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With the Grim Reaper's scythe at my side, chaos will reign! Be free spirits of the underworld! Take these pumpkins as bodies and live again! Together, we will RULE the night! And take our revenge on the people of Endsville! Now it's our turn to walk the streets, while the people of Endsville cower in their homes! The sun will never rise again, and it will be Halloween, every night! FOREVER!! Mwahahahaha!!! Ahahahaha!!!
~ Jack O' Lantern
The oldest trick in the book, and you fell for it my boy. Now I have the scythe! And all of it's terrible powers.
~ Jack after manipulating Billy with getting the scythe by tickling Billy with a feather.

Jack O'Lantern is the main antagonist of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy special "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween".

He was voiced by Wayne Knight, who also played Newman in Seinfeld, Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park, Al McWhiggin in Toy Story 2 and Emperor Zurg in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, while in the video game, he is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, who also voiced Father in Codename: Kids Next Door.

Biography[]

Past[]

Jack was born centuries ago in Endsville. As an adult, he was the village fool who would constantly pull tricks on the villagers. While he was a pleasant man who simply wanted to make others laugh, the problem was that he just didn't know when to stop, and his pranks ranged from harmless and annoying to dangerous and painful. Whenever night fell, he would devise new tricks and then laugh himself to sleep. Then one day, the townspeople couldn't take anymore of Jack's antics, and so they devised a prank of their own to teach Jack a lesson he would never forget. They sent a present with Jack's name on it to a local queen, who everyone knew never had a sense of humor, but had a penchant for sweets. She opened the present to find a photo of Jack and a container of candy, but when she opened the can, it was revealed to be the classic snake in a candy jar prank. This, of course, made the queen furious, so she sent one of her knight to find Jack and punish him. The knight rode his horse through a rainstorm to Jack's home, where he broke in and struck the trickster in the back with his axe, and then rode back while trampling over a "Kick Me" sign.

After the ordeal, the Grim Reaper appeared at Jack's door to take his soul to the afterlife, as it was his time. Not wanting to leave the living world yet, Jack refused to go with the reaper and slammed the door in his face. Grim, not taking no for an answer, teleported into his home in front of him and prepared to take Jack's soul by force. But then Jack defended himself with the old feather tickle technique, causing Grim to fall to the ground laughing while dropping his magic scythe. Seizing the opportunity, Jack picked up the scythe, causing Grim to worry what the madman would do with it; but to his surprise, Jack struck a deal with the reaper: He would return the scythe to him, but in exchange, Grim had to grant Jack immortality so he could pull tricks on everyone for all eternity. With no other choice, Grim agreed to the bargain and reluctantly made him immortal with a handshake, and Jack held up his end of the bargain by giving back the scythe to Grim. Unfortunately for Jack, the Grim Reaper did not like being tricked; so he decided that if he could not take Jack's soul, he would at least take something else from him; something that would ensure that Jack would not show his face in town ever again. With one swing of his scythe, he decapitated the trickster's head clean off.

Thanks to his immortality, Jack survived, but because of the scythe's power, he was unable to reattach his old head back. He then he took a pumpkin and placed it on his shoulders, making it his new head. And thus, he became known as Jack O' Lantern. Over the next few centuries, Jack continued to live in the same old house, untouched by time and unable to leave for most of that time due to people never being able to understand his predicament. Because of this, he harbored a grudge against the people of Endsville for their ancestors causing his first death, as well as Grim for cutting off his original head; so as a form of revenge, he would emerge from his home every Halloween night with a sack full of tricks and would pull the most heinous pranks on Endsville's citizens.

Billy & Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween[]

While he was out Trick-or-Treating in Downtown Endsville, Billy ran up to Jack's old house and looked for candy. Jack tried to ignore him and go off with his pranks while calling the Scythe fake but Billy said it was the real deal. When Jack realized that Billy was carrying Grim's Scythe, he tricked Billy into giving it to him, brought demons from the Underworld to the surface world, and had them use pumpkins for bodies. Jack revealed that he made a spell that would make sure that the sun would never rise again and that it would be Halloween forever.

Jack later kidnapped Grim, planning on using his Scythe to "return the favor," though Billy showed Jack that Grim's head was removable. However Jack revealed that any head cut off by the Grim Reaper's Scythe stays off forever.

