The movie
 

Seen the trailer, the movie sucks. Destro as CC, accelator suits, that is from an order of battle that came out in 2002, it's the rise of MARS not Cobra.

Actually, Cobra Commander is Rex "The Doctor" Lewis, and by the end of the film he's revealed to be the big bad or something convoluted of the sort.

Cobra Commander
 

Cobra Commander came from Dr.Mindbender? :confused: now i'm confused.. when did it ever mention cobra commander as being a doctor? if he was.. what did he need mindbender for? :confused:

Joseph Gordon Levitt's character has been identified as Rex Lewis. Joseph Gordon Levitt's character has also been identified as being Cobra Commander.

Thanks to all the promotional material and interview, the movie's big twist (The Doctor is the true leader!!!) has been spoiled from everyone.

my understanding was that "the doctor" and Cobra Commander were two different characters... CC is a doctor, but I don't thing he's "the Doctor".

I think CC and Duke were supposed to be friends at one time in the past.

Everytime I read about the movie, there's always some new bit of info that feels all crazy.

No, he's "the Doctor".

Okay had to edit my existing post... I doubt its anygood anymore...

There are some major oddities in the story like :

Spoiler:

Baroness and CC are siblings,
Duke was engaged to Baroness,
CC (Rex/Doctor) and Duke were "best buds",
Snake-eyes is to Scarlet "like a brother",
Ripcord is black :eek:
SS is Korean (so I've heard/read),
Zartan is bald :p
Brainwashed Cobra troops,
Supposedly Baroness is Brainwashed too...
CC is like SE = horrifically scarred
etc. the list could go on and on...

But like many have pointed out... its probably best as a mindless summer pocorn action flick...it will have zero impact on my 'verse and it will not be the G.I.Joe I know and love...but more like an interesting new take on the franchise...

I'm typing this desperately trying to avoid reading more than the first few lines of the post above... This thread could have used a spoiler warning at some point...

No spoilers here:

The nature of this movie is to "reboot" the toy line... therefore I shall resist it as an attack on my Joeverse, which has had over 25 years to evolve the way it has. I shall resist the brainwashing... ;-)

With that said, it is interesting how some of the new figures might grow on me... for instance, the new Cover Girl and Scarlett. For some reason Cover Girl is looking to me like some sort of computer specialist, not the "heavy weapons specialist" her packaging says she is. It's probably that she comes with a laptop. And Scarlett I have already replaced the head with the 25th one and she looks way better. Both are leaning towards becoming a subset of my Joe team... the cyber-warfare group.

So far with the other new Joes, they currently are morphing into my existing Joe team/verse. So far i like them there and don't think the movie will influence me to make them any different than how I see them today.

But the Cobra neo-viper.... they look like something from the past. Cobra early days. The one I have doesn't have the posability of the Resolute Troopers, and I certainly will not army build these beyond 10 (at the max). That amount should be enough for dio purposes. But at the moment they do not truly fit into my Joeverse, so we'll see if I even use them beyond pic purposes.