Only thing that made me laugh harder was the guy who challenges you to a fight in one of the mini-DLCs, only to get blown up by a bomb you place on a gate (his severed feet are found in the blast zone).
Handsome Jack has my favorite line in any game ever. It's when you've infiltrated his city and are destroying his statues, there's a moment of silence, then a deadpan, "You are such an asshole." No grandeur, but no subtlety either. Just his blunt, honest opinion of the player character. It's refreshing in a way.
I think it technically counts as a separate character, but I really love the conversation between Rhys and AI Jack at the end of Tales From The Borderlands. The way Jack talks about how everyone is the hero of their own story, and the way he talked about how eventually he started measuring his success by the size of the piles of rubble he was creating. It was ultimately just ploy and distraction on Jack's part to get Rhys to let his guard down, but it felt so BELIEVABLE and genuine coming from Jack after he had seemingly been beaten again and lost everything that it really feels like it's coming from a genuine place even if it most likely is pure BS. It really felt like you were talking to a brilliant and charismatic man who had gotten everything you could ever want out of life, only to lose it all before went off the deep end, losing what little he had left and being completely broken by the realization that he truly had nothing left. Then he tries to kill Rhys and goes back to the madman we all love to hate and hate to love.
One thing I loved about Handsome Jack was the fact that after you kill Angel, I really could not tell if he was just pissed you killed his daughter, or pissed because you robbed him of his key to the Warrior and this was him just coping to make you the bad guy in his mind.
I think it’s the robbing him, while also trying to enact like he still cares about her. Considering on his final speech knowing he is gonna die he has no remorse and doesn’t even mention her, I think that cements it.
@@bigmichaeljack3851 To add to this, he gets mad when his wife is brought up and he still hates you for killing angel even when he has a new method to charge the key
@@feudalocean8428 he has mixed feelings about his daughter, since she accidentally killed her mother, making Jack feel mad about her, he trapped her in the Hyperion systems for his own gain but in his twisted way he cares for her, he made her connect with his satellites because he wanted to show the world to her even if he cant do that physically
"You're a savage! You're a maniac! You are a bandit AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO!" -Handsome Jack, the broken man who was betrayed over and over and over again by people who he considered friends.
No, no, no… I can’t die like this not when I’m so close and not at the hands of a filthy bandit I could have saved this planet I could have actually restored order and i wasn’t supposed to die at the hands of a CHILD KILLING PSYCHOPATH! your a savage your a manic you are a bandit AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO
I got to meet handsome jacks voice actor at a convention once, I wasn't allowed in but snuck in, and he called me put for it, but let me stay, it was great
dude i wish!!! what convention? ive always wanted to meet dameon, since handsome jack is my absolute favorite character in the entire series and i truly support him and back him as the hero lol. ive been john swasey, who is the voice actor of salvador, and it was super great! got a signed picture of salvador hung on my wall and framed, and he even did the voice is was wonderful.
@@jammapanda that sounds pretty damn awesome. I met Jack's VA at a convention called SacAnime, an anime convention in Sacramento, California bout 6 or 7 years back
Or in his case; set out to become the hero, but end up the villain because nobody wanted a deathray in a space station, or for one man to have unknown knowledge of a dead civilization.
You really start to feel bad for Jack after playing through the pre-sequel because he was played like a fiddle, and thrown to the side once he was no longer needed, it makes his final words in borderlands 2 all the more impactful, he really was a good guy, but even good people have their limits Edit: to yall who disagree with me, that's fine, have ur own opinion, just be nice with how you phrase it
you are... a goat. he really was the hero and i have ALWAYS said that. ive been playing the games since i was like 10 and ALWAYS i backed him haha. i had a group of friends online that i met through the games, and one of the girls in the group sent me a letter at one point and addressed it to "handsome jack lover" haha!
That speech before he's killed is enough to make anyone feel like they are on the wrong side. You can just hear the distress and pain in his voice in his final attempt to talk things into being the right way, with him as the hero trying to make everything better. "You're the Vault Thief, and I, AM THE GODDAMN HERO"
Nah he wasn't, he just wasn't as bad of a guy, by that point he was already using Angel, he also turned the Destroyer into a huge laser to wipe out the bandits in Pandora, honestly if Lilith and the gang hadn't done all that shit to him, he would have probably been an asset to them instead of their greatest enemy, since let's be real they are civilized and if not for that grudge he'd likely not target sanctuary
Handsome jack is hand down my favorite villain in any media, hes funny, hes 3 dimensional, he feels real and thats what makes him lovable but also scary.
They betrayed me because they didn’t have the balls to do what it takes to save the innocent. That’s why….I wanted to rid Pandora of those Backstabbing bandits….
