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Captain "Jack Harkness" (Ninth, Tenth and Thirteenth Doctors)

"Have faith: with a dashing hero like me on the case, how can we fail?"

First appearance: "The Empty Child" (2005)

Played by: John Barrowman (2005, 2006–2009, 2010, 2011, 2020-2021)

"Earth, 1892. Got in a fight on Ellis Island; a man shot me through the heart...then I woke up. Thought it was kinda strange. But then it never stopped. Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World War I, World War II, poison, starvation...a stray javelin.... In the end, I got the message - I'm the man who can never die."

Captain Jack is a 51st century native, an Extreme Omnisexual former Time Agent, turned time-travelling con-man, turned galactic hero when he met the Doctor — and, eventually, turned immortal. Madly fancies the Doctor, although he Really Gets Around nonetheless.

After being revived from death into an immortal fixed point in time, circumstances lead to him becoming the leader of Torchwood, and keeping a lid on the alien activity around Cardiff Bay.

Spoilers through Revolution of the Daleks are unmarked.

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Tropes associated with the television continuity:

Doctor Who

• Age Without Youth: Expresses some worry about having an extremely slow version of this, since despite little actual signs of aging he's begun to find white hairs. To top it off, he is implied to eventually mutate into the Face of Boe after billions of years.
• Ambiguous Situation: At the end of "Fugitive of the Judoon", he gets attacked by nanogenes (again), but it's unclear what, if anything, they'll do to him.
  • The actor at one point hilariously sums this up with the following statement: "He's a modern kind of guy. Anything with a post code."
• Badass Longcoat: Of the World War II greatcoat variety.
• Big Damn Kiss: The first person after the show came back, and the first male person (in the TV show at least), to snog the Doctor. Nine doesn't mind at all.
  Jack: Doctor... I was much better as a coward.
• Boldly Coming: Men, women... giant insects... robots...
• Breakout Character: He was so popular he got his own show in the form of Torchwood.
• The Bus Came Back: Reappears in "Fugitive of the Judoon" a decade after his last appearance, giving the companions a message for the Doctor to "Beware the Lone Cyberman".
• Camp: It's John Barrowman. His camp switch doesn't have an "off" setting.
• The Casanova: How do you know he's flirting with you? He introduces himself.
• The Charmer: Manages to charm Rose within minutes.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In "The End of the World", assuming he's the Face of Boe. (Russell T Davies refuses to elaborate on whether or not they're actually the same person, as it would apparently ruin the joke.) Barrowman said in an interview that when he and Tennant found out the implication, they spent several minutes laughing and cheering.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Never tries anything with someone who's already in a monogamous relationship except Gwen, and is very willing to be strictly monogamous if the right person comes along. Is kind and considerate towards his fuckbuddy Ianto and eventually enters a committed relationship with him in Torchwood. Has been married at least once, although his immortality has made him a bit wary of commitment.
• Contagious Heroism: He starts off as an amoral con-man, but time spent with the Doctor changes him into a lovable anti-hero.
• Continuity Nod: In Jack's first appearance, his 51st century backstory and knowledge of "Time Agents" is a continuity nod to Classic Who story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". In that story, the war criminal Magnus Greel also hails from the 51st century and is worried that the Doctor might be a Time Agent sent to arrest him.
• Crazy-Prepared:
  • Keeps a tiny blaster hidden up his ass, just in case he's caught with his pants down. Or subjected to de-fabrication.
  • It took him nineteen years, but in "Revolution of the Daleks", Jack manages to get himself arrested and sent to the same prison as the Doctor, arranging to be in the cell right next to hers, having already ensured that all the tools he needs to get them both out are available. Including a vortex manipulator he once again shoved up his ass.
• Demoted to Extra: After he left the TARDIS and subsequently joined Torchwood, he made return appearances in the Series 3 and 4 finales. Jack also reappears in Series 12 to give a warning to the Doctor, and later plays a key role in saving her from prison in time to stop the latest Dalek threat.
• Depending on the Writer: More like depending on the series.
  • In Doctor Who, he's fun-loving and campy, while on Torchwood, he's serious, brooding and more like the Doctor.
  • His Healing Factor. When the Doctor explains the source of his immortality he describes him as a "fact" and a fixed point in time to the point of being a Brown Note for him and the TARDIS. All other sources treat it as a more traditional Healing Factor, as it's stated that he will still age extremely slowly, and if he is indeed the Face of Boe, will eventually die. Torchwood: Miracle Day even managed to strip him of his Healing Factor.
• Determinator:
