Still two of my favorite quotes came from this movie. " Be silent or be silenced' and " You are guilty. Guilty of the one unforgivable crime.. FAILURE"
Lets be honest though: If Cobra Commander had actually succeeded in defeating GI Joe and taking over the world, no way on Earth he would have turned the keys of the planet over to Golobulus. First move he'd have done: "Destro, I want to nuke an Ice dome in the Himalayas"
I can just hear Destro's response. (trademark belly laugh)"And Major Blood bet me ten thousand gold serpentines you'd cease your chaotic antics after becoming a responsible world ruler! Ah, for the sake of my ever expanding wallet, Commander, never change!"
I think I once saw that line as flavor text on an orzhov, black, or white removal spell on a magic the gathering trading card. i am almost certain it was text on a card somewhere in one of the current three separate ravnica blocks.
Yeah but the reason Serpentor was created in the first place was because Cobra Commander's time was coming to an end and that's what he didn't realize at first.
I didn't get to see it in the 80s, but caught it on USA cartoon express when they split it into five parts in the 90s when I was around age nine. I'd seen all the episodes leading up to this, and remember hunting everywhere in stores for the VHS after the conclusion because I loved the movie so much. Really felt like a slambang finale until USA started airing reruns of the DIC series. Loved those too.
I'm a bit surprised DC didn't bring him back to voice the Penguin in the 1990s Batman animated series, as it was prior to his death, though it might have been because DC wanted new voice actors to handle the key roles. That's likely why they didn't bring Adam West back to voice Batman, something he did in the 1977 Filmation series, as well as in the last two seasons of the SuperFriends (1984 and '85). And one thing Sunbow and Marvel did was to bring A-list actors to voice certain characters in the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies. Aside from Burgess Meredith, Don Johnson also had a role in G.I. Joe: The Movie, and of course, legendary actors such as Orson Welles and Leonard Nimoy voiced major characters in the Transformers movie.
Fortunately, Cobra Commander was back to near normal in the DIC G.I. Joe cartoons. He was back to being humanoid and walking on two legs again, albeit still looking like he was when the spores hit him. Fortunately, he had an outfit ready for him, handed to him by one of his men. I don't remember which one of his men handed it to him. Could have been Copperhead. Please correct me if I'm wrong about who handed Cobra Commander his clothing. I can stand to learn more from being wrong than being right. Being wrong makes me learn more, learn better, do better research and all that.
Noah whitehouse The Transformers Armada Version of Starscream wanted revenge against Megatron for using him as an expendable distraction in order to claim the Mini-Cons that formed the Weapon of the Requiem Blaster which he overheard. He Attacked Megatron with the Star Saber Sword even if it meant joining the Autobots which he did do. Briefly but then rejoined. Starscream’s Armada Version is the greatest one ever made, in order to save Cybertron from Unicron’s Destruction by making an example out of himself by selflessly sacrificing himself to get Galvatron to side with Optimus Prime.
@@Girard1020 Too bad his voice was complete awful, not suited to the role at all and his defection to the Autobot in the story was a complete joke in the end.
Cartoons were a hell of lot more mature back then. Even the way they talk. “It’s poetic in its simplicity” could you imagination anyone being that intelligent now.
Lol, he should have signed up for medical insurance, then again I doubt Cobra-La has the best health insurance policy seeing how things are run, Globulous probably too racist to get any insurance from the human world anyway.
@@randypeppercorn1865 XD This is damn true, heh though I wonder how they'd handle this pandemic situation, probably better since they are good at Social Distancing from the rest of the world :P
@@gamesmaster0459 he has two figures. One from the 80s with Goloblous and a Cobra La solider. He also has a figure for the 25th anniversary run with Lt. Falcon and a comic
I am glad that CC got his revenge. He was able return to human form in the Sunbow series and even made it through to the year 2006 as Old Snake in the Transformer episode, "Only Human" And if you pay attention, he even is wearing Serpentor's gloves in that episode.
I think those were meant to be his actual fingers. He was still snake-like when he became humanoid again, and his "Old Snake" bio states his fingers are meant to be visible which show off his scaly skin.
When I saw that I was like it cant be nah thats not him...even though it was his voice I was young then what can I say....but that all changed when he was like..." They just dont make terrorist as good as they use to"........COBRA COUGH COUGH. I had a tear in my eye
I have these baseball style collector cards from the early 90's centered around g.i joe and some of them are called the honor roll. People like Dr mindbender, zartan, and serpentor are on them. On the back it states that when cobra commander returned and took over(i guess from the animated movie? not sure) that he had a number of people buried alive in a volcano. :D
Couple of things: I always marveled that they got Burgess Meredith to do the voice of Golobulus. When I was a kid learning the origin of cobra commander was a massive revelation. Broadcast Energy Transmitter is the most generic name for the most generic device ever.
Funnier still was the "MacGuffin Device" from the episode ONCE UPON A JOE. When I later read about the real-life writing trope of the same name, I realized the joke that the writers played, and laughed out loud ;)
I love how at the end even though he could talk, he instead slithered away from the Joes to enact his own form of revenge, I wonder just exactly he would of accomplished but that is why I love the character, Cobra Commander's ego is on a whole other level. As inconsistent as his behavior was in the cartoon he was a supreme self believer, he was so pissed he planned on doing something to Serpentor and Golobulous and I bet if he had the chance it would of been grand
Serpentor and Golobulous. Oh alot further than that. Destro, Mindbender, the twins, all of them have to pay except Barroness for reviving Cobra Commander. And he did get the chance. In the DIC series he turned Serpentor into an iguana. Rumor has it knogahide had him for lunch. 😂
Never imagined that GI Joe would go straight up Lovecraftian/Howard! Cobra-La were basically the serpent people from Robert E Howard Hyborea and Lovecraft's cthulhu mythos.
Lol,😂. Cobra Commander had the last laugh. Majority of Cobra was killed and imprisoned by G.I. Joe. Cobra Commander survived and goes by the street name Old Snake in Transformers season 3.
Don't know why but Golobulus' bored "Eh, trifle melodramatic. But instructive." cracks me up. Like the dude didn't just spend the last five minutes or so hamming it up retelling the history of Cobra-La and Cobra Commander like he was reciting Richard the Third. But that's the point he thinks is over the top. XD
5:52 Did the king of the lizard people, with plans to turn the entire world into lizard people AND who's voiced by Burgess Meredith, SERIOUSLY just criticize something for being melodramatic? The irony at play here is nothing short of staggering.
I am sorry but this trial was BS! Cobra Commander was way more successful than Serpentor. CC literally went out into the world and basically from scratch created a force that could contend with the SUPERPOWER known as the USA. Some Nothing Cobra created a Dynasty! Serpentor LITERALLY had everything handed to him and he failed at every turn. Cobra Commander deserved better than this. He had to be pushed aside by a science experiment and because of it's constant failure he is he the one who has to take the blame. In the very end Cobra Commander EARNED what he acomplished. NEVER FORGET THE TRUE LEADER OF COBRA!!!!
While Cobra Commander had many faults and failures under his belt, he as you said built up a large terrorist organization from scratch that could contend with the U.S and would likely be able to conquer the world if not for GI-Joe and its allies. In contrast, Serpentor was given control of Cobra and like you said, failed at every turn despite having the best traits of numerous famous Human conquerors throughout history.
Not to mention cobra commander did that TWICE. In season 1, Cobra goes bankrupt, and using cold slither, he raises enough funds to start up cobra again.
So, he disses mankind for mastering and using an inorganic technology....plans to destroy them and then needs a piece of said manmade inorganic technology in order for the plan to work #scumbaggolobulus
@@stuartvandermerwe8548 What's even funnier is how complete bullshit it was. They are master's at biotech. They actually created a living thing that can fart things into orbit. Do you realize just how impressive that is? And considering there are things like bombardier beetles that can basically make napalm as a defense, there's no reason they couldn't make a biologic alternative to generate the heat needed to mature the spores in space.
I remember the night this movie aired on t.v. and although my dad is no fan of this series he did like this movie once he heard Don Johnson as the voice of Duke's brother
As a kid, I didn’t know this was the most disturbing or sexiest thing I’d ever seen. There was the body horror, but also Cobra Commander was ripping his clothes off. The spores sequence has fired my erotic imagination for decades now.
Those mutations spores were a creative way to kill without actually killing. That scene where Cobra Commander gave my nightmares nightmares for decades.
What I didn’t like about that? Is Commander was way too forgiving and forgettable? He acted more Christ like than some Joes and acted more Lifeline than a disciplinarian or military leader. Mercy without justice isn’t right.
Like a lot of other people who are commenting, that scene where Cobra Commander was exposed to the spores horrified me as a kid. The pain in his screams, and how his skin changed colour like that was so disturbing
Even before the spores hit, that desperation as the pod steadily approached, bond against escape despite his struggling. Just thinking of being in that helpless position is dreadful.
Serpentor's idea to spare Cobra Commander just to throw him in with the rest of the G.I. Joe prisoners as a show of force would be a costly decision and would come back to haunt him in a big way later on. It resulted in one escaping and revealing their plan to the rest of the G.I. Joe team. And later Cobra Commander would get some serious payback on Serpentor.
Serpentor's ego cost him big time with high ranking Cobra members like Baroness and Gnawgahyde having enough of his BS and restoring Cobra Commander back to his humanoid form in which Cobra Commander took out Serpentor for good with his Python Patrol and turning him into Gnawgahyde's Iguana for Gnawgahyde to barbeque and eat.
Cobra commander and starscream both had tragic ends one turned to a snake and the other crumbled to death after trying to take over as leader for so long
Least Megatron got upgraded into a new villain, Cobra Commander got pushed to the side while these new villains took central stage for the whole movie.
This was the cartoon event of its time. It was like Avengers :Endgame. Everyone watched it. Duke was supposed to die, but they changed it last minute, and Cobra was not only explained but even justified. Brilliant writing and amazing animation for it's time.
@@sharanquiett9412 No dude I mean like, when the writers were brought together with the bigshots of hasbro or w/e, they threw out this idea as just a placeholder or just a first idea, and the bigshots were like "Yup thats perfect to us! Do it!" and the writers soon realized their massive fucking mistake. Hence why suddenly the commander of a terrorist organization is a mutant coming from a goddamn prehistoric society
@justiladil1: Cobra Commander did return to the series after the movie dude... He was turned back into humanoid form thanks to Baroness. And when he returned, he overthrew Serpentor, captured him, mutated him into a iguana, and re-took control of Cobra. I hated the character Serpentor...
