#Tomax Paoli

[khakilike]

Destro #4, Dan Watters and Andrei Bressan

[simeonscott]

Destro: "Farewell, my dear Baroness..."

Rest in Peace Morgan Lofting.

[zyanova]

I just think his cloth mask is really stupid.

[lgspears]

Here's my picks for Cobra Command in the G.I. Joe movie if it was made in the 90s:

Willem Dafoe as Cobra Commander.

Michael Wincott as James McCullen Destro XXIV/Destro.

Fabiana Udenio as Anastasia Cisarovna A.K.A. Anastasia DeCobray/Baroness.

Jimmy Taenaka as Thomas S. Arashikage/Storm Shadow.

Peter Greene as Zartan.

Chris Sarandon as Serpentor

Costas Mandylor as Tomax Paoli & Xamot Paoli - the Crimson Twins.

[1105binarycode1105]

I think it's official that I now also self ship with the Crimson twins, Xamot and Tomax Paoli 👉🏽👈🏽

[geekcavepodcast]

G.I. Joe's Scarlett and Cobra Ally Destro are Getting Solo Miniseries

Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro are releasing two G.I. Joe limited miniseries set within the Energon Universe, one featuring Scarlett and the other featuring Destro.

Scarlett hails from writer Kelly Thompson and artist Marco Ferrari. The comic is said to introduce anticipated characters into the Energon Universe. Shana “Scarlett” O’Hara's latest black ops mission is infiltrating the Arashikage Clan, a rising power in Japan. Scarlett's "one lead is her former partner—Jinx—turned Arashikage enforcer. Now, Scarlett must use her skills to survive undercover… and discover a shocking weapon that could change the balance of power on Earth." (Skybound)

Scarlett #1 goes on sale on June 5, 2024.

Destro, from writer Dan Watters and artist Andrei Bressan, will reportedly change the balance of power in the Energon Universe. "James McCullen Destro XXIV is the man behind M.A.R.S. Industries, the undisputed leader in providing high-tech weapons to world powers…for the right price. But the emergence of Energon has changed everything. As Destro’s ambitions grow, the “Crimson Twins” Tomax and Xamot Paoli emerge to destroy their competition, and Cobra Commander realizes his current ally could be his future greatest enemy." (Skybound)

Destro #1 goes on sale on June 19, 2024.

(Images via Skybound - Cover A of Scarlett #1 and Cover A of Destro #1)

[nscafe-firehose]

G.I. Joe Classified... Cobra style.

B.A.T. and Cobra Commander; B.A.T., Crimson B.A.T. and Python Patrol B.A.T.; Cobra Island Baroness and C.O.I.L.; Profit Director Destro; Firefly; Crimson Viper, Crimson Guards, Tomax and Xamot Paoli and a Crimson B.A.T..

[farsight-the-char]

YO JOE!

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Kelly Thompson will write Scarlett, and Marco Ferrari will do the art. The first issue will be out on June 5th.

Shana “Scarlett” O’Hara is about to take on the most dangerous black ops mission of her career: infiltrating the mysterious rising power in Japan known as the Arashikage Clan. Her one lead is her former partner—Jinx—turned Arashikage enforcer. Now, Scarlett must use her operative skills to survive undercover… and discover a shocking weapon that could change the balance of power on Earth.

I guess this is where we are getting Snake Eyes?

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Dan Watters and artist Andrei Bressan will launch Destro #1 on June 19, 2024.

James McCullen Destro XXIV is the man behind M.A.R.S. Industries, the undisputed leader in providing high-tech weapons to world powers…for the right price. But the emergence of Energon has changed everything. As Destro’s ambitions grow, the “Crimson Twins” Tomax and Xamot Paoli emerge to destroy their competition, and Cobra Commander realizes his current ally could be his future greatest enemy.

Gun God, Meet Your Avatar.

