@@noahboddee5238 How not? Was it explained as a synthoid in the comics, ensuing seasons, or something like that? On the TV show, thought we saw it as it showed his backstory during the trial.
They was Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet, & Ironhide when the Decepticon’s hijacked the Ship. Then Windcharger & Wheeljack during the Battle of Autobot City, then Optimus Prime, then Ultra Magnus (briefly but was brought back which makes me wonder why couldn’t the others have be saved as well, they’re Machines they can be fixed too.) Where were Superion, Defensor & Omega Supreme? But Several reborn Megatron was made into Galvatron, Thundercracker, Shrapnel, Kickback, became Scourge & the Sweeps, Bombshell & Skywarp became Cyclonus & his Armada. Starscream was blasted into space dust.
How hard core was it? Two armies fighting each other and the only person who died was a drug king pin who ODed by accidentally falling into a vat of his own drugs?
It is a shame he didn't live, Chris Latta would be a favorite among the touring circuits of voice actors for 80's toons, especially Transformers and GI Joe. His voice was easily the most unique and he did two of the most iconic characters ever. Most of the voice actors didn't know how much they were appreciated and loved until about 10 years ago, shame Chris never got to know how much he meant to people.
Believe it or not he was also the original voice for Mr Burns and Moe on The Simpsons - Two completly different voices compared to the beautiful high-pitched one he used for Starscream and Cobra.
Mitch Fletcher OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION. I HAD NO IDEA THAT HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH ALCOHOLISM. HOPEFULLY ALL IS WELL WITH MR. LATTA TO THIS DAY. For future reference - sharing knowledge is always great but the caps lock was totally unnecessary. God I felt I was as getting yelled and shot at, all at the same time, lol.
Yeah, that was HUGE to us back in the day. You never saw that kind of epic-scale shift and resolution. We were so used to shows going on and on until they were cancelled without a finale. This was seriously deep and disturbing shit to us back then.
Cobra Commander is a perplexing figure. He was able to rise to the highest level of an entire army, yet simultaneously no one ever seemed to follow his orders. Nevertheless, he kept delivering them with the utmost pompousness. Bravo, Cobra Commander. My hat is off to you.
I felt so sorry for Cobra Commander. I watched the G.I. Joe movie again recently and i actually shed some tears over his mutation. I didn't know those scenes were going to hit me that hard. When he's instructing Roadblock where to go "that's it, straight ahead the mountain path" that part especially was heartbreaking for me😢
@youknowkbbaby yes he did, but it was still sad for me seeing him in that condition. When Cobra Commander was saying "useless all useless", that was heartbreaking.
I loved how one of the comics had Cobra Commander face Serpentor, and after CC tossed him his exploding mask, CC tells him the following: "You were engineered with such potential, Serpentor, but you lack the most important DNA of them all................MINE!" And kicks his ass right off the cliff!
Originally in the comics he was to be drafted into the Vietnam War, but his brother took his place. He became a car salesman and his brother came back. He was messed up and became an abusive alcoholic and died in a drunk driving accident. Cobra sworn to destory America and the world after it.
This movie creeped me the fuck out when I was young. It gave me nightmares. Back then, I never would’ve imagine Hasbro doing it like this. The whole Cobra LA and turning Cobra Commander into a snake, that was trippy. Chris Latta R.I.P. he made Cobra Commander iconic.
does anyone remember that the cobra commander was in a Transformers episode? He played a consultant to a terrorist organization that turned the Autobots into humans. By the end of the episode that Autobots took down the terrorist organization and the cobra commander said " oh well they don't make terrorist organizations the way the used too. COBRA!!!!!!!!"
I have to admit that at that point I was feeling sorry for Cobra Commander for how they did him. He by far has the best cartoon villain voice I can think of. R.I.P. Chris Latta.
cmann58 He was a very troubled man. His co-workers had to bail him out several times. But he wasn't a bad person, and his fellow actors still miss him today.
@@CardboardSliver One of his fellow voice actors on this series and Transformers attributes his death to this rising stardom. He once cryptically lamented on Latta's death by saying "Hollywood tends to devour its own young."
Actually in the comics which most hardcore fans considered cannon he just resembled a crazy hippie type with long hair in a pony tail, stoner glasses and handle bar mustache and was a ex us government agent that went completely rogue. I kind of like that origin much better since it wasn't very predictable and when you actually think about it made more sense.
I'm usually all for bad guys getting their comeuppance, but I don't dig seeing Cobra Commander going out like that. I know he later becomes human again somehow, but still. Harsh.
Human!? the dude was a serpent man in this animated version in the movie he was a noble of some reptilian race who accidentily got mutated by an experiment hence his many eye so much as a disgruntled car sales man in the toy backstory
@@number3729 They made a series around 90 or 92 that continues after some time has passed. After getting dumped by Destro, Baroness and Nagahide used science, a recording of monks chanting and the power of caveman wizardry were able to turn C.C. into a snakeman.
