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Between this entry, this discussion, the Memetic Mutation entry, and the people who commented on this YouTube showing of my cartoon I've got to charter a BUS. Believe it or not!!
Come on now, you want me to believe that just by typing Candle Jack, I'll get k
There are SOME people who can say the name of this guy without getting caught...Even CJ can't stand up to Chuck Nor
Oh come on, thats just ridiculous. Its not like an acronym of His name will
Fakes. Initials are a perfectly valid way to refer to Mr. CJ. Only actually typing Candle Jack will cause a kidn
Mark Z: Can we nuke this page?
Hey, Its not like everyone says the name. You can easily go sentences without saying Candlejack. HA, I finis
Universalperson: Can't Kamina kick this guy's butt?
32_Footsteps: Where did he go? I think Candle Jack alre
Meems: This is ridiculous; can't anyone get through a sentence without saying Candle Jack? ...oh sh
ccoa: I really don't think this goes in with the Villains tropes. Perhaps with internet memes or something.
So It Begins: Back oars, did this mean that Candle Jack killed the wiki software? Because other wise, it would have automatically finished the "Descri
nayhem: Silly troper, software isn't people. Candle Jack is a kidnapper, not a hac
Ronnie: You know, Crazy Harry from the Muppet Show actually had a similar gimmick. Any time anyone said a word like dynamite, he'd-
Did SOMEBODY say Dynamite?
*KABOOM!*
*KAAAABBOOOOOOM!!!!*
SynjoDeonecros: I agree with the sentiment of this being an Overused Running Gag. Seriously, first of all, it's a stupid internet meme that gets really distracting, whether it's written or said. Second, Candle Jack looks like a frickin' Scarecrow reje
Nornagest: Seconded.
Document N: I figured everyone just waited for Freakazoid to free them. He is the guy's designated nemesis, unlike Kamina. (Is that a trope?)
Cassius335: Frankly, once you've seen Ghostfreak's true form, Candle Jack ain't so sca
Scrounge: Yes, but that's hardly the point of the meme. Nobody ever said Candlejack was actually scary, just that he'd grab you if you sai
Cassius335: Have you had your Weetabix? Scrounge hasn't.
Vert: Seems that some people can't take a fun joke. After all, this is just for fun, no diferent from the Avatar And The Airbending Fellowship Of Vampire Slayers page (although less complex). Anyway, I have a fullproof plan: just call him by his anagramed name, Jecda Clanke and he can't possib
That might have worked if you hadn't PotHoled his name in.
Vifetoile: Hear hear! Let it be Just for Fun. Oh, and Vert, wherever you are, the answer is "Oh Yes He Can." However, a line should probably be drawn. Pronouns? Now that's just silly. Anagrams? May want to watch out.
Nornagest: No joke is funny the hundredth time you see it, and this Candle Jack business is no exception.
Inkblot: Agreed.
Pikawil: But I find this joke funny the billionth time I see it!
Candle Jack: Yes, please stop. I've had to buy a freaking 747 to have room for all the tropers I've kidna
Starscream: Wait, you're Candlejack, you can't kidnap yourse
Nornagest: God, I hate 4Chan memes. Especially when people start editing my contributions to a discussion page in service to them — that really ain't cool, okay?
MrRandom: Wait, if Candlejack kidnapped himself, that means he can't kidnap us anymore! We're FRE
The Sandman: Meh, everybody knows he's actually just Itoshiki Nozomu in disguise. Think about it: the rope, the habit of wanting to take people with him when he goes, the unclear and ill-conceived plans... Candlejack is obviously in desp
SynjoDeonecros: (Returns from being "kidnapped", beaten and bloody, dragging the hung corpse of the ghoul by his own ropes behind him) You're telling me, Nornagest. By the way, if you're going to kidnap someone solely for the purpose of tying them up with rope and leaving them somewhere, make sure you've studied their history and ensure they're not a former Boy Scout with self-taught knowledge and experience with escaping from ropes, m'kay?
Antwan: I'm going to make a few changes here soon, because it's starting to get messy.
Candle Jack: Im here to abduct you all. What will I do with you after I abduct you? Well... nothing really. But you will most likely never be seen again. Say my name and you will be mine.
Yellowallamanda: Yes, please.
Nornagest: Please go away.
Vifetoile: ... so wait a minute. This Fella kidnaps a bunch of tropers and ''leaves them all in one room together''? That can't end well...
Tabby Since That Name doesn't appear in the tag at the bottom of the page, is the missing letter at the end just a typo?