And one thing that I like about handsome jack over most villans is that, he showed the perfect balance between insanity and knowledge. Yes he was pushed over the brink and lose his sanity but kept his prior knowledge and used it for his own benefit instead of being a generic maniac
I love Handsome Jack as much as the next guy. Really. I love Borderlands 2. It’s my favorite game of all time. But honestly, this video just comes off as “Handsome Jack is the most realistic video game villain of all time because he has a backstory”
@@molsy1768 you aren’t playing the right games then, Loghain in Dragon Age Origins, surprise villain in Jade Empire, surprise villain in Dragon Age 2, The Illusive Man in Mass Effect, surprise villain in Kotor 2, tbh a lot of the best villains are the ones who make you think they’re your friend
Realism exists in fantasy settings. Feelings and emotions which are the basis for his mindset aren’t exclusive to earth based tales. Wish a good day for you if you end up reading this.
Jack isn’t a good person. But he’s not pure evil, either. He absolutely does things that cannot be justified, even with the context of his entire backstory, such as how he makes his daughter feel like her mother’s death was her fault, which, while it was, he shouldn’t have kept reminding her of it. And he lured new vault hunters to pandora just to kill them, when his stated goal was cleaning up Pandora, yet doing this clearly suggests that he really just wants to exterminate all “bandits”, and if anyone responds to his trap, he plans to have them executed, even though there’s a possibility that one of those supposed bandits just really needed money, and didn’t intend to kill anyone to get it. Jack does seem to genuinely want to fix Pandora, but everything he did in pursuit of that goal only hurt people more. Perhaps he could have been a hero, if the vault hunters had pointed out his unheroic characteristics to him, rather than choosing to betray him, and permanently scar his face. But that’s a big maybe. At the end of the day, Jack is a mass murderer, with as much charisma as he has blood on his hands. He believes himself to be the hero, but this leans more towards delusion, than justifiable idea. He’s a complex character.
I believe the events of Borderlands 2 explain why Jack lured vault hunters, he needed to find a team badass enough to trick into making Sanctuary vulnerable with the powercore. As soon as some VHs survived his first attack he successfully carried out his plan and ideally for him would have destroyed Sanctuary, Angel charges the key and he lives happily ever after ruling Pandora.
One of the best lines from the series is when he says "Lady if you can tell me why you look like you headbutted a belt sander I'll let you go right now."
Jack is one of the most sympathetic villians out there. He was betrayed by everyone he ever trusted in the presequel he genuinely wanted to be a hero and a good person but lilith and the others tried to kill him just because of one drastic move he made by killing his entire science team to eliminate a chance of a spy. I wouldnt have agreed with buy i would have understood why he did it. Presequel does a good job at making you feel sorry for jack and want to help him get revenge on lilith and the others
He already did horrible things before the pre sequel, he was entirely unhinged throughout the game and was already using his daughter as a slave, forcing her to manipulate vault hunters into opening dangerous vaults, he is the main reason the destroyer's vault was opened in the first game (which takes place before the pre sequel), he also completely ruined someone's life and basically (literally) turned him into a slave (timothy, aka his body double). he has never been the hero.
It didn’t just start in the pre-sequel. He was already pretty messed up in the head but was better at hiding it. Jack’s mom pawned him off to her mom, who was abusive and he had to endure the trauma of his daughter accidentally killing his wife and mother of his child. That’s bound to fuck you up, let alone being raised on Pandora.
He is one the most memorable villians in the gaming history just by the fact that he is with you and you slowly see how he is and how his mind is corruptos to root just because he once tried the Hero role but he lived enough to become the villians of his own story
So to create an realistic villain backstory. (Or relatable one) Give them something we all can relate to, like trying to help others, etc. but twist it so much that they basically become insane, and kill people you know.
it was less that it was twisted and more that it was broken, he was backstabbed by pretty much everyone, his employees(not all of them but still), his bosses and two people he knew could help and did all on the word of his EX, he slowly became paranoid and that last betrayal by moxxi,Lilith and roland broke him finally, made him go from anti hero like punisher(willing to kill if needed to do the right thing) to villain(killing everyone assuming everyone is the bad guy unless he paid/threatened/made them)
@@Leostar-Regalius they turned on him bc they could clearly see while trying to help him that he was a sociopath and needed to be sat down before he really lost his mind. Unfortunately, they ended up being that catalyst, which really tells you it was inevitable either way.
