Duke (G.I. Joe)
| This article is about the G.I. Joe team leader. For his Shattered Glass counterpart who's the Secretary of Defense, see Secretary Hauser. |
- Duke is a human in the Generation 1 continuity family
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.
Fiction
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Duke 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 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
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 lead 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 issue 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 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
Transformers/G.I. Joe
Notes
- A group shot drawn by Hidetsugu Yoshioka as cover art for Pioneer's Transformers 2010 laserdisk 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.
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