  • Jack clung onto a TARDIS that was desperately trying to shake him off, all the way through the Time Vortex, to the very end of time itself! The TARDIS ran out of universe to go through before Jack was willing to give up his chance to reunite with the Doctor.
  • Spending 100+ years prior to this waiting around Cardiff for their respective timelines to coincide.
  • Deliberately getting arrested and spending 19 years in prison until his cell was moved close enough to the Doctor's to allow him to break her out.
• Ethical Slut: Made much more obvious in Torchwood, where he's shown to care deeply about his partners' personal boundaries, emotional health and safe sex. He abhors cheating on both fronts.
• Even the Guys Want Him: As demonstrated multiple times on both Torchwood and Doctor Who that it becomes a running joke that anyone he says "Hi" to has the hots for him.
• Extreme Omnisexual: In his home era, everyone is having sex with everything else. Writer Steven Moffat calls him "bi", but that doesn't even begin to cover it; his teammates at Torchwood once observed that Jack will "shag anything if it's gorgeous enough".
• "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Before he was rendered immortal, his response to the Daleks' "Exterminate" was to defiantly throw down his gun, stand up straight, and mutter "I kinda figured that."
• Fantastic Racism: After his transformation into an immortal human that is a fixed point in time, the TARDIS initially really does not like him. She considers him an abomination. She might be over it by "Journey's End" (though circumstances conspired to have Jack be on board, so she may be willing to put up with him).
• Foil: A friendly one to the Doctor. Even on a certain meta level: It's been noted that while Jack has an American accent and is more in line with typical sensibilities of American science fiction action heroes, the Doctor is supposed to reflect a more traditionally British and more pacifistic approach to SF heroes, even in action scenes.
  • Perhaps unintentionally, but serves as one to the Doctor's other militaristic minded friend The Brigadier. The Brigadier is an English man loyal to the British Government and even more loyal to Geneva, born in the 20th century and lived with knowledge relative to the 20th century and a bit of the 21st century. Captain Jack Harkness is a human from the 51st century with a preference for an American English accent, operating in the 21st century on the behalf of Torchwood - an institution loyal to the British Empire. The Brigadier's knowledge and expertise comes from more traditional and conventional battlefield experience, while Captain Jack Harkness' knowledge and expertise comes from his experience as a Time Agent. Furthermore, The Brigadier has an openly known name but everyone calls him The Brigadier out of preference and respect. Captain Jack Harkness stole his name from a dead American volunteer captain from World War 2, with not many people knowing his real name.
• Free-Love Future: Comes from a century where cultural taboos on sex don't exist anymore. Due to humanity's evolution adapting to Interspecies Romance, human sexual preference also has little meaning anymore in the 51st century, and Everyone Is Bi. Jack's very much a Fish out of Temporal Water in this regard.
• Gasp of Life: Jack has Resurrective Immortality, due to being a fixed point in time. Whenever he dies and comes back to life, he does so with a painful gasp.
• The Good Captain: Although technically, he doesn't become an army captain until Torchwood. His stint as "Captain Jack Harkness" when he first met the Doctor was a case of stolen identity.
• Healing Factor: His immortality functions as quickly healing from whatever killed him, although certain wounds take longer than others; a bullet to the head put him down for just a few seconds, but he needed at least a few minutes after being thrown off a five-storey building to land on a bench in a manner that clearly broke his back.
• Heel–Face Turn: Originally, he was merely a charming con artist. He became a better person thanks to the Doctor's influence, to the point he'd happily be a Love Martyr for him.
• Hero of Another Story: It's heavily implied in "Fugitive of the Judoon" that he's been having plenty of adventures (and relationships) ever since we last saw him.
• Humanoid Abomination: The Doctor certainly thinks so, and the TARDIS agrees with him: According to the Doctor, Rose (as Bad Wolf) didn't just revive him and make him immortal, she turned him into a living fixed point. The TARDIS went as far as to travel to the end of the universe to get rid of him when he grabbed it, and the Doctor's Time Lord instincts make it difficult to even look at him without mentioning how "wrong" he is.
• Ignored Enamoured Underling: Towards the Doctor. Jack and Martha share a moment over this when they realize the Doctor's ignoring both their crushes on him.
• Immortal Life Is Cheap: He'll gladly take a few deaths if it helps save the day.
• Immortality Promiscuity: Granted 51st century folk are pretty promiscuous, but his immortality has made it even more prominent. Torchwood reveals he even fathered a love child.
• Internal Homage: He's the TV series' answer to spinoff character Jason Kane.
