The Biggest Badasses from G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Finally Get Their Due
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Of course, the biggest badasses from the G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra movie are also their tiniest, since they’re the two kids who played Lil’ Tokyo Hobo Snake Eyes and Lil’ Ninja Bastard Storm Shadow. Seriously, whether you liked the movie or not, you can’t tell me the best fight in it wasn’t the hilariously brutal fight between the two 10-year-olds — it blew every other action scene in the film away. Frankly, it’s a shame that these nonsensically smiling Combat Heroes are the only version we’ll be getting; even I’d have to consider picking up a two-pack of 3 3/4-scale 10-year-olds so I could make them beat the shit out of each other. Alas, I suppose I’ll have to continue to make do with my underground 10-year-old fight league. (Via Poe Ghostal)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.