Jim Lake Jr.

* Human
* Troll

**Jim Lake Jr.**is one of the three main protagonists of the *Tales of Arcadia* franchise (along with Aja Tarron and Douxie Casperan), appearing as the main protagonist of *Trollhunters* and its film, *Rise of the Titans*, a minor character in *3Below*, and a major character in *Wizards*.

Jim is the current and last and only human Trollhunter and in a relationship with Claire Nuñez, whom he began dating at the end of season 2, the son of Barbara Lake, the best friend of Toby Domzalski, and the surrogate son of Blinky Galadrigal.

## Biography

### Background

When Jim was five years old, his father left him and his mother, supposedly with a girlfriend in New Jersey He knew Toby Domzalski since childhood, becomiing best friends. He eventually gained a crush on Claire Nuñez.

### *Trollhunters*

#### Part 1

However, after losing AAARRRGGHH!!!, Jim summons the Power of eclipse and travels into the darklands alone so he does not lost anyone else.

### *3Below*

#### Part 1

##### Lightning in a Bottle

Jim's role remains the same as his role in "In Good Hands," but this episode is told from Aja's and Krel's point of view. Aja mistakes Jim's amulet for her missing serrator before realizing that it is actually his.

It was the last episode to feature Jim as a human in "3Below" for his human form was returned in the final episode of *Wizards*.

##### Last Night on Earth

Jim is briefly seen by Aja, who immediately recognizes him as Jim. They glance at each other for one minute before resuming the fight against Morgana's forces.

#### Part 2

##### Race to Trollmarket

He later made a brief appearance in "Race to Trollmarket," where he and Blinky are contacted by Toby when he and the Tarron siblings inquire about Trollmarket. He sees Aja and Krel and asks how they are doing while fighting a masked creature as Blinky gives them instructions in finding the core they are searching for before the line goes out.

## Personality

At the start of the series, James Lake Jr. was an ordinary teenaged boy. However he wished to have a life that was more exciting than the one he led. When Jim first became a Trollhunter, he was unwilling to take responsiblity of this title.

Jim is somewhat of a mother's boy because he is constantly looking out for her. Toby points out that Jim mothers Barbara too much. Even Barbara says that she is the one who is supposed to take care of him and protect him, Jim says that they need to look out for each other since Jim's no good father abandoned his family.

Due to the absence of a father,  Jim instead saw Blinky as a surrogate father, and Blinky in turn sees Jim as a magnificent son. He also briefly considered Strickler as a father figure before it was revealed he was a Changeling and tried to kill Jim and his friends multiple times.

He could also be somewhat overprotective of his family and friends, as he does not tell his mother of his new Trollhunting duties. After losing AAARRRGGHH!!! to Angie Rot, Jim went into the Darklands by himself to because he didn't want to lose anybody else.Despite being overprotective and a little bumbling, he knows when he can't accomplish things without help from his team. It's also something he's been learning to overcome, particularly after his dream sequence from Unkar the Unfortunate.

Jim is also a bit of the jealous type since he hated it when Douxie flirted with Claire and when she giggled at his witty comments.

When Jim first became a troll, he was excited about his newfound abilities. However, he found himself hating his new transformation after a group of trolls called him "troll" and insisted he was human. Jim found it more difficult, as he couldn't walk in the sun and could not go to school or eat proper dinner with his mother anymore. Strickler mentions that it is difficult for Jim because he was handling both human and troll emotions simultaneously. Jim explains his worries to his friends on the rooftop of the school. However, Jim's friends and family convince him that while he cannot due things he did as a human, they still love, care and support him the way he is now. Afterwards, Barbara is relieved and Strickler tells her that her son is going to be alright.

Jim is also very protective of his girlfriend, Claire Nuñez. He had a major crush on her but Toby and Strickler point out that Jim never actually talked to her and watches her from afar. When he first actually talked to Claire, he came off as nervous but Claire immediately warmed up to Jim after watching his audition. She came to view him as one of her closest friends and later, her boyfriend in season 2.

## Physical Appearance

Throughout the series, Jim is at the ages of fifteen and sixteen. According ot his mugshot, heis 5'0" but grew a foot after becoming a half-troll. As a h uman, Jim had brown hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and wore a blue sweater, jeans and white tennis shoes. In his Trollhunter form, he has light blue armor on and wears a large, blue stone-sword on his back.