Borderlands 2 is such a masterpiece, and Handsome Jack is my favorite villain of all time, Gearbox unfortunately will never be able to create a game like that again
Even without all the betrayal, Jack was on his way to become Handsome. He already locked Angel away and has recruited the Vaulters to plunder Elpy‘s vault
I feel like that was more a "oh shit she just killed my wife what the fuck am i going to do" kinda reactionary response. Doesn't make it better but, more understandable.
@@no.notfromRDR he had choices. Remember that he not only locked her up for the rest of her frickin' life (which is enough in itself, especially that she was still a child who didn't understand her powers) but also used her and her powers to his advantage
@@blueee0088 Used them after he became handsome. Before it was just to keep everyone safe until he could better understand her powers and possibly teach her to control them. That was the original intention. Later he abused her gifts after becoming handsome.
“The hero of his own story”. No character is more synonyms with that like, than Handsome Jack. Everyone knew he was an insane monster, even his own daughter. Everyone. All except him.
Handsome Jack voice actor (Dameon Clarke) is such a great guy, I recently met him in May 11 at San Antonio TX at a convention called The Nostalgia con where I got to talk to him and got his autograph (:
The fact that some people see Jack as an anti-hero rather than a villain is a cold reminder that even the most ruthless dictators in history have people that say, "He/She wasn't that bad."
"The most realistic villain in gaming" *Owns an multi billion dollar company that heals the vault hunters that he's trying to kill and wondering how they still alive*
New u is canon, its just the game is a story told by marcus to his orphans, and hes a pretty bad storyteller, and he doesnt expect orphans to notice plot holes lol
Bowser is still the most realistic (that I know of) I think. We don’t get as much screentime per game with him like with Jack, but everything just fits together very well. William Afton in FNAF is the same, but tbh most his lore is pieced thanks to the books.
I'm still glad my kid self bought BL2 a couple days after release when I had the chance, because I never seen nor played a BL game. Jack is what got me captivated and other stuff also
In borderlands 2 I felt like he was the actual hero and we were the bad guys who killed his kid destroyed his assets to make pandora a better place and overall caused chaos
A kind reminder that in Pre-Sequel he, while not as unhinged as later on, already had someone hired to take plastic surgery to be his body double, because he already was high enough in the corporate ladder of Hyperion where he would need someone able to take a bullet for him. So even before everything, he's already a slimy manager of an evil.space supercorporation, who also has a magic daughter locked up in his home "for her own good", and he's putting his faith and future into digging up alien tech. Pretty realistic I'd say, we all know a guy like that.
Narrator: Handsome Jack is the most realistic villain... Also narrator: An ancient alien species has placed vaults with futuristic technology in a planet busting creature!
@@molsy1768 that's not true. He was an asshole, sure and everyone acknowledged it too and complained about having to deal with him all the time but Dutch was indebted to him and trusted him. That's why they kept him around.
"Handsome jack is the most realistic video game villain" Dutch van der land is better in my opinion All of the things that you said to prove he's the most realistic villain Dutch has tenfold He's in the camp he's with you in the missions and in the end he betrays you You might say that he isn't a villain but he is Arthur say's he became more of who he was Or the trolly station or Tahiti and hosea's death and micha controlling him But micha couldn't control him if he was better You the player Know so much about him And instead of Arthur being betrayed you are You feel betrayed that the man you did all this for will throw it And even after the gang went they're separate ways he managed to damn them all If he didn't stop Arthur at the cliff Micha would be dead and if he was Dead They wouldn't found john who killed all the gang members and killed dutch but caused John's death He's one of the best villains and i think he's a better villain in my opinion Excuse me for the Grammer English isn't my native language
@@gamergirl3000 yeah he's a very good villain but in my opinion Dutch is better but of course i respect your opinion If i would rank them from best to worst it would be 1-dutch 2-andrew ryan 3-sent Armstrong
The most realistic villain in games is Postal Dude, he lives in small town surrounded by the most insufferable people, hates his job and married to a terrible woman, his pain and anger is might be relatable to almost every person in some way. Just imagine him living in our modern society and you understand his actions
When I played bl2 for the first time I didn't want to end him, I wanted a way to let him live. Not because I liked him, because he was a broken man. My two favourite lines of jack is: the start just before knuckle dragger (Vault hunter look for new vault, vault hunter gets killed, by me. So if you could do me a favour and off that'd be great, thank's pumpkin.) and when you're in Control Core. (Please...Don't hurt my baby girl...Please.)
He's a great villain because like you mentioned. He was made to be a villain, he truly wanted to help people and it just repeatedly blew up in his face
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"Everybody thinks they're the heroes of their own stories"
-Handsome Jack
"Every Villain is the hero of his own story"
- Batman
And every hero beats there ass with plot armor- commonoleg
Insanely masterpiece of a game 🎮 ✨️
Including him
Ironic how his last words litterally are "No! I am THE hero!"
