Duke (G.I. Joe)

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Duke is a human from the G.I. Joe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Duke, real name Conrad S. Hauser, is a member of G.I. Joe often serving as the team leader whenever Hawk is somewhere else. With his blond hair, blue eyes, and cleft chin, he really sports that whole "real American Hero" thing. That he's got the skills and combat history to back it all up doesn't hurt, either.

Fiction

G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers

In response to the forming of the terrorist organization Cobra and its commandeered Transformers, the United States government assembled a strike team dubbed G.I. Joe. Duke was amongst its earliest recruits, and helped track down Cobra's money trail to narrow down where to look for the terrorists. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2 He later helped defend the SPS Research Facility from a Cobra attack, and dramatically escaped through a window when the place was blown up. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3 He was later present when Wheeljack helped free several Transformers from Cobra's programming by hacking into the terrorist organization's network. The Autobot also managed to pinpoint the location of Cobra Island, enabling G.I. Joe to launch a counter-attack against their enemy. G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers #4 En route, Duke made small-talk with Hawk, discussing how they’d probably all get court-martialed if they managed to survive their mission. G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers #5 During G.I. Joe's assault on Cobra Island, Duke ordered his squadron to fire on Megatron. After the battle was won, the Autobots gave Duke a Cybertronian battle mech as a thank you for helping them defeat the Decepticons. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6

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In a far future, where Decepticons had conquered Earth and turned the world into something that looks like it's out of The Terminator, a one armed, no legged, wheelchair-bound Duke that's missing a hunk of his face led the Dreadnoks as part of the human resistance. When a small group of Joes and Cobras arrived from the past in search of time-lost Transformers, Duke was uninterested in their mission and ordered them to join his resistance group. When Barbecue refused on the grounds that they could simply "undo" this future if they succeeded, Duke called them cowards and told them to get the hell out of his face. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II #3

As the Decepticon invasion was successfully prevented, Duke got to keep his limbs and face. Back in the regular timeline, he was part of a team of Joes preparing to warp to Cybertron and help defeat Serpent O.R. The Art of War #4 Upon arrival, they joined up with the local Autobot forces and won against Serpent O.R.'s Decepticon army. The Art of War #5

A few months later, Duke and a few other Joes went to Cuba to stop Destro's illegal arms dealing. When they arrived, a team of Autobots had already dealt with it, although Destro had gotten away. While complaining about this, Duke was contacted by Firewall, who told him that Hawk was in trouble in Tibet. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2 Duke promptly lead a team of Joes to Tibet, where they fought their way past Monstructor and into Cobra-La. There Duke met his idol, Joe Colton, and together they gunned down various mutants and defeated Cobra-La. Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2

Transformers/G.I. Joe

Duke was among the founding members of G.I. Joe in 1939. During the team's first meeting, he spotted and opened fire on a spy, only to be disarmed when the infiltrator pierced his hand with a laser. Along with Flint, Duke later led an attack on Cobra's base on the Fera Islands. The Line He was in charge of Strike Team One, whose task was to take out the shore defenses so Flint's team could call in the fleet. During their mission, the team accidentally reactivated several Autobots buried on the island. Optimus Prime told Duke about the Autobots' long war with the Decepticons, and offered to help the Joes with their own mission. Transformed

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With the Autobots help, Duke's troops fought their way across the island, eventually making contact with Stalker, who Duke thought had died in battle. Trial by Fire After thinking up a way to counter Rumble's earthquakes, he figured that with the Autobots' help, they didn't really need the fleet after all. Wolves However, as the Joes approached the Terrordrome, Optimus Prime started regretting getting involved in their war, and told Duke that the Autobots would not aid them any longer. Duke managed to jumpstart Prime's resolve by telling him about the horrors that Cobra had done to their fellow humans, and would keep doing if they weren't stopped. Trenches Upon reaching the Terrordrome, Duke bore witness to Bruticus's activation and subsequent rampage. In the end, the Autobots were forced to sacrifice themselves to destroy the giant. Duke reflected on this, telling his fellow Joes that "There's a fine line between being a hero and being a memory." The Iron Fist

Cobra survived, however, and Duke continued to fight them for the next fifty years. By 1988, he had risen to the rank of commander of G.I. Joe, and listened to Flint apologize for a failed attempt to capture Destro. He responded that Flint's father, Nathaniel, never gave apologies, only results. A short while later, G.I. Joe uncovered two new Autobots who had crashed on Earth, and Duke decided to tell the new recruits exactly what they had found. Together with Stalker and Scarlett, he showed Flint and Spirit footage of Optimus Prime's battle with Megatron on the Fera Islands. Targets of Opportunity

Unit:E comic

Upon approaching the planet Earth, the artificial intelligence Synergy presented footage of the Joes in action so that her crew-mate, the young Acroyear, could learn about his potential allies and enemies on the alien world. Duke could be seen charging into action alongside Scralett and Roadblock on one of Synergy's view-screens. Unit:E

Kre-O cartoon

Duke and Snake-Eyes were stuck in detention by Dr. Mayhem. They attempted to escape by parachuting out of the window, but were caught and returned to detention. The pair were finally freed when fellow captive Spock had Mayhem transported to an alien planet. Detention Escape

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

Growing up, Duke argued with his step-father frequently. He was also none too keen on his half-brother. Everybody Hates Metroplex

Duke was part of a G.I. Joe strike force that stormed a Cobra hideout housing deadly Creeper bombs. As his squad were air-dropped into the field, Duke attempted to persuade Scarlett to go on a date with him. Scarlett rebuked his advances, but told him that she would marry the Joe who brought her Cobra Commander's helmet. Both Duke and fellow Joe Snake-Eyes accepted her challenge. As the Joes swept across the Cobra base, disabling and capturing many operatives as they went, Duke witnessed Cobra Commander and the Baroness fleeing the scene in a Rattler. Commandeering another plane, and with Scarlet as his gunner, Duke pursued the terrorists. Pandemonium broke out as the Transformers Bumblebee and Starscream joined the fight. The battle ultimately culminated in Cobra Commander's plane being destroyed by a payload of Creeper vines, and Duke and Scarlet rescuing Snake-Eyes from the explosion after his face had been blasted by the head of Cobra.

