battle. The charismatic, well-spoken and confident to the point of arrogance Warrant Officer, was replaced by a sullen and brooding man who rarely speaks (when he does, it is usually to suggest maximum force against any size threat), and trains to become a better warrior at the cost of his humanity. Flint would eventually walk out of the team to pursue his vendetta against the Shadows. While tracking Red Shadows' leader Wilder Vaughn, Flint spots the Baroness with Vaughn, and torn between duty and revenge, Flint chose to go after the Baroness. Spirit and Snake Eyes track Flint to the Baroness' location, where the three of them are attacked by Black Out. Flint rejoins the team, and during "World War III" he leads a team to Dagestan, and captures Cobra Mortal and Ghost Bear. This entire comic series was later declared non-canonical by Hasbro when the license for the comics was transferred to IDW. Animated series Sunbow series Flint's first animated appearance was in the second G.I. Joe miniseries, The Revenge of Cobra, in which he was presented as the second in command, filling in for Duke as G.I. Joe team leader, after Duke is captured by Cobra. Flint then became a recurring character throughout the series, often alternating in the commanding officer role with Duke in the first season. When General Hawk was introduced, Duke was made second in command while Flint became third in the chain. Flint's romance with Lady Jaye was a common piece of the storyline throughout the show, and one of the few things the cartoon had in common with the comic book. Some of Flint's major appearances include "The Gamesmaster", in which he is kidnapped along with Lady Jaye, Baroness and Cobra Commander by a mentally ill entrepreneur; "Eau de Cobra", in which he is on a mission with Lady Jaye to prevent Cobra from gaining control of the largest shipping fleet in the world and is briefly seduced by the Baroness with a special perfume; "Primordial Plot", in which he, Gung-Ho and Scarlett stop Cobra from cloning dinosaurs for an army; and "The Spy Who Rooked Me", in which he is one of the Joes working with a British secret agent to deliver a box containing a powerful nerve gas, which Cobra attempts to possess, to a chemical weapons arsenal. Flint's most prominent role was in "Flint's Vacation". In the episode, he goes