• The Lancer: Turns into this around the Doctor, taking orders from him (when usually, he doesn't take orders from anyone). He is also the opposite of the Doctor's usual Celibate Hero status.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: The reason he quit the Time Agency. There's a two-year gap missing from his memory, and he has no idea why.
• MacGyvering: In "Bad Wolf", he jury-rigs a BFG out of the Compact Laser Deluxe he was hiding up his rear and the Defabricator. The gun returns in "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End"
• Made of Iron: On top of being immortal, he also is far more resistant to things that should instantly kill a human being, thanks to his bonus Healing Factor. He once entered a radiation chamber that should have disintegrated him from the intense concentration of stet radiation.
• Manly Gay: Not so much manly gay as manly omnisexual, but he is definitely a dashing man of action either way.
• Mr. Fanservice: Gets completely naked in his third episode, with much glee.
• Mr. Vice Guy: The vice in question being lust. However, he's a proper Ethical Slut, and always respects people's boundaries.
• Noodle Incident: How in the Dalek-loving hell do you explain the incident described in The Pornomancer entry, much less the whole Face of Boe thing?
• Only Known By His Nickname: He admits that "Jack Harkness" is an alias. It wasn't until 2017 his birth name was revealed.
• Phrase Catcher: Some variation of the following exchange will be said when he's around:
  Jack: [to his latest object of attraction] Captain Jack Harkness, and who are you?
  The Doctor: Stop it.
  Jack: I was just saying hello!
  Object of Attraction: I don't mind.
• The Pornomancer:
  Jack: The last time I was sentenced to death, I ordered four hyper-vodkas for my breakfast. All a bit of a blur after that. Woke up in bed with both my executioners. Lovely couple. They stayed in touch! Can't say that about most executioners.
  • He can also make "Hello" into a pickup line, which quickly becomes a Running Gag; as the Doctor observes, Jack saying "Hello" qualifies as flirting.
• Pride: He knows just how sexy he is, and is proud of it.
  "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up."
• Put on a Bus:
  • With Torchwood on indefinite hiatus (there are audiobooks that make up a fifth series, however), he has been subject to a dearth of appearances, although he makes another appearance in "Fugitive of the Judoon." According to Moffat, they wanted to have him in "A Good Man Goes to War", but John Barrowman was still filming Torchwood: Miracle Day in America and the schedules couldn't work.
  • His stag parties are mentioned in "The Wedding of River Song", as one of the things the Doctor could do, before meeting his death at Lake Silencio. The Doctor could visit all of them in one night, but he doesn't.
• Really 700 Years Old: He looks like a full-grown human man but he's over 170 in Series 3 and over 2,040 in series 4 (although he spent most of those two thousand years suffocating to death in his own grave, raising the question of whether he was conscious for most of that or just stayed 'dead' until he could return for good).
• Running Gag: Jack can make introducing himself into an incredibly flirtatious statement, which is always shot down by the Doctor. Inverted in "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End", when Donna is more than willing to try and get into his pants, and Jack's completely uninterested.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: Stripping him naked in front of millions of viewers doesn't inhibit him in the slightest. Quite the opposite, really.
• The Slow Path: He stuck around Cardiff for 100+ years waiting for the Doctor to turn up.
• There Is No Cure: One of the reasons he wants to find his way back to the Doctor after the Game Station battle is to find out if his new immortality — granted by a Humanoid Abomination with temporal power accidentally "bringing him back forever" and turning him into a living anomaly — can be removed. The Doctor simply tells him there's nothing even he can do about it. That being said, a couple Expanded Universe materials have introduced one or two things that are stated to be capable of removing Jack's immortality, and Torchwood: Miracle Day sees the same force which rendered all humans on Earth immortal due to receiving Jack's blood in turn apparently render Jack mortal (although Word of God speculates that it probably only removed Jack's Healing Factor and not his immortality). And then there's the hint in Doctor Who that Jack will slowly transform into the eons-old Face of Boe (who apparently dies for real in the year 5,000,000,000) if his immortality makes him live for long enough.
• Time Police: His original job was as a Time Agent, whose role was policing the time stream.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Seems to settle into this kind of relationship with Mickey, after the latter's Taking Several Levels in Badass, judging by their interaction in "Journey's End".
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Back and forth between this and Living Forever Is Awesome. You could say both are deconstructed, because both are true at points. On one hand, every death is painful (both yours and your friends') and waiting for centuries is hard on one mentally, but on the other hand, it's undeniably useful in his line of work, there's always new friends to meet, and there's more time to flirt with them too.