Before he could put his plan into action, Mandy tried to save Grim by devising pranks of her own only to be caught by Jack. Irwin instead was the victim of Mandy's pranks, which caused Jack to burst out laughing and all of the possessed pumpkins to laugh themselves to death. When Jack was confronted by Grim, the former reminded him of the bargain they made. Grim told him he never goes back on his word, but Jack had overstayed his welcome and tickled him with his own feather, sending him with the pumpkin's spirits to the Underworld.

Once there, Jack continued his old ways of pulling pranks, but it's implied at the end he got his pumpkin head squished by the demons living there, though while it's implied that he might be still alive thanks to his eternal life, it's also implied that he lost his immortality for getting carried away with his prankish nature.

Video Game (GBA)[]

Jack served as the boss of Mandy's level Squash Quash. He summons pumpkins with his taunts.

Personality[]

Once a mischievous prankster who wanted to entertain and mess around with some pranks despite how much of a devious and sly person that he always is. It's also shown that he was so goofy, that he even chortles and snorts in his sleep.

Ever since he got decapitated, in response to getting unfairly decapitated for being a bit of a nuisance who meant well and wanted to make people laugh; he's dedicated his life as the town prankster who messes with everyone and plays sadistic pranks on Endsville ever since. While he has become mean and reclusive towards anyone, he's also good at manipulating and tricking people like Billy when he held on to an actual scythe the Grim Reaper had and resorted to dirty tricks like using a feather to distract Billy with his feather assault, all while taunting Billy for being vulnerable to what Jack would do knowing that the scythe isn't a phony. Jack was shown to feign kindness and friendship in favor of him being able to cause trouble and havoc to Endsville before meeting up with Grim Reaper.

While smug, sadistic, power-hungry, seeking to control the universe with a scythe and overall vindictive with his plan to cut the Grim Reaper's head off by using the scythe to kill off Grim forever. He is also clever and intelligent, as he knows how to use resources to his advantage like trapping the Grim Reaper and Mandy, as well as being one step ahead of people when someone tries to outsmart him.

He is also witty since he can make a joke and quip with puns, as seen when he made silly jokes at Grim's expense all while reading to harm him even before and after making a joke. Speaking of humor, Jack can take a joke as seen when Irwin Dracula botched up his suit which actually intimidated Jack before Irwin's clumsiness revealed himself to be on stilts underneath a knight armor with a whoopie cushion. As Jack goes from trying to be angry to genuinely finding the humor in Irwin's clumsiness and misfortune (laughter itself being Jack's weakness that was exploited by Grim in order to defeat him and send him back to hell).

He never knows when to stop pulling pranks on anyone, even annoying the demons in hell, this being the reason why he had to be killed off (even though he is immortal, it's still hinted that his head got squashed and was probably stripped away of his immortality).

Quotes[]

Look out, Mac. Jack is Back!
~ Jack O' Lantern's intro quote in The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy video game.
Oh, and you little brats should know better than to think you could out trick 'ol Jack. But uh, it was a nice try. (Snaps finger)
~ Jack O' Lantern to Billy trying to distract and outfox Jack to free Grim.
Jack O'Lantern: Y'know, Grim, you and I aren't so different.
Grim: How's that?
Jack O'Lantern: Well, for starters, you got a good... head on your shoulders!
(drum beat)
Jack O'Lantern: You're, headstrong!
(drum beat)
Jack O'Lantern: Though I've never known you to stick your neck out for anyone... until
NOW of course!
Grim: Oh, cut it out!
Jack O'Lantern: If you insist!
~ Jack using puns at Grim's expense while also holding him hostage.
Come on, now, where's your sense of humor?
~ Jack O'Lantern after saying a "that's no way to get 'a'head'" quip to Grim.

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Trivia[]

  • Jack's story is based off of the folk legend figure Stingy Jack, also known as "Jack of the Lantern".
  • According to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy video game (not GBA), Jack  has a candle in his head that must be replaced every four hours. In the same game, Jack is featured with a suit he never wears in the series, Vine Jack.
  • In two shots of the episode in which he appears, Jack is depicted as smiling with real teeth, which is impossible, as his head is a pumpkin and thus it doesn't have real teeth. It's likely that this was an stylistic choice used to form the needed facial expression.

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