Everytime something blew up on the show you always saw a parachute leave the explosion at the last second with a Cobra or Joe attached. Its like no ever died when something exploded on the show.
"Gentlemen, This is a War Room, There's no fighting allowed in Here!"
In all fairness it's highly likley that at least a couple of those parachutes failed after the camera cut away .
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In the very first episode, three Cobra jets exploded without any parachutes falling. There were also episodes in which someone was stated to be the sole survivor of an event which had taken place. Personally, I think that I would have tried to include subtle implications of death if I were working on a series like this. I'm sure I could think of a number of ways to include subtle implications which might make it past the radar for the most part.
shareHa! I watched whole firefights in an enclosed space with a minimum of cover with 25+ soldiers on either side, only to notice that every single shot went into one of two places: into a piece of equipment that didn't matter (usually causing it to explode) or into the air.
The satellite raid in episode one is a good example. 50+ people in one room firing automatic weapons and not a single person gets shot! The whole of the Cobra assault team is shown hiding behind the satellite towards the end of the scene. Not a single fatality!
Ridiculous!
You have to remember that adults would have complained if there was too much violence in a cartoon aimed at kids. Children's programming became heavily sanitized in the U.S. in the 1970s. Reruns of the 1960s Jonny Quest series were censored. The Super Friends weren't allowed to punch or kick people. Thundarr the Barbarian was cancelled despite good ratings, probably due to its violent content.
G.I. Joe pushed the limits of what you could get away with in an animated series on American TV in the 1980s. There were no on-screen deaths in G.I. Joe but there was a lot of hitting, shooting and explosions. In the two-parter "Worlds Without End", a group of Joes are sent to an alternate reality where most of the members of G.I. Joe are listed as MIA or dead and the skeletons of Clutch, Steeler and Grunt are found. Blood is shown when Duke is speared by Serpentor's snake in G.I. Joe: The Movie.
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The Serpentor Arrise saga you can see the skeleon of Montezuma (a dead person).
On the two part episode Worlds Without End you can sea dead joes (skeletons). They even mention about killed joes or MIA.
On the first episodes (the mass device) you can see destro planing to execute the world leaders.
haha yah and nobody EVER got hit with a bullet or laser. Actually, I do remember seeing one episode when I was young, and actually saw a Cobra soldier get clipped in the shoulder, fall down, and crawl away. As I recall the firefight took place in a huge hangar.
But yah, that was the only thing I didn't like about the show.
They also fired about a million shots from their laser guns and never actually hit anybody, they had to get past the 80s censors after all
..or at least I think so lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JphygYybU
I can recall two episodes where the producers went out of their way to show that people didn't die. In an episode where two ASP's blew up with no one escaping, before they were destroyed the Baroness said that they were remote controlled ASP's. In the episode the germ, two cobra eels got stuck in the germs nucleus. When the Joe team destroyed the germ at the end of the episode, the two Cobra Eels fell out of the sky and survived the germs destruction.