After becoming half-troll, Jim grew fangs, his skin turned blue and his hair changed from brown to black and grew longer.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Powers

* **Above-Average Physiology**: Jim (when still human) is slightly stronger and more durable than an average teenager.
	+ **Enhanced Durability**: Thanks to his magical armor, Jim has been seen taking hits that would have almost certainly broken an ordinary person's bones, as well as withstanding Bular's crushing grip. In "Bittersweet Sixteen", he has even withstood a high-altitude lightning strike, which was sufficient enough to kill a Stalkling and would have severely injured, if not killed, an ordinary human.
	+ **Strength**: Jim was shown strong enough to knock Steve out cold with one punch, all while knocking out a tooth as well.
	+ **Reflexes**: Even before training, Blinky comments that Jim has excellent reflexes. He was able to avoid a blade from the ground by quickly rolling and running away, despite being in (extreme) close range.
* **Human-Troll Hybrid Physiology**: After using Merlin's elixir potion, Jim has become a hybrid of human and troll, which granted him greater strength, speed, durability, stamina, senses, agility, and reflexes, to where he defeated Angor Rot and Gunmar simultaneously. Merlin even claims that Jim is now capable of preforming feats beyond that of a human and troll.
	+ **Superhuman Strength**: Jim's strength was enhanced to the point he could hurtle Gunmar into a building with nothing but his might, as well as knocking him several feet away with a rookie. He is also able to tackle AAARRRGGHH!!! a few feet away.
	+ **Superhuman Endurance**: Jim can endure more than an average human or troll.
		- **Superhuman Durability**: Thanks to his new stone skin, Jim's durability was increased to where he could withstand many of Morgana's deadly spells, managing a nosebleed (which is human red, instead of purple or green like other trolls and changelings). When AAARRRGGHH!!! punched Jim, he openly claimed that "[he] didn't feel a thing."
		- **Superhuman Stamina**: Jim can now physical exert himself for long periods of time without wearing himself out.
	+ **Superhuman Speed**: Jim is fast enough to out-run Claire and her Shadow Staff, even appearing as a blur. Claire even claims that Jim was moving so fast during their chase that she lost track of him.
		- **Superhuman Reflexes**: He is able to react to most attacks with incredible ease. He was able to easily evade every single strike from Claire, as well as Gunmar and Angor Rot’s.
	+ **Superhuman Agility**: Jim is much more agile than an average human or troll.
		- **Superhuman Leaping**: As a half-troll, Jim can jump higher and farther than a normal troll.
	+ **Superhuman Senses**: Jim's senses of smell, sight, and sound are much more acute than an average human's.
	+ **Matter Indigestion**: As a half-troll, Jim is capable of consuming and digesting any substance without any problems. However, he has sadly lost his appetite for most human food, especially his own.
	+ **Semi-Immortality**: As a half-troll, Jim most likely now possesses a troll's ability to live for hundreds of years without aging, but is still vulnerable to being killed.
* **Magical Weaponry**: After being chosen by the Amulet of Daylight, Jim is able to summon his armor and weapons by chanting "For the glory of Merlin, Daylight is mine to command!", although sometimes he is shown activating the amulet without speaking the incantation since it also reacts to his emotional state. Jim is able to manipulate his armor in any way he desires, including his sword, glaives, shield, and helmet. After his transformation into a half-troll, the armor appears to have permanently attached itself to his body. However, as explained by one of the show’s writers, this is because Jim is under a massive emotional turmoil that his amulet has locked him in his armor and is trying to protect him until he ever felt "safe".
	+ **Sword Conjuring**: Jim is able to summon Daylight (including his Eclipse Blade), as well as willing the sword to return to his hand in combat or switching hands.
	+ **Glaive Conjuring**: After cleaving the Birthstone, Jim gains the ability to summon two glaives from his thighs, which act a lot like boomerangs and respond to his command.
	+ **Shield Conjuring**: After faceting the Killstone, Jim gains the ability to summon a warrior's shield on his left forearm, which protects him from most attacks.
	+ **Helmet Conjuring**: After compressing the Eye of Gunmar, Jim gains the ability to summon a large helmet, which protects him from lethal damage and Gunmar's Decimaar Blade. He can also open and close it with his thoughts.
* **Supernatural Detection** (via Amulet): With his amulet, Jim is able to detect any supernatural creatures, but limited if they are around his area. However, given the amulet responses differently with Jim (due to being human), this ability is usually unreliable and/or unpredictable. As revealed in "Hero with a Thousand Faces", Hunter Jim once used the amulet to literally scan certain areas which would alert him of any potential foes.
* **Camouflage**: With the Eclipse Armor, Jim can blend himself within darkness, which makes him appear almost invisible in the dark (especially during the night or in the Darklands). In fact, as described by Jim in A Brief Recapitulation of Troll Lore Volume 48, the armor acts a lot like a stealth suit. In the book Welcome to the Darklands, Jim was able to hide himself from a mindless Antramonstrum by willingly his armor's red engravings to dim and hide his head with his shield.
* **Wall Walking** (briefly): In the episode "Hero with a Thousand Faces", Jim was briefly able to walk on vertical surfaces through the use of an unknown stone, previously used by Araknak the Agile. He had to keep his focus in order to stay on the surface so if he loses concentration, he would fall.
* **Duplication** (briefly): In the episode "Hero with a Thousand Faces", Jim was briefly able to summon clones of himself (though in different aspects of his personality) through the use of the Aspectus Stone, previously used by Maddrux the Many. However, he had no control over his own clones, like Hunter Jim.
* **Counteracting Angor Rot's Magics**: After cutting Angor's eye and placing it into his amulet, Jim gains the ability to ward off his magics. He also regains possession of Daylight from Angor.

