G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
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Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)
Sep 15, 1986 · 30 min
A surprise attack by Cobra, using the new BATs, reveals that the Joes have gotten sloppy. General Hawk asks Sergeant Slaughter to help whip the team back into shape. Meanwhile, a s
Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)
Sep 16, 1986 · 30 min
The Joes send teams out to guard the tombs on Zartan's list, but each team is defeated in turn: by Zarana in Egypt, the Crimson Twins in Paris, the Dreadnoks in the Yucatan, and th
Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)
Sep 17, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra takes DNA from the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander the Great. Sergeant Slaughter retrieves a DNA pack from Cobra's raid on Sun Tzu's tomb, and from it the Joes surmi
Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)
Sep 18, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra Commander sabotages Dr. Mindbender's first experiment, and it rises as a hideous monster. Sergeant Slaughter briefly escapes, then is recaptured but manages to destroy his DN
Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)
Sep 19, 1986 · 30 min
Seargent Slaughter and the rescue team escape Cobra Island, but Serpentor captures Washington D.C. just as the Joes learn about the new leader. But Serpentor's lack of experience i
Last Hour to Doomsday
Sep 25, 1986 · 30 min
Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.
Computer Complications
Sep 26, 1986 · 30 min
When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feeli
Sink the Montana
Sep 29, 1986 · 30 min
An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundr
Let's Play Soldier
Sep 30, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent
Once Upon a Joe
Oct 1, 1986 · 30 min
When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling
The Million Dollar Medic
Oct 2, 1986 · 30 min
Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline disc
Cobrathon
Oct 6, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...
The Rotten Egg
Oct 7, 1986 · 30 min
Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy P
Glamour Girls
Oct 8, 1986 · 30 min
Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top m
Iceberg Goes South
Oct 9, 1986 · 30 min
The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to b
The Spy Who Rooked Me
Oct 13, 1986 · 30 min
International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.
Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
Oct 14, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into
My Brother's Keeper
Oct 15, 1986 · 30 min
Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promise
My Favorite Things
Oct 16, 1986 · 30 min
Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, an
Raise the Flagg!
Oct 20, 1986 · 30 min
The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, f
Ninja Holiday
Oct 22, 1986 · 30 min
Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...
G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece
Oct 27, 1986 · 30 min
There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent bac
The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
Oct 29, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's
Nightmare Assault
Oct 30, 1986 · 30 min
All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins
Second Hand Emotions
Oct 31, 1986 · 30 min
A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the
Joe's Night Out
Nov 10, 1986 · 30 min
Wet Suit, Leatherneck, Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth
Not a Ghost of a Chance
Nov 13, 1986 · 30 min
Lady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot
Sins of Our Fathers
Nov 18, 1986 · 30 min
Cobra Commander tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Nov 19, 1986 · 30 min
Slipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash
Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep
Nov 20, 1986 · 30 min
The Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends