This would make Jared a reincarnation of the fish. Note their similar purposes. Jared is there to try and keep the Warden from going overboard but always fails. The Twins would be Thing One and Thing Two and maybe Alice and Jailbot are Sally and her brother seeing as they are both guards and it was the kids who ultimately capture Things 1 and 2.
- It contains and punishes evil people.
- The punishment is done in the most horrific way possible.
- The path to the jail seems to be outside the normal boundaries of reality.
- Jailbot carries Jackknife through the surreal opening scene, which is a reference to life, into the white light of death, and ends up in Superjail.
- The jail seems to have an infinite interior.
- It froze over at one point.
- It's inside a volcano, even!
- Two volcanoes. One volcano somehow formed inside of the other. Still hot, though.
- He's extremely sadistic and melodramatic.
- He takes great pleasure in the pain and suffering of others.
- He's able to warp reality at a whim
- He strongly disagrees with traditional views of justice
- He wears purple, which is usually associated with pride - the thing that got the Devil cast out in the first place.
- Hell, forget the purple, he is proud. He refuses to ever admit he did anything wrong, and thinks he's completely in control of everything.
- Is a Man of Wealth and Taste, albeit a very colorful one.
- Jared, his main whipping boy, is a man who gives into temptation almost every other episode.
- The Twins are fallen angels.
- Alternatively the twins are just plain angels. They make constant efforts to thwart the Warden's plans and although their methods are violent and chaotic there is something very old testament about angels smiting the legions of hell.
- Angels were also not always the kindly, saintly creatures that modern tellings would have you believe. Angels could be outright cruel and chaotic, and eldritch abominations at that, which could fit the Twins and their less-than-human nature.
- Alice serves as his guard, to punish and humiliate the captives and intimidate them with the sin of lust.
- Superjail eventually turns into a Utopia once his influence is removed.
- And here's the kicker: He will supposedly declare war on the entire world in an attempt to make earth an expanded version of his current domain.
- But what does this say about Jackknife who always escapes Superjail?
- Jackknife is they guy who's always saved from hell, but somehow gets back in one way or another.
- Given the Hell interpretation, what if Jackknife is a demon and every time he breaks out he's just possessing another criminal in the real world until Jailbot tracks him down. It would explain how he starts off in so many different places all of the time and somehow never dies.
- Well, then what would this say about Superhell? Hell inside Hell inside a Volcano inside an alternate dimension?
- But what does this say about Jackknife who always escapes Superjail?
- Warden is Satan and Jailbot is The Grim Reaper. Jailbot's frame bears similarity to a hoaded cloak, and he does the Warden's bidding. He's a floating death machine who fills Superjail with the denizens of the damned.
- Which same universe as the Hitchhiker's Guide?
- Either one. Or all of them. It doesn't really matter, given Superjail's pansdimensional physics.
- Well, a lunar base version of Superjail was part of the original pilot (in the extra features, under "An Abandoned Sequence").
- The similarities between the two is almost uncanny. You have Warden and Galactica, who's father were both wardens, and both died in a freak accident. They both have artificial lifeforms that see them as their parent, though hardly ever act on that desire. Massacres happen once an episode (though Dead Leaves was an OVA...). They both have insane animation, and are very colorful. this almost one of those 'Chicken or the egg' type questions.
- He has numerous superweapons built without any explanation to Jared. (And why should he explain to stick-in-the-mud Jared?)
- Jailbot is sent out to search and capture the most depraved and violent of criminals to be enclosed within Superjail.
- He allows said inmates to kill each other with little repercussions, sometimes even promoting it, to ensure that only the strongest survive for future super soldiers.
- Jared, short spineless Yes-Man he may be, has been shown to be a fairly competent sniper - a pretty good thing to have under your thumb.
- Don't forget the entire plot for the two-parter season finale.
- This troper wishes that people would stop comparing him to Willy Wonka. Totally different character! Can we just declare a total radio silence on the Willy Wonka franchise in this fandom? Please?
- Yeah, this Troper doesn't know where people are pulling that one from...
- Will you accept Willy Wonka's Evil Twin, then?
- If you don't like it, don't read it.
- Word of God has stated that Gene Wilder's Wonka was a large influence in the creation of the Warden. Personally, I'd mark the Warden as just a teensy bit too sadistic and downright crude to be Willy Wonka himself, despite the similar antics.
Think about it...
- Jacknife first gets sent to Superjail for stealing a rabbit (chasing the white rabbit).
- To get into Superjail you have to go through a hole in the clouds (the rabbit-hole).
- Superjail, like Wonderland, seems to exist in a dimension where you can only gets there by rather strange means.
- There's Alice.
- The Warden would be an even more insane and sadistic version of the Mad Hatter.
- To be specific, he's a horrifying hybrid of the Johnny Depp and American McGee's Alice versions of the character.
- The Twins are Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
- Jared's nervous mannerisms seem reminiscent of the White Rabbit.
