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* StatuQuoIsGod: Deconstructed, both Jack and Aku are tired of their stalemate which changed their personality a lot.
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* DownerEnding: Jack only manages to kill one of the Daughters of Aku, barely getting away with his life, with the fact that he killed a living being very likely to haunt him in the future. The subplot with the wolf ends with it lying dead after it's defeated its assailants.
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* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Averted, the Daughters are manageable when there is one or two but Jack can't land a hit when they gang up on him.
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* SealedEvilInADuel: Since Aku can't kill Jack and Jack can't die of natural cause, Aku is just too blazé to do anything until his arch-nemesis is dead.
* ShoutOut: The song playing during the tomb search is a remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ ecstasy of gold]].
* ShoutOut: The song playing during the tomb search is a remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr0na6mKJQ ecstasy of gold]].
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* StatuQuoIsGod: Deconstructed, both Jack and Aku are tired of their stalemate which changed their personality a lot.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode highlights what they could never do during the original run: Jack kills a person. Also, lots of blood and a contemplated suicide.
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* JustAMachine: Jack has this opinion on all the robots he's been fighting. Even killing the sentient ones rarely bothered him at all, at least not as much as killing one of the Daughters.
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* BeingGoodSucks: Jack is even more of a mess than Aku, having spent 50+ years stuck in a BadFuture, and much like Aku, is at the point of talking to himself. But ironically, despite being evil, Aku's self-therapy sessions are ''much more positive'' than Jack's. While Aku's sessions essentially amount to giving himself a pep talk, Jack's involve self-loathing, despair, and thoughts of suicide. It's ugly to watch, to say the least.
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Downplayed example. Aku has become depressed with Jack being immortal because of him, and after destroying all the time portals he has held himself up in his lair and hasn't confronted Jack in years. This has taken a toll on him and he now is seen depressed and uncaring to his subjects and scientists. The only person he can talk to about his problem with Jack is himself.
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* BlatantLies: Aku tells his scientist he no longer cares about killing Jack, then he immediately goes to have a therapy session with himself.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Aku tells his scientists that he doesn't care about Jack anymore. They can try to kill him if they want, but he doesn't care, not one ''bit'' at all.
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* AndThenWhat: Deconstructed in the therapy scene. Aku says he was quite proud of destroying all the time portals over the years and assumed Jack would then eventually die of natural causes. But 50 years later, Jack is still alive and Aku thinks he's got an opponent with nothing left to lose.
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* {{Determinator}}:
** Jack reminds the hallucination of this.
--->"It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way."
** The Daughters of Aku are truly relentless.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode highlights what they could never do during the original run: Jack kills a person. Also, lots of blood and a contemplated suicide.
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** Even Aku admits surprise over effectively making Jack immortal.
** Jack initially thought he was fighting robots. Then came the SlashedThroat.
** Jack reminds the hallucination of this.
--->"It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way."
** The Daughters of Aku are truly relentless.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode highlights what they could never do during the original run: Jack kills a person. Also, lots of blood and a contemplated suicide.
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** Even Aku admits surprise over effectively making Jack immortal.
** Jack initially thought he was fighting robots. Then came the SlashedThroat.
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* {{Irony}}: Aku is depressed and fearful of an effectively immortal Jack eventually killing him, but viewers know Jack's already lost the one weapon that could actually do that.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** When scientists say they've built new beetle drones to kill Jack, Aku ignores them--saying he's a new Aku. This is a subtle acknowledgment of both a new actor playing the character and of the despair brought about by years of hunkering down.
** During therapy, Aku openly wishes that someone would just take care of Jack for him. We, of course, already know the Daughters of Aku are gunning for Jack.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** When scientists say they've built new beetle drones to kill Jack, Aku ignores them--saying he's a new Aku. This is a subtle acknowledgment of both a new actor playing the character and of the despair brought about by years of hunkering down.
** During therapy, Aku openly wishes that someone would just take care of Jack for him. We, of course, already know the Daughters of Aku are gunning for Jack.
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* NoodleIncident: Aku states he destroyed every possible time portal on the planet.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The hallucination of Jack reminds him of his failures and problems: forced to run from danger, losing the sword, that Aku will eventually learn of that, and being trapped for all time in a BadFuture.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The wolf vs. the alien tigers parallels Jack's struggle: a lone wolf against multiple, powerful foes. In the end, Jack is gravely wounded after killing one Daughter of Aku, and we see that the wolf was mortally wounded after killing the alien tigers.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The wolf vs. the alien tigers parallels Jack's struggle: a lone wolf against multiple, powerful foes. In the end, Jack is gravely wounded after killing one Daughter of Aku, and we see that the wolf was mortally wounded after killing the alien tigers.
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* VictorGainsLosersPowers: Jack takes the weapon of the Daughter of Aku that he killed. Unlike with Scaramouche, this is out of desperation for the situation he's in.
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* BeingEvilSucks: Aku is clearly a mess after 50 years of dealing with Jack, no longer satisfied with tyrannically ruling the world and no longer finding any enjoyment in his evil deeds. Jack says he hasn't been seen in years, possibly indicating he's become a recluse, and he's talking to himself (literally) the way a shrink would to a patient. Clearly, he's not happy.
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* BeingEvilSucks: Aku is clearly a mess after 50 years of dealing with Jack, no longer satisfied with tyrannically ruling the world and no longer finding any enjoyment in his evil deeds. Jack says he hasn't been seen in years, possibly indicating he's become a recluse, and he's talking to himself (literally) the way a shrink would to a patient. Clearly, he's not happy. (Although, unlike Jack, he seems to be coping better.)