Torchwood

• Action Hero: His solution to any alien problem is to shoot it.
• Age Without Youth: Albeit at a much slower rate. This is partially an Author's Saving Throw for if/when Barrowman starts to show his age, unlike the actors who work in Highlander shows.
• And I Must Scream: On many different occasions, most famously being buried for a few hundred years.
• Anti-Hero: He's a good guy, but willing to do some pretty nasty things to the Monster of the Week.
• Artifact Alias: The name of Captain Jack Harkness is an alias that he took from a deceased American volunteer pilot to mix in with WW2 era London. He still goes by that title for most of his appearances, well after it serves any purpose. In fact, his true name is never revealed.
  • Finally averted in 2017 Big Finish Doctor Who production The Lives of Captain Jack. After twelve years we finally learned his true name: Javic Piotr Thane.
• Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: He always dresses in 1940s military style, and when forced to wear anything else, he is not happy about it.
• Back from the Dead: It happens again and again and again... and again...
• Badass Bookworm: He's usually the one who knows the most about the alien beings and objects that Torchwood encounters, as well as general history (because, being immortal, he lived through a lot of it).
• Badass Longcoat: Of the World War II greatcoat variety.
• Berserk Button: Do NOT touch his Hand-In-A-Jar.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He can go from dashing and witty to deeply scary and holding a gun in your face in a matter of seconds.
• Body Horror: His body regenerates layer by layer, and pops him back into consciousness as soon as he's able to live again... even if his skin isn't done regenerating yet. He does a lot of screaming at times.
• Breaking Speech: For a hero, he's frighteningly good at demoralizing or breaking his opponents by saying just the right thing.
• Broken Ace: As the series progresses, you definitely see that Jack is having trouble dealing with the shitload of angst he's gotten handed with him. He takes Ianto's death especially hard.
• Brought Down to Badass: In Miracle Day, although he's become mortal, he still has about 200 years of adventuring and alien fighting under his belt.
• Brought Down to Normal: In the first episode of Miracle Day, he discovers that while the rest of the world has become The Ageless, he's now mortal again. He regains his immortality by the end of Miracle Day.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Gray's Cain, given that Gray turned out to be a Card-Carrying Villain.
• Camp Gay: Often puts on this persona when he wants people to underestimate him. And to piss off Rex.
• The Casanova: He will hit on any girl. Or any guy. Or anything for that matter. If it has a semblance of a personality, Jack will flirt with it. If it can consent, Jack hopes it will.
• Cartright Curse: Granted, his immortality means he can't find a lifelong partner anyway, but as it turns out they have a habit of dying in messy ways (such as Estelle and Ianto). Alice's mother Lucretia was a rare lucky one, and even she grew to resent Jack for his eternal youth prior to her death of old age.
• The Charmer: Jack will go for just about anything sentient... and just about anything sentient would go for him.
• Chekhov's Gun: His aforementioned Hand-In-A-Jar has both saved the universe and almost doomed it. It allowed the Master to reconfigure the TARDIS into his paradox machine and effectively rule the world for an entire year. But it was also responsible for the birth of Doctor-Donna and the Ten Clone who effectively help defeat Davros.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Has the occasional flirt with Gwen (and jokingly invites her for a threesome) and has a snog with his ex-boyfriend shortly before he asks his sometime "dance partner" Ianto on a date. Has been happily married at least once, and is still good friends with his ex-girlfriend from the 1940s, pretending to be his own son. Makes sure to spend quality time with his daughter and grandson and takes responsibility for them. The world is ending (again), he goes on a complete bender, gets smashed drunk, hooks up with a random bartender... and because he happens to be mortal that day (long story), he still insists on using condoms.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Was the Time Agency's top interrogator for 10 years. Considering other members included John Hart, and he is shown to do this on occasion, this is somewhat chilling.
