Good Lord, what have they done? There are Arashikage ninja everywhere! Can you name them all?
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11 comments:
Lady,
I'll come check out your "juicyfruiter" blog just as soon as you name all of the GI Joe ninja in this posted picture. Start at top left and work right.
But if I discover you found me because you're googling blogs about Jon Erik Hexum or something equally obsessive, I'm sending Hattori Hanzo's strike force of ninja commandos to your house!
Why is my family portrait rendered in bad Manga style? Have these people no sense of dignity?
A couple of those folks ain't Arashikage Ryu.
Here’s my best guess: Tommy(in white), Tiger Claw(grey mask), T’jbang(red Samurai helmet), Nunchuk(freaky purple mask), Dojo(little guy kicking),
Jinx(ninja chick), Billy(bloody chest), Snake Eyes(of course), Firefly(purple faceless guy), Kamakura(green shirt, with chucks). I know some of them are wrong, but I couldn’t figure them all out.
You're right -- some of them are wrong.
Firefly is not in the picture. Firefly was originally released in the same wave of '80's era action figures as Storm Shadow, and because he also wore a balaclava mask, he was often mistaken by kids as being another ninja. As a saboteur, the backstory on the file card included with the figure indicated that Firefly was an expert at secretly infiltrating places. This also helped confuse the issue.
It wasn't until many years later that Larry Hama, the writer for the Marvel comic book and also many of the file cards for Hasbro, decided to unconfuse the issue and make Firefly a ninja, with a grudge against the Arshikage. I wasn't reading the comics at the time, so I'm getting this information third hand. (I first heard of it in the first Master & Apprentice miniseries released last year) If my memory serves me correctly, Firefly was revealed to be trained as a Koga Ryu ninja. That would make him the only GI Joe ninja with a basis in history as the Koga Ryu was an actual ninjutsu tradition.
If anyone knows the real skinny on Firefly's ninja background, please post a more complete version. Interestingly, while at least two of the characters in the picture are not ninja at all, Firefly was left out completely.
BTW, good catch on Billy.
When do we leave for Virginia?
Look, I don't have the cash flow to pay a strike force of ninja commandos right now, Hattori Hanzo. Are you willing to do this pro-bono? Or can we pro-rate a smaller strike force?
I'll work for free. Sounds fun. However, you should know that I'm not very stealthy, I don't know how to kill people, and I can't help laughing when I'm trying to hide. Also, hiding makes me have to pee. I doubt I'll ever have a chance of being a good ninja. Hey, are you going to reveal who all the people in that picture are?
Okay:Top three, left to right: White Ninja: Storm Shadow (Tommy), Green& Purple ninja: Kamakura, Helmet guy: Budo.
Second level down: Purple Cage Mask: ?, Bruce Lee-looking dude: Quick Kick (RIP), Chick in Red: Jinx.
Third Level down: Eye Patch, green muscle shirt: Billy (Cobra Commander's son, who was kidnapped and trained by Storm Shadow), Black Clad Warrior: Snake Eyes, Purple/Magenta Camo'd ninja: a Night Creeper
Bottom Two: Green guy with Nunchuku: Nunchuk (duh), Red guy with Fencing Mask: Slice.
My best guess on the unknown Purple masked guy is Dice, but I'm just not sure. He was part of the Ninja Force era when I was in high school trying hard to chase girls.
Budo and Quick Kick are not ninja. Budo was a Japanese-American descended from a Samurai family and trained in "samurai" martial arts. (Maybe I'll dig up his file card and run down the full CV, but that would be too much like work for completely useless trivia.) Quick Kick was a Japanese-Korean-American who was trained in (memory, don't fail me now...) Tae Kwon Do and Tai Chi, possibly Wing Chun. He was also saddled with possibly the most ridiculous GI Joe uniform.
Seriously, the worst costume had to be Destro's. How can you keep your teeth their whitest, when your face is Chrome-moly? That has to be natures cruelest joke.
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