What do you guys think about the idea of Hasbro licensing GI Joe to Marvel Studios for GI Joe to have existed in the MCU during some point during the 50s to the 80s and who fought against a group called COBRA that was similar to the COBRA group from the original cartoon and/or the comics? What if they also fought against groups that were part of the 10 rings mentioned in Iron Man 1?
What if COBRA was considered to be a division of Hydra or the Serpent Society or if it was a rival group that broke off from one of those groups for some reason like a leadership crisis part of one of those groups pledged loyalty to one guy or group of leaders and another part of the group pledged loyalty to another guy or another group of leaders?
What do you guys think about the Cobra Crown or the Serpent Crown from Marvel comics being worked into having something to do with the COBRA group?
did the marvel comic ever show GI joe to be part of the MCU?
transformers had spider-man and nick fury appear (as well as circuit breaker appearing in secret wars) but i can't recall any instance of the joes being part of the mcu.
Joshua Gray
What do you guys think about if they just fought against Hydra and/or 10 rings groups up until the end of the 80s instead of COBRA?
Do you guys think GI Joe could be too bloody and violent for the MCU for Marvel Studios to want to use them in their movies if they use regular guns against regular humans?
What about if a 'GI Joe program' was created as a division of SHIELD at some point? What if it replaced SHIELD at some point due to the US government and/or United Nations disliking SHIELD for some period of time?
Do you guys think it could work for a "GI Joe' program to initially be created by the US government or SHIELD, but to then eventually somehow branch out and start getting members from outside the US somehow and/or to somehow be put under control of the UN or the World Security Council somehow?
Henry Stewart
>did the marvel comic ever show GI joe to be part of the MCU?
J. Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle appeared in one issue of the GI Joe book, but that was the only time it acknowledged the Marvel Universe. Unless you count the two times it crossed over with Transformers, who in their own book acknowledged the Marvel Universe.
Noah Perry
Didn't G.I Joe and Cobra started as part of the Marvel comic books but ended being a complete different thing cause issues? I remember reading something about that long ago.
The idea was discarded because it was too similar to Hydra and became its own thing or something like that.
feels like all the firepower the joes can afford would be in conflict with SHIELD's budget or something.
Ian Fisher
GI Joe should have it's own separate Universe and have like 10 to 15 or more books following sub-teams, main-teams, individual characters, and villains all across the series, as well as doing comics based on different animated versions of the team.
More continuity isn't going to help the Joes, and Marvel's failed attempts to make SHIELD catch on with the public show they're not the guys to get the franchise going again.
Carson Rodriguez
If IDW was too SJW to handle a Joe comic with respect, wtf makes you think Marvel would be a better fit? It'd be a lateral move at best.
Jayden Cox
From what I understand, Hama originally pitched Cobra as yet another Hydra splinter group, with Nick Fury's son fighting them with his own Howling Commandos. Marvel weren't too sure about it, but when Hama got involved with the G.I. Joe comic Hasbro were wracking their brains for the name of their villains, so Hama pitched Cobra and Hasbro went for it. Comicsgate shill pls
>everyone in the cartoon used lasers making them redundant/useless.
do love they (two of them at least) got a time to shine in the devil's due VS comic.
Julian Butler
There's so many sub-teams and minor sub-teams and unofficial sub-teams in the canon from the cartoons, comics and file cards that it's hard to identify all of them. Wolf Squad never even had an official name and was just known as 50th Anniversary Joes in new recolors. And what characters are officially part of it is debatable. There's not even much mention of it in the file cards for the figures, it was just an extra thing the designers threw in for fans to figure out and decide on.
GI Joe is better on its own, it has nothing to gain from integrating with the Marvel Universe except to become redundant and unecessary. Why is the team necessary and how is COBRA still allowed to operate when the Avengers are around.
David Gutierrez
GI Joe was never part of the Marvel Universe.
Hama DID do a one-off bit in the "Snake Eyes Trilogy" where he had J Jonah Jameson cameo as a bystander, along with a bit super early on in the series (#9) where he established Marvel as just a comic company (when the Joes escape from Springfield, their plane crashes in an open lot where Marvel Comics was doing a promotional "meet and greet" for kids to meet actors dressed up like Spider-Man, Hulk, and Captain America etc.
Transformers show up towards the end of the series, but Marvel took the stance that Transformers #3 was an anomaly and did their best to pretend the Spider-Man portions of it never happened well after the fact.
Similarly, one of the reasons why Marvel killed off the Simon Furman's original Deaths Head is that they didn't want to deal with the continuity snarl of having to deal with Deaths Head interacting with both Transformers and Doctor Who.
That said, if you want to get super anal, decades later Marvel did a "Multiverse" handbook special for Exiles where they stated Transformers #3 and the Marvel UK Transformers/Doctor Who comics all take place on their own parallel Earth and not the main Marvel Universe.
