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Events in italics were originally presented as part of IDW's G.I. Joe universe, a separate continuity from their Transformers titles. For the Revolution event in 2016, the G.I. Joe and Transformers universes were retconned into both being part of a larger "Hasbro Universe".

1309

The earliest known Commander of Cobra is inspired by the writings of Cobra agent Dante Alighieri, whose Divine Comedy serves as an allegory for Cobra and its dealings, to expand the organization's pursuits into newly discovered lands and new areas of science and learning. Inferno

1320

Dante completes and publishes the Divine Comedy. Cobra Commander sadly has his old friend poisoned for risking revealing Cobra to the world, concluding that the virtuous future Dante had envisioned for Cobra would never come to be. Inferno

1800

Following the deaths of his family at the hands of the Dire Wraiths, Rom K'atsema of Elonia joins the Solstar Order to take the fight to them. On his homeworld, he discovers a mysterious ore, anathema to the Wraiths, that forms itself into a symbiotic armor around his body. The Solstar Order uses this ore to found its order of Space Knights. Cold Fire Revolutionaries #1 timeline

Shortly afterwards, the Dire Wraiths discover Earth, drawn to Shockwave's supplies of Ore-13 to amplify their powerful dark magic. The New Colossus Using their shapeshifting talents, Dire Wraith scouts begin infiltrating the worlds' governments and militaries, preparing for an eventual encounter with the Space Knight. Earthfall: Part Three

1994

After years of augmentation to his body by Garrison Kreiger, Mike Power reactivates the Talisman, causing a surge of energy and the reappearance of both the Axalon and a confused Sgt. Savage. Before explanations can be provided, the Adventure Team — now rechristened the "Adventure Force" — storm the facility to shut down Krieger's experiments; team member Stalker does not detect any signs of life from Mike Power's body, and the team is incorrectly left to believe that Power has died. When Eagles Scream

1994-2006

Sgt. Savage has totally radical adventures throughout the decade, teaming up with the contemporary Action Man's Team Extreme and fighting ninja, mutants eco-terrorists, and skateboard gangs! When Eagles Scream

At some point, a mission by incumbent Action Man Mike Brogan prevents the Action Man Programme's arch-nemesis Doctor X from using a chemical compound to mutate college students. In the mission's aftermath, the head of intel for the Action Man Programme Mercy Gale discovers the body of Doctor X in the wreckage caused by Action Man's entry, and, covering up his death, takes his place as the new Doctor X in order to effect real change instead of just reacting to supervillains' schemes. Mr Love and Justice

1999

A genius psychologist serving in the United States military murders his family and deserts the army, taking with him a cache of explosives and ordnance. Over the seven years that follow, he goes on to build a fortune on pyramid schemes as a Wall Street broker. G.I. Joe: Origins #1

2006

General Clayton Abernathy — codenamed "Hawk" — forms the Joint Services Special Counterterrorist Group, a secretive counter-terrorism unit whose members are taken from the most elite members of the military and legally declared dead for secrecy. His first recruits are Shana O'Hara, given the name Scarlett, and the former Adventure Team member Lonzo "Stalker" Wilkison. G.I. Joe: Origins #1

Joshua Red and Skywatch bring in Joe Colton and Garrison Kreiger to run their Mount St. Helens base, Project: Hot House. The Skywatch team manages to revive the incapacitated Decepticon Bugly, but the Transformer escapes, bringing him into conflict with the newly-formed G.I. Joe; meanwhile, Sgt. Savage arrives in response to a priority distress beacon sent by Colton and Kreiger. Kreiger's ally Centurion defeats Bugly and brings the Decepticon, the Joes and Savage back to the base, and inside, Kreiger has Centurion chain Bugly to the Talisman and throw Savage at it, destroying the Decepticon and flinging Savage into the future once more; the destruction of Bugly proves to Colton and Kreiger that the Talisman can be used as a weapon. When Eagles Scream

Hawk's next recruit to G.I. Joe is Sergeant Conrad Hauser, given the new name "Duke", selected for his heroic defense of a supply convoy in Trucial. In or Out? At around the same time, the former psychologist who deserted the army has his finances ruined by the collapse of one of his pyramid schemes; visiting a Las Vegas plastic surgery clinic, he has his face reconstructed in order to build a new life, but is recognised by his former military ally Snake Eyes. The man blows up the clinic to erase the evidence of his new identity, but Snake Eyes survives and is recruited by G.I. Joe. G.I. Joe: Origins #1 Revolutionaries #1 timeline The team manage to kill Chimera and prevent the release of a nerve toxin in 10 major cities, but have no time to also stop the release of financial information that would trigger a subprime mortgage crisis. Origins #5

