Why Do You Like COBRA?

[Death_at_Midnight]

Greetings brief mortals!

Do you like Cobra?

If so, why?

What is Cobra's appeal to you?

[Scuba Steve]

They have a great health care plan + dental with lots of perks like world travel and company cars! :D

[Flatline]

THEY HAVE THE COOLER OF THE VEHICLES FIGURES AND COLORS (imo) ;)

THE IDEA THAT A USED CAR SALESMAN WHO GETS FED UP WITH THE US GOVERNMENT AND SAYS THAT'S ENOUGH AND STARTS HIS OWN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DETERMINED TO RULE THE WORLD SOUNDS PRETTY DARN COOL TOO..........MAKES ONE DREAM THAT ANYTHING CAN BE DONE LIKE OWNING YOUR OWN ISLAND. :D

[giTom]

I no longer think of Cobra Commander wanting to rule the world. Imagine the paperwork involved - yeuch!

I think of Cobra Commander more of an agent of chaos - destabilizing the world, just causing mayhem and destruction on a global scale, causing governments to collapse. He's just a ruthless SOB, highly intelligent, very skilled and pure evil.

[Scuba Steve]

[QUOTE=giTom]I no longer think of Cobra Commander wanting to rule the world. Imagine the paperwork involved - yeuch!

I think of Cobra Commander more of an agent of chaos - destabilizing the world, just causing mayhem and destruction on a global scale, causing governments to collapse. He's just a ruthless SOB, highly intelligent, very skilled and pure evil.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like the guy who lives at 1600 Pennsilvania Ave.

[Tracker]

there great for army building

[Flatline]

[QUOTE=Scuba Steve]Sounds like the guy who lives at 1600 Pennsilvania Ave.[/QUOTE]
That guy just won the Noble Peace Prize. You mean the guy who "USED" to live there???? ;)

[ThinkTank]

I think the appeal for bad guys is their motivation. Why do they do it? What happened to them to make them so bad? Bad guys always have the best backstories and evil is the something that people can use to live vicariously. It's easy to identify with the good guys because most people ARE good guys. When you get to see life from the other side, the dark side, if you will, then that makes for a novel experience.

[Jay]

[QUOTE=Scuba Steve]Sounds like the guy who lives at 1600 Pennsilvania Ave.[/QUOTE]
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii164/Superguy1234/facepalm-1.jpg

[Rambo]

[QUOTE=Flatline]That guy just won the Noble Peace Prize. You mean the guy who "USED" to live there???? ;) [/QUOTE]

He won it for doing nothing...
And the guy who USED to live there... he could be a good CC.

[Rambo]

ANd like Cobra because bad guys are cool.
They have license to kill, to wear blue, red, orange, to clone people, to kill the dog, etc, etc...

[ender098]

The Bad guys are ALWAYS more interesting. You can't expect good guys to try to cut each others throats, back-stab and dirty-deal. They need "bad guys" in a story just to make it interesting. That's why I can't understand heaven......who wants to live where things are perfect? PERFECT = BORING!!!

[cyko]

It depends how you see Cobra. If you think of them as the incapable buffoons of the Sunbow cartoon, they're just cannon fodder. I like to think of them as rather nasty. Even your basic Trooper; he didn't come with a sniper's rifle for nothing! But I do subscribe to the power of numbers. Cobra is like the Borg: when there's a lot of them, they're overwhelming. Or when there's one in the shadows and you don't know it, they'll get the drop on you. Otherwise, they're no match for the Joes.

And I agree with giTom about the chaos theory. Cobra Commander gets his kicks out of strife and accumulation of wealth and power. Who needs to sit on the "throne of the world" when you run it from the shadows?

[Outrider]

Most people have touched on the reasons already - they have all the coolest vehicles (HISS tanks, Stingers, Night Ravens, Morays, Terror Dromes etc, etc), the best uniforms (Cobra blue = awesome), and their top brass all dislike and distrust each other. Oh, and large armies of Cobra soldiers look so cool in photographs! :)

[Lava Boss]

Cobra was the first highly articulated 3 3/4" bad guy army out there. Star Wars figures of the 80's had five points of movement, and the only Imperial personalities made into toys were Vader...then after years, the Emperor. It was locked storyline, too. Once it ended, it ended.