• Cursed with Awesome: After episode one of Miracle Day, it's clear how lucky he's been with his type of immortality.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Quite a lot of his dark history has come back to bite him in the ass.
• Deadpan Snarker: His snark flows just as freely as in his parent series.
• Death by Origin Story: He was killed by Daleks on Doctor Who, and was revived and made immortal by a temporarily god-like Rose Tyler. Every time he died subsequently, he then returned to life. When we meet him at the start of the series, his death and resurrection happened 138 years ago. His death, abandonment by the Doctor, and immortality, more or less created the Jack we see here.
• Death Is Cheap: Explicitly immortal so it's okay.
• Ethical Slut: For the most part, extremely ethical about it, to the point where if someone in a monogamous relationship kisses him, he probably won't kiss back. Jack probably could have seduced Gwen away from Rhys if he had really tried to, but instead he was the one telling her to keep some small measure of normality in her life. Despite his desire for Gwen to have a normal relationship with Rhys, he has cast her longing looks in the series.
• Expy:
  • Comes across as a hybrid of the Doctor and Stuart from Queer as Folk.
  • A Badass Longcoat who is Really 700 Years Old, investigates the paranormal with a Five-Man Band, has a foil played by James Marsters, gratuitously stands on rooftops, and is the lead on a more adult Spinoff of the show he originated on? Wait, what show are we talking about? Just check the main images for Angel. Russell T Davies was pretty heavily inspired by Joss Whedon.
• Extreme Omnisexual: "You people and your quaint little categories..."
• The Gadfly: Sometimes plays up his Camp Gay persona just to mess with people. Exaggerated with Rex.
• Good Is Not Soft: One of the biggest differences between himself and the Doctor is that the latter is an All-Loving Hero who has mercy. Jack... tries.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: A very good thing, considering the sheer amount of Body Horror he gets subjected to.
• The Hero: Main good guy, or as close to one Torchwood gets.
• Iconic Item: His Badass Longcoat.
• Immortality Hurts: Especially if it's well within reason that he has died over a billion times. He was once buried alive. He suffocated to death and came back every few minutes for two thousand years. That's not the worst that's happened to him.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Jack is well aware of the sexual tension between himself and Gwen. He also goes to many lengths to make sure her relationship with Rhys succeeds.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: He has quite a strong jaw, and is one of the more overtly heroic members of Torchwood (comparatively speaking).
• Large Ham: Occasionally. He's often more boisterous and louder than the other members of Torchwood, who tend to speak in a more subdued, realistic way.
• The Leader: He is the boss of the reformed Torchwood.
• Leitmotif: "Captain Jack's Theme", a barnstorming (literally) action theme that also captures Jack's subtle mystique. According to Murray Gold, he wrote the theme around the phrase "here he comes in a ruddy great tractor", as the theme first plays when Jack, well, drives through a barn in a tractor shooting the villagers keeping the team captive. This would also be referenced in the Children of Earth soundtrack, where one of the tracks is bluntly called "Tractor Attack".
• Limited Wardrobe: Always wears some variation of a blue shirt, dark trousers held up by suspenders, brown boots and an RAF greatcoat. (When it's destroyed, Ianto finds a new one for him within a day while the world is ending.) While there was some variation in earlier series, his outfit goes completely unchanged for the duration of Miracle Day.
• Living Forever Is Awesome: While dying a lot isn't fun, living a lot provides a lot of opportunities for tail. It also comes in handy in his line of work.
• Loveable Sex Maniac: According to Ianto, Jack's style in bed is "innovative... bordering on the avant-garde." When he's joined up with three Doctors (Ten, Doctor-Donna and the Hand Clone), he makes it clear they don't want to know what he's thinking.
• Mean Boss: His management style involves a lot of snapping and shouting at people who question him and he seems to consider explaining his more unpopular decisions to be a completely foreign concept (which is unfortunate, because he's almost always right).
• Mr. Fanservice: He's the character most likely to get naked (which was also Lampshaded in Doctor Who). Finally gets a proper (and quite magnificent) sex scene in series 4.
