Flint (G.I. Joe)
| The name or term "Flint" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Flint (disambiguation). |
- Flint is a member of G.I. Joe from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Flint is a warrant officer and occasional field leader for the counter-terrorist team G.I. Joe. His real name is (usually) Dashiell R. Faireborn. He was born in Wichita, Kansas.
He is (sometimes) the son of Nathaniel Faireborn and the father of Marissa Faireborn.
Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Generation 1 cartoon
- Voice Actor: Bill Ratner (English), Takurō Kitagawa (Japanese)
In the year 2006, Dashiell Faireborn was still quite active. Although usually busy with his duties (whatever those may be), he occasionally took enough time off to visit with his daughter, Marissa. At least, he did it often enough that young Marissa was not immediately suspicious when a Quintesson used an elaborate hologram of her father to trick her on board its ship for examination and eventual dissection.
Judging from Marissa's reaction when told that her father was visiting, it can be assumed that she and Flint have a very loving, if not particularly close, relationship. The Killing Jar
Binaltech
In the year 2004, a Binaltech replacement body designed for the wounded Sunstreaker had somehow been used to revive the Decepticon, Dead End.
Fearful that unjust suspicions amongst the Binaltech Project collaborators would completely derail the joint venture, the information about the Decepticon Binaltech was suppressed. "Operation: Carwash" was then launched, whereby a special team of experts led by D. R. Faireborn conducted secret inquiries while Jazz investigated on his own.
D. R. Faireborn's inquiry led him to the Concurrence, a group of villainous humans who sought to eventually rid the solar system of all Transformers. He also learned that the Concurrence had teamed up with the Decepticons to achieve their goal, and that they had used an advanced combination of Dr. Arkeville's hypno-chips and Bombshell's cerebro-shells to brainwash innocent Binaltech Project scientists into reviving injured Decepticons for them. This information, he noted, should go straight to commander Ultra Magnus at Autobot City as soon as possible, so that the mind control devices could be found and nullified.
Faireborn ended his transmitted report on an anxious note, worried that Concurrence agents would soon be on him. However, he made sure to remind the recipients to keep his cover story up—to tell his family that he'd be enjoying himself at the Lunar Colony for a little while longer.
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel US
G.I. Joe Starring Snake-Eyes And The Transformers
Flint was present at a temporary G.I. Joe base-camp that was set up outside of Milleville, New York. The Joes had been staking out the town after being tipped off about a Cobra air armada being on the move—an armada, they would soon learn, that included Megatron and the Ark. Goin' South
Generation 2
The Decepticon army, under Megatron's full command once more, relentlessly attacked the Earth in an attempt to draw out Optimus Prime. London, Moscow, Tokyo, Washington, D.C.... the Decepticons' carnage was global, the entire planet becoming a smoldering ruin before them.
The U.S. Army was in shambles. The G.I. Joe team, under the command of General Hawk, was given the task of salvaging the dwindling counter-offensive.
Flint was present as Hawk voiced his fears about humanity's chance of survival; unless Skydive could get them significant reinforcements, they were done for. Interrupting Hawk in mid-sentence came both Skydive and Optimus Prime... which caused Flint to wonder if Skydive knew that "significant" meant "more than one".
Skydive tried to explain that Optimus was no ordinary Autobot, but Prime cut him off. The Autobot leader went on to explain his reasoning to Hawk and Flint, saying that a full-scale conflict would only make things worse. Optimus hoped to speak to Megatron, to make him aware of an even greater evil that threatened them all... which Flint promptly spat at, figuring the giant killer robot wasn't in a listening mood. The Gathering Darkness
Marvel UK
On Earth-120185, Flint is David R. Faireborn, born in Lincoln, England. He wears a US Army belt, an honourary award for his part in a hush-hush mission. [1] As the field commander of Action Force's European operations, working out of London, Flint occasionally found himself encountering the Autobots and Decepticons.
When exploring a mysterious report of giant creatures in the Roman sewers under London with archaeologist Susan Hoffman, Flint and the Action Force encountered first the Protectobot Blades, and then, more ominously, Megatron (sort of). The situation swiftly escaped his control and, when he falsely believed Wild Bill to be dead, he sent in Action Force's tanks and copters... which Megatron stomped. Horrified by what he'd caused and noticing the Autobot forces couldn't stop Megatron, he ended up ordering an air-strike on a gas refinery to stop the mad robot. Autobot leader Grimlock would be killed, but it was his life for countless thousands...
Flint bore witness to the sacrifice of the noble Centurion, who engaged Megatron at the refinery so Grimlock could be safely pulled out of there. After hearing that Centurion had been suffering from concerns that he was an outdated relic, Flint stated that Centurion was more an old soldier, and that he was proud to honour him. Ancient Relics!
Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front
Flint's father, Nathaniel Faireborn, served alongside Duke.
In 1985, a G.I. Joe team led by Flint attacked a Cobra shipping facility. While the facility was largely destroyed, Destro and Scrap-Iron managed to escape via Trouble Bubble, an act that led to Flint being reprimanded by Duke. Soon afterwards, the Joes detected the crash of an Autobot shuttlecraft near Portland. Flint was sent to retrieve it with a team of rookies, and managed to repel a Cobra strike team and recover an unconscious Blaster. Hours later, Flint's team was briefed by Duke, Stalker, and Scarlett on the threat posed by the Transformers. Targets of Opportunity
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Flint, with Cosmos help, defeated Unicron by unleashing fungus in his brain. Screw the Matrix! Black Horizon Part 2
Trivia
- A group shot drawn by Hidetsugu Yoshioka as cover art for Pioneer's Transformers 2010 laserdisk set mistakenly features fellow G.I. Joe character Duke as a flag-waving incidental character in the crowd rather than Flint.
- Although voiced by Transformers regular Takurō Kitagawa for his brief cameo in "The Killing Jar", for the Japanese dub of the G.I. Joe cartoon, Flint was voiced by a different Transformers regular, Hōchū Ōtsuka.
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