president to activate the nuclear football for Zartan to use in the upcoming summit. Cobra Commander forcefully gains an eyescan of the real U.S. He is next shown when he welcomes back Cobra Commander alongside Firefly. Zartan then reveals that Cobra has taken down the GI Joe team under his orders and that they are the new protection unit for the United States. He reveals that he used Cobra agents as his new Secret Service while he asks about the prison holding both Cobra Commander and Destro. He is next shown discussing his plans for his own political campaign from his predecessor. Joe Team to retrieve the warheads themselves. Through a Cobra set-up scheme, he suggests that they send the G.I. Zartan is the secondary antagonist in this movie although overall he has the most onscreen presence for an antagonist due to the main antagonist Cobra Commander's limited screen time. Zartan's first scene in the sequel is when he is still in his Presidential disguise meeting with a Security council about retrieving warheads from Pakistan. It was all part of Destro's evil plan to have the world turn to the most powerful man in the world (meaning Zartan is the President). He is next seen at the climax as a decoy President when his Neo-Viper henchman shoots the real President's guards and capturing him. His next scene in this film is where he is given a special disguise formula by Cobra Commander to make him look like the US President. First of all he goes on a mission with Storm Shadow and Baroness to the GI Joe Pit to retrieve McCullen's warheads. Throughout the film he has a habit of whistling 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' each time he appears.
He is shown to have the ability to disguise himself as basically anybody he chooses. Zartan is first seen as a henchman of Destro. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes, Horatio Jackson in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies, Seamus O'Rourke in Ronin, General Vavarin Delatombe in The Brothers Grimm and the High Sparrow in Game of Thrones. Whilst disguised as the President, he was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce, who also played Mr. He was portrayed by Arnold Vosloo, who also played Imhotep in The Mummy films, François Molay in Agent Cody Banks, Habib Marwan in 24 and Colonel Coetzee in Blood Diamond. Joe: Rise of Cobra, and the secondary antagonist of G.I. Joe film series, serving as a supporting antagonist of G.I. Zartan is a recurring antagonist of the G.I. On my orders, the covert special forces unit, codenamed Cobra, terminated with extreme prejudice Joe command, facilities, personnel. ~ Zartan, before being stabbed to death by Storm Shadow for betraying and killing the Hard Master.