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===Devil's Due (2001β2008)=== Among the few revisions Devil's Due instituted was the expansion of Cobra Commander's origin. After his brother's death, the future Commander sought out the surviving son of the family killed by Dan. He found the soldier ([[Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe)|Snake Eyes]]) at a bar, where the Commander saved him from an oncoming truck and the two became friends. They traveled from state to state, acting as vigilantes. One night, Cobra Commander took Snake Eyes to the house of a corrupt Judge who he blamed for the hardships they had both experienced: years before, the judge had presided over a case involving Cobra Commander's brother Dan, who ran a veteran's hospital. The hospital had been burned down by a patient, but the judge ruled that it was insurance fraud; Dan lost everything and turned to drinking, which led to the crash that took his life and the lives of Snake Eyes' family. Realizing where his anger had taken him, Snake Eyes refused to kill the man and walked away. Cobra Commander killed the judge himself and vowed revenge against Snake Eyes for having turned on him.<ref>SNAKE EYES: DECLASSIFIED #2 (September 2005)</ref><ref name="Hidalgo 2009 72">{{cite book |title= G.I. Joe vs. Cobra: The Essential Guide 1982β2008|last= Hidalgo|first= Pablo|year= 2009|publisher= Random House|isbn= 978-0-345-51642-8|page=72}}</ref> Years after the [[G.I. Joe Team]] has disbanded, [[Kamakura (G.I. Joe)|Kamakura]] finds evidence that Cobra Commander has returned to the United States. Snake Eyes forwards this information to [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]], who uses it to have the G.I. Joe Team reinstated. Cobra Commander calls together the members of his organization, to let them know about his plan to take over the United States with nano-mites. [[Destro]] is the last to arrive, but after hearing the Commander's plan, he turns the tables on Cobra Commander, and takes control of Cobra.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #1 (October 2001)</ref> Cobra Commander eventually regains control with the help of [[Storm Shadow (G.I. Joe)|Storm Shadow]], and creates plans to get revenge on both Destro and [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]].<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #6β9 (2002)</ref> Later, Storm Shadow breaks free of Cobra's mind control, and contacts [[Billy Kessler|Billy]] for help. Billy recruits Snake Eyes and Kamakura to assist him in rescuing Storm Shadow, but not before Cobra Commander brainwashes him again. A battle between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow ends in a stalemate, leaving Storm Shadow in the control of Cobra Commander.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #20β21 (2003)</ref> A distress call from [[T'Jbang]] leads the Joes to Tibet, where Cobra Commander and Storm Shadow are hiding with the [[Red Ninja (G.I. Joe)|Red Ninja]] clan. Snake Eyes defeats their leader Sei Tin, and becomes the new master of the Red Ninja clan.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #27 (February 2004)</ref> The Joes are then sent on a mission to Cobra Island, where Cobra Commander has returned to power. Meanwhile, Destro is double-crossed by the president of Sierra Gordo, and makes a deal with Duke to deliver Cobra Commander. Destro is traded for Cobra Commander, but not before the Commander shoots Hawk in the back, and in turn is shot from behind by the [[Baroness (G.I. Joe)|Baroness]].<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #28β32 (2004)</ref> Cobra Commander is freed by the [[Dreadnoks]], and revealed to have been [[Zartan]] in disguise.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #36β38 (2004β2005)</ref> Cobra Commander takes back complete control of Cobra, and sends a unit to destroy [[The Pit (G.I. Joe)|The Pit]], as Cobra discovers a weather control weapon named the Tempest, and moves it to their new Monolith Base in Badhikstan. Cobra uses the Tempest to unleash the Deathangel Virus on the county of Badhi, as G.I. Joe attacks Cobra's new stronghold. Cobra Commander escapes, but not before shooting [[Dr. Mindbender]], who dies helping G.I. Joe to disable the Tempest.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #39β41 (2005)</ref> The Red Shadows organization then steps forward, targeting members of both G.I. Joe and Cobra. They are defeated by G.I. Joe, and the team is then deactivated by order of the President, given that Cobra as an organization has fractured, although Cobra Commander remains at large.<ref>''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' vol. 2 #43 (June 2005)</ref> ====America's Elite==== One year after the previous series, satellites begin falling out of orbit and crashing into major cities, resulting in massive civilian casualties. Thinking that Cobra is responsible for the attacks, the G.I. Joe Team is reactivated to deal with the new threat. The team eventually discovers that a man named [[Vance Wingfield]], who once attempted to start a nuclear war and was presumed dead, is behind the attacks.