The Force of Freedom The
Force of Freedom is a team commanded by Colonel Trautman and led by Rambo that goes around the world fighting the forces of S.A.V.A.G.E. Among the core members of the Force of Freedom are: •
John Rambo - The
protagonist of the series. He leads the Force of Freedom in fighting S.A.V.A.G.E. when called in by Colonel Samuel Trautman. When not on missions, Rambo enjoys tending to animals and helping kids with their
survival training. •
Colonel Samuel "Sam" Trautman - He serves as the group's commanding officer. He often calls in Rambo during his break time. Colonel Trautman sometimes accompanies Rambo on his missions. •
Edward "Turbo" Hayes - An African-American mechanical
engineer and
race car driver. According to his toy bio, Turbo is also a First Lieutenant who graduated from the US Air Force Academy. •
Katherine Anne "K.A.T." Taylor - An Asian-American military woman who is a master of disguises, gymnastics, and martial arts. K.A.T. seems to have a crush on Rambo. K.A.T.'s toy bio says she grew up as an army brat who hit her first bullseye at 100 yards when she was 10 years old. •
White Dragon - A heroic
ninja who is Black Dragon's twin brother. According to his toy bio, White Dragon was raised by mystical mountain warriors and had also developed a ninja training program for the U.S. military forces. •
T.D. "Touchdown" Jackson - A former
football player and ally of Rambo. He joined the Force of Freedom at the time when Mad Dog's gang forces elderly couples out of their homes as part of General Warhawk's plot to dig into a military base and steal a top secret new supertank in "Blockbuster". T.D.'s toy bio also revealed that he is an expert discus thrower and wielded an M77 Disc Launcher that Turbo created for him. •
Chief - A
Native American ally of Rambo. He joined the Force of Freedom after he rescued his friends in the swamp and from S.A.V.A.G.E. following the plane crash. He helps prevent General Warhawk from burying the gold in the sacred grounds on Spirit Island (where the graves of Chief's forefathers are located) in "Skyjacked Gold". Chief's toy bio states that he is an expert at commando tactics who is strong as a
grizzly bear enough to wrestle a
mountain lion with is bare hands, silent as an
eagle, clever as a
fox, and fast as a mountain wind.
S.A.V.A.G.E. (Specialist-Administrators of Vengeance, Anarchy and Global Extortion) S.A.V.A.G.E. are the main antagonists of the show consisting of international criminals and outcasts. Their goal of world domination leads them into conflict with the Force of Freedom, especially Rambo. In addition to a substantial number of soldiers and other like-minded allies, among the core members of S.A.V.A.G.E. are: •
General Warhawk - The leader of S.A.V.A.G.E. Wearing reflective sunglasses, he serves as the primary villain. General Warhawk was previously a European army captain (possibly West Germany) who was convicted of selling state secrets and exiled for his coup. He then organized and built S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Sergeant Havoc - General Warhawk's second-in-command and top enforcer. He has strength that rivals Rambo's strength. Sergeant Havoc's toy bio states that he was previously a drill sergeant for the free world. After being court-martialed for espionage, he joined up with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Gripper - A European
mercenary and member of S.A.V.A.G.E with a metal right hand (hence the name) that wears an eyepatch. His toy bio mentions that Gripper was a former member of the
French Foreign Legion until he was dismissed after failing to recognize the surrender flag and joined S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Nomad - A burnoose-wearing Middle-Eastern member of S.A.V.A.G.E. He was a wandering
nomadic warrior that calls no country his home. Nomad leads a group of outcasts which consists of cutthroats and thieves that are familiar with the deserts. Like Mad Dog in one episode "The Taking of Tierra Libre", he was called "Omar" by Rambo. In all subsequent episodes, he was renamed Nomad. •
S.A.V.A.G.E. Street Bikers - A
biker gang that is loyal to S.A.V.A.G.E. They get their name from their leader's toy bio. •
Mad Dog - The leader of the S.A.V.A.G.E Street Bikers who sports a mohawk and a S.A.V.A.G.E. logo tattoo on his chest. He is first called "Spike" in the episode "Battlefield Bronx," but renamed Mad Dog in all subsequent episodes. According to his toy bio, Mad Dog was found unfit for military services and has an extended criminal record for theft, reckless driving, and arson. •
Animal - A member of the S.A.V.A.G.E. Street Bikers who sports a white mohawk. •
Jerkface - A crafty member of the S.A.V.A.G.E. Street Bikers who sports a black mohawk and a blue paint over his right eye. •
Razor - An overconfident member of the S.A.V.A.G.E. Street Bikers who sports spiky brown hair. •
Black Dragon - A rogue ninja who is the twin brother of White Dragon. He was raised by mystical mountain warriors and is known as the greatest
assassin that ever lived. Black Dragon would sell his service to any group that would pay his fee with his recurring clients being S.A.V.A.G.E. He sometimes has other ninjas under his command when assisting S.A.V.A.G.E. in some of their plots. Although Black Dragon's ultimate goal is to kill White Dragon, he also considers Rambo as a worthy opponent. •
Snakebite - A member of S.A.V.A.G.E. who was raised in the
Okeefenokee Swamp and likes wild animals like venomous snakes, insects, and black rats which he carries in his Beast Pack. •
Dr. Hyde - A cybernetic
mad scientist, thief, spy, and member of S.A.V.A.G.E. whose head is in a dome-shaped helmet. According to General Warhawk in the episode "Robot Raid", he and X-Ray were thought to be long dead, but became mad geniuses. •
X-Ray - Dr. Hyde's cybernetic henchman. Along with Dr. Hyde, he was also thought to be long dead and became a mad genius in his own right. •
Max - Dr. Hyde's
