Snake-Eyes

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:''Snake-Eyes is a [[human]] member of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[Image:OptimusSnakeEyes.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Your fans are [[Ruined FOREVER|bitching]] about your live-action mouth too?"<br>"...."<br>"I hear you, brother."]]
'''Snake-Eyes''' is a ninja that is a prominent member of the [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] team. He is also romantically involved with [[Scarlett]].

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
Snake-Eyes was one of the Joes stationed at Fort Lewis in Seattle to guard [[Power Station Alpha]], the world's first mobile solar/nuclear power station. The base was attacked by the [[Dreadnok]]s and also investigated by the [[Autobot]]s and the [[Decepticon]]s. Snake-Eyes managed to shut down Alpha after it was set moving by the Decepticon [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], {{storylink|Blood on the Tracks}} then was part of the team who tried to deal with the angry Autobot [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]. {{storylink|Power Struggle}} Snake-Eyes remained stationed at Fort Lewis and subsequently had to work in an alliance with Cobra against the Decepticons. {{storylink|...All Fall Down!}}

[[Image:SnakeeyesinG2.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[Cobra Viper]]'s blood supplied by Super Nintendo!]]

Years later, Snake-Eyes was part of [[Ninja Force]], a team of, er, ninjas. Unfortunately for him, around this time he had to stab fellow Ninja Force member [[Scarlett]], a spy within COBRA, to preserve her cover. {storylink|Unfoldings!}} When COBRA upgraded [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and transported the captured [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']] to [[Milleville]], Snake-Eyes and his team were sent in. {{storylink|Goin' South}} He fought the [[Night Creeper Leader]]. {{storylink|Sucker Punch}}

Later, Snake-Eyes and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] tried to help [[Hot Spot (G1)|Hot Spot]] in destroying the alien technology Cobra had obtained, but Hot Spot was wounded and chose to activate his self-destruct rather than risk being captured. {{storylink|All or Nothing!}}
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===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
The [[United States military|soldier]] nicknamed "Snake-Eyes" enjoyed a reputation among his military comrades for being incredibly talkative, enough so that the other soldiers bet on how long he could shut up during a mission to [[Washington, D.C.]] When the city was attacked by [[Cobra]]'s [[Transformer|giant robots]], Snake-Eyes opened fire on [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], who in turn blasted him with a giant laser. While Snake-Eyes survived, his face was hideously scarred and he lost his ability to speak. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}} It later turned out that Snake-Eyes's parents and twin sister had been killed in the same attack, and with nothing to live for but revenge, Snake-Eyes got [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] to pull some strings and let him join [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. After donning a ninja outfit, he impressed the rest of the Joes by defeating both [[Quick Kick]] and [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] during a sparring session. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}}

[[Image:Starscream snakeeyes eye gouge.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Relax Starscream, it could be worse.]]

Whilst defending the [[SPS Research Facility]] from a Cobra attack, Snake-Eyes decapitated [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] with his sword. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}} Along with the other Joes, he later boarded a plane to [[Cobra Island]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}} After airdropping onto the island with a hang-glider, Snake-Eyes met his former attacker, Starscream. While the [[Decepticon]] was busy taunting him, the ninja sliced open his eye and shoved a grenade in it, thereby getting his revenge. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} Snake-Eyes later helped fight [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] by throwing something at his leg. When Cobra and the Decepticons were defeated, the [[Autobot]]s thanked them for their help by providing Snake-Eyes and a few others with [[G.I. Joe battle mech|battle mechs]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

