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* [[Zero -Percent Approval Rating]]: Played straight most of the time, but subverted in that Aku seems to be aware of it, and made a rather clumsy attempt to get children to like him in the episode "Aku's Fairy Tales". The rest of the time - seeing as almost nothing can hurt him - he doesn't care. It wasn't always quite down to zero percent though, Jack's largely to blame for people thinking there could be anything besides Aku's rule.
* [[Action Girl]]: The Scotsman's wife; she ''single-handedly'' beats an army both her husband and Jack -- two of the greatest warriors ''ever'' -- had trouble fighting, and starts off said fight by ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punching a god in the gut]]''. Just because said god [[Berserk Button|called her fat]]. Did I mention that she was entirely unarmed?
** She is also one of few people Jack, without question, {{spoiler|ran away from a fight with.}}
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Jack in "Jack vs. Aku."
* [[Dance Battler]]: DJ Salvatore from "Jack and the Rave". He actually holds his own against Jack for a good while.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Although hero and villain alike ordinarily suffered from [[Contractual Genre Blindness]], one episode started with a hilarious subversion - Aku confronts Jack, and then explains ''exactly'' how this confrontation is going to play out. Then he suggests that they end the endless cycle with a final duel. [[Schmuck Bait|Of course,]] it's a trap. [[Ping -Pong Naivete|Less predictably,]] Jack knows it's a trap. [[Battle of Wits|However,]] Aku knows Jack knows it's a trap... but [[I Know You Know I Know|he doesn't know]] that Jack knows that Aku knows that Jack knows that it's a trap. Or... something like that.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Ikra in "The Warrior Woman" ([[Paper-Thin Disguise|who is obviously Aku]]). They get along remarkably well until she manages to pry the [[Idiot Ball]] out of his hands.
** Josephine Clench, a [[Southern Belle]] turned bounty hunter whose weapons included a very dangerous [[Parasol of Pain|parasol]] and [[Guns Akimbo|two guns]] hidden under her poofy dress.
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** And he knows it, too; if his clothes get a single cut or tear on them, off they go.
** There are also all the times when his [[Slipknot Ponytail|hair comes undone]] or he gets [[Covered in Gunge]].
** Also, Jack wears a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Fundoshi |fundoshi]] under his robe. We know this because he's been seen sans robe more than once.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Aku chalks down all of Jack's good actions to being a "[[Memetic Mutation|FOOOOOLISH SAMURAI!!!]]" and is almost always completely flabbergasted when Jack defeats his plans.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Mad Jack.
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*** That first scene in (Samurai vs. Ninja)
* [[Asteroid Thicket]]: Shows up in the episode "Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess"
* [[A -Team Montage]]: Seen in the pilot episode.
* [[Atop a Mountain of Corpses]]: In several episodes, most notably at the end of the pilot movie.
* [[Audible Sharpness]]: ''All of the time.''
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* [[Ghibli Hills]]: The only indication of Aku's global ruination is within urban limits.
* [[Gladiator Revolt]]
* [[Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen]]: "Jack is Naked".
* [[Good Colors, Evil Colors]]: [[Dark Is Evil|Black]] vs. white over red.
* [[Go Out Withwith a Smile]]: "Jack and the Lava Monster" - '''FREE'''.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Also [[Meaningful Name]], "Aku" [悪] means "bad; wicked; evil". [[Captain Obvious|So basically, he's the incarnation of evil]].
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Most of the female characters.
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* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in Jack vs. Aku. {{spoiler|Jack knew Aku wouldn't keep to their agreement (Aku: No superhuman abilities, no minions, only human form; Jack: No sword), so he hid his sword under a pile of rocks. Aku anticipated this, so he had his minions scour the battlefield for it. Jack anticipated this, so he had a fake sword made. [[Overly Long Gag|Aku anticipated this,]] so he had ''multiple'' minions searching. Finally, Jack saw this coming, [[Crazy Prepared|so he had multiple fakes made,]] with the real sword hidden in the one place none of the minions thought to look: ''Under the sand!''}}
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Every episode is "[[The One With...|Jack and the ___]]" or for introducing a rival character "Jack vs. the ___" The occasional episode had "Samurai vs. Ninja" or "Samurai vs. Samurai"
** Technically, the episodes are labeled by roman numerals and don't have names (except on the DVDs, and the commercials announcing them when it was still on the air).
* [[I'm Not Afraid of You]]: Or rather "I'm not angry any more, therefore you no longer exist." when facing [[Evil Knockoff|Mad Jack.]]
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: this series refines this to an art form.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Done ''very'' well considering the simplicity of the art style. Just about every episode starts off with Jack walking through it.
* [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Thankfully and ''beautifully'' [[Averted Trope|averted.]] Aku, and the numerous [[Kaiju]] that Jack meets along his journey (whether friendly or foe) look absolutely ''massive'' compared to the humans they come in contact with. Though, Aku tends to avert this trope willingly.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Once in a while, but the servants of Set in particular are sealed in something ''quite'' can-shaped.
** Aku himself, technically.
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** And before that, he does it in "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters".
** X9 is, again, an example. Jack doesn't knew who Lulu is and Aku probably threw the poor dog into the streets or worse. Jack is the guard in this case.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Plenty. Specifically, and somewhat notably, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghol1iG2DQ this one]:
{{quote| '''Little man:''' There's a fork in the road! Follow the [[Thayers Quest|rocky path]]! It will take you to the [[Dragons Lair]]!<br />
'''Jack:''' Where will the other one take me?<br />
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* [[Why Won't You Die?]]: Samurai, samurai, why won't you '''DIE!'''
* [[The Worf Barrage]]: the Mondo Bot uses all of its projectile attacks against Robo-Samurai to no effect before they fight with swords.
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Heckbucket Seaport. The Scotsman even says that "you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy", in a clear [[Shout -Out]]. (The crabcakes aren't bad either!)
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: In the episode "Jack and the Swamp Monster", Aku's plot seems to fall under this, though there is a certain ambiguity to it. In his [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], Aku leads Jack on a quest to uncover some [[MacGuffin|magical artifacts]], which invariably turn out to be tucked away in elaborate deathtraps. Under this scenario, Jack could either die while trying to retrieve the artifacts or he could successfully retrieve them and just end up handing them over to Aku. What's ambiguous about it is whether or not Jack retrieving the artifacts was ''necessary'' for the plan or if Aku could have simply retrieved them himself if he wanted; the deathtraps don't ''look'' like they'd be particularly dangerous to Aku, after all.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Despite always ''seeming'' to be near success, the inevitability of him failing to either return to the past or beat Aku in the present.
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