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Aren't the Emoji parent and child pair in Season 5 catlike?

Yeah, but it was just a trend I noticed.

Guess it depends on the person since I've seen reference to them as dog or mouse like.

By the way, for those who didn't see it:

"Santaaa's not comin' cuz santa claus IS DEAD"

edited 29th Dec '17 9:30:26 AM by Gaon

Clearly Aku thinks all cats are assholes.

In fairness, there's a whole trope dedicated to the jerkassery of cats

Anyway, now that this is bumped up, I'll say one final thing. I'm forever praying that I meet and marry a man who gushes so much about me the way the Scotsman gushes so much about his wife . I mean, check out this video.....

edited 11th Jan '18 10:59:08 AM by MsCC93

FUCK, I forgot just HOW awesome she is!

And you just know that the Scotsman's gushing is not that much exaggerated when Jack more or less agrees with him that she's, to quote the man himself, "impressive".

Call her fat, and you'll perish XD. She should have been on season 5. It would have been over if she was given Jack's sword and Aku insulted her weight.

I agree on how the Scotsman wasn't exaggerating on how tough she was. I do think, however, that the gushing regarding her appearance was exaggerated, considering how Jack made an implication that he thought she was ugly the first time he saw her (he even accidentally insulted her weight at the end of the episode).

My guess is that she died between when her last appearance was and Season 5.

I'm really disappointed we didn't see her. I love seeing old ladies being badass.

, She should have appeared, and then have Aku insult her weight . She would have at least put up a good fight against him, weakening him, and then Jack would defeat Aku in the future.

Anyway, I was on Youtube and I googled the "Everybody Loves Somebody" song, and I saw many Samurai Jack fans commenting about how the show brought them there.

While yes, this show did introduce me to the song, but I do genuinely love the song. I bought it off iTunes and I even catch myself singing it at work. It's a really nice song.

edited 19th Jan '18 2:06:44 AM by MsCC93

I dreamed there was a pre-time skip episode of Samurai Jack involving Jack and two other people (one being a girl based off Ashi, although probably without the "insane cult" backstory, while the other guy seemed to be a relatively generic, but kinda nice, weeaboo), going into a mall or other all-purpose shopping place, which has weird objects and denizens.

It turns out the mall/shopping place is alive, and Jack and Not!Ashi make it out (the latter after briefly questioning her sanity after seeing the doors move before Jack shows her that the denizens don't have any human reaction to a laser pointer in the eyes), but the third person died, and the two give him a respectful send off. End ep.

edited 19th Jan '18 6:18:03 AM by Etheru

Well clearly the mall was a Stand user.

Realized something-Jack's father is the one who gave Aku self-awareness, right? Thanks to the poisoned arrow he went from a mindless mass of darkness to a sentient mastermind. If Aku is self-aware because his Jack's father, that would make him his half-brother in a bizarre sense, much like how C-3PO could be considered Luke's half-brother. Just something to think about it. I'm surprised Aku never trolled Jack about how his father essentially created him given without that self-awareness, he isn't really Aku now is he?

I'm more concerned about what that means for his relationship with Ashi. With that theory, she's basically Jack's niece.

edited 24th Feb '18 9:27:30 PM by Weirdguy149

What's to be concerned about? All he did was fire an arrow, there's not actual meaningful familial relationship there.

I'm being sarcastic here.

I recall creating a discussion for the Draco in Leather Pants for the Daughters of Aku. I'm not sure if they count, considering how they are brainwashed into thinking are good and Jack is bad.

edited 1st Mar '18 6:13:17 AM by MsCC93

Say, what if Aku was voiced by Tony Jay?

...I just realized:

Why didn't Aku just follow Jack back in time?

He'd be more menacing but at the same time he wouldn't have his signature comedic charm.

I'm guessing he knew he was already dead, and so he gave up.

edited 5th Mar '18 7:00:01 PM by Weirdguy149

Makes sense, although mere moments after I asked, I considered that even Aku can't travel back in his own timeline.

This makes his Oh, Crap! reaction even more logical. Jack managing to go back in time was always his instant loss condition (since they both know who'd win in a totally fair fight).

Ah. Time to rant about what I'd change about this series again.

• Keep Ashi and the Guardian.
• Instead of Jack losing the sword because he got angry and killed a bunch of critters that Aku had changed into demonic figures, have him lose it a little after that event, let's roll with the assumption that part of his despair actually did involve him throwing away the sword, or losing it - really, losing the sword doesn't have to be shown, and given Jack had to go to another dimension to reclaim it anyway, I don't think the "where" was that important
  • We never see the fight, but we know Jack beat him, and right as Jack leaps in Aku pulls him out and the Guardian gets vaporized, Aku laughing all the while, Jack still getting pissed
    • Years later Jack remembers the Guardian's base, but discovers his corpse there and remembers that the portal was lost (let's assume that fifty years of a horrible future, fighting for his life everyday, and PTSD have made him forget things)
• Jack isn't immortal, but he's still pretty close to his physical prime despite his age (they never did much with this plot point anyway and the graying look better conveys the passage of time).
• Jack doesn't lose the sword because he drops it off of a cliff, he loses it somewhere off-screen, so keep the vision quest, but get rid of him dropping it down a cliff and never trying to retrieve it.
• Now because the Guardian is dead then you can have Ashi be his ticket home, and the flash-forward of future!Jack isn't wasted

So then:

• 50 - Catching up with Jack and meeting Scaramouche
• 51 - Jack meets the Daughters and gets his butt whooped
• 52 - Jack turns the tables on the Daughters and gets eaten by a giant worm
• 53 - Jack and Ashi get out of the giant worm and Ashi sees Jack's true colors
• 54 - Jack shows Ashi the world and hits Despair Event Horizon
• 55 - Ashi goes looking for Jack in one big Continuity Nod, fanservice-y episode and eventually finds and saves him
• 56 - They go to find his sword, and Jack relates the story of how he found the Guardian, beat him, and lost the last portal home - Jack does his vision quest, Ashi kills an army
• 57 - Mix the episode up with Jack and Ashi exploring the world together, and reintroduce the Scotsman and his daughters
• 58 - Jack and Ashi happen to find the Guardian's base, Scaramouche makes it back to Aku and tells him about Jack, Aku shows up, takes Jack's sword
• 59 - The finale basically. Wait, I haven't hit 10 episodes? You mean this condensed, altered version of the season leaves a single episode open? Really? Well ya don't say? Man I must have cut out something really really important... hmmm... I guess we spend this final episode catching up with the altered timeline and not killing off Ashi to make Jack miserable, maybe spend some time seeing how much better off the world is now
• 60 - the awesome final episode where Ashi doesn't die and she and Jack have awesome warrior babies

Cut, print, now let's reboot Megas XLR!

edited 5th Mar '18 7:33:16 PM by Soble

That does make me wonder about what exactly happened from Future Aku's perspective. Jack goes back in time and he's able to react and go "Oh no" which indicates that he didn't just pop out of existence immediately. I wonder how long he actually had before he disappeared. My guess is the timeline shifted a few seconds after he said that.