Jack Harkness

* Current
* 1869
* 1899
* 1941
* 1999
* 2005
* 2008
* 2011
* 2035

Gray  (deceased)

Alice Carter

Junior Harkness

Steven Carter  (deceased)

 The Alliance

> *"Captain Jack Harkness, and who are you?"*
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**"Captain Jack Harkness"** was the alias adopted by Time Agent and con man **Javic Piotr Thane** from the 51st century. He was a companion of the Doctor before being abandoned after being resurrected by Rose Tyler in Bad Wolf form.

Jack went on to travel back to the 1800's where he found out after multiple occasions that he couldn't die. During the 1800's, Jack joined Torchwood. Jack lived through the centuries being killed multiple times throughout up until the turn of the 20th century, where Jack was given control of Torchwood, becoming the Leader of Torchwood 3 and currently is in charge of the entire Torchwood institute after its initial fall of Torchwood in 2006. Jack was able to build Torchwood back up to a global organisation that protects the Earth from any alien threats.

Jack then kept on living as he had many adventures with Torchwood. Jack even found himself running into The Doctor multiple times yet again: Once to help stop The Master from ruling the Universe and another time to stop The Daleks, being led by Davros and the Dalek Supreme from destroying the Universe along side many other times.

At some point, Jack was recruited by The Alliance as a hero who'd help any time he could, though Jack never considered himself a full time member due to his personal adventures always taking him far.

## Biography/Timeline

### 51st Century

Jack was born in 5094 in Boshane Peninsular on Earth. Later on, Jack went onto join the Time Agency, but eventually got his mind wiped of the events of him being in the Time Agency after travelling on a mission to 1941.

### 1941

Jack then travelled to England in 1941 where the at the time con-man posed as an RAF pilot, taking the name "Captain Jack Harkness". Jack eventually met up with The Doctor and Rose Tyler where they cured the Empty Children. Jack then began to travel with The Doctor

### 2005

Jack then travelled witht the Doctor for quite a while along with Rose Tyler before they eventually travelled to Cardiff, 2005 and with The Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith they defeated The Slitheen family from taking over Earth and destroying the planet.

### 2001st Century

Jack then travelled with The Doctor and Rose Tyler to the 2001st Century, where they found a fleet of Daleks causing The Doctor and Jack to send Rose home for her own safety. As The Doctor was about to defeat the Daleks, he backed away out of doing it, leading Jack to be killed by a squad of Daleks. Rose then returned in the form of Bad Wolf, where she had taken in the Energy of the Heart of the TARDIS.

She then proceeded to kill all of The Daleks, including the Dalek Emperor, as well as healing Jack. However, as she was not able to control the power she had, Rose had given him Immortality, a fact Jack would not learn for a while. The Doctor then took the power from Rose before it killed her and left Jack.

Jack then decided to try and find The Doctor in the 21st century using his Vortex Manipulator, however it had been damaged and accidentally took him to the year 1869

### 1869

Jack appeared in 1869 where his Vortex Manipulator had burnt out. Jack then began to live through the 1800s before he found out he was immortal, waking up after being shot through the heart. Jack then got into many accidents and died 14 times in 6 months which attracted the attention of Torchwood.

Torchwood then killed and captured Jack before he awoke from death. They began to question him on his abilities before hiring him as a Torchwood Agent and locating himself at Cardiff due to the area having a rift which bled energy which The Doctor would use to refuel his TARDIS.

### 1999

Jack then served under Torchwood for many decades before in 1999 at the Cardiff Torchwood hub, a fellow agent had gone mad, killing everyone there including himself, leaving Jack the only survivor and head of Torchwood.

### 2006/7

After Torchwood fell in 2006 after the Cyberman/Dalek invasion, Jack began to run a smaller Torchwood in Cardiff located at the hub. This new Torchwood was named "Torchwood 3".

Jack later found a hand that belonged to The Doctor which had been cut of at Christmas 2005. Jack used this as a "Doctor Tracker". This eventually worked when the tracker told Jack the Doctor had landed at Cardiff.

Jack then ran from Torchwood to join The Doctor and although The Doctor attempted to leave Jack behind, Jack clung onto the shell of the TARDIS and caused the TARDIS with The Doctor and Martha Jones inside to travel to the End of the Universe.

#### The End of the Universe

Otherwise known as the year 100,000,000,000,000, the Human race by this point was on its last legs, trying to reach a new planet called Utopia to survive. Jack along side The Doctor and Martha discovered that one of the Humans was The Master in disguise. The Master then stole the TARDIS and travelled back to the year 2006/7 to conquer the Universe. Then, due to having no TARDIS, The Doctor fixed Jack's Vortex Manipulator and took the group to 2006/7.