[krimsonkobra]

Classified Series Main Line Figures

00 – Snake Eyes

01 – Roadblock

01 – Roadblock – Redeco

02 – Snake Eyes – (Red Stripe)

02 – Snake Eyes

03 – Destro

04 – Duke

04 – Duke – Redeco

05 – Scarlett

05 – Scarlett – Redeco

06 – Cobra Commander

06 – Cobra Commander – Regal Variant

07 – Gung Ho

08 – Red Ninja

09 – Snake Supreme Cobra Commander

10 – Beach Head-Cobra Island

11 – Roadblock-Cobra Island

12 – Cobra Trooper

13 – Baroness & Cobra COIL Cycle

14 – Storm Shadow-Arctic Mission

15 – Destro – Profit Director

16 – Snake Eyes – Movie

17 – Storm Shadow – Movie

18 – Akiko – Movie

19 – Baroness – Movie

20 – Scarlett – Movie

21 – Firefly – Cobra Island

22 – Cobra Viper – Cobra Island

23 – Zartan

24 – Cobra Infantry Trooper

25 – Lady Jaye

26 – Flint

27 – Major Bludd

28 – Roadblock – Heavy Artillery

29 – Breaker & RAM Cycle

30 – Snake Eyes & Timber

31 – Zartan – Master of Disguise

32 – Barbecue

33 – Cobra BAT

34 – Alley Viper

35 – Storm Shadow

36 – Spirit Iron-Knife

37 – Cobra Officer

38 – Croc Master & Fiona

39 – Outback – Tiger Force

40 – Duke & RAM Cycle – Tiger Force

41 – Cobra BAT – Python Patrol

42 – Cobra Viper – Python Patrol

43 – Dr Mindbender

44 – Tomax Paoli

45 – Xamot Paoli

46 – Sgt Stalker

47 – Cobra Viper Officer & Vipers (3 Pack Set)

48 – Dreadnok Zarana

49 – Dusty

50 – Crimson Guard

51 – Blue Ninjas (2 Pack Set)

52 – Snake Eyes & Timber-Resolute

53 – SDCC 2022 – Sgt Slaughter

54 – Bazooka – Tiger Force

55 – Recondo – Tiger Force

56 – Cobra Officer – Python Patrol

57 – Serpentor with Air Chariot

58 – Barbecue – Slaughter’s Marauders

59 – Cover Girl

60 – Crimson B.A.T.

61 – Kamakura

62 – Bazooka

63 – Outback

64 – Falcon

65 – Dusty – Tiger Force

66 – Python Patrol Crimson Guard

67 – Snow Job Deluxe

68 – Valkyrie Female Cobra Deluxe Troop Builder 2 PK

69 – Arctic B.A.T.

70 – Shipwreck

71 – Rock ‘N Roll

72 – Copperhead

73 – Torpedo

74 – Scrap Iron with Anti-Armor Drone Pet Deluxe

75 – SDCC 2023 Chuckles

76 – Range Viper

77 – Night Force Big Ben

78 – Tripwire

79 – Tele Viper with Trouble Bubble (Flight Pod) – Vehicle

80 – Nunchuck

81 – Cobra EEL

82 – PulseCon 2023 Crimson Strike Team Crimson Baroness with Crimson Twins

83 – Tunnel Rat

84 – Firefly (Classic)

85 – Crimson Viper

86 – Lowlight

87 – Grunt

88 – Python Patrol Vypra

89 – Tiger Force Flint

90 – Night Force Shooter

91 – Crimson Alley Viper

92 – Desert Commando Snake Eyes

93 – Snow Serpent

94 – Mole Rats

95 – Steel Corps Troopers 2 PK

96 – Python Patrol Copperhead

97 – Python Patrol Cobra Officer

98 – Python Patrol Tele-Viper with Trouble Bubble

99 – H.I.S.S. Tank Driver

100 – H.I.S.S. Tank Tactician Bravo

101 – H.I.S.S. Tank Female Gunner

788 – H.I.S.S. Tank

102 – Dreadnok Ripper

103 – General Hawk

104 – Agent Helix

105 – Shockwave

106 – Dreadnok Buzzer

107 – Night Force Tunnel Rat

108 – Shadow Tracker

109 – Parth “Wolf Spider” Varma

110 – Cobra H.I.S.S. 788 Fire Team Cobra Officer, Range Viper, and Cobra Infantry(3 Pack Set)

