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* [[Broken Base]]: Fans tend to be divided on the final result of Season 5 {{spoiler|and the ending to the series as a whole.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: [[Evil Matriarch|The High Priestess]] of the Cult of Aku in Season 5, {{spoiler|whose daughters she had sired by Aku, Ashi included}}, is easily one of the darkest and vilest villains to appear on the show, without question. She treats her own children horribly, including burning their skin and having them brutally beaten by one of her minions for getting distracted. She even makes them kill her own cult. [[Villain of the Week|The Dominator]] in that same season enslaves children and makes them fight Jack, knowing that he can't hurt children.
▲* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: In that episode where a rabbit steals Jack's clothes (Pfft, that episode on it's own was kind of a [[BLAM Episode]]), there's a scene where an...elephant...fairy...'''THING''' randomly flies by with this ghostly, wailing noise. Never mentioned, never explained. What's worse, at the end of that episode, right before the credits start, it flies past [[The Stinger]] AGAIN with that same creepy noise!
** [[Laughably Evil]] as he may be, Aku himself could be viewed as being one, as he is the supreme ruler of the show's universe and responsible for nearly all the horrible things Jack goes through. He forced The Emperor (Jack's father) to watch his beloved kingdom be destroyed with sadistic glee, even destroying Jack's home city. He also kidnapped Jack's father, enslaved him for years (and perhaps decades) and sentenced him to forced labor while privatizing him of health, food and water, which he would do to many other people and lands for thousand of years. Worse, in his [[Bad Future]], the slaves of his government are punished terribly and sometimes executed, impaled or crucified, such in the case of the Talking Dogs. And as if that was not enough, he also plundered the resources of other planets. Over the years, Aku continued to make Jack's life as miserable as possible, right down to pulling Jack out of a time portal he was in the middle of jumping through and mocking him relentlessly, forcing his own daughter Ashi to fight Jack and eventually corrupting her body, putting her in a [[And I Must Scream]] as she is aware of her actions in her corrupted form, and ultimately trying to kill her simply because she refused to kill Jack.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The Scotsman.
* [[Creepy Awesome]]: Aku, the shape-shifting master of evil!
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: When divine intervention powers up Jack's sword, {{spoiler|allowing him to destroy the last of Aku's assassin robots with one slash.}}
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] : During the episode in the graveyard, Aku has Jack pinned, and precedes to deliver the finishing blow with ''Jacks own sword.'' Only for the blade to bounce off, unable to hurt him. Aku is so shocked, his '''GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS''' go out.
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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - Rave in the Forest.
** Crowning Soundtrack of Awesome the rest of the series. Honestly, with all the other sounds telling the story, you won't miss dialogue.
** The opening for "Jack and the Three Blind Archers" is also pretty cool. Sounds a little like something from [[Command
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - The Scotsman, the fact he's got a ''[[Leg Cannon|gun for a peg leg]]'' should show how cool a character he is.
** Demongo, apparently enough to get him a profile on Cartoon Network's site at one point in their old shows archive.
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* [[Fridge Horror]]: You don't really think [[Complete Monster|Aku]] kept Lulu (sweet thing) around after [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|its usefulness as a bargaining chip had ended]], do you?
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: One episode had Aku having a horrible coughing fit, coughing up a bit of evil that infects Jack and slowly spreads. Mako (Aku's voice actor) died of esophageal cancer.
* [[Holy Shit Quotient|HSQ]]: Quite high, especially in the [[Darker and Edgier]] final season produced years after the show's original run.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Nearly-naked Jack tickling a nearly-naked sumo wrestler.
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Jack goes through hell and back to try to return to his native time, and comes out of almost all of his fights worse for wear. And yet, he trudges on.
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** "No money for you, crazy round man."
** "GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS!"
** "Extra THICK!" - originally part of a particularly non-sequitur line "I'd like a large... what? Extra THICK!" from when Aku was ordering an assassin. It's been used mostly for women perceived to be thick (as in, having a [[Baby Got Back|juicy ass]])... which only made it explode again after Ashi from the show's fifth season revival fit the definition ''perfectly''.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]:
** Oh god, that elephant-fairy thing from Jack is Naked.
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** Heck, what about the very start of the first episode? Creepy sound effects/music, creepy visuals of a an eclipse and Aku's 'prison' and then the dark, menacing figure where the tree was a second ago. Then it turns around, very very slowly and its huge, unblinking eyes stare into the very depths of your soul.
** Aku's extermination of the Dinosaurs, mostly the final one, who was slowly swallowed up.
** The Daughters of Aku in Season 5. Particularly due to the horrifying abusive, dehumanizing way [[Complete Monster|the High Priestess]] brought them up.
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: Aku is legitimately creepy and imposing at first glance. But he's also [[Laughably Evil|so darn hilarious]] that he can't inspire in the viewers the fear that he inspires in-universe.
* [[No Yay]] - Oh God, when Aku disguises himself as a beautiful woman, he seems to actually show growing chemistry with Jack. Urgh, how far would he have kept up the ruse?
* [[Older Than You Think]] - The ignorant would think that ''Jack and the Spartans'' is a blatant rip-off of the more [[Memetic Mutation]] movie ''[[300]]'', even including many of the same sepia tone visuals. But the episode was made years before and was inspired by the ''1990s graphic novel'' of which the infamous film was an adaptation. Never mind that the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae is from 480 BC, over 2000 years before ''Samurai Jack'' '''''or''''' ''300''.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: It's a kid's show on Cartoon Network. It's ostensibly aimed at 6- to 12-year-olds. Cartoon Network apparently took note of how many older viewers watched the show, including those 6 to 12 year olds who grew up with the show, when they revived the show for a final season and put it on Adult Swim.
* [[Squick]]: [[The Reveal]] at the end of ''The Warrior Woman'', even if it was obvious.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]]: The fifth and final season aired on Adult Swim and contained graphic violence, some profanity and sexual innuendos. To a lesser extent, the first four seasons also count due to how stylized and graphic the robotic gore was.
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