G.I. Joe Collection

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The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Released: 1983 // Runtime: 115m // Rating: 6.4

A Real American Hero is the first G.I. Joe miniseries, in it the G.I. Joe Special Missions Force must contend with COBRA who, after the successful theft of a special broadcast satellite now threaten the world with a teleportation machine called the M.A.S.S. Device. G.I. Joe tracks down the original designer who advises that the only way to counter the weapon is to build a M.A.S.S. Device of their own. However to power the device properly three rare catalytic elements are needed. Now it's a race around the world and against the clock as G.I. Joe and COBRA go M.A.S.S. to M.A.S.S.

1983

G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra

Released: 1984 // Runtime: 100m // Rating: 8.0

G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra is the second G.I. Joe miniseries based on the successful Hasbro Toys and Marvel Comics property. Using a laser core stolen from G.I.Joe, Cobra activates the Weather Dominator, an incredible weapon which controls the forces of Nature itself, Cobra Commander targets Washington for destruction, but the Joe team repels the attack and the Weather Dominator explodes into three parts setting off a chain reaction of natural disasters around the world. Can G.I.Joe recover the Weather Dominator in time to beat Cobra and save the world. It aired in 1984 and most of the 1984 and even some 1985 products are given plenty of screen time. Like the first miniseries, A Real American Hero, The Revenge of Cobra was written by Ron Friedman who created the series for television, and wrote all four miniseries.

1984

G.I. Joe: The Pyramid of Darkness

Released: 1985 // Runtime: 100m // Rating: 7.7

Cobra Commander hatches his greatest plan of all - to wipe out electrical power on Earth. The resulting chaos is all he'll need to achieve his dream of world domination. First he needs to seize the G.I. Joe team's space station, then he has to place control cubes in remote locations around the globe: the City of the Dead, the Devil's Playground, the Mountain of Glass, and the Sea of Lost Souls. Battles explode in the sea and in outer space as the G.I. Joe team races to stop Cobra from raising a Pyramid of Darkness!

1985

G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise!

Released: 1986 // Runtime: 108m // Rating: 8.7

After yet another defeat inflicted by G.I. Joe, the immediate subordinates of Cobra's leader, Cobra Commander, have finally come to the end of their patience with his apparent incompetence and his inability to achieve real victories. The leader of the research and interrogations wing, Dr. Mindbender, receives a dream showing the solution. His plan is to collect the genetic material of great warriors and military leaders to create a composite clone that would be the perfect leader for Cobra. Now they set out to put this scheme into motion, and G.I. Joe has very little time to learn of this plot before Cobra becomes that much more a dire threat to the world.

1986

G.I. Joe: The Movie

Released: 1987 // Runtime: 93m // Rating: 6.5

G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago.

1987