Mad Jack is a major antagonist in Donkey Kong 64 where he is the boss of the third level, Frantic Factory. A giant frankenstein-esque jack in the box, Mad Jack is notable for being remarkably twisted compared to the rest of the game, having a much more menacing appearance than the other bosses as well as being just as, if not even more insane than K. Rool himself.
He was voiced by the late Clarence Nash using archived clips of his performance as Donald Duck.
Personality[]
Mad Jack is completely insane, laughing manically as the battle against him goes on. All the toys in the level are evil and murderous, so it says a great deal that even for the factory's cruel standard, Mad Jack was so much more malicious and dangerous than the others that he was labeled a reject and kept locked away. While his appearance is both crudely wicked and also silly, and he is capable of a sense of humor seen when he waved bye to Tiny before his demise, he is the only boss in the game apart from King K. Rool who relentlessly hunts his enemy down and tries to kill them in various, increasingly dangerous ways. While the majority of the game's bosses prefer to attack with ranged attacks from afar, and Mad Jack does do this as well, albeit far less than them, his preferred method of attack is simply trying to kill Tiny by flattening her with his box. He is also possibly a sadist, as after trying to jumpscare Tiny he laughed in amusement.
Biography[]
After opening Frantic Factory's boss door, Tiny Kong finds herself in a pitch-black room with several glowing squares on the floor. Venturing onto one of these squares, she is surprised when they rise into the air. Suddenly, Mad Jack appears from a large box that falls out of a nearby toy rejection chute.
Strategy[]
Mad Jack first attacks by re-entering his box and hopping from square to square attempting to crush Tiny, who has to frantically jump to different squares in order to avoid the crazed toy. If Tiny manages to avoid Jack, he will then pop out of his box and begin hurling fireballs at the Kong. While Mad Jack is busy doing this, Tiny must press a switch on a nearby square. If the square the switch is on is the same color as the one Jack is on, then he will be electrocuted. However, Tiny will electrocute herself if the switch's color doesn't match Mad Jack's platform color.
Eventually, after being damaged multiple times, Jack will begin to hop around faster and also shoot laser blasts from his robotic eye, which create shockwaves when they hit the platforms. He will also turn invisible after taking four hits. In order to track where Jack is, Tiny must watch the sparkles that trail behind him when he jumps, and Jack will also still light up the squares he jumps on. After Jack gets electrocuted 5 times, his square (along with all the other squares) will fall, and he then (humorously) falls and crashes to the ground below after doing a mock "wave goodbye", which seems to destroy him since there is no trace of him left afterwards.
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