Ripper (G.I. Joe)
Ripper is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is affiliated with Cobra as one of the Dreadnoks and debuted in 1985.
Profile
His real name is Harry Nod. Ripper was born in Grim Cape, Tasmania.
Ripper was so mean that he was expelled from nursery school for extorting candy from his schoolmates. He is a professional criminal who has spent most of his adult life in various correctional institutions, and is motivated by greed and a malign dislike for the niceties of civilization; he does love motorcycles, however. Ripper specializes in edged weapons and cutting tools, and is known throughout the swamps for using his blade like a cross between a fireman's axe and a can opener to unlock gates and crack safes.
Toys
Ripper was first released as an action figure in 1985.
A new mold/action figure was included during the 25th Anniversary toy line.
Comics
Marvel Comics
In the Marvel Comics G.I. Joe series, he first appeared in issue 25 with Buzzer and Torch. Later, Zartan assigns Ripper the task of murdering what both believe is an innocent elderly witness. He eagerly prepares for the task but the woman, who was actually The Soft Master, had long vanished. Later, he impersonates the G.I. Joe member Snow-Job as part of an assassination effort against Serpentor. Ripper is the one to suggest a fist fight when Serpentor confronts Fred VII, who had stolen the identity of Cobra Commander. This idea is eagerly taken up by the rest of the surrounding Cobras soldiers and is narrowly averted.
G.I. Joe (disambiguation)
G.I. Joe is a line of military-themed action figures produced by Hasbro.
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G.I. Joe (arcade game)
G.I. Joe is a third-person rail shooter video game produced by Konami and released in 1992 exclusively for video arcades. It is based on the cartoon series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and stars four characters from the show: Duke, Snake Eyes, Scarlett, and Roadblock.
Gameplay
The game is a third-person rail shooting game, in which each player chooses one of four G.I. Joe operatives: Duke, Snake Eyes, Scarlett, or Roadblock. Up to four people can play the game at once. Each character either stands or automatically runs forward in a 3D perspective, and their player can use the joystick to move them left or right as well as raise or lower an aiming crosshair: this allows for the latter's movement through most of the screen. Each character is armed with a gun that has unlimited ammunition as well as a missile launcher, which comes with five missiles and can hold a maximum of nine.
Players use these weapons via a standard shoot button, and a missile launch button that allows for larger-scale destruction at the cost of one charge. Power-ups can be acquired that allow the player rapid fire by holding down the shoot button, add another missile to their supply, or restore their character's life energy.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is a 2013 American military science fiction action film directed by Jon M. Chu, based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy, comic and media franchises. It was written by Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and is a sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.G.I. Joe: Retaliation features an ensemble cast, with Channing Tatum, Arnold Vosloo, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce and Byung-hun Lee reprising their roles from the first film. Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, D. J. Cotrona, and Bruce Willis as General Joseph Colton round out the principal cast.
In the film, the Joes are framed as traitors by Zartan, who is still impersonating the President of the United States, and Cobra Commander now has all the world leaders under Cobra's control, with their advanced warheads aimed at innocent populaces around the world. Outnumbered and out gunned, the Joes form a plan with the original G.I. Joe Joseph Colton, to overthrow the Cobra Commander and his allies Zartan, Storm Shadow and Firefly.
GI
GI or Gi may refer to:
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Nór
Nór (Old Norse Nórr) or Nori is firstly a mercantile title and secondly a Norse man's name. It is stated in Norse sources that Nór was the founder of Norway, from whom the land supposedly got its name. (The name in fact probably derives from ‘nórðrvegr’, ‘northern way’.)
Chronicon Lethrens'
The Chronicle of Lejre (“Chronicon Lethrense”) written about 1170 introduces a primeval King Ypper of Uppsala whose three sons were Dan who afterwards ruled Denmark, Nori who afterwards ruled Norway, and Østen who afterwards ruled the Swedes. But the account then speaks only of the descendants of Dan.
Icelandic accounts
Source material
Parallel but not quite identical accounts of Nór the eponym of Norway appear in “Fundinn Nóregr” (‘Norway Found’), hereafter called F, which begins the Orkneyinga saga, and in Hversu Noregr byggðist (‘How Norway was Settled’), hereafter called B, both found in the Flatey Book.
About Thorri
King Thorri (Þorri 'frozen snow'), king of Finland, Kvenland and Götaland in B, was son of Snær ('Snow') the Old, a descendant of Fornjót (ruler of Finland and Kvenland in F). See Snær and Fornjót for further information. The name Þorri has long been identified with that of Þórr, the name of the Norse thunder god Thor, or thunder personified.
Gi alpha subunit
Gi alpha subunit (Gαi, or Gi/G0 or Gi protein) is a heterotrimeric G protein subunit that inhibits the production of cAMP from ATP. A mnemonic for remembering this subunit is to look at first letter (Gαi = Adenylate Cyclase inhibitor).
Receptors
The following G protein-coupled receptors couple to the Gi subunit:
Function
Gi mainly inhibits the cAMP dependent pathway by inhibiting adenylate cyclase activity, decreasing the production of cAMP from ATP, which, in turn, results in decreased activity of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Therefore, the ultimate effect of Gi is the opposite of cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
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