| “ | Don't you know I'm dead inside? | „ |
| ~ Jack to Perrito, smugly commenting on his own heartlessness. |
| “ | Ethical Bug: Sweet mother of goose, Jack! Jack: Well, you know what they say: Can't bake a pie without losing a dozen men. [laughs] Ethical Bug: Oh. Oh! That was horrible. Your wish is horrible! YOU'RE horrible! You're an irredeemable monster! Jack: Wha-wha-what took you so long, idiot? |
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| ~ Jack's infamous moment when he shatters Ethical Bug's idealism upon causing the deaths of nearly all his surviving men. |
Big Jack Horner, formerly known as Little Jack Horner, is the main antagonist of the DreamWorks' 43rd full-length animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, a spin-off to the Shrek franchise.
Once a boy known for his nursery rhyme, Jack grew envious of magical creatures for stealing his spotlight. Becoming a feared crime lord, Jack has been hoarding magic just for the sake of having them, and ultimately seeks the titular wishing star so that he can absorb all the magic in the world to mold the world to his darkest fantasies, and has been racing with Puss and Goldilocks to claim it.
He was voiced by John Mulaney.
His Evil Ranking
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?
- Despite having overall a good life, with a stable income, a successful baking enterprise to inherent, and parents who he admits were still loving him till the end, Jack dismissed all of them as "useless crap" and turned evil only because he was greedy and bitter about a magical creature like Pinocchio managing to upstage him in street performances.
- Not to mention, this only happened because Pinocchio was doing a new act whereas Jack was performing his nursery rhyme every day to the point everyone had grown bored, and so had been trying to hoard magic for himself to show his superiority.
- He used his family's pie company as a front for his crime organization, where the bakers under Jack's employ were afraid for their lives if they didn't live up to Jack's quality standards.
- He tortured and abused various sapient creatures to extract their magic, leading to artifacts of such filling up an entire room, such as:
- Capturing baby unicorns, cutting off their horns to use as very deadly weapons, before enslaving them to pull his carriage.
- Nailing the sapient Magic Carpet onto the floor, rendering him completely unable to escape, and even going as far to jump and stamp on it.
- Capturing the Phoenix and torturing it to make it his flamethrower.
- He planned to use the Wishing Star to wish for all the magic in the world, which is shown would endanger the world, telling the Ethical Bug, who reacted with genuine horror, that nothing else could ever please him at all.
- The fact that his wish would endanger the world is not Fridge Horror, as the crystal ball shows the world cracking and it was always accurate about the location of his enemies the rest of the time.
- He hired the Serpent Sisters to get the map to the Wishing Star, and didn't care about the amount of people they murdered to get it, simply telling them to "make with the box".
- When one of the Serpent Sisters mocked Jack's nursery rhyme, Jack used the Midas Touch to murder her in cold blood before having the other sister leave with her sister's corpse as payment solely because he was busy dealing with unexpected intruders.
- He used the phoenix as a flamethrower against his own men just to go kill Puss, Kitty and Perrito, and even as they got devoured by the giant flowers, despite their pleas for help in scenarios Jack could have easily saved them from, he refused to as he stated that with all the artifacts he has, he could find the wish even when all of his men are dead.
- He held Perrito hostage and attempted to kill him by shooting him at point blank with his crossbow, and when the Ethical Bug confronted him over this, asking him if he really had the nerve to shoot a puppy, he nonchalantly said he did.
- In failed attempts to kill Puss, he shot at his own men, who subsequently got killed by exploding into confetti, something Jack even said was cool.
- He forced all of his surviving men to form a human bridge for him to cross, even trying to make them bear the horrid weight of his carriage, and when this inevitably led to the weight being too much to handle and all but one of his minions dying, Jack callously shrugged them off, saying that he "can't bake a pie without losing a dozen men".
- This broke the Ethical Bug's idealism and led him to declare Jack irredeemable, to which the only thing of Jack's concern was why the Ethical Bug took too long to make such a judgement, before flicking him off.
- When fighting Puss, Kitty, Goldie and the Three Bears, Jack shot at his sole surviving minion, telling how she "walked into that one" and refusing to save her from being vaporized by the Star's magical border.
- He shot at Baby Bear and caused him to nearly vaporize to death by the Star's magic, forcing Goldie to abandon her wish to save Baby Bear's life.
- Upon turning himself into a giant, he tried to make his devastating wish while trying to kill Puss, Kitty, Goldie and the Bears.
- Even when Perrito tried to use his cuteness to appeal to Jack's "better nature", Jack scoffed at this and admits that he is "dead inside".
- While a very comedic figure, the movie constantly shows that he is still a serious threat, with all the tension of the hunting for the Wishing Star subplot coming from him, meaning he isn't too comedic.
- Despite his death being comedic, with him wondering what specific crime led to his demise, it's not detracting since it is given as much gravity as any ordinary villain death.
- He easily passes the Heinous Standards of the Shrek franchise, with his high body count and the worldwide destruction his wish would have caused, making him a global threat.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?
- While he is doubtlessly dreaded and perceived as a serious evildoer, some of his means of doing such evil are still too outlandish for him to be completely taken seriously, such as his minions exploding into confetti while he shoots at them with the unicorn horns while upbeat music plays, and him using his men to make a human bridge like a Looney Tunes gag.
External Links
- Big Jack Horner on the Villains Wiki
- Big Jack Horner on the Shrek Wiki
- Big Jack Horner on the DreamWorks Wiki
 Near Pure Evils
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