Fred VII

Fred VII is a male character who features in G.I. Joe.

Biography

Fred VII was a male human born in the modern age where he came to join the ranks of the Cobra Organization. He came to be the seventh member of the Fred Series of Crimson Guards. Each member of the series looks identical due to plastic surgery. Many are sent out into everyday life to gain political clout and other resources for Cobra, sometimes maintaining more mundane cover jobs. Before assuming the role of Cobra Commander, Fred VII operated a small auto repair shop in Denver, which was also the site of a hidden cybernetics lab. The original Fred Broca, along with his wife and two children, had been assigned to monitor Fort Wadsworth for Joe activity in the aftermath of the First Battle of Fort Wadsworth, when Cobra had destroyed what appeared to be the Joes' secret headquarters but what was actually a pre-fabricated fortress. Fred I died after fighting with Snake Eyes and other Joes at Snake Eyes' retreat in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and was replaced at the Broca home on Staten Island by Fred II. After Fred II revealed himself to Snake Eyes and Stalker as their old LRRP teammate Wade Collins, he, along with the Broca family, defected from Cobra. Subsequently, none of the other Freds were activated to replace Fred II, as a pair of simultaneous, unauthorized incursions onto Cobra Island, began a chain of events that led to Zartan escaping from the Pit, the true Joe headquarters, and relaying its location back to Cobra, instigating the Second Battle of Fort Wadsworth.

In the ensuing power struggle between Cobra Commander and the newly created Serpentor, the Commander and Destro lead the Battle Android Troopers into the Pit. The base had been shut down and evacuated due to the investigation into the failed invasion of Springfield, a Cobra-controlled town that had been successfully evacuated by Serpentor. As the Joes outside fought off the Cobra forces stationed above ground, Hawk and three Pentagon officials, General Hollingsworth, General Ryan, and Admiral Dyson, had to fight the B.A.T.s themselves, at the cost of Ryan's and Dyson's lives. Hawk and Hollingsworth chose to implode the base, leaving Cobra Commander and Destro buried and presumed dead. The two Cobra leaders would find an escape pod in the form of a drill tank, and reach the surface at a recently abandoned mall in New Jersey.

While on the run, Cobra Commander traveling incognito under his real name discovered his son Billy has been badly wounded in a mysterious altercation that saw him losing an eye and a leg whilst being left in a coma. The Commander takes Billy from the hospital to see Fred VII, whom he asks to build a prosthetic leg for his son. Fred also presents the commander with a suit of samurai-like battle armor.

Fred and the commander have a small side adventure. They team up with the bird-crazy Raptor and track down a G.I. Joe convoy. They attack it with the new Cobra Pogo that Fred VII had invented.

Notes

• Fred VII was created by Larry Hama and featured in the setting of G.I. Joe.

Appearances

• G.I. Joe:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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