I can see why this movie was so good as well as all cartoons from the 1980s- JAPAN did the overseas to the cartoons. If only they did the overseas to all cartoons nowadays.
This movie made no sense on so many levels. The people of Cobra-La were not driven into exile by mankind. It was the Ice Age that drove them underground. Why they didn't emerge after the Ice Age ended is beyond me. The revelation that Cobra Commander came from Cobra-La was dumb and nearly destroyed the GI Joe mythos. And they sent a scientist to lead an army? Well that explains why Cobra Commander failed so much. Remember Starscream was a scientist too. And even if the spores were released from orbit, they would have burned up on re-entry. So burning them up with BET at the end was redundant.
You all realise that we are only saying these things because are older, smarter and can think critically. Back then we swallowed what they told us hook, line and sinker
The real question is why on Earth did Cobra-La based their entire comeback on a scientist to lead a human army? A human army that uses modern, inorganic technology? If their way of life is superior, they should have given the scientist their own technology. Plus, Cobra Commander made it clear in the previous seasons that the only reason Cobra seeks to rule the world is to put Cobra Commander on top. He wasn't going to share power to begin with. And in the episode where the Joes visited an alternate universe where Cobra won, Cobra-La was nowhere to be seen. All Cobra did as the new world power was make statues of their dear leader, Cobra Commander.
I lived in Germany in the 80’s and actually they aired both this movie and Transformers the Movie in the movie theater. Still remember before the movie came on, we would stand for the pledge and then they would play the Star Spangled Banner. Such a better idea than previews!
Cobra Commander should've said how they substituted Sun Tzu's DNA in the creation of Serpentor with the Joe Sgt. Slaughter, and how he tried to destroy it. That might have been news to them, trial might've went a bit differently.
By the time the animated cartoon was created, Destro had somehow become the main villain and Cobra Commander was more of a figurehead. (This was the sort of relationship that Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine seemed to have in the original versions of 1977's "Star Wars" and 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back." Destro seemed to copycat Vader's voice initially.)
I like the movie, but it really went against what was hinted at in the cartoon. It was a really weird direction for Hasbro to take it. Really, I think Cobra Commander suffered the worst character wise. I would have preferred if he was simply the human puppet leader of Cobra rather than some snake person.
sorrry mike , but you mean the A-TEAM doncha ;) i didnt expect zartan to be a member of SAMcro lol . live action transformers ?? the only thing i remember is BAYformers 1-3 that had FIRST AID, GUNG HO , SHIPWRECK and FLINT in the first movie... there wasnt COBRA COMMANDER in that at all . thats the closest we will ever come to a JOE VS TF movie
Adler voiced Cobra Commander in Renegades and Resolute while he played Starscream in the Bay Transformers. Blum voiced Starscream in Transformers Prime.
Fact: Golobulus was voiced by Burgess Meredith, best known as Mickey from the Rocky films. Nemesis Enforcer was voiced by Peter Cullen, who voiced Airborne, Zandar and Ramar in the cartoon but is best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.
Lovecraft was one of the few things inspired for Cobra-La, kinda surprised no one considered Golobuls as an Eldritch Terror in universe of the G.I Joe 80s movie.
@stainshield It was probably one of Serpentor's greatest strengths. Find someone else to take the blame and in that case, the brief trial and punishment.
I actually named a save file for Legend of Grimrock 2 after 5:15. It was a moment in the game where you have to fight these human-sized sentient mushrooms who spray spores in your party's faces to injure them.
If Golobuls hated humans so much why would he come up with the plan of making a composite clone of mankind's greatest dictators to become the new Cobra emperor and implant that skill into Dr. Mindbender's brain? Then he allied himself with Cobra which was comprised of humans. Last but not least he needed the Beta Energy Transmitter which was built by humans to fulfill his evil schemes.
The only thing I hated about the Commander's return is that he didn't torture Serpentor. If I were Commander, I would've hung Serpentor out on a pole in front of Cobra and tortured him for days.
Still two of my favorite quotes came from this movie. " Be silent or be silenced' and " You are guilty. Guilty of the one unforgivable crime.. FAILURE"
*The* quote for me, that hissed "Not the spores!"
“Save my bones for Davey Jones.”
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!"-Beach Head
Lets be honest though: If Cobra Commander had actually succeeded in defeating GI Joe and taking over the world, no way on Earth he would have turned the keys of the planet over to Golobulus.
First move he'd have done: "Destro, I want to nuke an Ice dome in the Himalayas"
I can just hear Destro's response. (trademark belly laugh)"And Major Blood bet me ten thousand gold serpentines you'd cease your chaotic antics after becoming a responsible world ruler! Ah, for the sake of my ever expanding wallet, Commander, never change!"
In the two part episode Worlds Without End, it had happened, in an alternate universe where the Joes were dead already.
@@redpyramid9697 and kill Golobulus obviously.
@@leo11lim I don't know if Golobulus even existed in that parallel universe, let alone all of Cobra-La.
@@redpyramid9697 Fumble might be from the alternate Universe.
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"we are civilized!!!"
proceeds to put cobra commander in a clam
🦪😒😕🥺😳😬
They are civilized but also plan to turn everyone who isn't for Cobra in Cobra La into mindless monsters!😂
I just love how there's all this ceremony about a trial, and then all of the sudden Golobulus just says you're guilty.
