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** That aside, unless [[Time Travel]] in that universe can create [[Alternate Timeline|Alternate Timelines]], won't all the people Jack has saved throughout the series essentially ''vanish'' once he goes back in time and beats Aku? Assuming it will create a second parallel timeline (the alternative is way too [[Moral Dissonance|morally dissonant]]), Jack has to beat Aku ''twice'', once in the future and again in the past.

*** Actually, based on what similar plots have done, if he defeated Aku in the past, the people of the future would be the same except more prosperous because they were never under Aku's heel.

** It seems to be more honor related than anything else: Jack had spent his entire life preparing to kill Aku and take his homeland back, but just couldn't finish the job when it counted. He failed so badly that the entire galaxy suffered under Aku's reign for thousands of years. He doesn't reveal anything about his name or homeland because he feels that he's not worthy of taking his birthright until Aku is dead.

** The only clue this Troper found was in the episode, "Jack Under the Sea", when Jack is about to introduce himself to the Triceraquins. He says that his name is, "G-...Jack.". It starts with a G.

* The real pain in the rump for me is this show's inconsistency. It can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy in the same vein as Dexter's Laboratory, or an action series with spectacular battles. It excels when it's striving for the latter, but then the show kills the mood with unwanted comic relief that looks like it would be more at home on Foster's Home for Exasperatingly Hyperactive Characters. Dammit, Genndy, make up your mind!

** It makes the show more interesting than any of the above when it follows different themes. Some episodes have dialogue and comedy, others are almost entirely dialogue-free and even silent.

** Maybe they couldn't agree on who should be the one to cut the chain because neither one of them trusted the other not to, say, chop the other guy's hand off.

** [[Rule of Cool]]: Jumping up and letting a huge bullet shatter the chain is way cooler than just cutting it.

** I always assumed it was part of some elaborate [[Gambit Roulette]] on Aku's part. Maybe he tricked jacks father into thinking he was dead by sealed himself into the tree until a set of astrological circumstances were met. That way he can use the time in the tree to recharge his mojo, same as he did to jack, and then catch Jackdad off guard. O.K. not that brilliant, I just like to think that aku and jack are 12th level intellects and that the shows non-sequiturs are part of the elaborate chess game they play with one-another. Jack never get's back in time because Aku has put multiple levels of blockage in place that make most methods of time travel ineffective. Aku can't be assassinated because Aku's lair cannot both exists in a sub dimension and has it's entrances shuffled around the universe randomly, and aku never leaves said lair without everything planned out. Wow, I'm way off topic.

** About the Emperor not killing Aku, he explained it in the very first episode: he thought that the sword would do all the job, and all he managed to do was to seal Aku away. When Jack expressed a similar view, he ''immediately'' corrected him, warning him that it was only a tool and that his mind would set the path to slay Aku in spite of his deception. Long story short, the Emperor tried and fucked up, but realized where he failed and told Jack how to do the job.