History Characters / JackieChanAdventuresTheDarkHand

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Starts out as one. After the second season, he's no longer this.

* SmugSnake: He's smart and acts like a big shot in the first season, but his schemes tend to fail due to his pride, shortsighted greed and incompetent henchmen. Things get much worse for him after he loses his funds and the Enforcers, proving that for all of his intelligence, he's too cowardly and snooty e a on his own.

* VillainDecay: He actually starts out as a very menacing leader of the Dark Hand and quite a badass. He is surprisingly able to hold his own in a fight with Jackie in ''The Rock''. In Season 2, he becomes more of a ButtMonkey after [[DemonicPossession Shendu's spirit enters his body]], and in the following season, Daolon Wong steals his remaining henchmen and he is forced to commit petty crimes on his own. By the SeriesFinale, he has a cameo appearance where it is shown that he has been reduced to being a ''[[spoiler:bus driver]]''.

* DropTheHammer: As a Dark Chi Warrior, he was granted the weapon of Chui, his predecessor.

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummingsVoiceActor (Season 1) and Creator/JohnDiMaggio (Season 2 onward)

-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimCummings (Season 1) and Creator/JohnDiMaggio (Season 2 onward)

* TheHeavy: To Shendu in Season 1 because Shendu was a statue. He was the one moving the plot forward because almost all Shendu could do was talk.

* StarterVillain: While Shendu was the actual villain behind Seasons 1 and 2, Valmot was leader of the Dark Hand and the one that could be considered the BigBad at the time until the first season finale. After this, coupled with being possessed by Shendu in Season 2, Valmont's threat level and his relevancy dwindle.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: For the main trio, they had specific characterizations in the first season that was different from their later butt-monkey status as detailed in their respective pages.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In ''[[SuperstitionEpisode Tough Luck]]'', he doesn't believe in the curse that the [[BadLuckCharm Emerald of Killarney]] carries before he becomes its victim himself. Justified as the emerald's curse only transfers when the victim gives willingly to a new subject. As Finn ''steals'' the emerald, the curse doesn't transfer.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In season 1, he was a more serious devoted member of the dark hand. One example: When some of the lesser unnamed goons fear action, Finn scolds them to suck it up and do their job.
* CombatPragmatist: In ''The Power Within'', he pulls out a gun and points it at Jackie. While Jackie kicks the gun from his hand just as quickly, it's the thought that counts.

* EgocentricTeamNaming: In ''Tough Luck'', he quits the Dark Hand and attempts to form his own gang. Chow and Ratso soon join him. During the rest of the episode, Finn plays around with names for the gang, all of them including his name and some famous rock band.

* GoodCopBadCop: In ''The Demon Behind'', he ends up trying this trick with Ikazuki on Tohru to make him provide them the mask removal potion, with Finn being the Good Cop to Ikazuki's Bad Cop.

* OneLinerNameOneLiner: While using the Pig Talisman to fight Section 13's men in ''The Stronger Evil'', he says "[[Film/{{Babe}} That'll do, pig.]] That'll do."

* PaperThinDisguise: In ''Queen Of The Shadowkhan'', he disguises as an antique collector to distract the inhabitants of Uncle's Rare Finds from the theft of the Demon Archive. He even lampshades how his disguise fooled them.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: He oversees one when he attempts to form his own gang in ''Tough Luck''. The first guy twirls nunchakus and smacks himself in the face. The second guy tries to chew a log and manages only to lose his [[FalseTeethTomfoolery dentures]]. The third guy demonstrates impressive swordplay skills, but [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl shrieks]] upon spotting a mouse and runs away from it. Finn is saved from having a worse case of a headache when Ratso and Chow show up to enlist (at least on the shorter run).
* TwoBeingsOneBody: In ''The Demon Behind'', the [[AnimateInanimateObject Rat Talisman-animated mask]] of Ikazuki is stuck on his rear.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In season 1, Ratso was actually a thug without any of the sillier aspects in later seasons. He actually gets angry when a job fails and had a more coherent threatening voice.

* DidYouGetANewHaircut: He's asked this question by Jade when he's returned to his proper size and with [[MultiarmedAndDangerous the extra arms]] provided by the Armsbands of Shiva at the end of ''Shrink Rap''.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: In ''Shrink Rap'', Hak Foo and Jackie are both turned tiny by the chi spell Jade casts. Hak Foo hardly cares and stays focused on defeating Jackie and gaining from him the Armbands of Shiva. After they're returned to their proper size, Jade uses the shrinking spell on Hak Foo again and traps him in a glass.