The most realistic villain in borderlands is that guy who tripped down the stairs and died
Only thing that made me laugh harder was the guy who challenges you to a fight in one of the mini-DLCs, only to get blown up by a bomb you place on a gate (his severed feet are found in the blast zone).
@@theguybehindyou4762"all that was left was a pile of smoking boots" type shit
Lol I love that guy
Нe's so real for that!
@@GenasidalThat's some looney tune type crap
Handsome Jack has my favorite line in any game ever. It's when you've infiltrated his city and are destroying his statues, there's a moment of silence, then a deadpan, "You are such an asshole." No grandeur, but no subtlety either. Just his blunt, honest opinion of the player character. It's refreshing in a way.
"A pony made of diamonds."
"You are such an asshole."
Me, a guy who was betrayed by him and watched many die at his hands: "Boohoo, bitch!"
My favorite is "God, these pretzels suck."
I love when the 2 lines where he ironically plays the violin after he kills bloodwing
I think it technically counts as a separate character, but I really love the conversation between Rhys and AI Jack at the end of Tales From The Borderlands. The way Jack talks about how everyone is the hero of their own story, and the way he talked about how eventually he started measuring his success by the size of the piles of rubble he was creating. It was ultimately just ploy and distraction on Jack's part to get Rhys to let his guard down, but it felt so BELIEVABLE and genuine coming from Jack after he had seemingly been beaten again and lost everything that it really feels like it's coming from a genuine place even if it most likely is pure BS. It really felt like you were talking to a brilliant and charismatic man who had gotten everything you could ever want out of life, only to lose it all before went off the deep end, losing what little he had left and being completely broken by the realization that he truly had nothing left. Then he tries to kill Rhys and goes back to the madman we all love to hate and hate to love.
One thing I loved about Handsome Jack was the fact that after you kill Angel, I really could not tell if he was just pissed you killed his daughter, or pissed because you robbed him of his key to the Warrior and this was him just coping to make you the bad guy in his mind.
Yeah and that is this unknown feeling that i love about him
I think it’s the robbing him, while also trying to enact like he still cares about her. Considering on his final speech knowing he is gonna die he has no remorse and doesn’t even mention her, I think that cements it.
@@feudalocean8428 to be fair he does he does call you a "Child killing psychopath"
@@bigmichaeljack3851 To add to this, he gets mad when his wife is brought up and he still hates you for killing angel even when he has a new method to charge the key
@@feudalocean8428 he has mixed feelings about his daughter, since she accidentally killed her mother, making Jack feel mad about her, he trapped her in the Hyperion systems for his own gain but in his twisted way he cares for her, he made her connect with his satellites because he wanted to show the world to her even if he cant do that physically
"You're a savage! You're a maniac! You are a bandit AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO!" -Handsome Jack, the broken man who was betrayed over and over and over again by people who he considered friends.
No, no, no… I can’t die like this not when I’m so close and not at the hands of a filthy bandit I could have saved this planet I could have actually restored order and i wasn’t supposed to die at the hands of a CHILD KILLING PSYCHOPATH! your a savage your a manic you are a bandit AND I AM THE GODDAMN HERO
I got to meet handsome jacks voice actor at a convention once, I wasn't allowed in but snuck in, and he called me put for it, but let me stay, it was great
Lol
👍🏻
dude i wish!!! what convention? ive always wanted to meet dameon, since handsome jack is my absolute favorite character in the entire series and i truly support him and back him as the hero lol. ive been john swasey, who is the voice actor of salvador, and it was super great! got a signed picture of salvador hung on my wall and framed, and he even did the voice is was wonderful.
@@jammapanda that sounds pretty damn awesome. I met Jack's VA at a convention called SacAnime, an anime convention in Sacramento, California bout 6 or 7 years back
@@codygillard oh awesome! i wonder if or when he'll be going to any other conventions here in the future!
Jack is the embodiement of "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Or in his case; set out to become the hero, but end up the villain because nobody wanted a deathray in a space station, or for one man to have unknown knowledge of a dead civilization.
@@crypto1223He's basically a realistic version of Palpatine.
You really start to feel bad for Jack after playing through the pre-sequel because he was played like a fiddle, and thrown to the side once he was no longer needed, it makes his final words in borderlands 2 all the more impactful, he really was a good guy, but even good people have their limits
Edit: to yall who disagree with me, that's fine, have ur own opinion, just be nice with how you phrase it
you are... a goat. he really was the hero and i have ALWAYS said that. ive been playing the games since i was like 10 and ALWAYS i backed him haha. i had a group of friends online that i met through the games, and one of the girls in the group sent me a letter at one point and addressed it to "handsome jack lover" haha!
