It's like Buzzfeed version of politics, cheap, quick feel-good clips that don't actually MEAN ANYTHING. It didn't insert politics as a stupid aside where a writer suddenly inserts a le Drumpf joke into a middle of a serious superhero fight, or have a villain randomly say "unsolicited opinion about Israel" for no goddamn reason unrelated to the story. It was good because it was ABOUT politics. There are a lot of ways for people to be fit and healthy, and I’m proud that we’ve included more of them in GI Joe and the upcoming Scarlett’s Strike Force. Since Salvo’s primary role was going to be carrying around hilariously massive guns, I thought it made sense to have her built like a powerlifter, and even sent Giannis photos of wrestler Nia Jax for reference. While there’s always been a huge amount of diversity on display, the Joes were generally all built like supermodels and/or fitness models. It also presented an opportunity to introduce a different body type into the group, which I thought was important. Changing the character’s race and gender not only gave us some Polynesian representation, but also helped us dodge some problematic visual associations, as Salvo’s original look (bald, heavily muscled white guy with giant guns and a shirt that says “THE RIGHT OF MIGHT”) reads as... a little too alt-right. First, it gave us another international Joe for our newly international team. Making Salvo a Samoan woman served a couple purposes. >Salvo is a great example of that, albeit one for which I continue to catch a lot of heat from a certain vocal minority of Joe fans.