Changes: Sigma 6 (cartoon)

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The G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 animated series produced by the Japanese animation studio Gonzo and distributed by 4Kids Entertainment. The series aired on 4Kids TV, G4, and YTV beginning in August of 2005. The series ran for two seasons and consisted of 26 episodes total.

The first five episodes were edited together and released on DVD under the title Sigma 6: First Strike.

Episodes

Season 1

#	Title	Writer	Original airdate
1	Cobra Strike		August 27, 2005

2	Escape	Peter Capella & Joshua Popence	September 17, 2005

3	Capture	Joshua Popence & Crispin Freeman	September 24, 2005

4	Reveal		October 1, 2005

5	Sigma	Mika Isabashi	October 8, 2005

6	Race		October 15, 2005

7	Jungle		December 3, 2005

8	Vacation	Danny Jameson & Rebecca Handler	December 10, 2005

9	Polar	Oliver Wyman, Marc Thompson & Tom Wayland	February 11, 2006

10	War	Tom Wayland & Miguel Gaban	February 18, 2006

11	Lift Off	Branden Weslee Kong	February 25, 2006

12	Zeus (part 1)	Mika Isabashi	March 4, 2006

13	Zeus (part 2)	Mika Isabashi	March 11, 2006

Season 2

#	Title	Original airdate
1	Hidden	September 9. 2006

2	Invasion	September 16, 2006

3	Infiltration	September 23, 2006

4	Sigma One	September 30, 2006

5	Training	October 7, 2006

6	Heat Wave	October 14, 2006

7	Rescue (part 1)	October 21, 2006

8	Rescue (part 2)	October 28, 2006

9	Awards	December 2, 2006

10	Balance	December 9, 2006

11	Giant	December 16, 2006

12	Ice	December 23, 2006

13	Assault	December 30, 2006

Music

1. "Be a Hero (Sigma Six)"

Version 1 FOX 4KIDS TV preview only
Version 2 (eps. 1-13)
Version 3 (eps. 14-26)

Production

Companies

Licensed By: 4Kids Entertainment
Release Studio: 4Kids Productions
Dubbing: Voicebox Productions, Inc
Dubbers: 4Kids Productions

English Staff

Created By: Miguel Gaban
Script Adaptation: John Touhey
Executive Producer:
- Gail Tilden
- Norman J. Grossfield
- Alfred R. Kahn
Creative Management: Kyoko Grant
Graphics:
- Jennifer Obrotka
- Lucialie Dumaguing
- Paul J. Baccash
- Jordan Podos
Associate Producer: Julie Rath
ADR Director: Eric Stuart
Production Supervision:
- Brenda Dillon
- Andy Zine
Music Composition:
Editing
Post-Production Coordinator: Chris Guido
Post Production Supervisor:
- Chris Guido
- Brenda Dillon
Production Assistant: Joan Vollero
Music Producer: John Sands
Mix Engineer: Ron London
Vice President Of Production: Brenda Dillon
Voice Direction:
- Chris Collet
- Julie Rath
- Eric Stuart
- Darren Dunstan
- Dana Southern

Cast

Duke - Andrew Paull / Greg Abbey
Scarlett - Wendy Gaunt / Veronica Taylor
Hi-Tech/Machete - Eric Stuart
Heavy Duty - Robert B. Owens
Cobra Commander/Destro/Spirit/Zartan/Kamakura - Marc Thompson
General Hawk/Spud the Robo Dog - Anthony Salerno
Jinx - Liza Jacqueline
Tunnel Rat - Michael Sinterniklaas
Baroness - Amy Birnbaum
Scott Abernathy - Matthew Charles
Storm Shadow - Tom Wayland
Firefly - Sean Schemmel
Overkill - Maddie Blaustein
Torch - Ted Lewis
Buzzer - Wayne Grayson
Long Range - Scottie Ray
Lt. Stone - Dan Green
Zephyr - Lisa Ortiz

Others Credited

Amy Palant
Kathleen Delaney
Dana Southern
Brian Mailard
Greg Carey
Pete Zarustica
Kelly Ray

Trivia

Even though the series was animated in Japan, it hasn't aired in Japan, even to this day.
In the later re-airings, 4Kids did some last minute editing, removing anything relating to the name "G.I. Joe," including the intro, calling it just "Sigma 6." They did that to remove it from the G.I. Joe continuity altogether, after the release of First Strike, stating that the Joes in Sigma 6 are not the same Joes we know in the continuity.

