Major Bludd
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- Major Bludd is a Cobra-aligned human from the G.I. Joe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
It's hard to tell which are more horrific: Major Sebastian Bludd's crimes against humanity, or his crimes against poetry. The possessor of a keen military mind, this avaricious Australian has committed atrocities across the globe, leaving widows, orphans, and his terrible verse in his wake.
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G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
Major Bludd participated in Cobra's first major public action, a Battle Android Trooper attack on Washington, D.C.. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1 Later, he, Doctor Mindbender, and the Baroness greeted Destro and his Iron Grenadiers on their arrival to Cobra Island. Bludd suspected that the Baroness was particularly happy to see the arms dealer. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2 When the Transformers Cobra had enslaved regained their free will, Bludd attempted to flee the island in a Rattler—unfortunately for him, however, the aircraft he chose was actually Skywarp, who transformed and presumably mangled Bludd to death. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4
Transformers/G.I. Joe
In 1938, Major Bludd led a Cobra assault on the ancient temples of the Fera Islands, on orders from Cobra Commander to retrieve a supposed "ultimate weapon". After mercilessly dealing with the monks guarding the treasure—a glowing blue orb—Bludd tried to take it, only to accidentally awaken Megatron. All whilst shaking with fear, the major answered Megatron's questions regarding humanity and Cobra's thirst for power. The Line
One year later, after using the Decepticons to conquer much of Europe, Cobra's base on the Fera Islands was attacked by G.I. Joe. As the enemy got closer, Cobra Commander ordered Major Bludd to use Cobra's prisoners as human shields. Trenches When Lady Jaye snuck past their defenses, Bludd and the Dreadnoks attempted to capture her, but the major soon found himself facing the bad end of a sharpened stick. He was saved by Zartan pretending to be Flint, but as Lady Jaye saw through the ruse and killed Zartan, he probably wasn't safe for long. The Iron Fist
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
When G.I. Joe stormed a Cobra hideout, Major Bludd was one of the many terrorist operatives taken into custody. He surrendered after having received several bullet wounds to his arm and face. The Golden Boys He was eventually busted out of Blackwater Prison, alongside the twins Tomax and Xamot, by Cobra Commander Everybody Hates Metroplex who went on to lead Major Bludd and the others in a chaotic brawl against the Joes and Optimus Prime near the United Nations building. Expelled from the Garden
When Billy brought a bloodied and defeated Snake-Eyes to Silent Castle as a gift for Cobra Commander, Major Bludd was among those present, rejoicing over the ninja's defeat. But Snake-Eyes sprang back up, ready to fight, and Major Bludd took up arms against him. Pax Megatronus When Earth was seemingly destroyed by Cybertron, Cobra Commander's loyalists were encased within Koh-Buruh-Lah and brought to the alien planet. Earth: R.I.P. Arriving at a Terrordrome, Major Bludd watched as Cobra Commander killed the Crimson Guard who'd been impersonating him and took back control of Cobra. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12 Bludd and the other loyalists were about to execute Cobra Commander's son, Billy, when Snake-Eyes detonated the Commander's helmet, killing them all. The War Never Ends
Ask Vector Prime
Mason Divelbiss fell in with cadet Sebastian Bludd at the RMC and followed Bludd into the Australian Special Air Service before mustering out as soon as possible to join the French Foreign Legion. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/08
2005 IDW continuity
Sebastian Bludd was born in San Diego to an American mother and an Australian father. Early in his childhood, the family moved back to their family farm in Australia; when the authorities foreclosed the farm, Bludd's grandfather committed suicide. To alleviate his family's crushing debt, the young Sebastian enlisted with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and soon attained the rank of Major. While deployed overseas, however, Bludd and his men profited off local crime by providing off-the-books security arrangements for various local drug lords. However, when Bludd's men went too far by massacring a busload of mercenaries, Sebastian murdered his men, deserted the military, and settled in Eastern Europe, where he married a woman named Catherine.
