Island Revolution!
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| "Island Revolution!" | ||||||
| Original presentation | 4pm on June 18, 2016 (GIJoeCon 2016) | |||||
| Written by | Jesse Wittenrich and Jim Sorenson | |||||
| Story by | Pete Sinclair and Jesse Wittenrich | |||||
When Air Raid and Rip Cord are sent to investigate Cobra Island. they find more than they bargained for, as Dr. Biggles-Jones and Firefly team up with an unexpected guest...
Synopsis
After S.K.A.R. attacks Cobra Island, Air Raid sends Ripcord parachuting in to investigate. Air Raid's Sky Sweeper gets shot down by Firefly and Dr. Biggles-Jones. In Biggles-Jones' lab, he attempts to dodge behind a Time Crack and gets regressed to adolescence.
While Firefly and the good Doctor fawn over the now adorable Joe, Ripcord completes his recon mission and lays explosives around the lab. He confronts the two villains, talking shop with Firefly for a moment. Biggles-Jones unleashes her experiment, who turns out to be Grimlock. He's working for her because she fixed his stuck transformation, but when young Air Raid points out that he needn't work for her any more if he's already fixed, he wrecks the lab and tromps off into the sea. Biggles-Jones blows up what's left of the lab as Firefly takes off.
The Joes catch a ride off the island with Sky Mate, who had been posing as Cobra Trooper Sorenson the whole time. He's borrowed the Thunderhawk from Specialist Matt Trakker, a full-wing fighter jet disguised as a 2016 Chevy Camaro. Young Air Raid frets that Biggles-Jones is stuck on the island, but Mark Weber reassures him that Rom the Space Knight saved her and then fixed Air Raid's age.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Joes | Cobras | Other |
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Quotes
Ripcord: "Seriously, what’s Big Grim doing here? This is a G.I. Joe thing!"
Air Raid: "Yeah, I thought crossovers were for San Diego."
Dr. Biggles-Jones: "My research knows no bounds. It is a global… Revolution!"
Air Raid: "Should we really end this skit on a Specialist Trakker joke?"
Ripcord: "No, we shouldn’t, that would be terrible, but since Inhumanoids hasn’t cleared legal yet, M.A.S.K. is the best we’ve got."
"Me Grimlock say dare to be stupid!"
- —Grimlock panders to the 5 Transformers fans in the audience
Notes
- Characters mentioned but not seen include: S.K.A.R., the Sky Patrol, Skydive, Snow Serpents, Headman, the Cobra Youth, Shia LaBeouf, Bio-Vipers, Cobra Commander, Tele-Viper Williams, the Dreadnoks, Destro, Matt Trakker, the Inhumanoids, and M.A.S.K..
Transformers references
- The entire script is poking fun at IDW Publishing's Revolution storyline.
- Grimlock conflates Cobra Island with Dinobot Island. Given the time anomaly at the center of the island, they may indeed be the same island.
- Grimlock being unable to transform is a nod to his time as an Action Master.
- Biggles-Jones paraphrases Starscream's line in The Transformers: The Movie about Grimlock's, how shall we say, departure from the island.
- Ripcord compares himself to Shia LaBeouf's paparazzi.
G.I. Joe References
- Calling Matt Trakker a "specialist" is a nod to his release as a G.I. Joe figure in 2008, which carried the name "Specialist Trakker" for trademark reasons.
- Sky Mate disguising himself as "Cobra trooper Sorenson" is a nod to the GIJoeCon 2016 Sky Mate action figure, which was — in grand G.I. Joe tradition — sculpted in Jim Sorenson's likeness.
- Skydive, Destro, the Dreadnoks, Tele-Viper Williams, the Sky Patrol, the Brainwave Scanner, the M.A.S.S. Device, the Hydra and Crimson Hydra, and Dr. Biggles-Jones' rail gun are all mentioned.
- Probably a lot more.
Real-world references
- Inhumanoids not clearing legal is a reference to its absence from the Revolutions storyline.
- M.A.S.K.
- Grimlock walking off into the sea is a deliberate nod to the Godzilla franchise.
- Dr. Biggles-Jones has developed a killer rabbit with sharp, pointy teeth.
