It does seem strange to have it be an "American hero" going after a rather nebulous group like Cobra. I mean, Cobra had literally no affiliation with anything in particular... except Corba-la if you count that as a country. Sure there were some cold war Soviet tones to it... but Cobra seemed to have been bent on world domination with no paritcular ideology behind it. I mean, maybe I'm over-reaching... the whole thing was aimed at 8 year olds.

There should be a Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow movie. No one else matters because no one else is interesting. They're just Government Issue Joes. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow actually have a story, and their origins are clearly not in the US government. They gotta play that up. They're blood brothers from the same ninja clan fighting on opposite sides. Plus, they've both got I Ching trigram tattoos.