External links

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at G.I. Joe: Sigma 6. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Joepedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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-'''G.I. Joe: Sigma 6''' is an animated series produced by the Japanese animation studio [[GONZO]], currently airing on [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids TV]] and [[Action Blast!|G4]], and on [[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]] since the fall of 2006. The series consists of 26 episodes. The series is currently on hiatus in the United States, but completed its run on [[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]] in Canada on June 16, 2007.
+The '''G.I. Joe: Sigma 6''' animated series produced by the Japanese animation studio [[Gonzo]] and distributed by [[4Kids Entertainment]]. The series aired on [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids TV]], [[Action Blast!|G4]], and YTV beginning in August of 2005. The series ran for two seasons and consisted of 26 episodes total.
+The first five episodes were edited together and released on DVD under the title ''[[Sigma 6: First Strike]]''.
-== Premise ==
-It is now the 21st century and G.I. Joe is still battling [[Cobra Organization|Cobra]] from taking over the world. An ambush in the Arctic and the subsequent escape of [[Cobra Commander]] from prison lead the Joes to believe something bigger is going on.
-After a major attack by Cobra on the G.I. Joe Team's headquarters, the "Joes" are forced to retaliate. This time, they are equipped with Sigma suits. Designed by Hi-Tech, these special body suits protect the Joes from Cobra's laser blasts and, in addition, enhance their abilities. The "Joes" are now codenamed Sigma 6.
-==Series Overview==
-Essentially, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 is a continuation of the two direct-to-video G.I. Joe CGI movies, [[G.I. Joe: Spy Troops]] and [[G.I. Joe: Valor vs. Venom]], both films were produced by Reel FX Studios. Several references are made to events from Valor vs. Venom, such as [[Cobra Commander]] being captured and in prison, and [[General Hawk]] suffering a change in his DNA. [[Snake-Eyes (G.I. Joe)|Snake-Eyes]] continues to have Kamakura and Jinx as his apprentices. Despite these connections, there are changes that bring to question how much of a continuation Sigma 6 is from A Real American Hero. The series presents a more "[[anime]]-stylized" spin on G.I. Joe, creating some controversy among G.I. Joe fans.
-Just as he was in the first season of the [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] G.I. Joe series, [[Duke (G.I. Joe)|Duke]] is clearly designated as the G.I. Joe commander. He is also recast as a much younger man, someone who appears to have just come to his 30s than a man going to his 40s. [[Scarlett (G.I. Joe)|Scarlett]], who has always been a major character, had her position in the team upgraded to second in command after Duke. Like Duke, she has been aged younger for the series though their youth may be attributed to the fact that the artwork is done in an anime style.  She is however still the team's [[counterintelligence]] specialist. [[Tunnel Rat (G.I. Joe)|Tunnel Rat]]’s appearance and personality varied greatly from his appearance in A Real American Hero series. Here, he is a bug-eating, unorthodox infiltration and demolitions expert. Heavy Duty seems to have retained his personality from ''Spy Troops'' and ''Valor vs. Venom'', serving as the team's weapons expert. Added to the team is tracker, [[Spirit Iron-Knife]], and his falcon Billy, who retains his strong and shamanist personality, as well as the team sniper and transportation specialist Long Range.  Hi-Tech serves as the team's technician, mechanic, etc. Jinx, Kamakura and Snake-Eyes function as the team's ninja unit. Snake-Eyes has remained the silent deadly ninja commando with Jinx and Kamakura as his students. Hawk was last seen in a healthy state at the end of Valor vs. Venom but his appearance in Sigma 6 indicates otherwise. He is seen in a hospital where Duke visited him.  In the start of Season 2, [[Lt. Stone]] (an apparent old friend of Duke's) arrives and joins the team under orders and provides them with a new seafaring base, the [[Sea Titan]], as well as his personal attack copter, the [[Dragonhawk]], which will also be used as a drop ship for the team's vehicles that can be carried by the Dragonhawk, like the [[Ninja Hovercycle]], the [[Night Ranger Quad]] and the [[V.A.M.P.]]. Along with Stone is the soldier [[Firefly (G.I. Joe)|Firefly]] (who betrays the team and captures all but Duke and Hi-Tech in season 2 episode 7 "Revelations").