- In the pilot episode, Jacknife is put into a perfectly normal cell lacking any of the insanity of Superjail, until he swallows the "drink me".
- Holy crap! This makes the most sense out of anything on this page.
- They're talking about Double D. Both the warden and Double D have black hair and gaps in their teeth, and their both pretty pale and scrawny. Imagine that something makes Double D go absolutely insane, maybe Ed and Eddy get killed in front of him by a child molester, and he decides to put all of his genius towards creating a prison that can hold criminals better than the regular sort. Using his notes from the episode where his friends and himself found out the world used cartoon physics, and his wacky inventions, he creates Superjail. Jared and Alice have no relation to Ed, Edd n Eddy while Jailbot is really a pimped-out Plank, and one of Double D's first creations that was specifically for Superjail. His outfit is Jimmy's design.
- Jossed. Word of God for Ed, Edd n Eddy has stated Double D is blonde under his hat.
- Two words: Hair Dye
- The above Jossing is also Jossed. That Word of God is actually a Flip-Flop of God, as the answer changes whenever he gets asked.
- Jossed. Word of God for Ed, Edd n Eddy has stated Double D is blonde under his hat.
- Think about it: The Warden is a classic Mad Scientist sociopath type, who we've already seen has an eye for world domination. What if TPTB (maybe the Time Police) finally decided that the only way to hold him would be to kill two birds with one stone—keeping him busy by giving him a little place of his own to to wreak havoc, and letting him use the worst of the worst hardened criminal scum as his own test subjects. This also explains the twins—they're the true jailers, and interfere with The Warden's plans to keep him in line/for their own amusement. Also, this might explain why the prison is in two volcanoes—one for the Superjail, one for the area containing the Superjail. When they realized they wouldn't even be able to control him, they threw him in Time Jail.
- The Warden is Superjail's Darklord.
- He'll die unceremoniously around the end of the episode, if Jailbot doesn't up and kill him at the start or something.
- Although, with how much the show likes to screw with people, it'd be just as likely that it ends with Jacknife being the first and only person to survive his sentence in Superjail and be set free.... Until he commits a crime about 12 seconds later and gets sent back.
- Pretty much what you just described happens to Paul in "Sticky Discharge"
- Unlikely, given the mutual respect that formed between Jaknife and Jailbot in one of the episodes. Jailbot even intentionally let him go at the end of that one.
- Alternatively, Jacknife may be the only character to survive while everyone else dies... and then when he makes it out to the real world, is unceremoniously killed in some other way (a heart attack, knifed by another criminal, crushed by a falling satellite, or any other pathetic cause of death).
- Although, with how much the show likes to screw with people, it'd be just as likely that it ends with Jacknife being the first and only person to survive his sentence in Superjail and be set free.... Until he commits a crime about 12 seconds later and gets sent back.
- Or, by some random series of events, JACKKNIFE KILLS THE WARDEN!!!
- Given how little attention is paid to the countless deaths in Superjail it would be a huge narrative inversion to end with the whole of Superjail reminiscing on the death of an inmate. What's more it would bookend the series as it the pilot opens with Jacknife's first arrival in Superjail.
At some point, the Warden will lose control and Superjail will go critical, causing the Apocalypse that takes place in Ooo's past. The giant chunk in the Earth is were Superjail was located when it exploded.
- Those whose deaths actually stick can be chalked up to being forgotten by the Warden or the jail, or being purposely left dead as there's no place for them in his vision. The Warden (or a jail entity itself) may subconsciously control and reset the population to what he remembers best, as a way of putting his toys back after they're done being played with.
Jared is a Drudge, Alice is either a Wizened Soldier or a Bloodbrute (or even a Weisse Frau), Jailbot a Manikin, The Twins are either Telluric or Actors/Wisps of another Fae, The Doctor is a Chirurgeon, Jacknife is a Bloodbrute or a Troll, Gary is/was a Talespinner, Ash is a Fireheart, Lord Stingray is a Larcenist or a Shadowsoul (or a Water-Dweller) and Cancer is either a Treasured, a Muse or a Playmate.
The Mistress is another true fae, with Ultraprison as her realm.
Now, one obvious assumption is that the Twins managed to return home in some way. But if a fan wanted to throw in a further layer of mindscrew and play about with the already-loose continuity, there is this to consider:
What if time passed differently on their planet than it did on Earth, and the ones that returned to Superjail weren't the originals at all, but the offspring of the Twins (who either actually became overlords and/or died off or disappeared in some way), or perhaps backup clones made to carry out business and fun back at the jail while they were away?One could probably hope it's not the canon case (lest it'd come off too "Simpsons", or even DC Comics' weird initial hamfisted attempt at explaining away the Black Canaries), but it's something to think about with the love of swerves and twists.
- The Warden, causing her to become disgusted and bitter once more, seeing as it isn't likely for her to spring for getting married with him like her fanon self. If she does somehow begin liking him, it winds up completely one-sided.