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* BeingEvilSucks: Aku is clearly a mess after 50 years of dealing with Jack, no longer satisfied with tyrannically ruling the world and no longer finding any enjoyment in his evil deeds. Jack says he hasn't been seen in years, possibly indicating he's become a recluse, and he's talking to himself (literally) the way a shrink would to a patient. Clearly, he's not happy.
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* ImplacableMan: The Daughters relentlessly, continually, and tirelessly hunt Jack like predators, attacking from every angle as a team, in utter, cold silence.
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: After fighting the Daughters for the first time, a vision of Jack's younger self talks to him in a way that doesn't sound like him at all, telling him it's pointless and that he should give up. (Amazingly, the "real" Jack sounds more lucid and more in-character than the vision, even though the vision resembles the younger one.)
* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: After fighting the Daughters for the first time, a vision of Jack's younger self talks to him in a way that doesn't sound like him at all, telling him it's pointless and that he should give up. (Amazingly, the "real" Jack sounds more lucid and more in-character than the vision, even though the vision resembles the younger one.)
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* TheWorfEffect: Almost, but ultimately downplayed. Jack's first battle against the daughters doesn't go well, with Jack wounded, outmatched, and actually frightened. However, it would seem ''they'' have suffered a casualty as well.
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* NotSoDifferent: It turns out ''both'' Jack and Aku have started talking to themselves within the past fifty years. Aku, however, uses the conversations to cope with his depression while Jack's hallucinations suggest [[DrivenToSuicide ending it all]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subplot in the episode shows a lone wolf going up against seven tiger-like creatures, only one of which the wolf kills on-screen. Jack himself only manages to kill one of the Daughters of Aku.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subplot in the episode shows a lone wolf going up against seven three tiger-like creatures, only one of which the wolf kills on-screen. Jack himself only manages to kill one of the Daughters of Aku.
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* WhamEpisode: Jack, albeit unknowingly, '''kills''' a human being, in this case one of the Daughters, for the first time in his life.
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* ClothingDamage: The Daughters progressively chip away at Jack's armor, eventually leaving him in nothing but his shorts.
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* AncientTomb: Jack and the Daughters of Aku have the bulk of their fight in an old temple that also seems to be some sort of mass tomb for an emperor and his army, and at one point Jack hides inside one of the coffins.
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* AncientTomb: Jack and the Daughters of Aku have the bulk of their fight in an old temple that also seems to be some sort of mass tomb for an emperor and his army, and at army. At one point point, Jack hides inside one of the coffins.
* DavidVsGoliath: The wolf vs. the alien tigers. It wins, but at the cost of its own life.
* MundaneSolution: Attempted by Aku. After many failed attempts to kill Jack, he figured that destroying all the time portals and letting age finish the job would rid him of Jack. Jack being TheAgeless foiled that plan.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Jack hides himself in a coffin in a mass tomb of identical coffins. The Daughters find him, but it takes a while.
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* {{Seppuku}}: Obliquely referenced when Jack's hallucination of his past self points out that in his situation, there's really only one honorable thing to do.
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* AncientTomb: Jack and the Daughters of Aku have the bulk of their fight in an old temple that also seems to be some sort of mass tomb for an emperor and his army, and at one point Jack hides inside one of the coffins.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The grimmest episode by far, with Jack contemplating suicide, an explicit onscreen human death, and a lot of blood.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The grimmest episode by far, with Jack contemplating suicide, an explicit onscreen human death, and a lot of blood.blood (both of the red and green variety).
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* AnimalMetaphor: Jack fighting the Daughters of Aku is interspersed by a subplot of a lone white wolf walking through the forest being ambushed by a pack of alien tigers. The episode ends with a shot of the tigers lying dead in pools of [[AlienBlood green blood]], and a trail of red blood leading to the body of the wolf a short distance away, itself lying dead in a pool of blood.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The grimmest episode by far, with Jack contemplating suicide, an explicit onscreen human death, and a lot of blood.
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* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Aku has gotten depressed because although he's destroyed all the time portals, Jack has stopped aging, and since his robots will probably never kill Jack, he'll probably be around forever.
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* VillainsOutShopping: The episode begins with Aku starting his day, getting visited by his subjects, and having a therapy session with himself for his depression.
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* WhamEpisode: Jack '''kills''' a human being, in this case one of the Daughters, for the first time in his life.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Aku finally resorted to simply destroying all the time portals and wait out Jack until he succumbed to old age. Unfortunately for Aku, Jack was rendered immortal due to the effects of Aku's time portal. As Aku is unaware that Jack lost his sword, he has continued to hunker down inside his lair and is now bored to near insanity at being unable to kill his old enemy.
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* MoodWhiplash: Possibly the darkest episode in the entire series opens with Aku getting out of bed and having a therapy session [[ItMakesSenseInContext with himself]].
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* WhyWontYouDie: After Aku destroyed all the time portals, he simply assumed that if he or one of his assassins didn't kill Jack that he'd just die of old age. The fact that Jack hasn't died or even aged has deeply shocked Aku and sent him into a deep depression.
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* BungledSuicide: Jack's vision of himself tries to tell him to end it all.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Jack is horrified to discover he has been fighting actual humans, and has killed one ofthem.them.
** PlayedForLaughs with Aku who's ''seriously'' regretting accidentally making Jack immortal.
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Jack continues his travel across the world, but will face new opponents who aren't just "nuts and bolts".
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* SnowMeansDeath: The Daughters confront CurbStompBattle: Jack defeats the new beetle drone in less than a snow-covered forest with obvious intent minute.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jack is horrified tokill him.discover he has been fighting actual humans, and has killed one of them.
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