehow, and still relatively easy to beat.
Have the original issue one and two of the uk version of the comic (was known as Action Force here because we don’t call our troops GI’s so they gave it an “international” sounding kind of name).
"I tawt I taw a puddy tat." That's my preference.
Most startling point of this video was realizing that GI Joe could somehow become a part of the Marvel Cinematic universe.
Excellent video.
80s kid. Loved GI Joe. Always liked Destro more
This is fantastic! 👏👏👏
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LONG LIVE COBRA LA.!!!
I love G I Joe so much. I wanted yo do a paper about Cobra as a Terrorist Archetype in college and was told no
6:27 I absolutley know how I feel about it.
The comic was eventually destroyed by hasbo putting out new toys at a nearly monthly basis. So many new Joes were added each month to the comic you didn’t know who was who anymore and the story suffered. Stopped collecting around issue 150. It was a great ride up until that point.
COBRA!!
So not for nothing. When Hasbro contacted Marvel and pitched the idea marvel already had characters fleshed out. They were going to do an agents of SHIELD comic. They just changed the name to GI Joe and changed Hydra to Cobra.
Almost like Larry Hama was writing about 2ionists
Hail cobra
No one takes Cobra more seriously than you, Feral.
That's . . . quite possibly true.
Nice
I have to disagree on one point. The reason the IP fell off in the 90s was because moms got their influence into the IP, and basically overnight GIJoe went from being a well designed, mostly realistic, near future tech, military toy line (very cool) to being brightly colored, poorly designed NERF looking garbage (very lame) no one wanted to play with anymore.
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AIPAC-- I mean, COBRA!!?
I’m old enough to have had an original GI Joe, around the time of Vietnam so they decided making him a big game hunter was more politically correct.
Why doesn't this guy have his own T.V show? I blame Cobra.
Sigh, and now I, an American Conservative, am the arch “fascist” villain.
Having focused most of my academic life on that period, I've always found it odd that people can equate fascism and conservatism. Aside from nationalism, there's nothing conservative about it. But fascists do make great villains, even if the jackboot doesn't fit.
@@feralhistorian Makes no sense to me either but here we are.
Yes and no, we all are.
@@feralhistorian agree,conservatism isnt inherently fascist. Conservatives typically are conservative of resources which typically rolls into fascist movements as they become reactive to popular phenomenon and equation of the wealthy with resource scarcity and popular culture, entanglement of those concepts with working class disillusion is used to usurp the ideal societal complacence and replace with a vigorous antithema of aspirational overthrow or subversion. What I dig in what youve said here is how inclined they were to use cobra commander as a platform for a very real base concept and add absurd concepts that work in constraints but are effective as well. The used car salesman disenfranchised by the american dream,evil orthodontist mind control and corporate structure. It almost sounds lije a companion piece to american psycho. Great stuff,I really enjoyed it! Side note ive always been amazed how the soiled will forsake comfort and poor standing to join a competing cause and forsake rank at the possibility to smite those above them even if they lose what little they had! Have a blessed day and
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Drawing parallells do you think baroness was inspired by irma griese or naziexploitation flim ilsa she wolf of the SS.
Cobra Commander is almost Trump. I bet there's a real one about to rise 😂
Your comment is what deranged liberalism looks like.
Good!
Looks like New Mexico
FUCK YES!
wait, is cobra commander actually Andrew Tate!?
Wow
So theyre just based, got it.
Cobra drinks zima.
Body massage
i thought cobra was actually capitalism based. he wanted all the money in every nations treasury.
You'll have to explain how 'steal all the money' equals 'capitalism.'
When Fox News investigates The Cobra Institution
MAGA 😅
Modern day democrats
Cobra is really not facist at all.
Cobra!
Yea love GI Joe been in my time when boren 1982 so was a great cartoon an comic's was a little more somewhat realistic...
Well the cartoon was ok just a lot of the time it might been a good idea but Cobra that post to be a Very scary Terriorst organization to be fear but they was not I try to think if a real organization called cobra that has a real threat would not be so easy to Defate but of course if u have a Leader Like cobra commander or serpentor then yea cobra won't be very believable an not realy realist but u had a very much like a very Evile an don't think they care about drugs like headman or anything as long bring in money to use to take over the world they would truly do what needs to be done to truly conqured the world but then u would have to make A Government how cobra commander did not realy have any plans for a realisc Government except him he in charge but real one man can't control every thing need others or something but it's fine don't realy matter it's all not real don't make no sense an real don't have no true gold's.
GI Joe still good.