android henchman and enforcer who was created by Dr. Hyde and X-Ray. There are two villains were members of S.A.V.A.G.E. and appeared twice: •
Admiral Nomak - An admiral who assists General Warhawk. First, he helps General Warhawk in "Raise the Yamato" in a plot to raise the
Yamato Battleship in order to take over Tierra Libre. He then appears in "Pirate Peril" along with Captain Scar, assisting General Warhawk in a plot to raise the French submarine Liberte off the coast of Hong Kong. Afterwards, both he and Captain Scar are captured by Rambo, yet the former was later arrested for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. and for treason. •
Count - A descendant of
Vlad III the Impaler who works with General Warhawk. He captures Nobel Prize–winning physicist Herbert Kengsington in "Deadly Keep". He helps General Warhawk in a plot to capture the
President of the United States in "Return of the Count". He is locked up in a closet and captured by Rambo. There are also some one-shot characters who were members of S.A.V.A.G.E. However, only three of their allies managed to escape custody with them while the others were captured by the Force of Freedom, especially, Rambo. The following are listed in order of appearance: •
Rama - The leader of the Cult of the Cobra. He appears in "Cult of the Cobra", where he and his group help General Warhawk halt food shipments to the Indian Province of Assam in a plot to force the people of Assam to make General Warhawk their dictator. •
Pandora - A female
panther trainer working for General Warhawk. She appears in "Raid on Las Vegas" where she assists in a plot to rob the Las Vegas casinos. She, along with Pandora, is arrested and captured by the authorities for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E under the supervision of Rambo and the Force of Freedom. •
Sheik Hassat - A sheik who blindly assists General Warhawk in a plot to blow up the shipping businesses on the
Suez Canal. After the debacle with the "Phantom Pyramid" to which the cannon that was used by S.A.V.A.G.E, to destroy the shipping businesses, he and his men were all captured and arrested by the authorities for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Mike Flynn - An old friend of Rambo's who steals the XK-7 fighter jet along with his men, Terc, Mace and Grenade, and uses it to assist General Warhawk in enslaving the Zimboli people to mine diamonds for him. He and the others are later court-martialed for treason by conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Varinia - A female operative of S.A.V.A.G.E. Only appearing in "Fire in the Sky", she assists General Warhawk, Sergeant Havoc, Gripper, and Nomad in stealing a nuclear-armed submarine called the USS Typhoon and plans to auction it to any terrorist that is interested in it. •
Captain Scar - A
pirate captain who assists General Warhawk and Admiral Nomak in a plot to raise the French submarine Liberte off the coast of Hong Kong. He, along with Nomak, is captured by Rambo for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Mephisto - A
magician who assists General Warhawk in a plot to steal the
Washington Monument. He is captured for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E when Rambo figures out Mephisto's illusion trick. •
Mombo Igthayan - A
Haitian Voodoo magician who assists General Warhawk in a plot to enslave the Haitians and mine the island. •
Dr. Blackburn - A
scientist who assists General Warhawk in a plot to use a mind-control electro box on a
killer whale named Korac and attack the NORAD Bases. After Rambo freed Korac from the mind-control elcctro box, he later is arrested and captured by the authorities for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Iron Mask - A criminal in an iron mask who assists General Warhawk in a plot to locate an old war plane containing a fortune of gold. He is later revealed by Rambo and Hors to be the crooked Major Murphy on behalf of General Warhawk, who took over the Bergdorf Military Base in Munich during the Oktoberfest. Like Mike Flynn, he too is later court-martialed for treason and conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Professor Larson - A S.A.V.A.G.E. scientist who was responsible for brainwashing Dr. Paulsen, Dr. James, and Kat's old friend Lisa to steal the parts of the Laser in the episode, "Mind Control". After being rounded up by Rambo to reveal the whereabouts of the laser in the Himalayan Mountains after being forced to reverse the process he used to brainwash the other three scientists, he later is arrested and captured by the authorities for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Dr. Jamal - An Egyptian scientist who created the Supertrooper. He was recruited by S.A.V.A.G.E. to make Supertroopers that will obey General Warhawk's every command. During Rambo's fight with the Supertrooper, General Warhawk and Sergeant Slaughter had Dr. Jamal stay behind to make sure the Supertrooper wins leading to Dr. Jamal getting apprehended by White Dragon for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. •
Supertrooper - A human-shaped
super soldier who was created from combining the cell samples of German soldiers and vicious animals like baboons, bears, and lions. It was activated from its containment pod which was hidden in Spain to fight Rambo and was defeated when Rambo found a way to beat it. The Supertrooper's containment pod was placed in the U.S. government's custody. •
Al-Rasheed - A wealthy Arabian merchant with a grudge in the episode, "Freedom Dancer". He was furious that his own horse, Moussaka, lost to the fastest horse in the Derby and in the world, Freedom Dancer, and conspires with General Warhawk to remove it from the competition in return for the fighter Jets. After Trautman's friend, Winslow's daughter, Sara, with the help of the Force of Freedom and Rambo uncovered the
camouflage paint on Freedom Dancer from black to white and concealing the name "Samson" in London in the
Hampton Court, he was later captured by Rambo for conspiring with S.A.V.A.G.E. ==Episodes==