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Sgt. Slaughter murdered Nemesis Enforcer!

posted 8 years ago by Dr Wily
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Have you ever noticed that Sgt. Slaughter just callously murders Nemesis Enforcer in the movie? He beats him up and then tosses him to his death!

[–] tenantennae 8 years ago

All's fair in love and war, especially when grappling with a bat-winged, spike-armed humanoid in crustacean armor

[–] Kuato_and_George 8 years ago

And???

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[–] Dr Wily 8 years ago

Well, is that hardly the message G.I. Joe wants to send to kids after telling them not to pet stray dogs? Kill whatever gets in your way? Should the PSA now say kill the dog before it can bite you? :)

Of course, Lt. Falcon also stabbed Golobulus through the eye, so it's kind of mixed messages all around.

[–] Kuato_and_George 8 years ago

Cobra La tried to wake out the entire planet and you're worried about their leaders lives?

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[–] Dr Wily 8 years ago

I'm worried that the ends only seem to justify the means as long as they're good guys doing the ends. The good guys should adhere to a higher standard than the enemies they fight. Otherwise, just what are you rooting for? Jinx didn't kill Pythona. She just tripped and Pythona fell to her death. Slaughter actually just up and murdered Nemesis Enforcer.

[–] Kuato_and_George 8 years ago

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[–] Dr Wily 8 years ago

At least Optimus came back. Twice. :)

[–] wallacesawyer 8 years ago

G.I. Joe was such a strange idea for a child's toy, because the original toys were all based on WWII soldiers. People who are ordered to kill.

The cartoon brought in Cobra, a terrorist group instead of Nazis. They went out of their way not to show killing, even though death in this universe should be heavy on both sides.

I have no problem with Sgt. Slaughter throwing Nemesis Enforcer into a bottomless pit, or whatever that was. He's probably done a lot more killing. He is a soldier after all.

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[–] col_rutherford 8 years ago

Well, the "only" American kids cartoon to ever-show how "unforgivably-inhumane" the world actually is is The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

All the rest, "LIED, LIED, LIED" and depicted the entire world as if it is safer than a playground bully just to "ensure repeat-customers."

That's why I preferred the more solemn and morally complex stories in Japanese cartoons from that time. Although Star Blazers and Robotech were edited for American TV, they still transcended the simplistic "good triumphs over evil" plots of most American animated series from the 1970s and 80s.

Some harsher elements did manage to make their way into American cartoons in the 1980s, however. Thundarr the Barbarian was set in a savage post-apocalyptic future. Thundercats began with the destruction of the planet Thundera, the near-extinction of the Thunderian race, and the death of a character from old age. Inhumanoids featured gruesome monsters, including a giant decomposing creature that could transform people into his undead servants. Spiral Zone had an evil scientist unleashing bacteria that turned much of the Earth's population into his zombie-like slaves. Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers could be dark at times. People were injured or killed. The villains included an interstellar empire that engaged in slavery, genocide, and psychological torture and a corpse-like alien that could drain the life force of people and assume their forms.

[–] mark_ward1 8 years ago

Maybe you missed the part where Nemesis Enforcer tried to crush Sgt. Slaughter's skull with his boot.

[–] krypton_son 7 years ago

Nemesis Enforcer was attacking him, he would have killed Sgt. Slaughter given the chance. He was a evil person in an evil organization trying to kill most of the population of the world. Why wouldn't he kill him?

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