Storm Shadow: Primary Military Specialty: Assassin Secondary Military Specialty: Intelligence Birthplace: CLASSIFIED
Storm Shadow can trace his family history through thirty generations of assassins. He can scale sheer walls with bare hands and feet, move with blinding speed, and endure unspeakable hardship and pain. Qualifed expert: Long bow; Samurai sword: Throwing stars; Nunchaku sticks; 8th degree black belt in five martial arts.
"The great Ninja assassin class disappeared a hundred years ago. If they were wiped out, nobody took credit for it and if they're sill around -- who are they working for?"
Cobra Commander: File Name: CLASSIFED Primary Military Specialty: Intelligence Secondary Military Specialty: Ordinance (Experimental Weaponry) Birthplace: CLASSIFIED Grade: Commander-in-Chief
Absolute power! Total control of the world... it's people, wealth, and resources -- that's the objective of COBRA Commander. This fanatical leader rules with an iron fist. He demands total loyalty and allegiance. His main battle plan, for world control, relies on revolution and chaos. He personally led uprisings in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and other trouble spots. Responsible for kidnapping scientists, businessmen, and military leaders, then forcing them to reveal their top level secrets.
"COBRA Commander is hated and evil personified. Corrupt. A man without scruples. Probably the most dangerous man alive!"
Baroness: Primary Military Specialty: Intelligence Secondary Military Specialty: Fixed Wing Pilot Birthplace: Classified
The spoiled offspring of wealthy European aristocrats, the Baroness graduated from student radicalism into international crime and finally into the ranks of COBRA. She was severely burned during a COBRA night attack operation and has had extensive plastic surgery. Rumor has it that she is the only one who knows Destro's secret identity. Qualified expert: rifles; grenade launchers; submachine guns; H.I.S.S. tank operator.
"Her principal weakness is in the division of her loyalty between COBRA Commander and Destro. Her chief strength would seem to lie in her ability to play them against each other."
Destro: File Name: Unknown Primary Military Specialty: Weapons Manufacturer Secondary Military Specialty: Extremist Birthplace: Unknown
Destro is the faceless power behind MARS (Military Armaments Research System), largest manufacturer of state-of-the-art weaponry. To Destro, war is man's most natural state: the fittest survive and the greatest technological advances are made. He maintains a luxurious lifestyle around the world. Destro provides high-tech arms to any side able to meet his price and will incite war where it does not exist. He dons his silver battle mask (a family tradition) and enters battle himself, either with COBRA Command (Destro is their major arms supplier) or against them if it's better for business.
Destro respects the G.I. Joe team for their combat skills and expertise but abhors them for wasting such skills to maintain peace. He's totally dedicated to seeing them undermined, subverted, or destroyed!
