Jack Cayman

Jack Cayman
	; Jack
Vital statistics
Title	Jack
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Faction	Gameshow Participant, Ministry of Justice, The Chasers
Health	Unknown
Level	All
Status	Main character, Ranked 256th in the beginning of the latest DeathWatch Games
Location	Unknown
Voice Actor	Steve Blum

Jack Cayman is the main protagonist, anti-hero and player character in the videogame MadWorld.

"A MadWorld... I'll fit right in."

-Jack

Background[]

A mechanic, bounty hunter, former marine and ex-cop with his primary weapon as a retractable chainsaw equipped to his right arm. Jack is the protagonist and player character of MadWorld, and is voiced by Steven Blum. His other known history is that it was erased prior to DeathWatch's 2019 opening and that no specifics are given beyond nothing is certain and is definitely not as seen in the game or cut scenes.

Involvement[]

Jack is the star of MadWorld, the man with the chainsaw on his arm, the cigarette in his mouth, and the biggest swagger to hit Jefferson Island in years. Jack arrives on the scene in Varrigan City without a sponsor, a reputation, and with no obvious reason for being there, aside from the hundred-million-dollar prize that’s up for grabs.

Of course, that’s what he wants them to think. The people in the studio, the folks watching at home, even Agent XIII…none of them know about the voice in his ear, Amala. Nor does she know about the voices in his head. Jack’s mysterious past and his motivation for entering the DeathWatch Games is revealed in due time—but only to those who live to hear the tale. He has only one ambition in life and that is to kill people. He doesn't give a damn who it is either.

Basic Attacks[]

Bare Hands

Punch - A, A, A, A
Power Punch - A + Forward on the Control Stick.
Backfist - Swing Wii Remote horizontally
Uppercut - Swing Wii Remote vertically
Counterpunch - Dodge (swing Nunchuk) + A Button
Aerial Punch - Jump (Z Button) + A Button

Throws

Shoulder Throw - Grab enemy (hold A Button) + swing Wii Remote vertically
Side Throw Grab - enemy (hold A Button) + swing Wii Remote horizontally
Slam Toss - Grab falling enemy (hold A Button)

Chainsaw Attacks

Vertical Slash - Chainsaw (hold B Button) +swing Wii Remote vertically
Horizontal Slash - Chainsaw (hold B Button) +swing Wii Remote horizontally
Aerial Vertical Slash - Jump (Z Button) + Chainsaw (hold B Button) + swing Wii Remote vertically
Aerial Horizontal Slash - Jump (Z Button) + Chainsaw (hold B Button) + swing Wii Remote Horizontally

Finishers[]

Giant Swing - Grab enemy (hold A Button) + wave Wii Remote in circles
Ragdoll Slam - Grab enemy (hold A Button) + shake Wii Remote vigorously
Aerial Backbreaker - Grab aerial enemy (hold A Button)
Head Stomper - Push A when near an enemy who is cut in half
Spine Snapper - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Neck Cracker - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Heart Surgery - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Jugular Saw - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Vertical Slash - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Horizontal Slash - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Amputator - Hold B Button in front of standing enemy
Impaler - Hold B Button in front of aerial enemy
Curb Stomp - Hold B Button in front of fallen enemy
Chainsaw Splitter - Hold B Button in front of fallen enemy
Ghetto Guillotine - Hold B Button in front

Quotes[]

"I don't help people. I kill them." (said at certain points through the game; something of a catchphrase for Jack).

"Amala, I've got a chainsaw on my arm. I'll be fine."

"Jack... just Jack" (when introducing himself to XIII) .

"Let the games begin." (At the end of the cutscene before the tutorial) .

"I had to take a piss. What, is "no pissing" part of my contract?"

"...and now I found out it's all for the money. I feel so dirty."

"So... this is the strip. Think I have enough time for a lap-dance?"

"Who wants a piece of the champ!?"

"A MadWorld... I'll fit right in."

"You're a fucking joke!" (when taunting enemies in gameplay).

Announcer Commentary[]

Howard: "I think that's against the rules!"
Kreese: "Let me check... You're right, it is against the rules!"
Howard: "What should we do?"
Kreese: "Change the fucking rules! It's easier than goin' down there and tryin' to punish him! He'd rip our heads off!!"

Kreese: "Y'know, I get the feeling that Jack could just do this all day."
Howard: "Y'know, Kreese, if you love what you do, then you'll never have to work a day in your life."
Kreese: "Howard, that guy is definitely not working."

Howard: "Jack's putting up the chips and dipshit now!"
Kreese: "It's a party!"

Howard: "Looks like Jack just invented a new kind of hybrid car!"
Kreese: "Yeah! It runs on assholes."
Howard: "Which seem to be an abundant fuel source around here!"
Kreese: "Woo-hoo!"

Howard: "Look at Jack acting like a kid!"
Kreese: "Not that the kids in my neighborhood ever cut off people's heads with a chainsaw! ...Well, one kid, but it wasn't done maliciously!"

Howard: "Looks like the human body doesn't bounce off walls the way you would think..."
Kreese: "It's the bones. Y'know, I think this guy's bones are all shattered now, so maybe if Jack gave it another try, he'd bounce."

Howard: "Daaaang! That's a lot of guys he just killed! Do you think he's cheating?"
Kreese: "What's cheating in DeathWatch?! Hell, they give ya bonus points if ya cheat!"

Howard: “Jack is killing with the efficiency of an accountant!”
Kreese: sarcastically “You paint an exciting picture!”
Howard: apologetically “Sorry, I have to finish my taxes…”

Kreese: "Aw man, that combo makes me feel dirty..."
Howard: "It was a little over the top."
Kreese: "Wha- I think I got some blood splattered on me."

