Big Ben
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- Big Ben is aG.I. Joe-alignedhumanfrom theIDW portionof theGeneration 1continuity family.
Big Ben,akaDavid J. Bennet,used to be part of theBritishSpecial Air Serviceand later served as a member ofG.I. Joe.These days he works as a mercenary.
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
At some point, Big Ben was working withDukein EasternEurope.
Sometime later, Big Ben and his team were tracking a group of covert agents through Europe, eventually finding them inGreecewhere they were mining a cache ofOre-13insideMount Olympus.The agents killed Ben's entire team and left him for dead. The only clue he was able to retrieve regarding their identity was a pair of G.I. Joe dog tags. Ben sent out a distress beacon, which was picked up byAction ManIan Nobleand his partnerTerrence Salmons.Ben told Ian what happened to him, giving him the dog tags. With the Ore-13 about to go critical, Ben told Ian about the danger of the crystals and how he must warn the proper authorities. Ian was forced to abandon Ben as the Ore-13 exploded. As he lay there dying, Big Ben pulled out a picture of his daughter.Concorde Hymn
Notes
- IDW-original JoeSpitfirewas originally meant to be a successor to Big Ben, complete with "Big Bin" nickname in his civvie life, but Hasbro asked for that to be changed at the eleventh hour.[1]
References
- ↑"In this week's Behind-the-Scenes post, I share the first draft script for G.I. Joe #7 & explain the original plans for our new Pakistani-British Joe. Farooq" Spitfire "Shah was meant to be Farooq Bin Nasir, aka BIG BEN…up until we were told to change it…" —Aubrey Sitterson, Twitter, 2018/01/27