The Joes later reconvened in T.H.E. P.I.T., where Duke voiced his grievances to Hawk; their triumph over Cobra felt like a Pyrrhic victory, in light of the trauma they had all gone through. The Golden Boys

On his next mission, Duke helped round up many Cobra operatives in the town of Springfield. Afterwards, he was recalled to T.H.E. P.I.T. once again. There, he learned that the planet Cybertron was heading for Earth, and that Scarlett had returned to active duty, though Snake-Eyes had not. Duke and Ace patrolled the skies when representatives from the planet Cybertron came to demand the Earth's unconditional surrender. Having none of that, Duke faced off against Starscream, though General Flagg ordered him to retreat, lest he be caught in the blast of the Coltonbolt fired down from orbit. Duke stuck around long enough to rescue Hawk, Lady Jaye and Flash from Soundwave, and managed to just make it out of the defense satellite's blast range when it fired. I Saw Three Ships

Aboard the USS Flagg, Duke took part in General Hawk's mock-funeral, an elaborate set-up meant to draw Cobra into the open. The plan worked, though the Joes were faced with not only their human enemies, but the combined might of the Decepticobra alliance! Duke, Hawk and Jaye took on Starscream during the battle. But the fight was in truth a ruse within a ruse; as Cobra troops were forced to retreat, a disguised Duke sneaked in among their ranks. At the enemy base of Decepticobropolis, Duke noted that Snake-Eyes stood alongside Destro, confirming his fears that the ninja had turned traitor. Funeral for a Friend

Despite his disguise, Duke was soon found out by Rumble, who presented the captive Joe to Big Boa. Duke managed to stuff a bomb in Rumble's mouth, killing him, before taking on Big Boa and a handful of Cobra Troopers by himself. Once they had been dealt with, Duke confronted Snake-Eyes about his betrayal, and went toe-to-toe with the ninja. During their fight, the pair tumbled into the nearby M.A.S.S. transfer device. In the void between dimensions, the two combatants came upon the lost leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime! Form Follows Function The three of them were then ensnared by the Quintessons. Recognizing that these "robothulhus" presented a more pressing matter than his beef with Snake-Eyes, Duke nominated they work together to deal with them. Though the Quintessons managed to invade their memories, the trio slipped through their grasp and high-tailed back to normal space. Duke and Snake-Eyes arrived on Cybertron just in time to join Scarlett and repel a Decepticobra assault on Metroplex. The villains were forced to slink away, but they took many prisoners with them. Everybody Hates Metroplex With the enemy forces driven off, Bazooka showed Duke, Cover Girl, Brawn, Mirage, and Rodimus some elaborate scribbles he had created while in a mystical trance; a map to the chamber of Primus. The six of them were joined by Tripwire and followed the map to an underground chamber containing the face of the Transformers' creator-god... as well as Decepticobra guards! Expelled from the Garden


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IDW Generation 1 continuity

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Duke was among a select few chosen to form the elite U.S. military force G.I. Joe, meeting their namesake General Joe Colton upon their formation. Secret Raiders Scarlett profile in Revolution #2

Ayana "Mayday" Jones served under Colonel Hauser during the Nanzhao conflict. Crisis Intervention

At the time of the Revolution incident, Mainframe last knew that Big Ben was running missions in Eastern Europe with Colonel Hauser. Concorde Hymn

The Decepticon Misfire believed from outdated information that Duke was the leader of G.I. Joe. Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!

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Notes

  • A group shot drawn by Hidetsugu Yoshioka as cover art for Pioneer's Transformers 2010 LaserDisc set mistakenly features Duke as a flag-waving incidental character in the crowd rather than Flint, a G.I. Joe who did appear in the series. The reproduction of the piece's lineart in Transformers Visualworks deleted Duke from the image.
  • The resemblance of Duke and his role in a military organization fighting a reptilian-themed enemy, and the title character of the 2006 TV show Space-Age Jack, is purely coincidental. Both characters being voiced by Michael Bell was, also, most assuredly a coincidence.
  • Buzz Dixon, a writer for the G.I. Joe cartoon, revealed in an interview that Duke was indirectly responsible for the first death of Optimus Prime, who in turn was indirectly responsible for saving Duke's life. The writers of G.I. Joe: The Movie asked Hasbro for permission to kill Duke off, and Hasbro not only granted it, they thought it was a great idea and way to clear out older characters in favour of new ones, so they instructed the writers of the upcoming Transformers movie to kill off most of the original cast of the cartoon series. The Transformers movie ended up being released first, but fan (and parent) reactions to all of the character deaths, especially that of Optimus Prime, were overwhelmingly negative, to the point where a spooked Hasbro changed their minds and ordered the Joe writers to spare Duke. This led to awkward new dialogue in the G.I. Joe movie stating that the clearly killed Duke had merely fallen into a coma, along with an inserted line at the end saying that he had awakened and was going to recover.<ref>G.I. Joe Interview - Buzz Dixon</ref>
  • Duke has been voiced by a few Transformers voice actors over the years: Michael Bell in the original Sunbow cartoon and G.I. Joe: The Movie, Steve Blum in G.I. Joe: Resolute, and Jason Marsden in G.I. Joe: Renegades.

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Grant or Grunt (グラント Guranto)

References

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