Cobra Commander character

NO! G.I. Joe was ready for us! How dare they anticipate my strategy?

What are you doing? Advance! Adva...
[grenade explodes]

Morons! I have morons on my payroll!

As of now, your little project is deader than disco! Hmmm... Deader than disco... I like that... I would have made a great stand-up comedian.

What would you have me do with Washington, Destro? Pepper it with spitballs?

Shipwreck: Do you expect me to talk, Cobra?
Cobra Commander: No. We expect you to fry!

I shall be waiting to reward your genius, or to have you beheaded for terminal stupidity! I have spoken.

Get off me, you moron!

I will not allow such impertinence! Especially from an
[shouts] enlisted man!

She's bluffing! She'd never risk destroying you! I on the other hand, have no such qualms about eliminating her! [cackles]

[Talking about Sgt. Slaughter]
Cobra Commander: That man has the constitutionality of a vending machine.

Not much is known of Cobra Commander's past, but in his early career he was a used car salesman. While struggling to keep his business afloat, he learned that a car crash had taken the life of his older brother, Dan, who had been driving drunk. Embittered by this tragedy, Cobra Commander became obsessed with vindicating his brother's death. He took specific interest in the surviving son of the family killed in the accident with Dan. That man was the soldier better known as Snake-Eyes.

Cobra Commander managed to track Snake-Eyes to Japan, where he was training to become a member of the Arashikage ninja clan. The Commander hired a mercenary called Firefly to kill him, but Firefly soon realized he was no match for his target, instead referring Cobra Commander to another assassin, Zartan, who infiltrated the clan and shot at Snake-Eyes with an arrow stolen earlier from another ninja, Storm Shadow. However, it was not Snake-Eyes who was hit, but the clan's leader and Storm Shadow's uncle, Hard Master. Storm Shadow was blamed for the murder and fled in search of the killer.

Cobra Commander returned to his domestic life, but after his wife gave birth to a son, Billy, she found out about what had happened in Japan. He took the child and left his wife, becoming increasingly paranoid and blaming all his problems on "the system". He traveled across America with Billy, seeking out people who shared his desire to topple big business and the government, using money he had earned from pyramid schemes to attract followers.

He then moved to the town of Springfield, where the businesses were struggling and the population had become disillusioned with existing policy. He applied his influence to corrupt the township and eventually took control of it. Within the town, he established a clandestine terrorist group called Cobra. For reasons and in ways unknown, Billy leaves his father, and joins the anti-Cobra underground organization. Storm Shadow's search for his uncle's killer eventually led him to Cobra, which Storm Shadow joined, pledging loyalty to Cobra Commander as his personal bodyguard.

For a long time, Cobra has remained a clandestine organization, slowly building up its forces and resources.