111 – Cobra H.I.S.S. Techno-Viper & H.M.S. (HEETSEEK MISSILE SYSTEM)

112 – Clutch with VAMP

113 – Mutt & Junkyard

114 – Big Boa

115 – Airborne

116 – Quick Kick

117 – Techno-Viper

118 – Metal Head Iron Grenadiers

119 – Cobra Ferret ATV and Cobra Ferret Scout

120 – Cobra Stinger and Stinger Driver

121 – Night-Creeper

122 – Doc

123 – Dreadnok Torch

124 – Jinx

125 – Dreadnok Gnawgahyde and Pets Porkbelly & Yobbo

126 – Tiger Force Roadblock & Tripwire 2pk

127 – Night Force Shockwave with Night Pursuit Cycle

128 – Mad Marauders Low Light and Spirit Iron Knife 2-pack

129 – Mad Marauders Sgt. Slaughter

130 – SDCC 2024 Once a Man Cobra Commander

131 – Storm Shadow V2

132 – Iron Grenadier

133 – Alpine

134 – Iron Grenadier B.A.T.

135 – Dreadnok Road Pig with Rawkus

136 – Starduster PulseCon 2024

137 – Tiger Force Wreckage with Tiger Paw

138 – Night Force Falcon & Night Force Quarrel 2-pack

139 – Raptor

140 – Nemesis Immortal

141 – Steel Corps Commander vs. Twilight Guard 2-pack

142 – Wild Bill

143 – Unlock #1 Night Force Ripcord

144 – Unlock #2 Glenda

145 – Unlock #3 Night Force Crazylegs

146 – Dreadnok Zandar

147 – S.A.W. Viper

148 – Leatherneck

149 – Dial-Tone

150 –

Click into the full story to view the complete G.I. Joe Classified Series Check List!

Classified Series Other

-Snake Eyes – Fortnite

Classified Retro Series

Baroness – Retro

Destro – Retro

Gung-Ho – Retro

Lady Jaye – Retro

Zartan – Retro

Storm Shadow – Retro

Snake Eyes – Retro

Crimson Guard – Retro

Duke – Retro

Scarlett – Retro

Recondo – Retro

Cobra Commander – Retro

Cobra Trooper – Retro

Stalker – Retro

Beachhead – Retro

Snow Serpent – Retro

Eel – Retro

Rock N Roll – Retro

Retro Dr. Mindbender – Retro

Retro Cobra Viper – Retro

60th Anniversary of G.I. Joe

Deluxe Action Soldier

Deluxe Recon Diver

Deluxe Sniper

Deluxe Halo Jumper

HasLab Vehicles

HISS Tank (HasLab)

H.I.S.S. Tank Driver

H.I.S.S. Tank Gunner Female

H.I.S.S. Tank Tactician Bravo

Retro Carded Cobra Commander (Mickey Mouse)

Dragonfly (HasLab) Summer 2024

Wild Bill

Unlock #1 Night Force Ripcord

Unlock #2 Glenda

Unlock #3 Night Force Crazylegs

Cobra Rattler (HasLab) 2025

Wild Weasel

Unlock #1 Cobra Airborne Squadron Patches

Unlock #2 Cobra Rattler Gunner

Unlock #3 Pilot Baroness

Classified Series Pipeline Reveals

Pipeline – Frag Viper

Pipeline – Blowtorch

Pipeline – Footloose

Pipeline – Heavy Duty

Pipeline – Law & Order

Pipeline – Darklon

Pipeline – Crystal Ball

Pipeline – Snake Eyes V4

Pipeline – Cobra Trench Viper & Bunker

Pipeline – Legacy (60th Anniversary Style) Fire Fighter

The Hunt For The M.A.S.S. Device Build -A- M.A.S.S. Device not yet confirmed, however the first set contains a what looks to be the first Element glass container.

Snake Eyes with Polar Bear set with M.A.S.S. Devise Elements.

