Shipwreck (G.I. Joe)

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Shipwreck
Gunners Mate
Secondary MOSMachinist

Shipwreck is a fictional character from the

Sunbow/Marvel animated series in 1984, later produced as an action figure
, and finally introduced into the comic book in 1985.

Profile

His real name is Hector X. Delgado, and he was born in Chula Vista, California and is of Hispanic ancestry. Shipwreck grew up near the San Diego Navy Yards and enlisted in the Navy at sixteen after getting permission from his parents. In the two-part Sunbow episode "There's No Place Like Springfield", he revealed he lied about being the minimum age of seventeen in order to join.

Shipwreck graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Gunnery School, and is a qualified expert with the M-14, M-16, Browning .50 cal., 20mm Oerlikon AA gun, and the M1911A1 Auto Pistol.[1] He served time at Gitmo before moving on to carrier operations in the Middle East, and participating in patrolling actions in the Mekong Delta and Yokosuka.

Shipwreck dislikes the use of "gadgets" in war. "See the target, shoot the target" is his philosophy.[2]

It has been speculated that his appearance was based on that of

Crystal Ball
.

Action figures

Shipwreck first appeared in the 1985 edition of the

G.I. Joe: Sigma Six
TV series, a figure in his likeness was released under the name.

Comics

Marvel Comics

Shipwreck's first appearance was in issue #40 (October 1985) of Marvel Comics' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series, alongside Barbecue. This concerns the testing of a mobile weapons platform.[4]

He then helps the Joes deal with the aquatic effects of the creation of

Oktober Guard.[9]

During the Cobra Civil War, Shipwreck is teamed with

The Pit II.[12]

Action Force

The Marvel UK '

Venice, Italy.[15]

Devil's Due

Shipwreck in his later uniform.

Devil's Due Publishing introduced Shipwreck in a storyline based on his later filecards when he trained to become a Navy SEAL. The first issue of the G.I. Joe: Battle Files makes mention on his activities between the disbandment and reinstatement of the Joe Team. He was running tour guide operations and busting pirates and drug smugglers in between.

Shipwreck is one of the first Joes called back to active duty,

Greenshirts, Cobra is defeated.[17]

The Joe Team would be disbanded once more and reformed with a smaller core group in the series, G.I. Joe: America’s Elite. Shipwreck is included in the new team and is one of the more vocal critics for including Storm Shadow in the lineup. In America's Elite, Shipwreck's appearance changes. Originally, he has unkempt red-brown hair and a slender build. Some time after issue 12, he appears stockier and with black hair and a neatly trimmed beard (however, in real life, U.S. Navy personnel are not permitted to grow facial hair because such hair could potentially diminish the effectiveness of emergency underwater breathing apparatus).

Animated series

Sunbow

Shipwreck also appeared in

Popeye the Sailor man.[citation needed
] He is one of the more fleshed out characters in the series.

He first appeared in the 1984 miniseries, "The Revenge of Cobra", as offering Flint and Mutt a way back to Joe headquarters on his land sail. The Joe Team offered Shipwreck a spot on the membership roster which he gladly accepted.[19] Shipwreck then played a major role in a subplot in the "Pyramid of Darkness" mini-series. He and Snake Eyes infiltrate a Cobra underwater factory and steal a laser disc containing information on the cubes to the pyramid of darkness. They fight their way out of the stronghold, and are later rescued through the efforts of a popular lounge singer named Satin, whom Shipwreck falls in love with. In the climax of the story arc, during the battle at Cobra Temple, Shipwreck activates a mechanism that causes the cubes to self-destruct. When Cobra Commander and Tomax and Xamot make a final attempt to flee via rocket ship, Shipwreck, Snake Eyes and Satin try to stop them, before escaping so that the Joes could destroy the rocket.[20]

Shipwreck continued to be a recurring character through the regular series and generally served as comic relief. He has a pet parrot named Polly that he pretends to despise. The bird is capable of dozens of phrases; they often relate to the action. On missions, Shipwreck was often paired off with Cover Girl. Occasionally, Shipwreck would bend rules or engage in mischief. For example, in "Twenty Questions", while serving as an escort for Hector Ramirez and his news crew, he takes them to a Cobra operation in the Rockies in secret, in order to prove that Cobra exists;[21] in "Lights! Camera! Cobra!", he is one of the Joes hired as technical advisors on a movie about G.I. Joe, but tricks the film crew into letting him go sightseeing in Hollywood instead, resulting in him getting into a fight at a pool hall and arrested.[22] Shipwreck also tends to flirt with the female Joe members, especially Cover Girl.

Shipwreck was among the number of Joes whose relatives were captured and brainwashed by Cobra in "Captives of Cobra". In the same episode, Shipwreck tells his adopted nephew that he himself was also adopted and they are both lucky to have such loving families.[23] "Memories of Mara" found Shipwreck in love with an escaped Cobra agent named Mara, who was part of an experimental procedure to create amphibious soldiers who could breathe on land and in water. However, the experiment was only partially successful with Mara, who could no longer breathe out of water for more than a few minutes.[24]

