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Thrasher as seen in the Sunbow G.I. Joe cartoon. |
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| Thrasher | |
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| Affiliation | Dreadnoks |
| File name | Bruno LaCrosse |
| Birthplace | Brussels, Belgium |
| Primary MOS | Demolitions |
| Secondary MOS | Civil Disturbances |
| Voiced by | Ted Schwartz |
| Year introduced | 1986 |
Thrasher is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is affiliated with Cobra as the Dreadnoks' Thunder Machine driver and debuted in 1986.
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Thrasher was spoiled as a child by his middle class parents, who never disciplined him in fear that this would "stifle energies he might need later in life". They never denied him anything he asked for, no matter how many times the things he asked for wound up causing some type of destruction or major disaster. This "wild child" wandered into the swamps where he could do what he pleased, and there he met Zartan and the Dreadnoks who welcomed him in as one of them.[1]
Thrasher was first released as an action figure in 1986, packaged with the Dreadnok Thunder Machine.[2]
In the Marvel Comics G.I. Joe series, he first appeared in issue #51. According to dialogue, he had wandered off into the swamps some time ago. He returns because the swamp held nothing left to smash. Further more, the pollution had killed off all the wild animals so there was nothing left to strangle. Later, in a conflict with the Joes, he purposely drives the Thunder Machine through a moving train, using the guns to create a hole.[3]
In issue 69, Thrasher, Monkeywrench and Zarana had been part of a team overseeing a Cobra Terrordrome base in the fictional country of Sierra Gordo.
When the country erupts in civil war, the three take Thrasher's Thunder Machine to a local airstrip. They take several civilians hostage. This gets them transport from Wild Bill, Crazylegs and Maverick of the G.I. Joe team. Eventually the Dreadnoks, Joes and the civilians willingly work together in an attempt to escape to safety. Thrasher is injured during this attempt; eventually everyone makes it out alive.[4]
Later, he battles Battleforce 2000.[5]
As seen in the Devil's Due series, he stays with the Dreadnoks as it turns into a multi-state operation.[6] Joe forces assault the Dreadnoks' Florida Everglades headquarters. Thrasher and Buzzer flee in the Thunder Machine, are run off a hidden road by Joe forces and left behind. Later, he teams up with Buzzer, Ripper and Road Pig to supervise the purchase of a nuclear weapon from Russian forces.[7] Thrasher is entrusted with the supervision of the Montreal, Canada chapter of the Dreadnoks; most of the gang's power structure had retreated to this city after the Everglades raid.[8]
He first appeared in the G.I. Joe second season episode "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" Pt. 1.[9] He attempts to earn a spot on the Dreadnoks as he uses the Thunder Machine to pursue Joe forces.[10] Thrasher was voiced by Ted Schwartz.[11]
Thrasher also appeared briefly in the 1987 animated film G.I. Joe: The Movie.[12]
Thrasher's figure is briefly featured in the fiction novel 6 Sick Hipsters. In the story, the character Paul Achting spent four years collecting G.I. Joe figures to set up a battle scene between the Joes and Cobra. As he imagined the characters in his head, he described the Dreadnoks as "an elite team of maniacal mercenaries allied with Cobra for this battle", with the figures lying in the thick of the shag carpet, and Thrasher as "the psycho, mounted on the Thunder Machine, a red and black behemoth that was as postapocalyptic as Mad Max himself".[13]
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