South American Character Origins

This page is to inform the readers less familiar with the South American GI Joe toy-lines where I got each character from. If a character's not listed, chances are it's one I invented. One of the things people may not realise is that whilst Estrela (the Brazilian company) and Plastirama (the Argentine company) created exclusive figures, like the famous Glenda, Redmack, Topson and so on, they also often created slight variants (SOS is Doc with silver shades not green) or new characters in the file cards separate to the US ones. For example, Crazy Legs was released in both countries as 'Alado', a completely different character, but the same figure. Lowlight's first two figures (hereafter 'regular' for V1 and 'Marauders' for V2) were both released in Brazil. Regular Lowlight is a sniper called 'Midnight' with a backstory about fearing the dark. Marauders Lowlight is a sniper called Pontaria or 'Target', who has a completely different backstory about going hunting with his father, but was scared of bugs until he got lost in the forest! In a few cases, like Alpine, figures were released in Argentina and Brazil and given different names and backgrounds; Argentine Alpine is called Risco and Brazilian Alpine is called Everest. As a result, I'm treating any figure with a different name as a different character.

TNT –Argentine exclusive

SOS – Argentine Doc variant

Athena – Brazilian Scarlett variant

Sparta – Argentine/Brazilian Cover Girl variant

Sokerk – Argentine tan variant of Ripcord

Estopim – Brazilian tan Grunt variant

Condor – Argentine Airborne variant

Shimik – Argentine exclusive

Redmack – Argentine exclusive

Topson – Argentine exclusive

Glenda – Argentine exclusive

Manleh – Argentine exclusive

Tigor –Brazilian exclusive

Leontor – Argentine/Brazilian Backblast

Biomass – Brazilian exclusive

Biosphere – Brazilian exclusive

Albatross – Brazilian exclusive

Aguia Commando – Brazilian exclusive

Biological – Brazilian exclusive

Fuego – Argentine Ripcord variant

Leopard – Brazilian Recondo variant

Triton – Brazilian Stalker variant

Dragon – Brazilian Zap variant

Electron – Brazilian Flash variant

Pegasus – Brazilian Cross Country v2 variant

Sureshot – Brazilian Bulletproof variant

Sgt. Matanza – Argentine Sgt Slaughter variant (Matanza is Spanish for slaughter)

Alado – Argentine Crazy Legs

Muralha – Brazilian Flint variant

Midnight – Brazilian version of Lowlight

Coyote – Brazilian version of Footloose

Risco – Argentine Alpine

Rocket Man – Brazilian Bazooka (literal translation of name is ‘Bullet Man’, I felt Rocket Man was more appropriate)