Scaramouche

### Aliases

Scaramouche the Merciless, The Pied-Piper of Ruination, the Crooner of Carnage, the Ambassador of Annihilation, the Eradicator of All.

### Affiliation

* Sammael
* Van Kleiss

## Physical description

### Eye color

Blue

**Scaramouch** is a assassin cyborg part of the Cyborg-Hunter Killer project. Who answers to a number of a self proclaimed titles such as **Scaramouche the Merciless,** **The Pied-Piper of Ruination,** the **Crooner of Carnage,** the **Ambassador of Annihilation**, the **Eradicator of All**. In the previous timeline, he was in service of Aku. until his death. However, when the timeline had been altered, he remained mostly the same but served the Fallen Sammael and later Van Kleiss to join the Pack.

## Appearance

Scaramouche is a very tall, robotic warrior, standing over a head taller than Jack, who himself is above average in height. His appearance is similar to X-49, but with teal (or white depending on whether or not he has a body) eyes instead of red, a longer neck, and a larger functional mouth with teeth and a blue-green (later red) tongue. He wears a black straw hat, orange scarf, red high-heel boots, a long purple coat with red interior, and a large black belt. Inside his belt holters his tuning sword, while his larger sword is stationed on his back.

## Personality

Despite Scaramouche's bubbly, comedic, and fun-loving demeanor unlike most robots that were sent to kill or assassinate Jack, he is nevertheless a homicidal psychopath who massacred an entire town of innocent people in order to draw Jack's attention. However, to call him evil is inaccurate as he was simply created and programmed such a way by his creator or creators.

He is also cruel. Upon noticing that Jack was without his sword, he proceeded to mock him for it to the point of calling Aku to boast that Jack had lost the weapon. He has a tendency to call anyone he meets as babe or baby, even his boss Aku. He is also extremely arrogant, proclaiming himself as Aku's favorite assassin. This was the case at the time, but his defeat at Jack's hands likely caused him to drop through the ranks, as he is seen to have fallen to Aku's third favorite assassin.

His arrogance would ultimately prove to lead to his defeat, since he lets his guard down long enough for Jack to use his knife (which was imbued by Scaramouche's own magnetic force from his own knife) as a makeshift shrapnel grenade to cripple his neck (the source of his magic).

In the face of possible deactivation, he praises Jack's fighting skill, likely a weak attempt to talk his way out of his fate, before Jack cleaves him in half with his own sword.

His boastful and arrogant behavior continues to become a problem for him as he constantly gets into trouble with other passengers on a ship as well as one of its sailors. When he is stopped by the guard in question (who points out Scaramouche's condition), Scaramouche resolves to using his prideful title as 'Aku's favorite' to get on board. This doesn't work due to his actual current status not being Aku's top assassin, much to his annoyance at having been de-throned. He is also capable of showing shocked or disgusted emotions as well, as he comments on Jack talking to thin air and the creepiness of the head shape of the passenger who helped him sneak aboard.

His 'headliner' status makes him even more arrogant, which is shown when whilst relaxing on a sun chair, he orders what he assumed was a waitress to get him a drink, much to her anger. He is also extremely disdainful, as he insults a group of anthropomorphic dogs by calling them with slurs such as "Rover", "barking" and saying "go get somebody their slippers". This caused his attempt to inform Aku of Jack's loss of his katana to backfire, as their leader threw him overboard

Since the timeline had been altered, most of his personality had remained the same.

## Biography

### Previous Timeline

His origin is unknown, but given his similarities to the discontinued X-Models, it is likely that he was created by Aku's evil scientists. This is supported by the fact that he has a smartphone that allowed him to contact Aku anytime he wishes and an access to his lair.

By the time Jack reaches the plume of smoke, he arrives at a ruined city, filled with rubble and the corpses of its dead citizens. Jack meets the robot assassin Scaramouche, who claims himself to be Aku's most favored assassin and remarks on Jack's nigh-unrecognizable appearance, including the loss of Jack's sword. In a flashback, Jack recalls his signature weapon falling down a pit as he looks in horror. Laughing, Scaramouche declares that Jack is no threat without his sword, and calls Aku on his mobile phone to make a report, but Jack destroys the phone with a thrown kunai.

Somewhat delighted with this turn of events, Scaramouche begins to fight Jack, first by playing a magical flute that forms a golem out of the city's rubble. Jack quickly discovers that Scaramouche can rebuild the golem easily by reanimating more rocks to replace any part he breaks off. Landing among a pile of rocks after destroying the golem, Jack is once again swept up in another hallucination, this time seeing the rocks around him as the children of the city, begging him for help. The mysterious rider, prevalent in his other visions, looks down on the scene. Jack pleads for their understanding, causing Scaramouche to think Jack has gone "beaucoup cuckoo". Coming back to reality with a rock to the face, Jack eventually destroys the flute, but Scaramouche reveals that his voice was the true source of his magic. The robot proves his point by scatting. This impromptu singing animates Scaramouche's sword to continue the fight against Jack.