In the aftermath of their first mission, the team takes the abandoned base Chimera was operating out of as their headquarters, and is informally named "G.I. Joe" after Joe Colton, with his blessing. Origins #5 Secret Raiders Not long afterwards, Sergeant Marvin Hinton manages to track his cousin — a founding member of G.I. Joe codenamed Heavy Duty — to the base after assuming him to be dead, and is inducted into the team himself under the codename of Roadblock. G.I. Joe vol. 3 #11

G.I. Joe agent Mainframe, bed-bound after an injury in the field, discovers consistent references to "Cobra" in various terrorist communications. Unable to convince his superiors of his theory that Cobra is a major player driving the happenings of the terrorist underworld, Mainframe goes AWOL in order to investigate Cobra alone. As a parting message, he warns the Joes to "beware Rangoon". Origins #7

Soldier Michael Monk, who served alongside Duke in Trucial, Threat Matrix 3 of 4 is recruited into Cobra by psychologist Lester Horvath, following the discovery that he ranks as an incredibly rare "1" on Horvath's Lome System. Horvath places Monk under high-ranking Cobra member Krake, secretly hoping to sabotaging the terrifyingly brilliant member of High Command, and is eventually killed by Monk for acting outside of Cobra's interests — though not before informing Monk of his intentions, and the fact that Krake has had Monk's family imprisoned in Section Ten. Sedition by Numbers

2008

Following a mission to Rangoon that ends in disaster and a battle with his old Arashikage clan brother Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes goes AWOL from G.I. Joe to investigate Cobra, though he retains back-channel communications with Scarlett. G.I. Joe #6

2009-10

After the Decepticon invasion, Action Man Programme director Patrick Cain steps down and is replaced by Pauline Bestley. Pauline Bestley profile

Cobra commissions Laird James "Destro" McCullen to create the M.A.S.S. device, a teleporter allowing instantaneous transport across the world; however, his theory is flawed, and he is forced to seal himself into a metal containment suit to survive after testing the device on himself. For his failure, Destro is brought to Cobra's arctic "Section Zero" base to fix his creation or die. G.I. Joe #6 The Betrayers Part 4 At the same time, Cobra High Command members Tomax and Xamot Paoli are hired to provide intelligence on G.I. Joe for Colonel Shtern, who wishes to create a Russian counterpart to the team. Oktober Guard, Part 3

Undercover G.I. Joe agent Chuckles infiltrates Cobra, unaware of its true nature. Though he is outplayed by the Paoli brothers, G.I. Joe: Cobra his intelligence helps convince Hawk that Cobra is real, leading to Snake Eyes and Mainframe being reinstated as Joes. The Betrayers Part 6 Destro completes the M.A.S.S. device with the help of Doctors Mindbender and Orizama, but is imprisoned in the Section Ten gulag for his insolence; G.I. Joe vol. 1 #16 however, he manages to depose the warden Major Bludd and take over, bargaining with Cobra Commander for freedom and power. G.I. Joe vol. 1 #19 Cobra puts M.A.S.S. into use for theft, assassination, extortion, and even creating "Section Sabine", a base in the Sabine crater on the moon.G.I. Joe vol. 1 #16 In response to Cobra's use of the M.A.S.S. device, the G.I. Joe team undergoes retraining under Snake Eyes. G.I. Joe vol. 1 #19

Hawk deploys a new recruit to G.I. Joe, codenamed "Chameleon", to locate and retrieve Chuckles, who has gone off the grid; she is unable to persuade him to return, but brings back Cobra defector Erika Le Tene, half-sister of the Baroness. G.I. Joe: Cobra II In exchange for asylum, Erika joins the Joes, taking on the codename of her rescuer (who quit the team in disgust) and becoming the new Chameleon. Cobra: Special #2 Chuckles is captured by Cobra Commander, who seeks to truly recruit him into Cobra. G.I. Joe: Cobra II

Hawk recruits a civilian to the G.I. Joe team, Agent Helix, thanks to her possession of an unusual ability known as total organic battlefield awareness, Special - Helix and also recruits private investigator Leonard Michaels to investigate the Coil, a religious movement with suspected Cobra ties; however, Michaels ends up brainwashed by the cult's leader Serpentor following Hawk's seemingly apathetic treatment of him, and willingly offers himself to be sacrificed to their deity, Golobulus. Serpent's Tale

