NFC Joe/Cobra customs

In 1993 Hasbro made this character up... and neither the figure nor the filecard were salvageable, both better forgotten forever.


So my custom retains NOTHING from either, I just went my own direction with him.




T'GIN-ZU (pronounced ChiN Soo)

He gets premonitions. Rarely do the visions cover more than the very immediate future but they are sometime regarding both his surroundings and far off locations.
Working for the NSA (National Security Agency), he was once assigned to infiltrate the Arashikage clan to root out potential future candidates for Cobra. Before that, he already practiced jiu-jitsu and ken-bo. The only person he discovered was walking that dark path was the teenager who would someday by known as Shadow Strike. He was a week from “graduation” and getting his red A clan tattoo done when he was discovered by said bad apple… he was forced to exit his and all the way back to the US he questioned it all. Once back in his home country, he received commendations for hios work despite his discovery but he was never satisfied. No matter how long he would brood on the end of his Arashikage training, he could never put his finger on HOW he was found out and even more that that he was always bothered that he never even sensed it, he never had the premonition telling him the secret was out… He is still proud of his training regardless of not having the ink (the rest of the Clan on the Joe roster would one day consider him a sword brother once he came aboard with the task force). Within the NSA, he was known as far back as entrance training that he was utterly fearless, the Agency’s top shrinks attributed that to his feelings of what’s going to happen next… Personally, he can’t help but feel he’s unstoppable.

Some years later, when supernatural activity was on the rise all over the world with Serpentor’s increasing command of dark forces and his growing army, GIJoe began to put together a team of operatives nicknamed “Night Force” that would specialize in defending human freedom against things that go bump in the night and often work for Hell itself. It was for that team that the man who’d earned the moniker The Ginzu, after his ninja training assignment had become somewhat legendary at the Agency, received a recruiting phone call from General Hawk himself. It was figured that a man who could channel premonitions and be prompted by his visions of future events would be a critical help in the fight against dark forces, animal cultists, and random weirdness that makes up Serpentor’s Coil.




Cephalon, assassin for the Coil, has no idea T’Giz-Zu has no fear: