***SNAKE EYES***Specialty: Ninja Master
Preferred Hand-Forged Steel
Weapon: Heirloom Katana Sword
Silent, Mysterious, Lethal in Battle.
Bad guys wear black, according to the old saying, but GI Joe has it the other way around. Snake Eyes, the black-clad ninja commando of the GI Joe team, is (usually) on the side of truth, justice, and the American way, while his nemesis Storm Shadow (the one in white) works for Cobra.Underneath the black costume and eyeless visor, he’s actually an American, a veteran of the Vietnam war. He and the man who would later become Storm Shadow served in the same elite reconnaissance unit, and later traveled together to Japan, where they were inducted into the Arashikage ninja clan.
There, they grew apart – while Snake Eyes resisted the temptation to become a hardened killer, Storm Shadow honed his assassination skills in every way possible. He eventually betrayed the group’s leaders, abandoning the Arashikage to sell his skills to the rising Cobra terrorist army. In the wake of his betrayal, Snake Eyes returned to America and lived in seclusion for several years (with no company except for his faithful wolf Timber) until General Hawk, an old comrade from his days in Vietnam, tracked him down to recruit him into GI Joe.
He’s adept with any number of weapons or none at all, having been trained in many unarmed fighting systems. Typically he favors a long Japanese sword, or compact, concealable machine pistols. While he doesn’t suffer from any physical speech impediment, he is almost completely mute by choice, and never reveals his face if he can help it.
In the 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Movie, Snake Eyes is played by Ray Park, who dons a faceless black costume very similar to earlier incarnations of the character. As before, he’s a former member of the Arashikage ninja group, and he shares a past with Cobra operative Storm Shadow.
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