The Undermind also targets G.I. Joe through a malevolent, sentient computer virus, but it is stopped from spreading beyond an underwater Cobra base by the sacrifice of Psyche Out. G.I. Joe: Infestation

Through some difficulty G.I. Joe manages to partially reverse-engineer M.A.S.S. technology, and Snake Eyes and Helix use it to hitch a ride back to Section Zero, forcing Cobra Commander to activate the base's self-destruct and destroy M.A.S.S. to keep it out of the Joes' hands. The staff of the Section Sabine moonbase, totally cut off without the M.A.S.S. device, are left to starve to death. M.A.S.S. Destruction

The Commander offers to let Chuckles kill Tomax and Xamot, the architects of his misery, to win him over; Chuckles agrees, Sidewinder but, his agreement is merely a ploy to get close to the Commander, and when he gets the opportunity, Chuckles shoots Cobra Commander through the head, killing him. Rattler Though he intends to kill Tomax and Xamot as well, Tomax manages to get away from him; instead, Chuckles uses a nuclear submarine docked at Section Twenty to destroy the base and kill everyone on it, including himself and Xamot. The Baroness and Tomax manage to escape at the last minute. King Cobra

2011

Cobra scientist Dr. Llund opens a Lovecraftian gateway to bring the Elder Gods through into the world. Crystal Ball, Storm Shadow, Interrogator, and a group of inmates of Cobra's insane asylum manage to stop Llund, though Crystal Ball — a worshipper of the Elder Gods — only stops her as he wants to bring them through properly, by finding every gateway. Infestation 2: G.I. Joe

The Cobra Council determines the new Cobra Commander through a contest, with the objective to bring as much misery to G.I. Joe as possible, between 7 members of Cobra High Command. The contestants kill countless Joes, destroy the Pit and sink their replacement command center, but in the end, Krake is chosen as Cobra's new leader. Cobra Civil War As his first act, the new Cobra Commander brings Cobra out of the shadows by invading the country of Nanzhao, in the Golden Triangle region where he grew up. Cobra takes control of the country and forces its evacuation, before dropping nuclear weapons acquired from China on Nanzhao's largest population centres, rendering them uninhabitable; thanks to international opposition to the Nanzhaoese regime and a slow-to-act U.S. government, G.I. Joe are unable to prevent Cobra's near-total victory.

Major Bludd, Tomax Paoli and Serpentor, unhappy with the new Commander's actions, attempt a coup; however, the Baroness's assassination of the Cobra Council to cement the new Commander's total control forces Bludd and Tomax to surrender themselves into G.I. Joe custody after Serpentor rats them out. Meanwhile, Storm Shadow — angry over the murder of his oyabun Oda Satori by Cobra assassin Zartan — invites his old sword-brother Snake Eyes to rejoin the Arashikage and help them take down Cobra; Snake Eyes accepts, though Helix is the only Joe aware of the fact, with all others believing him to have died in Nanzhao. Cobra Command

In the aftermath of the invasion, Hawk is dismissed by his superiors, with Duke promoted to Colonel and put in charge of G.I. Joe in his place; the Joes' operating budget is also slashed to 1/3 of what it previously was. To help circumvent their new limitations, Hawk calls in Sergeant Bildocker, a highly skilled "scrounger" capable of calling in favors to get hold of extra resources, on Duke's behalf. G.I. Joe vol. 2 #13 The reduced budget prevents G.I. Joe from mounting a planned rescue mission for the Cobra forces trapped in Section Sabine. Enter the ShadowSnake Eyes issue 13 In order to secure their status as a newly "legitimate" world power, Cobra reveals the existence of G.I. Joe to the world, waging a propaganda campaign against them. G.I. Joe vol. 2 #12 Public awareness of their location forces the Joes to move again, from Fort Baxter to the U.S.S. Flagg. Deep Terror Epilogue

Using a "gift" of 700 million dollars from Tomax Paoli, Duke sets up a specialised, intelligence-focused unit headed by Flint to make use of their ex-Cobra assets Tomax, Chameleon and Major Bludd; the unit is stationed in The Gemini, a Las Vegas casino also "donated" by Tomax. Tomax offers them several leads, including Cobra Commander's son Billy Kessler-Latta; A New Era however, Tomax is able to sabotage their missions through back-channels the Joes are unaware of, Hand to Hand leaving the Joes with proof that Tomax's intel is "good" but with no workable leads. The Hunt is On! The unit takes another blow after Major Bludd is abducted by Colonel Shtern and his Oktober Guard; when the Joes try to investigate, they barely escape with their lives, and Bludd is able to kill Shtern and take control of the Oktober Guard himself. Oktober Guard