I watched this only ONCE in my life 20 years ago, just an 8 years old kid and somehow NEVER forget the scene from 1:50 and everything that followed that moment, he turning into a real cobra and all his suffer and screams. Not lying, only watched ONCE in my life, was so hardcore that it never came out of my head haha
Always felt sympathy for Cobra commander. Always so misunderstood and mistreated by the useless Serpentor. far as I was concerned, this movie ended the franchise. R.I.P. Cobra Commander.
I always loved that CC's faceplate was a solid hunk of metal with circuitry. Therefore it could be speculated that what he was seeing (perhaps some holographic video) wasn't the truth (natural vision) and therefore a method of control. Deep...
I know it's late to respond, but, considering his face was a mass of eyeballs I have to wonder if they were functional and he could see out of them. Maybe the circuitry delivered different video feeds to different eyes, allowing him to see regularly from his normal two eyes and maybe infra red from the another set, and other wavelengths to the others.
Ironic. Cobra Commander is physically turned into an actual cobra for punishment. Also ironic that if he hadn't been punished that way Serpentor would have won his fight, and Falcon wouldn't have stopped the spores.
This movie was amazing when I was a kid, even if a little bit scary at points. But now, as a 44 year old, it's actually kinda traumatizing. Am I the only one who feels that way?
You aren't .seeing cobra commander gets DE-EVOLVED into a snake ABOMINATION was truly eye opening. This is one of the few cartoons that dealt with insanity. As cobra commander mutates more and more into that freaking THINGY you can almost feel his sanity slip away. It's tangible. That's why it stuck with you. I'm 34 and I still get jeebiesfrom watching this.
@@fredricorosenfield9976 Yes, the more I think about it, this cartoon had some really disturbing moments throughout. How'd they get away with all that in the 80s, I wonder.
@@fredricorosenfield9976 Indeed. I remember when I was a kid and saw the part when Cobra Commander had his accident and grew all those extra eyes, I was really creeped out by it. The part where he is turned into the snake is almost as creepy (especially since he still has all those extra eyes when his mask finally falls off), but I also thought it was sad, even for a bad guy. I'm not sure who thought such a weird (and frankly disturbing) subplot would be appropriate for a children's cartoon/children's movie, but they must have been smoking "something" when they came up with it....the comic book's origin of human Cobra Commander was so much better...and it wasn't creepy or gross!
Wow.. the wonderful days of being a kid and watching this like it was the best thing that happened to me. This movie and the cartoon transformers was the best. But the opening scene of G.I joe was the best! Cobraaa COBRAAA cobraaa COBRAAA
3:44 Yesss oh yessss..... I've been looking for that clip for awhile. My favorite CC line from the movie: "Men may rule, but serpents never!" The Cobra Commander - Roadblock bromance was great lol. And the end to this video, masterpiece! 😅
I feel like the movie was made by people who didn't know anything about Cobra. The season prior to the movie ended with Cobra Commander moving to assassinate serpentor and the final episode of the season revealed that every member of Cobra was tired of serpentor and had joined a secret society to depose him in favor of Cobra Commander. suddenly in the movie, everyone hates the commander and loves serpentor
+babysinclairfan Just to clarify, only a few were shown to be on Cobra Commander's side while others were tired. I think it was Destro, Firefly, and Storm Shadow on the side of Cobra Commander in that episode, while Mind bender was still sucking up to Serpentor. As you mentioned there was a disconnect with the movie and that final episode. I believe if the movie had not happened the show was going to be CC taking Cobra over again.
1980Triumph I think during the episode, Serpentor commented that everyone was missing from the base.Idk, I have to rewatch the episode to be sure. But even dr Mindbender complains that Serpentor is becoming bratty. Before that, he had nothing but respect for Serpentor.
+babysinclairfan You're right, Mindbender did complain but he wasn't on the side of the rebellion, it was really Cobra Commander with the ones I mentioned. I think they would have explored this a little more if the show had continued. You're still right, they totally went into selling out the Commander in the movie when the last bit had people tired of Serpentor.
Think I read once that if there had been a season 3, the twins would have been in control of Cobra, Sepentor done away with, and at the end, CC shown to have been behind the twin's operation as a partially mutated half man half snake type of creature.
I now remember I as a kid I was constantly saying "I was wunsssse a man...wunsssee a man!!" with a deliberate hiss for an entire month. I'm sure I drove everybody around me crazy
I basically destroyed a VHS with this movie on. That's how many times I watched this movie, at certain scenes I had to pause and roll through them otherwise the casette would be stuck. This was my first and only G.I. Joe animation.
Well,don't feel bad about Cobra Commander. Later on when DIC got around,he was brought back to human form thanks to one person you didn't count on - the Baroness. :)
Naw. Got to disagree. I just can't see a used car salesmen hissing all over the place and SOMEHOW becoming a terrorist. Al Bundy just jumps up and decided: Hey, I wanna take over the world!