That speech before he's killed is enough to make anyone feel like they are on the wrong side. You can just hear the distress and pain in his voice in his final attempt to talk things into being the right way, with him as the hero trying to make everything better. "You're the Vault Thief, and I, AM THE GODDAMN HERO"
Same I feel bad for handsome Jack
All it takes is one bad day
Nah he wasn't, he just wasn't as bad of a guy, by that point he was already using Angel, he also turned the Destroyer into a huge laser to wipe out the bandits in Pandora, honestly if Lilith and the gang hadn't done all that shit to him, he would have probably been an asset to them instead of their greatest enemy, since let's be real they are civilized and if not for that grudge he'd likely not target sanctuary
Handsome jack is hand down my favorite villain in any media, hes funny, hes 3 dimensional, he feels real and thats what makes him lovable but also scary.
He's funny until you piss him off and the menace beneath the facade begins to emerge...
@@theguybehindyou4762Rhys disagrees
"I will pay you to kill yourself"
-Handsome Jack-
😂 still one of my favorites lines
Well the euridium was certainly worth it.
He is a man of his word.
"I"M GONNA BE RICH!"
He forgot to disable the New U station
And he actually does pay you if you kill yourself
They betrayed me because they didn’t have the balls to do what it takes to save the innocent. That’s why….I wanted to rid Pandora of those Backstabbing bandits….
still got fucked by a LV 28 tech-savvy school girl.
username checks out 😂 but yes i agree
This seems legit
Oh my aren't u a handsome over there
@@handsomejack2998 the multiverse has broken
Finally someone mentions borderlands after all these years 🙌. One of the best games with one of the best villains
Not the originals
@@mayonnaise3959 what?
@@feudalocean8428 the originals are not some of the best games ever.
@@mayonnaise3959 that is complete opinion
@@feudalocean8428 on a objective level they aren’t
The epitome of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain”
Jacks character is one of the best written villains to this day
And one thing that I like about handsome jack over most villans is that, he showed the perfect balance between insanity and knowledge. Yes he was pushed over the brink and lose his sanity but kept his prior knowledge and used it for his own benefit instead of being a generic maniac
Handsome jack is charismatic af
I love Handsome Jack as much as the next guy. Really. I love Borderlands 2. It’s my favorite game of all time. But honestly, this video just comes off as “Handsome Jack is the most realistic video game villain of all time because he has a backstory”
To be honest, having a proper backstory isn't a common theme in most video games
@@molsy1768 didnt know that
@@justanormalguy8809 no he’s wrong it super is
@@threegreenworms not really
@@molsy1768 you aren’t playing the right games then, Loghain in Dragon Age Origins, surprise villain in Jade Empire, surprise villain in Dragon Age 2, The Illusive Man in Mass Effect, surprise villain in Kotor 2, tbh a lot of the best villains are the ones who make you think they’re your friend
Had to make the two face reference
It’s a good one, ironically never thought of connecting them
Jacks story started on helios then epislis after that then pandora
I think you should have made a vaas reference he is somewhat realistic
You spelled “flush” when it’s “flesh” in “took time to flesh him out”
I've never played this but I'd think micah/dutch from rdr2 was the most realistic
'You Are The Bandit, and I AM THE GODAMN HERO!' - Handsome Jack.
Not only is he the most realistic villain, but he is also the best villain of all time.
If " You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" was personafied
He never did become a villain, he was always a hero, it's just the perspective of the "heroes" that makes him a villain.
@@lokiforpresident8361 anti hero, like punisher
I am a hero to begin with ! And even my death doesn't change it !
"Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story."
-Handsome Jack
He was never a hero lol just some guy who was trying to save his own ass
Dutch Van Der Linde: “And I took that personal.”
“Just have some * slaps table * goddamn faith!”
He isn't realistic dumbo. His name is Dutch, be he can't speak dutch.
Dutch is the best villain in red dead 1
Honestly Dutch is more realistic than this
We need more money
As a AI Version of Handsome Jack said everyone's a hero of Their Own Story
"Jack's story is the most realistic..." Immediately starts talking about ancient alien civilizations.
Straw man
"in gaming"
Witnessing his descent into madness actually really made him a good villain
"The most realistic story for a villain"
"Ok, so in an alien planet full of aliens..."
Realism exists in fantasy settings. Feelings and emotions which are the basis for his mindset aren’t exclusive to earth based tales. Wish a good day for you if you end up reading this.
