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Slime
Jan 3, 2007

PhazonLink posted:

and maybe the baby.

He does have the spirit of a samurai. Who knows what the baby got up to in the last 50 years? Maybe he died trying to be a samurai and that's one of the things that hosed Jack up so much.

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Slime
Jan 3, 2007

MichiganCubbie posted:

Didn't Jack grab the sword as a child as he and his mother fled before his father died? I thought the sword existed well beforehand.

The sword he uses in the series was forged from his father's righteous spirit, but it didn't require his father to actually die. In fact his father used it to seal Aku away the first time. So Jack could possibly make his own sword and use it himself, if he had the help of some gods. And he's met Ra before at least.

Oh, also it was his mother who grabbed the sword as she fled with Jack, then sent him off to get trained and kept the sword herself until Jack was ready to take it. Also also Aku didn't kill Jack's father, Jack's dad was made into slave labour who pushed a wheel that rotated a big Aku shaped tower because Aku is a big egotistical douche.

Slime fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 21, 2017

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

exmarx posted:

He has antlers, making him a creature of Aku :viggo:

That actually brings up a good point. The horseman looks scary, and the antlers have made people think of Aku, but this episode made a point of showing that just because something has antlers doesn't mean it's associated with Aku or evil. The same probably holds true for this spectre.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

So Math posted:

Yeah, this.

It's already a little weird with the decision to dress the daughters in sexy skin tight uniforms, when previous foils to Jack didn't have to be sexy all the time:

Even when they wore skin tight clothing:

Could have even put them in cult robes like their mother.

Counterpoint: Jack never passes up an opportunity to tear his clothes off and just run around in underwear.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007
the gently caress happened in this thread

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Hypocrisy posted:

I have stopped thinking too much about Samurai Jack since it turned out the wolf was not a metaphor but an actual wolf.

The wolf was a metaphor about metaphorical wolves.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

He hunted deer and other things, but cute little goats that were trying to murder him draws the line I guess.

The goats were outright trying to help him. Hunting something for food is one thing, but killing and eating something that was actively helping you isn't something that would sit right with most.

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Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Three times, actually.





Between this, the other time he disguised himself as a woman and the MALAAAAAISE Aku felt without Jack I'm honestly convinced he's straight up in love but terrible at expressing it because he's literally made of evil.

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