History Film / GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra

* IdenticalGrandson: Averted here, but not through design. Irish actor David Murray was originally cast to play Destro but could not take the role due to problems with his visa. He only had time to play the [=McCullen=] ancestor from the beginning of the film before his visa expired. Christopher Eccleston ended up playing the role of the modern [=McCullen=]/Destro, and while he and Murray look somewhat similar, they at least aren't clones of each other.

* TheCameo: Brendan Fraser (of ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'') plays Sgt. Stone in a brief scene involving a spar between Duke and Snake-Eyes.

* ElectiveMute: Snake Eyes. While he's usually rendered mute by an injury, in the film it's mentioned he took a vow of silence after Storm Shadow apparently killed their master. Originally, the end of the movie was going to have him speak to tell a joke, but it was cut, probably [[InternetBackdraft for the best]].

''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' is a 2009 action movie directed by Creator/StephenSommers, based on the Franchise/GIJoe franchise by Hasbro. The story follows two soldiers, Duke (Creator/ChanningTatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans). They are part of a squad which gets ambushed while delivering four hi-tech warheads by an enemy deploying radically advanced weapons, vehicles and ground troops. To Duke's surprise, one of the assailants is his ex-girlfriend Ana, now going as "TheBaroness" (Creator/SiennaMiller). Duke and Ripcord are saved from the attack by an secret elite squad of soldiers called G.I. Joe, who take over the warhead mission.

* FiveBadBand: A bit more complex than the below, but:
** The BigBad -- Destro [[spoiler:at first. Later The Doctor/Cobra Commander.]]
** TheDragon -- Zartan to Destro.
** The EvilGenius -- The Doctor [[spoiler:until he became Cobra Commander.]]
** TheBrute -- Storm Shadow, full stop.
** The DarkChick -- TheBaroness.
* FiveManBand: Simply put (yes, it's six; none fit SixthRanger)...
** TheHero -- Duke
** TheLancer -- Ripcord
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guy(s)]] -- Heavy Duty, Snake Eyes
** TheSmartGuy -- Breaker
** TheChick -- Scarlett

* BadassArmy

* BadassBiker [[BikerBabe Babe]]: Scarlett
* BadassInANiceSuit

** The editing team must have actually [[spoiler: digitally edited out the Eiffel Tower from that particular shot, because in real life it would be visible over the Musée]].

Has a [[Characters/GIJoeFilmSeries Character Page]].

* GenreSavvy
** Destro's ancestor finds out the hard way that the French are not falling for the MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning trap and decide to make an example of him by forcing a red hot metal mask on his face. Unfortunately for them, shoving red-hot metal around his face is clearly going to kill him.
** [[spoiler:Cobra Commander is planning on the evil scheme that he supports failing.]]

* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack

* DramaticGunCock: During the raid on the pit, Duke has the Baroness and Storm Shadow at gunpoint; when the Baroness approaches him, he thumbs back the hammer on his 1911, which means, up to that point, it was incapable of firing.

** [=McCullen=] deserves notice, too, as his suit is ''[[ShoutOut fan-TAS-tic.]]''

* MaleGaze: The final poster of features all of the main characters, including The Baroness, but she is the only one facing the viewer, along with her body twisted in a Rob Liefield-style pose so her ass is as well. Then again, [[TheBaroness it's more or less in-character]].

** Zartan, for his part, is GenreSavvy enough to casually smash his control chip just before implantation.

** The Eiffel Tower falls in much the same way you can make it fall in ''TwistedMetal 2''

* CreatorCameo: LarryHama as a NATO general.

* TheVoiceless: Snake Eyes, although his reason for being so is different than other continuities. While he's usually rendered mute by an injury, in the film it's mentioned he took a vow of silence after Storm Shadow apparently killed their master. Originally, the end of the movie was going to have him speak to tell a joke, but it was cut, probably [[InternetBackdraft for the best]].

* TemptingFate: This film offers a classic example of an enemy who appears to be retreating, but is actually just getting out of the way of something worse. At the climax of the rather lengthy Paris chase scene, Snake Eyes abruptly lets go of the Cobra operatives' car after hanging on to it for the entire chase.
-->'''Baroness:''' He gave up!
-->'''Storm Shadow:''' He never gives up.
-->WHAM! [their car gets brutally T-boned by an oncoming train]
* TestosteronePoisoning: [=McCullen=] notes that with the fate of the world at stake, he and Duke can still get into a spat over Ana's affections.

''G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' is a 2009 action movie directed by Creator/StephenSommers, based on the Franchise/GIJoe franchise by Hasbro. The story follows two soldiers, Duke (Creator/ChanningTatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans). They are part of a squad which gets ambushed while delivering four hi-tech warheads by an enemy deploying radically advanced weapons, vehicles and ground troops. To Duke's surprise, one of the assailants is his ex-girlfriend Ana, now going as "TheBaroness" (Sienna Miller). Duke and Ripcord are saved from the attack by an secret elite squad of soldiers called G.I. Joe, who take over the warhead mission.

* DullSurprise: Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Ripcord and Duke pull off some pretty awesome stuff in their Alpha 6 Accelerator Suits. Snake-Eyes, pulls off the same and/or ''more'' awesome stunts, without them. The audience doesn't question that because he's ''a goddamn Ninja''.

* {{Badass}}: Almost everyone, but especially Zartan, Snake Eyes, and Storm Shadow. Duke scoring a single hit on Snake Eyes during a sparring session is enough to convince several of the Joes that he belongs there.

* ShapedLikeItself: "They're going to use him to weaponize the warheads!"

* MightyWhitey: Anyone else notice that Snake Eyes, who is in the top percentile of his class, happens to be a white former street urchin? Amusingly, Snake Eyes being [[MisBlamed a white super-ninja comes directly from the comics]], which were written by a Japanese-American. Well, at least Storm Shadow was Japanese-American too... Oddly, it seems in the movie version both of the top ninjas aren't Japanese, given that both actors for Storm Shadow are Korean; he even speaks Korean in the movie. And the actor who plays the younger Storm Shadow is Chinese American. So ''everyone but the Japanese are awesome ninjas''. Good to know.

* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:What Zartan plans to do to the president. However, as revealed in the trailer of its sequel, GIJoeRetaliation, he just replaces him and takes him prisoner]]