@@StudioDragoonX To be fair....that does kinda sound like something Al Bundy would try to do. And then fail at it spectacularly. So maybe he IS the Al Bundy type..
He would go out and fight along side his men . I remember one time he had some one held hostage.He keep screaming he wants torch back. If Chris Lata hadn't done his voice it would not had ben the same something about that voice ties it all together. Rip
@@cobracommander6522 Maybe instead of replacing you Mindbender could’ve spliced your DNA with all those Great Leaders of history that created Serpentor. Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo, Eric the Red, Sun Tzu & Egyptian General Xanuth Amon-Toth. Golobulus was a servant for The Chaos Bringer, Unicron.
So, in the comic books he was a used car salesman in a love/hate relationship with his son. In the cartoon, he was a horribly disfigured scientist with 10 eyes from an ancient civilization straight out of H.P. Lovecraft, who eventually mutates into a snake, and is redeemed in the end by helping his former enemies save humanity. Why angry nerds say this show was for kids is just another unsolved mystery.
I much prefer Joseph Gordon Levitt's Cobra Commander. He wears the mask because he suffered 3rd degree burns in an airstrike when Dr. Mindbender promised to show him how the nanomites work and to think he was going to be Duke's brother in law and was one of Duke's soldiers and he is Baroness's brother when she was and is still Ana De Cobray. She is kind of like Anakin Skywalker as in a very conflicted person.
Some crazy alteration in a movie. Cobra Commander was a regular human. He didn't wear a mask because he was disfigured, he wore it to conceal his identity.
I loved watching this as a kid growing up when it came out with the movie I thought that was the best thing ever GI Joe cartoons were a big part of my life growing up I never missed the episode keep up the good work and keep bringing back the oldies. Cobal lalalala
the end og GI JOE started with season 2 and with "movie" it become a reality. As I know (and as you can see on season 1 and 2) Cobra commander was caucasean with normal eyes... what is that shit about to be blue and noble man from a secret and ancient civilization???!?!!!!
Yeah, I think this is why the animated movie was way more traumatic than the live action, although the live action was also scarier in certain part, especially the opening scene where a hot and glowing iron mask was attached to Destro's great great great grandfather
Swear GI Joe and transformers had weird fates for their characters duke was supposed to die but he was put in a coma they even had a funeral scene that was deleted because so many kids cried when optimus prime died
I don't understand this scene how the hell can Cobra Commander be mutated if he's wearing his armor doesn't make any sense because the dust cannot mutate him if you're wearing armor going to a helmet for your face and armor for your body it doesn't make any sense if anybody has any ideas throw me a bone over here
Yes in one of the comic book Cobra Commander said that his helmet and suit is air tight and has a air system and it's the same in the live Acton moves to. i will look and find what comic issue it is and put it here later so if anyone wants to know be back later.
I am back i found my comic book issue i was taking about it is in the original GI Joe a Real American Hero issue 14 Destro Attacks. so in this issue Cobra Commander and Baroness is going to inject a volunteer with a toxin and before Cobra Commander says his Battle helmet and suit are air tight with a Built in air recycling system. so you do got a good point.
@@katherinelewis2735 Another interesting thing in this scene that makes no real sense is, how could the stupid Nemesis Enforcer guy be so close to the spore he held up to Cobra Commander's face and not get doused with that crap himself, even a little bit? I really don't get that part.
I don't know why I found the part where they start strangling each other funny. "Stop strangling me!" Well, Roadblock, you were strangling him first so there.
The whole once a man transformation really stuck with me. I'd only seen hisssssss and a bit of the island of doctor morow. I sat on this subject probably two weeks after I saw it.
My mom HATED his voice. Thank you Cobra Commander for driving my mom crazy for all those years. Your voice was my silent rebellion.
***** Chris Latta aka Chris Collins. :)
"Nick, you're grounded!"
"COBRA, RETREEEAAAT, REEETREEEEAAAAAT!!!"
Starscream and Cobra Commander shared the same voice actor.
Satisfied he's dead?
@@CelesteK He did a good job. I can't imagine how else cc could sound
i'll never forget the agony of Cobra Commander as he lost his humanity "i wass a man. yesss yesss wasss a man"
Although technically he was never human to begin with.
Yesss.
Same.
Ditto.
@@cobracommander6522 my poor master. 😭
This blew my mind as a kid. We didn’t see Nanny, we didn’t see Dr. Claw. We saw Cobra Commander.
FACTS....
False! That was never cobra commander
@@noahboddee5238 How not? Was it explained as a synthoid in the comics, ensuing seasons, or something like that?
On the TV show, thought we saw it as it showed his backstory during the trial.
Who was Nanny?
@@boru25 Nanny from Muppet Babies. Her face was never shown.
Jesus, I forgot how hardcore the G.I. Joe movie was.
VorpalDerringer I hear that. I got to watch it again.
