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Stanfield are one of my favorite villians of all time btw.
Just some rambling thoughts from me as my sunday photo trip is interupted with a freak thunderstorm.

I think of Cobra Commander as a master mind on a budget. I only knew him from the comics so I am thinking secret society mixed with pyramid schemes and millitia terrorism thrown in. One of the most important issues in Cobra Commanders life was for me when he saw that his organization had become so incredibly powerfull and hi tech that it crossed over from an radical political movement who used ruthless terrorist tacktics from time to time to an true international supervillian organization with technolgy and powers which would change the world for the worse no matter who won in the end. And then he wanted to quit. So to me Cobra Commander is a spitefull demagouge and true beliver in his own idiology, and unlike Destro, Raptor, Dr Mindbender or Serpentor Cobra Commander once was a regular man a car sales man and he understand regular people and can motivate them and lead them. Cobra Commander is a facist who belive himself to be the greatest leader the world have ever seen and therefore he is the most important person in the world. His whole philosphy in life is centerd around this belivef and I think that is linked with his refusal to see that its also his own fault that he was a failure as a car sales man not just the goverment.
Cobra Commander is the perfect center of the universe in his own mind so he also becomes paranoid of others when one of his perfect schemes goes awery. He sees Democracy as corrupt and only under a single strong leader can the world thrive, therfore its never his fault when things go wrong its the followers fault. After all they can not lead themselves because democracy does not work in his worldview therfore its their influence on his perfect system that makes it inperfect.
The very things that makes Cobra Commander original in my mind is the fact that he is not the decendant of an ancient tradition, he is not the seventh son of the seventh son, he is not an insane genious he is a REGULAR guy with an incredble willpower and leadership ability, his retreats is because of his incredble selfishness not because he is a natural coward, allthough the diffrence between the two could be debated. I think of him perhaps as the opposite of the Joker in the dark knight? Cobra Commander could be less cool than the other Cobra Villians but more grounded in reality.

10-05-2008, 07:36 AM	#5
Trench-Viper Veteran Offline --> Posts: 6,048 --> Join Date: Jun 2008	Stanfield are one of my favorite villians of all time btw. Just some rambling thoughts from me as my sunday photo trip is interupted with a freak thunderstorm. I think of Cobra Commander as a master mind on a budget. I only knew him from the comics so I am thinking secret society mixed with pyramid schemes and millitia terrorism thrown in. One of the most important issues in Cobra Commanders life was for me when he saw that his organization had become so incredibly powerfull and hi tech that it crossed over from an radical political movement who used ruthless terrorist tacktics from time to time to an true international supervillian organization with technolgy and powers which would change the world for the worse no matter who won in the end. And then he wanted to quit. So to me Cobra Commander is a spitefull demagouge and true beliver in his own idiology, and unlike Destro, Raptor, Dr Mindbender or Serpentor Cobra Commander once was a regular man a car sales man and he understand regular people and can motivate them and lead them. Cobra Commander is a facist who belive himself to be the greatest leader the world have ever seen and therefore he is the most important person in the world. His whole philosphy in life is centerd around this belivef and I think that is linked with his refusal to see that its also his own fault that he was a failure as a car sales man not just the goverment. Cobra Commander is the perfect center of the universe in his own mind so he also becomes paranoid of others when one of his perfect schemes goes awery. He sees Democracy as corrupt and only under a single strong leader can the world thrive, therfore its never his fault when things go wrong its the followers fault. After all they can not lead themselves because democracy does not work in his worldview therfore its their influence on his perfect system that makes it inperfect. The very things that makes Cobra Commander original in my mind is the fact that he is not the decendant of an ancient tradition, he is not the seventh son of the seventh son, he is not an insane genious he is a REGULAR guy with an incredble willpower and leadership ability, his retreats is because of his incredble selfishness not because he is a natural coward, allthough the diffrence between the two could be debated. I think of him perhaps as the opposite of the Joker in the dark knight? Cobra Commander could be less cool than the other Cobra Villians but more grounded in reality.