Cracker Jack

Cracker Jack (クラッカー・ジャック), also known as C. Jack, is a character who appears exclusively in the Street Fighter EX series by Arika.

Appearance
Cracker Jack has shoulder length dark brown hair in a wavy style. His eyes are concealed by his hat.

In Street Fighter EX, Cracker Jack wears a white sleeveless openly button shirt with a long red neck tie on the collar, blue pants with a white belt on his waist and black shoes. He also wears brown gloves and a blue fedora hat.

In Street Fighter EX2, he wears a white formal suit jacket with the sleeves folded into cuffs and a flower on the left side of his jacket, his button shirt is no longer sleeveless and is changed from white to brown and also folded into cuffs to match his jacket. His pants are white, his shoes are brown and his fedora hat is pink with black linings. He doesn't wear gloves or a tie but wears a silver watch on his right wrist and fights barehanded.

In Street Fighter EX3, his button shirt is pink and he wears black gloves again and has a ring with a red gem in the center.

In Street Fighter V, his button shirt is maroon, he wears dark fingerless gloves, dark shoes and gold bracelets in each side of his wrist, his hat is white with maroon linings and his brown belt has a gold square buckle at the center.

Concept
Cracker Jack's appearance is based on manga character Daisuke Jigen from the famous Lupin III manga series. Additionally, C. Jack's Japanese voice actor, Banjō Ginga, voiced Daisuke in "Plot of the Fuma Clan" in the Lupin III anime.

During the development of the original Street Fighter EX game, he wore a green outfit with a red tie, and a green and red hat.

Story
Jack was once a powerful bouncer from Las Vegas who was known for his unstoppable fists. He earned the nickname "Cracker", due to the baseball bat he always wielded. When a certain criminal organization decides to go after Jack for unknown reasons, he decides to elude them by becoming the bodyguard of Blair Dame, the daughter of a wealthy European family, when she decided to travel the world.

Jack disappeared after the trip was over, only to reemerge when an underground fighter named King Bharat kidnapped his younger sister. Jack defeated Bharat and rescued his sister, only to be pursued again by the organization he was eluding. Eventually he was forced to go to Blair's mansion to hide there for a while.

Gameplay
Cracker Jack's fighting style is similar to Balrog's (even sharing some of the same moves in command and name), though he can kick and also wields a baseball bat.

Trivia

 * Of all the Street Fighter EX characters whose backstories were changed, Cracker Jack was one of the most drastic. In the first game, he was a Shadaloo enforcer who preferred working alone. He acts as a drill sergeant (a duty he takes offense to) and teaches inexperienced grunts how to deal with pain and recover from serious injuries. This has been retconned to his current storyline.


 * Though a member of Shadaloo (in his original backstory), Cracker Jack seems to have betrayed the organization, as he destroys a Shadaloo train in his ending.


 * Cracker Jack is one of only five playable characters to have shortened names in their lifebar (the Japanese name of Bison and Akuma renamed in the international version are not counted). The others are Shadowgeist, Skullomania, Cycloid Beta and Cycloid Gamma.
 * In Street Fighter EX and Street Fighter EX2, his name is written "C. Jack", but in Street Fighter EX2 Plus, it is simply "Jack".


 * Birdie's story in Street Fighter V is similar to Jack's in the Street Fighter EX games; an ex enforcer for Shadaloo, fleeing the organisation to a billionaires daughter (in Birdie's case, Karin) and becoming her bodyguard in return for protection.