#### 2006/7: Stopping The Master

After arriving, the group found out The Master had taken the name of Harold Saxon and become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Jack along side The Doctor and Martha attempted to stop the villain, however they were unable to. This led The Master to dominate Earth and capture both Jack and The Doctor, leaving Martha to escape.

After a year of The Master's tyranny, Martha returned to save Jack and The Doctor and helped stop The Master. The Doctor proceeded to reverse time to stop the year from ever happening, only having the group to remember what happened.

The Doctor then took Jack back to Torchwood after Jack realised he wanted to stay with the group and protect the Earth. Before letting Jack go, The Doctor shut off his Vortex Manipulator to stop Jack from Time Travelling. Jack then stayed with the Torchwood team as leader of Torchwood 3.

### 2008

Jack and Torchwood then found out that Daleks had taken the planet to another part of the galaxy to use as a power source with 26 other planets to form a weapon known as "The Reality Bomb". This weapon is said to have been able to wipe out the entire multiverse. With The Doctor know where to be seen, Jack along with Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, Sarah Jane Smith and Torchwood helped contact The Doctor with Donna Noble to bring them to Earth and help stop the invasion. During this, Jack got his Vortex Manipulator working again and Jack then returned to Torchwood after the crisis was over.

### 2009

Captain Jack Harkness, a year after the time of the Dalek Invasion of Earth in 2008, decided that he wished to leave Torchwood temporarily and go off into the stars after a terrible event which led to Jack having to sacrifice his own grandson, Steven Carter, for the sake of all man kind. After saying goodbye to his good friend, ally and Leader of Torchwood on Earth, Gwen Cooper, Jack left the planet of Earth to go and explore the Universe more on his own. During this time Jack had confrontations with the Judoon, Slitheen, Cybermen and many more, being able to save many people and truly becoming a hero. Jack stayed among the stars for years and years before revisiting Earth for a short time in 2011 before leaving once again.

### 2020

After hearing word of "The Lone Cyberman" as well as hearing of The Doctor's future imprisonment in a Judoon prison, Captain Jack Harkness attempted to reach contact with The Doctor by getting into the Prison. Jack then decided in order to warn his friend as well as get inside the prison, he'd commit as many crimes as possible to get onto the Judoon's most wanted list.

It was here where the Captain found himself having stolen a large ship belonging to an unknown species. Jack used this ship to attempt to teleport The Doctor, who at the time was on Earth, about The Lone Cyberman. However, due to not being able to configure the controls of this unknown ship due to its damage, Jack ended up teleporting all 3 of the Doctor's companions onto the ship, them being Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien, the latter of which Jack referred to as "silver fox" due to his grey hair. Jack, now running out of time due to being chased by the owners of the ship he had stolen, decided to leave the companions of the Doctor with a message warning The Doctor not to "give the Lone Cyberman what it wants" before sending them back to Earth and being able to have a clean get away from the ship's owners.

### 2021

#### New Years

Eventually the well known Captain had committed enough crime to land him in the prison of which The Doctor was now imprisoned in, Jack even admitting he committed "maybe a bit too many" crimes. It was here when Jack was able to meet up with The Doctor in her 13th Incarnation and break her out with the Vortex Manipulator he had smuggled inside the prison in an area, yet again, "You really don't want to know."

Jack then, in the presence of The Doctor, went back to Earth where they found out that the corrupt business man 'Mr Robertson' had set up a branch of Daleks as defence drones for the British Government. However, to make these they used the remains of a real Dalek. This led to one of the scientists to become curious of the creature within and create their own Kaled Mutant. The mutant then went haywire and created it's own Dalek army to rule Earth.

Captain Jack, partnered with The Doctor and her companions, was able to defeat the new Daleks by calling a race of pure Daleks to come and kill the new Daleks before tricking them into flying into another TARDIS the Doctor had found before compressing the internal dimensions and killing all of the Daleks in one clean blow. Jack was also during these events able to, along side Ryan and Graham whom he had met before, blow up the pure Dalek's ship, wiping them out forever.

After these events, Jack left The Doctor and met up again with his old friend Gwen Cooper. From here Jack was convinced that due to the Dalek threat, he was needed on Earth to defend it from any and all threats that may come to the planet. This is when Jack decided to reclaim his position as Leader of Torchwood and begin leading the organisation. However during the time he was away Torchwood was slowly broken down by the British Government into Government owned organisations. This meant that Torchwood was now reduced back down to it's old size, something Jack didn't seem to have a massive problem in as in his words "Now I can keep a better eye on everyone."

#### February/March

However, at some point between New Years and February of 2021, Jack left Torchwood once again for an undisclosed reason. Many believe it is due to Jack finding something out he didn't want to about his own organisation, other sources merely suggesting he wished to move on after over 200 years of service.

At an unknown time, assumed to be after Harkness left Torchwood, Jack was also approached by The Alliance. Knowing Jack's work with The Doctor and Torchwood, Jack was offered a position in the team so long as he completed the trial to get in. Jack accepted this offer after a long while of consideration.