So was Transformers: The Movie at least 4 beloved Autobots got killed during the opening scene
They was Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet, & Ironhide when the Decepticon’s hijacked the Ship. Then Windcharger & Wheeljack during the Battle of Autobot City, then Optimus Prime, then Ultra Magnus (briefly but was brought back which makes me wonder why couldn’t the others have be saved as well, they’re Machines they can be fixed too.) Where were Superion, Defensor & Omega Supreme? But Several reborn Megatron was made into Galvatron, Thundercracker, Shrapnel, Kickback, became Scourge & the Sweeps, Bombshell & Skywarp became Cyclonus & his Armada. Starscream was blasted into space dust.
How hard core was it? Two armies fighting each other and the only person who died was a drug king pin who ODed by accidentally falling into a vat of his own drugs?
@@RequiemPoete You must have missed all the weird biological technology in the movie?
It is a shame he didn't live, Chris Latta would be a favorite among the touring circuits of voice actors for 80's toons, especially Transformers and GI Joe. His voice was easily the most unique and he did two of the most iconic characters ever. Most of the voice actors didn't know how much they were appreciated and loved until about 10 years ago, shame Chris never got to know how much he meant to people.
I agree with you so much. He was one of THE MOST iconic voice actors ever. :(
+Dee Jay Yes sir
zeoranger7 Silver - For sure.
Believe it or not he was also the original voice for Mr Burns and Moe on The Simpsons - Two completly different voices compared to the beautiful high-pitched one he used for Starscream and Cobra.
CrittersRule247 I always forget about that, even more reason that he is simply one of the greatest voice actors of all time;.
Damn, Chris Latta's throat must've been pretty damn sore from all that screaming.
LMAO! I know right?
Dee Jay
THEN AGAIN, HIS CHARACTERS WERE KILLED OFF TO GIVE HIM SOME TIME TO RECOVER FROM HIS ALCOHOLISM.
+Mitch Fletcher Touche
Mitch Fletcher OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION. I HAD NO IDEA THAT HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH ALCOHOLISM. HOPEFULLY ALL IS WELL WITH MR. LATTA TO THIS DAY.
For future reference - sharing knowledge is always great but the caps lock was totally unnecessary. God I felt I was as getting yelled and shot at, all at the same time, lol.
Dee Jay
Unfortunately, Mr. Latta passed away in 1994 from a cerebral hemorage. Luckily, his voice acting has made him immortal.
I like how they turned Cobra Commander into a kind of tragic figure in this movie and he does have redemption in the end.
Yeah, that was HUGE to us back in the day. You never saw that kind of epic-scale shift and resolution. We were so used to shows going on and on until they were cancelled without a finale. This was seriously deep and disturbing shit to us back then.
Surely there has to be an antidote to the spores, He can’t remain a Snake. The rest of his life after all he is Cobra’s Supreme Leader.
@@Girard1020 They bring him back in Operation Dragonfire.
@@Girard1020 he showed up in the G1 transformers season 3 episode called only human but he went by the name old snake in it.
/666
Cobra Commander is a perplexing figure. He was able to rise to the highest level of an entire army, yet simultaneously no one ever seemed to follow his orders. Nevertheless, he kept delivering them with the utmost pompousness.
Bravo, Cobra Commander. My hat is off to you.
He’s basically starscream
COBRA unlike GI Joe was never United. It was ever person for themselves
I felt so sorry for Cobra Commander. I watched the G.I. Joe movie again recently and i actually shed some tears over his mutation. I didn't know those scenes were going to hit me that hard. When he's instructing Roadblock where to go "that's it, straight ahead the mountain path" that part especially was heartbreaking for me😢
@youknowkbbaby yes he did, but it was still sad for me seeing him in that condition. When Cobra Commander was saying "useless all useless", that was heartbreaking.
Cobra did have a point. Serpentor with all that DNA of these world conquerors couldn't even finish GI Joe.
And he also did have a point that his soldiers lack courage when he pleaded his case to Golobulus.
I loved how one of the comics had Cobra Commander face Serpentor, and after CC tossed him his exploding mask, CC tells him the following:
"You were engineered with such potential, Serpentor, but you lack the most important DNA of them all................MINE!"
And kicks his ass right off the cliff!
Phillip in another comic version where GI Joe meets Transformers...Optimus Prime squashes Serpentor. I like cobra more than Serpentor.
2199 So do I. Even when I was a kid, I thought Serpentor was one of the most annoying cartoon characters I ever had to sit through.
Wow! I didn't know that. That would be so awesome as a movie line!
Originally in the comics he was to be drafted into the Vietnam War, but his brother took his place. He became a car salesman and his brother came back. He was messed up and became an abusive alcoholic and died in a drunk driving accident. Cobra sworn to destory America and the world after it.
I actually prefer that more than him being an alien snake monster
You know, watching this as an adult... All the scenes with roadblock and cobra commander are pretty heavy shit for a kid.
i know right
+phuturephunk Try watching There's No Place Like Springfield again.