#### Abilities

* **Charisma**: It has been stated by others (Blinky, in particular) that Jim's greatest strength is his humanity and love for others, no matter the cost. It has allowed him to inspire others to find greatness in themselves and come to his aid whenever possible. Even some of his enemies have been inspired by his sense of honor, like Strickler and Nomura. Even after becoming half-troll, it appears that this trait has not diminished at all. He reminds Angor Rot of the hero he used to be before he became Morgana's slave, which convinced him to turn against her and give the Trollhunters the opening they need to seal her away for good.
	+ **Indomitable Will**: Jim has a strong sense of will, as he is greatly determined to save his loved ones no matter what, even if odds are close to none. His strong will was most notably shown when he resists Gunmar's cursed blade to where he was deemed almost-to-completely immune to its brainwashing effects.
* **Swordsman**: After training with Draal, Jim is an accomplished swordsman, able to hold off against Nomura, Strickler, and even Bular himself. Jim's fighting style is somewhat chaotic, but he uses his agility to outsmart larger and stronger foes and get behind their guard. Jim's proficiency has extended beyond Daylight as well, as he is able to parry Angor Rot's attacks with his newly discovered daggers, hold off Nomura using only a frying pan in his house, and fight Strickler with a fork and knife. After his transformation into a half-troll, his swordsmanship has increased to where he could fight Gunmar and Angor Rot blade-to-blade.
* **Martial Artist**: Although Jim had no formal training in martial arts, he was instructed in the art of hand-to-hand combat by Blinky and Draal. While he relies on his sword for most attacks, Jim has been shown to improvise punches and kicks in combat. It is most likely that he has been taught some techniques from his mother, as she is an orange-belt in Krav-Maga, prior to becoming a Trollhunter.
* **Cooking**: Jim is an accomplished cook, making meals for himself and his mother while she works since she is a terrible cook herself. Toby and Strickler have both praised his cooking. Even after he became a troll hybrid, he was still shown to be a terrific cook (despite not being able to taste his own food anymore).
* **Adaptor**: Jim is a noticeably fast learner, as he learned how to wield Daylight, with some help from Draal, in mere moments.
	+ **Survivalism**: After months of training with trolls, Jim gains remarkable knowledge of how to survive on his own, as he was able to live in the Darklands for nearly two weeks in spite of having little-to-no resources. He could hunt, lure out, and trick monsters out of their dens while in search for food and avoid being detected by Gumm-Gumms, goblins, Dictatious, and even Gunmar for weeks, at least until he finally finds Enrique.
* **Tactician**: As the de facto leader of his group, Jim is usually the one who comes up with the strategies. Although most of his plans have been foiled, such as when Strickler anticipated his attempt to send Toby, Blinky, and AAARRRGGHH!!! into his office, Jim has a knack for improvising situations to complete his missions.
* **Actor**: In the first half of Part One, Jim is shown to be a fairly decent actor, despite never being on stage once. He was even able to land the part of Romeo for the school play (although his chronic tardiness briefly reduced him as an understudy for a time).
* **Faceting/Cleaving**: Although only used during his hunt for the Triumbric Stones, Jim has been seen carving and cutting the Birthstone perfectly under the direction of Vendel, the Killstone and the Eye of Gunmar by himself, and the Eye of Angor Rot under the direction of Strickler.

## Weaknesses

As a troll, Jim is unable to walk in the sunlight but it is unknown if he will completely turn to stone if he steps into direct sunlight.

## Relationships

### Toby Domzalski

Jim and Toby have been best friends since kindergarten, where they were both 5 years old and eventually, had a brotherly relationship. Toby is very supportive of Jim when he first became the Trollhunter. To prove his friendship, Toby accepted Jim as a half-troll, meaning he didn't care what his friend looked like as long as he was himself.

