The Super7 Once A Man CC arrived. Not a bad figure. I still wish I hadn’t missed out on the Classified one.
Upon seeing it, my son was curious and went down a YouTube rabbit hole watching videos of CCs cartoon origin, the snake transformation, and the humanoid return in Operation Dragonfire.
This led to more questions about the hooded appearance in Sunbow and later DIC episodes where he should have had either blue skin or snake scales respectively.
I basically gave him the quick rundown that continuity didn’t really matter in most 80s syndicated cartoons. The writers/animators of GI Joe: The Movie either didn’t know or didn’t care about the fact that we’ve seen that his skin wasn’t blue, and DIC stopped drawing the snake scales in the armor’s eyes pretty quickly after it first appeared, and didn’t bother when the hood came back later.
I told him to pretend that before the movie, CC used makeup over his two main eyes to make him look human and after Dragonfire, the transformation slowly continued to turn him more human as time went on (real human, not Cobra-La). I reminded him that in his full snake form in Dragonfire, the spore transformation had eventually gotten rid of his multiple eyes as well.
Its a stretch, but he wanted answers.
