[5] A small group of US military personnel are forced to become fugitives, after uncovering suspicious activity at a Cobra Industries pharmaceutical facility.
(According to the recent "Hub Exclusive" TV broadcast promoting this series and Transformers: Prime, homages to The A-Team are used in the background of this incarnation of the characters.
Also, Lady Jaye is sympathetic to her longtime friend Duke and provides covert support for him and the Renegades, much like Captain Charissa Sosa in the A-Team film and Amy Allen in the 1980s TV series.)
After two episodes, the series' intro is narrated by David Kaye: Accused of a crime they didn't commit, a ragtag band of fugitives fights a covert battle to clear their names and expose the insidious enemy that is... Cobra.
And this is their story.A team of five soldiers—Duke, Ripcord, Tunnel Rat, Roadblock and Scarlett (with Snake Eyes helping from the shadows)—are sent to investigate Cobra Pharmaceuticals.
While Baroness and Doctor Mindbender oversee the "quarantine," General Abernathy sends Flint to get Lady Jaye to help him bring in Duke's team.
Posing as a preacher that helps veterans, Scrap-Iron kidnaps Tunnel Rat and uses him to test a weaponized "exo-armor" suit for James McCullen and M.A.R.S.
The Joes make a pit stop in a small town in Kansas and quickly find themselves tangling with the Dreadnoks, their leader Zartan, and a cowardly local sheriff.
The Baroness contacts mercenary, Major Bludd, to track down and assassinate a target—-a former Cobra employee turned internet blogger-—who they believed stole one of their data scanners, only to learn he's under the Joes' protection.
Running a cult commune and fleecing the initiatives of their money, psychic twins Tomax and Xamot hypnotize most of the Joes after they find Sister Leia wandering in the desert.
Introducing Characters: Tomax and Xamot, Crimson Guard Flint and Lady Jaye offer Zartan a reduced sentence for his help.
Dr. Mindbender creates prototype "Shadow-Vipers", synthetic doppelgangers of Storm Shadow, to track down the Joes, who are now in Canada hiding out with Snow Job, Tunnel Rat's old arctic trooper buddy.
Introducing Characters: Red Star (of the Oktober Guard) The Joes uncover the deadly Anaconda Strain (a mammalian virus engineered from reptile DNA) while searching for a missing biochemist, Dr. Kurt Schnurr, in Mexico.
The Joes raid a Cobra medical facility to search for "Patient X" (the originator of the Anaconda Strain) and any other information that would help them prevent an outbreak.
Doctor Mindbender's attempt to create another human/Bio-Viper hybrid appears to be a failure at first until it ends up reassembling in the New York City sewer system.
When Duke, Roadblock, and Ripcord go along with Tunnel Rat to his hometown of Brooklyn to find a missing child named Reggie, they encounter the Sewer Viper being pursued by Doctor Mindbender.
Flint hires Corporal Hershel Dalton (aka: Heavy Duty) to apprehend his estranged cousin Roadblock while he (and the team) is in his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi for their grandfather's funeral.
She learns from footage recovered by Snake Eyes that her father, professor Patrick O'Hara, invented the Molecular Assembler Scrambler Sender (a.k.a.
Meanwhile, the Baroness commands the Bio-Vipers to attack the Joes when Cobra realizes the stone in Scarlett's locket is an integral part of the MASS device.
Trivia #1: The original broadcast included a trailer segment showcasing the 1980s Sunbow cartoon version of Duke stating the Renegades reality was "just a dream", specifically separating the two interpretations.
"[9] In January 2023, twelve years after the series went off the air, Henry Gilroy revealed that the show's cancellation was due to creative conflicts with Hasbro, including the planned second season's resemblance to the live-action G.I.
Joe Renegades team was completed in 2017 with the release of Roadblock as part of the San Diego Comic Con-exclusive IDW Revolution box set.