G.I. Joe
Duke
Voiced by: Steve Blum
- Back-to-Back Badasses: He and Scarlett pull this off while gunning down Cobra soldiers in Siberia.
- The Hero: He's the main focus in the mission to stop Cobra Commander's plans, as well as the leader of the team.
- Sergeant Rock: He's a very tough leader.
- Rugged Scar: This incarnation of the character has a scar on his right cheek.
Snake-Eyes
- Always Someone Better: To Storm Shadow.
- Did Not Get the Girl: Scarlett chooses Duke over him.
- Ninja: As always, he is a ninja.
- The Speechless: Like most versions of the character, he never speaks. A flashback shows that he is mute because of being hit in the throat by a bullet from Zartan when he assassinated the Hard Master.
Scarlett
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
- Action Girl: As is the case with other incarnations, Scarlett is a woman who can hold her own against Cobra.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: She and Duke plow through Cobra goons this way in Siberia.
- Fiery Redhead: Very tough and merciless in battle against Cobra, as well as red-headed.
- Guns Akimbo: She fights with a gun in each hand in Siberia.
- Love Triangle: She has to decide between Duke and Snake Eyes. She chooses Duke.
- Redheads Are Ravishing: She's a good-looking red-haired woman, and both Duke and Snake Eyes are attracted to her.
Beachhead
- The Cameo: Only appears in a voiceless cameo.
Gung-Ho
Voiced by: Charlie Adler
- Ragin' Cajun: He's a Cajun you don't want to mess with.
Roadblock
Voiced by: Steve Blum
- Heroic Build: Way more muscles then the Sunbow version.
Tunnel Rat
Voiced by: Eric Bauza
- Demolitions Expert: He's highly skilled at getting things to blow up.
- Sole Survivor: A whole bunch of mostly unnamed Joes go on the mission to knock out the strattellites. The mission is a success, but only Tunnel Rat comes back.
- The Determinator: Lots of things go wrong on the aforementioned mission, but Tunnel Rat never gives up.
Dial Tone
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
- Gender Flip: Goes from a black haired man with a mustache in a Joe-typical custom uniform in the Sunbow series to a light haired young lady in a standard tan navy uniform in this one. Warren Ellis's answer as to why
was literally "It Amused Me." - The Glasses Come Off: Played with. Unlike the IDW version, this one never had any to start with.
Bazooka
- Killed Offscreen: He is murdered by Storm Shadow.
- Posthumous Character: He's already dead the first time we see him.
- Trojan Horse: Storm Shadow use's his body as one to give a note to the Joes.
Wild Bill
Voiced by: Steve Blum
- Scary Shiny Glasses: Used to have the non-scary kind in the 80's. Here, you can see his eyes.
Flint
Voiced by: Charlie Adler
- Signature Headgear: He wears his usual black beret.
Lady Jaye
- The Cameo: She only appears as a background character with no dialogue.
Stalker
Voiced by: Charlie Adler
- Dreadlock Warrior: This version of Stalker has dreadlocks.
Doc
Voiced by: Steve Blum
- The Cameo: Only has a brief scene where he examines Bazooka's corpse and finds a message from Storm Shadow for Snake-Eyes.
Hawk
- The Ghost: Flint mentions his name, but he isn't seen.
Cover Girl
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
- Out of Focus: She doesn't really get to do much in this continuity.
Shipwreck
- The Cameo: Is in one scene where he has a different uniform, and a more realistic parrot; no dialogue for either.
Cobra
Cobra Commander
Voiced by: Charlie Adler
- Adaptational Badass: This version of Cobra Commander is genuinely menacing and a far cry from the whiny incompetent in the original cartoon. He blows up Moscow at the beginning, killing ten million people, just to prove that from now on he'd better be taken seriously.
- Bad Boss: Will kill his own troops.
- Big Bad: As is the case with most continuities, he is the main antagonist.
- The Blank: This version only wears his featureless facemask.
