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Doctor Mindbender
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Animated Appearances
| Sunbow Voice | Appearances | Time Identifiable On Screen | Total Lines (In Own Voice) | Total Words |
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| Brian Cummings | 31 | 2,993 seconds | 353 | 4,044 |
| Reel FX Voice | Appearances | Time Identifiable On Screen | Total Lines (In Own Voice) | Total Words |
| Jim Foronda | 2 | 474 seconds | 46 | 460 |
Notes: Sunbow's Mindbender wore his 1986 outfit, but his cape was dark purple and attached to his chest straps by red Cobra insignia. He acted as Cobra's chief interrogator and science officer and was responsible for most of the second season's new weapons and experimental devices. In Spy Troops: The Movie he wore his 2003 outfit, and his 2004 outfit appeared in Valor vs. Venom.
| Season 2 Opening (Sunbow) | 2 seconds | (silent) | in Trubble Bubble (0:25-26) |
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 1 | 163 seconds | 18 lines | defending B.A.T.s' design; dreaming of Serpentor; holding secret meeting |
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 2 | 0 seconds | 5 lines | voice on tape to guide Zarana through tomb of Xanoth Amon-Toth (audio only) |
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 3 | 267 seconds | 23 lines | flying Trubble Bubble at Sun Tzu's burial mound; capturing Sgt. Slaughter |
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 4 | 255 seconds | 43 lines | creating and pursuing protoplasm monster; creating Serpentor |
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 5 | 106 seconds | 14 lines | observing Serpentor; deploying B.A.T.s in DC; freeing Cobra Commander |
| Last Hour to Doomsday | 14 seconds | 1 line | attacked by octopus on Undersea Base Delta |
| Let's Play Soldier | 138 seconds | 18 lines | in charge of mind-altering drug in Thailand |
| Computer Complications | 13 seconds | 2 lines | on helicarrier during its assault on U.S.S. Flagg |
| Cobrathon | 135 seconds | 11 lines | presenting computer virus to Serpentor; participating in telethon |
| Once Upon a Joe | 23 seconds | 4 lines | leading Night Ravens to recover MacGuffin Device |
| Glamour Girls | 161 seconds | 19 lines | helping Madame Vail prepare her transference machine |
| Iceberg Goes South | 218 seconds | 32 lines | supervising mutation research at Tropodome; experimenting on Iceberg |
| The Spy Who Rooked Me | 145 seconds | 17 lines | purchasing nerve gas; fighting Joes to retrieve chemical |
| Grey Hairs and Growing Pains | 78 seconds | 11 lines | overseeing Ageless Care process; fighting Joes at factory |
| My Brother's Keeper | 251 seconds | 31 lines | recruiting Penser to fix machine, testing Penser's loyalties |
| My Favorite Things | 73 seconds | 2 lines | with Serpentor at Castle Dracula and Serpent Cave |
| G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece | 118 seconds | 24 lines | flying Night Raven to retrieve alien coil; sent back in time; flying Trubble Bubble |
| The Most Dangerous Thing in the World | 89 seconds | 11 lines | forging Joe promotion orders; with Serpentor during attacks on lab and Joe HQ |
| Nightmare Assault | 139 seconds | 18 lines | operating nightmare machine; entering nightmares; defeated by Low-Light |
| Joe's Night Out | 83 seconds | 6 lines | with Serpentor during Club Open Air plot |
| Second-Hand Emotions | 180 seconds | 13 lines | operating mood organ to torment Joes |
| Not a Ghost of a Chance | 127 seconds | 10 lines | interviewed by Hector Ramirez |
| Sins of Our Fathers | 40 seconds | 3 lines | firing lasers at Destro's creature |
| In the Presence of Mine Enemies | 26 seconds | 2 lines | monitoring Slip-Stream and Raven; taunting them on communication panel |
| Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep | 17 seconds | 4 lines | assigned to investigate disappearance of Cobra Cmdr and many Vipers |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 1 | 68 seconds | 7 lines | in Serpentor's war room; driving Stun in B.E.T. attack |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 2 | 18 seconds | (silent) | captured by Cobra-La |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 3 | 29 seconds | 3 lines | pledging loyalty to Golobulus; witnessing Cobra Commander's punishment |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 4 | 3 seconds | (silent) | driving Stun out of ice dome |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 5 | 14 seconds | 1 line | with Cobra leaders when Rawhides' attack begins |
| Spy Troops: The Movie | 194 seconds | 23 lines | at Cobra Mountain building B.A.T.s, assigned to repaint Chopper, in lab |
| Valor vs. Venom | 280 seconds | 23 lines | in Viper Pit lab, overseeing creation of V-Troops, at Brazil citadel, in final battle |
Classic Marvel Comic Appearances
By my count, Dr. Mindbender was discernible in 489 panels in 48 issues from Feb. 1986 to Aug. 1994: #44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, GIJTF 1, GIJTF 2, GIJTF 3, GIJTF 4, Order of Battle 3, 56, Yearbook 3, 63, SM 7, 64, 65, 67, Yearbook 4, 68, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 97, 98, 99, 116, 139, 140, 141, 145, 146, 148, 149, 150, and 151.