@@serenadeX31 please get a life your making me feel bad
@@serenadeX31 it was a joke
@@serenadeX31
That's not realism is.
The context matters.
Realism is connotation of physical world as opposed to fantasy.
@@serenadeX31 the world ur looking for is "grounded" and not realistic.
Jack isn’t a good person. But he’s not pure evil, either.
He absolutely does things that cannot be justified, even with the context of his entire backstory, such as how he makes his daughter feel like her mother’s death was her fault, which, while it was, he shouldn’t have kept reminding her of it.
And he lured new vault hunters to pandora just to kill them, when his stated goal was cleaning up Pandora, yet doing this clearly suggests that he really just wants to exterminate all “bandits”, and if anyone responds to his trap, he plans to have them executed, even though there’s a possibility that one of those supposed bandits just really needed money, and didn’t intend to kill anyone to get it.
Jack does seem to genuinely want to fix Pandora, but everything he did in pursuit of that goal only hurt people more.
Perhaps he could have been a hero, if the vault hunters had pointed out his unheroic characteristics to him, rather than choosing to betray him, and permanently scar his face.
But that’s a big maybe.
At the end of the day, Jack is a mass murderer, with as much charisma as he has blood on his hands. He believes himself to be the hero, but this leans more towards delusion, than justifiable idea. He’s a complex character.
nice but i know the lore of borderlands but nice
I believe the events of Borderlands 2 explain why Jack lured vault hunters, he needed to find a team badass enough to trick into making Sanctuary vulnerable with the powercore. As soon as some VHs survived his first attack he successfully carried out his plan and ideally for him would have destroyed Sanctuary, Angel charges the key and he lives happily ever after ruling Pandora.
@@lutfehabib610 okay you didn’t need to be a dick. Month old comment or not dude. Just don’t respond then.
"Ends justify the means" and all that, yeah?
those are justified
Good to know. One of my friends kept mentioning that this character was super hot but had no idea who it was.
I bet he's actually ugly tho bec that's a mask after his face got burnt or something I don't recall the story xD
There's a scar shaped like the vault symbol because Lilith punched a burning hot vault key onto his face in the pre sequel
One of the best lines from the series is when he says "Lady if you can tell me why you look like you headbutted a belt sander I'll let you go right now."
Fun fact, his french voice actor is the same that play Eric Cartman
Jack is one of the most sympathetic villians out there. He was betrayed by everyone he ever trusted in the presequel he genuinely wanted to be a hero and a good person but lilith and the others tried to kill him just because of one drastic move he made by killing his entire science team to eliminate a chance of a spy. I wouldnt have agreed with buy i would have understood why he did it.
Presequel does a good job at making you feel sorry for jack and want to help him get revenge on lilith and the others
He already did horrible things before the pre sequel, he was entirely unhinged throughout the game and was already using his daughter as a slave, forcing her to manipulate vault hunters into opening dangerous vaults, he is the main reason the destroyer's vault was opened in the first game (which takes place before the pre sequel), he also completely ruined someone's life and basically (literally) turned him into a slave (timothy, aka his body double). he has never been the hero.
It didn’t just start in the pre-sequel. He was already pretty messed up in the head but was better at hiding it. Jack’s mom pawned him off to her mom, who was abusive and he had to endure the trauma of his daughter accidentally killing his wife and mother of his child. That’s bound to fuck you up, let alone being raised on Pandora.
He is one the most memorable villians in the gaming history just by the fact that he is with you and you slowly see how he is and how his mind is corruptos to root just because he once tried the Hero role but he lived enough to become the villians of his own story
So to create an realistic villain backstory. (Or relatable one)
Give them something we all can relate to, like trying to help others, etc.
but twist it so much that they basically become insane, and kill people you know.
it was less that it was twisted and more that it was broken, he was backstabbed by pretty much everyone, his employees(not all of them but still), his bosses and two people he knew could help and did all on the word of his EX, he slowly became paranoid and that last betrayal by moxxi,Lilith and roland broke him finally, made him go from anti hero like punisher(willing to kill if needed to do the right thing) to villain(killing everyone assuming everyone is the bad guy unless he paid/threatened/made them)
@@Leostar-Regalius they turned on him bc they could clearly see while trying to help him that he was a sociopath and needed to be sat down before he really lost his mind. Unfortunately, they ended up being that catalyst, which really tells you it was inevitable either way.
Jack is like a realistic Joker.
