Jack Baker

"Welcome to the family, son."

- Jack knocking out Ethan Winters Jack Baker is one of the antagonists in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, responsible for the kidnappings of several innocent people and their transformation into horrendous monsters known as the Molded. He is the primary nemesis of Ethan Winters for the early part of the game.

Biography
Jack Baker was a normal father living with his family in Louisiana. However, at some point the entire family was infected with a fungus which attacked their brains, turning them insane while granting them superhuman durability and the ability to regenerate from grievous wounds. The family disappeared from public life in 2014, and the house that they lived in was assumed to be abandoned, and later haunted. In truth, the family was still alive, kidnapping and experimenting on innocent victims in order to turn them into monstrosities with similar capabilities but much less intelligence.

Role in the game
Jack is the first member of the Baker family encountered in Resident Evil 7. He first appears in a recording taken by paranormal investigators filming for a TV show. One of the crew members, Andre, is killed by Jack and impaled on a hook. The body is found by the cameraman, who is shortly afterwards killed by Jack.

Ethan Winters arrives at the house much later searching for his missing wife, Mia. He finds Mia locked in a cell underneath the house, but Mia warns Ethan that "daddy" is coming. Not long afterwards, Jack ambushes him and drags him to the family house for a grotesque dinner consisting of human body parts. During the dinner, Jack's son Lucas throws tableware at Ethan, prompting Jack to angrily chop off Lucas's hand, although Lucas seems only mildly annoyed. When Ethan spits out what Jack tries to feed him, Jack angrily disfigures Ethan with a knife until he is interrupted by a police officer at the door. Ethan manages to escape from the chair he is in, but is stalked by Jack through the house. Ethan manages to evade Jack and encounters the police officer investigating the house, who tells him to head to the garage. Ethan reaches the garage, but Jack appears once again and cuts the police officer's head into two. Ethan unsuccessfully attempts to kill Jack by shooting him and running him over with a car. When Jack attempts to escape up a ladder, Jack grabs Ethan and uses his gun to blow a large hole in his own brain, seemingly killing him.

However, Jack appears again in the second floor of the house, ambushing Ethan in a bathroom and chasing him throughout the house once again. Ethan escapes him and reaches the basement, where he discovers the experiments that Jack has been performing on the kidnapped victims. Jack ambushes Ethan again in the basement, kicking him into a small pit and attacking him with an axe. However, Ethan manages to retrieve a chainsaw and uses it to explode a large boil on Jack, blowing him apart and killing him.

Powers
Jack, like the rest of his family, possesses strange powers having to due with the infection gripping them. Jack is supernaturally strong, able to break through walls with ease, and is incredibly resistant to damage, able to shrug off even blasts from a shotgun at point blank range. The only thing able to kill him was repeated trauma from a chainsaw that harmed him through his regenerative capabilities.

Personality
Jack was abusive and cruel to his family, as shown when he cut off the hand of Lucas and kicked a chair at Marguerite during the dinner. He takes pleasure in hunting down his victims and frequently taunts Ethan as he hunts him down. He chases Ethan at a moderate walking pace, never sprinting to catch up to him. If Ethan shoots him, he mockingly states that "guns don't work around here".