>>9804600>hyper violence has never been a part of it,LOL, so what are flamethrowers, missiles, and grenades doing in GI Joe?
Being burnt to death is one of the worst ways to die.
Missiles and grenades work at killing you by either filling oyu full of broken shards of metal, steel balls, superheating the air around you so you cook like an airfried lobster plus suffucation, gooefing your innards with a pressure wave, OR/AND who knows what other sadistic shit that makes a serial killer pop a boner.
Hell, and how about the alligators for one of the upcoming figures? Being eaten alive is one of the few things humans usually don't die from anymore, yet here's a character who trains his animals to do just that for trespassers who walk onto his land.
Are you 10 years old and this is why you don't realize what this toyline has been glorifying for the past 40 years?
These aren't Adventure Team GI Joes. These are terrorists who want to stomp your ass and have all those weapons i talked about at their disposal, plus even worse shit. They're not decked out like this to build churches and walk your dogs... unless thats what you want them to do.
>>9804971>They bring a dark realism that's closer to the feeling of Midnight Express rather than Gunsmoke.There are torture scenes in the comics. Literal gulags and concentration camps appaered in the comics.
This has been part of the GI Joe universe since the 80s and the only difference in modern times is that a company like IDW could make it more graphic. Still the same exact types of actions happened in both series of comics.
Seriously, the fact that you're just now barely noticing shows how new you are to the franchise. The fandom hasn't changed at all since the 90s and maybe not even before then. Most people have read history books, watched tv, and movies, and are basically acting what they saw out in their playtimes since the 1800s, and stories were read and passed on orally before then.