### Claire Nuñez

True Love/Girlfriend Jim had a not so secret crush on Claire, which she was apparently oblivious to, according to Toby, she barely knows Jim exists. However, when they begin to rehearse for Romeo and Juliet, Claire developed a crush with him, implying sure may have harbored romantic feelings for each other. However, their relationship as friends are briefly strained after he had acted like a jerk to her during one of their dress rehearsals. When he told her about Goblins and the trolls existing, Claire first thought he was insane until she saw Goblins actually attacking them. She immediately apologized to him and refused to abandon Jim when he told her to run as he fended off the trolls. Claire grew very worried for Jim when he had to be taken to the hospital after his fight with the Goblins and Nomura and stayed with him all night. In the end of the first half of part 1, Claire decided that she and Jim would work together to rescue their brother.

Their relationship began growing at the end of the second half of season one, especially because Jim promised to help rescue Enrique and also Blinky noticed their affections for each other. Claire also asked him to their spring dance and Jim accepted. They had their first dance in the penultimate season 1 episode and nearly kissed until Claire realized in horror that Angor stole her key to Trollmarket. Claire tried convincing Jim not to leave for the Darklands by himself, but Jim is doing this to protect Claire and their other friends. When Jim was trapped in the Darklands, Claire did whatever it took to bring him back.

They officially began dating in the latter half of season 2, where she finally called him her boyfriend and she refused to leave him in his darkest times of need.

Even after Jim was turned into a half-troll, Claire accepts him for who he is now, not caring what he looked like and commented that it "was not that bad." When they were chasing each other in the woods, Jim gave her a small kiss but Claire, despite liking it, told him that they did not have time to kiss because they were training. When Jim stated he couldn't stand not being half-troll, Claire tells Jim that his friends and family love him and are there to support him. Claire proves her eternal love for Jim by loving who he was, stating he was the same Jim on the outside. She went even further as to joining him with his quest to relocating a new Hearthstone in Hoboken, New Jersey. along with her parents' reluctant approval, as long as they come back to visit often.

### Blinky Galadrigal

Surrogate Father

Blinky became the first troll to ever train the very first human Trollhunter Jim Lake Jr and saw his student's potential to (eventually) becoming the greatest Trollhunter to ever love. However, Jim was afraid of Blinky and AAARRRGGHH!!! when he first met them and thought he was incapable of protecting both human and troll worlds until Blinky inspired him to take on the responsibility. Overtime, they established a strong student/mentor relationship and according to Strickler, Jim sees his mentor as his surrogate father. Blinky later gave him a disessembled Vespa that he always wanted , something Jim claimed to be the best birthday present he could ever ask for.

The father-son relationship is established in "Jimhunters," where Blinky, despite Jim's new appearance as a half troll, reveals he sees him as a warrior, a friend and a worthy son and accepts him for what he is. When Jim went back in time with his other friends, he was surprised to see past Blinky was a coward prior to meeting AAARRRGGHH!!! It is taken further in the film finale, when Blinky calls Jim his son, again establishing their father-son relationship.

### AAARRRGGHH!!!

Jim was first scared of Argh when they first met, mostly because the human was introduced to the supernatural community and even blacked out. Argh also made Jim feel slightly uncomfortable when he told the new Trollhunter that The only protege blinky had died on his first night of patrol: Unkar the Unfortunate. However, Argh became one of Jim's closest friends, as he saved him from falling off the pedestals when training and when the Stalkling dropped him. When Usurna visited, she revealed that Argh was dying from the Sun Poison Angor Rot inflicted on him. Jim and everyone else was devastated to hear this. At the end of Part 1, Jim was devastated to see Argh die at Angor Rot's hands. After Argh was Resurrected, Jim was proud to learn this.

Though Argh is not as close as him as he is with Toby, the older troll sees Jim as another brother, calling him "Troll brother" after Jim was turned into a human-troll hybrid.

### Draal

Initially, Draal and Jim did not get along, especially since the former of the two felt he was supposed to be the next Trollhunter. The two sparred with each other with both arguments and weapons. However, after Jim spared Draal's life, the troll immediately decided to protect Jim, his house and his mother. They share a bond similar to Toby's and AAARRRGGHH!!!'s in the series. However, Draal was killed by Angor Rot, while protecting Jim causing the teenager to mourn his friend's loss.
Jim eventually avenged Draal when he killed Gunnar and proclaimed "For Draal!"

