Cobra Trooper

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Cobra Troopers are Cobra characters from the A Real American Hero series.

Before Cobra started to have more specialized personnel, there were the Cobra Troopers. These men served as the basic infantrymen of Cobra. Each man swore absolute loyalty to Cobra Commander. While serving as the infantrymen of the organization, they are also cross-trained to be proficient in least two other support skills. The lot of what makes up the Trooper forces are mercenaries and criminal elements who have taken up Cobra's offer of wealth and power.

Contents 1 Fiction 1.1 Comics 1.1.1 A Real American Hero continuity 1.1.1.1 Marvel Comics continuity 1.1.1.2 Devil's Due Comics continuity 1.1.2 G.I. Joe Reloaded 1.1.3 G.I. Joe vs. Transformers 1.1.4 Action Force (British) Comics continuity 1.1.5 Blackthorne Comics continuity 1.1.6 Dreamwave Comics continuity 1.1.7 Hasbro Comics continuity 1.2 Animated continuity 1.2.1 Sunbow animated series 2 Toys 3 Trivia 4 External links 5 Footnotes

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Comics

[edit] A Real American Hero continuity

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When Cobra kidnapped Dr. Adele Burkhart, Cobra Troopers were implemented to defend the Caribbean island base. In order to better defend the island, they killed the indigenous people to prevent any uprising. When the Joe Team came to rescue Burkhart, they proved to be no match to America's elite team.^[1] During a G.I. Joe raid on a Cobra stronghold, a half dozen troopers thought they had cornered and outnumbered Snake-Eyes. They didn't expect he had something in his boot to get him out of this tight situation. Cobra Troopers were to be deployed once the location of the Pit was known. Cobra Commander's Trojan robot plan fizzled and they were forced to go head back to base.^[2] Several troopers masquerading as a bugle corps attempted to steal the Joes' MOBAT during an Armed Forces Day parade. Although unarmed, the Joes bluffed them into surrendering.^[3]

Cobra Troopers surrounded the fighting forces of the Joe Team and Oktober Guard and took the RTV from them.^[4] Two particular Troopers were left behind to execute both Joes and Cobra, their sadistic nature both Clutch the time he needs to train the VAMP's guns on them. Troopers in the Cobra stronghold in Iran managed to keep up the masquerade long enough before the Cobra Commander in their midst is actually a doppelganger.^[5]

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Cobra Troopers were regularly deployed on missions including:

• The attempted kidnap of Ahmed Hassan, the first Ishmali ambassador to the United Kingdom. They actually captured a disguised Shipwreck. They fought off a rearguard Action Force rescue mission but Shipwreck eventually escaped.^[6]
• An attack on the Action Force Weapons Testing Range in Stonebury to steal secret plans.^[7]
• An attempted kidnap of Flint which instead took Scarlett.^[8]
• An attempted recovery of a fallen spy satellite in an Asian jungle.^[9]
• A supposed conflict between Cobra and the Mafia in Venice, though the whole thing was a smokescreen to cover an alliance between the two.^[10]
• An operation in the Middle East.^[11]
• The attempted capture of a Northrod B2 bomber crew who crashed on an island with top secret information^[12]
• The attempted theft of the new Broadcast Energy Transmitter from a tropical island.^[13]
• An attempt to prevent Action Force agents from smuggling out information on Cobra operations in Italy.^[14]
• The stealing of a huge diamond in Amsterdam to power a laser.^[15]
• An assault on London to free Destro who was held prisoner at Action Force's headquarters.^[16]

They were also stationed at a variety of locations including:

• Cobra HQ^[17]
• Cobra Island^[18]
• Destro's castle^{[19] [20]}
• Destro's oil rig^[21]
• Cobra's base in Morocco^[22]
• Cobra's supply base in the Amazonian jungle^[23]
• The headquarters of Military Armaments Research Systems^{[24] [25]}
• A Cobra rocket launch base hidden in the Australian outback^[26]
• Cobra's undersea base in the Atlantic Ocean off the north west coast of Africa^[27]
• Grave Island in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where a group of American soldiers were tricked into thinking they were still flighting the Vietnam War, but were actually undertaking missions for Cobra.^[28]

Cobra Troopers were used by Farouk in his attempt to assassinate Destro. However Destro survived successive attacks, disposed of the Troopers sent after him and killed Farouk.^[29]

Action Force used Cobra Troopers to test the trainees in the Super Trooper programme. The Cobra Troopers were overpowered by the trainees who fought single-handedly.^[30]

In a computer simulation of a nightmare of Flint's, Cobra Troopers were amongst the many Cobra agents who attacked him.^[31]

Notable individual Troopers included:

• Tony Lander. A childhood friend of Heavy Metal, he later joined Cobra but was driven mad by the things he saw and did. Stealing lethal nerve gas cannister he planned to open it in the atmosphere. An Action Force team tried to stop him peacefully, but Destro arrived and shot Lander dead.^[32]

A splinter organisation from Cobra called "the Two-Headed Serpent" also had Cobra Troopers at their base in the Himalayas.^[33]

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Destro had a platoon of Cobra Troopers teleported to a secret US military base to steal a hi-tech satellite. They had the advantage of surprise and locked the Joes out of the silo. A bold plan by Duke enabled his team to take the fight back in and it's the Troopers to be surprised and, afterward have to surrender. They were able to escape capture when Destro teleported back to Cobra base along with Duke. As tough as they are, it took several Troopers to overwhelm Duke.^[34] Cobra Troopers joined Major Bludd in a mission to the Arctic to obtain red crystals. Troopers in the Cobra Temple tried to prevent Duke from escaping but to no avail.^[35] Destro led a contingent to take the final catalytic element for the MASS. While they are successful in taking the meteor from the Joes, they proved to be no match in a one-on-one fight with the Joes.^[36] Many were taken into custody in the battle at the Ring of Fire that what little number there are left in the Cobra Temple offered little resistance.^[37]

[edit] Toys

Generation 1
	A Real American Hero (1982) The Cobra Trooper was part of the first series of the A Real American Hero toys. Note that he was never referred to as "Cobra Trooper" in the filecard, he was a "Cobra" who is code named "The Enemy." Appearance: blue helmet, shirt, gloves, and pants; black face-mask, straps, kneepads, and boots; red Cobra insignia on chest. Accessories: black Dragunov sniper rifle YoJoe.com page/Filecard
	A Real American Hero (1989) In 1989, the Troopers were given a new name as part of the Python Patrol collection. They became Python Troopers, making the "Trooper" part of the name official for the first time. Appearance: black helmet with "V" on front; black face mask; yellow-green shirt with yellow crisscross pattern; grey straps, gloves, belt, knife, and gloves; black pants Accessories: black "Cobra Officer" AK-47. YoJoe.com page/Filecard
	The Real American Hero Collection (1998) The "Cobra Trooper" name becomes official in this version released as part of the Real American Hero Collection. This version used the mold originally used to create the Viper. 1998 filecard
	G.I. Joe Convention exclusive (2007) 2007 Tanks for the Memories filecard from YoJoe.com
Generation 3
	A Real American Hero 25th Anniversary (2007) 2007 filecard from YoJoe.com
	Senior Ranking Officers (2008) 2008 filecard from YoJoe.com

[edit] Trivia

• In 1989, the Cobra Trooper's mold was used for the Python Officer, while the Cobra Officer's mold was used for the Python Trooper. As if there wasn't already enough confusion between the two.

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