- Darker and Edgier: This makes his G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 incarnation look tame by comparison.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Not as deep as it was in the live-action films, but his voice is still not exactly as shrill as Chris Latta's portrayal in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
- Evil Sounds Raspy: His voice is a bit snarlier this time.
- Knight of Cerebus: He has become a darker, edgier, effective villain, explaining away his old incompetence as a (failed) method to coerce his minions into being better soldiers (adaptability, resourcefulness, so on). This CC manages to be a credible threat to the world.
- Large Ham: He's as bombastic as ever.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He uses his Kill Sat to blow up Moscow as proof of how serious he is. In the finale, Duke uses said Kill Sat to target Cobra Commander's headquarters, with him still inside it, assuming he was caught up in the blast.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Being an Adaptational Badass, this Cobra Commander is focused, pragmatic and utterly ruthless.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: To coincide with his Adaptational Badass, this Commander revealed that he only acted like a goofball similar to his RAH incarnation as part of a failed effort to encourage his minions to think and be better soldiers.Cobra Commander: There will be no move to take over my command. There will be no mistakes. There will be none of your CRAP! NONE OF IT!
- Precision F-Strike: By the standards of this franchise, anyway.
- Putting on the Reich: His outfit is easily the Nazi-esque Cobra Commander has ever worn, and the black and red action figure released in a multi-pack makes the Nazi elements spring out even more.
Baroness
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle
- Badass Longcoat: This version of her wears a longcoat.
- The Baroness: She is the Trope Namer after all.
- The Sociopath: This Baroness is just as ruthless as ever, even willing to hold a bunch of scientists hostage and threaten to kill them if she even sees the Joes coming.
- Unholy Matrimony: With Destro, as always.
Destro
Voiced by: Eric Bauza
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Eric Bauza's take on Destro's Scottish accent almost sounds like Sean Connery as he appeared in his later films The Rock, The Avengers (1998) (based on the British spy show), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
- Expressive Mask: His mask allows quite a decent range of expressions for being made of metal.
- Malevolent Masked Men: He's an evil man in a metal mask.
- Unholy Matrimony: With the Baroness, as always.
Firefly
- The Cameo: He only makes a brief appearance carrying out his assignment and doesn't show up again.
- Cold Sniper: He shows little emotion and is entirely focused on his task.
Major Bludd
- Posthumous Character: One of the first things we see in this continuity is his corpse being examined by Scarlett. It is implied that Cobra Commander killed him for insubordination.
Storm Shadow
Voiced by: Eric Bauza
- Adaptational Villainy: He's utterly ruthless and amoral in contrast to his usual depictions, who struggle with the Heel–Face Revolving Door or at least have a sense of honor.
- Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist for Snake Eyes' subplot, which was meant to be the end of their years-long blood feud. Of course, once Snake Eyes deals with him, he returns to the Joes to deal with Cobra Commander.
- Arch-Enemy: To Snake-Eyes, who was framed.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He didn't once entertain the thought that Snake-Eyes would have his number in combat.
- Deceptive Disciple: He arranged to have his uncle murdered when he refused to teach him the Seven Steps of the Sun.
- Hero Killer: Sort of, when he makes Bazooka's body a trojan horse.
- Never Found the Body: Although he appears to have died in his final duel with Snake Eyes, The Stinger reveals his grave to be empty. The YouTube edit of Resolute removes The Stinger, making the death permanent.
- Ninja: As always, he's a ninja.
- Tattooed Crook: He has the Arashikage clan symbol tattooed across his right forearm and the Cobra insignia tattooed across his left, symbolizing his split loyalties between the two groups.
Zartan
Voiced by: Steve Blum
- Awesome Aussie: He's an Australian assassin.
- Character Death: Shot In the Back and killed by Duke.
- For the Evulz: He kills for the fun of it.
- In the Hood: Like most incarnations of the character, he wears a hood.
- Invisibility: He can become invisible.
