Jack Cooper

Jack Cooper is the main protagonist of the 2016 video game Titanfall 2.
Throughout the game, Cooper works as a Pilot working under the Frontier Militia, who formerly served as a Rifleman of the Militia before his Chief Officer, Tai Lastimosa, was killed in battle. He served during Operation: Broadsword on the planet of Typhon attached to his Titan, BT-7274, and played a huge role in stopping the IMC's genocidal plans of using the Fold Weapon on the planet of Harmony, thereby saving countless lives.
Cooper is voiced by , who voiced Levi Ackerman in Attack on Titan and Trafalgar D. Water Law in One Piece.
==Apperance==
Cooper is a young man in his late-20s, who has black hair and brown eyes. He is often seen wearing his own Militia outfit, which is coloured red, as well as a specialised helmet.
==Personality==
While the extent of Cooper's personality is not known, he is often known to be adventurous and friendly, with the latter trait shown especially towards her friend and companion BT-7274.
==Background==
===Past===
When Jack Cooper was a baby, his family moved to the Frontier in hopes of a better life due to the dramatically unbalanced population and income inequality on Earth. They lived in a remote Frontier settlement that was exploited and harassed by IMC garrisons.
Cooper volunteered as a Militia Rifleman to liberate the Frontier from the IMC's oppression as the IMC continued to interfere with the lives of the people in his home system. In the line of duty, he had a brain injury during one of his first deployments as a rifleman during the fight of Fracture. As a result, he experienced memory loss as a result of his engagement.
===Titanfall 2===
Before the events of Titanfall 2 started, Tai Lastimosa, an SRS captain and pilot in his own right, trained then-Rifleman Jack Cooper as a Pilot off-the-record for a considerable amount of time. One of these VR experiences is The Pilot's Gauntlet, the game's first level. The arrival of the 9th Militia Fleet at Typhon interrupts the training exercise. On the planet's surface are Cooper and Lastimosa.
During the first battle on the planet, Cooper's battalion is ambushed and surrounded by Spectre units. Apex Predator Titans show up to finish off the grunts, but Cooper is protected by Lastimosa and BT-7274. Lastimosa is mortally wounded in the process. Cooper awakens to find Lastimosa barely alive. With his last breath, Lastimosa transfers control of BT to Cooper. After giving Lastimosa a proper burial, Jack takes Lastimosa's jump kit and helmet and meets BT-7274, who recognizes Cooper as his new Pilot. Jack retrieves batteries for BT, and the duo escapes into the wilderness in an attempt to locate Major Anderson to complete Lastimosa's mission.
The two stumble into a skirmish between Militia and IMC soldiers at a water reclamation plant. Cooper and BT battle their way through the building until they reach Kane, an Apex Predator who was in battle and killed a lot of Militia pilots. Cooper steals Kane's helmet radio after they murder him so he may listen in on enemy conversations.
As they continue, Cooper and BT try to save time by cutting through what turns out to be an IMC factory that builds pre-furnished houses and simulated surroundings for testing. Ash, the fake Apex Predator, is in charge of the building. When Cooper and BT are no longer together, Ash tortures Cooper by putting him through trials and lethal traps designed for him and other imprisoned Militia fighters. After reuniting, Jack and BT approach Ash and kill him before leaving the institution.
After that, they go to Anderson's coordinates, which are at an allegedly deserted, classified IMC research site. Cooper enters the building and begins to experience odd temporal events, which it is subsequently discovered are caused by time distortions in the vicinity. Then they find Anderson's body, which is stuck in the ceiling. They learn Anderson was dispatched to the facility to find and identify a new weapon the IMC was developing when Cooper finds Anderson's helmet.
They also learn that Anderson was given a wrist-mounted gadget that would allow safe transit through the facility during the briefing hologram. Cooper now has overall control of Special Operation 217 following Anderson's passing. Cooper finds Anderson's second half and removes the wrist-mounted gadget from it. This gadget is essentially a time machine that enables users to go either forward or backward in time with a simple flick of the wrist. As he continues to penetrate the compound, Cooper wisely uses the Time Gauntlet to fight Prowlers and worn-out Stalkers in the present and other IMC thugs and Titans in the past.
