I never liked serpentor and Im not gonna buy him now, especially since the 25A figure is so bad. He will always be part of the downhill turn Joe took for me with neon, sci-fi stuff they started putting out.

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He tryed to take over COBRA, failing his attempt he begin to build a new organization. The Coil, is now underground because it is to small to face, both Cobra and Joes.

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I still dont define who is the Cobra leader: Serpy, CC or Golobulus...

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Serpentor hasn't ever been included into my JoeVerse simply cuz I never had the toy as a kid. But now that I have one, I'm nost sure what to do with him. I might go with the idea that he was created, got big headed and failed to take over Cobra.

I'm not a big Serpy fan either. I just use him as the ceremonial head of state of Cobra Island with no real power and no say in the day to day running of Cobra.

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"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".

My thoughts -

This current Serpentor is a third clone, but genetically enhanced by scientists loyal to Cobra Commander. There's a genetic tag within Serpentor that makes him loyal to Cobra Commander. He is genetically predisposed to do CC's bidding. Sort of like the clone troopers with Order 66. They have no choice but to follow Order 66. Same with this new Serpy, he has no choice but to follow CC's directives and there's no way he can get around it, except death.

He'd be a great battlefield commander and an impressive political "face" behind Cobra, stirring up whatever terrorist nations that can become Cobra allies. A great and frightening maniacal spokesperson for Cobra.

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I like this idea...

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Serpentor and the Coil never interested me. They create something that is superior to any Cobra in any way. He doesn't exist to subvert Cobra Commander, he exists to replace him outright. I also find it ludicrous that he would have followed Golobulus for any extended period of time. My own fanwank is he was biding his time, seeing that he had no tactical advantage to move against Golobulous in the Cobra La Ice Dome.

It all played out like the toon, got his cape stuck in his chariot and was injured, gone forever? Cobra is left shattered, Twins turn to crime, Destro is off doing his thing, much like the Decepticons in Transformers, lowest of lows the post-movie season. Cobra Commander returns from his snake form, battle armor is actually a mutation stablizing device, and rebuilds Cobra and plans his revenge on Golobulous, assuming he ever can find him. Golobulous is like Unicron, always a danger lurking in the shadows, but not amounting to anything after the movie, but still a big symbol of evil, as he is responsible for unleshing both Cobra Commander and Serpentor upon the world.

Eventually Serpentor would reemerge with the help of Pythona (who's loyalities are to him, not Golobulous), only both he and Cobra Commander would be summoned before Golobulous for some purpose to conquer the world. He'd expect them to fall back in line as his lieutenants. At that point, the two rivals would form a shaky alliance to finally bring down Golobulous once and for all, only to backstab one another afterwards. These are just story concepts I played out as a kid.

Serpentor and Cobra Commander remind me of Hordack and Skeletor, or Megatron and Starscream. A pairing that could actually conquer the world if they actually worked together, but the desire to rule alone make it impossible.

Who has the advantage? Depends on the day of the week, the mood I am in. I'm not pleased with the 25th Serpentor, so Battle Armor CC is running the show right now and Serpy is stuck in the Cobra Arena of Sport.

If one is in charge, the other is disposed of. Cobra Commander is too arrogant to kill Serpentor, when he has the advantage, Serpentor is put in the Cobra Arena of Sport as CC's amusement, forced to fight captured Joes and such. Serpentor, of course, is too good to lose any fight, and sure enough, eventually escapes, sometimes with the help of his opponents in the Arena, and re-takes over Cobra. CC has to go into hiding because Serpentor would kill him given the chance. Eventually Cobra Commander makes a play to take back over Cobra, the cycle repeats itself. The cycle is only broken when Golobulous shows his face, then and only then will they work together.

i really, really like this idea. it follows the cartoon perfectly and seems like a great story that should have been told. this cold possibly change the directin of my storyline, ive been wanting to, but havent had cobra la in it yet. maybe you should do a dio about this.