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The film opens in France, in 1641. The Scotsman Klan
McCullen has been accused of selling weaponry to both the Scots and
French. Rather than being executed for treason, the jury brands his face
with a white-hot mask in order to humiliate him. In the near future,
weapons expert James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston) has created a
nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His
company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked
with delivering the warheads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon
Wayans) are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the
Baroness (Sienna Miller), who Duke recognized to be his ex-fiancee Ana
Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake
Eyes (Ray Park) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They take the
warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in North Africa, and upon
arriving rendezvous with General Hawk (Dennis Quaid), the head of the
G.I. Joe Team. Hawk takes command of the war-heads and excuses Duke and
Ripcord, only to be convinced to have them join his group after Duke
reveals that he knows the Baroness.
McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an
army of soldiers with the aid of the Doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt),
planning on using the warheads to bring panic and bring about a new
world order. Using a tracking device, McCullen locates the G.I. Joe base
and sends Storm Shadow (Lee Byung-hun) and the Baroness to retrieve the
warheads with assistance from Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), inflicting
casualties on several G.I. Joe soldiers. After a fight, Storm Shadow and
the Baroness retrieve the warheads and take them to Baron DeCobray, the
Baroness's husband, for him to weaponize and use them to destroy the
Eiffel Tower to serve as a showing of the warhead's destructive power.
Making their way to Paris, the Joes pursue them through the streets but
are unsuccessful in stopping them from launching the missile. Duke
manages to hit the kill switch, but in doing so he is captured and taken
to McCullen's base under the Arctic.
G.I. Joe locates the secret base and fly there as McCullen loads three
missiles with nano-mite warheads. After Snake Eyes takes out one,
Ripcord pursues the remaining missiles in a prototype Night Raven jet
while Scarlett and her group infiltrate the base. While Scarlett and
Snake Eyes attempt to shut down the Arctic base, with Heavy Duty leading
an attack on Cobra's forces, Duke learns that the Doctor is Rex Lewis,
Ana's brother believed to have been killed on a mission led by Duke four
years ago. He was trapped in a bunker with Doctor Mindbender (Kevin
O'Connor), disfigured in the blast which everyone presumed had killed
him. The Baroness tries to free Duke but the Doctor reveals he has
implanted her with nano-mites which has put her under his control for
the past four years, admitting his amazement that she is resisting the
programming. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up being facially
burned as he flees with Rex to an escape vessel. Duke and the Baroness
pursue him while the Joes fall back when Rex activated the base's self
destruct sequence.
Rex then heals McCullen's burned face with nano-mites, encasing it in
silver as he christens McCullen "Destro" and assumes the identity of
Cobra Commander before they are captured by G.I. Joe soon after. On
board the supercarrier USS Flagg, Baroness is placed in protective
custody until they can remove the nano-mites from her body. Meanwhile,
Zartan, having been earlier operated on by Rex, infiltrates the White
House during the missile crisis and assumes the identity of the
President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce).
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