The pair made a living as mercenaries; in the early 1990s, the two ran guns for Colonel Shtern, though Bludd was unaware that his wife was having an affair with another man named Danny. Eventually, Catherine betrayed her husband by engineering his arrest; when Schtern released him from prison, Bludd tracked down and murdered his wife and her lover, but not before Catherine stabbed him in the face and cost him the use of his left eye. Major Bludd returned to America, where he reunited with his widowed father, married again, and sired a son and daughter. This time, however, Bludd kept his mercenary career a secret from his new family, even after the Baroness recruited him into the Cobra organization.
As a member of Cobra, Bludd ran operations in Southeast Asia; notably, he was responsible for recruiting Krake, who would eventually ascend to become Cobra Commander, into the organization. During Krake's tenure as leader, Bludd operated in Russia and Nanzhao as both a Cobra operative and an independent mercenary; while in the latter country, he formed a secret alliance with Tomax and Serpentor. By this point, however, the once-secret conflict between G.I. Joe had escalated into open warfare that culminated in the nuclear annihilation of Nanzhao. In the wake of the country's destruction, Serpentor revealed their secret alliance to the Baroness and let Bludd take the blame. Major Bludd fled, and after murdering a United Nations soldier he was taken into custody; Major Bludd profile in the wake of the nuclear disaster most members of the international intelligence community assumed that he had perished. Crisis Intervention
Schtern and the rest of the Oktober Guard broke Bludd out of prison and transferred him to a captured Cobra base. When Cobra attacked the facility, Bludd killed Schtern, took control of the base's weaponry, and used it to destroy both the camp and a government building in Vladivostok. The Russian government assumed that their special forces had gone rogue, and with no other options the men and women of the Guard joined forces with Bludd and went underground, where they served as mercenaries for several years. Major Bludd profile
In 2017, Major Bludd and the rest of the Oktober Guard entered an alliance with the Iron Ring, an international cabal of supervillains led by the mysterious "Baron Ironblood"—in reality, an identity adopted by ex-G.I. Joe leader Joe Colton. On their first assignment, the team were deployed to Schleteva to recover an alien Talisman, which had spontaneously mutated the entire population of Verenya into Dire Wraith hybrids—after breaking into an abandoned SIS bunker, the team came into conflict with Action Man, Rom, G.B. Blackrock, and a G.I. Joe detachment led by Mayday. In the ensuing battle, the Talisman activated for a second time, and Bludd was partly exposed to its mutagenic energy—before the transformation spread to the rest of his body, however, Daina conducted an impromptu amputation and severed the afflicted arm. The Oktober Guard nearly escaped with the artifact, and were preparing to return to their current base of operations when Kup ran them off the road. As Action Man prepared to bring the defeated villains in, Bludd scuppered the mission and tripped the M.A.S.S. Device, returning him and the team to the Section Sabine moonbase. Crisis Intervention At some point after this, Bludd had his missing right arm replaced with a cybernetic prothesis derived from Talisman technology. Major Bludd profile
Some time later, Bludd and the Oktober Guard joined the rest of the Iron Ring as they made a full-scale assault on an Onyx facility in Buenos Aires to liberate the Talisman from Action Man and the rest of the "Revolutionaries". When Eagles Scream In the ensuing fight, Bludd found himself on the wrong end of Mayday's fist; he was next seen teleporting out with the other members of the Iron Ring to the Iron Castle in Kalistan. With the Talisman now firmly in their hands, Colton announced that they would use the Talisman to take the fight to Cybertron. Ghost in the Machine One Unholy Machine
During the Iron Ring's invasion of Cybertron, Major Bludd led a team of Red Shadows against Flint, Spike, and Talon until Ironhide intervened by running them over. First Strike #2 Much later, during Unicron's attack on Earth, Major Bludd was one of the many heroes and villains who assembled inside Trypticon to discuss the threat. Assembly
Notes
- Major Bludd has been voiced by Transformers alumni Michael Bell, Andre Sogliuzzo and Mark Oliver.