Snake Eyes works with the Arashikage to bring down Zartan, managing to crash his plane in the Australian outback, but is secretly working to sabotage and weaken the clan from within. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow When G.I. Joe discovers Snake Eyes's betrayal, they become a third party in the Cobra-Arashikage war. Snake Eyes's unwillingness to kill Scarlett leads Storm Shadow to realise that he has been misleading them, and seemingly kills him in a climactic battle that destroys the U.S.S. Flagg after Snake Eyes is brought back there; Target: Snake Eyes but in fact, Snake Eyes has faked his death and gone into hiding, with only the Hard Master knowing the truth. Silence

The Pentagon determines that G.I. Joe needs a new approach to effectively fight Cobra, and the unit is reorganised into a public-facing team of "celebrity soldiers" similar to the Adventure Team, stationed on Governor's Island and under the direct command of their namesake Joe Colton; Duke is placed in charge of the field team, Homefront, Part 1 while Scarlett and Mainframe are placed in charge of the Special Missions unit, a sub-team carrying out more "traditional" black ops missions. G.I. Joe: Special Missions Michael Monk is placed in charge of Cobra's Manhattan Bureau, and begins manipulating events to make it seem as if Duke is a Cobra mole; though Monk is eventually found out and defeated, his actions uncover Duke's actual past indiscretions, and he is discharged from the Army. Threat Matrix

Tomax's manipulations lead to the destruction of the Gemini casino and the total collapse of the intelligence unit; Tomax escapes back to Cobra, while Billy Kessler-Latta and G.I. Joe agents Chameleon and Ronin flee and go into hiding. The Cobra Files

2014

Over the course of several years, an increasingly high-tech G.I. Joe continues to pursue Cobra. At some point, Tomax Paoli takes over and reforms them into a "legitimate" private security force, and G.I. Joe faces the threat of being shut down now that their job is seemingly done. The Fall of G.I. Joe Part One

Snake Eyes emerges from hiding to apparently join Cobra, though he is in fact acting as a deep-cover operative for G.I. Joe. The Iron Klaw After breaking Destro out of a maximum security prison transport, Snake Eyes is tasked with hunting down Billy Kessler-Latta for a pin in his leg, secretly encoded with data; he manages to do so with the help of Erika Le Tene, but allows Billy to go free after a battle with Storm Shadow, instead giving Destro a fake pin. Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra

Thanks to a combination of G.I. Joe operations in the region, the defection of Cobra Youth captain Isaac Craft, and sabotage by the war-hungry Baroness, Cobra is kicked out of the country of Galibi, where they had been hired to keep the peace during negotiations with its neighbor Schleteva. G.I. Joe vol. 4 The CIA's Operational Support hires Isaac Craft and ex-Joe mercenaries Duke and Big Ben to kill Tomax, but though their actions manage to cause the total collapse of Cobra, their lack of knowledge of Snake Eyes's involvement leads to Isaac's death. The Iron Klaw With Cobra defunct, G.I. Joe is shut down. Secret Raiders

2016

Action Man Mike Brogan sacrifices his life beneath the Thames to prevent Doctor X's antimatter reactor from destroying the world. Ian Noble, the Action Man Programme agent who uncovered the plot, is made the new Action Man thanks to pressure from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To the Victors the Spoils Action Man profile

Miles "Mayhem" Manheim recruits a group of young civilians, including troubled youth Matt Trakker, for Project Spectrum, a project to create anti-Cybertronian weapons including weaponized masks and heavily-armed transforming vehicles. The result is the elite Mobile Armored Strike Kommand task force; however, Mayhem secretly recruits certain members into his own personal black ops team, V.E.N.O.M.. M.A.S.K.: Revolution

Doctor X manipulates the Action Man Programme into retrieving the data she requires to gain full access to all American intelligence communications; in the process, however, Action Man discovers her true identity as Mercy Gale, and she is forced to flee the AMP. Action Man

Rom the Space Knight makes planetfall on Earth to hunt the Dire Wraiths, but is taken off guard by the subtlety of their infiltration and their ability to hide from his energy analyzer. With the help of traumatized military veteran Darby Mason and Wraith-infected police officer Camilla Byers, Rom is able to disrupt the Wraiths' operations in northern California, and discovers that they have infiltrated the forces of G.I. Joe. Earthfall

