- Gottfried Groeder, Spencer’s counterpart in the fascist Imperial Army and the man entrusted with guarding Super Joe during his captivity.
- Of course, back in the day Groeder wasn’t Groeder at all – the NES instruction manual simply called him Giant Soldier (catchy) – but this was the dude retconned into Groeder, so I’ll play along. Like any 8-bit game, it’s hard to look at a screenshot and really discern much about a character’s appearance, and the drawing in the manual is even more bland – Groeder just looks like a big dude with a set of industrial bag pipes on his back. So really I concentrated on his 8-bit dialogue portrait, which just drips cheesy 1980s Japanese sci-fi robo $&!@.
- Don’t get me wrong, I grew up on cheesy Japanese sci-fi robo $&!@. I love it. So here’s my fully realized interpretation:
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