Sgt. Savage
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- Sgt. Savage is a G.I. Joe-aligned human from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Sergeant Robert Steven Savage, AKA Sgt. Savage, was a highly decorated U.S. Army soldier during World War II. On a fateful mission to destroy a secret enemy research bunker, his squad was betrayed by one of its own men — who was really the evil I.R.O.N. Army mastermind General Blitz! Captured, Savage was used as a guinea pig for a super soldier process, and ended up cryogenically frozen for decades. Thawed in the modern era, he joined the team of heroes called G.I. Joe.
While he is courageous in battle, Sgt. Savage fears one thing and one thing only: Captain America's lawyers.
Fiction
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
After getting all whacked-out on the Matrix, Hawk saw a prophetic vision of the future, featuring Iron Klaw and Trypticon battling Sgt. Savage and Fortress Maximus. The Art of War #5
TransTech
The Matrix would later lead Hawk to an old bunker, where the soldier Savage was in cryogenic stasis. Hawk put him in charge of the Screaming Eagles sub-group of G.I. Joe and tasked him to investigate Kalistan, a former Axis power with suspected alien ties. Savage would discover Count von Rani of Kalistan was really the leader of the terrorists S.K.A.R. and a Decepticon ally; during the apocalyptic conflict that followed, both the Eagles and S.K.A.R. would be binary bonded Headmaster partners, with Savage being bonded to Brave, who himself could become the head of Fortress Maximus. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter, 2016/05/01
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Sgt. Robert Stephan Savage was a World War II hero who inspired Joseph Colton. General Joe Colton profile in Revolution #2
Notes
- Savage hails from Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, an early '90s attempt to rebrand the G.I. Joe toyline to stave off faltering sales. The idea was dropped when the Kenner offices took over Hasbro's "boys's toys" brands and repackaged the franchise as G.I. Joe Extreme; a redesigned Savage was transported over to Extreme, leaving poor General Blitz behind (though an ex-I.R.O.N. Army scientist would appear in one episode). Savage's Art of War appearance uses his G.I. Joe Extreme character design rather than the design from his own series.
- Coincidentally enough, Savage was voiced by Scott McNeil in his one-shot direct-to-video featurette and Michael Dobson in G.I. Joe Extreme. Voice crossover is fun!
- In the "Axiom Nexus News" Facebook pages, the Screaming Eagles and G.I. Joe Extreme franchises get a merger: the Eagles being sent to take on the Extreme villains.