Cobra commanderkins was not guilty
The quintessons would have thrown cc to the sharkticons
@@chrisedwards3214 Innocent!
The very definition of kangaroo court
"Be silent, or be silenced! I love that line😀
Such a sinister delivery.
Crushing line lol
I think I once saw that line as flavor text on an orzhov, black, or white removal spell on a magic the gathering trading card. i am almost certain it was text on a card somewhere in one of the current three separate ravnica blocks.
"Shocking!"
You know.....Serpentor wasn't any more successful than Cobra Commander was. I'm just saying.
Quiet you! (good point.. but Serpentor was their idea, AND they picked Cobra Commander originally.... but they gotta scapegoat you know)
+CRocketSlim Then their gonna regret it when I write a fanfic with Cobra Commander as an ally owning a fleet of spaceships.
nothing gets by you.
Yeah but the reason Serpentor was created in the first place was because Cobra Commander's time was coming to an end and that's what he didn't realize at first.
This, I command!
The intro to this movie is still an epic start to anything.
Man I loved it that night, as much as I look back at it after all these years to watch it again.
It was originally intended to be the ending.
The intro was the best part.
this would have been a great ending to the series, too. the scaley hammer of justice comes for cobra commander
In the Marvel comics Cobra Commander was a used car salesman before starting Cobra. That's more evil then being a deformed nobleman.
At least he wasn't a lawyer
I actually like that. He was just a citizens who rose up to becoming who he was.
@@HamanKarn567 in reality it be impossible to become the head of an organization like cobra
Than being
And in the UK he was a noble turned merc turned dictator/terrorist.
This movie was great when I was 7, and still entertains today. On so many levels.
Totally get what you mean ;)
I didn't get to see it in the 80s, but caught it on USA cartoon express when they split it into five parts in the 90s when I was around age nine. I'd seen all the episodes leading up to this, and remember hunting everywhere in stores for the VHS after the conclusion because I loved the movie so much. Really felt like a slambang finale until USA started airing reruns of the DIC series. Loved those too.
Most brutal punishment ever. You just see Cobra Commander descend into madness
Love this scene ❤
Love this scene ❤
RIP Burgess Meredith who voiced the leader of Cobra La and RIP to the voice of actor who voiced Cobra Commander
Chris Latta RIP
The voice of the cobra commander never replaceable
Chris Latta, who also played Starscream, Megatron's favorite whipping boy and scapegoat....just as Cobra Commander is the scapegoat of Globulus.
@@gabrieldjatienza6971 Cobra Commander was also Serpentor' scapegoat, his whipping boy.
He voiced starscream also from transformers.
Cobra Vipers be like, "Woah, destroy the human race?! I just signed up for the college money!"
G1 cobra commander is star scream and the rest just sound the joker
Rhonda Cotton A fitting analogy, considering the Penguin from the 60s Batman series actually voiced one of the main characters in the G.I. Joe movie.
+cjs83172 The role that he did in this movie was the best role he has ever done in my eyes.
I'm a bit surprised DC didn't bring him back to voice the Penguin in the 1990s Batman animated series, as it was prior to his death, though it might have been because DC wanted new voice actors to handle the key roles. That's likely why they didn't bring Adam West back to voice Batman, something he did in the 1977 Filmation series, as well as in the last two seasons of the SuperFriends (1984 and '85).
And one thing Sunbow and Marvel did was to bring A-list actors to voice certain characters in the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies. Aside from Burgess Meredith, Don Johnson also had a role in G.I. Joe: The Movie, and of course, legendary actors such as Orson Welles and Leonard Nimoy voiced major characters in the Transformers movie.
BeefyLevinson what happened to the twins from GIJOE the movie?
I always felt bad for Cobra commander. I just wish they hadn’t done this. So sad 😭
Fortunately, Cobra Commander was back to near normal in the DIC G.I. Joe cartoons.
He was back to being humanoid and walking on two legs again, albeit still looking like he was when the spores hit him.
Fortunately, he had an outfit ready for him, handed to him by one of his men.
I don't remember which one of his men handed it to him.
Could have been Copperhead.
Please correct me if I'm wrong about who handed Cobra Commander his clothing.
I can stand to learn more from being wrong than being right.
Being wrong makes me learn more, learn better, do better research and all that.
@@JoseFigueroa-iz2on thanks for the info
Cobra Commander begging G.I. Joe's guys for help would be Starscream begging the autobots for help.
Noah whitehouse The Transformers Armada Version of Starscream wanted revenge against Megatron for using him as an expendable distraction in order to claim the Mini-Cons that formed the Weapon of the Requiem Blaster which he overheard. He Attacked Megatron with the Star Saber Sword even if it meant joining the Autobots which he did do. Briefly but then rejoined. Starscream’s Armada Version is the greatest one ever made, in order to save Cybertron from Unicron’s Destruction by making an example out of himself by selflessly sacrificing himself to get Galvatron to side with Optimus Prime.
Ironic ..same voice actor😂😂
Literally
@@Girard1020 Too bad his voice was complete awful, not suited to the role at all and his defection to the Autobot in the story was a complete joke in the end.
I love when Cobra Commander called Globulous a fool. Always a bad ass until the end!
You’re plan is laughable.......”but your punishment will not be!” LOL
He should've known better than to talk back to his supreme boss like that though😕😂
@@gibbs615 Like it would have made a difference?
