77 Facts About Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander is a fanatical leader who rules with an iron fist and demands total loyalty or allegiance.

Cobra Commander's objective is total control of the world's governments, people, wealth, and resources, brought about by revolution and chaos.

Cobra Commander is believed to have personally led uprisings in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and other trouble spots, while being held responsible for kidnapping scientists, businessmen, and military leaders, forcing them to reveal their top level secrets.

In 1983, the figure with the proper Cobra Commander sigil was released on a card for mass market with "swivel-arm battle grip", which made it easier for figures to hold their rifles and accessories.

In 1984, the Cobra Commander was offered again as a mail-away exclusive, this time in a darker blue, with the iconic hood that he wore prominently in the Marvel comics.

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In 1987, a new Cobra Commander figure was designed, this time outfitting him in full-body battle armor.

Cobra Commander was given another overhaul in 1991, wearing a blue and black ceremonial uniform, with an ornate redesign of his original battle helmet.

In 1994, Cobra Commander was suited up for space combat as part of the Star Brigade.

In 1997, Cobra Commander was released as part of the "Cobra Command Team" 3-pack, using the 1987 Battle Armor mold in a dark blue.

In 2000, the Talking Battle Cobra Commander mold was repainted in an even darker blue, with silver highlights, with a new character "Chameleon".

Cobra Commander was included in the inaugural Cobra set, along with Destro, Baroness, Storm Shadow, and a Cobra Trooper.

Second Cobra Commander sculpt, based on the 1987 Battle Armor figure, was released in early 2008.

Cobra Commander's only known relative, an older brother named Dan, enlisted in the military during the Vietnam War, and volunteered for repeated tours to spare his younger sibling from conscription.

Cobra Commander tracked the former soldier to Japan, where he was training to become a member of the Arashikage ninja clan.

Cobra Commander returned to his wife and newborn son Billy, but when his wife found out what had happened in Japan, she threatened to go to the authorities.

Cobra Commander then moved operations to Springfield, an average small American town which had suffered economic collapse.

From Springfield, Cobra Commander's agents spread throughout the world, overturning or subverting unstable governments to establish criminal networks and profitable arms trades.

Cobra Commander created a "High Command" of his most skilled lieutenants, which included Zartan, Baroness Anastasia DeCobray, Scottish arms dealer James McCullen Destro, and Australian mercenary Major Sebastian Bludd.

Cobra Commander was depicted as an average, physically fit Caucasian with a pony tail, large round green-spectacle sunglasses, and a long slender mustache.

Unnerved by the discovery, the Cobra Commander swore to take responsibility for Billy's condition, and promised to be a better father.

Still incognito, the Cobra Commander traveled to Denver where he sought out the undercover Crimson Guard agent Fred VII, a mechanical genius.

Thereafter, the Commander formed an underground network of loyal agents within Cobra, and rebuilt his personal fortune and influence.

Cobra Commander's first act was to eliminate those who tried to murder him or subsequently learned of the act: Fred VII, Raptor, Firefly, Mindbender, Zartan, Billy, and numerous unnamed Cobra personnel, all of whom he had buried alive within a volcano.

The returned Cobra Commander was far more willing to kill, pulling the trigger himself rather than relying on others to kill for him, as when he murdered the Borovian rebels Magda and the White Clown.

Cobra Commander found the soldier at a bar, where the Commander saved him from an oncoming truck and the two became friends.

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One night, Cobra Commander took Snake Eyes to the house of a corrupt Judge who he blamed for the hardships they had both experienced: years before, the judge had presided over a case involving Cobra Commander's brother Dan, who ran a veteran's hospital.

Cobra Commander killed the judge himself and vowed revenge against Snake Eyes for having turned on him.

Cobra Commander calls together the members of his organization, to let them know about his plan to take over the United States with nano-mites.

Cobra Commander eventually regains control with the help of Storm Shadow, and creates plans to get revenge on both Destro and Hawk.

Cobra Commander is freed by the Dreadnoks, and revealed to have been Zartan in disguise.

Cobra Commander takes back complete control of Cobra, and sends a unit to destroy The Pit, as Cobra discovers a weather control weapon named the Tempest, and moves it to their new Monolith Base in Badhikstan.

Meanwhile, Cobra Commander, who has been rebuilding his forces since the end of the previous series, infiltrates the US government by disguising himself as White House Chief of Staff Garrett Freelowe.

Cobra Commander takes over Fort Meade, while Alexander McCullen attacks London and France with the Iron Grenadiers.

Dela Eden, who had been freed from The Coffin, is recruited by Cobra Commander to find Destro and the Baroness, in order to kill them.

Cobra Commander takes over several nuclear arsenals, including one in Suffolk, England.

Billy, Cobra Commander's son, confronts his father at Fort Meade and tries to kill him.

Cobra Commander fails, and Cobra Commander kills him instead, hanging Billy's body from a flagpole, with a message that no one is untouchable.

Cobra Commander's uniform was a suit and tie, with gloves and variation of the silver face mask.

Joe spy Chuckles, Cobra Commander refuses to allow Tomax and Xamot to kill the spy, opting instead to personally recruit Chuckles, by taking him into his confidence and promising him revenge against Xamot.

