Joe (Franchise) - TV Tropes. Joe is the code name for America's daring, highly- trained special mission force. Its purpose: to defend human freedom against COBRA, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Joename origin As far back as World War II, . There was even a movie titled The Story of G. I. Joe that came out in 1. Joe is a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. GI JOE Spy Troops 2-figure pack Beach Head vs. View Full Details. OUT OF STOCK. GI JOE Spy Troops 2-figure pack Sgt. ![]() ![]() Notably, the original toys were the very first to be called . In this first incarnation, G. I. Joe was the name of the main character, and the figures were based on each branch of the United States military. However,the increasing opposition to The Vietnam War caused the brand's popularity to decline, so in the late 1. While the drastic change allowed G. I. Joe to survive Vietnam, the line was eventually ended in 1. The second incarnation of the franchise began in 1. Hasbro's rival Kenner launched their popular Star Wars toyline. See more like this Vintage GI Joe Vehicle 1993 Star Brigade Cobra Invader MISB Boxed AFA Graded U90. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality. Joe, which had 1. Seeing the massive profit Kenner was making, Hasbro decided to relaunch G. I. Joe in the new scale and hired Marvel Comics to create a story, characters, and media tie- ins for the line. Marvel eventually came up with a premise that is still the core of the franchise today - G. I. Joe was no longer one person,note except in some continuities, where the team is named in honor of General Joe Colton, the man responsible for its creation, but the name of an elite American military unit engaged in a battle against the terrorist organization Cobra and its plans to Take Over the World. ![]() Joe: The Movie (also known as Action Force: The Movie in the UK) is a 1987 animated film spin-off from the animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, based. Shop from the world's largest selection and best deals for GI Joe Military and Adventure Action Figures. Shop with confidence on eBay! An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. To promote the line (now dubbed G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero), Marvel launched two tie- ins: An animated series from Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions. Though the more remembered of the two continuities today, the cartoon is also infamous for its less realistic depiction of war: both sides used lasers instead of bullets, there were no deaths, and whenever an aircraft was destroyed its pilot had to be shown parachuting out of it. Sunbow produced two seasons and a movie intended for theatrical release, but the failure of Transformers: The Movie caused it to instead be released direct- to- video. DIC Entertainment took over following the movie and produced two more seasons before ending the show in 1. A comic book written by Larry Hama. Prior to the relaunch, Hama had an idea for a Marvel Universe comic called Fury Force, which would have seen the son of Nick Fury put together a team to fight Hydra, Marvel's resident terrorist group; his G. I. Joe series was based primarily on this unused pitch. Compared to the cartoon, the comic was the more mature of the two, since it allowed characters to be killed off and contained a functioning canon. The book proved to be very popular, and at one point it was Marvel's best- selling comic; the famous issue 2. In the original run's early issues, GI JOE was revealed to be the cover- name for Special Operations Group Delta, which was the real- world designation for the (at the time) classified Special Forces unit today known as Delta Force. By 1. 99. 4, A Real American Hero was officially dead at retail, but Hasbro has since launched several other incarnations of the franchise, though none have ever gained the longevity of the original. The versions of the brand released since the end of ARAH include: Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, a 1. World War II soldier given superhuman abilities and awakened in modern times to fight alongside the Joes. A corresponding toyline (with figures in the 4. This eventually led into G. I. Joe Extreme, a 1. Joe team being formed to fight the masked dictator Iron Klaw and his evil SKAR organization. Embracing the visual style of The Dark Age of Comic Books, the series ran for two seasons and ended in 1. G. I. Joe (Devil's Due). In 2. 00. 