Figure Releases
| Versions: | 1. 1986
2. 1993 (Battle Corps) 3. 2002 (JvC Wave 3) | 4. 2003 (JvC Wave 6)
5. 2004 (Valor vs. Venom) |
| Version 1: spring 1986 regular carded figure assortment | |
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| Master of Mind Control | |
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| Accessories: light grey pistol with circle in front of trigger guard (new), black cloth cape with silver Cobra emblem (new), black stun rod generator with peg for hose (new), silver electric stun rod with peg on end for hose (new), long black hose (common). | |
| Dr. Mindbender was at one time an excellent orthodontist and a very kind and honest man. Tinkering with electric brainwave simulation as a means of relieving dental pain, the good doctor made the tragic mistake of experimenting on himself. He underwent a complete personality change and became hateful, deceitful, and vain! Dr. Mindbender abandoned his practice and devoted all his time to perfecting his digital brain-scrambling into a hand-portable weapon system capable of reducing the most strong-willed individual into a cowering wimp. "Dr. Mindbender doesn't think he's deluded - he feels he used to be. Now that he has seen the light, or the dark if you will, he feels it is his personal mission to bring the miracle of thought control to each and every one of you!" | |
| Toy Notes: Featured in the Terror Drome commercial. Item #6461. Referred to as "The Interrogator" on Serpentor's filecard and in the commercial for Marvel #49, and as "Dr. Brainwave" in Marvel #44. | |
| Version 2: spring 1993 Battle Corps Wave 2 carded figure assortment, #15 | |
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| Master of Mind Control | |
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| Accessories: yellow laser pistol (88 Iron Grenadier's), yellow submachine gun (89 Snake Eyes's), yellow submachine gun (88 Voltar's), yellow laser rifle (91 Sci-Fi's), yellow rifle (89 Dee-Jay's), purple spring launcher with yellow trigger (93 Alley Viper's), yellow spring missile (93 H.E.A.T. Viper's), yellow knife (88 Hydro-Viper's), yellow figure stand (common). | |
| DR. MINDBENDER was at one time an excellent orthodontist and a very kind and honest man. His personality was drastically altered when he experimented on himself with electronic brainwave stimulation. He changed into an egotistical madman filled with hatred and deceit! Even COBRA COMMANDER disliked him and buried him in a tanker deep beneath a volcano on Cobra Island. After bionically enhancing his badly damaged body with various machine parts, he barely escaped with his life. He eventually proved himself worthy of Cobra Commander and re-enlisted as a member of Cobra.