The knowledge on an IMC super weapon called as the "Fold Weapon" and its power source, the "Ark", which operates by folding space and time to inflict limitless amounts of havoc and destruction, is what Cooper finally discovers to be Anderson's goal. Cooper learns that the prototype being tested at the facility was scaled down, and that the IMC, notably General Marder and his ARES Division, have a full-scale version almost ready to launch and directed for Harmony, the Militia's "home" planet. After that, BT and Cooper depart the building and look for a place where they can get in touch with the main Militia fleet.
Cooper and BT eventually arrive to one of Typhon's Interstellar Beacons, a huge satellite dish currently controlled by Militia members. Cooper fixes the dish with BT's throwing arm after locating an arc tool and turning on the reactor that powers it. Richter, an Apex Predator, shows up before they can communicate. Cooper and BT take down the independent pilot and make contact with Commander Sarah Briggs and the Militia 9th Fleet once more.
Cooper is still considered a Rifleman and is thus not authorised to link with a Titan until Sarah shows up with reinforcements and meets Cooper and BT face-to-face. Sarah then insists on finding a new Pilot for BT. Cooper raises objections on BT's side, pointing out their improved efficiency, and Sarah finally agrees to let them continue communicating.
Sarah launches a full-scale attack on the air base housing the Ark weapon while Cooper affixes to the 9th Fleet. Sarah starts to see Cooper's aptitude as a potential pilot during the offensive, essentially field-certifying him as a pilot. The attack ultimately fails, however, when the Ark is carried into the massive transport ship IMS Draconis, which then escapes the location and travels to the full-sized Fold Weapon. In order to join the majority of the Militia forces, air transports are used to pick up Cooper, Sarah, and the remaining ground soldiers. This allows them to immediately engage in aerial pursuit of the Draconis and the Ark.
Cooper takes command of the IMS Malta battlecruiser, which was impeding Militia pursuit of the Ark, with the help of Barker and the 6-4. As soon as Cooper and BT defeat the Apex Predator Viper and successfully reclaim the Ark, the Draconis collapses from the damage it has endured.
Kuben Blisk and Slone, the last two Apex Predators still alive, grab Cooper and what's left of BT's chassis, and Cooper is immediately questioned about the location of the Ark. Cooper is in danger of dying when BT makes a last-ditch attempt to save him, but in doing so, the rest of his chassis is destroyed and the Ark that Cooper was concealing in his cockpit is found by Blisk and Slone, who then flee and leave Cooper to die. Cooper is able to escape slavery by obtaining the emergency SERE Kit from the Titan's core.
Cooper locates the Ark on foot and instals BT's data core in a fresh Vanguard chassis. Blisk confronts Cooper and a severely injured BT one more time on foot after facing and murdering Slone at the Fold Weapon's central control facility. To General Marder's vehement disapproval, Blisk spares Cooper out of respect for the Militia Pilot's expertise (or maybe out of a desire to uphold the terms of his contract) and even offers a standing invitation to the Apex Predators before withdrawing.
Cooper tries to jump into the Fold Weapon and sacrifice himself to destroy it, but at the last second, BT grabs Cooper from the Titan's cockpit and launches him away from the weapon's core, leaving just the Titan to be sacrificed. Briggs and Barker then intervene to save Cooper, and when the Fold Weapon is eliminated, they pull off one more daring escape (producing as a consequence of Typhon's destruction).
Cooper is praised as a hero and formally inducted into the SRS's upper ranks as a fully qualified Pilot, although he is apprehensive about being given a new Titan since "I liked the old one." Later, a binary message containing the word "Jack" would be transmitted through Cooper's helmet by an unknown person—possibly what's left of BT-7274.
==Trivia==
*Although it is widely accepted that he is Caucasian, Lead Artist Joel Emslie spoke of his looks in the Art of Titanfall 2 book, "We went for the look of a guy who might be a mix of ethnicities with a hint of Benecio Del Toro", owing to his black hair.
*According to BT-7274, Cooper weighs 89 kg, which is too much given his size and height. But this also contains the ARC tool, two guns, the jump gear, and armour, which collectively probably weigh between 10 and 20 kg. Jack's weight is probably closer to 70kg without gear given his height, level of fitness, and general physique.
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