Jack

Captain Planet

Dr. Fate

The Powerpuff Girls

* Buttercup Utonium

Skeletor

Jack is the titular hero of Samurai Jack and is a major supporting character in AniCity. After defeating the evil demon Aku, he continued to live his now seemingly immortal life helping other heroes and defeating other evil forces before settling down in AniCity he met up with several other heroes to battle against any evil that appears.

## Personality

Jack strongly exhibits the characteristics of a stoic hero. He is unfailingly kind, generous and will always attempt to help those in need, as well as dispatching sage-like wisdom to those he believes are in need of guidance. He has had considerable development during his time in the future. Initially, though polite and refined, he was very quick to anger and even more quick to being frustrated or irritated.

However, over time, he has become much more patient and calm. He is also clever and rational, able to pose a plan/strategy necessary to defeat the enemy in record time while working within his own limits. He is also extremely good at thinking on his feet, often improvising his way out of lethal, or impossibly bizarre, situations. He is also a very solitary man, tending not to socialize due to his focus on his quest. He is also very noble, showing to be honest to others he encountered.

## History

### Pre-Series

After returning home, and still unable to age due to the effects of Aku's portal, Jack kept himself busy by exploring his home once more and readjust to his surroundings. As the years passed him by, he continued to aid others in need, both innocent villagers/townsfolk needing aid and other heroes, and facing down any other evil that rose to do whatever they pleased. One such venture saw him team up with other heroes to defeat the evil hordes of Skeletor.

## Abilities & Weapons

After his home was taken over by Aku, Jack was sent by the plan of his parents to undergo various forms of intensive training by the greatest and most renowned warriors and scholars of the world at his time and became an incredibly skilled and powerful warrior as a result.

* Agelessness/Enhanced Longevity

Due to an unintended side effect of Aku's time-traveling spell, Jack can no longer physically age, potentially able to live indefinitely (obviously indicated by him being alive from ancient Japan to the modern day). As a result, he has also retained his youthful appearance along with his prime health and vitality, despite being in his seventies or eighties, chronologically. However, he's not immortal and is still susceptible to death via starvation, cold, or physical injury. Also, he’s still vulnerable to pain or injuries, and can be killed in the same manner as any normal human would. This longevity doesn't apply to his metabolism as he still requires food, water, and rest. It also doesn’t prevent him from growing out his hair or developing facial hair.

* Animal Empathy

Jack's pure nature has commonly shown a strong connection to animals of various sizes and shapes. Often, they grow attached to and in essence become his allies. To which, he is able to keep them tame enough as a means of transportation. His connection with animals even at times allows him to in a manner of speaking communicate with them, able to understand their intentions.

* Cunning

Jack is very cunning, demonstrating a high level of understanding and intelligence. He proved to be an expert at planning and creating strategies for confrontations, using his surroundings to his advantage, and seeing through Aku's deception on quite a few occasions. This cunning allows him to easily plan for his opponents and make strategies, both ahead of time or in the heat of the moment.

* Hunting/Survival Skills

Living in Aku's world greatly limited the number of places that Jack can visit for a meal, even when he had money. So, Jack tended to live in the wilderness where he had to obtain his own food and water. As such, he is very proficient in hunting, fishing, trapping, foraging, cooking, swimming, and climbing. He also has basic medical skills, and he tends to patch up injuries after his battles. Despite mostly living out in the wild, he still tried to maintain an impeccable level of personal hygiene. One of the lesser shown survival skills that he learned from his mother, is how to repair his own clothing and even fashion hats out of reeds or vines. Though he has proven incapable of fixing his own footwear, as he never learned that skill from any of his teachers or mother. 50 years later, he is shown nursing himself while stitching his critical wound by using a bone needle and some bark fibers.

* Master Archer

Jack has shown to have excellent skills in archery since he was trained by Robin Hood himself.

* Master Marksman

Jack has high levels of precision and accuracy with firearms even at a great distance, rarely missing his target. Jack is shown proficiency in modern weaponry; shown using a handgun after spending 50 years in the future. While he never trained in the use of firearms during his training regimen, he presumably mastered its use in the absence of his sword. He is also skilled in using heavy firearms such as a machine gun with a rocket launcher.

* Master Martial Artist

Jack has shown impressive mastery in martial arts. He has been trained in many different forms of combat by many teachers from all over the world. Some of the styles include the Shaolin Praying Mantis, Tiger and Eagle Claw styles, Greek Wrestling, Southern Fist, Sun Fist, Wushu, Wing Chun, and African Stick Fighting. In his youth, Jack also learned how to use unfamiliar weapons by observing others, and adapting their style into his own skills to use them more effectively as necessary.