- Bruce, seeing as he's done little to nothing so far and is the least-developed of the Ultraprison staff. Maybe there's a reverse Warden->Alice situation where only Bruce has actual affection for her afterwards, or it'll be played as the Mistress developing feelings for an indifferent Bruce (who like Alice, only did it to get the job done).
- Ash, causing her to "fire up" once more.
- The Twins, Peedee, or someone else completely unexpected.
- Confirmed, sorta. The Triplets bring a tabloid of her to life, involving her making Stingray her sex slave.
- She's possibly his sister. Perhaps Jacknife's mother died when he was young, or she was as deadbeat as his father and left, taking the other child with her to raise on her own. Or chances are that his father (as lecherous and criminal as he was) likely slept with many women, so they could also be half-siblings.
- We know one of Mistress' inmates was the mother of his son. Although they never specify and it could be any of them, there is the chance that Jacknife might have slept with his very counterpart— possibly his own sister.
- Jacknife himself was conspicuously absent in "Stingstress", but may have made his way into Ultraprison then by boarding the ship at the end (as he did before).
- Hunter somehow escapes her confinement, somehow stumbles across a memory or file on the little guy, and shapeshifts into him- leading to a much more bloodthirsty and vicious copy of Combaticus running amok and wanting some revenge on the Twins, perhaps testing them with the face of their own deceased clone.
- Negative Continuity prevails for him, and he appears unharmed and as ready to go as the prototype Jailbots and Bobo were in "Planet Radio", or other dead characters who later turned up relatively intact and okay.
- The Triplets (while they were stranded at Superjail) found the files on Combaticus and made their own version as a way to get back at the Twins for leaving them stuck at such an inferior place.
- Being the "new god of war", the constellation Combaticus arrives as a rather literal deus ex machina in some bloodbath. Maybe with enough bloodshed, he regains a physical form as Gore did (One must hope he doesn't meet as pathetic an end as Gore).
- Considering his original basis was to be Powder, perhaps he gains the power to smite with lightning.
- In another wild guess, a recreated Combaticus could be one of the "alien spore mutants" described for season 4.
- Jossed, the alien spore mutant was Jailbot's "girlfriend"
- He appears as a ghost or hallucination.
- Another time travel paradoxical thing. Perhaps there's a Combaticus who survived in his timeline, who winds up stranded in this one...and sadly must sacrifice himself for the Twins as well in some way, proving that Combaticus isn't meant to live very long.
- Or if someone wanted mindless fan-wankery and continuity back to the end of "Time-Police", perhaps the Combaticus from that paradox somehow teleported or survived the collapse of the timeline and found himself in the recreated continuity (and experiencing his own confusion when he sees a rather familiar looking constellation in the sky).
- He returns in whatever way, but is abducted by Ozzal as a sacrifice and way for him to leave the Twins alone and instead focus on his "grandchild". Or alternatively, Ozzal kills the kid and refuses to acknowledge him as any sort of kin (being that he was unnaturally birthed), thus providing a major Shoot the Dog moment... if his sons even give a crap.
- The Twins use their crystals to either create a tangible illusion of him, or "redecorate" and transform another creature into him to fight. Or bring a golem to life, going with his Greek statue/fighter theme.
This would also provide another layer on why it's no good for him to leave Superjail. If he were to actually mature or become more sadistic and knowing than he was in the pilot, with full knowledge of his capability, it could lead to some sort of takeover. With being content and pleased with just his jail and the status quo, he wants for nothing more (unlike the Mistress when she tried conquering it) but the excitement it supplies. And even if he were to try to leave, his incompetence makes for suffering outside of it anyway, ala "Vacation".
The lunch ladies seem to be the only ones other than Jared and the Superjail inmates known to have died and come back to life, but their resurrections are harder to explain because they are female and Superjail appears to only incarcerate male criminals.
There is no definite explanation for why Superjail convicts would keep on dying and coming back to life, but supposedly either the Warden made them immortal so that he could have fun killing them and not get bored when all the inmates were dead or the Twins made it possible as one of their sadistic games.
Going with the aforementioned discussion of Jared's deaths, it is likely that he was not killed at the end of "Burn, Stoolie, Burn" and that he may return in the upcoming fourth season.
This theory could also explain why the serial killer inmate had a cameo in "Superjail Grand Prix" when he died at the end of his debut episode "Cold-Blooded".
- Or just Leuk (Luke)"What's this? Lee-oo... Lu-.. Luuuke... Emia (EH-mee-uh)? Luke! You're name is Luke!"
- He is quite a bit eccentric
- He appears to be immortal to a point
- He has the power to change his appearance at will
- He has a robot companion. Jailbot being his version of K-9
- His jail is much bigger on the inside than it appears to be on the outside much like a TARDIS
- He has fought against aliens numerous times
And to top it all off, he doesn't bear any sort of resemblance to his father which gives off the idea that he may have been adopted. Or perhaps found by him after a TARDIS crash and raised.