Jak (Jak and Daxter)
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 Jak as Dark Jax |
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| Game series | Jak and Daxter series |
| First game | Jak and Daxter (2001) |
| Voiced by | Michael Erwin |
Jak is the main character from the Jak and Daxter video game series. He and his sidekick Daxter have starred in four games together while Daxter has his own game for the PlayStation Portable.
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[edit] Character history
As a young 3 year-old boy living in Sandover Village, Jak could often be found hanging out with his best friend Daxter. Usually they would be caught doing dangerous things that their guardian, Samos the Green Sage, forbide them from doing.
In the beginning, Jak who is 16 and Daxter were in Ollie's speed boat sailing to Misty Island, a place Samos warned them to avoid. Once they arrived, they discovered an army of Lurkers taking orders from a mysterious man and woman. One of the Lurkers noticed Jak and Daxter's presence as they moved on. They continued wandering until they came upon a vat of Dark Eco, where they located a Red Eco artifact. The aforementioned Lurker approaches, picking a fight with them. Jak threw the Red Eco artifact at the Lurker, but the explosion threw him backward, causing him to knock Daxter into the Dark Eco where he was transformed into an ottsel.
Upon arriving at Samos' hut, he tells them to seek out a sage named Gol Acheron in order to change Daxter back to his human form. Samos would teleport them to his site, but strangely the other sages had their teleporters deactivated. With the aid of Samos and his daughter Keira Hagai, Jak and Daxter set out on a journey across the entire land in search of Gol.
First Jak and Daxter practice at Gyser Rock and Jak learns how to channel Green Eco and Blue Eco. When Jak and Daxter return Keira and Samos tells them to look for Power Cells to power Keira's A-Grav Zoomer to get past Fire Canyon to Rock Village where the Blue Sage lives. Jak and Daxter do missions in Sandover Village, Misty Island, Forbidden Jungle, and Sentinel Beach for people like Ollie, Tweedledove Perch, Explorer, Sculptor, Mayor Manac, and Farmer Zeb. In Sentinel Beach Jak and Daxter meet the Flut-Flut and in the Forbidden Jungle they battle the Dark Eco Plant and also learn how to channel Red Eco on Misty Island.
Eventually they get enough Power Cells to power the Zoomer. Jak and Daxter flew through Fire Canyon and opened the warp gate at the Blue Sage's hut in Rock Village. Keira and Samos come to the hut and learn that the Blue Sage is gone and Klaww, a massive rock giant, is attacking the village. Keira needed Jak's help to find more Power Cells to work the Blue Eco Rock Lifter to get to the Mountain Pass. Like in the Village, Jak and Daxter do missions in Boggy Swamp, Lost Precursor City, and Precursor Basin for the Warrior, Boggy Billy, Gambler, and Geologist. Jak also learns how to channel Yellow Eco. Jak and Daxter get to the Mountain Pass and battle Klaww. After battling and defeating Klaww, Jak and Daxter continue through the Mountain Pass to the Volcanic Crater.
Upon arriving to the Red Sage's hut, Gol Acheron presents himself along with his sister Maia and their twisted plans of reshaping the world with Dark Eco. As it turned out, Gol and Maia were the very same people who were commanding the Lurkers on Misty Island. Gol and Maia kidnapped the Blue and Red Sages. After Gol and Maia return to their lair, Jak and Daxter continue finding Power Cells to power the Zoomer to pass the Lava Tube. Jak helps Willard and Gordy and finds Power Cells in Snowy Mountain and Spider Cave. After, he enters the Lava Tube which leads to Gol and Maia's Citadel. Shortly after arriving at the Citadel, Keira tells them that Samos has been kidnapped by Gol and Maia and that Lurker armies are growing across the land.
Jak and Daxter then set out to Gol and Maia's Citadel to free the four abducted Sages. After they succeed, the Sages use their power to deactivate the barrier surrounding an ancient Precursor Robot, which Gol and Maia intended to use to open the Dark Eco Silo. Jak managed to destroy the robot with the aid of Wight Eco, and Gol and Maia were imprisoned within the silo, presumably destroyed.
An important, running joke later in the series, is that Jak is never actually seen kissing anyone; at the end of the game, he and Keira attempt to kiss, but are interrupted by Daxter. It was then that Jak opened an ancient Precursor door with the aid of 100 Power Cells (there is a total of 101 power cells in the game)that would reveal a large door with a mysterious white light inside. Keira finds the light to be "beautiful" and Samos says "by the Precursors."
[edit] Jak II
Right after the events of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Jak II starts of with Jak, Daxter, Keira and Samos the Sage find out that the Rift Rider interacted with a Precursor Ring. When they open it, both the Rift Rider and the passengers are transported to a dystopia in the future (as learned later in the game) called Haven City.
Jak was immediately arrested by the Krimzon Guards and experimented on with Dark Eco for two years (making Jak 18 now) by Baron Praxis, Haven City's tyrant. This gave him special abilities to morph into a darker and more powerful version of himself, called Dark Jak. This resulted in him no longer being a mute. He seemed to have also gained a thirst for vengeance (evident by his first words, which were "I'm gonna kill Praxis"),and has become much more serious in terms of personality, compared to his younger self from the first game. Daxter found Jak in the KG Fortress and freed him. The duo were reunited and escaped the Fortress out into the city streets. Jak ended up in the Slums meeting Kor and the last heir to the throne (the Kid). Jak fought more Guards to defend them and realized they were on the hunt for him, so he had to keep a low profile. Kor told Jak about the Underground and that he should join.