• Mr. Vice Guy: You'd think it would be his lust that gets him into trouble, but it's actually his brashness.
• Mysterious Past: Other than his immediate family, birthplace, and former occupation, almost nothing is known about him. What is known normally isn't pretty.
• No Name Given: "Jack Harkness" is not his real name, but one he stole from a World War II pilot and has used ever since.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He seems to be a Camp Gay silly fop, but Beware the Silly Ones because he can and will shoot to kill.
• Offing the Offspring: At the climax of Children of Earth, he's forced to use his grandson as an "antenna" for the signal that will destroy the 456, killing him in the process, because Stephen is the only child available as Jack doesn't have time to find another. The trauma causes Jack to leave Earth for a while, as seen in "The End of Time".
• Out of Time, Out of Mind: 1874 years of unending torture didn't seem to bother him too much. It is possible that he simply stayed dead for the duration of it, but it can't be known.
• Papa Wolf: He is older than his team by a wide margin so he's basically the Team Dad, and you are in for a world of pain if you cause trouble for them. The Doctor has mercy. He doesn't. This is best shown on three separate occasions: first when he tricks a Starfish Alien in human form that manipulated Tosh via sex and emotions into teleporting into the heart of the sun, when his team was captured by cannibals and he performed a Big Damn Heroes with a tractor and a pump action shotgun, and when he shoots a Mad Scientist dead for shooting Owen.
• Really 700 Years Old: Now past the 2000 mark but he hasn't aged at all save for some gray hairs.
• Really Gets Around: If someone has any kind of sexuality, they will be attracted to Jack, and Jack will be attracted to them.
• Resurrective Immortality: He can technically die, but only for a short while (in at least one case, for several days) due to a mixture of respawnig and From a Single Cell.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Has seen more pain and destruction than any other good-aligned character in the Whoniverse, except the Doctor and possibly Rory Williams. He becomes even more traumatized after the events of Children of Earth. He manages to weaponize that fact from the get-go in Miracle Day, when he's able to suggest experimenting on the horrifyingly gruesome victims of Miracle Day's consequences, without being halted by his own emotions.
• The Slow Path: Has had to wait from 1869 to 2008 for the Doctor to fix his vortex manipulator, and again from 27 AD to 2009 (with many, many deaths).
• Time Police: Formerly, as a Time Agent, though he left after losing two years' worth of memories.
• Touched by Vorlons: Thanks to the Bad Wolf, he'll never die permanently. At least, not until he becomes the Face of Boe (if he really is the Face of Boe).
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: Jack mentions having once had a boyfriend who opened doors dramatically like Gwen, but he put up with it because he was one of twins. "Twin acrobats. I should write that book. Or maybe illustrate it."
• What the Hell, Hero?: Gets it and dishes it out.
  • On the receiving end, gets this in his first appearance when his "harmless" Chula ambulance is in fact threatening to destroy humanity due to its malfunctioning nanogenes.
  • On the giving end, to the Tenth Doctor when he finally catches up with him, for abandoning him on Satellite 5, and for the Doctor's Fantastic Racism about his immortality.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Dying a lot and centuries of waiting isn't fun.

Tropes associated with Big Finish

Big Finish

Voiced By: John Barrowman

Captain Jack Harkness is the man in charge at Torchwood: knowledgeable, immortal, absolutely gorgeous. At his core, oscillates between Team Dad and Action Hero. We've definitely seen him be the Science Hero as well, though usually other members of the team (read: Tosh) have that down.

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• The Bus Came Back: He's the second major character from the new series to get an audio spin-off, after Kate Stewart and UNIT.
• Mugged for Disguise: He's briefly forced to wear the Sixth Doctor's infamous coat and pose as him. This being Jack, he somehow manages to pull the look off if promotional artwork is anything to go by.
• The Reveal: "Month 25" reveals much about Jack's falling out with the Time Agency, why he had two years of his memory wiped, and that his real name is Javic Piotr Thane.
• Screw Yourself: Well of course Jack would hit on Jack. Extreme Omnisexual, remember?

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