1, Devil's Due Publishing (a spinoff of Image Comics) acquired the comic rights to G. I. Joe and launched a new series, set in the same continuity as the Marvel Comic. They published an ongoing title - once again called G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero, but later relaunched as G. I. Joe: America's Elite - and several miniseries exploring the backstories of the characters. Devil's Due lost the comic rights to IDW Publishing in 2. July. All of these books have since been declared Canon Discontinuity and are now known as the . Joe Reloaded: In 2. Devil's Due attempted to branch out with a more realistic. Alternate Continuity. After two one- shots that established Cobra and the Joes, the series lasted for fourteen issues, with a massive retool halfway through. G. I. Joe: Sigma 6, a 2. Animesque animated series that coincided with the launch of an 8. Animated by the Japanese studio GONZO, the series continued the storyline of two direct- to- DVD movies Hasbro released to promote previous toylines Spy Troops and Valor vs. Like Extreme, Sigma 6 only ran for two seasons, and the toys went back to 3 3/4. As mentioned above, IDW acquired the comic rights to the franchise in 2. This time, instead of continuing the Marvel/Devil's Due storyline, IDW opted to start over from the beginning and create a brand new canon. They are currently publishing three ongoing titles in the new continuity (G. I. Joe, Snake Eyes, and Cobra) and a second, Larry Hama- penned revival of the original Marvel series set in the same continuity and picked up exactly where Vol. As of 2. 01. 6, the IDW comics are part of the Hasbro Comic Universe. Transformers vs. Joe: IDW's crossover series between G. I. Joe and Transformers. Revolution (2. 01. IDW's miniseries that will establish the worlds of G. I. Joe, Transformers, as well as Action Man, ROM, Micronauts, and M. A. S. K. Joe (2. 01. The first IDW G. I. Joe series following the establishment of the Hasbro Universe, and a more fantastical take on the franchise (featuring the Transformer Skywarp as a member!). Revolutionaries: A crossover series featuring the Joe member Mayday, and guest starring the likes of Snake- Eyes, Mike Power, and Cobra Commander. G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, a 2. Stephen Sommers of the The Mummy Trilogy fame. After the wild success of the Michael Bay. Transformers films, Hasbro and Paramount decided to make the first live- action entry in the franchise. The movie made a number of changes to the established mythos, including making the Joes an international team rather than solely American. These changes ended up fracturing the fandom, and while the film made a profit at the box office its gross paled in comparison to the Transformers movies. G. I. Joe: Retaliation, the 2. Rise of Cobra. note It was originally set for a June 2. D, as well as some reshoots of certain scenes. Featuring a new director, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, and about half the original cast returning, the movie quickly turned heads by just how different it felt from the first film while still being clearly set in the same universe. G. I. Joe: Resolute, a 2. Warren Ellis. Aimed at the now- adult original fandom, Resolute is easily the darkest animated entry in the franchise: both sides fire actual bullets, blood and death are shown, and the entire city of Moscow is destroyed within the first five minutes. G. I. Joe: Renegades, a 2. The Hub, a network owned jointly by Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Taking inspiration from The A- Team, Renegades recasts the Joes as a group of soldiers falsely accused of terrorism, and the series follows their efforts to clear their names and expose the real enemy: the sinister Mega Corp. Cobra Industries. After one season, the show was put on hiatus; it is currently unlikely it will ever return. In celebration of the franchise's 5. G. I. Joe was licensed for Kindle Worlds (allowing the publication and sale of fan fiction). Action Girl: The G. I. Nurse, introduced in 1. Trope Namer and the first female character in the series. On the other hand, it enters a Misaimed Marketing terroritory since neither Hasbro nor the store managers can tell whether the G. I. Nurse should be placed alongside other G. I. Joe figures or the Barbie dolls. Today, she becomes a collector's item. Action Figure File Card: The toys for G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero are the Ur- Example. Actual Pacifist: Lifeline the medic. Becomes a Reluctant Warrior when Lifeline is chosen to fight in . He uses Cobra's . Joe logo should. All Bikers Are Hells Angels: The Dreadnoks. America Saves the Day. And Knowing Is Half the Battle: The Trope Namer. Clueless Aesop: What do these morals have to do with military factions firing lasers at each other? Androcles' Lion: The origin of Snake- Eyes' wolf Timber in the cartoon; Snake- Eyes stopped to free the wolf from a bear trap, while lethally irradiated. A similar origin is given for Timber in the IDW Origins comic, where Snake- Eyes frees Timber from barbed wire whilst infiltrating an airbase, setting off an alarm in the process. And again in Renegades, where the caught in a trap trope is played again, with Timber immediately sensing kinship with Snake Eyes and helps him throughout the episode afterwards. And Some Other Stuff: In an issue of G. I. Joe: Special Missions, Lightfoot explains how how he is Mac. Gyvering a fuel- air explosive out of supplies found in an enemy bunker. However, the panels have censor boxes placed over them so the reader cannot see what he is actually doing. Argentina is Naziland: In Special Missions #2, an elderly Nazi is hiding out in a special jungle fortress. Artistic License . Also prevalent in the comic during its end days, when everyone at Marvel seemed to try and emulate Rob Liefeld's style. On the toy side of things, the shift from the older . Despite being a lowly sarge, the man can certainly throw his weight around when needed. Awesome Aussie: Outback. Awesomeness by