### Present Day

Jack currently still operates under The Alliance, being a good temporary leader for smaller groups of members on split-team missions. However, Jack doesn't actually see himself as a full time member of the group. Jack also occasionally leaves the planet to explore other planets and battles many other creatures that deem a threat.

*(Please note: This is all of the relevant/important events in Jack's life, so some of the events you may be familiar with may not appear)*

## Personality

Jack Harkness' personality was wilfully enigmatic. He enjoyed his persona of "mysterious time traveller", much of which remained constant in his experiences with Torchwood and the Doctor. Before being cursed with immortality, he was a flippant former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing beings throughout the universe. Jack automatically flirted with most people he met, not caring about their gender or if they were human, alien or even robots. The Doctor often told him to stop and Jack would often reply, "I'm just saying hello". But as the Doctor pointed out, "For you, that's flirting".

Besides being a flirt, Jack was a bit of a drinker, however he soon knocked the habit. He once remarked that on one occasion when he was sentenced to death, he got drunk and ended up in bed with both his executioners. He told Rose that he preferred to discuss business while he was drinking. He smoked but gave up in the 1980s. Jack claimed to the Doctor that before he met him he had been a coward and said that he might have been better off that way.

Despite the fact that he was incapable of dying even if he wanted to, Jack retained a sense of humour, frequently telling jokes and being lively and cheerful. However, underneath his cheerful demeanour, Jack was unsure if he wanted to die or not. Living forever (or at least as near to forever as a human could live) brought him to an existential viewpoint. While he joked about grey hairs and remained silent about mortality, Jack saw death as the ultimate end of being; there was no afterlife and no one waiting for him from his past lives.

Although friendly and flirtatious, Jack could also be ruthless at times and did not hesitate to kill anyone or anything that he felt was a threat. He was also equally unwilling to do anything that could endanger the Torchwood facility. This sometimes got him into trouble with his allies who disapproved of his lack of compassion.

## Physical Appearance

Jack Harkness is 6 ft tall with Brown hair and Blue eyes. Jack is quite muscular, being naturally a larger built person.

Jack often wears his signature outift consisting of a large World War 2 trench coat, a light blue shirt with grey braces/suspenders along with dark black trousers and black boots. Jack also wears a white T-shirt underneath his clothes. Sometimes he also wears a brown/grey/black waistcoat with a silver fob watch. Jack also alternates between shirts choosing either a light blue, dark blue, light green, light grey, black and a white shirt.

Jack also keeps his Mark IV Webley Revolver holstered on his side at all times along with his Vortex Manipulator on his right or left wrist. He also sometimes opts for a high-tech ear piece when he is working in a group.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Immortality:** After Rose Tyler looked into the heart of the TARDIS, she took the form of 'Bad Wolf' and brought Jack back from the dead after being exterminated by a Dalek. Not long after this event, Jack was brought to the 1800's and found out he was immortal after countless deaths. His body after being killed reverses in its timeline just before he died, bringing him back to his condition before he "died". This means Jack is able to survive nearly anything.
* **Pheromones:** Like other men in the 51st century, Jack possessed evolved human pheromones which made him naturally nice-smelling and attractive to others.
* **Slowed Ageing:** Jack's Immortality gives him the ability to age much slower than any average person, currently looking near identical to how he was in the 1800's.

### Abilities

* **Talented Team Leader:** After Jack took over Torchwood on January 1st, 2000 he has been incharge of a large group of people working for Torchwood, specifically Torchwood 3. This has given him years of experience leading groups of men and women. In addition to all of the groups he has been in charge of through his many years alive, he is one of the best leaders you could come across - although his over-confidence is sometimes his downfall.
* **Temporal Change Resistance:** Due to Jack being a Time Traveller, Jack is able to detect and recall any temporal changes to history, meaning when an event is reversed or undone, he can remember both versions of the time. An example of this is the Dalek Invasion of 2008 which was undone due to The Doctor resetting the Universe in 2010. That means that Jack can remember the invasion as well as remembering the new reality in which it never happened. Another example of this is "The year that never happened" being 2007 when The Master took over Earth.
* **Immense Knowledge**
	+ **Extra-Terrestrial Knowledge:** Having worked for Torchwood since 1869, Jack has learned a lot about different species and how to stop many of them. Pairing this with the Time he spend travelling with The Doctor as well as being from the 51st century, where alien life has merged with humanity, Jack knows more about alien life than just about any other human being.
	+ **Master Tactician:** Having lived through so many battles and wars, Jack has gained immense know-how of many different tactics, being able to create and figure out tactics within minutes of seeing it in action.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Being from the 51st century, Jack grew up along side many different species. This gave Jack the opportunity to lean hundreds of different languages from Earth and beyond.

