What audiences were expecting were the typical action genre tropes and lots of excitement. And this one delivers. The pacing is fast and the story consistently moves in order to prevent any lulls in the action. The opening sequence lays out Stallone’s character and the strange cult that we never fully get any major reasoning behind their motivations, except that they might just simply be crazy. There’s a man wiping out people with a shotgun in a supermarket so the cops call in Cobra. He shows up in his cool grey 1950 Mercury with a license plate that says “Awsom50,” stepping out of the car with a match in his mouth, black sunglasses, a black jacket, and a gun with a cobra symbol on it. He walks into the grocery store, delivers some classic one liners and blows away the bad guy.