G.I. Joe

On the data. Nine animated entries and three live action films, and only two runs inside all of that connect to each other. The Sunbow era is the one people mean, and its structure is genuinely confusing. The two miniseries were sold as standalone syndicated events a year apart, in 1983 and 1984, and both aired without subtitles; the names The M.A.S.S. Device and The Weather Dominator came later from home video packaging, which is why every one of them circulates under two names. They are not the first ten episodes of the 1985 series, though they are routinely filed that way. The episode counts follow from the same muddle. The 1985 season produced fifty five new episodes; the package sold to stations was sixty five, being those fifty five plus reruns of both miniseries bolted onto the front. That sixty five figure is the source of most wrong counts. Eighty five new episodes across the two seasons, ninety five including the miniseries, or a hundred if you also count the film in its five part serialised cut. G.I. Joe: The Movie was made for cinemas and released to video instead, reportedly after Transformers: The Movie underperformed. Its best known feature is a post production fix: Duke is visibly killed on screen, and after the backlash to Optimus Prime's death the dialogue was redubbed to say he is in a coma, with a closing line confirming he recovers. The animation was never changed. Its release date is given as both April and August 1987 by different sources and is listed here simply as 1987. The DiC cartoon from 1989 to 1992 carries the same title as the Sunbow series and is a different show with a different studio, design and cast. It is not listed here. Neither is G.I. Joe Extreme from 1995. Sigma 6 is flagged as unconfirmed. Twenty six episodes across two seasons is agreed everywhere and the split between them is not, so they are shown as one row rather than guessed at. The American broadcast was also pulled before the end; only the Canadian run aired all twenty six. Resolute is about an hour of material released as eleven short pieces and also as a single film, which is why some listings call it a series and others a film. Both are right. Renegades was cancelled after one season, and its final episode contains a gag in which the Sunbow version of Duke declares the whole series a dream, which is about as clear a statement of non continuity as a show ever makes. The live action films are two plus one. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra from 2009 and G.I. Joe: Retaliation from 2013 share a continuity, with Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Lee Byung-hun returning, although Retaliation is a soft reboot that recast most of the rest and kills Duke early. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins from 2021 is a reboot with Henry Golding and shares nothing with them, which matters because it is an origin story and therefore gets sorted to the front of chronological lists where it does not belong. A fourth film and a Transformers crossover are both in development without dates, and neither is listed.

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