Samurai Jack General

However long it took Ashi to disappear, just really slowly and in a way that crippled him so it would sink in how screwed he was.

One thing I noticed about Aku is that although fans love him for being a Laughably Evil villain, you can see the same fans hate him when he does things that any jerkass human being does, such as manipulation and exploiting (S 5 E 9 & 10 and "Jack & the Warrior Woman") and unnecessary psychological torturing (Tale of X-49).

Things like this make fans forget that he enslaved many people, allow monstrosities to reside in his bad future, and massacred Jack's village. We should hate Aku more for doing those .

I think this fandom reaction is due to the fact that it's impossible for someone in real life to wreck havoc with his/her superpowers, but it's possible for people to manipulate and psychologically torture people. That was a clever thing to do on the writers' part. To remind us that although Aku is funny and a cool villain, he's still an irredeemable, evil bastard.

I mean I love the Samurai Jack fandom, but it's a nice observation I noticed.

edited 6th Mar '18 12:23:32 PM by MsCC93

That's pretty much a thing across all fandoms when it comes to fiction.

If they do something crazy like try and take over the world, we can still enjoy them.

But if it's something any smuck with enough raw hate and malice can do (like kidnap a child or something more mundane, but still horrible), that's when it starts hitting too close to home.

I mean, I've seen people say they wish Aku had won in the end just because he was funny. It's really easy for people to lose perspective on things like this, just on sheer scale alone.

Some fans actually saw his death as a Tear Jerker, though. While I saw his death as Aku getting what he deserved, I understand those fans. Aku's death pretty much reminds us of how our childhood will come to an end and some good things never last forever. It sucks .

A funny thing I noticed was that Aku HAS FANGIRLS!

I notice it too, and I understand that viewpoint. Those evil characters who do regular realistic Jerkass behavior reminds us fans about the awful aspects of real life, while other characters that do things like blowing up planets and killing people with their superpowers for fun or using their superpowers to enslave people don't due to how unrealistic and mythical it is.

The unrealistic villains are endearing and interesting, while the regular jerkass characters aren't due to how we always witness those actions in real life.

I also think that's why Aku sent Jack to the future. I'm pretty sure he wanted to psychologically torture Jack and make him go crazy by making Jack get stuck in the future forever.

edited 6th Mar '18 12:57:36 PM by MsCC93

Actually he sent him to the future because he assumed that with entire worlds under his control and all the resources he would have, he'd be able to kill Jack in a way that he couldn't in a one on one fight.

He was wrong. He couldn't even outlast Jack.

...which is exactly why he spent 50 years moping around rather than try to kill Jack when he realized it. Then when Ashi reactivated a time portal and Jack was much more powerful & Past Aku was much weaker, Aku ‘’knew’’ he was screwed & there was nothing he could do about it.

When you really think about it, Aku was always doomed. All he did was delay his inevitable demise.

I don't know if Jack was "much more" powerful.

I mean, he was missing his gi. And his hairpic.

Which makes the Scotsman's "The Reason You Suck" Speech even more epic.

That's the best part. Too bad it didn't end well for the Scotsman.

It went better than expected for him.

So, I was thinking about the final season and how a number of people I talked to said the Guardian was wasted. And I guess that's true or whatever if you want to look at it as the guaranteed conclusion of Jack's story, which I don't think Genndy intended for it to be.

My issue, though, is that the Guardian suggests that Jack isn't ready for the portal yet, but someday he will be. Why? He already beat Aku in Episode 1 and continued to smack him around ever since. He doesn't really do too much different once he goes back to the past, unless the idea was that Jack needed to wait 50 years to learn to stop saying "Finally, my quest is over." before doing things. So I don't really get why he was unworthy to go back to the past at that point.

I guess it's supposed to be part of some grander destiny the universe has in store for Jack. He defeated Aku yes, but he was still needed to deal with many other threats - as seen in the show itself. Maybe Jack would "fix" this timeline before being allowed to go back to his own.

Jack being refused entry to the portal makes sense if you assume the show used split timelines. Then it could be explained by the portal wanting Jack to free the future before he goes and saves the past.

Aku wishes you a Happy St. Patrick's Day with yet another amazing song.

WERE YOU EXPECTING TARA STRONG? WERE YOU EXPECTING PHIL LAMARR? SURE I'M AN AWFUL MENACE, SURE I'M AN AWFUL PRICK. BUT I HOPE YOUR GLASS OF GINNY'S GROWS SMOOTH...AND EXTRA THICC!

edited 18th Mar '18 10:08:36 AM by Gaon

He really likes that meme, huh?

@ LSBK: I know, I'm just pointing out how it's weird that both Aku and Jack exist because of the same man. Yeah there was the Black Mass, but without any sentience it wasn't Aku. And Jack's father is responsible because of a magic arrow.

What happened to the Jack who was sent into the future when the Jack of the future was busy killing Past Aku? At least before he got retgoned. Also, is Jack still The Ageless due to the time travel he went through?

edited 20th Mar '18 2:35:11 PM by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93

...Nothing happened to him, it's the same guy.

I am going to state a few things that were probably already considered obvious

1.) It’s a tad bit ironic that when Jack finally saw Ashi’s face in episodes 3 and 4, all he saw was, if I may coin a phrase from Tim Allen, “A sad, sad, strange little woman”. Yet, by exactly, episode 6, whenever he saw her face, all he saw was a vision of beauty.

2.) It is also a tad bit ironic that Ashi has spent her whole life preparing to kill Samurai Jack, and yet, when she actually gets to properly meet him, it begins to send her down the road to the point where she views him dying as the last thing that she wants to see

I wonder, what IS the Pit of Hate, anyway?

Hell/Demon World, or a place within it, is my headcanon.

If it's Hell, why doesn't Aku just set up his throne there? (Yeah, I know he rules the Earth but still)

Because Earth is a much nicer place

Wasn't the Pit of Hate supposed to be the original pool of evil that Aku was spawned from?

That's what they say, but "Birth of Evil" shows him being the surviving fragment of an Eldritch Abomination that's become sentient.