Christ I hate Christopher Eccleston from first exposure already, in G.I.Joe: Rise of Cobra here. Liked him fine& even looked forward to Doctor Who starting again, and then he went & soured himself to me once that finished. Couldn't rly stand him after that.
But then I used to have leniency 4 the "Doctor" in this, 2, SO hoping 4 even some kind of a Cobra. I'm so willing, wanting SMTH at least, forgiving a lot. At _first_.
But you go & fuck things up. Too badly 2 stay w/ it beyond a 1st attempt.
Zartan is still the sexiest thing in it though, things lighting up the moment he shows up, just doing his own thang entirely, stealing the movie from boring AF people. Getting a clean cut someone entirely wrong for Scarlett included. But if they wanted someone you want to shoot on sight, Eccleston is well placed.
Byung-hun Lee is the other star aside #ArnoldVosloo's #Zartan ofc. Just not in it enough, either of them.
So Jonathan Pryce doesn't work for me like Arnold Vosloo does, but I mean, c'mon, President of the United States -powerwhoring potential if you RP things some with Zartan in that form as well.
Add in the far better 2nd movie's Firefly + 2nd movie Cobra Commander in a pinch & that already alluded to sandwich of movie Cobras has big potential. Original Zartan + Firefly mainly. Talk about dangerous sex tho. # Hawt.
"You're so 2000 & late" song also it. Popcorn movie memories.
@uliwitness Oh, someone is 'asking' for my list of "Cobras & Beach-Head I Fancied In The Animation & Comic"? Don't mind if I do.
(What keyword did you use to find the gif tho, if I google things?)
I mean, do NOT read beyond this with the following comment if you people don't wanna know (inconsequential things like that).
@uliwitness As warned, TMI or not.
Cobra Commander was probably a major kink, Chris Latta's voice working for me. Destro had his animation moments (bc I was 13?) but no. Storm Shadow was fine ofc but ultimately probably not.
Firefly, Zartan, Buzzer (comics more so) yes. Tomax & Xamot. Zandar +Trasher maybe. Beach-Head you 'rude' AF/funny fucker, my main liked Joe.
Mainframe had that 1 epi but I'm mostly just a sucker for villain/hero ships, not him.
I forget who else.
@ElysiaMacht Regarding Buzzer: I have completely forgotten any Dreadnok names, but I do remember that visual. Don't remember him being the smart one, but I mostly watched the RAH animated series, only read a few comics (Image run late 90ies/00s? Snake Eyes had a weird featureless half-sphere mask?).
That particular drawing of Buzzer you posted reminds me a bit of Doc Samson from Hulk 🤤
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