Jax Briggs (Mortal Kombat)

Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs is a Special Forces commander with cybernetic enhancements and one of the main protagonists of the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games. He is the partner and best friend of Sonya Blade, the father of Jacqui Briggs, and the godfather of Cassie Cage.
Jax was portrayed by John Parrish from Mortal Kombat II to Mortal Kombat 4/Gold, Craig J. Harris in Special Forces and Deadly Alliance, Simeon Norfleet in Shaolin Monks and Armageddon, Dan Washington in MKvsDCU, with Marz Timms and Greg Eagles in MK9 and X respectively, and William Christopher Stephens from Mortal Kombat 11 onwards. 
==History==
=== First timeline ===
===Second timeline===
=== Mortal Kombat 1 ===
While Jax does not appear in the story mode of this game, he appears as a Kameo fighter in the gameplay. 
Jax does appear in Kenshi Takahashi's ending, where he is revealed to be an FBI Agent in the New Era. Here, he saved Kenshi from an assassination attempt by the Yakuza, and the two joined forces against them. While they intended to part ways, Jax was surprised to encounter a sorcerer called Shang Tsung, whom attempted to steal Kenshi's sword Sento. After they fought him off, Kenshi revealed that the fantasy movies Johnny Cage directed were based on reality, and after the shock wore off, Jax realised Earth faced terrible danger. Jax managed to convince his FBI bosses to form the Outworld Investigation Agency, and he and Kenshi became agents. 
== Other media==
=== Mortal Kombat Legends===
==Appearance==
Jax is depicted as an African-American man, having dark skin, black hair and brown eyes. Jax's most striking feature is his impressive muscular upper body build, keeping his torso bare in all but one of his appearances. In his first appearances, he wore karate pants and boots. From Mortal Kombat 3 and onwards, he wears a pair of bionic armor-plating that covers and protects both of his arms.
It is not known whether his arms were replaced or upgraded in the original storyline. However, it is possible that he may have used bionic implants until the events of Deception, where he may have willingly had his own arms removed in favor of mechanical replacements. In the alternate timeline of MK 2011, he was forced to use metallic arms in order to survive, after having his organic arms telekinetically dismembered by Ermac.
In MKX, he wears a camouflage vest with his last name Briggs on his right upper vest pocket with his left upper pocket acting as a storage for his cigars and he still wears his dog tag around his neck, along with two more additional pockets near his abdomen. He has an American flag wrapped up and tied around his upper right arm and he wears green pants with some additional color of black on them and wears black army boots.
==Personality==
Jax is clear-headed, loyal, careful, and always keeping a watch on what his men are doing. When the need arises, he is the best on the battlefield with the attitude and ferocity of a lion.
In his Armageddon ending, Jax Briggs wish is to use the power of Blaze to reform and change the Tekunin form being evil cyborgs. Jax in Armageddon much like Jax from Mortal Kombat X also wants to retire from the Special Forces and he wants the power of Blaze to do this. While Jax uses the power to become leader of the Tekunin it never know what Jax decides to do or does after becoming their leader.
Unlike the other kombatants, Jax doesn't become a god or a ruler of of a realm when he receives the power of Blaze. Jax also smokes a lot of cigars the reason for this because he mentions and proves that he has won a lot of fights.
==Powers and Abilities==
Due to his membership in the army, Jax is quite a hardened soldier in the battlefield. He is known to show incredible ferocity while staying focused at the same time. Jax's most prominent attribute is his massive upper body strength. His physique and strength are so powerful that he is able to crush human heads with ease and shake the Earth with a single punch.
Jax utilizes cybernetic strength enhancers to further augment his already impressive physical power. These implants also carry portable missiles and a piston-like mechanism to increase the force of his blows. His bionic arms may have made him the most physically powerful man on Earth, if he wasn't already that strong.
Aside from his kombat skills, Jax is also a competent technician and scientist, having been in charge of the portal development technology that the Outworld Investigation Agency uses to move between realms, and also utilized his smarts to restore Cyrax's free will.
====Powers====
*Cybernetic Enhancement: Jax utilizes cybernetic strength enhancers to further augment his already impressive physical power. These implants also carry portable missiles and a piston-like mechanism to increase the force of his blows. His bionic arms may have made him the most physically powerful man on Earth, if he wasn't already that strong.
**Immense Strength: His physique and strength are so powerful that he is able to crush human heads with ease and shake a realm with a single punch. Jax has defeated beings with high levels of strength such as Shokan and DC Characters like Lex Luthor, Shazam, and Wonder Woman. Jax Is strong that he is able lift up over 5 tons.
**Heat Generation/Damage Boost: Jax can heat up his cybernetic arms to add more damage into his attacks.
**Energy Blasts: Even before he had his arms replaced with cybernetics, he was able to shoot purple shockwaves at his opponent.
**Heat Missiles: Once he heats up his arms, he is able to fire missiles of heat.
* Immense Speed: Jax has defeated Kabal, who is one of the fastest characters in Mortal Kombat. He can go 108 kilometers (30 m/s).
**Immense Agility
*Immense Stamina:
*Immense Durability:
*Immense Endurance:
*Immense Reflexes
*Immense Invulnerability:
*Gigantification: In one of his fatalities, Jax can grow to a gigantic size.
====Abilities====
*Master Martial Artist: Since Jax is one of Raiden's Earthrealm Champions, he has been able to a huge number of opponents from other realms like Baraka, Johnny Cage, Jade, Kung Lao, Sindel, Kitana, Liu Kang, and Noob Saibot. In the MKvsDC crossover he has triumphed over his partner and best friend, Sonya Blade..
**Boxing
**Judo
**Muay Thai
**Wrestling
*Acrobatics: Although Jax has massive upper body strength, he was still able to jump extremely high and great distances. Jax can also do flips and kick ups.
*Athletics
* Stealth Mastery
*Master Marksman: Jax is very skilled with weapons. He has used weapons such as a Spiked Club, Tonfa, Submachine Gun, Rocket Launcher, Thumper, and Shotgun.
*Genius Level intellect: Jax is also a competent technician and scientist, having been in charge of the portal development technology that the Outworld Investigation Agency uses to move between realms, and also utilized his smarts to restore Cyrax's free will. He has a 140 IQ.
**Master Tactician
*Indomitable Will: Due to his membership in the army, Jax is quite a hardened soldier on the battlefield. He is known to show incredible ferocity while staying focused at the same time.
== Quotes==
==Trivia== 
*Jax's original name was going to be Kurtis Stryker, but this was recycled later for another character introduced in Mortal Kombat 3.
*He was originally going to be a kickboxer, but this was scrapped due to similarities to a number of Street Fighter characters. He originally wore a yellow martial arts gi, but this concealed his physique so it was dropped. There was game footage of Jax shot with his original gi costume, but his actor split the pants during shooting.
*Before Sonya was created, Jax was conceived with her scenario, but since there were no female characters, Midway conceived Sonya as his replacement.
*Interestingly in Mortal Kombat: Unchained, when Havik performs a fatality where he eats the opponents arms and vomits the remains, he still vomits meat when he does it to Jax, despite Jax's arms being metal.
*His code name is "Cobra" according to early production shots of Mortal Kombat: Special Forces.
*When Jax is knocked off the sky temple in Armageddon, he yells "Oh my god! This is not happening to me!"
*His fighting stance from MK3 is similar to that of some of the male ninjas and comes from the Shaolin Fist fighting style.
*Jax is one of the only two characters to have his own game, the other being Bi-han.
*He looks like Ramirez from the rockstar game Manhunt 1
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