Samurai Jack
When robot bikers destroy his sandals, Jack seeks revenge but realizes that he can’t do so without footwear. After unsuccessfully trying out a variety of shoes, he follows a boy with sandals like his to a traditional Japanese family home, where the boy’s father makes him new sandals.
On a global television broadcast, Aku reprises his opening narration from the last four seasons before announcing he has captured Jack and his sword. Before Ashi can kill the samurai, many of Jack’s allies arrive and assault Aku and his fortress. After they free Jack, Aku overpowers them, and Ashi prevents him from recovering his […]
Angered by the failure of his bounty hunters and mercenaries to defeat Jack, Aku uses the samurai’s “inner darkness” to create an evil counterpart. Jack has trouble fighting “Mad Jack” until he relinquishes his anger, erasing Mad Jack from existence.
The samurai is plunged into a dystopian world ruled by Aku, adopting the name “Jack” upon hearing several aliens call him the name. Following a nightclub brawl, he meets three dog archaeologists and offers to protect them from Aku’s forces.
Aku, an evil shape-shifting demon, devastates a boy Japanese prince’s land and abducts his father. After years of training in exile around the world, the prince returns as a young man, receives a samurai outfit and a mystical katana, frees his people from Aku’s minions, and battles Aku despite his father’s warnings. Before the prince […]
Ashi bonds with Jack as he tells her of his life before Aku. During the night, Jack ventures off alone, and by day happens upon the location where he unsuccessfully fought the Guardian of a time portal he was prophesied to use.[33] He finds the portal destroyed, as well as the Guardian’s broken red glasses. […]
While investigating the destruction of several scattered villages, Jack learns that Aku’s new “ultra-robot” assassins, fueled by the demon’s essence, are responsible. Unable to destroy them alone, he receives unexpected assistance from the mad scientist who invented them and calls on the spirits of his ancestors to give him the strength to slay the last […]
When Jack hears rumors of a time portal being found in the underwater city of Oceanus, he journeys to the city and is welcomed by its alien inhabitants, the Triceraquins. He learns the “time portal” is a trap planted by Aku, who breaks a pact he made with the Triceraquins, prompting Jack to fight to […]
As Ashi searches for Jack, she comes across many grateful people that Jack had helped in the past. She also meets defeated enemies who now respect Jack at a bar tended by Da’ Samurai, a former samurai wannabe humbled by Jack. Along her search, she sheds her suit of black ash and forges a floral […]
Approximately fifty years after the events of the original series, Jack has not aged as a side effect of time travel. His sword is lost, he has given up hope of returning to his time, and he is tormented by hallucinations of his deceased parents, his kingdom, and a mysterious armored figure on horseback. Jack, […]
While ascending a mountain, Jack encounters a hidden society of Spartans who have fought for five generations against an army of minotaur robots and offers to help them put an end to it. Together, he and the Spartan king venture into a futuristic fortress to destroy a giant, spider-like robot.
Aku summons the three immortal servants of Set to destroy Jack while he travels through Egypt. Jack searches for pieces of a golden scarab using clues from a temple he explored in his boyhood. Once completed, the scarab flies away, and the god Ra arrives to destroy Set’s minions. Jack asks Ra to help him […]
Aku sends his servant Demongo, a demon who captures and enslaves the souls of warriors to serve him, to destroy Jack. Realizing he cannot destroy the warriors’ essences, Jack finds a way inside Demongo and releases numerous warriors’ souls from within, allowing them to return to the physical world and overpower the demon.
Aku challenges the Imakandi, a group of highly-skilled leonine alien hunters, to capture Jack. They pursue him extensively through Aku City and eventually capture him, but because they value the thrill of hunting, they judge Jack to be a worthy enough target to go free before Aku can claim his prize.
A talented warrior named Ikra joins Jack as he seeks a magical jewel that could send him back to his own time. The jewel judges Ikra to be impure of heart and spawns a monster she defeats. She then destroys the jewel, revealing “herself” as Aku and derailing Jack’s quest.