* LightningBruiser: He's strong enough to punch holes through stone walls and push off the much larger Tohru. He's on Jackie's level in agility and speed. [[MadeOfIron It takes a lot of damage to take him down]]. However, he has an exploitable drawback in the form of his CallingYourAttacks habit: those who can catch what he's about to do from his loud exclamations can better defend themselves against him.
* LiteralAssKicking: He gives Jackie a kick on the backside during their first fight, prompting Jackie to say "baboon leaves tuccus exposed". Later in the same episode, Hak Foo himself is on the receiving end of this with Jackie and Uncle kicking him successively. Also, in ''Queen of the Shadowkhan'', he gets the same treatment from two Ninja Khan when they're ordered by [[KidWithTheLeash Jade]] to spank the Enforcers.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Normally Hak Foo distances himself from the other Enforcers' banter and attempts to excuse themselves to their {{Bad Boss}}es. However, when they try to prevent themselves from entering a space shuttle by voting in ''Shanghai Moon'', Hak Foo joins in.
* OhNoNotAgain: Yells this as he's shrunken back to tiny at the end of ''Shrink Rap''.

A Chinese-American man who fancies sunglasses and a black jacket. Before becoming a thug, he was thrice the Employee of the Month at Sun-Shack store.

* CoolShades: Chow is rarely seen without his sunglasses. He even managed to retain them after he was turned into a Dark Chi Warrior. In ''The J-Team'', his sunglasses also act as his eyeglasses because of his [[BlindWithoutEm nearsightedness]]. However, the rest of the time he can see just fine without the shades, even lifting them to get a better look at something.

* TheGenericGuy: Compared to the other three, he feels incredibly generic. Too boot: Hak Foo is by far the strongest and most skilled fighter, as well as [[LargeHam hamminess incarnate]], Finn is a DiscoDan, the brains of the group and unofficial leader (whenever Hak Foo isn't around) and Ratso is a [[ManChild childish simpleton]] with the most [[DumbMuscle physical strength]] (again, when Hak Foo isn't around). Chow, meanwhile, has average physical strength, fighting skill, intelligence, and doesn't have much of a personality or even some amusing quirk that might set him apart from the other three.

* TheQuietOne: He didn't have any lines until ''The Jade Monkey''.

* SecurityCling: He does "a simple glomp" version of this trope to Hak Foo when the car they're in turns invisible in ''The Stronger Evil''.

* DeadpanSnarker: Not often, but he is capable of it:
-->'''Hak-Foo''': ''(to Tohru)'' Stay here and stand guard. And I mean ''stand.'' Less chance you'll break something. [[note]]Earlier in the episode, Tohru broke the talisman detector by sitting on it.[[/note]]

* DirtyCoward: Although a skilled enough fighter, when surrounded my magical statues that come to life in "Tohru Who?", he bolts for it and leave the amnesiac Tohru to fend for himself, which convinces him that Valmont has lied to him about still being his servant.

* BadBoss: He shows little to no respect towards the Enforcers, even when they do manage to perform something right. He's even more demanding towards his strongest minion Tohru during the 1st season, and [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal it plays a role in Tohru's eventual reformation]], the turning point being the moment when Valmont orders Tohru to fight a futile battle against Shendu and shows no remorse when he's apparently killed. However, unlike Daolon Wong, Valmont bothers to learn his employees' real names instead of expecting them to answer to the names of his previous minions.
* BeardOfSorrow: Downplayed. After losing the Enforcers, he grows a stubble for the rest of the series. However, he doesn't have it in ''Tohru Who?'' and [[spoiler:''The Powers That Be (Part 2)'']].

* CarryingTheAntidote: In ''The Rock'', he was smart enough to ''[[DefiedTrope not]]'' keep the antidote to cure Jackie's infliction on his person.
-->'''Jackie''': Where is the antidote?!
-->'''Valmont''': You think I'd be foolish enough to bring it with me?

* CrazyPrepared: He had a homing beacon for a false tooth that would cause his cane to levitate to his position and said cane held an electrically charged dagger.
* DeadpanSnarker: Both to allies and enemies. He can occasionally make a masterful snark or two. One example is in ''Project A, For Astral'': after Shendu has berated the Dark Hand for their failures in retrieving the Talismans, he tries that himself through AstralProjection. After Uncle exorcises him from Jade's body, making him unable to leave his statue form, Valmont has this to say:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: PlayedForLaughs. Until finding out Jade tags along after being forbidden to do so, Valmont admits he had thought Jackie was just a horribly irresponsible guardian.