In the highly rated two-part season finale "There's No Place Like Springfield", Shipwreck and

synthoid copies of his friends and loved ones, including Mara and another synthoid called Althea, who was posing as his daughter from his false marriage to Mara. During the two-parter, Shipwreck is tormented by a recurring nightmare of Cobra interrogating him for Mullaney's formula, as well as visions of many of his long-term Joe friends. He would perceive them as normal, then they would melt away in front of him. In Part 2 of the episode, Shipwreck's origins are revealed when a female Crimson Guard named Cadet Deming interrogates him, by using a hazardous psychedelic mind control program, a reference to the 1975 film Inside Out. After discovering he has not aged, Shipwreck realizes his surroundings are not what they seem. He additionally learns about the synthoids and discovers he is actually in a secret Cobra base. In a laboratory, he finds Mullaney's work. Polly helps him recall the formula and he creates it with the secret ingredient. Shipwreck pours the formula down the drain before Cobra can obtain it. Gunfire from the Dreadnoks ignites the formula, causing explosions that signal the USS Flagg and lead the Joes to rescue Shipwreck. Shipwreck goes to save his supposed wife and child and is devastated upon the revelation that they are synthoids.[25]

The second season finds Shipwreck appearing less but still managing to participate in major roles in episodes he does appear in. Shipwreck is featured in the episode "Once Upon a Joe", as he entertains orphans with a fairy tale of his own while their home is being rebuilt.[26] This season portrays Shipwreck as apparently less serious and capable than he was in the previous. In the aforementioned episode, he tries to ignore his order to report for duty, shoots down a Cobra jet that crashes into an orphanage, and manages to avoid rebuilding the home with the Joes by purposely acting clumsily and prompting the others to kick him out, though he later saves the Joes in battle using the MacGuffin device.[27] In "The Most Dangerous Thing in the World", Cobra sends false orders through the Department of Defense computers promoting Shipwreck, Dial Tone and Lifeline to Colonel. Shipwreck arrogantly assumes his position and even deploys live ammunition for an armor drill, leading to an accident that almost kills Leatherneck and Wet-Suit. His aggressiveness and ineptitude, combined with disagreement on battle tactics and poor leadership among the "Colonels", throws the Joe team into chaos. When Cobra attacks Joe headquarters, Shipwreck misuses the base's particle beam gun, which causes it to crash into the base, burying him in the wreckage. General Hawk later comments that Shipwreck has neither the desire nor the ability to be an officer.[28]

Shipwreck also appears in two of the series'

Public Service Announcements
. In the first, he talks a couple of kids out of stealing a bike by showing them how wrong it is. In the second, he talks a boy out of running away from home following an argument with his parents, suggesting that he solve his problems by talking to his parents.

G.I. Joe: The Movie

Shipwreck also appeared briefly in the 1987 animated film

Cobra-La.[29]

Spy Troops and Valor vs. Venom

Shipwreck appeared in the direct-to-video CGI animated movies G.I. Joe: Spy Troops and G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom, voiced by Lee Tockar.

Resolute

Shipwreck also has a small cameo in the 2009 animated film, G.I. Joe: Resolute. He is seen on the flagship amongst many other Joes, yet without dialogue.

Renegades

Shipwreck appeared in the

Techno-Viper that drains the electricity from Shipwreck's ship. Shipwreck helps G.I. Joe when it comes to stopping the Techno-Viper before it reaches a heavily populated area. Shipwreck and G.I. Joe have no choice but to sink the ship. G.I. Joe had to use the fire extinguishers in order to take down the Techno-Viper. Shipwreck still was not willing to lose his ship, causing Roadblock to drive the "Coyote" that the Techno-Viper was on into the water. Shipwreck's ship managed to catch the "Coyote", and gives Roadblock the "Coyote" back. Shipwreck joins up with G.I. Joe, when the Techno-Viper's signal is traced to Scotland
, as Shipwreck still has a score to settle with Cobra Industries.

Video games

Shipwreck appears as a playable character in the video game G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Other media

References

  1. ISBN 0-87135-288-5
    .
  2. ^ G.I. Joe #9 (October 2013)
  3. ISBN 0-87341-301-6
    .
  4. ^ G.I. Joe #40
  5. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #41 (November 1985)
  6. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #49 (July 1986)
  7. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #50 (August 1986)
  8. ^ G.I. Joe #51
  9. ^ "G.I. Joe Yearbook" #4 (1988)
  10. ^ "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" #75
  11. ^ G.I. Joe: Special Missions #1 (October 1986)
  12. ^ G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #64 (October 1987)
  13. ^ "Action Force" #1 (March 1987)
  14. ^ "Action Force" #7 (April 1987)
  15. ^ Action Force # 49, February 6, 1988
  16. ^ "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" Vol 2. #1 (2002)
  17. ^ "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" Vol 2. #2-4 (2002)
  18. ^ "Roll Call". G.I. Joe Roll Call. Joe Headquarters. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
  19. ^ "The Revenge of Cobra". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
  20. ^ "The Pyramid of Darkness". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 1. Episode 1–5.
  21. ^ "Twenty Questions". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
  22. ^ "Lights! Camera! Cobra!". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.
  23. ^ "Captives of Cobra". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 1. Episode 32–33.
  24. ^ "Memories of Mara". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 1. Episode 45.
  25. ^ "There's No Place Like Springfield (Parts I & II)". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 1. Episode 54–55.
  26. ISBN 978-0-7190-4717-6
    .
  27. ^ "Once Upon a Joe". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 2. Episode 10.
  28. ^ "The Most Dangerous Thing in the World". G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 2. Episode 10.
  29. ^ G.I. Joe: The Movie (Motion picture). De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. 20 April 1987.
  30. ISBN 978-0-615-14083-4
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  31. ISBN 978-0-312-16996-1
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  32. ^ Google Books link. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  33. ISBN 978-0-312-16996-1
    .
  34. ^ http://joeguide.com/interviews/buzzdixon.shtml

External links

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