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Originally Posted by Lava Boss
I dunno how you can you have hard core military realism and still have Cobra involved. Look at people in actual Cobra Commander costumes....they look absurd. Destro? Please.
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I think people go for the stylized idea of military realism - or to put it in another way its the same as "fuzzy" science is to science fiction. You just have to make it believable or credible enough for it to make some sort of sense.
I think that is what attracted me to Gijoe in the first place - its an amalgam of ninjas, commandos, terrorists and military stuff all rolled into one giant pie of fun.
I mean just to make a point - is the KKK as bad as it is, that hard to take seriously? They dressed up in white sheets for crying out loud. - For some Terrorists to dress up in bright blue with huge red cobra markings on them, well I find it believable enough.
It is definitely in the "fantastic" view of things, but I do believe that its not that far of a fetch to make Cobra work as a credible or even serious terrorists. If you checked out the Devils Due WW3 story, it made Cobra really into the terrorist organization that they always had the opportunity to be (well for me at least).