Jak and Daxter went to the Underground HQ to meet Torn and Tess. Torn gave Jak and Daxter a mission to go to Dead Town and steal the Baron's Banner. Jak succeeds the task and is apart of the Underground rebellion.
Jak, however, would be caught in a massive struggle to save the city from the Metal Heads in his race for the Precursor Stone (said to contain the last Precursor of that time), as well as get himself involved with the ever important "Kid," a young boy constantly under the watch of the Underground, particularly old Kor, due to rumors that he may be the lost heir to the Haven's throne as evidenced by the amulet around his neck.
Jak later learned that he was the future version of the Kid, having been sent into the past as a child to grow up safely away from Metal Head Leader so that he could eventually defeat him. Therefore, he actually belonged in the time of Haven City. Jak then killed the leader, who was Kor, scattered the Metal Heads, and met the Precursor inside the Precursor Egg who balances the dark eco in Jak with light eco. He sent his child self as well as the Young Samos into the past in an effort to keep the timeline intact.
As the heroes celebrate after defeating the Metal Head leader, Jak and Keira once again try to kiss only for Daxter to interrupt them although it was directed toward a very drunk Onin.
[edit] Jak 3
Jak is now 19. One year after saving Haven City, it once again became embroiled in chaos as three different groups, the Krimzon Guard Death-Bots, the surviving Metal Heads, and the Freedom League Guard, fight for control of Haven. The people of Haven City had grown distrustful of Jak and his dark powers. As rumors spread of Jak's affiliation with Krew and Kor, the populace targets him as the cause of its unrest.
Even though his friends claim his innocence, the newly appointed city council banishes him to the wasteland. There he is found by Damos, who used to reign over Haven City but was betrayed by Baron Praxis while Jak was a child and banished him to the Wasteland where he founded Spargus City. During this time, Jak was given a mission to save the world from the Day Star, even though he resented the idea of being a hero again, upset over the people abandoning him. It was due to his heavy involvement, the return of Errol, and much more that forced him to save the world again.
Along the way, he was given light powers, or Light Jak, to help him defeat the creatures and he bonded closely with Damos. Sadly, Jak did not learn that the King was his father until after Damos was killed when the Slam Dozer overturned and crushed him. Before Damos died, however, Jak learned that his birth name was Mar. He left to defeat Erol and the Dark Makers once and for all, heading deep inside the planet where he discovered the true nature of the Precursors: Ottsels. Despite appearance, their powers managed to help Jak defeat the Day Star, and eventually, Jak destroyed Erol, saving the world.
[edit] Jak X: Combat Racing
One year after his previous adventure, (Jak is now 20) Jak and friends (Daxter, Keira, Torn, and Ashelin) are invited to the reading of Krew's will, who was blown up in previous years. In the pase, Krew has had a daughter, Rayn, who now also arrives with her father's will. The team toasts, then watches a hologram of Krew's will. In that will that Krew reveals that the wine was laced with poison. Krew claims that if they race in Kras City in a racing competition and win, they receive the antidote to the poison. It was Krew's dream to make the ultimate racing team and win the Kras City Racing Championship. Reluctant, the heroes accept, not having much choice.
After entering their first race they meet G.T. Blitz, a self-centered and arrogant Race Commentator. Pulled into the world of racing, Jak and his friends learn of a rival racing team named the Mizo Dream Team. As they get better, Mizo, a crime gang lord, loses more money to bets. Mercenary drivers pile up, as does Mizo's hatred for Jak and his team. On the way, they meet an infamous racer named Razer, who came out of retirement to race Jak. Also appearing are Sig, Kleiver, Samos, Pecker; who becomes a host on GT Blitz's show a little way through the game, and UR-86, a Krimzon Death-Bot with a reputation for killings on the racetracks.
At the end of the game it is revealed that G.T. Blitz is Mizo in disguise as he steals the antidotes and races Jak in one last race in which he is killed in an explosion. Back in Kras City, after they have been cured by the antidote, more of Krew's will is heard and it reveals that not only was Rayn not poisoned, everything was merely an elaborate plot to overtake Mizo and take over Kras City for Krew's Crime Family, of which Rayn is now the leader. As Rayn drives away, she states over the phone to (presumably) her criminal underlings to spare Jak and his friends. The game ends with Jak and Keira finally kissing.
[edit] Voices
Jak's trademark in the first game is that he doesn't speak, although every time Jak jumps or spins he makes grunts or yells. Sometimes if the player gets hit, he will quickly say "Ouch." In a controversial move by Naughty Dog, he does so from Jak II onward. In a reference to this, just before Jak speaks for the first time in Jak II, Daxter pleads with him to "Say something! Just this once!". Throughout the rest of the series, Daxter makes occasional comments about Jak's previous silence, like his comment in Jak II: "Sorry about him, he's new to the whole conversation thing."
- In the original English version, he is voiced by Mike Erwin.
- In the French dub, he is voiced by Damien Boisseau.
- In the Japanese dub, he is voiced by Shotaro Morikubo.
[edit] Trivia
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- In every game in the Jak and Daxter series, with the exception of Daxter, Jak has had a different hair style (spiky in the first, slicked back and very long in the second,a mix of spiky and slicked back hairstyle in the third, and cut short in X).
- At some point in every game, Daxter gets smacked on the head by Jak after saying something foolish.Then in JakX Daxter smacks Jak on the head for not saying something heroic.
- In the first two games, at the end of each, Daxter stops Jak and Keira from kissing. In the 4th (Jak X), Daxter interrupts them again, but then says "Kiss already!" and finally lets them kiss.