A spaceship is knocked off course by an asteroid and crashes on Earth. Elsewhere, Jack and Ashi travel together and board a giant beast that carries passengers across the desert. The other passengers attack them, so the two escape and continue traveling on foot. They get caught in a sandstorm and find shelter in the […]
Aku tricks Jack into entering a cursed graveyard and summons an army of undead warriors. Jack defeats them, but a ghostly hag steals his sword and brings it to Aku, who tries to kill Jack using it. As he is about to stab the samurai, Aku discovers that the sword, which can’t be used for […]
Jack tells Ashi how he lost his sword. He jumped into the last time portal in existence when Aku pulled him out and destroyed the portal. Angrily, Jack fought and killed three small, ram-like creatures transformed into monsters by Aku. Traumatized after killing living creatures, Jack dropped his sword, which fell into a deep pit […]
Unaware that Jack has lost his sword, Aku has grown tired of pursuing him and is starting to give up hope of ever defeating Jack, especially since he has stopped aging. Elsewhere, the Daughters of Aku overwhelm and disarm Jack. While hiding from them, he hallucinates an argument with himself about the point of keeping […]
Seeking to end their struggle, Aku proposes a duel between him and Jack, with neither using their magical abilities. Jack correctly suspects Aku will try to cheat and hides fake swords all over the battleground. As Aku, who also suspected Jack would cheat, realizes this, Jack uses his true sword to force him to flee […]
Jack follows a mysterious voice into a volcano and survives a series of traps to meet a Viking warrior transformed into a giant rock figure by Aku. At the Viking’s insistence, Jack reluctantly slays him in battle so that he can reach Valhalla.
Millions of years ago, the gods Ra, Rama, and Odin battle a shapeless black mass, a piece of which crashes down to earth, killing the dinosaurs. It develops into a pit of dark liquid, killing all in its wake from prehistory to the dawn of Japanese civilization. In feudal Japan, Jack’s father, the Emperor, sets […]
Jack chases a mysterious rabbit, who stole his clothing while he was bathing, into a whimsical underground world, where he hides from authorities using various disguises. He ultimately learns the thief is an orphaned little girl seeking to sell his clothing, so he gives her tusks from a robot slug he fought earlier to help […]
Armed with various weapons and traps, Jack single-handledly defeats Aku’s “beetle-bots” to free the dog archaeologists. He subsequently vows to fight the demon’s oppression until he can return to the past.
Jack meets a swamp hermit who guides him to the three gems of Cronus, which can take him home, but the hermit is Aku in disguise, who uses the gems to resurrect Cronus. Jack reveals he knew of Aku’s trick, having already snatched a gem, which destroys Cronus. Aku tries to use the gems against […]
When Aku catches a cold and spreads it to Jack, Jack is accidentally infected with his evil and seeks a cure before this essence transforms him into a clone of Aku. With help from lizard monks, he enters a deep meditative state and remembers everyone he has saved and befriended in the past and future, […]
Odin’s horse Sleipnir frees the Emperor from Aku’s clutches and carries him to a mountaintop fortress. Inside, he suddenly finds himself in a heavenly realm before the gods, who forge a katana imbued with his righteous spirit. The Emperor then uses this sword to seal Aku below the earth. Upon learning his son is born, […]
To try to get close to Aku, Jack joins some gangsters on a heist to steal the “Jewel of Neptune” from its elemental guardians. After Jack steals the jewel and the gangsters bring it to Aku’s lair, he almost kills Aku before the gangsters knock him unconscious and take him away. They lie about giving […]
Jack is goaded into a duel by “Da’ Samurai” (voiced by David Alan Grier), an arrogant bully who fancies himself as a samurai but does not understand what it truly means to be one. Jack trains Da’ Samurai with bamboo sticks and exposes him as physically weak, then saves him from Aku’s robot assassins, helping […]
Aku sends a robot shinobi to kill Jack. While Jack is fighting to save a village from giant, robotic lobsters, the shinobi kidnaps a small boy and traps him in an ancient temple. Inside, Jack, understanding that the shinobi hides in shadows, hides in sunlight by fashioning his gi into a white ninja outfit, then […]
Jack’s longtime friend the Scotsman, a now elderly wheelchair user, leads an attack on Aku’s tower. Aku easily obliterates two of the three assembled rebel armies. The Scotsman stalls Aku to allow his army of daughters to retreat. Aku kills him, but the magic Celtic runes on his broken claymore allow him to return as […]
Three short stories are presented in the following order: Jack vs. the Worm – Jack confronts a two-headed riddling worm that could grant his wish to return home. He answers a challenging riddle and allows himself to be eaten by the worm, only to learn the worm is not magical at all. The Metal-Eaters – […]