G.I. Joe parts ways with the U.S. government to become an independent peacekeeping force, adapting the captured Decepticon warship Nemesis, which they rechristen Lemuria, into an underwater base of operations. G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1 Skywarp, mistreated and abandoned by Galvatron's Decepticons, reluctantly joins the G.I. Joe team in exchange for them promising to fix his lost teleportation powers. D.T.A. Former G.I. Joe leader Duke returns to the U.S. Army, taking on Roadblock — torn between his loyalties to G.I. Joe and his country — as an informant. G.I. Joe vol. 5 #3 Duke profile

The Micronauts are captured by a scientific organisation that seeks to vivisect them, but escape with the help of a sympathetic scientist. Micronauts #7 Following their discovery of a miniature city populated by refugees from a destroyed future Microspace, Micronauts #9 a battle with alternate future versions of themselves inadvertently brings the Micronauts under attack by Baron Karza's forces once more. Micronauts Annual

Miles Mayhem and his V.E.N.O.M. loyalists split from M.A.S.K., and begin building a criminal empire by selling dangerous prototype Masks on the black market. They are thwarted by M.A.S.K., who have V.E.N.O.M. arrested and imprisoned; however, while they celebrate their victory, M.A.S.K. member Brad Turner is captured and replaced by the shapeshifting Zartan. M.A.S.K. issue 5

Rom's fellow Space Knights Livia and Orphion arrive on Earth, believing that the planet's Wraith infection has reached the point where the planet must be destroyed. Despite his comrades' intent, Rom is able to convince them to stay their hand and investigate the cause of the Wraiths' unusual behavior after a battle with the Absence almost kills Livia. Reinforcements A battle with the Wraith-monsters Scylla and Charybdis reveals that the Dire Wraiths are gathering energy to hasten the growth of the Presence, a Dire Wraith deity incubating within the planet. Long Roads to Ruin

Ex-Cobra mysticist Crystal Ball and the Dreadnoks take over Inner Mongolia, leading the Chinese government to call on G.I. Joe for aid; G.I. Joe vol. 5 #1 though they manage to capture Crystal Ball, the team are faced with a greater threat when a group of subterranean monsters are released on the Earth. G.I. Joe vol. 5 #4

Snake Eyes and Agent Helix disobey orders to try and fight the monsters, but are disciplined and imprisoned in the brig when they return to Lemuria. G.I. Joe vol. 5 #8 An underground G.I. Joe mission succeeds in destroying the monsters' nest, but in the chaos, Crystal Ball and the Baroness — previously captured by the Joes — are broken free of a prison transport taking them to the Hague by Cobra loyalists, and escape. The Baroness subsequently declares herself the new Cobra Commander of a revived Cobra. G.I. Joe vol. 5 #9

The body of Astrotrain, sliced into pieces in Jupiter's orbit, falls to Earth infected with a techno-virus that Earth's villains take an interest in; however, M.A.S.K. and G.I. Joe are together able to secure the body. The Deathstone

A battle with a Dire Wraith sorcerer by M.A.S.K. is thrown into jeopardy when V.E.N.O.M. attacks, forcing Matt Trakker to surrender to Mayhem so that they can stop the Wraith's plans. The team is able to disrupt the Wraith's mutagenic magic, but the team loses faith in Matt's leadership and breaks apart. M.A.S.K. #10

Baron Karza joins forces with the Dire Wraiths, intending to channel the Entropy Cloud destroying Microspace to accelerate the awakening of the Presence. The Micronauts recruit Rom and his allies to help them, and - following a detour to Microspace - are able to use the Cloud's power to kill the Presence instead, though it costs Orphion's life to do so. Though the Wraiths are defeated, a more-than-happy Karza returns to Microspace a hero, and the Micronauts pursue him to prevent his conquest. Rom & The Micronauts

Using intelligence gained from Cesspool, G.I. Joe track Cobra to their new base: a mysterious, verdant jungle populated by dinosaurs at the North Pole. The Joes make it past Cobra's defenses, but their killing of the Viper army plays into Cobra's hands, fueling Crystal Ball's blood-magic and allowing the birth of a new "Cobra Moon". At the same time, Roadblock breaks ties with Duke, but Skywarp offers to defect to Duke's side instead, and breaks Snake Eyes and Helix out of the brig to join him. Scarlett's Strike Force