The competition becomes a contest of who can kill the most Joes: competing Cobra Commander agents include Baroness, Dr Vargas, Major Bludd, Oda Satori, Tomax, Krake, and Raja Khallikhan.

Krake's origin would be given in Cobra Commander Annual 2012: born in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle during a battle and named Tiger Eyes, he grew up as a child laborer and later child soldier for drug gangs.

Cobra Commander was named Krake by Major Bludd, who was impressed when he told Krake he had a spy in his gang and the man responded by killing every other member.

The Cobra Commander Council are then slaughtered by Krake's agents, giving him full command of Cobra Commander.

Cobra Commander then began the process of recruiting a new inner circle and organisation, known as Cobra.

Joe: A Real American Hero animated series, Cobra Commander is the leader of Cobra, described in the show's opening theme as "A ruthless, terrorist organization determined to rule the world".

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Cobra Commander's face is always covered, either by a featureless chrome mask concealing his entire face or by a hood with eye-hole cutouts.

Cobra Commander wears a blue military uniform, occasionally sporting a cape and carrying a scepter, depending on the occasion.

Cobra Commander had a knack for concocting creative schemes for world domination - including cloned dinosaurs, giant amoebas, miniaturized troops stowed away inside Christmas presents, and using a super-laser to gleefully carve a picture of his face on the moon - plans which his immediate subordinates, particularly Destro, often blasted as ridiculous.

The second attempt is successful due to Scrap-Iron stopping Cobra Commander from sabotaging the experiment again, thus giving birth to Serpentor, who immediately assumes charge of Cobra and deposes the erstwhile Commander to the status of "lackey".

Cobra Commander convinces Dr Mindbender to free him, as he knows how to use a weapon, and rescues the high command from certain disaster.

Cobra Commander saves himself by convincing Serpentor that he truly needs him as a scapegoat.

Thereafter, Cobra Commander seems to be employed as Cobra's primary field commander, while Serpentor leads mostly from the Terrordrome.

Serpentor even allows Cobra Commander to be the organization's second-in-command, a decision tolerated by the rest of the Cobra High Command.

Cobra Commander spends much of Season 2 trying to reclaim his former glory from under Serpentor's domineering shadow, assembling his own secret society called The Coil to that end.

Cobra Commander was a scientist and nobleman from the ancient, pre-human society of Cobra-La, now hidden in the Himalayas.

Cobra Commander was disfigured by volatile spores in a laboratory accident, mutating an array of eight additional eyes upon his visage, thus explaining why he wears a mask.

In other episodes, aforementioned reactions to off-screen unmaskings or glimpses of the Cobra Commander's features are not in keeping with the inhumanly blue-skinned, reptile-man portrayed in the film.

Joe: A Real American Hero series, Cobra Commander is still in his snake form and kept as a pet by Serpentor.

Cobra Commander's intellect is fully restored, and upon being outfitted with his battle armor, Cobra Commander appears to be a humanoid male.

Cobra Commander regains control of Cobra, and even dispatches Serpentor, using the new found Dragonfire energy to temporarily turn him into an oversized iguana.

Cobra Commander appeared in the third season of the Transformers episode "Only Human".

Cobra Commander is identified in dialogue as the former leader of a terrorist organization that developed synthoid technology.

Cobra Commander raises his fists skyward and starts to give the rally cry of Cobra, but breaks prematurely into a hacking cough.

Cobra Commander wears the uniform of his 1992 action figure, and is voiced by Scott McNeil in this appearance.

Cobra Commander executes a plan to achieve world dominion through the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program with a prototype particle beam weapon to hold the world hostage.

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Cobra Commander is portrayed as utterly ruthless, casually destroying all of Moscow just to demonstrate the beam's power to the United Nations and killing anyone in his organization who shows incompetence or threatens his command, such as Sebastian Bludd.

Joe: Renegades, Cobra Commander is reinterpreted as a corporate businessman known as Adam DeCobray, CEO of the legitimate Cobra Industries, a multinational conglomerate which serves as a front for his terrorist organization, it is revealed that Adam DeCobray isn't his real name.

Cobra Commander is egotistical, but nowhere as arrogant and pompous in his promotional speechmaking as some of his other incarnations.

Cobra Commander doesn't participate in field work, carrying out most of his day-to-day activities from a high-tech bunker located under his mansion.

Joe: Sigma 6, Cobra Commander's profile has been modified, stating that he considers himself a warrior king.

Cobra Commander wears a helmet that resembles a snake's head and covers his face with a hood.

Cobra Commander uses his own sister as a test subject in creating the Neo-Vipers, making her the Cobra agent known as the Baroness.

Director Jon Chu suggested in a March 2012 interview that this Cobra Commander is not the same character played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Rise of Cobra, but in May 2012 confirmed that the Cobra Commander of Retaliation is indeed still Rex Lewis.

Cobra Commander is soon broken out by Storm Shadow and Firefly, but Destro is left behind and Storm Shadow is injured as the base is destroyed.

Cobra Commander's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel 6 Sick Hipsters.

Cobra Commander is briefly featured in the webcomic Casey and Andy by Andy Weir, in which his new mask is mistakenly delivered to Doctor X and vice versa.

Merits of Destro versus Cobra Commander is discussed by Iraqi soldiers in the autobiography by veteran Matt Gallagher.