Thread:AustinDR/@comment-26205772-20160228093928/@comment-26205772-20160229014953

I thought as much.

The other character that interests me is the Daishisai's mercenary, Jadakins. Jadakins is a silent, caped man sent from China by the Daishisai to capture Erika. Jadakins is implied to be something other than human, due to his superhuman invulnerability, agility, persistence, and glowing red eyes. He's sent for Buppa for the express purpose of completely wiping out the Hands tribe in revenge for N'koi's death, and Jadakins seems happy to do just that until he reaches his true target. He keeps in contact with Skunk, who seems to have some degree of control over him, and Jadakins acts ostensibly within Mera's interests. Jadakins brutally kills whomever gets in the way of his pursuit; he kills many unnamed tribe members in brutal and often needlessly drawn out ways (he introduces himself tearing someone in half with his bare hands), interrupts a fight between Iwao (the head of the Hands tribe) and Mera, beating the crap out of Iwao and is stopped just short of killing him by Mera (Jadakins attempts to justify this by that he's "just following Buppa's orders;" Mera later calls him out on the fact that he's essentially doing whatever he wants), and pursues Erika through whatever circumstances are thrown at him. He viciously beats up Kai on more than one occasion, attempting to strangle him to death on the second occasion, also stops to strangle the general of the Hands tribe after she fires upon him, tosses Gondo (a friend of Kai's) off a building, and, after Skunk safely delivers Erika to Jadakins, Jada kicks him into the path of an oncoming train and kills him for literally no reason at all before the final battle between him and Kai and Mera ignite, which culminates in Jadakins attempting to throw Mera off a building before he's killed from the rocket of a bazooka.

Jadakins is basically a Terminator; he's quiet, unrelenting, and cruel to whomever gets in his way. What concerns me is that he's not expressly sadistic; almost all of the people he kills or attempts to kill are trying to intervene. I can still contest this, however, because the characters state that Jadakins is going way overboard with what he's doing, and repeatedly call him "monster" and similar terms. There's also the fact that Jadakins is still unnecessarily brutal in what he does; often does he resort to unclean or outright sadistic methods of killing his quarries. He's stopped in the middle of trying to crush a Hands tribe member's skull with his bare hands - after said tribe member has already been subdued - and in his pursuit of Chef Renkon, Jadakins tears out his eye with his bare teeth. When Mera calls him out on this, stating that the area is under his control and that Jadakins can't do what ever he want, Jadakins just says "You're too lenient." There's also the fact that he kills Skunk for essentially no reason whatsoever. He's one of only a few characters who is never played for any sort of comedy whatsoever. He's a consistent threat, he's feared, hated, and dreaded by every character and he's beyond terrifying in every scene he's in.

He's got neither the resources nor aspirations of Buppa nor Skunk, but they're way above his level and have far more screentime outclasses every other villain in heinousness and he's never given a humanizing moment. He's a One-Man Army with a singular goal in mind and he will do anything to achieve this.