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Don't you worry. It's a whole lot worse than it looks. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and your mother's pretty fucking close to meeting him right now. She wants me to do this. I must show her how devoted I am. She wants us all to show her our love. You don't wanna disappoint her, now do you?
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~ Jack after being infected to his daughter Zoe.
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Welcome to the family, son.
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~ Jack's first and most famous quote.noicon
Jack Baker is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 survival horror video game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and the main antagonist of the Nightmare and End of Zoe DLCs.
He is the patriarch of the Baker family, the husband of Marguerite Baker, father of Lucas and Zoe Baker, brother of Joe Baker who cared for and loved his family in Dulvey, Louisiana. But under Eveline's influence, he has become in a insane psychopath that kidnapped innocent people and transformed them into horrendous monsters known as the Molded.
He was voiced by Jack Brand in the English version, and Kazuhiro Yamaji in the Japanese version.
They'll be OK here for a few days at least until we can get them into town.
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~ Jack regarding the better decision to help Mia and Eveline, which unfortunately infuriated Eveline.
Jack was born around 1962, being the second-born child of Grandma Baker and an unknown father. In his childhood, Jack Baker was bullied by his older brother, Joe Baker when he broke Jack's nose when he fought against him. Joe then clotheslined Jack into the swamp as well as calling him a wimp who could never beat Joe. Both he and Joe served in the U.S. military.
Jack Baker was a normal father living with his family in Louisiana. However, at some point the entire family was infected with a fungus that 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, later haunted, and the Bakers were considered "dead." 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.
It is later revealed that his mutations and deformity were primarily caused by a mutated little girl named Eveline (also known as E-001), human-based B.O.W.s bioengineered by The Connections and given abilities to mutate and brainwash other people until she instigated a breakout and escape. She and Mia, her caretaker and one of her creators, survived the breakout and were discovered by the Baker family and nursed back to health. However, Eveline instigated the Baker family's infections and deformations into monsters that set entire events of the game in action.
DLC of the game, "Daughters," revealed how chaotic and heart-wrenching the situation where Jack and his family were infected was. While nursing Mia and Eveline back to health, Jack stated to his family that he planned to call in authorities after allowing both of them to stay for a while. Unfortunately, Eveline overheard what he just said and instigated the whole family's infections, starting from his wife Marguerite. When Marguerite suddenly attacked Zoe due to infection, Jack went to stop her, but ultimately succumbed to the infection as much as his wife and Lucas, with devastated Zoe being the least infected and left alone to stop Eveline and the monsters that her family has become.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard[]
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You thought you could just slip out before dinner was done?
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~ Jack spotting Ethan after escaping from dinner.
Ethan Winters arrives at the house three years 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 seemly knocking him unconscious 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' 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 David Anderson, a police officer at the door. Ethan manages to escape from the chair he is in but is stalked by Jack through the house. He manages to evade Jack and encounters Anderson investigating the house, who tells him to head to the garage. Ethan reaches the garage, but Jack appears once again and cuts Anderson's head into two. Ethan unsuccessfully attempts to kill Jack by shooting him with Anderson's gun and/or running him over with a car, which eventually explodes, setting Jack on fire. When Ethan attempts to escape up a ladder, a heavily burnt Jack grabs him and attempts to traumatize him by using his gun to blow a large hole in his own brain, seemingly killing Jack.
However, a regenerated 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. When Ethan resists, Jack retrieves a huge chainsaw while Ethan finds a smaller one and duels Jack, using it to explode a large boil on his upper body, blowing it apart entirely. Jack's legs then walk towards Ethan momentarily before collapsing.
Jack manages to regenerate from his encounter with Ethan and attacks much later in a boathouse as Ethan, Mia, and Zoe attempt to flee. He has taken the heavily mutated form of a massive, incomprehensible blob of black mold covered in eyes. Ethan is able to hold off Jack and injects him with a serum, calcifying him.
Though he was seemingly killed by the serum, Jack's spirit later comes for Ethan in his appearance for the final time in his dream while in the grip of Eveline. He states to Ethan that he never intended to cause him harm and that all of his actions were done under the influence of Eveline. He states that he and his family took in Eveline after finding her, but then they quickly were overwhelmed and driven to madness by her presence and control. He begs Ethan to kill her and free his family. This amicable reunion was made possible by Eveline's fungal root she left behind in LNG carrier Annabelle, the same ship she was transported within before escaping that stored vestiges of the man and his beloved family's true good selves along with copies of their consciousness.
