How does samurai jack defeats aku

He swings his sword and what Aku has been saying happens, then he reappears beside Jack saying that this is what he means. Aku proposes a duel: no armies, no bounty hunters, but no sword as well, at which Jack looks shocked. Jack reluctantly agrees, but gives Aku three conditions much to his dismay : He cannot shape-shift and only come in human form, no minions and no superhuman powers.

Aku is hesitant and angry, but accepts. They go their separate ways to meet at sunrise in the Valley of the Corpses. The next day Jack is waiting and stows his sword in a rock and waits for Aku who appears in a comedic gladiator form. Jack stretches with Aku looking on confused and then trying to stretch himself but fails. Aku then shouts it's time for fate to determine their destinies and Jack and Aku begin fighting with Jack winning finally after a long martial arts battle.

Instead, after he confesses his true love for Ashi, she realizes she can essentially control Aku and manages to defeat him, opening a time portal for Jack to jump through. Jack managed to complete the one task he set out to do more than a decade ago, when the show premiered in In a final hurrah, all of the friends and allies he made over the past 15 years came out of the woodwork to help him take down his nemesis.

Most importantly, he grew as a human being, and learned to open his heart to those who come his way. It was a heartwarming moment, but set against the backdrop of a more kooky, offbeat episode, it felt like a departure from the direction the season was headed in, many fans said in reaction posts online.

One of the suggestions fans had to make the finale better was to turn it into an hourlong episode instead of the usual 30 minutes.

Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me.

Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku! So begins Samurai Jack. Of course, it's also a nice nod back to the late Mako , who lent his incredible voice talents to the villainous Aku; Greg Baldwin did a wonderful job replicating his performance for Season 5, but archival footage and audio is also used as an homage.

Speaking of homage, Season 5 of Samurai Jack is a massive love letter to fans of the series who have been keeping tabs on the various characters and creatures of Jack's world.

For casual viewers, you'll probably recognize the Scotsman above all else, but more attentive fans will also enjoy appearances by Sir Rothchild of the Canine Archaeologists, the Woolies and their enslavers the Chritchellites, the Spartans, and many, many more, some of whom continue to carry out fruitless attacks against Aku. These returning, fan-favorite characters--and likely favorites of Tartakovsky himself since this season is as much an indulgent experience for him as it is for fans--look little worse for wear, even though Jack himself appears ragged, unkempt, and in a deep, unending despair.

Fifty years have passed, but I do not age. Time has lost its effect on me. Yet the suffering continues. Aku's grasp chokes the past, present, and future. Hope is lost. While Aku seemed to have a soft spot for children at times, that seemed to be most indicative of his views of seeing immense value in not simply eradicating them, but rather to convince them via various means to view him as the "hero" of the planet and not Samurai Jack and make them useful servants in the future in order to shape successive generations.

Unfortunately for Aku, the children weren't impressed hearing his increasingly ludicrous tales, which then caused him to vanish in rage after he roared "the end". In Episode XXVIII: Jack and the Rave , Aku composed an evil techno music that hypnotized children, which, again, showcased his lust to indoctrinate young kids into his evil ways and made them dance for him and commit crimes. In Episode C , Aku seemingly welcomed Ashi as his own flesh and blood, and was even delighted by the fact that he had daughters of sorts.

Aku fondly called Ashi "sweetheart" and himself as "daddy", but that choice of words could have been chosen to further upset Ashi and Jack.

However, Aku had no qualms about manipulating his newly revealed daughter into fighting Jack while he lamented that his child had fallen for his sworn enemy.

Despite that, Aku's many genocides of countless nations included children as well and Aku had previously targeted a younger Samurai Jack shortly after the subjugation of his homeland while knowing the threat that the son of his former nemesis, the Emperor, would pose to him if he was left unchecked. After 50 years of battling Jack, Aku's personality seemed to be largely unchanged and appeared to be more mellow, though he appeared to have sunk into something of a depression due to Jack's agelessness, which caused Aku to stop caring about being the ruler of the world.

Aku had a more noticeably annoyed and fed up expression on his face and his attitude reflected that: where once before, he would have killed whoever had displeased him, in that state of annoyance. Aku instead got annoyed that the Mud Aliens had dirtied the floor of his lair and told them that he "just had it vacuumed!