Vehicles

Cobra Claw with Pilot

Rumors and Leaks – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

GIJ CS TT SEWER URCHIN

GIJ CS TT ARTHUR DLX

GIJ CS TT AMERICAN MAID

GIJ CS TT RED SCARE

GIJ CS GG HUDSON

GIJ CS SP PHILLIP

GIJ CS TT TERROR

GIJ CS SS LISA

GIJ CS SS MAGGIE

GIJ CS BB SALVADORE

GIJ CS BB DARIA DLX

GIJ CS RETRO AN ELMYRA

GIJ CS RETRO AN PINKY

GIJ CS RETRO AN BRAIN

GIJ CS JABBERJAW

Miscellaneous

New Storm Shadow – spoiled on the box art of Desert Commando Snake Eyes standing on roof in the background.

T1 Toys Asia Toy Seller – Nemesis Enforcer (confirmed), Starduster (confirmed), Dreadnok Heartwrencher, Dreadnok Roadpig.

Vehicles:

Snowcat – Rumor

Dreadnok Thundermachine – Rumor

A.W.E. Striker NYCC 2024 NYCC Teaser Image

SDCC 2024 Teaser Image of Claw Feet…. (confirmed to be the Polar Bear from the M.A.S.S. Device Snake Eyes set NYCC 2024)

SDCC 2024 Teaser Cobra FANG

Darklon prototype images have surfaced online. 8/12/24 (confirmed NYCC 2024)

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Destro #1 adds pieces to the puzzle in a middling first chapter

Destro #1 adds pieces to the puzzle in a middling first chapter #comics #comicbooks #energonuniverse #gijoe

The next chapter of The Cobra Threat threat begins here! James McCullen Destro XXIV is the man behind M.A.R.S. Industries, the undisputed leader in providing high-tech weapons to world powers… for the right price. But the emergence of Energon has changed everything. As Destro’s ambitions grow, the “Crimson Twins” Tomax and Xamot Paoli emerge to destroy their competition, and Cobra Commander…

[khakilike]

Destro #1, Dan Watters and Andrei Bressan (Serious question: I always thought they mirrored each other, so is this an artist goof or do Tomax and Xamot really both wear their watches on the left wrist?)

[simeonscott]

Tomax Paoli: "Prepare for trouble!"

Xamot Paoli: "And make it bubble!"

[soyshuter]

GI Joe Classified Series Tomax Paoli #tomax #tomaxpaoli #gijoe #gijoeclassifiedseries #toyphotography #toycollection

[lgspears]

for the Transformers x G.I. Joe movie, i nominated Daniel Brühl as Cobra Commander, Sam Heughan as Laird James McCullen Destro XXIV/Destro, Adelaide Kane as Anastasia DeCobray/Baroness, Gaku Space as Thomas S. Arashikage/Storm Shadow, Stefan Kapičić as Serpentor, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Brian Binder/Doctor Mindbender, Clive Standen and Michiel Huisman as Tomax and Xamot Paoli, Josh Lawson as Zartan, Xavier Samuel as Sebastian Bludd/Major Bludd and James Badge Dale as Scrap-Iron.

[krinsbez]

GI Joe: Remixed, The Crimson Guard/The Crimson Twins

The Crimson Guard was originally founded as CC's personal bodyguard, comprised of Cobra's best and most loyal fighters. Once he got Storm Shadow on side, however, this function became somewhat redundant. Also, CC's the kinda paranoid who is more likely to trust his life to one guy who he has something on than a bunch of guys motivated by loyalty. So, he began sending these highly loyal elite asskickers on other missions, because CC isn't one to waste resources. Over time, these went from being sidejobs to part of the CG's core mission, and it began recruiting people especially to serve as elite soldiers or secret policemen as well as CC's bodyguards.

Then CC came up with the idea for the Fred program infiltrators; Cobra operatives who would be given new faces* and identities, matched with other Cobra operatives who would play the parts of spouses and children, and dispatched to communities around the world with orders to blend in and become part of those communities, both to serve as sleeper agents and subtly influence their new neighbors/co-workers/friends to be more receptive to Cobra and their ideas. It was a no-brainer to turn to the Siegies for this duty. At this point, the Crimson Guard had developed a reputation as Cobra's best of the best, with benefits to match, including snazzy uniforms and a surprising degree of independence. So, when Cobra began recruiting scientists, businessmen, government bureaucrats, police, federal agents, etc. to secretly serve the cause, well, membership in this elite fraternity was a pretty big carrot.

