Sgt. Savage
| This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Savage (disambiguation), Bob (disambiguation). |
- 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
Master Sergeant Robert Steven Savage led the United States Army's Screaming Eagles during World War II. Their tour of duty took them across Europe. In 1943 Kalistan, he, Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger, and Darren "Grill" "Filbert" were fighting the Germans, where they were mystified by the presence of robotic soldiers fighting for the Axis. When shooting and stabbing one failed to kill one, Savage resorted to ripping its head off using his bare hands. His enemy defeated, Savage continued their advance, not noticing that Second Lieutenant Kreiger was fascinated by the strange mechanoids. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb
Several months later, the Screaming Eagles were deployed to France, working with the French Resistance. On one patrol, they encountered more of the strange mechanical soldiers, who were drawn to a battle between the last, brainwashed survivors of the Axalon: "Bumblebee" and "Shockwave". The assembled troopers watched as "Bumblebee" defeated his foe and, his self-professed mission on Earth completed, requested that they help find his ship so that he could die peacefully.
Savage and Kreiger tracked the Axalon to a glacier in Brasnya, where they encountered more of the Iron Troopers, swarming to defend the frozen wreckage of the vessel. The men accompanied "Bumblebee" inside, where the Eukarian realized that his true name was Centurion, and that he had been sent to earth on a mission by his master. Before he could divulge the identity of his master, the Iron Troopers regrouped for a second attack, puppeeteering the body of Domitius Major to battle Centurion. But as the battle raged, the ship began to glow with the energies of the missing Talisman, and eventually teleported the vessel — with Savage inside — away to parts unknown. Strange Visitors
In spite of Savage's abrupt and mysterious disappearance, he was remembered as a World War II hero of renown. His myriad exploits would go on to inspire another legend, General 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 posts, the Screaming Eagles and G.I. Joe Extreme franchises get a merger: the Eagles being sent to take on the Extreme villains.
- IDW has been inconsistent on Sgt. Savage's middle name. G.I. Joe vol. 3 #7 had "Stevens", Revolution #2's backmatter had "Stephan", and Revolutionaries #3 had "Steven", the original 90s version. This wiki assumes for now that the most recent use of the classic spelling is the correct one.
External links
- Sgt. Savage at Yo Joe.com
- Sgt. Savage at the IDW Hasbro Wiki
