G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987 Video)
Christopher Collins: Cobra Commander, Gung Ho, Ripper, Televiper #1
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[Abandoned by his fellow Cobras, a mutated Cobra Commander turns to his former adversaries for help as they flee Cobra-La]
Cobra Commander : Wait for me!
[He catches up to Roadblock]
Cobra Commander : Stop! It's a trap!
Roadblock : [grabs Cobra Commander by the collar] Get outta my face!
Cobra Commander : Look!
[Roadblock turns to see his fellow Joes get recaptured by Cobra-La's living fortress]
Roadblock : My buddies!
Cobra Commander : There's nothing you can do to save them!
[Roadblock growls and tightens his grip around Cobra Commander]
Cobra Commander : Wait! I know another way out of Cobra-La! You can save yourself and fight again!
Roadblock : So what's your fee? Snakes don't give for free.
Cobra Commander : Take me with you!
[Roadblock surveys the situation and sees he has no other option but to trust Cobra Commander]
Roadblock : We got a bargain. But play it straight or there's no doubt, I'l turn your eyeballs inside out.
Cobra Commander : This way!
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Cobra Commander : No! No! Not the spores! I'm a citizen of Cobra-La. NOT THE SPORES!
[Nemesis Enforcer approaches Cobra Commander with a steaming pod. Nemesis Enforcer forces Cobra Commander's head down onto the pod as it bursts and launches the spores around his face. The Royal Guards then let go of Cobra Commander's arms and let him fall on all fours. He grabs his throat and hyperventilates]
Cobra Commander : No! No!
[Cobra Commander rips his shirt open revealing his flesh as it mutates into green and yellow scales]
Golobulus : Nemesis Enforcer, throw this worthless sewage into the Abyss of oblivion.
Serpentor : No, put him in with the Joe prisoners, so they see can the fate which awaits them.
Pythona : I like that. It's poetic in it's simplicity.
Golobulus : Eh, a trifle melodramatic, but instructive... Nemesis Enforcer, take him away...
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Cobra Commander : You have no jurisdiction over me! Release me at once or taste my wrath!
Golobulus : Be silent, or be silenced!
Cobra Commander : I am always prepared to listen to reason, most honored sire.
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Serpentor : Blunderers! Fools! We possess power greater than any on Earth! Yet our conquests are stripped from us on every front! Our most dangerous enemy is NOT G.I. Joe but YOUR collective incompetence!
Cobra Commander : Hogwash!
Serpentor : WHAT? You dare say?
Cobra Commander : The fault, most imperial Serpentor, lies not within us, but within YOU! Your leadership has been pompous, pusilanimous and pathetic!
Baroness : What did he say!
Zarana : He's gone batty!
Dr. Mindbender : That's treason!
Tomax : I don't believe it!
Serpentor : Yes, leadership IS at the very heart of this matter. But it's not mine that's inadequate, Cobra Commander, it is YOURS! Your ego driven stupidity has converted victory into catastrophe FOR THE LAST TIME!
Cobra Commander : Go ahead. Make me the scapegoat. My loyal subordinates could testify to my superb stewardship of Cobra. But you don't have the courage to let them speak!
Serpentor : Wrong again! Defend him if you can.
Cobra Commander : Indeed they shall! You first, noble Destro.
Destro : Militarily speaking, it is only fair to say that Cobra Commander is a world-class... buffoon.
Cobra Commander : WHAT? Baroness, Dr. Mindbender, brave Xomat and Tomax... you won't let Destro's treacherous assassination of my character go unchallenged, will you?
Dr. Mindbender : Certainly not! Destro forgot to mention your frequent displays of cowardice!
Cobra Commander : Oh!
[Cut to Pythona emerging from the lake and breaking into Cobra's headquarters and back again to the other Cobras blaming Cobra Commander for their repeated failures]
Baroness : And you botched our desert campaign!
Destro : We had won but YOU countermanded my order!
Baroness : You meddling brought us defeat! Again and again and again!
Dr. Mindbender : You're not just a fool, you're Cobra's curse!
Tomax : Inept!
Xamot : Insufficient!
Cobra Commander : Unsubstantiated fantasy! Lies, lies, LIES!
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Golobulus : Generations passed. And then, a brilliant young nobleman came to my attention.
[a 14th century scientist is seen examining a plant of unknown origin. The pods on the top of the plant explode and spray a strange mist in the man's face. He starts to develop snake scales all over his face]
Golobulus : Even though he was disfigured by a laboratory accident, he was my choice to go into the world.
[We see Cobra Commander as we know him]
Golobulus : To raise a mighty army and to destroy this so called "human" civilization which had driven us into exile. You were my hope, Cobra Commander, and you failed me *miserably!*
Cobra Commander : I was betrayed! My troops lacked courage! It was not my fault!
[Zandar and Zarana hold back an appalled Zartan]
Golobulus : *You failed!*
Cobra Commander : No! Your precious creation Serpentor defiled your dreams of conquest! Destroy him, I say! Destroy him!
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Cobra Commander : Useless. It's all useless.
Roadblock : Come on! Snap out of it! Neither of us will make it if YOU don't hang together!
Cobra Commander : I was once a man. A man!
Roadblock : I can't see, but I can still - hey, this is your faceplate?
Cobra Commander : Was my mask. Just as I was once a man.
Roadblock : Hey, I don't like that crazy sound. Tell me, dude, what's going down?
Cobra Commander : The beginning of the end of human civilization.
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Golobulus : Behold the culmination of centuries! The ultimate fruit of hypergenetic manipulation, a weapon which no enemy can withstand. In several hours, these marvelous fungisoids will mature and launch hundreds of giant pods into orbit. The pods will bear spores, and those spores will degenerate all organisms they touch, mutating them into mindless incompetent lifeforms.
Pythona : [superimpose Pythona's face over the viewscreen] When the pods ripen, they will burst...
[the B.E.T. lights up the mutegen pods and they start exploding. The spores fall quickly forming into a mushroom cloud]
Pythona : and shower the earth with enough spores to reduce the entire human race to the level of mindless beasts.
[We then see a visual of a man getting hit in the back of his head with the mutegen spores. As the mutegen spores touch down on him and turn him into a hideous snake beast, he appears in view and looks at the camera after being hit by the spores. His clothes are tattered by the affects of the mutegen spores as he covers his face and roars and develops snake scales that run up one side of his body, across his face and neck, and down the other side of his body and the whites of his eyes turn yellow and develop cylindrical pupils. We then see steam after the spores touch down blocking out the moonlight]
Golobulus : Only those beneath the protection of Cobra-La's icedome will be spared. But the pods will not ripen in the freezing outer space without energy. And that is why I must have...
Serpentor : The Broadcast Energy Transmitter. Of course.
Cobra Commander : Fool! You haven't got the B.E.T.! You don't even know where it is! Your plan is laughable!
Golobulus : But your punishment will not be.
Cobra Commander : Punishment? What about my trial?
Golobulus : It's over!... and the verdict is guilty... guilty of the one unforgiveable crime... Failure!
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[first lines]
Cobra Commander : Cobra, retreat! Retreat!