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #0β5 (JuneβNovember 2005)</ref> Meanwhile, Cobra Commander, who has been rebuilding his forces since the end of the previous series, infiltrates the U.S. government by disguising himself as [[White House Chief of Staff]] Garrett Freelowe. He tries to convince the President to shut down the G.I. Joe team. When he fails, he creates a new team called the [[Phoenix Guard]] led by [[General Rey (G.I. Joe)|General Philip Rey]], a former G.I. Joe commander.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #13 (July 2006)</ref> The Phoenix Guard infiltrates G.I. Joe headquarters, and manages to capture several Joes, until General Rey discovers the true identities of the Phoenix Guard members. G.I. Joe then captures most of the Phoenix Guard, and after the failed attack on G.I. Joe headquarters, Cobra Commander abandons the White House.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #17β18 (Nov.-Dec. 2006)</ref> The Baroness then pursues a campaign of revenge against her betrayers, Cobra Commander and [[Wraith (G.I. Joe)|Wraith]]. During her quest, she finds Wraith in a club in Prague, and lures him into a cemetery where she confronts and defeats him, shooting him in the head. She trades his armor to the Red Shadows, in exchange for information on the whereabouts of Cobra Commander. The Baroness locates the Commander in Honduras, but finds that Destro, her husband, is also present. After a brief fight, Destro agrees to trade the M.A.R.S. corporation, his [[Iron Grenadier]] forces, and his eldest son Alexander to Cobra Commander, in exchange for his and the Baroness' baby. Cobra Commander avoids capture, by revealing that he possesses the personal information of every G.I. Joe agent, because of his time working in the White House.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #21β24 (MarchβJune 2007)</ref> Cobra Commander uses his control of M.A.R.S. weapons to create conflict all over the globe, in a last bid to gain control of the world. G.I. Joe counters by going on the offensive, mobilizing the entire G.I. Joe roster, and launching missions to capture Cobra agents still at large. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander recruits soldier Nick Bailey, making him the last member of a new elite Cobra unit code-named "[[The Plague (G.I. Joe)|The Plague]]".<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #25 (July 2007)</ref> The main G.I. Joe team heads to Israel, where they help stop an assassination attempt. While the team is away, Cobra Commander attacks [[Washington, D.C.]], taking over the White House and capturing the President. Cobra also takes over [[Fort Meade]], while Alexander McCullen attacks London and France with the Iron Grenadiers.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #29 (November 2007)</ref> Cobra Commander then sends [[Tomax]] and a squad of [[Night Creepers]] to "The Coffin", a prison in Greenland created to hold all of G.I. Joe's captured enemies. Tomax manages to free [[Major Bludd]] and several others, while killing those Cobra Commander considered "loose ends". Dela Eden, who had been freed from The Coffin, is recruited by Cobra Commander to find Destro and the Baroness, in order to kill them. Cobra takes over several nuclear arsenals, including one in [[Suffolk, England]]. As a warning, Cobra Commander detonates a nuclear bomb in [[The Empty Quarter]], and then broadcasts an ultimatum on television for world leaders to accede to his authority, or he will start choosing populated targets. Billy, Cobra Commander's son, confronts his father at Fort Meade and tries to kill him. He fails, and Cobra Commander kills him instead, hanging Billy's body from a flagpole, with a message that no one is untouchable.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #30β33 (Dec. 2007 β March 2008)</ref> After the Joes defeat a plan by Cobra Commander to blow up nukes in the Amazon and Antarctica, Cobra Commander and The Plague retreat to a secret base in the Appalachian Mountains, where the first Cobra soldiers were trained. When the Joes attack the Appalachian base, [[General Joseph Colton|General Colton]] is shot in the back by Cobra Commander, but survives. The battle ends, when Hawk tackles Cobra Commander, and knocks him out with a punch to the face. In the aftermath, the Joes are still active and fully funded, and Cobra Commander is locked away in a special underwater prison.<ref>''G.I. Joe: America's Elite'' #36 (June 2008)</ref> Hasbro later announced that all stories published by [[Devil's Due Publishing]] are no longer considered [[Canon (fiction)|canonical]], and are now considered an alternate continuity.<ref name="Continuity">{{cite web |url=http://forums.yojoe.com/news/75248-comic-continuity-clarity-comic-section.html |title=Comic Continuity Clarity in the Comic Section β YoJoecom Forums |author=Antarctica |date=12 May 2010 |access-date=24 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522084206/http://forums.yojoe.com/news/75248-comic-continuity-clarity-comic-section.html |archive-date=22 May 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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