@@Archone666 No guess not
That Globulus shouldn't have done that to cobra commanderkins
Cartoons were a hell of lot more mature back then. Even the way they talk. “It’s poetic in its simplicity” could you imagination anyone being that intelligent now.
I mourn the cartoons of our childhood. The quality of every detail was unparalleled to the horrific, lazy, lame shite that kids have now. -.-
"A brilliant young nobleman" puts a pod obviously about to explode into his face from an organism he has no idea what it is lol.
Lol, he should have signed up for medical insurance, then again I doubt Cobra-La has the best health insurance policy seeing how things are run, Globulous probably too racist to get any insurance from the human world anyway.
@@stuartvandermerwe8548 Plus, in Cobra La, there's no PPE
@@randypeppercorn1865 XD This is damn true, heh though I wonder how they'd handle this pandemic situation, probably better since they are good at Social Distancing from the rest of the world :P
Cobrala- your guilty! Also Cobrala- thanks for creating the spores we’ll take it from here!
It is like setting him up for failure. Should have made Serpentor themselves, which is weird since they are taking dna from humans.
Nemesis Enforcer...I’m sorry but that’s a bad ass name right there.
I always thought so too. Does anyone know if they made any of these characters into toys. Nemesis Enforcer would've made a great one.
@@gamesmaster0459 he has two figures. One from the 80s with Goloblous and a Cobra La solider. He also has a figure for the 25th anniversary run with Lt. Falcon and a comic
"BE SILENT!!!!.........or be silenced".........
Shut up Globolus and let cobra commanderkins finish please
This cartoon was absolutely amazing! I LOVED watching it when I was a kid.
I am glad that CC got his revenge. He was able return to human form in the Sunbow series and even made it through to the year 2006 as Old Snake in the Transformer episode, "Only Human" And if you pay attention, he even is wearing Serpentor's gloves in that episode.
The MulToyVerse he even yells COBRA at the end of that episode
I think those were meant to be his actual fingers. He was still snake-like when he became humanoid again, and his "Old Snake" bio states his fingers are meant to be visible which show off his scaly skin.
When I saw that I was like it cant be nah thats not him...even though it was his voice I was young then what can I say....but that all changed when he was like..." They just dont make terrorist as good as they use to"........COBRA COUGH COUGH. I had a tear in my eye
@@chrismarks4277 That was one of my favorite episodes as well and the only major crossover for both series.
I have these baseball style collector cards from the early 90's centered around g.i joe and some of them are called the honor roll. People like Dr mindbender, zartan, and serpentor are on them. On the back it states that when cobra commander returned and took over(i guess from the animated movie? not sure) that he had a number of people buried alive in a volcano. :D
Couple of things:
I always marveled that they got Burgess Meredith to do the voice of Golobulus. When I was a kid learning the origin of cobra commander was a massive revelation. Broadcast Energy Transmitter is the most generic name for the most generic device ever.
Derpy name, just like Avatar's "Unobtainium." *giant eye roll*
@@oddfellowfloyd It is a way better name than Unobtainium
BET founder got his idea from GI Joe, change my mind.
Funnier still was the "MacGuffin Device" from the episode ONCE UPON A JOE. When I later read about the real-life writing trope of the same name, I realized the joke that the writers played, and laughed out loud ;)
I love how at the end even though he could talk, he instead slithered away from the Joes to enact his own form of revenge, I wonder just exactly he would of accomplished but that is why I love the character, Cobra Commander's ego is on a whole other level. As inconsistent as his behavior was in the cartoon he was a supreme self believer, he was so pissed he planned on doing something to Serpentor and Golobulous and I bet if he had the chance it would of been grand
Serpentor and Golobulous. Oh alot further than that. Destro, Mindbender, the twins, all of them have to pay except Barroness for reviving Cobra Commander. And he did get the chance. In the DIC series he turned Serpentor into an iguana. Rumor has it knogahide had him for lunch. 😂
I always felt sorry for CC when I was a kid after seeing this for the first time.
So much for "trial."
I'd probably find a more fair trial from the quintessons.
MartianManFromMars "Innocent!" :)
+MartianManFromMars Yeah, no kidding. It doesn't seem fair that CC was punished because of humanity's evolving.
@@olivertv6175 "Feed him to the Sharkticons!"
@@JohnWJones "Hahahaha - Hehehehe - Huhuhuhu - Hohohoho - Hihihihi" :)
Innocent - Fed to Shark robots
Guilty - Who knows
Never imagined that GI Joe would go straight up Lovecraftian/Howard! Cobra-La were basically the serpent people from Robert E Howard Hyborea and Lovecraft's cthulhu mythos.
Lol,😂. Cobra Commander had the last laugh. Majority of Cobra was killed and imprisoned by G.I. Joe. Cobra Commander survived and goes by the street name Old Snake in Transformers season 3.
Cobra commanderkins doesn't like being made fun of
Don't know why but Golobulus' bored "Eh, trifle melodramatic. But instructive." cracks me up. Like the dude didn't just spend the last five minutes or so hamming it up retelling the history of Cobra-La and Cobra Commander like he was reciting Richard the Third. But that's the point he thinks is over the top. XD
Now that I'm older....i just realized how creepy this really was lol
5:52 Did the king of the lizard people, with plans to turn the entire world into lizard people AND who's voiced by Burgess Meredith, SERIOUSLY just criticize something for being melodramatic? The irony at play here is nothing short of staggering.