While Jack barely dodges the sword's attacks, Scaramouche brings out another blade which opens up like a tuning fork, demonstrating its ability to vibrate at a frequency powerful enough to shatter Jack's own knives. As Scaramouche fights Jack to a standstill, he gloats over his victory, but Jack throws his remaining sword at Scaramouche, still vibrating from clashing with the tuning fork sword. The sword explodes at the last second, severely damaging Scaramouche's vocal chord equivalent, leaving him unable to fight. Scaramouche admits defeat as Jack cleaves him in two with Scaramouche's first blade, after which Jack keeps the tuning fork sword for himself as he leaves.

It is revealed that he survived his fight with Jack, but is now decapitated. On waking up, he dances and starts to rejoice whilst singing about his well-being. Upon noticing his broken phone, he remembers the status of Jack's sword and sets off on a mission to contact Aku.

Scaramouche hops his way to Heck's Bucket Seaport (the same one the Scotsman and Jack visited during the latter's amnesia). While celebrating his discovery, he ends up being accidentally kicked down a hill by civilians walking past. As he approaches a docked ship, he is stopped by a hulking sailor guard, who directs Scaramouche to a sign that claims 'No Shirt, No Shoes, No Body - No Entry'. Scaramouche tries to use his status as 'Aku's favorite' to get aboard, only for the sailor to point to another sign showing the current leader-board of Aku's favorites (to which Scaramouche has been relegated to 3rd place). Annoyed by his demotion as a favorite, he resolves to prove himself and starts to look for alternate ways in, such as hiding inside a woman's hair (but being seen and thrown out by the sailor), and placing his head on a dog (a new rule claiming 'No Dog' stops him). Ultimately, he manages to strike a deal with a civilian to combine the assassin's head with the civilian's body. The ruse works and he manages to get on board. He is then reminded by the civilian that he is owed 50 credits, but Scaramouche simply replies that Aku will reward him for the information on Jack's sword. Once the civilian leaves, Scaramouche voices his disgust with the shape of the civilian's head, (humorously) claiming it "looks like a talking penis".

Once aboard the ship, Scaramouche spend his time relaxing, until he mistakes a female passenger for a waitress and commands her to bring him a drink, therefore angering the woman and causing her to kick Scaramouche towards a wall. Recovering from the assault, he notices a conveniently placed phone booth on the ship, and proceeds to call Aku.

As he starts to tell Aku about Jack's sword, Aku responds with a confused voice, unable to hear Scaramouche due to background noise from the other passengers. Scaramouche impatiently orders the passengers to keep their voices down, but ends up offending a group of anthropomorphic dogs, who proceed to throw him overboard.

Some time later, Scaramouche takes control of an octopus and finally arrives at Aku's lair, where he informs the Master of Darkness about Jack losing his sword. As a reward, Aku restores his body and they both dance in celebration.

Unaware that Jack had recovered his sword, Aku and Scaramouche confronted Jack and Ashi, but after seeing Jack with his sword, Aku quickly turned to Scaramouche with anger, and before Scaramouche could explain himself, Aku exploded his head with his eye beam, killing him once and for all. However, in spite of his death, Scaramouche indirectly caused Aku to realize that Ashi was his biological daughter and corrupted her which caused Jack to admit defeat.

### GrimmFall

After Jack finally returned to the past with Ashi's help to kill Aku, Scaramouche’s timeline altered and remained the same. His history and identity before he he became a cyborg is currently unknown, with the exception of it being confirmed he was a master assassin. Scaramouche's cybernetic rebirth or upgrade for lack of a better term is based on the discontinued X-Model Battle Android developed in Russia, Scaramouche was intended as the next step in creating a new and advanced Hunter that incorporates the enhanced strength and speed of a machine with the fly-by-fly thinking of an organic much like Project: GUNDAM, only allowing the subject to retain its Aura and Semblance. Headed by a Chinese scientist named Di Lung the project started by selecting a Huntsman near death or permanently crippled and settled on one that was a master assassin that was nearly killed during a mission. However, unlike Project: GUNDAM that worked by uploading the 'mind' of the
volunteer into a complete machine body this project was aimed at taking the vital organs of the subject such as the brain, nervous system and heart and placing them inside the robotic shell. The procedure was a success, creating the next generation in robotic assassins: Scaramouche.

Unknown to anyone the entire project was authorized by Sammael in order to create a warrior to deal with enemies in the East.

Scaramouch first confirmed sighting in GrimmFall was when he attacked and battled both Superboy and Artemis at the ancient temple. As well as preventing them from going through the portal that would allow them to return home by destroying it.

Around some time in the near late summer, he joined forces with Van Kleiss’ pack alongside Chuck Hector and Hidekazu Kobayashi. Who would also serve as his teammates in his first mission given by Van Kleiss to go the Bagge Farm and captured several targets.