* **Weapons Expert:** Jack knows how to operate many weapons due to his experiences throughout the years. He can operate almost any Human and Alien weapon.
* **Medical Expert:** Although Jack never needs to go through any type of medical procedure, he still knows a lot about how to do them due to having worked for Torchwood for over 150 years. He can perform most medical procedures and even operate on most Extra Terrestrial lifeforms.

## Weaknesses

* **Over-confidence:** Jack is a very cheeky and cocky man, with a massive ego at times. Although through the years Jack has mellowed down, he is still quite arrogant and over-confident at times, in the past having caused more bad than good and even causing the death of some of his allies.
* **Weak Immune-System:** Due to coming from the 51st century, where there is a simple medicine for everything, Jack's immune system was never built up very well. Mixing this with his immortality means Jack has never had the chance to build up a tolerance to anything. Therefore if his immortality were to be taken away, a simple sample of any light poison or illness/virus could kill Jack within minutes.
* **PTSD:** Jack's long life means he has lived through and fought in many wars, actually having to fight in World War 2 twice, along with every other major war since the year 1869 all the way up to the present day. On top of this, Jack's long life means he has lost many people and as such is quite a lonely person. This has caused Jack to develop major PTSD which means he rarely ever sleeps and suffers with flashbacks from time to time.
* **Depressive Episodes:** Due to having lived such a long and tiring life as well as having died more times than countable, Jack can sometimes have depressive episodes where he feels his long life is a curse and that he would rather end his long life and give up. These episodes are usually triggered by bad memories and/or his PTSD.

## Equipment

* **Vortex Manipulator:**  A Vortex Manipulator can travel through space and time, however it can be quite inaccurate with its abilities, and also has the minor chance of burning out dead after use. Additionally, the device takes about a while to recharge after every use unless it is boosted by a device such as a TARDIS or a Sonic Screwdriver. After The Doctor modified the device, it became a lot more accurate in its teleportation and time travelling capabilities. This device is also known to be used as a hacking device and a way to control other devices it is linked to.
* **Compact Laser Deluxe:** The compact laser deluxe was a small, but powerful laser weapon. Jack stores it in a place, quote: "You really don't want to know" in case of emergencies.
* **Defabricator:** Originally used for breaking down fabrics and destroying them, Jack was able to modify the device once he joined Torchwood, giving him the ability to destroy many materials, including Dalekanium, hence why it is able to destroy Daleks.
* **Psychic Paper:**Psychic paper is a blank, white visitor's card that has special psychic properties. When shown to a person, it can usually induce them to see whatever the user expects, wishes, or needs them to see printed on it.
* **Sonic Blaster:**Also known as a squareness gun, this device was type of weapon available in the 51st century. They were produced at the Villengard factory. This device can remove square shaped holes in objects as well as replacing them. It can also blast Sonic Blasts at people, killing them.
* **Mark IV Webley Revolver:** Jack has a Mark IV Webley Revolver from the First World War. Jack has kept this in good condition through the centuries since he was given it. It is .38 calibre and had a five inch barrel.

## Relationships

### Family

* Franklin Thane † - Father
* Jack's Mother †
* Gary Thane † - Younger Brother
* Alice Carter - Daughter
* Steven Carter † - Grandson

### Allies

* The Alliance
	+ Konn-Ull *(Leader)*
	+ Daredevil
	+ Hal Hendyker
	+ Hulk
	+ **Jack Harkness**
	+ Thor Odinson
	+ Yelena Belova
	+ Eddie Brock
	+ Vanessa (Current Companion)
	+ Jessica Cruz
* The Collective
	+ Superman
	+ Doctor Strange
	+ All Might
	+ Green Lantern
	+ Adam Warlock

### Enemies

* Daleks - Bitter Enemy
* Cybermen - Bitter Enemy
* The Master - Bitter Enemy
* Slitheen - Bitter Enemy
* The Time Agency - Enemy as the wiped Jack's memories of them

### Frenemies

* UNIT - Occasional Ally
* S.H.I.E.L.D. - Occasional Ally

## Trivia

* Captain Jack Harkness is officially Omnisexual, and will be happy with any gender of human, alien or even robot.
* Jack originally travelled with The Doctor in his 9th and 10th incarnations, However has met many of them since those events.
* Jack doesn't drink very much, only on very special occasions. The rest of the time Jack drinks water and other non-alcoholic drinks.
* Jack was once taken back to 27 A.D. where he was buried before being discovered years later and kept in a Cryo Chamber by Torchwood until he was let out in 2009 once the original Jack was sent to 27 A.D. to be buried.
* If Jack's immortality is ever taken away, you can kill him with a very small dosage of a weak poison or virus due to him having a weak immune system.
* Jack as of the current time is over 2,000 years old, being estimated to be reaching the age of 3,000.