Okay,everyone-now it's time for our personal takes on Cobra in our Joeverses.

For me,since my Joeverse is still in the late 1980's,it's not long after the Cobra Civil War.Serpentor is currently dead-but Mindbender believes he can successfully "clone him". It's very soon after the creation of the Python Patrol.(like the comic,Cobra bought the surplus Joe X-30 Conquests from a formerly-friendly to the US nation that had undergone a coup and had no hope of keeping the sophisticated X-30's flying without American Technicians.) On a similar note-GI Joe's Tiger Force is formed partly with captured Cobra equipment from the Cobra Civil War.

Fred VII is still impersonating Cobra Commander. Taking the advice of a Crimson Guard Officer,he has just formed the Crimson Shadow Guard as a "Secret Police/SS" style unit.He doesn't know that that officer is really the Original Cobra Commander-who will take the identity of Overlord as soon as I find one,really formed the Shadow Guard because they are loyal to Him and Him alone.

In my Joeverse-Blueshirts and Vipers are the same thing in different uniforms.The Blues and cowls are preferred Ceremonial and Base-uniforms,while the Mirror helms and Flak Jackets are preferred combat gear.There are always times when Blueshirts are in combat though-no time to change.....any number of reasons.Remember the "Blue & Gray Cobra Trooper Set" from 1998? I only have one set,and I use them as Cobra Officers.

My favorite branch after the Vipers is the Eels(ver.1)Lampreys,Hydro-Vipers,and Snow Serpents branch of the Cobra Navy. I see them as equivalent to US Navy SEALS-and therefore the best of the best in Cobra.

I don't use a lot of the other "specialist" vipers because I don't have very many=1 Night Viper,1 '89 Alley Viper,1 Python SAW Viper,1 Python HEAT Viper,1 Python Laser Viper,1 2000 Laser Viper,1 Python Officer,etc.I usually use either the Baroness or Major Bludd to lead Cobra in the field,along with Firefly,Scrap-Iron,and The Dreadnoks.

I use Destro and his Iron Grenadiers seperately from Cobra.I was lucky enough to get 1 boxed and 1 loose set of 2005's Mayhem Invades Con set-so I've got a pretty nice IG army. The IG's fight Joe,Cobra and The Oktober Guard.

My vehicles are all '80s-Moray,Night Raven,original HISS,HISS II and 4 Ferrets from last year's Con,+ my 2 DTC HISSes.

How about you?

Rest assured that Flint and I will cover Cobra and it's rise to power in our Joeverse thread...........

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Coming soon: 'JoeSpecialOps'

I set mine up so it's part comic, part cartoon and a lot of me.

CC is top dawg with Commander Vlasko in 2nd place and Interrogator in 3rd. Baroness works for both Cobra and MARs. Destro is MARs only and is the weapons supplier for Cobra.

I use only 2 branches of Trooper. NeoVipers and Vipers.

Major Bludd is the Viper leader. Commander Vlasko is the leader of NeoVipers.

Tomax & Xamot take care of the financial front and have their own small group of soldiers (CGs).

Storm Shadow is a bodyguard 1st and assassin 2nd. Slice and Slash are under him.

Scrap Iron chills with MARs.

The Plague aren't written in yet.

cool,lehsreh! I have nothing against Cobra-La-I love the movie and the recent GI Joe/Transformers Comic with Cobra-La and Unicron was Very Cool! I just see them as an "alternate universe".