They're turning G.I. Joe from a "Real American Hero" to a UN Peacekeeping Officer for next year's live-action adaptation of G.I. Joe.
You've GOT to be freaking kidding me. They name claim that G.I. Joe stands for "Global Integrated Joint Operation Entity". WTF is THAT supposed to mean? It definitely does not mean "Real American Hero".
Lest we forget, the whole G.I. Joe character, story, phenomenon...it's all based upon a real-life U.S. Marine from World War II, Sgt. Mitchell Paige. Paige was a recipient of the Medal of Honor...he single-handedly held off a Japanese assault on the hill his platoon was defending after every other man in his platoon was killed.
It's Mitchell Paige's face that is the face of the G.I. Joe action figure. His only request when he allowed them to use his face was that G.I. Joe ALWAYS remain a United States Marine. Now they want to paint him as some kind of United Nations lackey!?!?!?
When I was a kid, I had a G.I. Joe lunchbox...and they definitely were not wearing UN colors.
Oh, that means that he cannot shoot at the Cobra Commander unless Cobra shoots at him first. Hasbro is attempting to backtrack and say "oh, that's not what we're really trying to do with G.I. Joe". However, I highly doubt that.
Here's a transcript from Glenn Beck's satire and discussion of this.
First they make Captain America look weak and then kill him off, now G.I. Joe has to answer to someone other than America...how much longer can we sit back and watch these characters, which were once icons of patriotism and American pride for generations of children, be turned into symbols of weakness and subservience to international bureaucratic organizations that have been miserable failures and whose existence has a tendency to usurp the sovereignty of our nation?
Many of you, mostly liberals, will think I'm making too big of a deal of this. However, this definitely symbolizes something bigger than just the change in a storyline for a fictional character. It's a change in the attitude towards how our country is portrayed to children.
(h/t Podium contributor Paul Cave for passing this along to me)
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It's not a symbol of anything. It's a toy. Get a hold of yourself.
Allow me to speak metaphorically...
If flip up my middle finger at you, does it not symbolize something? Or is it just a finger?
Of course your middle finger is a symbol.
I just don't think a mass market plastic doll is meaningful.
I didn't play with dolls as a kid.
I didn't, either. I played with action figures...there is a difference :)
It was also a kids television show, and has been a long-running staple of American pop culture.
Plus...I obviously don't know your gender, but if you're male...well, what little boy didn't play with action figures, toy soldiers, or anything else like that as a child?
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