54 Facts About Zartan

Zartan is one of the main villains in the franchise as the leader of the Dreadnoks, and a mercenary who often worked directly for Cobra Commander.

Zartan can alter his skin color at will to blend in with his environment, and is a practitioner of several mystic martial arts.

Zartan is a ventriloquist, a polyglot, and an acrobatic-contortionist.

Zartan has a younger brother and sister, twins named Zandar and Zarana.

When Zartan was originally released in the toy line, it stated on his file card that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder.

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Zartan was later named Zartan, an anagram of Tarzan, by writer Larry Hama.

Zartan was sold with an accompanying "swamp skier" called the Chameleon, which contained thermal reactive plastic.

Zartan was updated in 1993, as part of the Ninja Force line.

Zartan was designed with a spring-action hip; if Zartan's right arm was pushed back, his upper torso turned right.

Zartan was released only once in this four-year period at the tail-end.

Trading his hood for a ski cap, Zartan is the furthest from his biker roots here, retaining only the recognizable face markings to make him stand out.

Zartan released in the "Commando" collection in 2006, featuring his Sigma 6 outfit.

Zartan was unveiled at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, and the figure, based on designs from the Devil's Due comic series, included a removable mask and changes color like its 1980s counterpart.

Zartan was released on the Hall of Heroes Line to commemorate the 25th anniversary figures.

Zartan came with three face masks, his trademark pistol and a sniper rifle.

Zartan was released in the second wave of figures for the Pursuit of Cobra line in 2010.

Zartan can imitate anyone he wishes to an exact physical and vocal likeness.

Zartan is famous for delivering the killing blow to Serpentor during the Cobra Civil War, by shooting the Cobra emperor in the eye, with the same longbow that he used to kill the Hard Master years ago.

The mission is interrupted by the return of the real Cobra Commander, who traps Billy, Zartan, Fred VII, Tyrone, Captain Minh, Raptor, and several others in a landlocked freighter, which he then buries under a volcano.

Zartan faced off against Shipwreck in the UK Action Force series.

Zartan worked for a government agency under the name Amauri Sanderson.

Zartan underwent a top-secret French genetic experiment, which infused him with chameleon DNA, giving him the ability to blend into his background.

Zartan was later approached by several Dreadnoks for the purpose of overthrowing the leader, who considered all the members expendable.

Zartan was orphaned as a young boy, and made his way by pickpockets on the street.

Years later, Zartan is a Cobra agent answering directly to the Baroness.

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Zartan was tasked with infiltrating a presidential airliner, to ensure the continued cooperation of President Rumanapar.

Zartan's mission is a success, and he contacts Baroness for extraction.

Zartan expressed a desire to leave the lab and go to the outside world, and days later he kills a guard and poses as wait staff, to escape before anyone notices he was gone.

Zartan pulls a gun on Taggac, and forces him to contact Cobra Commander.

Zartan negotiates his services as an assassin, and when the terms are agreed upon, he kills Taggac.

Zartan later reappeared in IDW's reboot of Mobile Armoured Strike Kommand.

Zartan is initially able to change the color of his skin to perfectly blend in with his background.

Zartan was usually loyal to Cobra Commander and had a rivalry with Destro, who considered Zartan a petty criminal.

Zartan was a more cowardly character, often fleeing battle when things turned against him.

Zartan first appeared in the mini-series "The Revenge of Cobra", along with Dreadnoks Buzzer, Ripper and Torch.

Zartan had a prominent role in the first-season episode "Countdown for Zartan", in which he impersonates a French scientist and places a bomb within a defense center, where scientists from all over the world are meeting.

Zartan is exposed and imprisoned there by the Joes, who then search for the bomb.

Zartan is pressured into giving its location by watching the time on his watch running out, allowing the Joes to disable the bomb in time.

Joe: The Movie, Zartan is seen being angry with Cobra Commander, for blaming his lacking courage on the troops.

Zartan is given a valuable gem by Pythona of Cobra-La, so that he and his Dreadnoks will aid them in freeing Serpentor.

Zartan first appears in a flashback at the beginning of the series, where he injures Snake Eyes, and assassinates the Hard Master.

Zartan later appears near the end of the series, where he is leading a security force guarding a Cobra base.

Zartan manages to corner Duke and Scarlett, when Scarlett gives him the option to just leave, as Zartan is only a mercenary and not part of Cobra.

Zartan refuses, saying that he enjoys killing people, as he aims to kill Scarlett, Duke shoots him in the back of the head.

Zartan is taken down a notch when Snake-Eyes easily escapes at the right moment, and uses the chains as a weapon.

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Zartan is tackled by Sheriff Terry, who manages to defeat Zartan and arrest him.

Zartan has Flint lend him a GPS, since he had a tracer on the motorcycle that Snake-Eyes stole from him.

Zartan uses it to take the Cobra van and to get away from Flint.

Zartan is taken back to prison while Baroness takes the chameleon mold to Cobra Commander.

In "Cutting Edge, " Zartan posed as Cobra Commander in order to fool Jinx when she was hired to assassinate Cobra Commander.

Zartan is a master of disguise, able to mimic other peoples' mannerisms and characteristics.

Zartan murders Cover Girl with a knife as she reports to General Hawk, taking them by surprise.

Zartan is later revealed to have been the one who killed the Hard Master and raised Storm Shadow as a ruthless assassin.

Zartan is eventually killed by his former student, at which time his guise as the President finally fades.