G.I. Joe’s Scarlett Would Like You to Admire Her Bum
Congrats to JoBlo.com, who got the second character image from the live-action G.I. Joe movie?namely Scarlet, as played by Alias‘ Rachel Nichols. Unfortunately, as much as Scarlet is trying to sway me by presenting her ass to the camera, I remain disapproving. Yes she’s got red hair, and bonus points for the crossbow. But her “battle armor” is generic action movie of the highest order, covered in those mysterious and needless grooves that seem to be so popular with the heroes nowadays. Now, I don’t expect Scarlet to wear this, necessarily:
But I would like to remind the G.I. Joe movie makers that they already have a character whose schtick is wearing black armor, so maybe they could check out the other colors in the Crayola crayon box.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.