With all due respect to my old website neighbor Dave Thornton, I’ve never liked Quick Kick. Dave, bless him, chose Quick Kick as his website’s mascot and namesake when he created Quick Kick’s Theater, the best online resource for the Sunbow G.I. Joe animated series to date. Quick Kick, for me, is a dull character and a harbingers of the wacky Joes-to-come as the series and toyline wandered further and further away from its initial parameters. Thank god we never saw Crystal Ball make it into the show, or Raptor! We did get Sgt. Slaughter and Big Lob. 
Quick Kick looks like he belongs in some 1970s Super Friends roster with the name “Kung Fu Man”. Although I couldn’t agree less with Samurai Frog’s opinion of Lady Jaye, we are of similar mind when it comes to Quick Kick. “Look, Quick Kick sucks. He does. He’s just awful.” Frog elaborates: “He’s only there because they wanted a Bruce Lee rip-off, and he has no personality except that he constantly quotes classic movie lines with his terrible impressions.” Read Samurai Frog’s review of Lasers in the Night.
Quick Kick debuts in the worst possible way. He’s a movie stuntman who was stranded in the arctic when his crew deserted him (presumably because he was so annoying). Not even once does he mention or imply he is even the slightest bit cold. He might as well be on a tropical island! So, when Alpine and Bazooka need help during an arctic blizzard, they stumble across this stuntman wearing nothing but a pair of loose fitting black pants and a sweatband. He then proceeds to save them from Storm Shadow. Did I mention Quick Kick is barefoot through all of this? It’s so stupid, there is no respect at all for the audience.
His name is MacArthur Ito. That’s right, his name is backwards…
About the only truly good thing Quick Kick ever did was save Junkyard’s life in Synthoid Conspiracy. He still looked like a doosh while doing it though! Fricking hell! Put a god damn uniform on, pilgrim!
Quick Kick sucks. I admit, for me it’s more about his look than his bad impressions shtick. HASBRO started going for more variety and individualism with each future wave, to the point that Quick Kick does not look like he belongs on the team at all. He is reminiscent of an earlier, less inspirational period of children’s television programming and a precedent for further blows to any remaining ounce of credulity the cartoon had left.