Snake Eyes

## Biography

### Army Service

The man who would become known only as Snake Eyes served in the United States Army as an Airborne Ranger. Snake Eyes was part of an ultra-hush operation in Central America which included serving with a Green Beret who would later be known as "Chimera".

Around 2006, Snake Eyes took part in a black-bag operation that left him with severe facial injuries and a gunshot wound. While recuperating in the Las Vegas Center for Reconstructive Surgery, he recognised that the patient in the next bed was Chimera, who had deserted the U.S. Army seven years earlier after killing his family. Snake Eyes sent a fax informing the Army of Chimera's location. Chimera, in an effort to disguise himself by undergoing reconstructive surgery, used C4 to blow up the clinic, destroying the records and killing the surgeon and all of the patients.

Snake Eyes was the only survivor, having been thrown clear by the blast and suffering more burns to his face and hands. He was found by firefighters and transferred to Burn Unit Intensive Care at North Las Vegas Community Hospital.

### Recruitment Into G.I. Joe

While at the hospital, Snake Eyes was visited by two members of G.I. Joe, Duke and Scarlett, who had been charged with recruiting him to the fledgling unit. Injured and unable to speak, Snake Eyes nonetheless requested that they get him out of the hospital after seeing a television report about Chimera massacring a number of federal agents in a shootout in Dallas. Duke and Scarlett's associate, a veteran named Connie, stayed behind to cover Snake Eyes being removed from the hospital. The move was prescient, as Chimera arrived shortly after to kill Snake Eyes, finding Connie in his bed instead. Chimera blew up the ward and almost caught up to Duke and Scarlett as they escaped with Snake Eyes in Connie's van. As they sped away from the hospital, Duke officially recruited Snake Eyes into G.I. Joe. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.

Recovering at the Las Vegas Motel, Snake Eyes was seen by a doctor flown in from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, who advised he needed debriding and topical antibiotics. Above all else, if the damage to his face was to be repaired, Snake Eyes had to kept immobile until after the debriding. If not, then the doctor was of the opinion that it would be impossible to ever perform reconstructive surgery on Snake Eyes' face.

After the visit from the doctor, Snake Eyes remaining immobile in bed in the Las Vegas Motel while Scarlett and Duke left to contact Hawk on a secure link. While the pair were gone, two locals named Luke and John broke into Snake eyes room. Luke wanted to steal Snake Eyes' medal, the room's television, and even considered killing him since he had seen their faces. John, a former Ranger, recognised that the Silver Star meant Snake Eyes was also in the service and stood in Luke's way. The pair left, but Snake Eyes had been holding a knife in readiness. When Duke and Scarlett returned, they were aware that something had transpired since the lock had been jimmied.

Snake Eyes was introduced to the rest of the G.I. Joe team; General Hawk, Heavy Duty, Rock N' Roll, Breaker, and Stalker while recovering in the Las Vegas Motel. The team was being moved from "provisional" to "operational" due to Chimera's actions, and the Joe team was being deployed to a secret military installation in north-western Nevada where the terrorist was seemingly heading. Still recovering from his injuries, Snake Eyes remained at the motel with Hawk. During the operation, Hawk asked Snake Eyes to wheel to main office to get him a soda. Instead, Snake Eyes ended up listening to the manager, Bob Light, tell stories of his time during the Vietnam War. When communications was lost with the team in the field, including phone lines to the motel, Hawk and Bob left to find a working phone. Snake Eyes, left on his own, resolved to help his teammates.

### Going Rogue

Snake Eyes tracked Nico to his villa on the Crimean Riviera, arriving just in time to see him flee after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt. Snake Eyes investigated the property and found the remains of the assassin and his weaponry. One of Nico's bodyguards told Snake Eyes that the assassin was like a ghost before dying. Collecting the evidence he found, Snake Eyes sent them through back channels to Scarlett at The Pit. Keeping on Mandirobilis' trail, Snake Eyes heading to Manila in the Philippines. While there, he found that a G.I. Joe team lead by Stalker had been deployed to capture the arms dealer. Not wanting the Joes to take the target before he had a chance to, Snake Eyes caused their pursuit vehicle to crash, taking them out of the chase.

## Appearances

* *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
* *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
* *G.I. Joe #1* (First appearance)
* *G.I. Joe #2*
* *G.I. Joe #5*
* *G.I. Joe #6*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 *G.I. Joe #1*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 *G.I. Joe: Origins #1*
3. ↑ *Revolutionaries #1* dates the formation of G.I. Joe to 2006.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 *G.I. Joe: Origins #2*
5. ↑ *G.I. Joe: Origins #3*
6. ↑ *G.I. Joe #2*