Motto: "I get a real CHARGE out of shocking G.I. Joe!" | |
| Toy Notes: Item #6782. | |
| Version 3: late September 2002 Joe vs. Cobra Wave 3 figure two-pack assortment | |
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| COBRA Master of Mind Control | MOS 1: Mind Control |
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| Accessories: two large gold revolver with visible trigger in trigger guard (new), silver comm-scan gun (85 Tele-Viper's), gold shotgun (88 Muskrat's, with Sound Attack tab), black two-shoulder plastic cape with gold Cobra emblems (new). | |
| DR. MINDBENDER was once a kindly dentist who experimented on himself to find a way to lessen dental pain through brainwave stimulation. As a result, he underwent a complete personality change causing him to devote his life to evil and the complete suppression of humanity by electronic mind-control. After he joined COBRA, DR. MINDBENDER improved and perfected the "brainwave scanner" invented by the nefarious Dr. Venom, and used that device to brainwash anybody who opposed the policies of COBRA COMMANDER or neglected to brush after meals Meticulous and fussy, DR. MINDBENDER is the type of person who eats pizza with a knife and fork. He has been known to participate in battles, but prefers to manipulate events from behind the scenes, preferably inside a bulletproof bunker. Independent thinkers with strong personalities give DR. MINDBENDER the hives, which is why he has had a long-standing personal antagonism towards BEACH HEAD. "All these people running around willy-nilly, having their own opinions, and making up their own minds! It's hideously chaotic and totally unacceptable!" | |
| Toy Notes: Carded in a two-pack with Beach Head. Item #53206. | |
| Version 4: April 2003 Spy Troops Wave 6 figure two-pack assortment | |
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| Cobra Master of Mind Control | |
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| Two-Pack Accessories: two gold revolvers (02 Dr. Mindbender's), black comm-scan gun (85 Tele-Viper's), black shotgun (88 Muskrat's, with Sound Attack tab), dark red cape with gold Cobra emblems (02 Dr. Mindbender).
Mission Disc Accessories: two gold revolvers (02 Dr. Mindbender's), brown knife (03 Over Kill's), dark red cape with gold Cobra emblems (02 Dr. Mindbender). | |
| DR. MINDBENDER was once a kindly dentist who experimented on himself to find a way to lessen dental pain through brainwave stimulation. As a result, he underwent a complete personality change causing him to devote his life to evil and the complete suppression of humanity by electronic mind-control. After he joined COBRA, DR. MINDBENDER improved and perfected the "brainwave scanner" invented by a nefarious doctor, and used that device to brainwash anybody who opposed the policies of COBRA COMMANDER or neglected to brush after meals. Meticulous and fussy, DR. MINDBENDER is the type of person who eats pizza with a knife and fork. He has been known to participate in battles, but prefers to manipulate events from behind the scenes, preferably inside a bulletproof bunker "All these people running around willy-nilly, having their own opinions, and making up their own minds! It's hideously chaotic and totally unacceptable!" | |
| Toy Notes: Carded in a two-pack with Dart. Item #57390. | |
| Reissues: Carded in April 2004 with Mission Disc #2 (Item. 55335). | |
| Version 5: January 2004 Valor vs. Venom Wave 1 figure two-pack assortment | |
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| COBRA Master of Mind Control | |
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| Accessories: two silver pistols (03 Black Out's), black folding laptop computer with blue screen and clips for test tubes (new), two tiny black test tubes (new). | |
| The originator of COBRA mind-control programs, DR. MINDBENDER turned his evil genius towards the creation of genetically altered super-warriors, perfecting a venom that adheres the DNA of the earth's most ferocious and dangerous animals to human DNA. The resulting hybrids are faster, stronger, and more resistant to pain than the normal human COBRA troopers. They also require less maintenance and don't seem to mind that they aren't being paid. DR. MINDBENDER was once a kindly orthodontist who, in his quest to relieve dental pain through mind-control, tested his brainwave scanner on himself and was turned into a malevolent maniac with definite anti-social tendencies. In COBRA COMMANDER, he found a perfect patron who shares his evil views and has unlimited funds to finance his wildest and most unnatural experiments. "Venom is my crowning achievement. It smells like - victory through microbiology!" | |
| Toy Notes: Carded in a two-pack with Hi-Tech. Item #55467. | |