-The changes are not limited to the Joe Team. Cobra Commander had his appearance greatly overhauled and, likewise, his personality. No longer comical, he is now a more deadly adversary, closer to his standard portrayal in the comics, however he has retained his cartoon counterpart's love of grandiose schemes. [[Destro]] is now more clearly aligned with Cobra and together with the Commander and the [[Baroness (G.I. Joe)|Baroness]], they truly form the Cobra Triumvirate. Meanwhile, [[Overkill (G.I. Joe)|Overkill]] is upgraded from a lowly lab assistant to a scheming cybernetic chief scientist who is stuck inside a giant glass tube. [[Zartan]] remains Cobra's master of disguise, however his shape shifting and stealth abilities are due to his suit rather than skill and genetic enhancements as in A Real American Hero. The Dreadnoks are now Torch, Buzzer and Machete, a new character. Storm Shadow serves as Cobra's ninja, however seems more inclined to work with Cobra B.A.T.s, leading the Ninja B.A.T.s into battle. This differs from his original portrayal in Real American Hero as he's always had more faith in a well trained human as opposed to machines. Though the series is supposed to continue from Valor vs. Venom, in episode 2 "Escape", Cobra Commander says to Overkill that ''all'' his troops should be welcoming him, implying that Overkill was the only absent COBRA member. That claim ignores the presence of characters such as [[Dr. Mindbender]] or [[Cobra Slice|Slice]] in Valor vs. Venom.
-Sigma 6 also has a recurring [[Man vs. Technology|man vs. machine]] theme. Cobra’s forces are often seen to be primarily composed of the Battle Android Troopers or B.A.T.s, while the members of the Cobra Triumvirate all possess some form of cybernetic enhancement or [[Powered Armor|enhanced armored suits]], with normal troopers wearing full armored uniforms.
-==Continuity Problems==
-In the Direct-to-Video DVD "First Strike" released on October 3, 2006, the first five episodes of Sigma 6 were re-recorded and re-edited with new dialog, cut scenes, and information including a perplexing paradox on the show's place in the G.I. Joe continuity.  When we first meet Sigma 6 Duke, he is a fresh out of training school and he was just assigned his codename of "Duke."  There is no active G.I. Joe team, and he is tasked to form one.  (This stands in direct contrast to the original version of the first five Sigma 6 episodes where the opposite was true for all the aforementioned examples.) Later, when Duke has a meeting with General Hawk, we are told the events in the two Reel FX movies took place 20 years earlier, and there are flashback scenes with footage from the Valor vs. Venom movie including images of Duke, Scarlett, and Snake Eyes.  Given that Sigma 6 takes place two decades later, it is unclear as to how to view the current characters.  Obviously they are not the same people from the previous films, so one would speculate they are just new recruits with shared codenames.  However this does not explain each member's uncanny resemblances to their past counterparts, nor does it explain unique characters such as Snake Eyes, Zartan, and Destro.  As it stands, there is no satisfactory answer to this question aside from fan speculation and conjecture.
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- |Title=[[Cold Snap (Sigma 6 episode)|Cold Snap]]
+ |Title=[[Heat Wave (Sigma 6 episode)|Heat Wave]]
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 === English Staff ===
 * '''Created By''': Miguel Gaban
 * '''Script Adaptation''': John Touhey
 * '''Executive Producer''':
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 **[[Alfred R. Kahn]]
