GI-JOE

Includes several completely new characters, some of which have hard and fast information set already as follows, the episodes following the character briefs.

GI joe season 1

>Expelled Agent
>Codename: Glad Stone
>Function: Internal-to-cobra Secret Police member
>Languages spoken: French, Arabic, Russian
>Gimmick: Black suit white shirt black tie red beret black glasses.
>Quote: "You are no longer needed." -gunshot-

>Triad assassin
>Codename: Golden Hawk
>Function: Anti-air / Anti-ground Assassin
>Martial arts: Eagle Kung Fu, Crane Kung Fu, Hawk Kung Fu, Bird Kung Fu, Ninjitsu
>Gimmick: Uses a gatchaman style cape to glide & a golden identity concealing ninja suit
>Quote: "Woosh. You died."

>De-licensed surgeon
>Code Name: The Skull
>Function: Back field staff member
>Science achievements: Strength enhancing surgeries, Cybernetic implant surgeries, insanity causing dart pistol
>Gimmick: To prove his cybernetics work he used them on himself, augmenting his eyes, ears, nose, lips, tongue, fingertips, and toes. This made his hair fall out and his scalp turn white.
>Quote: "It's alive! oops! not anymore. (maniacal laugh)."

>Advertising exec
>Code name: Cross Word
>Function: Income acquirement
>Method: Usually subliminal images in advertising blitzes for cobra shell companies, also bank heists, insurance fraud, arson fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering.
>Gimmick: Dresses like a game show host, glitter covered jacket is actually anti-laser armor, show-offish tie has a concealed laser targeting marker at the end, lapel is a concealed gas sprayer, sunglasses are X-ray specs, shoes have pop-out toe knives, and pants blow up like a giant smoke bomb if lit on fire.
>Quote: "Gooood luck, Youuuu'llll NEED it!"

>Kyrgyz cosmonaut
>Code name: Slow Burn
>Cosmonaut training: Rocket-crew training, arming and disarming missile launching orbiters, nuclear fuel management and allocation, wielding machine gun & knife in open space, wielding machine gun & knife in low-g environment.
>Function: Space operations, laser and nuclear weapons
>Gimmick: Suffered radiation burns on 73% of his body, wears a heavily modified space-suit as all purpose all weather body armor. This space-suit armor once survived a land-mine blowing up less than 1 foot away with very, very minimal damage other than throwing Slow Burn across the room really hard.
>Quote: "No human being has known the pain I have known, there is no form of coercion that will work on me."

>Demolition specialist
>Code name: Sand-storm
>Function: Battlefield sapper
>Specializations: Building implosion, bridge implosion, manufacturing land mine, deploying land mine, disarming land mine, manufacturing suitcase bomb.
>Gimmick: She wears a burqa that is combined anti-bullet and anti-bomb blast armor.
>Quote: "I had a blast, didn't you?" -explosion-

>Sport banned kickboxer
>Code name: Tiger Ne (sounds similar to 'knee')
>Function: Soldier training, some combat operations
>Specializations: Unarmed vs armed close quarters combat, armed vs armed close quarters combat, Muay Boran training, Muay Thai training
>Gimmick: He looks extremely similar to Sagat (street fighter), the main differences are; no scar, no missing eye, hair, and his name is stated to be Kiet Klahan Ne at one point.
>Quote: "Death." -in answer to a person's 'who is that' question during his introductory scene

>Sport-banned sumo wrestler
>Code name: Pine Apple
>Function: Grenadier, close quarters combat, bodyguard
>Specializations: Sumo Wrestler training, Judo Training, Grenadier training, Stick fighting training
>Gimmick: He wears outlandishly colorful attire and usually Hawaii shirts. He was born in Hawaii, despite his Japanese racial origin.
>Quote: "Have a knuckle sandwich."

>Banned from practice psychologist
>Code name: Silver Star
>Function: Income generation, some psychiatric work
>Usual means: Suicide cults, subliminal images in advertisements and other broadcasts, homicidal cults, hypnosis fraud, grafting, bribery, money laundering, sleeper agents, buying and selling psycho-pharmacological drugs.
>Gimmick: She dresses like a 'crystal energies' weirdo sci-fi villain and wears a headband with a large silver star in the center.
>Quote: "Oy such a deal I have for you!"

>Expelled red guard
>Code name: Red Mountain
>Function: Battlefield soldier / anti-special ops
>Specializations: Secret service training (Chinese), many heavy and light weaponry trainings
>Gimmick: He wears a green pantsuit that is secretly anti-blade / anti-bomb blast armor and very seldom talks.
>Quote: "A traitor's death." -said after roasting someone with a flame thrower, one of the few times red mountain ever talked 'onscreen' as it were.

>Ousted CEO
>Code name: Count Bancs
>Languages: Farsi, Italian, Spanish, Hindi, Namib, Greek, Tamil
>Function: Income generation
>Usual means: Head of a regional-level consortium of mercenary specialists known as Zanzibar Land, operating illegal mines (as in digging stuff mines), gold dealing, arms dealing, oil dealing, high finance scams, high finance graft and laundering.
>Gimmick: He looks almost exactly like Big Boss (metal gear).
>Quote: "You think I became the big boss just by luck?"

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Season 1

"Skeleton Key"
While on routine joint training operations in a small Caribbean nation, the party finds themselves head to head against both Cross Word and Glad Stone when they discover a 17th century pirate's ancient clue that leads on a breadcrumb chase to a huge treasure ship called the HMS Typhoon.

"Dead drop"
A routine safe-escort mission runs seriously 'fowl' when Golden Hawk and a squad of bird themed cobra ninjas attempt an assassination, little does anybody guess their true target is a Joe from the show who is involved.

"A piece of peace"
Peace-keeping in a small weak Slavic country becomes progressively more difficult as black markets steadily slowly flood with cybernetic equipment, Baroness and The Skull are behind it.

"Hold-up"
After capturing a south American drug lord, the party finds themselves having to extradite the drug lord on foot when Sandstorm and Tiger Ne send bomb strapped cocaine'd up natives to murder everyone. The party and the drug lord must make it 11 miles north to get out of the country and get to safety.

"Relics"
An insertion-recovery-extraction mission in northwestern Greenland goes very wrong when Slow Burn and Destro show up to do a recovery mission of their own, both the Joe's and Cobra's target the same thing, a UFO unearthed by ice-melt.

"Chaos DC"
A senior member of the DNC commits suicide broad daylight. The party must investigate the cause (one of silver star's cults). Silver Star and Dr. Mindbender are using TV programs sent from a discontinued numbers station.

"Whirlpool"
A routine eavesdrop on low level cobra minions in montenegro mission is suddenly difficult and deadly when the party accidentally eavesdrops on a meeting between Count Bancs and an afghani imam. Red mountain will stop at nothing to eliminate the party, and somehow already knew about the eavesdrop mission.

"Change of heart"
A routine fight evil in a third world country mission goes badly wrong when a sudden regime change results in the government now being on the side of cobra, around mid-mission. Snake-eyes decides to attempt a rescue of the party, alone. Snake-eyes will face Golden Hawk in front of and on behalf of the party, and the first clue that she is someone from his past will be revealed.

"Truth or dare"
Small groups of people have been committing terrorism and then saying they are doing it on behalf of GI Joe, the party must travel to Tajikistan to investigate a successfully foiled terror-attack. Pine Apple and Sandstorm are sent to kill the failed terrorists. Glad Stone tries to shoot a party member with a heroin-addiction causing dart during this mission, but is otherwise uninvolved.

"Shadows"
A routine recover a wrecked vehicle goes wrong when the a chemical weapon on board the vehicle (a ww1 sub wrecked in the lousiana bayou) causes the party to fall into a coma, during which they have a dream-episode that they are fighting in ww1 against ww1-motiff cobra.

"Spaces"
Routine joint training operations in Nepal take a turn no one expected when Storm Shadow attempts to assassinate (but only injures) a very senior government Lama, and the party must protect the hospital the lama is in from Red Mountain and a group of communist insurgents.

"The void"
Cobra is holding the capital of Iceland hostage with a soviet era missile launch orbit platform manned by Slow Burn and a group of cobra space-force soldiers. The party must go to space, board, and knock out the platform.

"The defective"
Count Bancs's Zanzibar Land group (led in the field by Zartan) is believed to be helping one side of a black on black genocide in a third world African country. The party must investigate and gain evidence definitely linking the two.

"Corridors of Power"
Cross Word and Tiger Ne are secretly helping a very repressive candidate for President of Malaysia. The party must foil the scheme to install a cobra-friendly government, but do it discretely.

"Echo"
Silver Star is using broadcasts of popular music to control peoples minds in a south American country while being body-guarded by Pine Apple. The party must find her villa, storm it, and take her out (impossible, body double was there, not her).

"Blizzard"
A routine joint training exercise in Uzbekistan goes in a very unexpected direction when the party is given shelter (in an estate-house) by none other than Cobra Commander, while a deadly blizzard rages outside. The party must escape, if they can. Tomax and Xamot play a 'the most dangerous game' scenario with the party when they try to escape.