Unfortunately, as seen in the End of Zoe DLC, even though Eveline had been destroyed, it's revealed that due to his advanced mutation, Jack, or what was left of him, eventually survived the calcification caused by the serum, regenerating as a Molded and hunting down Zoe, which led to a reunion with his estranged brother Joe. Knowing that his brother cannot be saved (Jack's revived Molded form is technically an out-of-control Mold-infested corpse), Joe fought Jack and finally put him out of his misery once and for all by saying, "This is a farewell from the family, brother!" and with one final powerful punch, destroys what remains of what was once his brother.
If Zoe was cured in the non-canon ending, it's very likely Jack is still alive and roaming the swamps, as Joe wouldn't have fought and killed him. This is because Joe's endeavor to save Zoe was what led to them to confront each other. Had Zoe died, the battle between the brothers would not likely happen.
Legacy[]
Nearly four years after Ethan destroyed Eveline, Jack along with his family would be indirectly mentioned in a newspaper article in the Winters' family home where he and his family's deaths (except for his daughter and brother) along with their victims were covered up as a gas leak story.
Sometime later after Ethan was killed by Miranda, Ethan saw a vision of Eveline where she reveals that Jack actually killed him back in the Guest House and he was still alive due to his contact with the Mold.
Personality[]
While not under the influence of the Mold, Jack is shown to be a compassionate, loving family man. This is shown in his rescue of both Mia and Eveline and his appeal to Ethan within the Mold prison, in which he apologizes for his actions and tries to redeem his family, before pleading with him to "free my family." However, after he was infected, he lost his humanity, and these characteristics were buried under a violent, manic devotion to Eveline and her "gift."
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This is all too fun.
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~ Jack if he spots Ethan.
The infected Jack was extremely violent 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." At many points in the game, he has the opportunity to kill Ethan but does not do so, preferring to antagonize and mock Ethan instead. If he catches Ethan in a certain room of the house, he will chop off Ethan's leg and then mock him as he crawls around before allowing him to reattach his leg.
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I know I know I know, I'm not going to hurt you. Hell, I never would have if I could have helped it.
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~ the real Jack Baker to Ethan in a dream.
Even so, given that it was Eveline who brainwashed him in the first place, Jack is, in truth, never an uncaring, treacherous, loathsome, and vicious person to begin with. Jack was a strict yet caring man. Through the mold that infected Ethan, he appears in the latter's dream, apologizing for his actions and begging him to kill Eveline in order to put him and his family back to rest. Even so, it was his brother Joe who saved his soul in the end, as despite Eveline's death, her out-of-control mold ended up resurrecting him. True to this, Jack's real self was a strict yet caring family man first and foremost, though not above disciplining his sociopathic son Lucas on some occasions. Even after his corruption at the hands of Eveline, many aspects of his real self, albeit twisted and perverted by Eveline in her image of a happy family.
During his childhood, Jack had a sibling rivalry with his older brother, Joe, when the latter called Jack a wimp who could never defeat him after he got his nose broken and clotheslined by Joe in the swamp.
For example, during the Bedroom DLC, he and Marguerite begin to argue with each other, but in the end, Jack apologizes for what he said, assuring his wife that he did love her. During the dream sequence in which he begs for Ethan to free his family, Jack states he sympathizes with Eveline, understanding all she wants is to feel loved, also telling Ethan that he and his family are not killers; if not for Eveline, they would never hurt anyone.
After Marguerite's death and Zoe's betrayal, he voices his hatred of Ethan, sobbing out his wife's name in grief. When he returns as the Swamp Man and kidnaps Zoe, it is implied that he does this out of his love for her. When Joe confronts him for the last time, Jack puts himself between his brother and his daughter, proclaiming, "She's mine!" When Joe reaches for Zoe.
Powers and Abilities[]
Like the rest of his family, Jack possesses strange powers having to do with the infection taking over his body. Jack is supernaturally strong and persuasive, 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, although even this was not enough to prevent him from coming back later in a more monstrous form. Jack's mutation has granted him the ability to spew a highly toxic yellowish liquid, strong and hefty appendages (at the cost of impeding his moving speed), the ability to bury his malleable body under the depths of mold and soil, and an almost complete immunity to conventional damage, while his monstrous form's appearance greatly differed from the other Molded, which seemed to be an unforeseen effect of his later mutations, similarly to his wife, whose mutation resulted in her gaining the ability to control insects and spiders as well as a durable, insectoid body.
While he was completely susceptible to physical harm that was capable of killing normal humans, his later mutations made him more resistant to those injuries. In his more horrific Mold monster form, he was immune to everything that Ethan could do to him in spite of shooting his tumor-like eyes which were his weak points. However, fungicide serum created by Zoe, which was meant to cure victims of Mold infections, was able to counteract the regenerative capabilities of the infection by calcifying him due to his mold tissues consuming his bodily cells to the point where attempts to cure him with fungicide were lethal to him.
