Never mind that the character’s been sporting the hooded look for some twenty-plus years now.

To be fair, the 80′s cartoon is what most of us remember, and the animated Cobra Commander stuck to the helmet for the most part (probably to avoid conjuring images of the KKK in a kids’ cartoon).

I’m guessing the iconic, shiny blue and silver helmet just seemed a little too silly for a live-action Joe movie.

(This, in a movie where the Joe team members wear Accelerator suits that make them look like they belong in the next Starship Troopers direct-to-DVD sequel…)

I digress.

Either way, I too am disappointed with the look of the live-action Cobra Commander. I was really hoping they’d go with the hood, perhaps the all-black version shown in my earlier post here.

Perhaps, the filmmakers should have taken a cue from the Batman film franchise: Tim Burton and company wisely chose an all-black costume rather than the character’s traditional blue and gray suit when adapting the character for the 1989 Batman film.

The all-black look, better suited for a live-action, big screen treatment of the popular DC Comics character, has been retained for every other Batman film since, up to and including last year’s critical and commercial success, The Dark Knight.

Snake Eyes looks fantastic; the Baroness is dressed in her usual skin-tight, shiny black leather catsuit; and judging from the toy packaging shown in my previous post on the subject, even Destro will at some point sport his shiny metal face mask.

An all-black, hooded Cobra Commander would’ve worked just fine, I think.