Analysis: Helix. Badass Beard: Numerous examples. The Baroness: The Trope Namer. Base on Wheels: During the heyday of the toyline there were a whole series of massive vehicle playsets; the Defiant shuttle launch complex, Rolling Thunder, Mobile Command Centre.. BFG: Since some Joes are heavy weapons specialists, this trope is pretty much mandatory. Joe - Wikipedia. G. I. Joe is a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy company Hasbro. Army), Action Sailor (U. S. Navy), Action Pilot (Air Force), Action Marine (Marine Corps) and later on, the Action Nurse. The name derived from the usage of . Joe led to the coining of the term . Joe's appeal to children has made it an American icon among toys. Joe trademark has been used by Hasbro for several different toy lines, although only two have been successful. The original 1. 2- inch (3. February 2, 1. 96. In 1. 98. 2 the line was relaunched in a 3. G. I. Joe Team and the evil Cobra Command which seeks to take over the Free World through terrorism. As the American line evolved into the Real American Hero series, Action Man also changed, by using the same molds and being renamed as Action Force. Although the members of the G. I. Joe team are not superheroes, they all had expertise in areas such as martial arts, weapons, and explosives. Joe was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York, in 2. History of the 1. Joe lineup. Stan Weston's original design (1. Joe was developed in 1. Stan Weston, a Manhattan licensing agent. Weston made rudimentary prototypes of the figure and basic marketing materials that showed the sales potential of a military action figure. When he showed these materials to Donald Levine, a Hasbro executive, Levine told Weston “You will make a fortune with these.”. Joe was adopted. One of the prototypes would later sell in a Heritage auction in 2. The scar on the right cheek was one; another, unintentional at first, was the placement of the right thumbnail on the underside of the thumb. Early trademarking, with . Joe was a registered trademark; . Subsequently, the stamped trademarking was altered after the patent was granted (in late 1. Figures with this marking would have entered the retail market during 1. Adventure Team (1. The line became known as . In 1. 97. 0, Hasbro settled on the name . Highlights of the line included: To coincide with the new direction, . A retooled African American Adventurer was also introduced, which came in two versions as did the others in the series, bearded or shaven. This was another innovation that had been developed in the UK for Action Man. The hands were molded in a softer plastic that allowed the fingers to grip objects in a more lifelike fashion. In 1. 97. 6, G. I. Joe was given eagle eye vision; a movable eye mechanism to allow the toy to appear to be looking around when a lever in the back of the head was moved. This would be the last major innovation for the original line of 1. A shift in play patterns. For its first ten years, G. I. Joe was a generic soldier/adventurer with only the slightest hints of a team concept existing. In 1. 97. 5, after a failed bid to purchase the toy rights to the Six Million Dollar Man, Hasbro issued a bionic warrior figure: Mike Power, Atomic Man. One million units were sold. Also added to the Adventure Team was a superhero, Bullet Man. This character had recurring enemies, The Intruders – Strongmen from Another World. The original 1. 2- inch (3. G. I. Joe line ended in America in 1. At this time, Hasbro released a line of inexpensive, rotationally molded mannequins in the G. I. Joe style called The Defenders. International G. I. Joe licensees. Joe line, under the Action Man name for the UK market. The line later expanded the line to include all men of action, like football players and other sports figures. In the early 1. 98. Palitoy responded to falling sales of Action Man by launching . Later, when the U. S. Real American Hero line was released in the UK, they were released under the 'Action Force' title, since the term . The figures had the same appearance and code names as the American G. I. Joes, but their identities and histories were international rather than purely American or British. The range was later renamed G. I. Joe to bring it into line with international markets; however, the Action Man line retained its original name when it was revived in the early 1. The G. I. Joe line was also licensed to Germany under the Action Team name. In Spain, Geyperman was the Hasbro license, although the products were more based on Palitoy's line, down to the logo design. In France the name was Action Joe, in Japan, Takara and Tsukuda licensed the figures under the names . In Italy, Polistil licensed the figures under the Action Team name (same as they were called in Germany). In Australia, the line was released as . Joe figures in Australia under the name . In Brazil, it was licensed to Brinquedos Estrela; the 1. In Argentina, the G. I. Joe figures were licensed by Veri- li enterprises under the name . Joe toy line was produced in India under the Funskool brand. Hall of Fame (1. 