***SHANA "SCARLETT" O'HARA***Specialty: Intelligence Officer
Preferred 15P Laser-guided
Weapon: Solid-Alloy Compound Crossbow with Scope
Dangerous in Battle, with High-Tech Crossbow and Martial Arts Moves.
Yes, she’s the girl. Or she was when Hasbro first created the GI Joe mythos – Scarlett was the first female member of the team, although she eventually proved to be far from the last.The roles she filled were many and varied. In the field, she’s a counterintelligence specialist, trained for infiltration and close combat. Her favored weapon is a small one-handed crossbow, although she’s also an expert martial artist. Back home, she’s the team’s hand-to-hand combat instructor – male or female, there are very few members of GI Joe who can beat her in a fair fight.
In the GI Joe comic-book stories, writer Larry Hama created a long and complex storyline revolving around a romantic relationship between Scarlett and Snake Eyes, the mute ninja member of the GI Joe team. On the other hand, the GI Joe cartoons paired Scarlett and Duke, the team’s leader, which has led to a certain amount of inevitable fannish debate over exactly who Scarlett really has a thing for.
The 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Movie looks to be sticking with the former interpretation, at least to a degree – the live-action movie Scarlett, played by Rachel Nichols, is an old friend of Snake Eyes, who trained her in the martial arts. While she can break heads with the best of them, her primary post is at the team’s headquarters, The Pit, where she serves as GI Joe’s intelligence officer.
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