"Madness as you know it, is like gravity. All it takes is a little PUSH"
Borderlands 2 is such a masterpiece, and Handsome Jack is my favorite villain of all time, Gearbox unfortunately will never be able to create a game like that again
"handsome jack is the most realistic villian"
"he starts on a planet with aliens"
LOL I was thinking the same thing. Glad to see someone comment this
Yes the story is realistic , the setting isn't that's the difference
But maybe Aliens are real
ret1 .ard stole top comment which itself is wrong
@@user-ey1sf6fy3f this was 4 months ago I didn't steal any comment
"You are bandits and I am the godd@m hero!"
Even without all the betrayal, Jack was on his way to become Handsome.
He already locked Angel away and has recruited the Vaulters to plunder Elpy‘s vault
on a side mission in BL3 we see that angel accidentally killed her mother and he had no other choice but lock her up
I feel like that was more a "oh shit she just killed my wife what the fuck am i going to do" kinda reactionary response. Doesn't make it better but, more understandable.
he had to lock her away, BL3 let's us know the events that led up to him locking her away even more then the recordings from bl2
@@no.notfromRDR he had choices. Remember that he not only locked her up for the rest of her frickin' life (which is enough in itself, especially that she was still a child who didn't understand her powers) but also used her and her powers to his advantage
@@blueee0088 Used them after he became handsome. Before it was just to keep everyone safe until he could better understand her powers and possibly teach her to control them. That was the original intention. Later he abused her gifts after becoming handsome.
“The hero of his own story”. No character is more synonyms with that like, than Handsome Jack. Everyone knew he was an insane monster, even his own daughter. Everyone. All except him.
"Jacks story begins on the planet of Pandora" shows Jack in an interdimensional rift... on the moon Elpis... of Pandora
Poor Jack.
Poor me.
"There's nothing out there... absolutely nothing there."
No the names HANDSOME, not poor
@@nickieBurke lol
I'm probably uncultured or having a brain moment. What game?
Jack is not a villain.
He is the GODDAMN HERO!
Handsome Jack was the hero. Until Lilith and Moxxie betrayed him for the final time.
Is like the Saying goes "you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain " Jack is the representation of this saying
The most realistic villain of the Borderlands franchise are the people writing the newer games 💀
Handsome Jack voice actor (Dameon Clarke) is such a great guy, I recently met him in May 11 at San Antonio TX at a convention called The Nostalgia con where I got to talk to him and got his autograph (:
Senator Armstrong: appears in the very last section of the game, yet leaving the most memorable moments. And memes too.
"Realistic" wouln't be the word to use, but still I love the guy
Wasn't a fan of borderlands , but this video on handsome jack has changed my mind.
Jack and vaas are my favorites
The fact that some people see Jack as an anti-hero rather than a villain is a cold reminder that even the most ruthless dictators in history have people that say, "He/She wasn't that bad."
"The most realistic villain in gaming"
*Owns an multi billion dollar company that heals the vault hunters that he's trying to kill and wondering how they still alive*
Well while the vault hunters waste their money on Hyperion guns nothing to worry about, the heroes giving the villain power xd
its not canon :)
@@notapachii8309 and even if it is canon, they still made the vault hunters pay every single time they use it with an increasing price lol
New u is canon, its just the game is a story told by marcus to his orphans, and hes a pretty bad storyteller, and he doesnt expect orphans to notice plot holes lol
Not cannon
"You're the only one running pal, I can fly!"
Bowser is still the most realistic (that I know of) I think. We don’t get as much screentime per game with him like with Jack, but everything just fits together very well. William Afton in FNAF is the same, but tbh most his lore is pieced thanks to the books.
He is by far my #1 most hated villain ever
I'm still glad my kid self bought BL2 a couple days after release when I had the chance, because I never seen nor played a BL game. Jack is what got me captivated and other stuff also
Dutch: Am i a joke to you? Son?
He had no Faith
His story is super sad and really made me cry man cause as a male and had gone through what he's gone, I'd might have done the same thing
In borderlands 2 I felt like he was the actual hero and we were the bad guys who killed his kid destroyed his assets to make pandora a better place and overall caused chaos
I love your videos man.you are creative
Well, if isn't saucy jack
Look I'm not I'm dead
I always come back
“Most realistic Villain in gaming history” *Starts on an alien planet*
Jack is still a hero in my eyes
Dutch from red dead redemption is a pretty realistic villain in my opinion
A kind reminder that in Pre-Sequel he, while not as unhinged as later on, already had someone hired to take plastic surgery to be his body double, because he already was high enough in the corporate ladder of Hyperion where he would need someone able to take a bullet for him. So even before everything, he's already a slimy manager of an evil.space supercorporation, who also has a magic daughter locked up in his home "for her own good", and he's putting his faith and future into digging up alien tech.
Pretty realistic I'd say, we all know a guy like that.
