Editing Flint (G.I. Joe)

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:''Flint is a member of [[G.I. Joe]] from the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[Image:Flint-G2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|*ptui* *ping!*]]
'''Flint''' is a warrant officer and occasional field leader for the counter-terrorist team G.I. Joe.  His real name is ([[Flint (G.I. Joe)|usually]]) Dashiell R. Faireborn. He was born in Wichita, Kansas.

He is (sometimes) the son of [[Nathaniel Faireborn]] and the father of [[Marissa Faireborn]].

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====Generation 1 cartoon====
:''Voice Actor:'' [[Bill Ratner]] (English), [[Takurō Kitagawa]] (Japanese)

{{note|Because of the romantic relationship shown between Flint and fellow [[G.I. Joe]] operative [[Lady Jaye]], it is possible that Jaye might be Marissa Faireborn's mother, although she is never mentioned or seen.}}
[[Image:Flint-Season3.jpg|left|180px|thumb|60-year-old Flint sports the latest in 2006 clothing.]]
In the year 2006, Dashiell Faireborn was still quite active. Although usually busy with his duties (whatever those may be), he occassionally took enough time off to visit with his daughter, [[Marissa Faireborn|Marissa]]. At least, he did it often enough that young Marissa was not ''immediately'' suspicious when a [[Quintesson]] used an elaborate hologram of her father to trick her on board its ship for examination and eventual dissection.

Judging from Marissa's reaction when told that her father was visiting, it can be assumed that she and Flint have a very loving, if not particularly close, relationship.  {{storylink|The Killing Jar|The Killing Jar}}

{{note|Marissa's father is not named in "The Killing Jar", the episode in which his holographic double appears, nor in the script for the episode, where he is referred to only as "Civilian". His identity was suggested by his voice actor, Bill Ratner, who played Flint on the ''G.I. Joe'', and the shared surname between Flint and Marissa; this would later be confirmed by the Sunbow master Cast List, which notes that he is a "60 year old Flint."}}
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====Binaltech====
In the year 2004, a Binaltech replacement body designed for the wounded [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] had somehow been used to revive the [[Decepticon]], [[Dead End (G1)|Dead End]]. 

Fearful that unjust suspicions amongst the Binaltech Project collaborators would completely derail the joint venture, the information about the Decepticon Binaltech was supressed. "[[Operation: Carwash]]" was then launched, whereby a special team of experts led by '''D. R. Faireborn''' conducted secret inquiries while [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] investigated on his own.

D. R. Faireborn's inquiry led him to the [[Concurrence]], a group of villainous humans who seek to eventually rid the solar system of all Transformers.  He also learned that the Concurrence had teamed up with the Decepticons to achieve their goal, and that they had used an advanced combination of [[Dr. Arkeville]]'s hypno-chips and [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell's]] cerebro-shells to brainwash innocent Binaltech Project scientists into reviving injured Decepticons for them. This information, he noted, should go straight to commander [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] at [[Metroplex (G1)|Autobot City]] as soon as possible, so that the mind control devices could be found and nullified.

Faireborn ended his transmitted report on an anxious note, worried that Concurrence agents would soon be on him. However, he made sure to remind the recipients to keep his cover story up - to tell his family that he'd be enjoying himself at the Lunar Colony for a little while longer.

===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Marvel US====
=====''G.I. Joe Starring Snake-Eyes And The Transformers''=====
Flint was present at a temporary [[G.I. Joe]] base-camp that was set up outside of [[Millville]], New York. The Joes had been staking out the town after being tipped off about a [[Cobra]] air armada being on the move - an armada, they would soon learn, that included [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]].

=====''Generation 2''=====
The [[Decepticon]] army, under [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s full command once more, relentlessly attacked the Earth in an attempt to draw out [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. [[London]], [[Moscow]], [[Tokyo]], [[Washington, D.C.]]... the Decepticons' carnage was global, the entire planet becoming a smoldering ruin before them.

