Jake Lonergan

Jake Lonergan is the main protagonist of Cowboys & Aliens.
He is played by Daniel Craig, who also played Barthélémy Karas in Renaissance, James Bond in the James Bond Reboot Series, Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass, and Mikael Blomkvist in the 2011 film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
==History==
He is a wanted outlaw. At the beginning of the movie, he's lost in the middle of nowhere with a strange bracelet in his left hand. Then the family Claiborne meets him and asks him if they're close of Absolution. As he doesn't answers, the three guys decide to capture him but Jake retaliates and defeats them all. He takes back some of their clothes and a horse to go to Absolution. There, he meets Meacham who treats his stomach injury and put back a drunkard, Percy Dolarhyde.
Then, he goes in Doc's saloon and meets Ella. After that, the sheriff, John Taggart, and his men enters in the saloon to arrest Jake. He tries to fight them but he is knocked down by Ella. 
The sheriff imprisons him and Percy. He decides to bring them to Santa Fe. But the village is attacked by the Demons, and Percy, the sheriff and a lot of villagers are kidnapped. With his bracelet, Jake manages to put down one spaceship, in which a single alien pilot who managed to eject from his craft and brutally maiming and killing an armed man in one building, before it quickly flees. After the incident, Jake decides to go back to his former house and he remembers that his wife Alice who was also kidnapped by these same aliens. He then later catches up and joins Dolarhyde and his men (including Meacham, Doc, Nat, Emmett, and Ella) to save the villagers.
The first night, the same alien from the downed craft attacks Emmett and kills Meacham (alongside Dolarhyde's men in the extended version who were brutally killed, save for a few that ran off). Next day, the group continues to track the monster but they are ambushed by Hunt, an old friend of Jake who takes them to his gang. Jake then kills the new boss, Pat Dolan, who threatened to kill Ella because Jake didn't tell him where the stolen gold is. Jake's group then leaves but is attacked again by the Demons and this time Ella is taken. However, Jake managed to got her back but she's wounded and dies soon right after. They are reunited with Dolarhyde and the others and are captured by Black Knife and his tribe. The Apaches then decide to burn Ella's body and Ella is brought back to life as this she reveals that she can resurrect herself because she's an alien too. Ella then reveals where's she from and explains her purpose in coming to Earth to avenge her people, whose homeworld was attacked by the same alien invaders, as well as explaining that the evil aliens on Earth are nothing more than a scouting party and are also interested in invading Earth because of how rare gold is to them. After a discussion with the Apaches, Jake says he doesn't remember anything. Then Black Knife proposes him to get the memory back. That's when Jake with the help of Ella finally remembers everything and informs others of the location of the hidden alien base, as well as their spaceship, which is a massive mining vessel. Jake himself then leaves and goes to find his old gang to come and lend him a hand against the alien invaders due to not having enough soldiers to take down the alien invaders. His gang members finally accept his offer to fight the monsters with him after some encouraging words from Jake himself. 
While Dolarhyde, the Apaches and the others are busy with the aliens, Jake and Ella enter the base to deliver the villagers. After that, Ella stays inside, retrieves Jake's bracelet by kissing it and sets it up so that it explodes. Upon reaching what appears to be a laboratory, Jake is then ambushed captured by the very same Alien scientist revealing himself to be Red Scar (The films Main Antagonist and true leader of the alien invaders scouting party) who Jake himself in their last encounter left the vengeful, vicious, and revenge crazed alien himself with a ugly looking blood red scar over the alien's right eye, and the very same one who murdered his late wife Alice. After quickly disarming Jake Lonergan of his firearms, the alien then slams and straps Jake Lonergan to a table intending to get revenge on the same human who scarred him. Just as Red Scar was about to kill Jake, is when Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde arrives in time to save him by shooting the vengeful evil alien in the back, further enraging him. With the alien's back turned Jake Lonergan than steals a confiscated shotgun from the piles of weapons on the floor and begins repeatedly shooting the evil alien until he is knocked into one of the machines that steals gold, slightly injuring him until Jake Lonergan deals the finishing blow by shooting at the top of the machine (much to the alien's horror), causing it to come down on the Red Scar, killing him and avenging all those died at the evil alien's hands, including his wife. Jake Lonergan, Colonel Dolarhyde and everyone that survived the battle than quickly escape as the mothership begins to take off, intending to bring back reinforcements to invade earth. Before the could reach Earth's outer atmosphere and escape, the invaders are wiped out by Ella who sacrifices herself to blow up the mothership, killing the scouting party and thus successfully avenging her own people's homeworld. The demons are successfully defeated but Jake remains aggrieved by the loss of Ella. 
After the battle, Jake goes to leave flowers in his old house for his deceased wife.  At the end of the movie, before leaving Absolution, he says goodbye to the sheriff and Woodrow who reminds him that Ella is now in a better place. Though he's still a wanted man, Woodrow and the Sheriff will tell everyone that Jake died in the caverns and Jake leaves.
==Trivia==
* In the Graphic Novel, which the movie was based on, Jake Lonergan was called Zeke Jackson, a former Union Army Gunslinger, but was later renamed and changed during development.
* Robert Downey Jr was considered for the role, but due to scheduling conflicts, Daniel Craig was cast and Zeke Jackson became Jake Lonergan.
* In Joan D. Vinge's novelization of the film, the "demon" scientist who murdered Jake Lonergan's lover Alice is given the name "Red Scar" who wanted revenge for the huge red scar that Jake Lonergan gave him.
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