- Kamakura is a G.I. Joe character from the G.I. Joe vs. Cobra and Sigma 6 series.
Snake-Eyes realized that he, Jinx and Storm Shadow are all that is left of the Arashikage ninja clan. Although he had set on a path to revive the clan, neither he nor any of the Joes have expected Kamakura to be the apprentice he is looking for. An amazing series of events have brought the two men together and Kamakura is now honored with the task of continuing the clan's traditions.
In many ways, Kamakura is the same as his master and in many ways, his opposite too. Like a true ninja, Kamakura likes to blend in the background, unseen and undetected until the moment to strike arrives. He prefers to perform every action in quick, quiet and efficient manner. This same trait, though, is what also sets him apart from his mentor. He tends to be impatient and very excited by events. And while Kamakura has many levels to go before he can reach Snake-Eyes's status, the master knows that every steel can be turned into a finely tuned sword.
Fiction
Comics
A Real American Hero continuity
Marvel Comics continuity
Sean Broca was the son of Fred Broca, the original Cobra Crimson Guardsman, and later the adopted son of Wade Collins, a comrade of Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow and Stalker from their days in Vietnam.
The Broca family were sent from Springfield[1] to live on Staten Island on the road leading into Fort Wadsworth, allowing Fred Broca to observe the G.I. Joe operations there.[2] Together with his sister Sean remained unaware that his parents were Cobra agents. They were not told when their father died in a Cobra operation in the Sierras and a man looking just like him was sent to live with them in his place.[3] They kept asking what was going on but were still not told.[4] However one day the new man came home with Stalker and Snake-Eyes. He told them that his former comrades had made him realise how the entire family had been exploited and used by Cobra and that he had had plastic surgery to become a "Fred", identical to their real father. Wade Collins, his real name, had decided to leave Cobra and start a new life free of the organisation. The others had almost convinced him to ask the Brocas to come with him but Wade told them they deserved so much better than him. However they all chose to come with him and left to start a new life together.[5]
Many years later Sean was approaching his seventeenth birthday and wanted to enlist in the army. Wade was deeply reluctant to sign the papers giving parental permission but proved unable to talk Sean out of it so he asked Sean to write to Snake-Eyes. Snake-Eyes responded with a letter about the realities of soldiering. Wade told Sean that if he still wanted to join the papers would be signed but Sean wanted more time to think about it.[6]
Devil's Due Comics continuity
Write up
Animated continuity
Direct-to-video series
Write up
Sigma 6 animated series
Write up
Toys
- Spy Troops (2003)
- As part of the Spy Troops line of 2003, Kamakura was sold in a two-pack with Night-Creeper.
- Original 2003 file card from YoJoe.com
- Valor vs. Venom (2004)
- There were two Kamakura action figures released in the Valor vs. Venom series of toys. The first version was packaged in a two-pack with Destro and had an action attack feature where when the figure's legs are squeezed, raises its arm and unsheathes its sword.
- Valor vs. Venom file card from YoJoe.com
- A second version was released with Storm Shadow in a two-pack. Although it had a similar design to the first two action figures, it actually had an all new body sculpt and did not sport the action attack feature. A slightly different colored version was released in 2005 packaged with the Ninja Lightning vehicle.
- 2005 Valor vs. Venom file card from YoJoe.com
Trivia
- First character created by Devil’s Due Publishing to be made into a G.I. Joe figure and later brought into the new animated Series.
- While fans of the G.I. Joe comics are very much aware of Kamakura's true identity of Sean Collins, the file cards and Sigma 6 series deliberately deem his background as classified information.
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