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Hmmm… quite a laundry list for what I've done.  My triggers have been:

(1) Radiation beaming from a global feminist oligarchy (Power Play)
(2) Experimental serums, taken willingly (The Stray)
(3) Above, taken unknowingly, and triggered unwillingly (China Will Grow Larger, and Like a Weed)
(4) A mystic device from a supernatural benefactor (the Dyna stories and Alysia and the Trial of Strength), and…
(5) A forced-on double whammy of nanites and a witchcraft hex from separate parties (my deviantArt exclusive Cheery Cherry, parts one and two)

Guess I'm pretty much open to anything, as long as I can show my story to my pastor.  😉

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Saw there was a shooting arcade game based on this series… or is the manga based on it?

Anyhow ray-gun blaster you fire locks onto targets when you hold down the trigger, wave the sight over the targets, and shoots a blast that automatically arcs around and frickassees what you put in your crosshairs.  Full of female warriors, too. 

It was a colorful, high res, explosion of glory. 

And this manga ain't exactly harsh on the eyes either, ze fly.  Mercy bo koo. 🙂

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OK, Varchild (and hi!  Welcome to the forum, and thanks for honoring my thread with your first post!  ;D), y'see, something doesn't have to burn its American birth certificate and be the "property of the world" just to be all over it.  I mean, the two most used words in ANY language  on the planet are (1) OK, and (2) Coca-Cola.  And both of those originated in America.  And what about jeans, ball caps and T-shirts?  McDonald's?  The Internet?  Rock and Roll? 

All around the world… and all Born in the USA.

And face it.  Ninjas are just plain cool. 

And Masschine, yes, I admit that in the later years, G.I. Joe lost its focus, traded in the olive drab for Day-Glo flourescent, and let in all that non-military stuff, and that's probably why it got canceled.  (I personally think it officially jumped the shark when they made an action figure out of Chicago Bears lineman "Refrigerator" Perry… complete with a FOOTBALL on a chain and nunchuck grip.  ::) ) And yes, movie studios need the international audiences to make a profit. 

But they're not even going about it the right way here. 

If Paramount wanted me to sit in Buzz Dixon's chair here, here's the bare bones outline of how I'd do the plot.

(1) COBRA rears its ugly head, shooting up the town.
(2) The Global Unit of Tactical Specialists (G.U.T.S.) steps into the scene, ready to fend off this old threat… and get their butts handed back to them.
(3) G.I. Joe comes back to the world and says, "All right, all right, THIS is the way you handle COBRA."
(4) G.I. Joe comes… He sees… He gets jackslapped like a red-headed stepchild.  This is obviously NOT the COBRA of 25 years ago.
(5) G.U.T.S. and Joe hunker down in a bunker, compare notes, and figure out what they did wrong.  They do some crash-course retraining, check out and repair their vehicles, get shipped some new fancy schmancy gear… who knows, maybe one of the Joes falls for Jeanne Rambeaux, the buff, buxom French trooper, and they have some snappy, friendly, innuendoed banter. 
(6) They find COBRA's command post, and it's now or never.  With a scream of "YO, JOE!" the heroes have the movie's typical big fat over-the-top CGI FX-fest, and ultimately send Cobra Commander and his goons running away, going "YIPE-YIPE-YIPE-yipe-yipe-yipe!"
(7) The commanders look at each other with overdue mutual respect, shake hands, and salute.  Jeanne shows her new boyfriend a REAL French kiss.  And the Joes take off into the sunset, for some well deserved R&R in the States.

And there ya go!  G.I. Joe thrills us red-white-and-blue flag-wavers, the overseas markets get heroes they can I.D. with, and Hasbro and Paramount get TWO franchise names for the price of one!  Playsets, toys, action-figures, DVDs, and cheesy video games and TV cartoons for everybody!  ;D

To simply make it "Global Joe" will serve neither the Home or Abroad team well.  :-

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I can't get enough of Too Much.  😀 Good job!

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Uh, St. Mercy… nothing but love, luck, and lollipops for you, but…

"…will almost certainly reflect conservative American ideals and act to protect American interests with little more than a wave and a nod at the concerns of other nations or cultures"?

??? Uh… This is HOLLYWOOD, here.  To quote Greg Gutfeld:

This is an industry that drops a Vietnam epic every time it sneezes. Meaning: Hollywood will only make movies about the military if the military loses.

From “The Bourne Ultimatum” to “Shooter,” Hollywood wants our heroes to be battle-tough American soldiers. But they want that expertise focused against the government that trained them, not the enemy!

Hollywood capitalizes on the military's amazing supply of heroism, but it's too cowardly to attach moral value to it. That saves embarrassment in David Geffen's hot tub.

I'd give my back molars to see a film where the soldiers are Real American Heroes.  🙁

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Nice to see all the stills in one place… thanks.

Kinda hard to see them all without squinting though… even in the blowed-up version.

Here's a link for the compleat works in that little story arc.

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Two pairs?  Mo' like a full house.  😛 Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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Another step in the grand journey that is DCM's Tetsuko.  Thanks! 🙂

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Metal fatigue, hah?

*resists to make Fire Melting Steel/Rosie O'Donnell comment… barely…*  😛

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Said it back at dA, but I'll say it here… she looks like a "big cool sister" character for a Spider Man & Friends/80s style "Marvel Kids" Saturday morning cartoon.

In any event… I likes it!  Good job!  ;D

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