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Strato-Viper
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Animated Appearances
| Sunbow Voice | Appearances | Time Identifiable On Screen | Total Lines (In Own Voice) | Total Words
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| Various | 16 | 788 seconds | 93 | 698
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Notes: Sunbow's Strato-Vipers wore the 1986 outfit, with light grey gloves, and the neck and chin bare below the helmet.
| Arise Serpentor Arise Part 1 | 8 seconds | 1 line | flying Night Raven to deliver message to Zartan
| | Arise Serpentor Arise Part 3 | 36 seconds | 3 lines | fighting Sgt. Slaughter; flying Ravens and cargo plane at tomb of Genghis Khan
| | Arise Serpentor Arise Part 4 | 5 seconds | | stunning Sgt. Slaughter on cargo plane
| | Arise Serpentor Arise Part 5 | 11 seconds | 2 lines | parachuting onto Capitol; flying Night Ravens in DC battles
| | Computer Complications | 7 seconds | | flying Firebats to retrieve space probe
| | Cobrathon | 3 seconds | | flying Night Ravens to protect mainframe computer site
| | The Million Dollar Medic | 8 seconds | | flying Night Ravens against Van Mark factory; several rescued by Lifeline
| | The Rotten Egg | 1 second | | prisoner being loaded onto A.P.C. (2:04)
| | Once Upon a Joe | 60 seconds | 15 lines | driving trucks to attack lab; escaping in Firebats; flying Night Ravens in second raid
| | Grey Hairs and Growing Pains | 11 seconds | 1 line | escorting Serpentor to safety
| | My Favorite Things | 7 seconds | 2 lines | flying Night Raven to retrieve Rasputin portrait; delivering portrait to Serpentor
| | G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece | 10 seconds | 3 lines | flying Night Raven to retrieve alien coil; sent back in time
| | Not a Ghost of a Chance | 27 seconds | 2 lines | flying Ravens against Ghost prototype, watching interview, on manta sub
| | Sins of Our Fathers | 13 seconds | | flying Night Ravens to attack Destro's creature; at Terror Drome after creature's defeat
| | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | 567 seconds | 63 lines | flying Night Ravens against Slip-Stream; one (Raven) shot down along with him
| | G.I. Joe: The Movie, Part 4 | 14 seconds | 1 line | at briefing in Terror Drome
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Classic Marvel Comic Appearances
By my count, Strato-Vipers were discernible in 30 panels in 4 issues from Feb. 1987 to Apr. 1990: Order of Battle 3, SM 5, SM 28, and #99.
Figure Releases
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| 1. 1986 (Night Raven)
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| Version 1: spring 1986 boxed Cobra Night Raven S³P vehicle
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| Cobra Night Raven S³P Pilot
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| - head: Strato-Viper (86)
- arms: Strato-Viper (86), Drop Zone (90)
- torso: Strato-Viper (86), Drop Zone (90)
- waist: Strato-Viper (86), Drop Zone (90)
- legs: Strato-Viper (86), Drop Zone (90)
| | Accessories: none
| The best secret agents in the world work for private corporations as industrial spies simply because "big business" pays better than any government. Cobra can attract some of the best pilots from around the globe to join the air wing of the Cobra Legions, known as the Air-Vipers, by doubling and tripling their salaries. Air-Vipers are formidable opponents but the Strato-Vipers are the "créme de la créme."
"To qualify as a Strato-Viper, a candidate must first be an Air-Viper with 1500 hours logged in flight time. He must have a fixed-wing rating up to four engines, combat experience, an impeccable security clearance, and be willing to undergo the surgical procedure necessary to make him more resistant to hypoxia, hyperventilation, and other decompression sicknesses that can affect a pilot above Armstrong's Line (63,000 feet)."
| | Toy Notes: Item #6014. The Air-Vipers mentioned here would not receive their own figure until 2003. Strato-Viper's appearance is represented in the 25th-Anniversary line by the Air Viper Commando released in 2009.
| | Reissues: Reissued in mail offers 1988-1992 (North Atlantic, Operation Deep Six, Escape from Doom, Terror on the Tundra).
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