However, his mutation advanced further, causing his mold tissues to resuscitate and transform him into The Swamp Man. Here, he can alter his mold into a liquid state and use his arms as whips or bludgeons. The mutation has shown that he is agile and able to perform numerous hand-to-hand combat techniques such as an overhead slam.
Quotes[]
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and your mother is pretty f-cking close to meeting him right now!
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~ Jack to Zoe while drowning Marguerite.
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When I ask for rope, I expect to get rope. I'm a just gonna have to teach you a lesson.
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~ Jack to Zoe.
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Let me tell you something, boy. You are gonna be her big brother.
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~ Jack dragging Lucas to meet his "sister" Eveline.
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No-no. Shut up! You ain't real!
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~ Jack in "Daughters" after Zoe enters the crawlspace.
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What? You're just gonna up and leave us? Now you're just being rude! And I... cannot... abide... by... rudeness!
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~ Jack in the bad ending of "Daughters".
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You think you got what it takes to join the family? Prove it.
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~ Jack to Clancy.
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Ready for round two, Clancy?
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~ Jack before attacking Clancy for a second time
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That boy's got to eat! He got to have his supper.
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~ Jack during the dinner scene.
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This was supposed to be a very special feast.
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~ Jack to Ethan after the latter doesn't eat the food.
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I'm gon' squash you like a bug. Hope Marguerite didn't hear that.
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~ Jack while pursuing Ethan.
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Goddammit! How am I going to replace this?
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~ Jack if he smashes his kitchen table.
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Ethan! Ethan! EEEEEEETHAN!
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~ Jack if not spotted.
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I see you!
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~ Jack.
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I'm an old man son, you can't take on an old man!
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~ Jack to Ethan.
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I got the gift running all through me! All through me!
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~ Jack while pursuing Ethan.
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What's the matter, son? You out of ammo?
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~ Jack to Ethan or Clancy when they run out of ammo.
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You came to the wrong house, boy.
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~ Jack pursuing Ethan, preparing to cut off his leg.
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You can use this to fix your leg. You can do it.
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~ Jack giving Ethan first aid to reattach his leg.
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You... better... run... Here's daddy!
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~ Jack after Ethan reattaches his leg.
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Alright, have fun under there. I'm gonna come back for you later.
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~ Jack if he spots the player entering the crawlspace.
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Oh no you don't. I'm driving!
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~ Jack if he pulls Ethan out of the car.
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Nice car, Ethan. Where'd you learn to drive?
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~ Jack to Ethan.
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Oh boy! Now you look what you done, motherf--ker!
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~ Jack after surviving the car crash.
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Do I have your attention, boy? You are about to see something wonderful.
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~ Jack by forcing Ethan to shoot him.
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Heck of a thing, ain't it? Sure as shit beats the hell outta dying.
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~ Jack to Ethan upon returning after the garage section.
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You ain't gettin' away.
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~ Jack ambushing Ethan.
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Groovy.
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~ Jack getting his saws.
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You're gonna die here!
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~ Jack upon his defeat in the chainsaw duel.
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Zoe, get your ass back to the house, I will deal with you later!
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~ Jack's final battle with Ethan.
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Oh yeah, oh yeah! That's real nice!
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~ Jack's dying words when injected with the antidote.
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Jack Baker: Ethan. I know. I know. I know. - I'm not going to hurt you. Hell, I never would have if I could have helped it. Ethan Winters: What do you mean? Jack Baker: I'm no killer, son. Neither is Marguerite, nor my boy, Lucas. Or even Zoe here. That girl, Eveline. She did this. Ethan Winters: What the hell is she? Now what did she do to you? Jack Baker: She infected us with her gift. That's what she calls it. I found her near a busted-out tanker in the bayou. Everything changed after that. Ethan Winters: So she infects you, and then she takes control? Jack Baker: No, not exactly, son. She just- She forces her way into your mind and your soul and... you can't fight back. You are connected to her and you can't resist the urge to. You're a different person after that. Ethan Winters: Just like Mia. So Mia sent me that message because of Eveline. Jack Baker: Listen, the girl just wants a family of her own. She is the key, alright? You find her and you stop her. Ethan, free my family - please.
~ Jack as the Swamp Man to his brother Joe, demanding the E cure from him as they fight in the Paddle Boat
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You're dead!
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~ Jack as the Swamp Man to Joe whist they fight in the Paddle Boat
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She's mine!
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~ Jack's last words to Joe before their final battle.
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Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
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~ Jack as his brother Joe taunts him during their final battle
Trivia[]
In the early concept, Jack was named "Daddy," who was head of a family of deranged killers.
He was based on Jack Torrance, from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
He cannot be killed when he is searching for Ethan around the house, but he can be killed in the boss fights, and he will no longer chase Ethan around the house now that he's dead in the basement but reappeared at the boathouse.