I agree with cobra commander IT WASNT HIS FAULT DAMN IT!!!
I feel sorry for cc. That's a cruel punishment.
Yeah but Cobra Commander didn't exactly succeed at what he was supposed to succeed at doing!
TheCoolProfessor I agree
+Celeste K it's poetic in it's simplicity. "Take him away..."
That punishment was unnecessary and no one mutates cobra commanderkins
They dont make cartoons like that anymore, a shame.
Thanks for the upload.
Dennis Jakobus Got damn right
Dennis Jakobus they show don't
You mean 22 minute animated commercials for lines of toys? They sure don't make those types of cartoons anymore.
This is awesome !!!
Us 80s kids were lucky to come up when we did.
GOD BLESS
These cartoons are ahead of the very future times they depicted. They're too good.
It's a fucking cartoon show from the 1980s! It was trying to sell you toys and nothing more.
I love how he threw ALL of Cobra under the bus. "I was betrayed! My troops lacked courage!"
They would have done the same to him, infact they did just that at the beginning of the movie.
@@robertkenny1201 well to be fair (to be fair to be fair to be fair) he is about the reason they always fail.
@@PGHDude Not true there are episodes Cobra Commander isn't even in were Cobra fails.
Burgess Meredith was a pure treasure.
There will never be another like him
Ridiculous as this movie is he really nails his part
I am sorry but this trial was BS! Cobra Commander was way more successful than Serpentor. CC literally went out into the world and basically from scratch created a force that could contend with the SUPERPOWER known as the USA. Some Nothing Cobra created a Dynasty! Serpentor LITERALLY had everything handed to him and he failed at every turn. Cobra Commander deserved better than this. He had to be pushed aside by a science experiment and because of it's constant failure he is he the one who has to take the blame. In the very end Cobra Commander EARNED what he acomplished.
NEVER FORGET THE TRUE LEADER OF COBRA!!!!
Serpentor was an egomaniacal lunatic. He was also self serving and cared only for himself.
While Cobra Commander had many faults and failures under his belt, he as you said built up a large terrorist organization from scratch that could contend with the U.S and would likely be able to conquer the world if not for GI-Joe and its allies.
In contrast, Serpentor was given control of Cobra and like you said, failed at every turn despite having the best traits of numerous famous Human conquerors throughout history.
Serpentor hurt 6 of our cobra agents
Not to mention cobra commander did that TWICE. In season 1, Cobra goes bankrupt, and using cold slither, he raises enough funds to start up cobra again.
@@mikeax24 serpentor did worse
Even Cobra Commander doesn't deserve a fate like this.However, he wasn't decinagrated like Starscream.
So, he disses mankind for mastering and using an inorganic technology....plans to destroy them and then needs a piece of said manmade inorganic technology in order for the plan to work #scumbaggolobulus
isn't it ironic, don't ya think?
Timid Hobgoblin lmao 😂
Gotta love those plot holes. Same way Superman never just gives an enemy a lobotomy at any time he wants to.
Lol very hypocritical in their society if they use something we made xD But I must give praise to Burgess Meredith for his role in this movie.
@@stuartvandermerwe8548 What's even funnier is how complete bullshit it was. They are master's at biotech. They actually created a living thing that can fart things into orbit. Do you realize just how impressive that is? And considering there are things like bombardier beetles that can basically make napalm as a defense, there's no reason they couldn't make a biologic alternative to generate the heat needed to mature the spores in space.
this was some heavy shit to lay on little kids after school....
rav No it wasn't because when we were kids we weren't pussies like the kids of today are.
Burgess Meredith was amazing
I swear I thought that was his voice over!!! Thank you so much!
I was legit about to say I thought this sounded like Mickey
(Rubs eyes) A trifle melodramatic, but instructive" I love that line and vibe.
Best movie ever made
2:19 that's why you wear in-organic protective eye gear cobra commander.
Noted
I remember the night this movie aired on t.v. and although my dad is no fan of this series he did like this movie once he heard Don Johnson as the voice of Duke's brother
As a kid, I didn’t know this was the most disturbing or sexiest thing I’d ever seen. There was the body horror, but also Cobra Commander was ripping his clothes off. The spores sequence has fired my erotic imagination for decades now.
Watching this scene again, still turns me on
Those mutations spores were a creative way to kill without actually killing.
That scene where Cobra Commander gave my nightmares nightmares for decades.
Serpentor is lame. Cobra Commander is so much more interesting.
AMEN TO THAT!!!
And much sexier! 🔥
The one good thing about the DIC series was bringing him back.
James Fabiano And they’re keeping Latta as the voice actor.
What I didn’t like about that? Is Commander was way too forgiving and forgettable? He acted more Christ like than some Joes and acted more Lifeline than a disciplinarian or military leader. Mercy without justice isn’t right.
Like a lot of other people who are commenting, that scene where Cobra Commander was exposed to the spores horrified me as a kid. The pain in his screams, and how his skin changed colour like that was so disturbing
Even before the spores hit, that desperation as the pod steadily approached, bond against escape despite his struggling. Just thinking of being in that helpless position is dreadful.
Even I feel bad for what happened to Cobra Commander!
I can't believe that they did this to my cobra commanderkins no one mutates my cobra commanderkins
He ended up returning the favor when Serpentor thought he was triumphant.
