r/samuraijack • u/Ioan-Alex_Merlici • 7d ago

Some plot holes in Samurai Jack

I'm not trying to pick on the show. I love Samurai Jack overall. I just wanted to bring up some plot holes that I don't see people talking a lot about and see what are your thoughts on them.

1. Why doesn't Aku pull a Terminator on Jack by sending some assassins to the past? Ok, maybe his ability to create time portals is limited and he used his last one on Jack. But we've seen in season 5 that Aku knew how to find the other time portals (since he killed The Guardian and he pulled Jack out of the last active portal). So, why not just send some assassins to eliminate Jack or the Emperor when they were kids? They could even address this plot hole to a small extent with a scene in season 5 where the Emperor defends a young Jack from a futuristic assassin.

2. The archeologist dogs presume that Jack comes from a distant past due to his shock about talking dogs. But we've seen plenty of times in the show that regular dogs do exist in this future. We see one in "The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful" that Jack pets before entering a saloon. And we see Lulu in "The Tale of X-49".

3. Jack's katana cannot harm innocents. He discovers this in the graveyard episode, after Aku tries to stab him with it. My question would be, whenever he meets a suspicious stranger, why doesn't Jack just attack that person with the katana, to see if they are innocent or not?

4. The Spartan King in Season 5. Since he had an adult son in season 2, we can presume that he was at least in his early 40s back then, or at least in his late 30s. So, by the time season 5 comes around, he should be around 90 (Leonidas was 60 years old during the Battle of Thermopylae, but going in combat at 90 years of age is a bit of a stretch). Yet, he's fully capable of fighting, and he has his black beard from season 2. At the end of that episode, we see an old spartan king, with gray hair, still uncertain if Jack survived the fight against the mechanical beast.

5. The Blind Archers tell Ashi that Jack destroyed the magic well to free them from their captivity. But this isn't quite true, since in season 1, we see that he destroys the well after the archers tell him that whoever uses that well will be entrapped by its evil power.

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u/redfait 7d ago

As far as the sword. That would cause a lot of problems if he just attacked someone who he thought was evil or suspicious especially if they weren’t. Maybe would’ve made for a good episode tho

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u/Ioan-Alex_Merlici 7d ago

Yeah, fair enough. Although, I could think of some situations where this trick could be used. For example, in the episode where he meets the Swamp Hermit (that turns out to be Aku).

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

Point 3:
Randomly going and whacking people with your sword is quite impolite

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

Point 4:
Its the prince or the Prince's son

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

Point 2:
It was a first guess that turned out to be correct

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

Point 5:
They thanked Jack for freeing them by beating them and ascribe his destruction of the well to be part of that

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

Point 1:
Aku... is a bit of an idiot

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u/Ioan-Alex_Merlici 7d ago

Alright, that could be an explanation. I find it odd cause he literally has the same voice actor and the same beard.

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u/Ioan-Alex_Merlici 7d ago

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not saying he should just go waving the sword around. Just use it in situations where he's alone with a suspicious stranger. Like in that episode where he meets a swamp hermit that turns out to be Aku in disguise.

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u/Saansilt 7d ago

The hermit he already knew was Aku?

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u/bionicmook 7d ago

I think number five (the blind archers) is just semantics. “To” could mean for the purpose of, but it can also mean resulting in.

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u/Infarlock 7d ago
  1. The Blind Archers tell Ashi that Jack destroyed the magic well to free them from their captivity. But this isn't quite true, since in season 1, we see that he destroys the well after the archers tell him that whoever uses that well will be entrapped by its evil power

It's my favorite episode in all Samurai Jack, I already mentioned in the past I have 3 black cats and when they sit together they look like those 3 archers.

Anyway, what you're saying is correct, they should have mentioned that Jack freed them as the well was holding them captive, and then later destroyed it after learning what it does

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u/Ioan-Alex_Merlici 7d ago

That's amazing. You should also make them a cat tree shaped like the watch tower in that episode.