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.

Boy, that sounds exciting, kids! You should really read the Cobra collections out from IDW Publishing in all good comic stores!

Erika La TaneTene AKA Chameleon used to be a member of Cobra, but Flint gave her a shot at a new life by recruiting her to G.I. Joe. Don't ask her about men with ugly shirts.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

She was one complicated and murky history that's too long to go into, but she was given a second and a third by Flint. (And, er, had some not-quite-professional relations) Others would still not quite trust her. 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 several chances to change herself. (A disgruntled Marissa pointblank asked her dad if the much younger woman was his girlfriend, which he got overly defensive about.) 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 and the femme fatale's French half-sister, impersonating her to sabotage Cobra operations. She was drastically altered to become a major character in 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 and Chameleon did indeed bump uglies in Cobra. Barber remembers all!
  • Except the correct spelling of her surname when writing Lonely Pillar, which had to be corrected in the New Cybertron teade.

External Links

• Chameleon toy at YoJoe.com