* BadassInCharge: While he still led the Dark Hand, he could rival the martial skills of ''Jackie'' much better than the Enforcers (with a special mention going to their duel in ''The Rock''), but after the events of the 2nd season, he loses all his badass credentials along with his henchmen.

* BareYourMidriff: In his first appearance, he wore a vest that exposed his muscular chest and abs. Also, during his time as a Dark Chi Warrior, his abs were exposed. He's also a rare male example of this trope.

* AreWeThereYet: Makes this question while sitting in a moving car with Daolon Wong concocting a smelly locator spell in the beginning of ''Viva Las Jackies''.

* GivingThemTheStrip: He's caught by Jackie in ''Enter the Viper'', but he escapes when his jacket tears (though his cellphone remains in the jacket's pocket, on which Valmont calls and reveals Jackie the planned time of theft).

* HiddenDepths: Surprisingly good at puzzles and riddles. In "Jade Times Jade", he comes up with a solution for the Pan'ku box riddle that, although not correct, is logical enough [[note]] Arguably ''more'' logical than the correct solution, since the indications were that the riddle's writer had enough prescience to tailor it to modern geographical features [[/note]]

* ManChild: More so than the other Enforcers. He collects toy action figures and likes to play baseball. In ''The J-Team'', he sleeps with a teddy bear.

* RetroactiveWish: ''Through the Rabbit Hole'' begins with Ratso wishing that one of the Talismans would come to the Dark Hand for a change. This is immediately followed by the Talisman Locator activating and pointing out towards a passing-by Jade who's having the Rabbit Talisman with her. Before going after her, Ratso makes a wish of being a millionaire.

* StuffedIntoATrashcan: When the Enforcers steal the Emerald of Killarney from Jackie in ''Tough Luck'', Ratso throws him in a trash container and closes the lid.

* NonIndicativeName: In ''Half a Mask of Kung-Fu'', Valmont buys an Oni Mask from an online auction with the username "[=Filthyrich1=]". As noted by others, he fits only the "filthy" part by that point.

%%* DirtyCoward:

* VillainDecay: He starts out as a very menacing leader of the Dark Hand, and is surprisingly able to hold his own in a fight with Jackie in ''The Rock''. In Season 2, he becomes more of a ButtMonkey after [[DemonicPossession Shendu's spirit enters his body]] and in the following season, Daolon Wong steals his remaining henchmen and he is forced to commit petty crimes on his own. By the SeriesFinale, he has a cameo appearance where it is shown that he has been reduced to being a ''[[spoiler:bus driver]]''.

* FightingWithChucks: As a Dark Chi Warrior, he was granted a sanjiegun (a three-sectional staff), the weapon of his predecessor Gan. He has also used a traditional nunchaku at least once.

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* DarkSkinnedBlond: He has platinum blonde hair and tanned skin.

* BadassLongRobe: Shendu forces him to wear a sorcerer's robe until the demon is exorcised from his body. Valmont hates it, viewing it to look too much like [[{{Crossdresser}} a dress]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: In ''[[SuperstitionEpisode Tough Luck]]'', he doesn't believe in the curse that the [[BadLuckCharm Emerald of Killarney]] carries before he becomes its victim himself.

** Second when he is [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a kid]] by Daolon Wong.

* {{Foil}}: Finn, Ratso and Chow have surprisingly much in common with Jackie. Jackie laments that he's been dragged to the front lines in the battles against the Forces of Darkness, while the Enforcers resent that they're repeatedly conscripted as henchmen of said Forces of Darkness against their will. Jackie would love nothing more than getting his old non-magical life of archaeology back, and the Enforcers eventually decide to quit the entire magic business so that they can go after what they really want; money. Jackie is often yelled at, ordered around, and slapped by [[AbusiveParent Uncle]], while the Enforcers serve various {Bad Boss}}es throughout the series. Plus, all four of them are the biggest {{Butt Monkey}}s of the series and have some ManChild traits, a knack for surviving near-death experiences, and as it turns out in the last season, an adoring nephew/niece sharing their initials. In short, Finn, Ratso and Chow can be viewed as Jackie if he were even more hapless, on the wrong side of the law, and had never received his extensive martial arts training.

* BadassMustache: He sports a classical Fu Manchu mustache.