Antwan: Okay, making changes now. You guys are going to wear the joke out if you all keep it up. Have some degree of rationality, okay?
Kaywinnet: My reluctance to ruin the meme is being overidden by my desire to theoretically make everyone down a sixpack. Candle Jack. Mine is an Evil Laugh, now drink!
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Petranca: What gives with the picture?
Nornagest: Someone thought they were being clever. Ignore it.
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Vifetoile: What happens, I wonder, if you combine This Is TV Tropes Bitch ! with Candle Jack in the same
Valex: I just want to say that I've never seen anyone say Candle Jack in a sentence/paragraph/story and finish said... thing. Although I'd normally like to be that one guy that ruins the meme, I go along with this one.
Actually, I lied, since I finished th
(later)
... BITCH!
Some Smartass: This nut / for-real-boogeyman is powerful indeed, but I think I know his weakness... HEY, CANDLE JACK! IF YOU DON'T KIDNAP ME, I'LL GIVE YOU PIE! ...My God! He agreed! It worked! I found a way to defeat Candle Jack once and for all! Oh, crap! I said it again! And I'm out of pie! Remember me as the guy who finally fig
Dude, Candle Jack even
kidnapped Kanye We
Anaheyla: Candle Jack Candle Jack Candle Jack. I'm still here, Candle Jack. As a matter of curiosity, Candle Jack, shouldn't this Candle Jack article be labeled under Just for Fun, Candle Jack? It doesn't seem to serve any other purpose, Candle Jack. What do you think, Candle Jack? And what do the rest of you thi
MadDogBV: When in doubt, to prevent 4Chan fanboys, at the end of their sentence only should one leave Candle Jack
The Noun: I wonder if just reading Candle Jack's name is enough to get kidn
Shotgun Ninja: What happens if someone says "Candle Jack has entered an endless recursion of
Eudevie:
There is /one/ way to keep safe after saying his name. Saying "squats"/"Candlejack" Cancel each other out. HOWEVER, if you only say one and not the other, You'll get dealt with.
Games Workshop doesn't like to be reminded about Squats because the
macroscopic: Cut out the natterstorm from the article. It made its point in the first paragraph and everything after that was just pushing it.
Drawn-out gag
Also, he doesn't even seem to even
try to abduct any bystanders in the vicinity unless they say his name, making You-Know-Who (Ha! Gotcha, Candle Jack!) actually not so bad aft
Yoink!
Perhaps more mystifying is the fellow's reaction time - in fact, his reaction at all - to inaudible references. Even if, for the sake of argument, he had supernatural hearing to the point of awareness of his name being spoken anywhere on the planet, typing generally sounds like typing regardless of the keys pressed. One wonders, then, why there is any reaction to this particular combination of ten letters (or eleven characters for those who choose to insert a space between the two component parts of the name) when typed.
...err...well...
Also, while Candle Jack is fast to kidnap people, one must wonder how people don't even type fast enough to get in their entire sentence, or why other tropers don't finish the sentence for the original editors, Rule of Funny perha...
...fooled you didn't I? I'm still he
Don't try to get clever with me.
Another possibility is that the Trope Namer himself is just editing out half the sentence before he leaves, for his own enjoyment. Really it's impossible to know, unless you're dumb enough to say his name. Oh yes, and incidentally, if you ever run into one who kidnaps people in the middle of saying his name, it's a fake. Seriously.
Other ways you can avoid abduction is to censor his name, give him a clever nickname, hire the services of Chuck Norris, Gene Hunt, Saxton Hale or Ziva David.
What most people don't realize is that you can cheat him. All you have to do is just say his name at the end of sentence and paragraph. You see, if you still have words to say, that gives him enough time to show up and abduct you. By the ending the sentence/paragraph, you give yourself just enough time to escape. And that's how I slew this ancient meme and cheated Candle Jack
CANDLE. JACK. THERE. HAHAH
Wait a second. You didn't beat it at all, there's no period at the end, which may mean Candle Jack actually di
I'm going to need a lot more rope.
It may be possible to beat Candle Jack by ending a paragraph with a Lin
You see, the whole reason that this meme is popular is that lots of people attempt to be funny by making long paragraphs in which it seems like the name of the ever-popular villain will show up, but they manage to avoid it at the last minute. This then becomes an Epic Fail for the person, and they are never going to give you up, never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye. They're never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. It is from paragraphs like these, glorified filler, that the popularity of Candle Jack comes fr
Yeah, I hate Rick Astley so much I kidnapped him, and he's never said my name once.
