Big Ben
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- Big Ben is a G.I. Joe-aligned human from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Big Ben, aka David J. Bennet, used to be part of the British Special Air Service and later served as a member of G.I. Joe. These days he works as a mercenary.
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
At some point, Big Ben was working with Duke in Eastern Europe.
Sometime later, Big Ben and his team were tracking a group of covert agents through Europe, eventually finding them in Greece where they were mining a cache of Ore-13 inside Mount 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 by Action Man Ian Noble and his partner Terrence 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 Joe Spitfire was 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
