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, is a man out of time. A highly decorated U.S. Army Soldier during World War II, events beyond his control saw him lost for decades before he finally resurfaced to a much-changed world. It wasn't long until Savage learned that his old nemesis, Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger, had also survived the long march of time, amassing a villainous empire of his own in the years since Savage's disappearance. Taking up arms once again to stop this menace, he wound up joining 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
Serving in the United States Army, Master Sergeant Robert Steven Savage led the Screaming Eagles during World War II. Their tour of duty took them across Europe and into Kalistan in 1943. There, he, Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger, and Darren "Grill" "Filbert" fought the Germans, where they were mystified by the presence of robotic soldiers fighting for the Axis. When shooting and stabbing one of the robots failed to kill it, 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, puppeteering 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
By 1994 Kreiger and Centurion had found the Talisman, and partnered with Mike "Atomic Man" Power to experiment on the lost artifact. Using his cybernetic limbs, Power was able to tap into its power and successfully return the Axalon and its passenger to the space-time continuum. Disoriented by his journey across time, Savage was witness to a brief battle between Kreiger's forces and Joe Colton's new "Adventure Force" that ended in Power's apparent death.
Savage happily adapted to life in the 1990s, quickly gelling with the culture of the time and adopting most of its then-trendy lingo. He eventually joined up with Action Man's new Team Extreme, battling ninjas, skateboard gangs, and mutants. By 2000, however, Robert's new life would once again change after he received a distress call emanating from Mount St. Helens in Oregon. Flying in via Warhawk, Savage discovered several members of G.I. Joe locked in combat with Bugly, only for Centurion to reappear and knock out the Decepticon. The humans followed the steampunk Transformer and his prisoner back to a retrofitted Skywatch base inside the mountain, where they discovered Joe Colton, Garrison Kreiger, and Joshua Red, who had brought the Talisman there in the hopes of developing anti-Cybertronian weaponry. Colton and Savage caught up as the Joe leader explained the artifact's purpose for being there.
Moved by the sight of Centurion coldly chaining a terrified Bugly to the Talisman, Savage appealed to Colton's humanity... only for Centurion to scoop him up and throw him into the path of the object's beam - the entire adventure had been a trap designed to lure Savage to them so that they could test the artifact's energies on his body, which had already been saturated with Talisman energy from his first trip across time. When Eagles Scream
Seventeen years later, Savage re-emerged once again after a team of heroes managed to infiltrate Kreiger's base and finally arrest the villain. On emerging, he quickly laid down a flurry of radical 90's slogans, which bewildered his would-be rescuers. Power and Glory Once more confused by his trip through time, Savage accompanied the heroes back to G.B. Blackrock's Onyx facility in Buenos Aires, where Savage told Mayday about his improbable adventures. The peace was cut short when Baron Ironblood and a team of villains attacked the base to retrieve the Talisman, and Savage leapt into action. Disarming Baron Ironblood, he yanked off the villain's helmet to reveal his true identity... Joe Colton. When Eagles Scream
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