"Regular programming"
A violent video game created by Dr. Mindbender is responsible for several bombings in Kuwait, the party must survive Golden Hawk and Baroness having a who's the better assassin competition (with party as targets) and figure out the scheme and put a stop to it.

"The Mahjong Gambit"
The party must help get an informant out of hong kong before Red Mountain and Glad Stone close in on her and kill her. Meanwhile a huge celebratory holiday week is happening in the background. The informant’s information reveals the second clue that Golden Hawk is someone from Snake-Eyes background. Chun Li guest stars as the informant.

"Tomorrow's War"
Cybernetically enhanced people are experiencing cognitive malfunction and committing acts of terror without being in control of their own bodies. The Skull and Destro are behind it. The party must find them and stop it.

"Horror Movie"
A routine fight evil in a third world nation mission goes horrifyingly wrong when cobra sends body doubles of key GI joe members to fight the team. Cobra Commander is behind it.

"Operation Jumpkick"
While training in the Himalayas with Snake Eyes, the party finds themselves besieged by both Storm Shadow and Golden Hawk. Golden Hawk's true identity is revealed if she dies during this mission.

"Vengeance"
Slow Burn and a group of elite cobra soldiers seize a missile defense base in Antarctica, and start a countdown till they use Russian_Hacker.exe, a nuclear launch codes virus. (meaning it figures out the codes and uses them).

"Pipping the ace"
An opportunity to assassinate Count Bancs turns into a huge trap when the party finds themselves trapped in a high rise in Russia, facing off against Nemesis Enforcer, Pine Apple, and Sandstorm. Duke Togo (golgo 13) snipes one person to assist the party during this mission. Duke is not privy to or part of the mission, he is simply present on an unrelated mission of his own, and he believes in what GI Joe does, even though he would never be a member.

"Blight"
The ruins of one of Dr. Killemov's African-wilderness labs unexpectedly take center stage when a revolutionary group funded by cobra seizes the lab and begins to use the transformation drug there. Firefly and a group of body double cobra ninjas (all dressed like snake-eyes) attempt to steal the remaining formula. The party must eliminate the mutants and destroy the whole area with a 'football' nuke.

"Ave Imperator"
A ww2 era Nazi base in Norway is the site of what is meant to seem like the final conflict between the party and cobra, as both Destro and Cobra Commander are there. Do a fast insertion, storm the bunker, and eliminate both Destro and Cobra Commander. (impossible, both are intricate machine-doubles built by Skull, neither are actually there).

Season 2

"Balances"
Cobra is believed to be trafficking nuclear material (element samples etc, not bombs) to a low-threat middle eastern nation, the party must investigate and find evidence that this is happening before they act directly. Tomax and Xamot are behind it.

"The oppressed"
A prominent left-wing politician commits suicide for no reason after winning an election for president in a south American country. Silver star is using a subliminal sound sent through iphones to control people.

"Fearful symmetry"
A monster created by The Skull and Dr. Mindbender using some of Zartan's DNA 'breaks out' (was let loose) of a lab in the everglades, the party must find it and terminate it. The monster is carrying a dangerous and very contagious illness. The Tyrant (resident evil) guest stars as the monster.

"Pay to Play"
An eavesdrop on low level minions in Egypt mission goes very wrong when the party accidentally eavesdrops on a meeting between Destro and a major leader of F.A.R.C. (Columbia). Glad Stone and a group of 'Road Block' cobra body double soldiers will stop at nothing to eliminate the party.

"Collections"
A routine intervene against African slave traders mission goes very wrong when the party discovers that slaves are being used to mine an illegal thorium mine. Count Bancs (personally) is behind it, body guarded by Tiger Ne and a cobra soldier force.

"Bees"
A cobra experimental chemical results in bees going berserk wherever it is used, the party must travel to a third world nation and must both guard and interrogate Zartan, who is in hospital with over 500 bee stings after a terror attack didn't exactly work as planned, while Red Mountain and Glad Stone have a who's the better sneaky bastard competition to try and murder the party and Zartan.

"Garbage day"
A routine multi-terrain combat training mission in the sierra madre mountains goes very wrong when Firefly and a group of mercenaries track and relentlessly attack the party. Each mercenary knows something critical about cobra, Firefly's mission is to make sure they all die, he retreats if he completes his mission.

"The pits"
A routine recover a downed fighter plane mission to an island off the north coast of Russia results in the party discovering a secret cobra base in an abandoned copper pit-mine there. The base is a B.A.T. production center under the command of Slow Burn.

"B movie"
A routine fight against drug cartels mission goes seriously strange when the party finds themselves hallucinating Nemesis Enforcer everywhere. Silver Star and Cross Word are behind it, using a modified cable tv dish and a broadcast array.