 * '''Creative Management''': Kyoko Grant
 * '''Graphics''':
 **Jennifer Obrotka
 **Lucialie Dumaguing
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 * '''Associate Producer''': Julie Rath
 * '''ADR Director''': [[Eric Stuart]]
 * '''Production Supervision''':
 **Brenda Dillon
 **Andy Zine
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 * '''Editing'''
 * '''Post-Production Coordinator''': Chris Guido
 * '''Post Production Supervisor''':
 **Chris Guido
 **Brenda Dillon
 * '''Production Assistant''': Joan Vollero
 * '''Music Producer''': John Sands
 * '''Mix Engineer''': Ron London
 * '''Vice President Of Production''': Brenda Dillon
 * '''Voice Direction''':
+**[[Chris Collet]]
+**[[Julie Rath]]
 **[[Eric Stuart]]
 **[[Darren Dunstan]]
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 === Cast ===
-* Duke - '''[[David Willis (voice actor)|David Wills]]''' / '''[[Frank Frankson]]'''
+* Duke - '''[[Andrew Paull]]''' / '''[[Greg Abbey]]'''
-* Scarlett - '''[[Amy Birnbaum]]''' / '''[[Veronica Taylor]]'''
+* Scarlett - '''[[Wendy Gaunt]]''' / '''[[Veronica Taylor]]'''
-* Hi-Tech - '''[[Eric Stuart]]'''
+* Hi-Tech/Machete - '''[[Eric Stuart]]'''
-* Kamakura - '''[[Michael Sinterniklaas]]'''
 * Heavy Duty - '''Robert B. Owens'''
-* Cobra Commander/Destro/Zartan - '''[[Marc Thompson]]'''
+* Cobra Commander/Destro/Spirit/Zartan/Kamakura - '''[[Marc Thompson]]'''
 * General Hawk/Spud the Robo Dog - '''[[Anthony Salerno (voice actor)|Anthony Salerno]]'''
-* Jinx - Liza Kaplan
+* Jinx - '''[[Liza Jacqueline]]'''
-* Tunnel Rat - '''[[Sebastian Arcelus]]'''
+* Tunnel Rat - '''[[Michael Sinterniklaas]]'''
-* Baroness - '''[[Bella Hudson]]''' / '''[[Kayzie Rogers]]'''
+* Baroness - '''[[Amy Birnbaum]]'''
-* Spirit - '''[[Darren Dunstan]]'''
+* Scott Abernathy - '''[[Matthew Charles]]'''
-* Scott Amberknee - '''[[Pete Capella|Chris Adams]]'''
+* Storm Shadow - '''[[Tom Wayland]]'''
-* Storm Shadow - '''[[Jason Anthony Griffith]]'''
 * Firefly - '''[[Sean Schemmel]]'''
-* Overkill - '''Jack Quevas'''
+* Overkill - '''[[Maddie Blaustein]]'''
-* Machete/Torch - '''[[David Brimmer]]'''
+* Torch - '''[[Ted Lewis]]'''
 * Buzzer - '''[[Wayne Grayson]]'''
 * Long Range - '''[[Scottie Ray]]'''
 * Lt. Stone - '''[[Dan Green (voice actor)|Dan Green]]'''
+* Zephyr - '''[[Lisa Ortiz]]'''
 ==== Others Credited ====
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 * '''[[Amy Palant]]'''
 * '''[[Kathleen Delaney]]'''
-* '''[[Ted Lewis (voice actor)|Ted Lewis]]'''
+* '''[[Dana Southern]]'''
-* '''[[Maddie Blaustein]]'''
+* '''[[Brian Mailard]]'''
-* '''[[Dana Southern]]'''
-* '''[[Brian Mailard]]'''
 * '''[[Greg Carey]]'''
 * '''[[Pete Zarustica]]'''
-* '''[[Liza Jacqueline]]'''
+* '''[[Kelly Ray]]'''
-* '''[[Kelly Ray]]'''
-* '''[[Tom Wayland]]'''
-=== Spanish Cast ===
-'''Latin America'''
-* Duke - Carlos Jiménez
-* Scarlett - Shirley Marulanda
-* Hi-Tech - [[Alexander Páez]]
-* Kamakura - [[Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez]]
-* Heavy Duty - [[Eleazar Osorio]]
-* Cobra Commander - [[Omar Barrera]]
-* Destro - [[Mario Gutiérrez]]
-* General Hawk - [[Rafael Ignacio Gómez]]
-* Jinx - [[Dilma Gómez]]
-* Tunnel Rat - [[Wolfang Galindo]]
-* Baroness - [[Mónica Valencia]]
-* Spirit - [[Julio Cesar Mora]]
-* Scott Amberknee - Andrés Palacio
-* Storm Shadow - [[Lwding Leonardo Salas]]
-* Overkill - [[Bayardo Ardila]]
-* Zartan - [[John Grey Clavijo]]
-* Buzzer - [[Gonzalo Eduardo Rojas]]
-* Long Range - [[Camilo Rodríguez]]
-* Firefly - [[Mario Gutiérrez]]
-* Lt. Stone - [[Oscar Fernando Gómez]]
+==Trivia==
+*Even though the series was animated in Japan, it hasn't aired in Japan, even to this day.
+*In the later re-airings, 4Kids did some last minute editing, removing anything relating to the name "G.I. Joe," including the intro, calling it just "Sigma 6."  They did that to remove it from the G.I. Joe continuity altogether, after the release of First Strike, stating that the Joes in Sigma 6 are not the same Joes we know in the continuity.
 ==External links==
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 {{Wikipedia|G.I. Joe: Sigma 6}}
 [[Category:Sigma 6]]
 [[Category:Television series]]