History SamuraiJack / TropesSeason5

* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler: Episode XCVII reveals that those black bodysuits the Ashi and the rest of her sisters are wearing are ''not'' suits at all, but rather ''black ash burned into their skins'' when her mother threw her and her sisters into a pile of...something...as some sort of tribute to Aku. Ashi and her sisters were naked the entire time we've seen them until Episode XCVII, when Ashi finally undergoes a GoodCostumeSwitch and scrubs the black ash off her. Same goes for the High Priestess mother in Episode XCVIII, when she disrobes herself... and also reveals that she seemingly has the same black ash burned into her skin when she jumped into the hot coals after pushing her daughters there.]]

** It's notable that Ashi's FatalFlaw/ Saving Grace (her appreciation for natural beauty) is hinted at here; though she declares she dislikes the deers' affectionate behavior, she does the creatures no harm; she only stomps her foot to scare them away.

* RedOniBlueOni: Initially, Jack's subconscious plays the rational, intellectual blue to Jack [[spoiler:who, although still apparently calm and even-tempered, lost his sword due to succumbing to rage, momentarily becoming a red oni]]. Gradually, his subconscious transforms into a full-blown red oni--even turning red--while Jack maintains his serenity and composure, filling the role of the blue counterpart. [[spoiler:However[[note]]Despite Jack's seeming calm demeanor, his lapse into unreasoning anger and failure to regain his emotional balance still classifies him as a red oni until he confronts his subconscious.[[/note]] ]]

* RedOniBlueOni: Initially, Jack's subconscious plays the rational, intellectual blue to Jack [[spoiler:who, although still apparently calm and even-tempered, lost his sword due to succumbing to rage, momentarily becoming a red oni]]. Gradually, his subconscious transforms into a full-blown red oni--even turning red--while Jack maintains his serenity and composure, filling the role of the blue counterpart.[[spoiler:[[note]]Despite Jack's seeming calm demeanor, his lapse into unreasoning anger and failure to regain his emotional balance still classifies him as a red oni until he confronts his subconscious.[[/note]] ]]

** The bodysuits the Daughters of Aku are wearing...[[spoiler: they're not typical bodysuits. They're some kind of ambiguously [[MadeOfEvil dark substance]] that [[ClingyCostume bonds to the skin]] of the Daughters of Aku after being shoved into a pit of burning coals. While naked. As children.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The season features more visible blood, less ambiguous violence, Jack's constant urges to [[DrivenToSuicide end his life]], [[spoiler:as well as the Scotsman's death at the hands of Aku]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: Scaramouche's dagger is a variant: that can make things explode with a touch via Resonant Frequencies.

* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: [[spoiler: In the final leg of their travels together, Jack leaves Ashi behind because of his [[HurtingHero lifelong experience with loss]].]]

* OffModel: In episode XCIV, Hallucination!Jack is this trope [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools played for horror]]. It's the same model as young Jack, but bent and distorted in such a way to emphasize Jack's impending breakdown.

* WalkingArmory: Without his signature sword, Jack now carries multiple weapons at once - a BladeOnAStick, a gun, various daggers, grenades, shoulder armor that can slide down to form shields, and a ''Gatling gun'' strapped to his bike. [[spoiler:He loses all of them in his fight with the Daughters.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Aku's forces are the ''only'' ones who hate Jack. Everyone else adores and respects him for the good he's done to the point XCVII is one long march of Ashi meeting people who have nothing but admiration for him, including statues and songs created in his honor. Even the bounty hunters at Da' Samurai's BadGuyBar who Jack defeated in the past ''respect'' Jack.

Set fifty years after Season 4, Jack is still stuck in the future looking for a way to return to the past, and to his own surprise, his body has not aged. He has lost all sense of time and is slowly going insane from the struggle. As his journey drags ever on, the samurai wonders if he will ever succeed in his mission to destroy Aku. The evil demon, who has not shown himself in years, also suffers from depression; his hated nemesis has evaded every peril, including death by natural causes. But unknown to either, a cult of Aku worshipers have raised and trained a band of deadly assassins, for the sole purpose of killing the staunch samurai and winning Aku’s favor.

* CycleOfVirtue: Throughout the series, Jack helps people. Time and again, he comes to the aid of those in trouble. So, in the GrandFinale, when Aku has captured Jack, and is planning to kill him on a live broadcast, EVERYONE Jack has ever helped over a period of fifty years comes to his aid, launching an all-out attack on Aku that frees Jack, allowing him to do what he does best.

*** Jack and Aku learn the hard way that by some fluke, Jack has been rendered [[TheAgeless ageless]] and therefore continues to live no matter how many centuries pass (provided that nothing physically harms and kills him). It was fine for Jack being in a stalemate with Aku for only a few years and provided that there was a chance to go home. With the last of the time portals destroyed and Aku effectively withdrawing from open conflict, Jack has to wander around playing the good Samaritan putting out small fires while the overall inferno (Aku's subjugation of the world) blazes unabated. Saying that this has not been good for either Jack or Aku's mental health, would be an understatement.

*** It turns out that going around helping people all of the time in spite of (or because of) the world being a terrible place does make a difference as people will be grateful for the little bit of hope that you've given them. Do it enough and word starts to spread a about a man dressed in white saving people from the forces of evil incarnate. A man who can't be stopped or beaten. A man who (so far as the general population knows) can't be broken. You're not just a guy going around helping people and fighting Aku's forces anymore. You've become a folk hero and legend to inspire everyone who dreams of being free from Aku.

* TheClan: In Episode 5, one of the armies attacking Aku's tower is made [[spoiler:entirely of Scotswomen... led by the Scotsman... and they ''all'' call him "dad". [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex He and his wife have been busy over the last 50 years...]]]]

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Season 5 is much darker, bloodier, and kid-unfriendly then the previous four seasons, and it also has swearing. On top of that, none of the episodes have official titles attached to the roman numerals and the numerals themselves jump forward by a full 40 places from the last episode to air, suggesting a huge gap between them and the end of Season 4

** The three little sheep in Episode XCVIII are a combination of this and BalefulPolymorph as a result of Aku's dark magic on them, as they immediately turn on Jack.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Something Jack eats in XCIX temporarily changes his head into a fish. He's unaware of it, but senses that something is off... perhaps it was something he ate.
** [[spoiler: Aku turns Ashi into a female clone of himself once he discovers the traces of himself that reside within her.]]