He was part of the assault force who recaptured an Arabian oil terminal from Cobra and prevented it from being exploded to ignite the oil fields, and was then part of a team who travelled to Vietnam after Gung-Ho went in search of his former comrades. Subsquently he was part of Action Force teams who were sent to recover a Northrod B2 bomber crew who crashed on an island with top secret information, who stopped Cobra obtaining a powerful laser driven by diamonds, who dealt with a siege in a British village when the bank manager was revealed as a Crimson Guard and who dealt with a Cobra bomb planted on Tower Bridge in London. He was then was one of many Action Force members deliberately sent to Rhodes to get them out of the country when Trent was being blackmailed by the Dreadnoks. Roadblock was part of a team who tricked Tomax and Xamot into leading a team of B.A.T.s into Action Force's London base, both to test security and secure samples of B.A.T. Īction Force (British) Comics continuity ĭuring the Vietnam War Roadblock served with the future Action Force members Gung-Ho, Wild Bill and Leatherneck. With Rock 'n Roll, he bought Mainframe the time the latter needed to hack into Cobra's computers and provide evidence of Cobra's goal and clear the Joes of charges. Upon instructions from Hawk, he met with other Joes for a rendezvous and led a strike team into the Silent Castle, battling B.A.T.s. Roadblock was among the first Joes to resurface. When Cobra enacted a plan that put them at the forefront of providing security for the United States, the Joes were declared renegades and were hunted down. Joe was disbanded, Roadblock was re-assigned as a cook. The Joes were surprised that Roadblock could lift the gun so easily.ĭevil's Due Comics continuity IDW RAH continuity Īfter G.I. The perplexed Joes looked around and saw that Duke and Roadblock had shot it out of the sky, with Roadblock holding his. The Cobra pilot got a drop on the Joes and was about to launch a missile strike against them when it was blown out of the sky. Cover Girl was the first to acknowledge its presence and alert the others. As the funeral proceedings were taking place, the new combat aircraft approached the procession. Cobra Commander had used this event to knock out the remaining Joes and also to test Cobra's new combat aircraft. Roadblock and Duke were introduced during the Funeral of General Flagg. 1.1.6 Action Force (British) Comics continuityįiction A Real American Hero comics continuity Marvel Comics continuity.1.1 A Real American Hero comics continuity. It doesn’t find it, but the effort is appreciated. Angel Has Fallen is a film in search of a soul. The film’s villain declares they want to “make America strong again” and there’s a mention of election tampering conducted by Russia, despite there being no allusions to Trump in Morgan’s Trumbull. The film has all the noisy distraction you’d expect (and maybe want) from this type of fare, but Angel Has Fallen is clearly striving to be about something, even if its creators are really just fumbling around in the dark. Add to that: the obvious use of green screens, the silly-looking drones (alongside Hobbs and Shaw and Spider-Man: Far From Home, this truly has been the summer of drones), and the hideous orange-and-teal hue of the film – a favourite of the action genre, but here it’s pushed to a laughable extreme. If something has the ability to explode, it will at some point explode. Every scene is hyperactively edited together, with the camera wheeling about with such free abandon that there’s really no telling what’s going on. Since there’s a lack of recognisable landmarks to blow up here, Angel Has Fallen feels the need to amp up what action it does have to an almost apocalyptic degree. As a result, it’s unexpectedly self-reflective.Īnd what chaotic action that is. While the third installment in the franchise, Angel Has Fallen, is still a loud, ultra-violent, ugly-looking film, you can feel a guilt weighing heavily on its creators. The series has so far been marked by ghoulish jingoism: Olympus Has Fallenopted for full-blown paranoia, with its story of villainous North Koreans hijacking the White House, while London Has Fallen was rife with Islamophobia (it’s still hard to believe that the line, “Get back to F***headistan or wherever it is you’re from,” made it to the final cut). Three films in, the “Fallen” franchise seems to have finally done that, concluding that xenophobia might not be the greatest look in 2019. There comes a time when every action franchise has to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Starring: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Piper Perabo, Lance Reddick, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Nick Nolte.
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