"The innocent"
A routine fight against evil in a third world country mission becomes horrifyingly twisted when the party and members of GI joe find themselves under attack by coked up child soldiers. Tiger Ne is behind it. Jimmy Saville guest stars as one of Tiger Ne's clients.

"The Guilty"
A war criminal is offered asylum by Cobra, and launches a prison-takeover to escape to Cobra. The party must prevent the war criminal from reaching a helicopter that arrives at the under-siege prison late in the mission. If they fail this mission Cobra gains a new member who will be seen in future episodes.

"Heritage"
A routine recover a wrecked vehicle mission to King William's Island Canada takes a turn for the worst when Cobra Commanders daughter, Ice Queen (arctic operations specialist femme fatale) makes her debut. Both Cobra and Joe's goal is to recover a prototype unmanned mini-sub with a lot of espionage capabilities.

"Pinpoint Strike"
After a main character Joe's son is declared missing after a routine training mission accident, a video surfaces on the internet of Glad Stone executing someone who appears to be the son. The party must find, capture, and question Glad Stone before the father, now a rogue agent known as The Punisher, eliminates Glad Stone. (son didn't actually die, but won't be seen again for at least 4 episodes).

"4d-Chess"
Chessmasters from all over the world are vanishing, and have been tracked to one specific location, an island off the coast of Thailand. M. Bison guest stars as a non-cobra villain who is behind this. His goal is to use them to build an extremely powerful computer.

"Beholder's Eye"
Footage surfaces of a member of the party murdering several innocent people. That party member must weather a court martial while the rest of the party races to find evidence that they didn't do this. Ex members of cobra (not main members unless they are) are among the witnesses called. Another new cobra member, Crooked Man (law and contract specialist, JAG training) is behind it, with Silver Star's help.

"Bitter Pill"
A routine quarantine an outbreak mission in a second-world country goes seriously wrong when people start turning up in a zombie like condition and trying to eat everyone. Count Bancs' Zanzibar land group is behind it, a tainted medicine is causing the deadly behavior.

"Field Test"
A prototype gas grenade's explosion causes the party to have a hallucinated-mission that they are being hunted by Jason Voorhees.

"Serpentor" pt 1.
Cobra has been very quiet for a long time. A group of medical professionals who all had ties to The Skull are dropping off the map one by one, but all signs point to it not being cobra. The party must follow the breadcrumb trail.

"Serpentor" pt 2
The party must storm cobra island, rescue the prisoners, rescue the medical people who are all there, and knock out cobra once and for all before Serpentor is unleashed. The Joe's son who vanished earlier in the season is 'Serpentor' (not really, he simply believes he is), and is the main enemy for this mission.

End of season 2

Season 3

"Lightning strikes twice"
A devastating blitzkrieg attack on a military base in Utah leads the party to discover the real Cobra Commander (serpentor pt 2's CC was a machine-double), is at large and is using a Cobra UFO.

"Special Effects"
A popular Hollywood movie director leaves behind a baffling video-confession after committing suicide. The party must discretely investigate a fitness retreat being run by Silver Star.

"Monsters"
A routine fight evil in a second world country mission goes horribly wrong when it appears that aliens (actually severely mutated humans) are invading the country. A new Cobra member, Deviator (genetic engineering, many other science skills), is behind it.

"Vela"
A routine help a country recover from a tsunami mission gets very conspiratorial when it is determined that the tsunami was caused by a non-state actor doing a nuclear test underwater. The party must find and destroy a hidden sub-pen base in Madagascar. Cobra is behind it.

"Second Fiddle"
After a financial falling out, Cobra and Isis begin a secret war (against each other) in a weak middle-eastern country. Count Bancs' Zanizbar Land group is behind it, and is posing as both Isis and Cobra in an insurance fraud scheme.

 "Antiques"
A subliminal radio signal used by Cross Word causes the party to have a dream-episode that they are fighting in the Korean war against 50s-motiff Cobra. The Cobra Unit (metal-gear-solid 3) guest stars as the main enemies of the episode.

"The Hot Gates"
An experimental form of virtual training suffers a glitch and the party finds themselves fighting the same battle over and over again, Thermopylae, against Cobra. The party must figure out this is not real and get out.

"B-52"
A routine recover a wrecked vehicle mission in northern Canada goes terribly wrong when the party finds that Ice Queen and Slow Burn are on a recovery mission of their own, the mutual target a B-52 (crashed and froze over in the late 60s), carrying a deadly nerve agent.