### Aja Tarron

Despite only knowing each other for a short time, Jim became very close with each other. They both bonded that they both had responsiblities and training to be a warrior. Aja and Jim were sadden to learn that they would not remember each other after their first meeting. The episode explains that they don't remember each other and explains their first "meeting" in "Lightning in a Bottle."

Jim also was not surprised to find out that Aja and her brother were aliens and talked to them casually as if they were old friends.

### Steve Palchuk

Steve is Jim's former bully at school and his current ally. In *Trollhunters*, Steve begins to bully him when he intervenes to defend Eli from his bullying, and challenges him to a fight. After Jim knocked out his tooth, Steve planned to get revenge on his rival (e.g. take away his role as Romeo in the school play, compete with him for the Spring Fling King). When Jim is in the Darklands and his friends cover up his absence by saying that he had the "Jim Lake Disease", Steve suspects that Jim is hiding something. Steve and Eli investigate for their own and assume that Jim is part of an evil supernatural plan, but then realize that he's really Arcadia's protector. After discovering Jim's double life, Steve has come to respect him and let go of his hatred for him.

In *Wizards*, the two have become mutual allies, and Steve even showed concern for Jim on more than one occasion, and was visibly relieved that he regained his human form upon being freed from his half-troll spell.

### Eli Pepperjack

**Classmate and Good Friend**

Jim was the only person who has defended Eli from Steve's bullying and locker-stuffing, which is why Eli came to admire him. When he heard about Jim's supposed illness, Eli was worried about Jim's health and even hugged him happily when he saw him return to school. However, when Eli and Steve investigate the supernatural in Arcadia, they come to the conclusion that Jim is a danger and try to stop him, but end up discovering that he is actually a good guy. After Eli and Steve help Heartstone Trollmarket by bringing umbrellas for the trolls, Eli asks Jim for explanations about the trolls.

### Douxie Casperan

**Good Friends/Like Brothers**

Despite their somewhat rivalry in Trollhunters, Part 3, Douxie and Jim form a brotherly relationship. Jim is also a bit of the jealous since he saw Douxie interact with Claire, and it was apparent that Douxie was flirted with his girlfriend. However, Jim did leave tips for Douxie when he worked at the cafe, which the young wizard appreciated. Despite their limited interactions, Douxie and Jim began interacting more in Wizards. When it became clear that Douxie loved Claire like the sister he never had, Jim let go of his dislike of the young wizard.

After learning from Merlin that when the crew gets back to the future, the shard in Jim will further corrupt him, leaving Douxie in fear for his friend. After Jim is under the Green Knight's control, Douxie vows to free his friend from The Arcane order, despite Merlin's claims that Jim is long gone. After he dies as a troll, Claire begins crying, but Jim shreds off the stone and has been restored human once more. When Douxie leaves Arcadia to protect Nari from the Arcane Order, he promises Jim and the others that he'll return to visit them soon.

In the film finale, Douxie often shows concern for Jim's well-being as he's aware he's been through a lot, and after what King Arthur and the Order did to Jim, it really traumatized him. He warns Jim of using his future knowledge if he ever time travels to prevent Toby from dying.

## Navigation

**Jim Lake**• Aja Tarron • Douxie • Tobias "Toby" Domzalski • Krel Tarron • Blinky Galadrigal • Claire Nuñez • AAARRRGGHH!!! • Eli Pepperjack • Steve Palchuk • Varvatos Vex •  Archie  • Luug • Mother
**Villains:**
 Angor Rot  •  Bular  •  Dictatious Galadrigal  •  Gunmar  •  Kubritz  •  Angor Rot  •  Bular  •  Dictatious Galadrigal  •  Gunmar  •  Kubritz  • Morgana •  Otto Scaarbach  •  Usurna  •  Val Morando  •  Zeron Alpha  •  Zeron Omega
**Recurring characters**:
 Barbara Lake •  Draal •  Walter Strickler •  Mary Wang •  Darci Scott •  Coach Lawrence •  Coranda Tarron •  Fialkov Tarron •  Gnome Chompsky •  Javier Nuñez •  Kanjigar the Courageous •  Karl Uhl •  Lenora Janeth •  Loth Saborian  • Merlin •  Nancy Domzalski •  Nomura •  NotEnrique •  Ophilia Nuñez •  Unkar the Unfortunate •  Vendel •  Zadra  •  Louis Scott
Races
Akiridions • Humans • Dogs (Akiridion) • Trolls • Half-Trolls• Changelings • Goblins •  Gumm-Gumms  • Hellheetis • Wizards
Affiliations
Team Trollhunters • The Janus Order • Zeron Brotherhood • House Tarron