Big Jack Horner

### Goals

Collect and steal anything that is magic and things that are in the fairy tale stories and storage them into his office as his trophies (succeeded).
Reach the Wishing Star by any means necessary and use it to control all magic in existence.
Take away the rest of the magic from anyone else so that nobody will have any magic whatsoever but only him.
Kill Puss in Boots, Kitty Softpaws and anyone else who stands in his way.
Maintain his criminal empire and continue gaining power and causing chaos across the world by enhancing the magical powers within him. (all failed).

### Most Entertaining Features

Being portrayed in a memorable way through his comedic scenes.
Being a parody of modern-day villains.

### Most Detestable Traits

Being an irredeemable villain and embracing it.
Constantly mistreating his allies, which eventually leads to his downfall.

### Type of ED

Power-Hungry Crime Lord

**Big Jack Horner**, formerly known as **Little Jack Horner**, is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 43rd full-length animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, a spin-off of the Shrek franchise and the sequel to both *Puss in Boots* and *Shrek Forever After*, as well as an unseen antagonist in the short *Puss in Boots: The Trident*.

He is a feared pastry chef and crime lord who has a history of stealing various magical items, creatures and people ever since he was snubbed of fairy-tale fame. Horner plots to reach the Wishing Star in order to enact his wish to harness all of the magic on the planet, racing against Puss in Boots and Goldilocks for the wish.

He was voiced by John Mulaney.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* He provides comedy throughout the whole movie, always having a humorous attitude and treating his own irredeemability as a joke, designed to make the audience enjoy hating him and yet be entertained by his villainy at the same time.
	+ Furthermore, Jack is a parody of both Pure Evil and three-dimensional villains in modern media, with many considering his role as an irredeemable villain as a breath of fresh air after considering the current trend of villains being redeemable or complex to be repetitive, as he is a completely evil villain who nevertheless has a personality that makes him enjoyable to watch.
* Despite his clumsiness and being defeated by his own foolish decisions, he still demonstrates intelligence and resourcefulness; being a crime boss in charge of organized crime, collecting many magical artifacts to use as trophies and using them (and his henchmen, at the expense of their lives) for his own advantage.
* He never loses his composure, always remaining with his usual attitude even when others are literally dying around him.
* He is fully aware of his villainy, mocking the Ethical Bug for not noticing it sooner and acknowledging that he's committed many crimes when he asked what he did specifically to deserve his death before sinking into the Wishing Star.
* He has many memorable moments throughout the movie that have spawned memes, such as when he nonchalantly says that he will shoot Perrito in the face after the Ethical Bug pleads him not to, calling the Ethical Bug an idiot after failing to recognize that he was irredeemable sooner, and his last words asking what he did specifically to deserve his death.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He is a wholly evil villain with no redeeming qualities, and revels in it while mocking anyone who tries to see the good in him.
* He tries to shoot Perrito in the face, and when the Ethical Bug tries to discourage him from doing so, Jack casually expresses that he will.
* He abuses his own allies for his own gain, such as sacrificing the lives his Baker's Dozen in order to progress, using the Phoenix as a flamethrower to burn the plants and flicking away the Ethical Bug after calling him an idiot for trying to redeem him, which caused the latter two to betray him.
* He wanted to use the Wishing Star to control all magic in existence, which would cause chaos all over the world.
* His reason for wishing to cause chaos all over the world is extremely petty , as he did this only because magical creatures upstaged him as a kid.
* He’s completely uncaring of his loving parents, as he calls them useless.
* He constantly performs kick-the-dog acts on his allies (which result in his downfall) and even rips the horns off baby unicorns.

## Trivia

* His novelization counterpart does not count, due to having most of his entertaining qualities adapted out and being wholly portrayed a Hate Sink instead.

## External Links

* Big Jack Horner on the Villains Wiki
* Big Jack Horner on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki

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