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He is the most realistic because he is talking to you via radio throughout the game 🗿
far cry 3 vass is very realistic in my opinion
Do you know the point of insanity
It's literally Lilith's fault her inability to sit by led to jack not seeing the whole future fusing him with eridium and driving him mad
I didn't actually realise until now that Jack's face is fake
Jack is thee best villain in any BL universe.
Borderlands is op
Narrator: Handsome Jack is the most realistic villain...
Also narrator: An ancient alien species has placed vaults with futuristic technology in a planet busting creature!
I don’t see how this.. makes him /the most realistic/ of all villains but I do have to say he has a cool character arc.
jack isnt even a bad guy. he really did want the best for everyone.
After seeing Lilith in this and after beating borderlands 3, I shouted in my head NOT LILITH
He’s a good villain, the “most realistic” lmao gtfo
Edit: I thought it was a joke with the first 15 seconds
Fr, if he wants a realistic villain he should look for bioshock not borderlands lmao
@@gamergirl3000 or rdr2. Every character in that game is realistic.
@@6ButtonS6 my thoughts exactly
@@6ButtonS6 nah, micah ain't realistic. Someone would have killed him after a month.
@@molsy1768 that's not true. He was an asshole, sure and everyone acknowledged it too and complained about having to deal with him all the time but Dutch was indebted to him and trusted him. That's why they kept him around.
He isn’t, take a break from Reddit.
Lmao spittin
Most realistic character.
Then mentions born on alien planet.
I thought you were going to say he's the most realistic because of his personality rather than game time
"Handsome jack is the most realistic video game villain"
Dutch van der land is better in my opinion
All of the things that you said to prove he's the most realistic villain
Dutch has tenfold
He's in the camp he's with you in the missions and in the end he betrays you
You might say that he isn't a villain but he is
Arthur say's he became more of who he was
Or the trolly station or Tahiti and hosea's death and micha controlling him
But micha couldn't control him if he was better
You the player
Know so much about him
And instead of Arthur being betrayed you are
You feel betrayed that the man you did all this for will throw it
And even after the gang went they're separate ways he managed to damn them all
If he didn't stop Arthur at the cliff
Micha would be dead and if he was
Dead
They wouldn't found john who killed all the gang members and killed dutch but caused John's death
He's one of the best villains and i think he's a better villain in my opinion
Excuse me for the Grammer
English isn't my native language
I agree 1000%, but Andrew Ryan is a bit better i think
@@gamergirl3000 yeah he's a very good villain but in my opinion
Dutch is better but of course i respect your opinion
If i would rank them from best to worst it would be
1-dutch
2-andrew ryan
3-sent Armstrong
Best villian in gaming. Such a well fleshed out character and voiced perfectly.
Laughs in Andrew Ryan.
The most realistic bad guy ever. SO THERE ARE THESE ALIENS-
Jack: let's make Pandora great again
Lmao
@@askewopal it's funny because it's a joke about Trump
@@conman_yt7999 yes, I get it that's why I laughed. Good one!
@@askewopal you can tell my name is sincere
The most realistic villain in games is Postal Dude, he lives in small town surrounded by the most insufferable people, hates his job and married to a terrible woman, his pain and anger is might be relatable to almost every person in some way. Just imagine him living in our modern society and you understand his actions
When I played bl2 for the first time I didn't want to end him, I wanted a way to let him live. Not because I liked him, because he was a broken man.
My two favourite lines of jack is: the start just before knuckle dragger (Vault hunter look for new vault, vault hunter gets killed, by me. So if you could do me a favour and off that'd be great, thank's pumpkin.) and when you're in Control Core. (Please...Don't hurt my baby girl...Please.)
I still to this day havnt found a better Villain than Handsome Jack
Realistic but talking about a guy from another planet 💀
Best villain in borderlands
He's a great villain because like you mentioned. He was made to be a villain, he truly wanted to help people and it just repeatedly blew up in his face
I really hope they continue the story of Jack, he is just the perfect villain. No super powers, Relatable, isn't annoying, and realistic.
Handsome jack fr one of the best video game villains ever
This is why I believe Handsome Jack is the best antagonist in video game history. He is straight up cold and cunning.
One of my favorite sympathetic villains
Really happy to hear things are goin better than expected.
I can't donate myself, but you've become one of my favorite people on the platform since I started watching you. You have a great audience, and am excited to see where things go!
What a dick….I love him. Definitely my favourite video game villain of all time, maybe my favourite villain in general
This man saw his own death in a vission and still decided it was worth it, genuine hero.
I like that he has a really good (FOR A VILLAIN) portrayal of BPD
Best villain in the story of gaming, pretty hard to top him.