99. Joe figures in 1. The first figure, Duke, was marketed exclusively to Target retail stores. Janes were introduced in a series called the Classic Collection, the first 1. G. I. Joe line- up since 1. The Classic Collection hearkened back to the original all military theme of G. I. Joe with fairly realistic uniforms and gear. Soldiers from Australia, Britain, and other nations, as well as United States forces were featured. The line also presented an all- new articulated G. I. Joe figure that formed the basis of many offerings until the 1. In 2. 00. 0, a Navajo. Code Talker was introduced, one of only two 1. G. I. Joe talking figures (until this time) since the 1. In 2. 00. 1, G. I. Joe honored the events of the 1. Pearl Harbor by releasing a line of Pearl Harbor figures. In 2. 00. 3 Hasbro announced the release of the 4. Anniversary G. I. This line featured reproductions of the earliest G. I. Joe figures and accessories originally made in 1. In November 2. 00. Land Adventurer G. I. Joe figure was released as an exclusive to Hot Topic stores. The figure was a reproduction of the Land Adventurer with the Kung- Fu Grip and came in the . A reproduction Talking Adventure Team Commander was also released in a limited run of 1,9. Masterpiece (1. 99. Joe figure returned via the G. I. Joe Masterpiece Edition, a unique book- and- figure product created by Chronicle Books with assistance from Don Levine, former creative director of Hasbro Toys and the driving force behind the original Joe concept. Joe established by the Masterpiece Edition reproduction book/figure set; they bought the rights to the ME figure and released a range of store exclusive reproduction figure sets, with the character of the sixties G. I. Joe boxed sets. History of the 3. Joe product line in a smaller, 3. The scale was the same scale used by the Kenner’s Star Wars figures, but with many more points of articulation much like the 1. Mego’s Micronauts toy line which itself was licensed directly from Takara’s Microman toy line. This relaunch pioneered several tactics in toy marketing, combining traditional advertising with an animated television mini- series and an ongoing comic book. The decision to use a smaller 3. Hasbro to produce a variety of matching vehicles and playsets that further expanded the appeal and commercial potential of the line. G. I. Joe's increasing popularity supported an array of spin- off merchandising that included posters, t- shirts, video games, board games, and kites. In 1. 98. 5, both Toy & Lamp and Hobby World magazines ranked G. I. Joe as the top- selling American toy. The 3. 7. 5- inch (9. This was also the 3. Anniversary of G. I. Joe and accordingly, Hasbro released a series of 1. Original Action Team figures from 1. Stars & Stripes Forever – TRU Exclusives (1. A second assortment followed in 1. Joe figures and vehicles. This line lasted until 2. The figures were sold in packs of two and consisted of repainted versions of figures from the Real American Hero line. Some of these repainted figures were assigned new identities: for example, the Baroness figure was repainted and sold as a new character called Chameleon, described on the packaging as . Joe vs Cobra (2. 00. Joe figures and vehicles were released. Each collection centered on a storyline or theme, such as . Joe: Spy Troops and G. I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom collections, as well as a new trading card game based on the G. I. Cobra storyline. Both the 1. 2- inch (3. Sigma 6 line in 2. As a result of the line's success, some figures also became available at certain retailers, such as Toys . To commemorate the event, Hasbro released a . The 2. 5th- anniversary figures replaced the classic O- ring construction with a swivel chest feature and increased points of articulation beyond the standard shoulder, elbow and knees to swivel wrists, ankles and double- hinged knees. The 2. 5th- anniversary figures also include . Joe and one Cobra), the . The most recent releases in this line do not include the . Other waves released in 2. Resolute figures, which were introduced in wave 1. April 2. 00. 9. Some of the planned figures from canceled waves, totaling 1. The canceled future waves included Night Force Falcon, the Python Patrol Trooper and Tele- Viper, and an Iron Klaw/Resolute Crimson Guard Trooper Comic Pack. The Rise of Cobra (2. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie was released in the United States and Australia. The line was a mixture of the Rise of Cobra movie designs, some G. I. Joe vs Cobra designs, some 2. Anniversary figure molds and new molds. The Pursuit of Cobra (2. The packaging was an update to the 2. Anniversary design. Anniversary (2. 01. Joe: A Real American Hero and the G. I. Joe: Renegades cartoon series. This series was continued through 2. Retaliation (2. 01. Joe: Retaliation was confirmed by Hasbro in February 2. A Variety article was published stating that the already released figures had been pulled from the shelves and recalled by Hasbro. New product shipments were halted by Hasbro, but existing Retaliation figures were available in Target, Wal- Mart, and Toys R Us as late as December 2. Joe, a new line of figures was released, using characters from the G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero cartoon series. This series continues in 2. Other licensees. The figures were scaled down to 8.
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