Serpentor's idea to spare Cobra Commander just to throw him in with the rest of the G.I. Joe prisoners as a show of force would be a costly decision and would come back to haunt him in a big way later on. It resulted in one escaping and revealing their plan to the rest of the G.I. Joe team. And later Cobra Commander would get some serious payback on Serpentor.
Serpentor's ego cost him big time with high ranking Cobra members like Baroness and Gnawgahyde having enough of his BS and restoring Cobra Commander back to his humanoid form in which Cobra Commander took out Serpentor for good with his Python Patrol and turning him into Gnawgahyde's Iguana for Gnawgahyde to barbeque and eat.
It's a stupid decision
That's serpentor's big mistake
every third or fourth quote by Serpentor thand ends with ''This I Command"
gotta love it..
Cobra commander and starscream both had tragic ends one turned to a snake and the other crumbled to death after trying to take over as leader for so long
Yep dic softened the series up wish Sunbow didn't go out of business
“Cobra Commander, you were supposed to make the human race eat thunder and crap lightning”.
the origins of Cobra-La are straight out of a LOVECRAFT story
True
And Robert E. Howard.
Lol. The citizens of Innsmouth.
Least Megatron got upgraded into a new villain, Cobra Commander got pushed to the side while these new villains took central stage for the whole movie.
DeathofInk Yet Galvatron had his downfall to insanity.
Cobra commander was resurrected in the DIC series as stupid as it was
I paid my two-bits for ol' C.C.
@4:59 - "guilty of the one unforgivable crime - failure!" words to live by when you become an adult.
@0:30 "Be silent.....or be Silenced
That line ran chills thru my spin even now
Serpentor is like Galvatron.
This was the cartoon event of its time. It was like Avengers :Endgame. Everyone watched it. Duke was supposed to die, but they changed it last minute, and Cobra was not only explained but even justified. Brilliant writing and amazing animation for it's time.
Star Brand
You’re joking right ? This was an accident of a movie
Same with Cobra-La...
Do some research bro holy fuckin shit
@@OfLanceTheLonginus it was not an accident that was on purpose and no one mutates my cobra commanderkins
@@sharanquiett9412 No dude I mean like, when the writers were brought together with the bigshots of hasbro or w/e, they threw out this idea as just a placeholder or just a first idea, and the bigshots were like "Yup thats perfect to us! Do it!" and the writers soon realized their massive fucking mistake. Hence why suddenly the commander of a terrorist organization is a mutant coming from a goddamn prehistoric society
@@OfLanceTheLonginus the name is cobra viper Sherrie
@@OfLanceTheLonginus cobra commander is my leader
@justiladil1: Cobra Commander did return to the series after the movie dude... He was turned back into humanoid form thanks to Baroness. And when he returned, he overthrew Serpentor, captured him, mutated him into a iguana, and re-took control of Cobra. I hated the character Serpentor...
Cobra Commander Got His Revenge On Serpentor.
@@mikedski9698No great betrayal goes unpunished in Cobra.
"Cobra-La is prepared for any dangers when it comes to mind."
Golobulus.
I can see why this movie was so good as well as all cartoons from the 1980s- JAPAN did the overseas to the cartoons. If only they did the overseas to all cartoons nowadays.
toei animation same studio that does dragonball z did this and transformers the animated movie
This movie made no sense on so many levels. The people of Cobra-La were not driven into exile by mankind. It was the Ice Age that drove them underground. Why they didn't emerge after the Ice Age ended is beyond me. The revelation that Cobra Commander came from Cobra-La was dumb and nearly destroyed the GI Joe mythos. And they sent a scientist to lead an army? Well that explains why Cobra Commander failed so much. Remember Starscream was a scientist too. And even if the spores were released from orbit, they would have burned up on re-entry. So burning them up with BET at the end was redundant.
Here's another thing. Shouldn't\wouldn't CC's mask contain a biofilter of some kind? How could the spores affect him?
It was a terrible story. Everything about it went to the opposite of G.I. Joe to weirdo land. The Marvel comics made more sense.
You all realise that we are only saying these things because are older, smarter and can think critically. Back then we swallowed what they told us hook, line and sinker
The real question is why on Earth did Cobra-La based their entire comeback on a scientist to lead a human army? A human army that uses modern, inorganic technology? If their way of life is superior, they should have given the scientist their own technology.
Plus, Cobra Commander made it clear in the previous seasons that the only reason Cobra seeks to rule the world is to put Cobra Commander on top. He wasn't going to share power to begin with. And in the episode where the Joes visited an alternate universe where Cobra won, Cobra-La was nowhere to be seen. All Cobra did as the new world power was make statues of their dear leader, Cobra Commander.
Everything you said is spot on, except if the spores were light enough they could float down slowly enough not to burn up.
Wow. Very interesting back story and a cruel terrifying punishment. Memorable
"...to the level of mindless beasts." TELL EM Pythona!
Pythona was mean to my cobra commanderkins
I lived in Germany in the 80’s and actually they aired both this movie and Transformers the Movie in the movie theater. Still remember before the movie came on, we would stand for the pledge and then they would play the Star Spangled Banner. Such a better idea than previews!
Hearing Burgess Meredith’s voice is soothing…watched him as penguin as Micky and in this…miss the 80’s!
