#megaforce

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Barry Bostwick and Persis Khambatta - Megaforce (1982)

[lunarskye]

Power Rangers 30th Anniversary

[angele-darliing]

I think Damaras looks so badass but he’s from super megaforce so that’s kinda sad. I may be drawing more power ranger villains.

[therobotmonster]

STREET FIGHTER (1994) Is the best live action GIJoe Movie yet made.

This is likely because it was very obviously a declined G.I.Joe script rapidly reworked to be a Street Fighter movie, to the point elements of the Cobra Island arc and the episode "Iceberg Goes South" are blatantly present.

(you can hear them wanting to say "Cobra, a Ruthless Terrorist Organization Determined to Rule the World" in that text scroll)

To this point:

All of Guile's dialog sound entirely natural coming out of Duke. Every M. Bison line sounds like a Cobra Commander rant. You've got a bald arms dealer with a unique facial accessory watching his own ass while supplying main bad, am I describing Sagat or Destro? (The answer is yes.)

You've got a tech-head baddie who acts as a snarky Greek chorus and is solely driven by money, Dee-Jay is the Crimson Twins.

Cammy fills Scarlett's Role (hello, I am girl, I hit things) but could be Lady Jaye, Chun Li is an amalgam of Jinx and Covergirl (I'd bet money if we found the original Joe script this was reworked from 'Jinx gets put in a sexy red dress' would have been in there.)

But it's not just the mains.

The Blanka storyline is flat out the animal-hybrid Neoviper plot from "Iceberg Goes South" right down to a coerced scientist of color with a strong accent turning a captured hero into a monstrous manimal mutant. In the cartoon Iceberg is mutated into a sentient orca, but it was also full of evil furries that are far closer to what Carlos Blanka becomes. Dr. Mindbender's lines are all handed to Cobra Commander M Bison to keep the cast trim, but it's the same dang story.

The Ken/Ryu subplot features a Ken/Ryu pair that plays like a mix of Quick Kick, Lt. Falcon and Snake-Eyes, rolled into 2 characters into three, with Vega being Storm Shadow here.

The B-Squad is less specifically Joeish, except for T. Hawk being Spirit Ironknife. Sagawa was added into the script later in development due to Capcom plans, so he has no G.I.Joe analogue. Zangief's archetype would have been filled by whatever dumb Cobra goon (my money is on Big Boa or Ripper) Hasbro wanted to sell as part of a movie assortment.

Along the same line, E. Honda and Balrog could have been anyone. If I were re-adapting it into a Joe movie I'd put them as Dial-Tone and Roadblock, for reasons of iconic-ness and their cover as cameramen/techs for Chun-Li, but they're too vague to really nail down compared to the others.

And yeah, I could just settle on the cast as evidence, but there's also the presence of a high-speed boat chase as a major set piece in a movie called "Street Fighter", and the fact that, not to be deterred, Hasbro turned it into a G.I.Joe toyline ANYWAY.

So yeah, Street Fighter (1994) is the best live action G.I.Joe Movie, quite possibly intentionally.

Ice never sinks in it, for one.

In case you're wondering, the second best is MegaForce.

But if anything, Megaforce would have influenced GI-Joe:RAH, not the other way around.

[matt0044]

Gokaiger This, Gokaiger that.

What about Goseiger? That got fucked over by Megaforce too.

[suesheck]

enough with the team conrad or team jeremiah drama. let's bring back REAL discourse, like who is the best red ranger in all of power rangers

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[yodaprod]

1982