* Weapon Master

Jack is well versed in a number of weapons that range from spears and staffs to nunchakus and shurikens. He's also adapted to modern technology, where he relies on firearms, his motorcycle, and a retractable polearm

* Master Swordsmanship

Jack's signature and arguably greatest skill is his performance with a sword. Jack's style relies primarily on swiftness and precision in his strikes, balancing with strong defensive stances that parry his opponent's strikes until finding an opening for a decisive blow. Very few opponents have been demonstrated to be a match for his swordsmanship, among them are The Scotsman, The Ninja, and the sword-wielding Ultra-Robot, and even fewer can outright defeat him, such as The Guardian. His trademark technique is the Tremendous Horse Cut, which he jumps into the air and slashes the opponent with tremendous force during his fall to break their defense or destroy their armor. After 50 years, Jack is shown to use one of the alien creatures' severed appendage as a makeshift sword to kill a number of creatures.

* Vehicle Intuition

Originally, Jack possessed no familiarization with transportation vehicles. Later, he is shown to know how to ride a motorcycle after 50 years in the future.

* Multilingual

Due to his travels around the world in his native era, Jack was taught by many different cultures, including African, Greek, Russian, Mongolian, English, and more. Presumably, he learned the local languages and dialects of his teachers during this time period, as international tongues were rare in his period of history. He even learned the Egyptian language during his training with the Egyptian priests.

* Ninjutsu

Jack has had training in ninjutsu, having been trained to blend in with his surroundings. His preferred style is to blend in with the light. He does this by simply reversing his kimono so that he is dressed in white, and tying white bandages around his face, hands, and feet, after which he employs his training. 50 years later, he is even able to blend even with little clothing to disguise himself with as well as being able to blend with the snow environment as his advantage to kill two Daughters of Aku.

* "Jump Good"/ Incredible Leaping

In exchange for teaching a tribe of primate men how to defend themselves against bandit's, Jack was physically conditioned and taught how to leap at impeccable high distances and heights.

* Peak Human Conditioning

From spending the majority of his life preparing to face Aku and constantly facing adversity in his quest to return home, Jack has honed his body to the absolute limit of human potential. Given the fact he no longer ages and maintains a healthy lifestyle, he probably will remain that way for the foreseeable future.

* Peak Human Agility

Jack is extremely agile and he often uses this agility to his advantage against any opponent. He can easily do back-flips to avoid danger and land on his feet with ease.
* Peak Human Endurance

Jack has shown many times to be resistant to harm. He withstood powerful blows from inhumanly strong opponents relatively unfazed and being slammed through rocks only to quickly brush it off. Even with injures he does sustain, he has a high threshold for pain, able to continue fighting with no hindrance to his performance. He has even survived falls from great heights that would kill a normal person. Jack also has an unfathomable reserve of stamina. In addition to rarely tiring, even after such, he is shown able to fight off hundreds of opponents for days and still able to move and survive despite losing a lot of blood as seen in Episode XCIV.
* Peak Human Senses

Jack's years of training have honed his senses to surreal levels. Due to fully mastered his senses, he has the ability to fight on any level. With them, he is highly alert to any approaching threat and likewise is able to quickly react to even the fastest of opponents. With his sense of hearing alone, he was able to defeat the Blind Archers, taking in the whole environment to consistently steps ahead of the three archers.
* Peak Human Speed

Jack is shown to be extremely swift. With his natural reflexes and sheer footwork, he is able to avoid gunfire, carve through entire armies within seconds, and even defeat a team composed entirely of highly skilled bounty hunters from all directions in the time it takes for a drop of water to hit the ground. He has also demonstrated the ability to use his sword to deflect bullets from a gatling gun with little effort.
* Jack’s Katana

Jack’s signature weapon is his mighty katana, a mystical sword forged by Ra, Odin, and Vishnu to vanquish Aku and any who choose the side of evil.

* Kenshin Sword

Jack holds in his dojo the sword from one of his old friends, fellow samurai Kenshin Himura, after his death.

## Relationships

### The Justice League

Jack is an honorary member of the Justice League that is respected by all seven of the League’s core members, and he in turn respects them.

## Notes

Jack’s story here follows the events of his home series’ finale, with him taking up a role in this series similarly to Regular Show’s own Skips, where he’s one of the world’s oldest warriors, made all the wiser due to his seemingly immortal life span. Unlike Skips though, Jack still maintains his status as a hero from his home series and will often (not all the time, but quite often) go off on "quests" to help others around the world.

Jack and Buttercup's relationship in this series is mainly based off of the Green Powerpuff's dynamic with the wise old monk from the episode "Makes Zen to Me", with him acting as a mentor to the PPGs' toughest fighter to help her control her inner rage. Though similarly to how the Chipettes have a role based off of the character of Robin Snyder but greatly expanded, this is the case for Jack here as he generally acts as a secondary mentor to all the girls and giving them guidance & advice when they feel lost, Buttercup especially still.