Among those so recruited where Tomax and Xamot Paoli, the identical twin co-Founders, co-CEOs, and co-Chairmen of the Board of Extensive Enterprises, one of the world's most powerful multinational conglomerates. They also are not quite what they seem. Born in Corsica, they grew up as circus performers (acrobats and tumblers, specifically). In their teens they were basically sold to the Unione Corse, and eventually became whatever that organization's version of Made Men are called; more specifically, they were contract killers and enforcers. Eventually, however they left to join the French Foreign Legion...from which they eventually deserted, becoming free-lance mercenaries in an assortment of lawless war zones across the world. Eventually, they acquired sufficient funds to create new, squeaky-clean identities themselves and create EE, which they then proceeded to turn into the globe-spanning empire it is today.

But they weren't really happy with their newfound wealth and status. After all, their new role hasn't made them forget where they came from, or made them feel any less like outsiders. They hate having to hang around a bunch of crowing roosters and mewling lapdogs that imagine themselves condors and wolves, but even more they hate the private thought that all those macho-posturing fratbrats who don't have the slightest clue what it's like to really be a killer, to really be ruthless, to really be A Man (as the Twins consider it) are secretly looking down their noses and laughing at them. But the most galling part is that these money-grubbing milksops who have never seen the look in a woman's eyes as you force her final breath out of her lips with your hands around her throat, or to break a man so thoroughly he begs you to violate his wife and daughters, or any of the other seriously messed-up shit they did during their mercenary and Unione Corse days, actually do run the world, and that in order to get a piece of the pie they have to pretend to be just like them. If anything, having to maintain a mask of corporate respectability makes them despise their supposed peers even more for forcing them to pretend to be something they're not.

But what can they do? They can't maintain their current respectable status and properly punish the empty suits they're sure are laughing at them behind their backs...until they meet Cobra Commander, and he shows them that there is a way they can have both. So they join the Crimson Guard and proceeded to make themselves so useful that CC eventually placed them in charge of the whole shebang, which by this point was a single organization In Name Only and was thus suffering organizational problems. The Twins, enterprising fellows that they were, quickly set about dealing with the problem. Of course, as top commanders, they are able to realize that CC isn't quite the perfectly brilliant visionary leader he presents himself as being to the rank-and-file and their loyalty curdles, but they still want it all, and Cobra is still their way of getting it; as a result, along the way created a new schism, albeit a secret one; between those Siegies who remained personally loyal to CC, and those who gave their loyalty to the Twins...

Additional points:

-The Twins do in fact have a bit of a twin-telepathy thing going on, including Ye Olde Corsican Brothers bit where they can feel what the other is feeling.

-The Twin's loyalties go something like this:

Each other

Themselves as individuals.

The Crimson Guard as an organization

Cobra as an organization

Cobraism as an ideology

Extensive Enterprises

The Crimson Guardsmen that are personally loyal to them

The rest of the Crimson Guard

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Cobra Commander

The rest of High Command

Their legitimate business partners

EE's stockholders

The rest of Cobra

EE execs

EE middle-management

EE's employees

Some people from their past whom they owe debts to.

-The Crimson Guard is basically Cobra's SS and similarly has it's own command structures and several subdivisions that do stuff just for them rather than rely on the support services of Cobra generally. Of course, every subdivision has it's own leader. (one of us created a bunch of these, and made some neat profiles, but I’m not sure how to bring ‘em over to tumblr)

*not via conventional plastic surgery, but instead by some machine Mindbender came up with, which leaves no scarring and has a shorter recovery time with less medication, but also hurts like hell and has a higher risk of going catastrophically wrong. It does have the slight downside of creating new faces by mixing-and-matching from a set database of facial characteristics, which can lead to multiple Freds having almost the same face.

[brandxspandex]

The latest issue of Revolutionaries was thoroughly baffling, but Action Man and Kup were as charming as ever.