One fun game to play is to look in the mirror and try to say Candle Jack and see if he captures you. Come on, it's fu
There is one person, who even Candle Jack won't m◊
I did it! I beat You know who!!! You just need to add something to the end of his name, so his name becomes Candle Jackoff... oh shi
I now owe Lowe's my soul, with all the rope you made me buy. Thanks a lot.
After reading the above methods of avoiding "You-Know-Who"(Owned!), I have devised an infalliable plan. Don't say the name. It's just that simple. Trust me, it works. It's easily the most foolproof way to avoid unfortunate abduction, and it's also the reason why, to this day, I have never been abducted by Candle Jack, and furthermore I
You havent been abducted eh? Oh and im taking all your rope.
Just remember, if he comes your way, don't say Candle Jack under any cir
Remember kids, dont listen to people who say Candle Jack... OHSHI NOW I HAVE TO KIDNAP MYSELF!
Just linking to his name is an invitation to being kidnapped. I learned that the hard way when doing so on Nintendo Wars. Well, "Stop Having Fun" Guys, you'll never get me to say Candle Jack in any manner ever again. Thank you and have a nice d
You Suck.
So, I wonder, will he come if I pour myself a nice Candle Jackson wi
I found a way to say his name! Just type your sentence omitting his name, put the punctuation on the end and then go back and edit his name in! You can say Candle Jack and still not get kidnapped! It's foolproo
Seems Mr. Candleperson is smarter than you are. Where's your finished sentence now, punk?
Note that it is possible to APPEAR to say his name when you are not. Like this. CandIejack. See, I'm still here. How did I do this? It's because the uppercase I looks the same as the lowercase L in the Arial font. So i actually typed Candiejack instead of Candlejack, so he had no reason to
Doesn't matter, I scan for the shape
And now, before you go, we would like to offer up a moment of silence for all of the brave, foolish Tropers who have been lost to us in the creation of this article. ...Okay, silence over, everyone can go home now. Just remember not to say Candle Jack under any circ
As the previous troper was saying do not say "His" name whatsoever. Not in a mirror, not adding 'off' to the end of it, not with a long pause inbetween words, and especially not with a Candle. 'Jack knows this will lead to
As you can now see, the rules to him do not apply in real life, as we know Candle Jack appearing in the real world would be absu
Candle Jack, to many, as said above, is pure Nightmare Fu
And on those lines, Candle Jack may be another kind o
I can say his name and survive. See? Candle Jack.
Crap! I was too slow!
Oh, really? I bet that I can do one better! I can not only say Candle Jack's name and survive, bu
Good thing the fat kids are so slow.
Hmmm. This makes me wonder how you-know-who deals with typos. I mean, if I accidentally write his name as Canle Uack, will I be safe? How about if I spell it wrong on purpose? And if I write it as Kandel Jak or Candyl Gack or Can Dill Jac, how would anyone know which one attracted his attention if I did get kidn
The answer: they don't. That makes me all the more mysterious.
I can write his name on a dry-erase board and not get kidn
Why, thank you.
HEY, I DIDN'T EVEN SAY YOUR FUCKING NAME, YOU CANDLE JER
Oh. My bad. Carry on.
A fake! A fake! A fake hath come for me,
For he abducted me before I got
The chance to say his name for all to hear!
From what I've heard, it only works if You-Know-Who's name is pronounced in English. So the Japanese pronounciation (Kandaru Jakku) doesn't set off his Super Se
Maybe not the American version of him, but there's a Candle [REDACTED] for every country in the world.
Okay, then how'd saying my Japanese counterpart's name in romanji set him off? You didn't even elongate the third vowel!
How come he has these "Magical Powers" remains unexplained. OF course, Freakazoid IS the internet, so he must have been crea-
A HA! I got it! The true person who created him is [DATA EXPUNGED]. Now Candle Jack can be destro
You Suck.
How come we're using his name is in white? I saw tha
Captured you. Just because.
What's all this, then? Some Candle Jackery about? Own up, right, or you're under arYou're really not good with those named Jack, are you?
* Haha! Got you. Now we ALL have to use footnotes. Candle Jack. There, I said it, and I haven't been captured. Now drink.
Damnit. Now I'm going to have to update my firmware.
I think I ran out of rope.
HAHA! Now I've caught you, you... Candle Jack! OOOOOOOOOOHHHH Yea
Thank you. Now, I'm off to capture the Pink Elephants. For no reason. Toodle-oo!