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I told you, man, you ain't the one.
~ The Guardian telling Jack that he is not the right person to enter the time portal.
For countless eons, I have guarded this magical power of time travel. All have been denied, from the mightiest of giants, to the tiniest of warriors. You see samurai, only one man has been prophesized to defeat me. And that man is the only man who can use this time passage. And you, my man... ain't that man.
~ The Guardian to Jack about why he protects the Time Portal.

The Guardian is the main antagonist in season 3 episode 6 of the Cartoon Network animated series Samurai Jack. Like the Minions of Set, he is a being more powerful than anything Jack has ever faced, who guards a time portal. He appears in "Episode XXXII: Jack and the Travelling Creatures".

He was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who also played Demongo and the Pig Sheriff in the same franchise, as well as the Joker in The Batman, Captain Gantu in the Lilo and Stitch franchise, Dark Laser in The Fairly OddParents, Temutai in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Goro in the Mortal Kombat game series, Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, the Black Samurai in Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword, Doug the Pimple in Family Guy, Tartarus in Halo 2, Sarevok Anchev in Baldur's Gate, Shredder in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Tombstone in The Spectacular Spider-Man, and Trigon and Mammoth in Teen Titans.

Appearance[]

The Guardian is a tall, bald, muscular man with blue skin and red circular glasses.

Personality[]

He is incredibly confident in his own strength and skill and loves the thrill of combat. The Guardian's appearance is significant mainly because of the episode he takes part in as it prophesies Jack's eventual return to the past.

The Guardian is extremely dutiful to his duties of protecting the time portal. He will only let the one warrior prophesied to defeat him use it. He does seem to have a sense of mercy. Even though Jack ruined his favorite suit, he offered to let him live if he gave up his desire to use the time portal if he valued his life.

Biography[]

Jack came across the Guardian at the time portal. After discussing the time portal, Jack asked him if he could use it, but was denied. Guardian explained to the samurai that he has been waiting eons for the right warrior to defeat him and believed that man could not be Jack. He also revealed over the eons that countless warriors have tried and failed to battle him pointing out the remains of all the warriors and a wreckage Jack saw surrounding the area.

Wanting to return to his time. Jack unsheathed his sword to challenge Guardian. Amused that he was going old-school on him, the Guardian unsheathed his own sword and engaged the samurai. The battle ensued with Jack putting a good fight, but despite using the variety of weapons left lying around from the other fallen warriors, Jack was ultimately no match for Guardian, whose superior skill set overwhelmed him. In one instance, Jack ruined the prized suit of Guardian. Though enraged, he offered to Jack one last chance to give up and leave.

However, the samurai refused and stood his ground. After a short battle, Jack was ultimately defeated at by the Guardian. The Guardian was going to crush Jack with a rock, but was stopped by a signal from the time portal. Upon the time portal telling him to spare Jack since he is the warrior prophesied to defeat him, he spared his life and patiently awaits the day Jack returns to defeat him in one-on-one combat.

When Jack returns to the Guardian's place (by accident) 50 years later, the Guardian was nowhere to be seen. In fact, all that is left of Guardian was his destroyed eyeglasses, and the portal gate has been long destroyed, therefore destroying Jack's last hope in returning to the past and having his rematch with the Guardian.

The Guardian would later be avenged after Jack traveled to the past and killed Aku, though it's unknown how the altered timeline affected his existence.

Powers and Abilities[]

The Guardian is one of the strongest opponents Jack has come across to. Despite his large mass, the Guardian possessed remarkable agility, leaping and flipping about with at least the same level of skill as Jack himself. The Guardian had great durability and he is completely immune to pain, making him tough to a shakedown. Despite his inability to feel pain, The Guardian is still capable of feeling anger, like when Jack deflected a number of missiles launched from the Guardian's own weapon back at him. Upon impact, they caused no damage to the Guardian himself, simply ruined and destroyed his favorite suit, thus angering him. In his own words, the Guardian has been guarding the time portal for "countless eons", and has denied (defeated) everyone who came as only one person has been prophesied to defeat him and gain access to the time portal. Being one of the few characters to have easily defeated Jack without much effort, he appears to be at the same strength as the Minions of Set. In spite of his great strength and power, he was no match for Aku who destroyed him with no effort.

  • Superhuman Strength: The Guardian's muscular build gave him incredible fighting strength. He was able to effortlessly lift large boulders and could chew through metal as a normal person would through food. He was also able to shatter metal and concrete with his punches.
  • Agelessness: The Guardian seemed to be very old, if not ancient, much older than regular human and alien beings since he has protected the time portal for countless eons.

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Trivia[]

  • In Episode C, the Guardian's red circular glasses can be seen on the ground cracked along with the now destroyed time portal. This confirms that he died at the hands of Aku's forces.
    • However, after the death of past Aku in Episode CI, it is possible that he came back into existence with the time portal being restored.
  • He is one of the few characters that Jack has never been able to defeat, mainly because he died before Jack and him could have a rematch.

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