That also extended to the robots that were sent to kill Jack, as Aku had stopped caring about the new tech that his scientists had created in order to battle Jack and once told them: "And I care, because?

While he claimed at one point not to care about Jack's fate, Aku was actually deeply disturbed by that discovery, as his long experience with Jack had demonstrated that his foe was unlikely to fall into the hands of any of Aku's Minions, which left the two of them in a potentially eternal stalemate.

The idea that he and Jack would have to spend eternity fighting had gotten to Aku so badly that he actually split himself into two and had the other half become his therapist in order to do check ups on his mental health.

That depression appeared to have caused a degree of apathy in Aku, or at least unhappy resignation, as Aku apparently knew that the population of Earth was beginning to rebel against his rule, but he was either unable or unwilling to do much about it personally due to having lost track of Jack. Aku's depression also made him avoid contact with others beings from outside his palace in which he made the giant voice recorder in his likeliness that recorded his message that said that he didn't want to meet anyone and asked them to go away.

At the same time, Aku also cared less about tributes to him. Despite that, Aku's sadistic tendencies appeared to be largely intact, as he appeared to be quite pleased with himself after he incinerated the Scotsman and destroyed most of the army that attacked his fortress.

However, even that tendency appeared to have been reduced to a considerable degree, as Aku appeared to be more nonchalant than pleased during his destruction of the rebel army. After he was confronted by the Scotsman, Aku either completely forgot to kill the Scotsman's Daughters, or simply didn't bother out of disinterest. Additionally, Aku was shown at one point becoming upset with a group of mud creatures who, in presenting him with tribute, had dirtied a recently vacuumed floor.

But instead of having the creatures killed or imprisoned as he seemed to do to others in the past on a whim, Aku merely shouted at them to leave. After he heard of Jack losing his sword from Scaramouche, Aku nearly reverted to his own self and happy to the point of dancing around with Scaramouche. However, after he discovered that Jack had regained his sword, he then angrily blasted Scaramouche into oblivion.

During that time, Aku was shown to be cautious enough not to engage Jack in battle head-on and instead relied on controlling Ashi to deal with Jack in order to toy with him as well as cunningly knowing the fact that Jack would try his best to avoid hurting her. At the same time, Aku also lost interest in fighting Jack since he tried to leave after he saw Jack with his sword again and knew full well the result of the fight.

Although he was an absolute ruler of the world, Aku was not above paying bills in order to use services, like when he paid the phone bill that allowed Scaramouche to talk to him or ordered bounty hunters to kill Jack. It was also shown that Aku was courteous enough to hold the phone while he waited for service to respond. Shockingly, in Episode C, Aku was even polite enough to state his absence, not to mention an apology for any inconvenience of not being able to meet Scaramouche in person, though he ended the recording and screamed at the listener to leave.

Aku was well known for being one of the most powerful characters in the series. He had a large range of powers and capabilities that made him almost unstoppable.

Aku was a demonic entity which Jack described as the personification of primordial evil, was one of the most powerful beings in the series, and there were few who could oppose him.

One of Aku's aliases, Ikra was just one of several forms which Aku assumed in order to travel closely with Jack. Using his shape-shifting abilities, Aku changed himself to the appearance of a young woman with green skin, black hair, and a black dress. Under the guise of Ikra, Aku and Jack formed a close bond at one point, Ikra even saved him from drowning in quicksand. Ikra told Jack that her father, like Jack's, had fought with Aku, lost, and was forced to spend eternity trapped in a ring of fire.

Ikra told Jack that she was on a quest to find a magical jewel in the desert which was powerful enough to free her father. When Aku revealed himself as having been Ikra the whole time, he mocked Jack for having believed the story about her father. The Hermit was another of Aku's aliases, he was just one of several forms that Aku assumed in order to travel closely with Jack. Using his shape-shifting abilities Aku changed himself to the appearance of an old cranky hermit with green skin, white hair, and a black robe.

He then traveled with Jack in order to find the Gems of Cronus. Aku looked for one gem after another, in order to resurrect Cronus. Unlike with Ikra, Jack saw through the deception and ultimately turned the tables on Aku. In the ensuing battle, Jack defeated and heavily injured Aku, which then forced him to retreat. Samurai Jack Wiki Explore. Samurai Jack. Explore Wikis Community Central.

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