Poor Shipwreck.
Oh shit! I totally forgot about that. That's the two parter with Shipwreck and the whole sorta meta narrative with the purple blobby things...!!!
Thank you! I'm going back re-visiting this and damn we were all watching some heavy stuff as kids.
Roadblock is like, “you gettin on my damn nerves with that shit”.
As far as my childhood is concerned this was the most brutal way to kill somebody without ending their life.
This movie creeped me the fuck out when I was young. It gave me nightmares. Back then, I never would’ve imagine Hasbro doing it like this. The whole Cobra LA and turning Cobra Commander into a snake, that was trippy. Chris Latta R.I.P. he made Cobra Commander iconic.
Cobra Commander doesn't realize a man is just a miserable little pile of secrets.
But enough talk, have at you!!
That was awsome castlvania symphony of the night love it
I came here to pay you tribute.
A Castlevania reference? Well done!
does anyone remember that the cobra commander was in a Transformers episode? He played a consultant to a terrorist organization that turned the Autobots into humans. By the end of the episode that Autobots took down the terrorist organization and the cobra commander said " oh well they don't make terrorist organizations the way the used too. COBRA!!!!!!!!"
Yes.
Isn't he starscream??
He was on many episodes of Transformers as the voice of Starscream sir. :)
The episode was called Only Human. It was in the third season of The Transformers.
@@shanemartin7223 He was also the voice of Wheeljack, Sparkplug, Defensor, and Sweeps.
I have to admit that at that point I was feeling sorry for Cobra Commander for how they did him. He by far has the best cartoon villain voice I can think of. R.I.P. Chris Latta.
Yeah I felt bad for him too he was the best villain of the '80s him and Dr claw
This was a lot creepier when I was a kid.
Leigh Foulkes I still find those mutant characters creepy. Especially that one flying around on whatever the fuck that was.
@@robertj.3383 a toilet bowl, it's Burgess Meredith flying around in a toilet bowl.
My master cobra commander. Noooooooooooooo!
@@calrissianlando7792 LOL!
It stills creepier even 20 years later
I felt somewhat sorry for the poor bastard when he was sentenced to endure the spores.
Spiders are adorable. I don't mean spiders in general, I mean jumping spiders.
He got revenge though. He caught up with Serpentor later in the TV series. Serpentor was turned into an iguana.
Cobra commander, Starscream and that dragon guy form visionaries some of my favourite characters growing up
I WAS ONCE A MAN
is an underated line
Says Caitlin Jenner
Chris latta, you are missed. Quite a talent on par with Welker and blanc
cmann58 He was a very troubled man. His co-workers had to bail him out several times. But he wasn't a bad person, and his fellow actors still miss him today.
@@CardboardSliver did he do drugs or alcohol?
@@nobodysperfect06 Cerebral hemorrhage, actually.
@@CardboardSliver I wonder if drugs or alcohol could have triggered that for him, he was only 44 when he passed away.
@@CardboardSliver One of his fellow voice actors on this series and Transformers attributes his death to this rising stardom. He once cryptically lamented on Latta's death by saying "Hollywood tends to devour its own young."
I should've guessed Cobra Commander was never human, no human would ever have a voice like that.
Actually in the comics which most hardcore fans considered cannon he just resembled a crazy hippie type with long hair in a pony tail, stoner glasses and handle bar mustache and was a ex us government agent that went completely rogue. I kind of like that origin much better since it wasn't very predictable and when you actually think about it made more sense.
Aaron you liar
2:30 "Play it strait or there's no doubt...I'll turn your eyeballs inside out." Roadblock has zero chill.
"Be silent or be silenced"! Best line in movie.
No, it's "I was once a Maaaan!"
I'm usually all for bad guys getting their comeuppance, but I don't dig seeing Cobra Commander going out like that. I know he later becomes human again somehow, but still. Harsh.
Human!? the dude was a serpent man in this animated version in the movie he was a noble of some reptilian race who accidentily got mutated by an experiment hence his many eye so much as a disgruntled car sales man in the toy backstory
Jesse Hughes I was once a boy!
How does he become a man again? Does it happen in the comics or I'm another cartoon?
@@number3729 They made a series around 90 or 92 that continues after some time has passed. After getting dumped by Destro, Baroness and Nagahide used science, a recording of monks chanting and the power of caveman wizardry were able to turn C.C. into a snakeman.
@@Bladez10 he later killed Serpentor. Eventually became fully human by the time of a later Transformers episode
I watched this only ONCE in my life 20 years ago, just an 8 years old kid and somehow NEVER forget the scene from 1:50 and everything that followed that moment, he turning into a real cobra and all his suffer and screams.
Not lying, only watched ONCE in my life, was so hardcore that it never came out of my head haha
Another good ass cartoon from my childhood. I wanted to be Nemisis enforcer.
the elbow claws huh
Always felt sympathy for Cobra commander. Always so misunderstood and mistreated by the useless Serpentor. far as I was concerned, this movie ended the franchise. R.I.P. Cobra Commander.
