Still not clear about GI Joe's affiliation...

[Good Will Riker]

My favorite character -"Quick Kick"

Here is his filecard - http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/quickkick.html

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

And he's dead

 

[Bishbot]

I have to admit, in my world, GI-Joe are just supporting characters in the Transformers comic, but I like them and even I don't want them fucked up like this. As everyone has already says, making it an acronym makes no damned sense at all. I've always thought a GI-Joe movie would be really hard to do well and make believable, but this sure as hell isn't the way to start going about it.

 

[God Magnus]

Or it could be a group that started in the US and expanded out into the world and became an international organization?

Has that ever happened?

GI Joe once involved plot lines as weird as a big blob being taken down by apples and a weather controlling machine. Just because something hasn't happened before, it doesn't mean it can't be used for fiction.

In a "real life" scenario, the way I could see it is this: The US has a special force that has been performing anti-terrorist activities. However, these are increasingly intruding upon international ground, and thus the international community demands its own representation on the team - hence the addition of members from countries outside the US. Seems plausible to me.

If they want this to be not-American they can't use 'GI Joe' in the title.

As I understand it, key characters such as Duke ARE American. It's not like Duke is suddenly from Spain and Scarlett is from China.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

In a "real life" scenario, the way I could see it is this: The US has a special force that has been performing anti-terrorist activities. However, these are increasingly intruding upon international ground, and thus the international community demands its own representation on the team - hence the addition of members from countries outside the US. Seems plausible to me.

Which I explained ...Cobra Island is International grounds as in the UN deals with it.

 

[Aragorn]

As I understand it, key characters such as Duke ARE American. It's not like Duke is suddenly from Spain and Scarlett is from China.

That's too bad, because if Scarlett were a redheaded Chinese soldier, Good Will Riker would be doing an all-out promotion gushfest of this movie now.

 

[God Magnus]

Which I explained ...Cobra Island is International grounds as in the UN deals with it.

There we go.

Frankly, I think we're all missing something by not debating why Shipwreck isn't in it with a talking parrot...

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Or Spirit and his Eagle

 

[God Magnus]

Or Spirit and his Eagle

Throw in Quick Kick in all his head band wearing, barefeet glory. I'd love to see how people would react to that. There'd be an outcry of how politically incorrect the characters are.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Or Spirit and his Eagle

Throw in Quick Kick in all his head band wearing, barefeet glory. I'd love to see how people would react to that. There'd be an outcry of how politically incorrect the characters are.

Yep, like Road Block and his cooking

BTW God, you know I respect your opinions on Transformers right?