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* [[Berserk Button]]: Three. Don't insult his wife, don't tell him banks aren't corrupt institutions, and DON'T insult his integrity.
* [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]]: New York dairy farmers gifted him with a 1400 pound block of cheddar cheese in 1835. In 1837 he threw a party inviting the public to eat it.
** [[The West Wing
* [[Cane Fu]]: As demonstrated when he nearly beat his would-be assassin to death with one.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: He had a tendency to come off as totally nuts, especially during his badassery. In his most famous duel, he ''allowed his opponent to shoot him first'', knowing the man would shoot quickly and poorly, and have to reload, giving Jackson ample time to carefully aim and kill the man. With a bullet in his chest.
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** His earliest known example was when he was ''twelve years old''. A British officer tried to pay him to shine his boots. Jackson refused. The officer slashed Jackson's face with his sword for his insolence. Jackson still refused to shine the boots.
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: One of his cabinet secretaries wives had a checkered past and got a lot of crap for it. Jackson defended her honor and fired EVERYONE in his administration who gave her any grief.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: It's no secret Jackson loved profanity, and he was good at it too. He was so good at it he learned how to do it in two languages (English and Spanish). Quite possibly the only thing he loved more (other than his wife) was his pet parrot, Pol. Jackson loved that bird so much that Pol was even present at the president's funeral... [[Not in Front of
* [[Determinator]]: This man didn't let trivial things like getting shot slow him down, kept up his campaign against the Second Bank Of the United States until it was utterly disgraced, and DID NOT back down on his position that secession was illegal.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
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=== Depictions in popular media ===
* He is a major character (though not the protagonist) in the [[
* Amazingly, he ends up in ''[[Samurai Shodown]] VI''. Not quite identified exactly, but a white-haired American named 'Andrew', in the early 1800s, whose home stage is the [[White House]]...
* Axel and Zexion fused into Andrew Jackson in the webcomic ''[[
** And the creator just announced that in between Seasons 6 and 7 will be a miniseries called "Andrew Jackson Fucks Shit Up".
** Andrew Jackson turned out to be the key to unlocking Axel and Zex's memories of the original timeline, when {{spoiler|time started to get fucked and [[
** The miniseries was delayed as to not overwhelm us with too much badass too soon, but it looks like [http://ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=605 it has begun].
* There is also a musical about him, ''[[Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson]]''
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