I always loved that CC's faceplate was a solid hunk of metal with circuitry. Therefore it could be speculated that what he was seeing (perhaps some holographic video) wasn't the truth (natural vision) and therefore a method of control. Deep...
Where should I get faceplate like that my friend cuz that looks very interesting to wear.
I know it's late to respond, but, considering his face was a mass of eyeballs I have to wonder if they were functional and he could see out of them. Maybe the circuitry delivered different video feeds to different eyes, allowing him to see regularly from his normal two eyes and maybe infra red from the another set, and other wavelengths to the others.
Ironic. Cobra Commander is physically turned into an actual cobra for punishment.
Also ironic that if he hadn't been punished that way Serpentor would have won his fight, and Falcon wouldn't have stopped the spores.
I remember this episode from back in the day; I rushed home from school just to watch it....cartoon where more fun to watch back then.
This is not from an episode. But I agree..
This movie was amazing when I was a kid, even if a little bit scary at points. But now, as a 44 year old, it's actually kinda traumatizing. Am I the only one who feels that way?
You aren't .seeing cobra commander gets DE-EVOLVED into a snake ABOMINATION was truly eye opening. This is one of the few cartoons that dealt with insanity.
As cobra commander mutates more and more into that freaking THINGY you can almost feel his sanity slip away. It's tangible. That's why it stuck with you. I'm 34 and I still get jeebiesfrom watching this.
@@fredricorosenfield9976 Yes, the more I think about it, this cartoon had some really disturbing moments throughout. How'd they get away with all that in the 80s, I wonder.
@@fredricorosenfield9976 Indeed. I remember when I was a kid and saw the part when Cobra Commander had his accident and grew all those extra eyes, I was really creeped out by it. The part where he is turned into the snake is almost as creepy (especially since he still has all those extra eyes when his mask finally falls off), but I also thought it was sad, even for a bad guy.
I'm not sure who thought such a weird (and frankly disturbing) subplot would be appropriate for a children's cartoon/children's movie, but they must have been smoking "something" when they came up with it....the comic book's origin of human Cobra Commander was so much better...and it wasn't creepy or gross!
Fits in with 1986 The Fly
Wow.. the wonderful days of being a kid and watching this like it was the best thing that happened to me. This movie and the cartoon transformers was the best. But the opening scene of G.I joe was the best! Cobraaa COBRAAA cobraaa COBRAAA
now thats traumatic when i was a kid,
cobra commader, a fate worse then death.
Cobra Commander's redemption was a lot more convincing then that of Anakin Skywalker!
Pissed me off how they all turned against C.C. Especially when they brought douchbag Serpentor in earlier in the series.
"I wassss oncccce a maaaan!" Yesss, ohh yessss. I wasss a man."
3:44
Yesss oh yessss..... I've been looking for that clip for awhile. My favorite CC line from the movie: "Men may rule, but serpents never!"
The Cobra Commander - Roadblock bromance was great lol. And the end to this video, masterpiece! 😅
Cobra commander suffered so much in this film
..this needs to be a live action movie..and rated 'R'..
I feel like the movie was made by people who didn't know anything about Cobra. The season prior to the movie ended with Cobra Commander moving to assassinate serpentor and the final episode of the season revealed that every member of Cobra was tired of serpentor and had joined a secret society to depose him in favor of Cobra Commander.
suddenly in the movie, everyone hates the commander and loves serpentor
+babysinclairfan Just to clarify, only a few were shown to be on Cobra Commander's side while others were tired. I think it was Destro, Firefly, and Storm Shadow on the side of Cobra Commander in that episode, while Mind bender was still sucking up to Serpentor. As you mentioned there was a disconnect with the movie and that final episode. I believe if the movie had not happened the show was going to be CC taking Cobra over again.
1980Triumph I think during the episode, Serpentor commented that everyone was missing from the base.Idk, I have to rewatch the episode to be sure. But even dr Mindbender complains that Serpentor is becoming bratty. Before that, he had nothing but respect for Serpentor.
+babysinclairfan You're right, Mindbender did complain but he wasn't on the side of the rebellion, it was really Cobra Commander with the ones I mentioned. I think they would have explored this a little more if the show had continued. You're still right, they totally went into selling out the Commander in the movie when the last bit had people tired of Serpentor.
+zeoranger7 Silver "Into your tent I will silently creep"
Think I read once that if there had been a season 3, the twins would have been in control of Cobra, Sepentor done away with, and at the end, CC shown to have been behind the twin's operation as a partially mutated half man half snake type of creature.
I now remember I as a kid I was constantly saying "I was wunsssse a man...wunsssee a man!!" with a deliberate hiss for an entire month. I'm sure I drove everybody around me crazy
Is it wrong to say that I kind of felt bad for Cobra Commander in this movie?