Other toy line villains, well, Skeletor never had any generic troops in toy form, and his guys were all bunglers. They were too big for them to make too many vehicles, too. Besides, guns and army men are cooler than muscle bound guys with swords and magic, at least in my book.

Anyway, Cobra was the only enemy army that you build up, men and vehicles with an open-ended story, the potential for new characters, expansion. Also, it was big as you could make it, if you ignored the media.

That's where most knock-offs failed...they lacked cool villains. CORPS took decades to add bad guys, and still no "army builders" there. All those realistic modern soldiers...whaddya do with 'em?

[Sonneilon]

My fascination with Cobra came after 2002. Part of it has to do with their sheer numbers of troops AND the fact that they have a million TYPES of troops. I liked that most of their bad guys are masked too. Destro, CC, Zartan (to an extent), Firefly, Storm Shadow, etc.

As a kid I preferred GI Joe simply cuz each character was unique. My all time faves fall on the Joe side. I have to think of who I liked in terms of Cobra back then. Maybe Storm Shadow (because ninja weren't quite as popular yet)? Maybe Zartan who could change color and came with a neat swamp skiier thing.

I like the comment about CC just wanting to sew the seeds of chaos. I might play up that aspect as opposed to CC wanting to take over the world.

[giTom]

[QUOTE=Flatline]That guy just won the Noble Peace Prize. You mean the guy who "USED" to live there???? ;) [/QUOTE]

And he won the Nobel Peace Prize for......

[Flatline]

[QUOTE=giTom]And he won the Nobel Peace Prize for......[/QUOTE]
:confused: PEEEEACE..FULLNESS???
.......HELL IF I KNOW ASK THE COMMITEE :D

[Sonneilon]

IIRC, he won it for what he will do in the future in terms of getting that part of the world to peaceful terms. Or something like that. It's an odd thing, everyone agrees about that.

[DaveCW2]

Being from Michigan, I feel obliged to use the following analogy in regards to the president's Nobel Peace Prize: Giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for want he WANTS to do, is like giving the Detroit Lions the Lombardi Trophy in preseason. It just doesn't make sense!

I really have no stake in this thread other than that :D

Have fun, all!!!

[Da Talent]

[QUOTE=DaveCW2]Being from Michigan, I feel obliged to use the following analogy in regards to the president's Nobel Peace Prize: Giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for want he WANTS to do, is like giving the Detroit Lions the Lombardi Trophy in preseason. It just doesn't make sense!

I really have no stake in this thread other than that :D

Have fun, all!!![/QUOTE]


Well done!

[Sonneilon]

Aren't the Lions doing better this season?

It'd be more like giving the Seahawks the Lombardi trophy cuz at least the Lions have done well. Or the Falcons who haven't won a thing for 25 years?

[DaveCW2]

Not to take away from the mediocrity of Atlanta and Seattle, but Detroit has won exactly one more game than they did last year. Their current record is 1-5.

The last time the Lions won "the big one" was in 1957, 10 years before the first Super Bowl.

This all makes me glad I'm a Niners fan (I grew up in California and Nevada, and watched Montana and company every football weekend), because at least I have the '80s to hold on to :D

[Death_at_Midnight]

Greetings folks

Please, let's try to stay on topic.

Why do you like Cobra?

[Dreadnok Dread]

I like cobra because someone has to bully the bullies. The cops and armies have to realize they arent the only ones with guns and intelligence. Thats why I like cobra. The vehicles the cobra blue the specific groups wether it be desert,snow,or jungle they got it covered, ohh and of course they have the dreadnoks. My fave gang of course! Cobra has so much more of a background story than the joes in my opinion. everyone likes the bad guys! :cool: cheers! cobra coming to a hood near you!

[Roland da Thompson Gunner]

I hate Democracy!