>>10488399For your first two paragraphs that's fun fan/head canon stuff and you should enjoy it, but nothing in the comics or cartoon do anything like that. It's not until the DiC series where three joes infiltrate as Cobra recruits that we even see how any form of recruitment and training works and it's just basic boot camp stuff but with dick moves for at least Rock Vipers, Eels and Range Vipers.
>Hama be damnedHe wrote everything, file cards and comics, the only thing he didn't touch was the cartoons and the Sunbow series makes in clear Trooper and Vipers were the same entry level position just with new packaging.
>>10488422It reads much like Viper as we see here
>>10487628>>10488403I was getting a laugh how even Hasbro looks at them as the same thing, they didn't take any other mold to consider for the Trooper, they just went with the BAT leg Viper and called it a day. Hasbro doesn't care about this shit.
>>10488444I'm really shocked myself, for how well they were selling I was really expecting them to do a few more runs and it was going to be like Cobra Island figures that were getting reprinted for almost two years, then again, market is getting tighter so they may have doubts how much more they could sell.