Worlds Without End (Part I)

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The Joes and Cobra are in a battle to get ahold of a device that can transform matter into any other substance. When they accidentally used it on themselves, the result is unexpected.

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Appearances

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Other notes

Animation and/or technical glitches

• While the Mauler burns, a layer error causes a dark green shape to blink on and off in the flames.

Continuity errors

• Baroness and Zartan were wearing breathing masks under their disguises, and nobody noticed anything strange?
• Barbecue was awfully quick to smash open that newspaper box, wasn't he?
• Lady Jaye and the others were flying over South Dakota and then shortly thereafter, over Washington, D.C. Even the fastest planes would take several hours to get that far.
• When the female Cobra Trooper first appears in this episode, her uniform features bare thighs and a high-cut bikini bottom. In the next episode the legs will be colored.

Miscellaneous trivia

• Several scenes from this episode made it into the series' closing credits, including Flint flying his glider into a tree, and Steeler jumping clear as the Mauler explodes.
• Baroness disguises herself as Dr. Renault, inventor of the Transmutor, while Zartan poses as General Wagstaff.
• After climbing the bridge in this episode, Copperhead is never seen again in any Sunbow episode or the movie. Assuming he traveled to the alternate universe with the Joes, he either liked it there and decided to stay, or died in the fall.
  • However, Copperhead returns in the DiC mini-series Operation Dragonfire, whose continuity follows the Sunbow series, so he survived and, if went and stayed in the alternate universe, his return would fall in the same mistery as the G.I. Joe members who stay at the end of part II.

G.I. Joe references

• The store owner mentions the government testing equipment such as the Weather Dominator, the device from The Revenge of Cobra.
• The names on the list of MIA Joes are all from the figures' filecards.

Real-world references

• As the Joes blast their way into their mothballed headquarters, the sound effect is recycled from the 1950s War of the Worlds movie.
• This is the first instance of words visibly scrolling across a Tele-Viper's visor.
• The monuments Cobra defaces include Mt. Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol building.
• The statue of Baroness in New York uses the same pose as the Statue of Liberty.

References

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