The U.S. Army was in shambles. The [[G.I. Joe]] team, under the command of [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|General Hawk]], was given the task of salvaging the dwindling counter-offensive.

Flint was present as Hawk voiced his fears about  humanity's chance of survival; unless [[Skydive (G1 Aerialbot)|Skydive]] could get them significant reinforcements, they were done for. Interrupting Hawk in mid-sentence came both Skydive and Optimus Prime... which caused Flint to wonder if Skydive knew that "significant" meant "more than one".

Skydive tried to explain that Optimus was no ordinary Autobot, but Prime cut him off. The Autobot leader went on to explain his reasoning to Hawk and Flint, saying that a full-scale conflict would only make things worse. Optimus hoped to speak to Megatron, to make him aware of an even [[Jhiaxus (G2)|greater evil]] that threatened them all... which Flint promptly spat at, figuring the giant killer robot wasn't in a listening mood.

{{note|The catastrophic events depicted on Earth in the ''Transformers: Generation 2'' series did not seem to have any effect on the regular ''G.I. Joe'' comic book.}}

====Marvel UK====
On [[Earth-120185]], '''Flint''' is '''David R. Faireborn''', born in Lincoln, England. As the field commander of [[G.I. Joe|Action Force]], the London-based European command of the organization known in America as [[G.I. Joe]], Flint occasionally found himself encountering the [[Autobot|Autobots]] and [[Decepticon|Decepticons]].

When exploring a mysterious report of giant creatures in the [[Roman]] sewers under [[London]] with archaeologist [[Dr. Susan Hoffman|Susan Hoffman]], Flint and the Action Force encountered first the [[Protectobot (G1)|Protectobot]] [[Blades (G1)|Blades]], and then, more ominously, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. 

Believed dead when a space bridge overloaded, the Decepticon leader had instead been transported into the sewers, where he had been wandering ever since (or so it seemed at the time: this was later revealed to be a different Decepticon, named [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]], who was controlling a cloned body of Megatron's). 

Flint bore witness to the final battle of the noble [[Centurion (Marvel)|Centurion]], who fought the Decepticon leader to a standstill, and was proud to honour the noble sacrifice of yet another old soldier.

===''Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front''===
Flint's father, [[Nathaniel Faireborn]], served alongside [[Duke]].  

In 1985, a G.I. Joe team led by Flint attacked a Cobra shipping facility.  While the facility was largely destroyed, [[Destro]] and [[Scrap-Iron]] managed to escape via [[Trouble Bubble]], an act that led to Flint being reprimanded by Duke.  Soon afterwards, the Joes detected the crash of an [[Autobot]] shuttlecraft near [[Portland]].  Flint was sent to retrieve it with a team of rookies, and managed to repel a Cobra strike team and recover an unconscious [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]].  Hours later, Flint's team was briefed by Duke, [[Stalker (G.I. Joe)|Stalker]], and [[Scarlett]] on the threat posed by the [[Transformers]].

{{note|While it was never ''explicitly'' stated, it appears that Nathaniel Faireborn was the Flint from the 1930s.}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[Image:Flintblackhorizon.jpg|left|275px|thumb|]]
Flint, with [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]] help, defeated [[Unicron]] by unleashing fungus in his brain. Screw the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]!  {{storylink|Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2|Black Horizon Part 2}}

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==Trivia==
*[http://www.tfarchive.com/cartoons/japanese/pioneer/SDLDpostmovie.jpg A group shot] drawn by [[Hidetsugu Yoshioka]] as cover art for [[Pioneer]]'s ''[[Transformers 2010]]'' laserdisk set mistakenly features fellow ''G.I. Joe'' character [[Duke]] as a flag-waving incidental character in the crowd rather than Flint.

==External links==
*[http://www.yojoe.com/action/85/flint.shtml Flint at YoJoe.com]

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