Cracker Jack

Cracker Jack (クラッカー・ジャック), also known as C. Jack or just Jack, is a video game character from the Street Fighter EX series, first appearing in Street Fighter EX. He is a bouncer turned bodyguard, currently employed by the family of Blair Dame.

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 (short sleeves in-game) openly button shirt with a long red neck tie on the collar and a brown shoulder holster, blue pants with a white belt on his waist, white socks and black shoes. He also wears brown gloves and a blue fedora hat.

In his alternate appearance, he wears a black formal vest with a red long sleeve button shirt with a long white neck tie on the collar, black formal pants with a white belt on his waist and white shoes. His fedora hat is black with red linings while his hair is black and he fights barehanded.

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 brown (black in-game), no longer sleeveless and also folded into cuffs to match his jacket. He has white suspenders beneath his jacket. His pants are white, his shoes are brown and his fedora hat is pink with black linings. He doesn't wear a tie but wears a silver watch on his left wrist and a single brown fingerless glove on his right hand.

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 his Shadaloo C.R.I. profile art, 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.

In his playable appearance Fighting EX Layer, Cracker Jack remains largely the same and he wears a white cowboy hat with black linings in place of his fedora hat. His outfit is based on his main outfit in Street Fighter EX but in a western cowboy look. He wears a white western formal vest with a black short sleeved openly button shirt and a large collar, white pants with a brown belt, a matching brown chaps in each sides and brown shoes with spurs. He now wears a red tie with white designs on his neck and his black gloves from his appearance in Street Fighter EX3. He is also equipped with brass knuckles in both of his fists.

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.

Background
Jack was once a powerful bouncer from Las Vegas who was known for his unstoppable fists. He was the top member of the bodyguard group known as the "Crackers", but left to live his life freely, as well as to finish a fight with his rival. 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.

Street Fighter EX
''The Power Fighter Cracker Jack vanished from this world for a while after the fight was over. Nobody knew what became of him or where did he went. All that was a certain was that he would return, along with his fists of great strenght. "Nobody can stop my fists!"''

Street Fighter EX Plus α
''"Nobody can stop my fists!" The Power Fighter Cracker Jack vanished from this world for a while after the fight was over. Nobody knew what became of him or where did he went. All that was a certain was that he would return, along with his fists of great strenght.''

Street Fighter EX3
In his Street Fighter EX3 ending, both his fans and the organization attempt to track him down, causing Jack to go into hiding. He ends up making his way to Blair's house, and requests to stay at her place for a while.

Fighting EX Layer
Cracker Jack appears as one of the playable characters in Fighting EX Layer.

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 where he could deflect projectiles by swinging his bat in a greater distance especially he uses this as a close range weapon to beat opponents as one of his Super Combos. His Meteor Combo has him to make a devastating kick to his opponent while swinging his baseball bat to his airborne opponent in a massive damage.

Trivia

 * In the US manual for Street Fighter EX+ Alpha, Cracker Jack is stated to be 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 storyline was not present in the Japanese version, and subsequent American releases of the game use his original storyline.


 * 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", until in Street Fighter EX2 Plus onwards, 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 organization to a billionaires daughter (in Birdie's case, Karin) and becoming her bodyguard in return for protection.
 * Cracker Jack's brass knuckles in Fighting EX Layer resembles the brass knuckles worn by Miguel Caballero Rojo in Tekken 7: Fated Retribution.

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