G.I. Joe continued to hunt down stray Cobra members, and two years later, Snake-Eyes helped stop the [[Dreadnok]]s from trading Cybertronian technology in [[Boston]] by using his mech suit to rip the turret off a Cobra vehicle. Without the mech, he later participated in an attack on a different Cobra project, and ended up being teleported to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] when Cobra's wormhole technology malfunctioned. The Joes and Cobras stuck on the planet learned that [[Teletran 3]] had placed Earth in severe danger, and that they only way to save their planet was by retrieving several Transformers that had been lost in different points Earth's timeline. Together with [[Lady Jaye]], [[Zartan]] and enemy ninja [[Storm Shadow]], Snake-Eyes traveled to 1970s [[San Francisco]] and disguised himself with a hat that handily shadowed his face at all times. After locating four time-lost Transformers, the team returned to present-day Cybertron. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1}} Snake-Eyes silently looked on as Lady Jaye and Roadblock offered to sneak past [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and save the day, and later returned to Earth along with everyone else. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #4}}

After the time travel issues, it was decided that humans probably shouldn't have access to Cybertronian technology after all, and Snake-Eyes's mech suit was set to be decommissioned. At [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]], [[Scarlett]] offered to play a final game of "robo-tag" with Snake-Eyes before they got rid of their mechs, but they were interrupted when the facility was attacked by Cobra. With help from a visiting team of Autobots, the Joes fought back against Cobra's [[Battle Android Trooper]]s. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} They later met the powerhungry biological android [[Serpent O.R.]], who took control of Snake-Eyes's mech and forced it to fire on Scarlett. In the aftermath, the ninja was devastated when Scarlett was nowhere to be found, but she quickly turned out to be okay. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

Together with Scarlett, [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]], Roadblock and the Autobot team, Snake-Eyes followed Serpent O.R. to Cybertron, where his firepower proved completely useless against a [[cannibalizer]]. By the time the group found Serpent O.R., the android had already recruited dozens of Decepticons for his cause, and Snake-Eyes and the others were captured. In captivity, he and Scarlett shared a tender moment, as she saw past his damaged face and kissed him. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 3|The Art of War #3}} After that, Snake-Eyes just sat down and stared blankly into a wall, attracting the attention of their guard, [[Breakdown (G1)|Breakdown]]. When Breakdown looked in his eyes, Snake-Eyes used an [[Arashikage]] hypnotism technique on the Decepticon to force him into breaking them out of jail. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 4|The Art of War #4}}

After freeing the other prisoners, Snake-Eyes fought his way through the Decepticon base, at one point stabbing [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]] through the eyes to save Hawk. As Overkill let it slip that Serpent O.R. had captured [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], the Joes and Autobots went to save him. When they arrived in Serpent O.R.'s control room, they found that [[Cobra Commander]] had taken control of Serpent O.R.'s body; he used its tentacles to simultaneously knock out Snake-Eyes and [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. After Hawk managed to defeat Serpent O.R., Snake-Eyes continued his game of tag with Scarlett, only this time without giant mechs. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 5|The Art of War #5}}

A few months later, Snake-Eyes was part of a team of Joes sent to stop [[Destro]] from selling [[S.N.A.K.E.]]'s in [[Cuba]], but found that the Autobots had already dealt with it before they arrived. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 1}} The Joes were later sent to [[Tibet]], where Snake-Eyes fought against [[Cobra-La]]'s [[Royal Guard]]. {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2|Black Horizon, Part 2}}

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
In his youth, Snake-Eyes was part of the [[Arashikage]] clan alongside [[Storm Shadow|Stormshadow]] {{sic}}, but one day, he somehow ashamed Stormshadow before the clan. He left the clan in an attempt to spare Stormshadow further shame, but the enraged ninja took revenge on Snake-Eyes by taking away his ability to speak. {{storylink|Wolves}}

Snake-Eyes grew up, and in 1939, he enlisted with the newly formed [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]. [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] was not amused when the ninja identified himself by throwing dice at him. During his first day with the Joes, Snake-Eyes pointed out to [[Duke]] that they were being [[Laserbeak (G1)|spied on]], and started watching [[Scarlett]] from the shadows. The very next day, they were sent to attack [[Cobra]]'s headquarters on the [[Fera Islands]], where Snake-Eyes was reunited with Stormshadow, who wouldn't mind some more revenge. {{storylink|The Line}} Snake-Eyes attacked his old comrade, but was blinded and repeatedly cut in the face. Stormshadow was chased off by [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]], but Snake-Eyes refused to come back with him for medical care—their medic was Scarlett, and he didn't want her to see his injured face. Chasing after Stormshadow, he found and killed several Cobra troops, and used their ammunition to cauterize his wounds using fire. While this stopped the blood loss, it scarred his face even further. After grabbed a sword and a helmet from an old suit of armor, he confronted Stormshadow again, only to be attacked by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]]. {{storylink|Transformed}}