Cobra Commander should've said how they substituted Sun Tzu's DNA in the creation of Serpentor with the Joe Sgt. Slaughter, and how he tried to destroy it. That might have been news to them, trial might've went a bit differently.
Knowing burgess meredith played him I'm half expecting him to say yerr gonna eat lihghtning, yerr gonna crap thunder
Such A great voice actor
" You were my hope Cobra Commander....
But now you've become nothing but a no-good stinkin' bum!!!"
Comic book version of cobra commander is way more smarter and ruthless then the cartoon version.
That's saying something
By the time the animated cartoon was created, Destro had somehow become the main villain and Cobra Commander was more of a figurehead. (This was the sort of relationship that Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine seemed to have in the original versions of 1977's "Star Wars" and 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back." Destro seemed to copycat Vader's voice initially.)
"WAIT FOR MEEE!!"
Was hoping Cobra Commander would blame his failures on Starscream
I like the movie, but it really went against what was hinted at in the cartoon. It was a really weird direction for Hasbro to take it. Really, I think Cobra Commander suffered the worst character wise. I would have preferred if he was simply the human puppet leader of Cobra rather than some snake person.
I felt bad for Cobra Commander, an ultimately harmless, incompetent, funny megalomaniac. Baroness & Co. were the REAL threats
The original idea for the movie sounded a lot better when I listened to the Commentary by Hama during the movie
Amazing animation!
despite everything, cobra commander managed to keep cobra running for years. serpentor ran it into the ground
Mutating and stealing my cobra commanderkins was pythona's biggest and dumbest mistake
Spare him this mockery of justice !
Cobra-La has evolved past the point of chairs.
CHRIS .... the only one worthy of the mantle of CC and STAR
no one else will ever come close.
Not even Charlie Adler or Steven Blum?
role examples mike ??
+RAVEN STAR Adler did them both in resolute, renegades, and the live action transformers while Blum did a rather enticing voice in Prime.
sorrry mike , but you mean the A-TEAM doncha ;)
i didnt expect zartan to be a member of SAMcro lol .
live action transformers ?? the only thing i remember is BAYformers 1-3 that had FIRST AID, GUNG HO , SHIPWRECK and FLINT in the first movie... there wasnt COBRA COMMANDER in that at all .
thats the closest we will ever come to a JOE VS TF movie
Adler voiced Cobra Commander in Renegades and Resolute while he played Starscream in the Bay Transformers. Blum voiced Starscream in Transformers Prime.
Anyone else notice that Snake Eyes STILL had his sword?
Fact: Golobulus was voiced by Burgess Meredith, best known as Mickey from the Rocky films. Nemesis Enforcer was voiced by Peter Cullen, who voiced Airborne, Zandar and Ramar in the cartoon but is best known as the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.
Everybody who has seen the movie and can read the end credits already knows this "Fact".
Fact: You’re being rude and an internet troll.
Cobra La reminds me of something from a Lovecraft story.
Lovecraft was one of the few things inspired for Cobra-La, kinda surprised no one considered Golobuls as an Eldritch Terror in universe of the G.I Joe 80s movie.
Is that the voice of Mick, from the original Rocky? Dude, with the eye patch sounds just like him???
Yes. That's Burgess Meredith as Golobulous.
Derrick Threex The Penguin himself.
Golobulous.: Your A Bum Cobra A Bum.
excellent voice acting
Donald Coscarelli it's him...Burgess Meredith
I can't stop seeing Rocky's trainer Mick
Well it the same guy
and the transformers were unaware of this spore attack on earth.
why there wasnt no tf GI Joe crossover is beyond me
@chris edwards fun fact Cobra Commander did a cameo in Transformers G1 Season 3
They were in Colorado under a mountain
Serpentor was flawed. He was missing Sun Tzu's DNA which makes him prone to being impulsive.
That is true and yet he used Cobra Commander as a scapegoat.
@stainshield It was probably one of Serpentor's greatest strengths. Find someone else to take the blame and in that case, the brief trial and punishment.
That Burgess Meredith?
Nolan Fultz Yup. :)
he killed it in this.
Nolan Fultz Yes
+Mr. Ubiboy Best of the big two.
Yup. He nailed it.
I actually named a save file for Legend of Grimrock 2 after 5:15. It was a moment in the game where you have to fight these human-sized sentient mushrooms who spray spores in your party's faces to injure them.
Save scum? Nah, save spores.
I wish this Animated Movie was released in Theaters
In the original movie script, Serpentor was supposed to die after his air chariot blows up, thanks to Lt. Falcon.
If Golobuls hated humans so much why would he come up with the plan of making a composite clone of mankind's greatest dictators to become the new Cobra emperor and implant that skill into Dr. Mindbender's brain? Then he allied himself with Cobra which was comprised of humans. Last but not least he needed the Beta Energy Transmitter which was built by humans to fulfill his evil schemes.
Because he didn't have the means himself. And as the saying goes, "The enemy of my enemy could be my friend."
No! No! Not the spores! NOT THE SPORES!!!!
this movie is great
This cartoon was ahead of its time !
The only thing I hated about the Commander's return is that he didn't torture Serpentor. If I were Commander, I would've hung Serpentor out on a pole in front of Cobra and tortured him for days.
This animation was so dope. They look realistic. Anime style is cool but I get more into the story with this style
Crazy that Burgess Meredith was in his eighties while performing here 😮.
"Though disfigured..."
LOOK WHO'S TALKING!!!