"Conspiracy"
A declassified set of files from the 40s reveals that Cobra and GI joe were once under the same commanders, worldwide-leadership level Illuminati members. The party must dig as hard as possible to try and figure out if this is true or not. Crooked Man is behind it.

"Severity"
An incredibly brutal insurgency in an Asian country is poised to make Tiger Ne a head of state. The party must quash the revolutionaries and prevent a cobra-friendly government from being installed.

"The Deep"
Routine sea-to-land insertion training off the coast of Greenland is interrupted when Cobra tests a new type of submarine by sinking the joe's return-home boat. The party must survive long enough for the secondary boat to arrive. Great White (sea operations command, a member of Zanzibar Land, subsidiary to Cobra) is behind it.

"Pillars of the Earth"
A major Joe is accused of being a major Cobra member's father. The party must assist in proving this isn't true before GI Joe's image is tarnished forever. Crooked Man and Deviator are behind it.

"Outlook Foggy"
Routine joint training operations in Romania get seriously scary when the party is forced to take up shelter in a ruined castle that may or may not be haunted, while an intense mountain storm rages outside. Nosferatu guest stars as the main opponent of this episode.

"Lost Time"
Cross Word and Destro use a subliminal sound during the airing of the superbowl to make members of GI joe have several classic 'UFO abductee' symptoms. The party must help determine what is wrong, and fix it if possible.

"Operation Karate Chop"
Bruce Lee guest stars as a martial arts person who joins a crooked competition run by Pine Apple, the party must guard and protect Bruce from Golden Hawk's relentless assassins. Bruce Lee joins GI Joe under the code name 'Iron Fist' towards the end of this episode.

"High Noon in Nanjiang"
Red mountain appears out of nowhere and relentlessly tracks, observes, and battles the party, trying to hamper them in every way possible during what was supposed to be a routine guard a diplomat mission.

"Resurrections"
'Body doubles' of long dead or defeated members of Cobra are used by Serpentor (the real serpentor this time) to hold a NASA secret launch base hostage, demanding a ransom of 300 million dollars, and threatening to release Anthrax via a space-launch. (little does serpentor know that the 'body doubles' are actually corpses brought back to life by deviator and skull).

"Power Play"
A routine guard an important person mission becomes very complicated and very dangerous in a very unexpected way when the person guarded, Prince Louis Henri Phillipe D'alsace Guisard Derontgy-tyrell (royal family Luxembourg), is all set to marry none other than Ice Queen, though she is in a civilian persona for this episode (and avoids fighting or terrorism). The party must try to put together convincing evidence to dissuade the prince. If they fail, Ice Queen retires from Cobra to live a life as an Illuminati super-elite.

"Oil Spill"
A routine help safely clean up a really large oil spill mission becomes sickeningly strange when several heavily mutated, mutilated bodies are found amid the oil slick. The bodies are failures thrown out by Deviator. Slow burn is sent to eliminate all evidence, including any Joes that know anything.

"Accident"
During routine helicopter insertion training in a small African country, the party finds themselves shot down by none other than Glad Stone. He hunts them relentlessly and must be defeated.

“Pontus”
The Antikythera mechanism guest stars as the treasure everyone's after when a working mechanism is found on board a roman merchant marine vessel, The Pontus. The Joes must protect the ancient treasure while it is being transported to the Grand Museum (Vatican see). Several cobra and non cobra villains attempt to steal it.

“High Stakes”
Count Bancs challenges the party to a computerized internet chess game, Zanzibar Land holding very numerous people hostage, none of whom are real (though this isn't revealed in-episode), the stakes are the hostages lives if the party loses.

“Machinations”
Scrap Iron makes his debut as a Cobra who has built a working Maus tank with modern technology. Serpentor uses several Cobra Commander body doubles in fighter ships made up to look like UFOs for Cross Word to start selling the Tanks to frightened world powers. The party must find and destroy the production center so that no more tanks can be made.

“The glamour”
While under deep cover on a leisure ship, the party encounters 'Destro' (civilian persona, avoiding fighting or terrorism, no metal mask), who challenges them to a high stakes baccarat game. The 'destro' is a machine body double, it explodes (as in bomb explodes) with extreme force if the party loses the game, sinking the ship and killing hundreds.

“Out of one…” pt. 1
Cobra is dissolving, to many people have tried to become the leader and to many people are loyal to specific members and not cobra overall, the party must deal with numerous enemies as last ditch efforts are made by many factions to wipe out GI Joe.

“…Many” pt. 2
Cobra is no more, it dissolved into several new groups, Hydra, A.I.M., The Sarkic cult, Black Cross, and the Brotherhood of Nod. Facing new enemies and old menaces in new places and times, will the GI Joe's struggle against evil ever end?