G.I. Joe: Resolute

Huh. That's... actually better than I would have thought. They worked the ten-minute episode format pretty well.

http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25059520b3d89e0120b49221340025

Edit:
I have long been conflicted about how I saw Snake-Eyes, though I didn't think too hard on it back in the day. Naturally, he was "cool." Commando + Ninja + Black Costume with Mask + Mysterious Past + Tragic Disfigurement = of course this character seemed awesome to a kid back then. Heck, they even packaged him with a wolf in one incarnation.

But even in the 80's, I think I resented the character some as being too... special or gimmicky. He was, I might say, the Drizzt Do'Urden of his day - the character so over-the-top-awesome that the target audience wished they could be him. If there were a popular G.I. Joe RPG back in the day, I bet there would have been a ton of special-forces-dude-with-ninja-training, just as there were a swarm of dual-wielding-good-emo-drow years later. The archtypes annoy me with their popularity.

But... Snake-Eyes was still pretty cool. >.>

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  1. kyn_elwynnApril 29, 2009 at 8:29 AM

    Funny part is, how do you make a ninja, one of the assassins of feudal Japan, a -good guy-? His rival in Cobra has pretty much all the same moveset, but by being part of Cobra is bad, while our man Snake Eyes is good by virtue of being on Joe. Maybe that mysterious past and disfigurement lend some pathos to the character, presenting him as more than just a killer working for our military forces.

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  2. tashiroApril 29, 2009 at 10:07 PM

    Actually, my favourite Joe was Breaker -- the communications specialist. He was my #1. Snake Eyes I think was my #2.

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