G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987 Video)

Burgess Meredith: Golobulus

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• Golobulus : Allow the Web of Rememberance explain the story. Forty thousand years ago, the glory of Cobra-La dominated this planet. But an age of ice destroyed much of what we had built. And with it, began the time of the barbarians. Surprisingly, they evolved.

  Baroness : [to Destro]  If you ask me, some of them did not evolve.

  Golobulus : And gradually, they mastered a technology based on inorganic, lifeless substances. Their culture was a travesty of our own noble ways, and a threat to our very existence. We retreated to preserve our ways, and await an opportunity to reclaim the earth.

• Golobulus : I will stain my hands with your blood! No one defies Golobulus and lives... NO ONE! The last thing you will hear... is the cracking of your vertebrae... one... BY ONE!

• 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...

• Serpentor : I, Serpentor, Emperor of Cobra, salute you, most noble one. Pythona tells me I owe you my freedom.

  Golobulus : Your freedom and your life. Know that I am Golobulus, supreme ruler of this kingdom of Cobra-La! It was I who created you, Serpentor. You are mine.

• 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.

• 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!

• Golobulus : Heroic and utterly futile! Behold the pods have matured! There is no way to stop the spores! You have lost, G.I. Joe! LOST!

• Serpentor : The world will soon be ours, great Golobulus!

  Golobulus : May your deeds match your words, Serpentor.

• Golobulus : It is our greater destiny that concerns me now. Where is the Broadcast Energy Transmitter?

  Serpentor : I was unable to capture it, but I shall not fail you again, my lord.

  Golobulus : Let's hope not, Serpentor. I would hate to lose you.

• 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!

• Golobulus : Once this worm reaches the top of this pole, the pods will ripen and this pitiful planet will be ours.