Jack Hanma

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character and is therefore not canon to Glad you Came.

**Jack Hanma** (ジャック 範馬, *Jakku Hanma*) is a fictional character from the Baki the Grappler series. He's a pitfighter from Canada and the son of Yuujirou Hanma and Diane Neil, a Canadian United Nations operative who Yuujirou met during the Vietnam War. Like his brother, Baki Hanma, he has since childhood wished to surpass his father in strength and martial ability. In the English dub of the second anime series, his name has been changed to Jack Xamma because of dub issues (pronounced "Zah-mah").

His ringname is **Jack Hammer** (ジャック・ハンマー, *Jakku Hanmā*). In the fifth manga series, he is also known as the "Biting Cyborg" (噛みつき サイボーグ, *Kamitsuki Saibōgu*).

## Personality

Jack's driving force is wanting to defeat his father, Yuujirou Hanma, to avenge his mother who was raped by him. After taking super steroids that made himself beyond unstable, Jack turned into a monster without balance who only cares about becoming stronger to take revenge.

Jack is an incredibly determined and stubborn person; he just doesn't know when to quit. His overtraining would be suicidal, if not for a mad scientist's steroid cocktails being part of his regimen. He's had his skeleton surgically restructured multiple times to get bigger. Even having half his face bitten off by Pickle and waking up in the hospital twice, the second time from a severe coma, he still gets up and goes right back to it. Also, it can be said that he is sometimes too confident in his strength. He trains too much for his body to handle, forcing him to resort to steroids and other medical methods in order to keep his strength growing steadily. He is too obsessed with beating Yuujirou and avenging his mother, to the point where he is blinded by that dream. He doesn't know many techniques and often fights head-on. Jack doesn't care if he has to sacrifice his own life to achieve his goal, saying that he's always been prepared to die if he gets a body strong enough to defeat his father.

He refuses to hold back against his opponents; and, speaking of behavior, he prefers to act like a wild animal rather than a true fighter, as especially shown how he bites his opponents during their fights, making him even more animalistic. Jack can indeed seem very frightening to his enemies: for example, he startled Pickle after Jack lost to him, because there is nothing in the wild that prepared the caveman to the sight of a prey seemingly coming back from the dead for a rematch. He almost out-savaged Pickle during their fight and the caveman came to see him as a wasp, the only creature he fears.

He sees his brother, Baki Hanma, as a rival, but also likes and cares for him deep in his heart as they have the same goal in surpassing Yuujirou. Following his defeat at the hands of Baki, he became more humble and amicable towards his half-brother. He learned to calm down and grow friendlier towards others. He also has perfect table manners and sometimes feeds the koi with little old man Tokugawa. Jack also seems to have some feelings for his younger brother's girlfriend, Kozue. When he first meet her in the Maximum Tournament, he flirted with her, although he might have only done this to provoke his brother.

Jack's intelligence is relatively average. Although he has shown himself to be a bit of a combat genius from time to time (as he was able to counter Shibukawa's Aiki). This is likely due to his lineage as a Hanma and the son of Yuujirou.

After being defeated by Izou Motobe, Jack reforms himself and understands he will never be as strong as he wanted, focusing only in brute force. He understood that he needs to learn more fighting. Therefore, he created an original fighting style "Goudou", which consists in using his signature move: biting. Jack now looks more mature, calmed and composed. Tokugawa pointed out that Jack has learned from his defeats and has changed for the better.