CC is forced to attack the Pit under conditions he's not exactly happy with, and when he decides to lead his troops into battle himself, he unfortunately gets trapped in the ruins of the Pit with Destro and is thought to be dead by everyone outside. They escape and run into Billy, lying in a coma in a hospital. CC does fatherly love, anyone? Call it melodrama, call it acting out of character or call it temporary insanity (as he did later on), CC decides to be a good father for a change and make up for what he's put Billy through, inadvertently or otherwise. I can accept that, the pressure might get to anyone, and there's some human even in the worst of us (which he's far from, though). But that he'd leave Cobra???? He MUST have been out of his mind.
And then for that he gets shot. Great. Guess who's life fell apart for several months when it became apparent that he wasn't coming back, that he was really (as we thought at the time) dead? It's true that for every good deed you only get punished. CC's philosophy on that proved to be right again, so the one time he strayed from that the results were catastrophic. I was outraged at Fred VII, having the NERVE to even PRETEND to be the Commander. No wonder the Dreadnoks suddenly became my favourites. Cobra was in shambles, a wreck, a shadow of what it used to be, and all because of Serpentor and Fred VII, who lead it into a civil war, of all things.
But to focus on CC. There's a saying about catching lightning in a bottle... He not only did it once, when he bult Cobra out of nothing, he managed to rebuild himself an empire on the side a second time, without Cobra/Serpentor/Fred VII noticing it. I DARE anyone to do even HALF of what he's done in creating Cobra even once. You do it and I'll consider admiring you as another genius like the Commander. He'd turned his life around, from an unsuccessful smalltime business man into a success story, and done it twice.
He retook the reigns of Cobra eventually and buried all his enemies and troubles in one swift stroke. I was overjoyed. He was back, more glorious and more lethal than ever. Power corrupts, ultimate power ultimately, but it is also the greatest aphrodisiac. And he was divine in my eyes when he returned, ruthless and devious, with power to decide over life and death. It was orgasmic to see him return.
This is where we get back to the paranoia again. It was that mistrust that saved his life, nothing else, the way all Siegies spied on each other. You will never last long in a world like his if you don't watch your back, as I'm sure he learnt from the assassination attempts and Fred. Throughout Cobra's history it's proved that being paranoid is the way forward. It's brought back CC and Dr. Mindbender, just for starters.
Only person whose burial I disagreed on was Firefly. Zartan had become a goody-goody, unpredictable and a possible liability, and all the others were expendable, but Firefly's only crime was bad luck. This was especially true as earlier events seemed to indicate he wasn't even very high in on the fake Commander's books. But apparently capital punishment is legal on Cobra Island then. *Smirk* But then it's legal in several states in the USA, too, nothing new there. It would be highly interesting to know what "laws" Cobra operates with within itself, considering its unique status in the world, now wouldn't it?
The last part for now focuses on his ingenious plan to take over Millville, as well as accepted psychological personality types he fits in.
Part 4 of the Pers. profile - Millville