History WMG / SamuraiJackAku

Possibly as an homage to his role as Hexxus from ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest''. But when he auditioned for the role, he was deemed too scary by Cartoon Network and turned down. (Much like when he tried to play [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Judge Doom]]) As a result, he only got a one-shot role in the episode "Jack Tales" while Creator/{{Mako}} ended up voicing Aku.

[[folder:Aku and His Cult]]

As an alternative to the idea Aku knows nothing about the cult or the Daughters of Aku: As a living fraction of the UltimateEvil, Aku has never been especially impressed by humanity. Jack is only a WorthyOpponent because of the sword; Aku is largely dismissive of his impressive abilities even without it, and has the rest of humankind under his control. Considering it looks pretty easy to get into Aku’s fortress to do him homage, the High Priestess probably came in raving about him and swore to supply him with a task force of ultra-loyal warriors in seventeen years’ time. Aku then probably rolled his eyes, said, "Sure. Whatever. Thanks." and sincerely hoped Jack would be long dead by then.

[[WMG:Aku deep down has a [[HoYay gay crush]] [[FoeYay on Jack]].]]

She's always dreamed of marrying and fucking Aku for her entire life. The fact that she refers to her own daughters as if they were Aku's daughters would imply this. Going with with the above theory that [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Aku finds his cult to be too weird and creepy]], he cut off all ties with the cult because [[{{Asexuality}} he's never had any interest in sexuality]] (especially if it involves lowly, pathetic mortals that he considers beneath him).

Jack and Aku are from Japan, and Orochi is a ''huge'' cultural thing there, often even being used as a demon king in fiction. That and ''The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon'' was one of the chief inspirations for Samurai Jack, and, no surprise, that film dealt with a battle against Yamata no Orochi. So Aku turning into Yamata no Orochi as a OneWingedAngel form would be fitting.

Aku's been tormented and left a nervous wreck for ''50 years'' to the point he's too terrified to even leave his lair, but then finally manages to seemingly win for once... imagine how he's going to react if something happens to ruin that. He might get his '[[Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective Ratigan]] [[VillainousBreakdown Moment]]' as Jax Blade puts it.

** Besides, this is Jack we're talking about. He can ''jump good'' and fight armies and only get a little winded. Who's to say that Jack might not be able to live to be a BadAssGrandpa whose Really700YearsOld?

That [[JerkassGod asshole god]] [[GreaterScopeVillain Set]] caused it. The same God responsible for the Minions of Set, an enemy Jack can only defeat with DivineIntervention. He [[GodInHumanForm disguised himself in human form]] and [[https://youtu.be/Bx71Sbpbe8s?t=225 gave]] that mysterious substance that gave Aku sentience.

[[WMG: The Black Mass assimilated various humans.]]
The original form of Aku, the Black Mass is a cosmic evil, but a mindless one. Yet when Aku is "born" from the poisoned arrow, he immediately possesses intelligence and a human-like personality (albeit [[TheSociopath a psychopathic one]]). Throughout the millennia, a number of people fell into the black goop that Aku later came from. It's possible that this is where Aku got his intellect and personality from; the various souls that fell into this EldritchAbomination fragment ended up adding intelligence onto it, but any positive trait in their personality was rejected by [[MadeOfEvil this mass of cosmic evil]].

As shown in "The Birth of Evil, Part 1", Aku as we know him was born when the Emperor, armed with an arrow dipped in an enchanted poison, fired it at the Black Mass, accidentally transforming it into a new kind of monster. However it seems weird that Aku, who was literally born just a few minutes before (and came from a mindless primordial entity no less), already knew how to speak and give himself a name, and also knew how to use his superpowers to consciously inflict evil upon the world.

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[[WMG:[[HoYay Aku deep down has a gay crush on Jack]].]]

** It may simply be the massive, amorphous sea of darkness he transformed into in ''Jack And The Zombies''. [[spoiler:He does transform into something similar in the final battle, simply raining sharp parts of himself onto the battlefield and instantly wiping out most of Jack's allies.]]

** [[spoiler:Zig-zagged. Jack defeats Aku and survives, but has to deal with a different bittersweet ending.]]

[[WMG:Aku will go utterly berserk when [[UnstoppableRage his apparent victory over Jack is undone]]]]

[[WMG: Aku's time travel screech utilizes OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow]]

The original form of Aku, the Black Mass is a cosmic evil, but a mindless one. Yet when Aku is "born" with the poison arrow, he immediately possesses intelligence and a human-like personality(albeit [[TheSociopath a psychopathic one]]). Throughout the millennia a number of people fell into the black goop that Aku later came about. It's possible that this is where Aku got his intellect from; the various souls that fell into this EldritchAbomination fragment ended up adding intelligence onto it, but any positive trait in their personality was rejected by [[MadeOfEvil this mass of cosmic evil]].

[[WMG: In Season 1 Episode 6, it was not Aku/Ikra who failed the Jewel's test, but Jack.]]

[[WMG:[[HoYay Aku deep down has a gay crush on Jack.]]]]
I mean think about it, he fooled Jack twice (if you count the comic) with female disguises. Aku probably has the hots for Jack deep down due to always revolving his mind around Jack. Most of the scenes of the show have him speak so much about the Samurai. He wasn’t even disgusted when Jack showed any romantic interest towards his women forms (in disguise, of course). Heck, he even had a whole funk in season 5 due to his inability to beat Jack, and his mind was so occupied around Jack that he talked to a therapist version of himself. It also makes the show funnier to watch.

Aku's ability to utilize time travel has always been a potential plothole, as he never attempts to go back and kill Jack in his childhood and [[spoiler: doesn't follow Jack and Ashi back in time to try to protect his weaker past-self.]] It's most likely that Aku isn't able to time travel to a point he already exists in, which is consistent with [[spoiler: Ashi returning Jack to a few moments after Aky flung him into the future.]]

* Confirmed, more or less. Baldwin voices Aku in Season 5.

The Scotsman's magic bagpipes and the robo samurai were both capable of causing Aku pain, but Aku only attributes the sword as being able to kill him.

Any human, even one as kind-hearted as Jack, will have some "impurity" in them. Aku, by contrast, does have a pure heart. It's just [[PureIsNotGood pure evil.]]

** Well, probably not. Season 5 was the series' GrandFinale, so...