'To each their own'-that's what I say. If you don't like certain character's you have two options: 1) Don't use them in your stories, or just refer to them as 'on leave' or 'on assignment' OR 2) Don't bother to even buy these figures!! Then you don't have to even THINK about using them!!

If you can't do either one of these, then simply change the character altogether! Give them a new codename, paint their uniform (or cross it with someone else's) & make up a whole new back story about them. I have been changing all sorts of stuff with my Joeverse for the last 25 years!!

But hey, that's just me.....................you guys can do whatever you want.


To me, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow=way overused!!

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You brat. During the 2002+ era, we didn't have a choice but to buy 2 figures at once! I mean, there IS a reason why those peasoup beach heads are my greenshirts. I had 16 of those Sand Vipers at one time!!!

I do let it out...I take MArine Communications students out through the desert on "Fun Runs"

We should start calling Duke "That Arayan Ass-Clown". LOL!

Honestly now... spite will never be appreciated in dios.
I remember a few years back someone did a dio-story where he just killed Snake-Eyes unceremoniously. Everyone I spoke to said "All right! Dead Snake-Eyes!", but when I asked "Yes, dead Snake-Eyes. But was the story any good?" and everyone pretty much agreed that no, it wasn't.
You don't like Snake-Eyes or Duke? Fine, don't use him in your dio. But don't just kill him off out of spite, that'll just hurt your story and make it less enjoyable.

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not really. just because one character gets killed off doesnt mean the story will be any less. just kill them in a good way and dont have the whole story around him. and i wouldnt kill him off, that would deprive me from futher humiliating him later on. and in all honesty, although i hope that everyone enjoys my dios as much as i do gen joes and others, if you do a dio for everyone else, then how can you really enjoy doing it, it becomes more like a job. i do it because i am now to old to play the way i used to, so dios are the new way to play. i do what is fun for me, and hope that some others enjoy it. it doesnt mater to me if 500 hate it and only 5 love it. the 5 who love it are the ones who see things the way i do, so their the ones whos input i would want. i mean if someone who made a dio where the entire joe team was captured by cobra and snake eyes went and saved them by killing every single cobra down to the last man all by him self, i could care less what he thought of my dio, because i sure as smurf wouldnt want to do anything he would like.

Are you sure you're old? The way you're talking about using Snake-Eyes in your dios just to humiliate him makes you sound immature.
This is the cool thing about dios, you're not being forced by Hasbro to put emphasis on Snake-Eyes or on Ninja Force or on Duke, so they can be nonexistant in your Joeverse.
Why hurt the potential quality of your work by doing such immature things as "hey look here's Snake-Eyes haha a Viper kicked him in the groin lolz!" when it'll just hurt your credibility as a dio-story artist?

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My 1st dio, I killed a whole lotta Joes. Torpedo, Surefire, Big Ben, etc. Do I regret it? Not too much but in a way, Jay's right. You don't like 'em, don't use 'em in the dio. I was doing a big melee fight and a bunch of guys got blown up just for body count. lol. The real kicker is this. According to my Joeverse based on dios, Firefly has been in a GI Joe jail cell for the last 3-4 years and Nunchuk is STILL a Viper in disguise (his name is Chuck Nunn).

As it stands now, I've sold off the figures I don't care for. They dont' need to be in the dio but at the same time, you can always reference them in dialogue. S6 doesn't show up in my 3.75" (as well, they shouldn't) but they are referenced (in a rather sarcastic way by Colton). In the S6 dios, I reference the rest of the Joe team doing other things.

Kinda like how AE has a main crew and then other agents running around.

Oh man. I'm pretty open-minded and coming from the S6 verse, I rather don't like the Kamakura variants they've done. And with that in mind, 1 Kamakura is good enough for me!

For me, Duke, SE and SS. They make too many variations of them in 3.75", 8" and 12"!!!!! I totaly agree with you Frank. Duke is a Nazi. Well not really. But he is Aryan.
But how could you be tired of Beachhead!??!?

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