No.they did him dirty. It's an inescapable truth. They turned him into an insane gibbering SNAKE THINGY.
I basically destroyed a VHS with this movie on. That's how many times I watched this movie, at certain scenes I had to pause and roll through them otherwise the casette would be stuck. This was my first and only G.I. Joe animation.
I love how Roadblock finally stops rhyming so he can choke Cobra Commander and tell him to shut up.
I wonder if he was once a man.
Haha...
ZimMan2 lol😂.
What's that dope looking robot in your profile from ZimMan?
ZimMan2
This is predictive programing.
This movie is literally a smooth entrance into the world of underground reptilians. The creators of humans.
WMsandKFCisBackMOFOs i think your right
Some crazy shit right here. This movie disturbed me for so many yrs. I'm 41 and watching this under the advice of my psychologist.
Well,don't feel bad about Cobra Commander. Later on when DIC got around,he was brought back to human form thanks to one person you didn't count on - the Baroness. :)
and thus commander the snake and starscreams ghost travelled the galaxy together.
+cptn nedloh ADVENTURES!
+Mitch Fletcher I want to see that tv show nkw :)
cptn nedloh So much fun.
Reminds me if that scene in transformers where a snake tries to kill starscream
XD. it was cobra commander the whole time. Cobra Commander was just trying to get starscreams attention to help him get his body back.
So Cobra Commander actually ended up helping the Joes in the end? Haven't seen the movie in a while. Nice irony.
Let's just say Cobra Commander was saying to the Joes "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Its called getting REVENGE on Serpentor and Cobra La.
@@cobracommander6522 never double cross a cobra especially when it begins to strike.
Don't worry, Cobra Commander returns as a man in season 3 of G.I. Joe and turns Serpentor into a snake👍
I don't consider the DIC episodes Canon considering how awful most of them are.
Still one of the hardest cartoon movies in 2018. CLASSIC!
This movie scared the shit out of me as a kid!!!
I forgot just how dark this movie was, and the transformers animated movie in the 80s as well.
You would have to admit that a former used car salesman turned terrorist is a way better origin than, "I wassss oncccce a maaaan! Yesss, ohhh yessss."
"I wassss oncccceee a used carssss salesmaaaan ! Yesss,oh yesss ! A used carssss salesmaaaaan !"
@@masterbison8957 LMAOOOOO
Naw. Got to disagree. I just can't see a used car salesmen hissing all over the place and SOMEHOW becoming a terrorist. Al Bundy just jumps up and decided: Hey, I wanna take over the world!
@@StudioDragoonX To be fair....that does kinda sound like something Al Bundy would try to do. And then fail at it spectacularly. So maybe he IS the Al Bundy type..
I still love this movie after all these years
1:58 Who would have thought Cobra Commander was ripped?
Watch your language no one does that to cobra commanderkins
I feel the same saw at 6 and feel it the same chills at 38!! That movie is my all time🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Totally, man. I first saw it when I was a kid and now get the same sort of reactions to the trial scene, on many different levels.
Cobra Commander was kinda handsome before his face got messed up.
I've always felt like Cobra Commander wasn't given a fair trial. His troops really were cowards.
The group Cobra and fair don't really go together not even for CC
When your troops lack courage/discipline is usually the commanding officer's fault.
Serpentor was a disappointment also where was his trail
He would go out and fight along side his men . I remember one time he had some one held hostage.He keep screaming he wants torch back. If Chris Lata hadn't done his voice it would not had ben the same something about that voice ties it all together. Rip
Yesss it is NOT my fault and don't forget those meddling GI Joe's that all way got in the way.
I feel bad for CC in this movie. He did not deserve to be mutated.
You do know he eventually became human again, killed Serpentor and took Cobra back. As of a Transformers episode was very much alive and human
Yesss.
@@cobracommander6522 Maybe instead of replacing you Mindbender could’ve spliced your DNA with all those Great Leaders of history that created Serpentor. Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo, Eric the Red, Sun Tzu & Egyptian General Xanuth Amon-Toth. Golobulus was a servant for The Chaos Bringer, Unicron.
1:59 Fuckin' sick abs, though!
So, in the comic books he was a used car salesman in a love/hate relationship with his son. In the cartoon, he was a horribly disfigured scientist with 10 eyes from an ancient civilization straight out of H.P. Lovecraft, who eventually mutates into a snake, and is redeemed in the end by helping his former enemies save humanity.
Why angry nerds say this show was for kids is just another unsolved mystery.
I loved that movie. Still seems relevant today. Probably my favorite character. Long live Cobra
I much prefer Joseph Gordon Levitt's Cobra Commander. He wears the mask because he suffered 3rd degree burns in an airstrike when Dr. Mindbender promised to show him how the nanomites work and to think he was going to be Duke's brother in law and was one of Duke's soldiers and he is Baroness's brother when she was and is still Ana De Cobray. She is kind of like Anakin Skywalker as in a very conflicted person.
Yes.
