History WesternAnimation / GIJoeResolute

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:In Duke's final report, he notes that on their return to the destroyed Springfield base, the pod Cobra Commander hid in was...''empty''. Storm Shadow's grave was also found empty in TheStinger of the original version of the movie.]]

* GenderFlip: CommunicationsOfficer Dial-Tone is female in this continuity. (This would also be the case in the IDW comic series and the live action film series, which both began around the same time that Resolute was released.)

* KillEmAll: Played with. This continuity promised a high body count and by all means delivered on that promise...with Cobra. While a pretty good amount of known named Cobra characters were killed (some more gruesomely than others) the G.I Joe team was for the most part pretty much intact. The only named G.I. Joe character who was killed is Bazooka, who died offscreen and his corpse is perfectly clean and intact (while some of the Cobras can't quite say the same thing about their fatalities).

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Via flashback, Zartan's [[spoiler:first mission for Cobra was shooting Storm Shadow's uncle. He also shot Snake Eyes in the throat to distract said uncle and make him stop walking. Zartan can hit a moving target, since Snake Eyes was ''running'' at that point, so he shot him just for kicks.]]

A DarkerAndEdgier ''Franchise/GIJoe'' miniseries written by Creator/WarrenEllis and directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, ''G.I. Joe: Resolute'' was first released in 10 5-minute installments on the Creator/AdultSwim website before finally airing on the channel itself, along with the 10-minute finale, on April 26, 2009. As of January 1st, 2022, the movie is available online at the official ''Franchise/GIJoe'' ''WebSite/YouTube'' channel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jku4Tv25s&t=1106s here.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Storm Shadow's body is missing in the original version. The YouTube version doesn't include this segment, making Storm Shadow KilledOffForReal. ]]

A DarkerAndEdgier ''Franchise/GIJoe'' miniseries written by Creator/WarrenEllis and directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, ''G.I. Joe: Resolute'' was first released in 10 5-minute installments on the Creator/AdultSwim website before finally airing on the channel itself, along with the 10-minute finale, on April 26, 2009. On January 1st, 2022, the movie is available online at the official ''Franchise/GIJoe'' ''WebSite/YouTube'' channel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jku4Tv25s&t=1106s here.]]

A DarkerAndEdgier ''Franchise/GIJoe'' miniseries written by Creator/WarrenEllis and directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, ''G.I. Joe: Resolute'' was first released in 10 5-minute installments on the Creator/AdultSwim website before finally airing on the channel itself, along with the 10-minute finale, on April 26, 2009.

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:In Duke's final report, he notes that on their return to the destroyed Springfield base, the pod Cobra Commander hid in was...''empty''. Storm Shadow's grave was also found empty in TheStinger.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Storm Shadow's body is missing...]]
** [[spoiler: As is Cobra Commander's...]]
* SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: As a one off production, the Cobra agents here are usually killed. Baroness and Destro make it out, but [[spoiler:Zartan, Major Bludd, and Storm Shadow]] are all killed off, with Cobra Commander receiving the customary NeverFoundTheBody treatment as an out. Though in [[spoiler:Storm Shadow's]] case it's implied he survived.

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A DarkerAndEdgier ''Franchise/GIJoe'' miniseries written by Creator/WarrenEllis and directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, ''G.I. Joe: Resolute'' was first released in 10 5-minute installments on the Creator/AdultSwim website before finally airing on the channel itself - along with the 10-minute finale - on April 26, 2009.

* BadBoss: Upon being told that the [[spoiler: second]] KillSat will need hours to charge, Cobra Commander [[spoiler: slashes the unfortunate soldier who informed him.]]

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: [[spoiler: Related to the above, Cobra Commander boasts inside his secret pod about how he'll get away with it all because his pod can't be destroyed by ballistics or explosives. [[IdiotBall He even continues taunting Duke as he destroys the pod's lock and messes around with the energy weapon's controls]]...until he sees that Duke reprogrammed the weapon to fire at ''Springfield, USA''. [[VillainousBreakdown Cobra Commander then tries brute force to get out of the pod, which ultimately fails...]] except that NeverFoundTheBody is in play in Duke's aftermath.]]

* KillSat: Pretty much how Cobra Commander's latest doomsday weapon works. Through the control center in his base, he has remote control of the HAARP array in Antarctica, which has the ability to fire nuclear radiation in the atmosphere. Using a ''massive'' satellite array, he can cause the dispersed radiation to concentrate on one area and come down like a lightning bolt from Zeus, leaving a huge crater in the weapon's wake. Moscow found this out the hard (and totally unexpected) way, as did the USS Flagg.

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: In Duke's final report, he notes that on their return to the destroyed Springfield base, the pod Cobra Commander hid in was...''empty''. Storm Shadow's grave was also found empty in TheStinger.]]

* OutOfFocus[=/=]TheCameo: A number of Joes and two Cobra members only appear very briefly. The story is much more interested in portraying Duke, Scarlet, Tunnel Rat, Roadblock, Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Storm Shadow, Destro, and the Baroness than it is in Firefly, Major Bludd, Bazooka, Flint, Wild Bill, Cover Girl, Lady Jaye, Shipwreck, Stalker, and Gung-Ho.

* SingleStrokeBattle: Snake Eyes pulls off a textbook example on an armed Cobra mook.

* SecretArt: "The Seven Steps to the Sun." The ultimate kata of the Arashikage that is only taught to one heir of the style. Steps 6 and 7 are highly lethal and Hard Master's hesitation to teach Storm Shadow the 7th step is what drives the Arashikage subplot. [[spoiler: He ultimately refuses and Storm Shadow has him killed, but not before he secretly teaches the entire form to Snake Eyes.]]

* TropeCodifier: For [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW pretty]] [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra much]] [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation all]] [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades G.I. Joe]] fiction from 2009 onward. Ripcord and Dial-Tone are black and female respectively, Cobra Commander is a competent, utterly ruthless leader (Resolute is not the first continuity with a scary Commander, but it is what cemented that as his definite modern characterization), entire cities can be destroyed, the Joes are quite lethal even to named Cobra characters, and there's a definite focus on the characters who have proven to be the more popular ones in the franchise.

Made for an adult audience who [[GrowingWithTheAudience grew up on the original TV cartoon]], rather than the children the TV cartoon was aimed at, ''Resolute'' is notable for being far more violent and bloody than any ''GI Joe'' production preceding it, reflecting both the way the franchise had become in the comic books, and leading into the live-action films.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Storm Shadow, who usually struggles with the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, is completely without honor or morals here.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: See CerberusRetcon above. Apparently, Cobra Commander's inept, cowardly persona as seen in the past was all an act.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: See above. Apparently, Cobra Commander's inept, cowardly persona as seen in the past was all an act.

* CoolBoat: The aircraft carrier USS Flagg serves as the Joes' base of operations. It's where they make their battle plans, analyse technical data, and [[CaptainObvious launch the aircraft that take them to their missions]]. [[spoiler: It gets destroyed by Cobra near the end.]]

* CerberusRetcon: Cobra Commander claims that his foolish behavior in the past was all act to weed out traitors and incompetents in the ranks.