## Powers and Abilities

Scaramouche is remarkably agile. He was able to leap tall structures in a single bound, quickly dodge Atermis and Superboy's attacks. Scaramouche is a master sword fighter, easily holding his own against even the two members of Young Justice, and carries multiple blades on his person, including a heavy scimitar and a special "tuning sword" that destroys objects on contact. Scaramouche appears to understand French, as he taunts them with *au revoir* which is goodbye in the language.

However, he sarcastically remarks it's French for "You're dead, babe." His Aura and metallic body was durable enough to endure a punch from Superboy and his reflexes allow him to stay ahead of his enemies.

### Semblance: **Killer Orchestra**

By singing Scaramouche can emit multiple colored musical notes that are very deadly

Orange Note - Explosive

Green Note - Forms into a twist that grabs onto the enemy

Red Note - Bursts whatever they touch into flame

Yellow - Releases an electrical shock

Whitish Blue - Freezes anything they touch

His power depends on his vocal chords, and he becomes defenseless after Jack damages his neck, nullifying the ability.

## Weapon

**Melodic Massacre** - A 'magical' flute that he can channel his Semblance through, creating golems to attack his enemies..

Note: He also carries knives, a scimitar and specialized tuning fork sword.

## Relationships

### Allies

Sammael - Since Scaramouch is currently seeking to add Sammael's most favorite assassin to his list of titles, it can be implied that he has a lot of respect for his boss.

### Enemies

Superboy - Scaramouch attacked him and Artemis at the ancient temple, and destroyed a possible way back to their home dimension.

Artemis - Scaramouch attacked her and Superboy at the ancient temple, and destroyed a possible way back to their home dimension.

**2B -** Scaramouch fought her in Hong Kong before Summer started in GrimmFall. The fight ended with Scaramouch badly wounded and his spine broken this would lead his current state. When asked by others of how he became a cyborg he would embellish the story and lie about certain parts to make himself look big.

## Background Information

Scaramouch is a recurring antagonist for Samurai Jack season 5.

## Trivia

* He is among the most popular enemies Jack has encountered.
* Scaramouche's name is derived from a stock clown character of the Italian commedia dell'arte.
* Scaramouche's speech pattern is based on late American singer Sammy Davis, Jr.
* His uniform is similar to the one worn by singer Prince.
* Scaramouche was the only known robot enemy that survived his encounter with Jack.
* His phone has a speed dial that allows him to contact Aku immediately. This allows him to communicate with Aku anytime he wishes, while the Cult of Aku have no access to any means to do so.
* Scaramouche is the 4th Villain that Jack encounters who uses music as a weapon. The first being DJ Stylbator, second is Jujunga, third are the Sirens.
	+ His musical power is an allusion to a scene in the movie Kung Fu Hustle, where a harpist plays a song causing weapons to appear and are controlled to how the song is played.
* Scaramouche can apparently still scat despite only his head remaining; it is however not strong enough to levitate even himself or anything else.
* Scaramouche's eyes are no longer blue in XCVII, but rather white.
	+ However while in possession of a dog's body, the "talking penis'" body, a squid's body, and even his own body his eyes reverted to its blue color. This may suggest that his eye color changes based on whether or not he is in possession of a body.
	+ As of XCVII, the color of his tongue changed from greenish-blue to red.
* Scaramouche appears to frequently break the 4th wall in his second appearance by consistently facing the camera and speaking to the audience.
* Scaramouche did not wear pants in his first appearance, displaying bare legs with high-heeled boots under his coat. When his body is reconstructed by Aku, he wears blue pants over his legs..
* Scaramouche shares a couple of similarities with X-49, such as body structure, being robotic assassins with emotions and having an affinity for jazz, but they also have a few differences:
	+ X-49's personality was grim and due to his emotions he actually felt remorse over his actions, was able to love and wanted a humble life. Scaramouche was arrogant, egoistic and felt entitled to be rewarded by Aku for his "headliner" spot.
	+ X-49 played the trumpet and his tunes were melancholic. Scaramouche played the flute and scatted, with his tunes being more cheery and almost dance-like.
	+ X-49 met his ultimate fate due to his desire of saving his loved one (Lulu). Scaramouche met his ultimate fate due to his wishes of being rewarded by Aku and the lack of knowledge that Jack regained his sword which would cost him his life.
* The way in which Scaramouche shouts Aku's name to summon him from his lair is similar to how Jack had done it in the first episode.
* He resembles Kurogasa from the manga and anime series *Rurouni Kenshin*.
* There is an irony in Scaramouche and Jack's personalities since as a robot and human respectively, Scaramouche should in theory be silent while Jack has the ability to talk but rarely does so.
* He was voiced by Tom Kenny, who is best known for his best portrayal as Spyro in the classic *Spyro the Dragon* video game franchise, the Mayor in *Powerpuff Girls*, SpongeBob SquarePants in the *SpongeBob SquarePants* franchise, Dog in *CatDog*, Raimundo Pedrosa in *Xiaolin Showdown*, as well as Ice King in *Adventure Time*.
* He is named after the novel and 1952 film *Scaramouche.*