I do to i like the 2 live Acton moves way better i did grow up with this movie back in the 90s when i was a kid. and Cobra Commander is my favorite.
The part where they exposed him to the spore really traumatized me as a kid. Geez that was straight up brutal!
@ MrRepoman197 I don't think you were the only one. Everything about that part was creepy.
Some crazy alteration in a movie. Cobra Commander was a regular human. He didn't wear a mask because he was disfigured, he wore it to conceal his identity.
3:55 Your going snake house man you gotta resist!! 🤣🤣🤣
One of my favorite things about this movie is Roadblock bustin rhymes left and right
The spores! Not the spores! They’re in my eyes!
OH, GOD! AAAAAAAH!!!
I actually fell like crying for cobra commander I mean it's a date worse than death
cobra commander was more of a punching bag than usual xD
1:21 this scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
Julian Lens i never forget this
I loved watching this as a kid growing up when it came out with the movie I thought that was the best thing ever GI Joe cartoons were a big part of my life growing up I never missed the episode keep up the good work and keep bringing back the oldies. Cobal lalalala
Apparently, Cobra Commander was once a man.
Really?
Can you imagine the shift caps Cobra Commander would break if he had a TH-cam account?
COBRA!!!!!!
I remember feeling so bad for cobra commander! But he held Roadblock down!
the end og GI JOE started with season 2 and with "movie" it become a reality. As I know (and as you can see on season 1 and 2) Cobra commander was caucasean with normal eyes... what is that shit about to be blue and noble man from a secret and ancient civilization???!?!!!!
When I was 8 watching this. That was creepy when he turned into a Cobra.
Yeah, I think this is why the animated movie was way more traumatic than the live action, although the live action was also scarier in certain part, especially the opening scene where a hot and glowing iron mask was attached to Destro's great great great grandfather
Starscream from transformers
I felt sorry for Cobra commander :'(
Me too
Nobody does not deserve a fate like.
@@VictorPerez-hg2ed Serpentor deserves a lot worse
@@bluewulv yes that aggorant egomaniac of a failed science experiment deserves a far more worser fate.
I love that roadblock can still rhyme even after almost drowning
For a cartoon that was pretty crappy in retrospect, Cobra Comannder's lines are incredibly well-written. Very funny character.
This movie was just disturbing in many places.
Its surprising how brutal this movie was sometimes
I wonder if Caitlyn Jenner looks in the mirror and repeats Cobra Commander's "I was once a man" line
David Clemons Hahahahaha! That's hilarious
Lol
David Clemons Yeah she totally does.
🤣🤣🤣
Now Caitlyn is an it.
Corba Commander and Star Scream have the same voice. Awesome!!!
"Look at Cobra Commander." 😂
I'm just now realizing this is also the starscream voice
Roadblock rhyming every line never gets old
Poor commander.
They use music from Transformers season 3 in this movie
Yep. Adds to its unique flavor.
RIP Chris Latta.
Caitlyn Jenner: "I was once a man. A MAN!"
LMAOOOOO
This movie fucked me up when I was a kid.
+khristian625 You mean, before you WAAASSSSS A MAN, WAAAASSSSSSSS A MAN!?
Swear GI Joe and transformers had weird fates for their characters duke was supposed to die but he was put in a coma they even had a funeral scene that was deleted because so many kids cried when optimus prime died
I just realized that Roadblock is the Jazz of GI Joe..
Everybody talkin' bout Cobra Commander and Starscream & I'm over here like "D'compose!"
I don't understand this scene how the hell can Cobra Commander be mutated if he's wearing his armor doesn't make any sense because the dust cannot mutate him if you're wearing armor going to a helmet for your face and armor for your body it doesn't make any sense if anybody has any ideas throw me a bone over here
Your right.
Yes in one of the comic book Cobra Commander said that his helmet and suit is air tight and has a air system and it's the same in the live Acton moves to. i will look and find what comic issue it is and put it here later so if anyone wants to know be back later.
I am back i found my comic book issue i was taking about it is in the original GI Joe a Real American Hero issue 14 Destro Attacks. so in this issue Cobra Commander and Baroness is going to inject a volunteer with a toxin and before Cobra Commander says his Battle helmet and suit are air tight with a Built in air recycling system. so you do got a good point.
@@katherinelewis2735 Another interesting thing in this scene that makes no real sense is, how could the stupid Nemesis Enforcer guy be so close to the spore he held up to Cobra Commander's face and not get doused with that crap himself, even a little bit? I really don't get that part.
@@dexm2010 maybe Nemesis was a normal dude who didn't have wings and got exposed to the spores himself previously 🤷♂️
I don't know why I found the part where they start strangling each other funny. "Stop strangling me!" Well, Roadblock, you were strangling him first so there.
The whole once a man transformation really stuck with me.
I'd only seen hisssssss and a bit of the island of doctor morow. I sat on this subject probably two weeks after I saw it.
That's really Awful what happened to Cobra Commander.