Chameleon (G.I. Joe)

This article is about the G.I. Joe. For the Autobot, see Chameleon (G1).

Chameleon is a G.I. Joe-aligned human from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Erika La Tene AKA Chameleon is a member of G.I. Joe who used to be a member of Cobra.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

She was one complicated history in espionage and a murky past, but Flint gave her a second and a third chance in recruiting her to G.I. Joe. Behind My Bleeding Back

Chameleon was part of Zilong Qian's team, sent to the Matterhorn to secure and study the Junkion ship. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain When the Joes agreed to get Thundercracker ws a consultant, Chameleon was sent to meet him in Cairo and they bonded over heir experiences with the Faireborns, Flint and Marissa, and his interest in her espoionage experiences. Erika said Flint had given her a second and third chance. (A disgruntled Marissa pointblank asked her dad if the much younger woman was his girlfriend.) When Thundercracker joked Buster the dog thought Chameleon was going to steal its food, the spy quietly mentioned she was used to being distrusted. Behind My Bleeding Back

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Notes

• Chameleon was a minor toy from 2000, a re-released Baroness that (for trademark reasons) claimed she was a Joe spy impersonating the Cobra femme fatale. She became a major character during Mike Costa's Cobra series, starting out as the aide to Tomax and Xamot in the first Cobra mini-series before being helped to escape Cobra by Chuckles in Cobra II. She subsequently joined Flint's intelligence unit in Cobra vol. 2 and gradually proved herself to G.I. Joe, but disappeared when the unit was shut down in The Cobra Files and vanished for five years in-universe. She was last seen in the final series published before the Joe books went on hiatus, Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra, in which the titular ninja tracked her down to help him on a mission. Evidently Flint got her back.
• Flint got defensive when his daughter asked if Chameleon was his girlfriend, an allusion to how the two did indeed bump uglies in Cobra.