The cartoon transformers movie ruined the original GI Joe cartoon movie. When parents saw a bunch of transformers taking lazer blasts to the gut and dying they flipped out. Hell, Optimus bit it in that one, leading to Rodimus Prime (hee hee).
When all the complaints got to the toy company they had to heavily edit the GI Joe cartoon movie, Duke was suppoused to die along with some others. Instead it was back to more of the same from the TV series: rockets hitting planes, boats, and tanks just after everyone bails out and lasers flying everywhere but not seeming to hit anything.
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