Snake-Eyes bested the robotic cat and the Cobra soldiers sent his way, finally getting into an honorable fistfight with Stormshadow. He was victorious, but Stormshadow ran off again. {{storylink|Trial by Fire (issue)|Trial by Fire}} He soon reappeared and attacked Snake-Eyes with a halberd, causing both of them to fall off a cliff into the ocean. As Snake-Eyes struggled with Stormshadow and reminisced about how they were once brothers, a giant shark appeared and attacked them. {{storylink|Wolves}} Snake-Eyes survived and carried the fatally injured Stormshadow out of the water, where he realized the error of his ways before passing away. Making his way back to the other Joes, Snake-Eyes was attacked by Ravage again, but killed him easily. Upon reuniting with the team, he refused to talk to Scarlett, still not wanting her to see his face. {{storylink|Trenches}}

However, he soon got over it, and swam to the Cobra [[Terrordrome]] alongside Scarlett. Snake-Eyes planned to take out the enemy's [[Shockwave (G1)|main cannon]], but instead found [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. Dodging the giant's destruction, the two made their way to his creators, [[Destro]] and the [[Baroness]], and captured them. Next, Snake-Eyes took the [[Matrix of Leadership]] from [[Cobra Commander]]'s corpse, only to be attacked by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] for it. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] came to his rescue, keeping Megatron busy and ordering the ninja to smash the Matrix in an attempt to destroy the unstoppable Bruticus. Snake-Eyes complied, tossing the artifact at Bruticus's swinging fists and causing a flash of light that deactivated all the Transformers. As the other Joes reflected on Prime's sacrifice, Snake-Eyes embraced Scarlett. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

Over five decades later, Snake-Eyes participated in an attack on a Cobra smuggling facility in [[New York]], and was sent running for his life when Cobra defended themselves using [[Flight Pod]]s. A while later, he and several other Joes were sent to investigate a mysterious crash site in [[Oregon]]. They found that Cobra troopers were already there stealing stuff, so Snake-Eyes helped take out a few of them. {{storylink|Targets of Opportunity}}

{{note|Much like [[Destro]], it's entirely possible the Snake-Eyes in ''[[Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front]]'' was not the ninja we know and love, but perhaps somebody else was under the mask acting in the same role. As [[Dreamwave]] went bankrupt after the first issue, we'll never know for sure.}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Snake-Eyes was a video game character in ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]'', a fight game enjoyed by [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. {{storylink|Where Is Thy Sting?}}

===IDW comics continuity===
A young boy named [[Jimmy (young boy)|Jimmy]] was busy playing with a Snake-Eyes action figure when [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] suddenly broke into his room. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}}

==Merchandise==
[[Image:SnakeEyes_OptimusPrime_statue.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
*'''Snake-Eyes & Optimus Prime Statue''' (2007)

:First revealed at the 2006 UK Toy Fair, [[First 4 Figures]] produced a statue based on the cover of [[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|issue 1]] of ''[[G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers]]'', featuring Snake-Eyes standing in the palm of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in his HISS tank body.
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==Notes==
*Snake-Eyes was (and is) a ''hugely'' popular character in the comics. By the time the G2 crossover took place, he'd usurped the cover box and the cover title read "G.I. Joe Featuring '''SNAKE-EYES'''".

==External links==
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/82/snakeeyes.shtml Snake Eyes at Yojoe.com]
*[http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=F4F10016&mode=retail Snake-Eyes & Optimus Prime Statue order page (sold out)]

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