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The Making of Samurai Jack
This show was so awesome. I really love the simplistic style and how they let the animation breathe and speak for itself.
<3! Supercool.
This. Fucking. Guy.
Long before Jamie McCrimmon ever appeared on my radar, there was This. Fucking. Guy.
He was never giving a proper name, just The Scotsman. And sweet holy hell, he was the Scotsman to end all Scotsmen.
He carried grenades in his sporran.
His claymore was imbued with magic runes and was basically indestructable.
He has a fucking machine gun for a leg (not shown here).
He kicked ass with all of the above while wearing a kilt, which he accused Jack of trying to peek up when they first met.
Every episode he touched turned to comedy gold.
Also he married a woman who ripped the shit out of an entire robot demon army with her bare hands just because their leader called her fat.
And he still considers himself “the mellow one” of his clan.
*insert Come At Me Bro .gif here*
And since someone compared him to Him
Aku (voiced by Mako) is Samurai Jack’s main enemy. His name means “evil” in Japanese. He is similar to Akuma, the evil demon with burning eyes from Japanese mythology (which may also be another source for his name). He is an extremely powerful demonic wizard whose primary ability is shapeshifting like the god of evil Amatsu-Mikaboshi, though he possesses many other powers. He requires no food, water, or air and is capable of interstellar travel. He also has the ability to spy on Jack and others from a large sphere he can summon at will in his tower.
A significant aspect of the series is that Aku is immortal, and Jack’s samurai sword is the only weapon capable of harming and finally defeating him; even the slightest physical contact with the sword’s blade causes Aku severe pain, and wounds inflicted by it take much longer to heal from. Because of this, Aku does not like to fight Jack himself (only doing so when Jack is incapacitated or without the sword), preferring to let his minions do it for him. Aku is also vulnerable to varying degrees to other forms of magical or divine attacks (such as the powers and artifacts of gods).
Aku constantly antagonizes Jack, often attacking him while he is weak, and other times defending himself from Jack’s own gambits. The two seem doomed never to defeat each other, for though Jack has bested Aku on numerous occasions, Aku merely transforms into a small creature and escapes, usually calling out a taunt over his shoulder as he flees, a fact that he himself is aware of and even makes a reference to in one episode.
The episode The Birth of Evil reveals Aku’s origin. Long ago in the vastness of space, a great formless evil appeared. Before the darkness could do harm to the universe, it was set upon by the kings of three religions: Odin, the one-eyed king of Asgard and the Norse Gods; Ra, the sun god and king of the Gods of Egypt; and Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, the supreme being in Hindu mythology. So fierce was their attack on the shadow, that it was completely destroyed, save for a small fragment that was flung aside in the heat of battle.
For ages the fragment drifted through the cosmos and eventually fell to Earth, and caused the impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs when it landed. The land around its impact site eventually formed into the islands of Japan, where it slowly grew and spread like poison over the course of eons, creating an ever-spreading forest of black spikes and toxic tar that devoured any who entered.
Eventually the forest grew so large that the Daimyo of the land (Jack’s father), decided to kill the evil at its source. Armed with a magic oil given to him by Buddhist monks, the Lord and his cavalry rode into the heart of the forest, the Lord himself the only one to survive. Once at the black lake at the forest’s center, the Samurai Lord doused an arrow into the oil he was given, lit it with a green flame, and shot it into the lake. Instead of destroying the evil however, the magic arrow gave it both a will and consciousness, thus the demon Aku was born. Aku proved to be unstoppable, so with the help of the three gods, Jack’s father forged a sword capable of harming him. With it, he was able to defeat Aku and somehow turn the demon into a black tree. This imprisonment lasted less than a decade however, as a solar eclipse released Aku upon the world once more.
While he is usually presented as a serious and threatening foe (as well as being pure evil), Aku is also a source of comedy due to his outrageous design and sometimes wise-guy behavior, supported by Mako’s over-the-top voice acting.
Favorite character ever
Him (voiced by Tom Kane) is a mysterious, supernatural, red-skinned, effeminate and immortal devil-like creature. His physical appearance is an amalgamation of sorts with crab-like claws, red skin, pointed ears, a hooked nose, yellow/green eyes and a long, curled beard, wearing makeup, a woman’s red jacket and skirt with pink tulle at the collar and hemline, and black, thigh-high, spike-heeled hooker boots.
His voice ranges from a high-pitched falsetto to a deep, booming voice.
According to the narrator in Him’s first appearance, he is “so evil, so sinister, so horribly vile, that even the utterance of his name strikes fear into the hearts of men”.
In one of the episodes he refers to some of the other villains as mortals, which further supports the argument that he is the Devil. In fact, in one of The Whoopass Girls shorts from the early 1990s, he is identified as the Devil, but never in the regular series.
Him’s plans often consist of manipulating events to either drive the Powerpuff Girls insane or simply drive wedges between them, many of which often come close to succeeding. He is shown to feed off the negative emotions of human beings and become powerless when there is little or no negativity in the air.
In “Speed Demon”, Him is revealed to be the villain who takes over Townsville in the future. Him, feeding on the negative emotions of the citizens who are now destabilized, becomes a gigantic muscular version of himself. The girls return things to normal by going back in time.
Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack happened in the same city, just a thousand years apart.
MIND. BLOWN.
Oh my God.
omg
Mind asplode, alkgajgafga
ASFDGSAFDGFSAGDHSHG EPIC
I want to know what happened to the city and to those girls now…
They grew old and died?
I want to know what happened to Him, since he’s immortal. .-. (But, as an MCR lyric taught me, immortality doesn’t mean never dying.)
Powerpuff Girls and Samurai Jack happened in the same city, just a thousand years apart.
M I N D F U C K
D:
HOLY SHIT.
Um. If you actually knew the show you’d know Samurai Jack didn’t take place in one single city. ~*~*~OMG MINDFUCK I BELIEVE EVERYTHING I READ ON TUMBLR~*~*~
PPG took place in the USA, Samurai Jack was born in Japan but in the show he travels pretty much all over the place. In that^ SJ episode some talking dogs were mining the remains of Townsville.
The “universe” is the same because the shows were created by the same guy.
Because I’m ten years old
Courage the Cowardly Dog, season 1. (Links from strikegently.)
S01E01 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: A NIGHT AT KATZ MOTEL/CAJUN GRANNY
S01E02 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: SHADOW OF COURAGE/DR, LE QUACK
S01E03 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: COURAGE MEETS BIGFOOT/HOTHEAD
S01E04 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: DEMON IN THE MATTRESS/FREAKY FRED
S01E05 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: NIGHT OF THE WEREMOLE/MOTHER’S DAY
S01E06 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: DUCK BROS/SHIRLEY THE MEDIUM
S01E07 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: KING RAMSES CURSE/THE CLUTCHING FOOT
S01E08 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: HUNCHBACK OF NOWHERE/GODS MUST BE GOOSEY
S01E09 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: BLACK PUDDLE/EVERYONE WANTS TO DIRECT
S01E10 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: SNOWMAN COMETH/ADORABLE LOVEABLE DUCKLING
S01E11 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: HEAD OF BEEF/KLUB KATZ
S01E12 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: CHICKEN FROM OUTER SPACE/CENTER OF NOWHERE
S01E13 ->DOWNLOAD .AVI: LITTLE MURIEL/THE GREAT FUSILLI
