Joe Colton
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- Joe Colton is a member of Adventure Team and G.I. Joe from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Joseph "Joe" Colton uses his uncanny resemblance to Chuck Norris to benefit mankind as the guy for whom the G.I. Joe team is named.
He was partners with Mike Power, who had a robotic arm and leg, which is more robotics than your average human has, but still much less than a Transformer.
Colton eventually teamed up with Optimus Prime, which was pretty cool. Chuck Norris has yet to team up with Optimus Prime.
Joe should never be confused with Jake Colton. Joe eats men like Jake for breakfast.
Fiction
GI Joe vs. the Transformers
In the late 1970s, Joseph Colton led the three-man Adventure Team through the Himalayan Mountains. They came under attack from the airborne forces of General Mihai, who were in turn attacked by members of Cobra-La. Working for Cobra-La was Bludgeon, who killed Atomic Man. Colton and his guide, Chok-Pa, were saved by Pythona's wish to keep the two captive. And so the original G.I. Joe went missing in action.
Colton was imprisoned for decades, during which he was tormented by Pythona about the coming of Unicron. Joe retained a silent rage. When Pythona informed him that members of G.I. Joe, Flint and Hawk, had been sent to Tibet, along with Optimus Prime, Colton freed himself and soon allied with the men and Autobot. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
Colton explained how Bludgeon arrived to team up with the Cobra-La civilization and helped fight their forces. He led the team to where a metal-eating spore was being cultivated as part of a back-up plan in case Unicron betrayed Cobra-La. A horde of yeti attacked, but Joe fought them all off with his kung-fu grip and interrogated a yeti, which only Joe could do.
Joe, Flint, and Prime loaded up Cosmos with the spores, intending to use Cobra-La's back-up plan to defeat Unicron. However, Joe was soon attacked and badly beaten by Nemesis Enforcer. Close to defeat, his grizzled manliness finally reached Pythona's heart. She stabbed Nemesis Enforcer in the back and saved the hero.
Cosmos and Flint deployed the spores and destroyed Unicron, and Joe later explained to Duke that he'd succeeded in his life's mission and needed to be re-purposed. Flint later briefed a group of men for a mission to explore the insides of the now-dead Unicron, a group to be led by Joseph Colton. Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2
Kre-O cartoon
Colton was among a group of Joes who went to a carnival. They tried their luck unsuccessfully at a "ring the bell" strongman contest, only to watch open-mouthed as the Terrorcons combined into Abominus and smashed it so hard it broke. Carnival Face Off
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
As the founder of G.I. Joe, Joseph Colton was one of the very few individuals who knew the secret that his forebears had passed down through the ages—that Earth itself was a gigantic Transformer named Atlas. The War Never Ends Having seen the horrors of war up close, he dedicated himself to ensuring that future generations would not endure the same nightmare he did. To this end, he spent the rest of his life developing a means of fighting wars remotely—a network of laser satellites that was known as the Coltonbolt. I Saw Three Ships Following his example, many more ways of waging remote-warfare would be developed by G.I. Joe, including the G.I.Rocket. Form Follows Function Colton himself eventually retired to a cold sleep in a bunker located underneath South America. The War Never Ends
When all looked lost for Earth, the surviving Joes enacted the "Atlas Protocol"—a last-ditch strategy that involved reviving Colton. Colton led Flint and a group of Joes underneath T.H.E. P.I.T. to a second, top-secret chamber, which housed the necessary machinery required to awaken Atlas. At the critical moment, General Flagg sent the go-ahead to Colton, who put the final stage of the Atlas protocol into play. The War Never Ends
IDW Generation 1 continuity
"Yo, bro!"
A career soldier, Joseph B. "Joe" Colton was a veteran of the Adventure Team, and met the British hero Action Man during his tenure. Colton was less than happy when the Adventure Team was mothballed and he got stuck with a desk job (and had to shave), even if their replacement group, G.I. Joe, was named for him. Secret Raiders
Colton would later personally command G.I. Joe, but the group was shut down after the "Cobra debacle". Several years later, the President of the United States put Colton in charge of the Earth Defense Command, after a giant Transformer was raised from Monument Valley. White Light That was a good idea as long as Colton hadn't been murdered and replaced by shape-shifting alien invaders! But what are the chances? Concorde Hymn O Ship of State
Among the faux-Colton's first actions were recalling operative Spike Witwicky to the E.D.C. fleet, and dispatching former Joes Scarlett and Roadblock to transfer captured Cybertronian sleeper agent Garrison Blackrock to a safe house. White Light He began to reform the Joes and started to put other Dire Wraiths in their ranks. Concorde Hymn O Ship of State
"Colton" later met up with Scarlett and fellow Adventure Team alumnus Miles Manheim to discuss the history of Transformer activity on Earth. During the meeting, Colton was very vocal about his dislike of the Transformers, and revealed to Manheim that the worldwide deposits of Cybertronian super-fuel Ore-13 were destabilizing, and on the verge of destructive nuclear fission. Claiming that this must be Optimus Prime’s doing, Colton tasked Manheim with using the technology of a captive and tortured Blitzwing to disrupt Prime’s plans. Secret Raiders (Secretly, the Wraiths wanted all that sweet sweet ore for themselves) O Ship of State
After the Ore-13 beneath Mount Olympus blew up, he met with the President where he explained what Ore-13 was and that they had no real proof the Cybertronians had detonated the Ore-13, at least intentionally and expressed a mild hesitance to engage the Cybertronians in open warfare. Nonetheless he was ordered into action to fight off the Cybertronians in Portland. His forces opened fire on Jazz which brought Arcee running. Colton found his squad completely outmatched by the pink Autobot before her reinforcements arrived. Colton was amazed at the power of the EMP that Soundwave used to knock out G.I. Joe's equipment before Scarlett noted he'd targeted Slip-Stream's gunship to land right atop the two only for Victorion to save them as a sign of good faith. After a few more pointless attempts to take down the Cybertronians, Rom arrived on the scene to Colton's great distress. He ordered his troops to forget the Cybertronians and focus fire on Rom only for the silver alien to kill him. Concorde Hymn Rom could sense "Colton" was a Dire Wraith infiltrator, but everyone else saw a killer robot killing a guy.
"Colton's" corpse was analyzed where Doc found non-human DNA, alerting the Joes to the Wraith infiltration. O Ship of State
Notes
- Colton's spacesuit at the end of "Black Horizon" is derived from the outfit worn by the "Super Joe Commander" in Hasbro's late 1970s "Super Joe" offshoot of the G.I. Joe toyline. Obscure!
- Colton was the commander of the Joes during IDW's third and fourth volumes, all of which comes under IDW Generation 1 continuity but isn't that relevant to this wiki's purposes.
External links
- Joe Colton on YoJoe.com
- Joe Colton at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