Kreese: "Amazing spray pattern on that combo!"
Howard: "Jack should get bonus points for artistic merit!
Kreese: "You should get bonus points for total bullshit!"

Howard: "I would hate to be the guy who has to clean that off the wall!"
Kreese: "Clean it? I would have colored it to a paint, that's good as new!"

Kreese: “Jack pulled that win out of his ass at the last second!”
Howard: “Yes he did. He really needs to do better, or he’s gonna get killed!”
Kreese: “…Wait a minute, what? No clever remarks about pulling stuff that’s out of your ass? Where’s the germal joke? The anal sex story?!? Dude, I tossed you a softball and you didn’t even bunt!”
Howard: “Sorry Kreese, I was busy adjusting this third nut I had surgically inserted in my sack. They should have warned me about the itching!”
Kreese: “There you go! That’s my boy!”

Kreese: “Jack’s held the world’s record for most shit jammed in a guy’s head for the past three years!”
Howard: “As well as consecutive yards of entrails extracted from enemies, gallons of plasma spattered in 10 minutes or less, and bloodcurdling screams elicited from severed throats!”
Kreese: “He’s also a record holder in the 100-meter slash!”
Howard: “I did not know that!”

Howard: “Little known fact: Jack is quite an accomplished chef!”
Kreese: “I call bullshit! You made that up!”
Howard: “Well, he could be…”

Howard: “One more enemy to kill, Jack!”
Kreese: “You think you could pick up the spare?”
Howard: “The spare what?”
Kreese: “Knockin’ down the last pin standing! It’s a bowling metaphor!”
Howard: “Bowling? What do you live in, a trailer?”
Kreese: “Yes! You’ve been in my trailer several times!”
Howard: “You live there? I thought it was a meth lab!”
Kreese: “It is a meth lab, but I do live there!”
Howard: “Ohhhh, I get it, kind of a home office!”
Kreese: “Yeah, cuts the tax right off (needs verification)
Howard: “Huh.”

Jack impales an enemy on a spike[]

Kreese: "I can really sympathize with that guy. I've been stuck to the floor before!"
Howard: "With spikes?"
Kreese: "Nah, it was gum and it was really inconvenient. I'm with you, brother!"

Kreese: "That reminds me, I've gotta make an appointment to see my proctologist."
Howard: "Anything serious?"
Kreese: "Nah, right now we're just friends."
Howard: singing "Bada-ba-badum-bump, flounf!"

Howard: "Owwww! He's going to be slow getting up from that!"
Kreese: "Yeah, but the poop will come out pretty fast!" motorboats

Jack throws at a short distance[]

Howard: "Weak toss!"
Kreese: "I'd shit farther than Jack could throw!"

Howard: "Jack throws like a little girl!"
Kreese: "A little girl who can kick your ass!"
Howard: "That's any little girl."

Howard: "Short toss! Put your back in it, Jack!"
Kreese: "Yeah, you feel nice and safe tellin' Jack what to do from the security of this booth, don't ya?"
Howard: "Yes I do, Kreese. Yes I do."

Howard: “Jack throws like a little girl!”
Kreese: “Are you kiddin’? Jack throws little girls! Under moving buses! That was just a bad toss.”

Jack performs a stronger throw[]

Kreese: "Jack tossed that guy harder than you toss in the back of a strip club!"
Howard: "Fuck off!"
Kreese: "I'm totally kiddin', you're sittin' in the front."
Howard: "Damn straight!"

Howard: “Jack is tossing these guys with his bare hands!”
Kreese: “Do you like the idea of tossing guys with your bare hands?”
Howard: “I love it!” The idea of two men in the heat of battl-“ realization “Oh, I get it. That’s a handjob joke. Ha-ha-ha, you got me!”
Kreese: “Like shooting fish in a barrel!”

Horizontal Slash[]

Howard: "One loser divided by two equals..."
Kreese: "Wait a minute, nobody said there'd be math!"

Jack wins a Power Struggle[]

Kreese: "Jack's on a roll, winning yet another Power Struggle!"
Howard: "He's like some kind of crazy ass-kicking machine!"

Howard: "Jack wins another Power Struggle! How many does this make?
Kreese: "Nobody said there'd be math, and I don't have a fuckin' calculator!"

Howard: “Ho-hum, Jack wins another Power Struggle, yadda yadda yadda.”
Kreese: “I don’t hear your heart in it anymore…”
Howard: “I get paid, win lose or draw.”

Jack loses a Power Struggle[]

Kreese: "Jack's lost the Power Struggle! It's over!"
Howard: "It's not over. There'll be several disappointing sequels!"

Howard: "Jack is getting dusted out there!"
Kreese: "I used to smoke dust before a game... Never seemed to help."
Howard: "Stay off the drugs, kids! Drink booze, like I do!"

Kreese: “Jack losin’ that Power Struggle looked like you at the gym!”
Howard: “Hey! Lots of people fall off the treadmill!”
Kreese: “Yeah, not for an hour they don’t!”

Jack dies[]

Howard: "And Jack is whacked!"
Kreese: "Get out the body bags!"
Howard: "Why? You takin' home leftovers?"
Kreese: "Maybeeeee"

Kreese: "And Jack is on his way to hell!"
Howard: "You don't think he maybe might go to heaven?"
(Brief pause)
Both: *Laughter*

Howard: “Jack looks like he was rode hard and put away wet!”
Kreese: “What does that mean?”
Howard: “It’s a horse metaphor!”
Kreese: “What does that mean?”
Howard: “…He’s fucked up.”
Kreese: “He sure is, Howard!”

Kreese: “Jack’s dead. Game over!”
Howard: “So, what? We just go home now?”
Kreese: “Are you kiddin’? My home’s a smolderin’ pile of rubble and twitching body parts! Come to think of it… That’s how my apartment always looks. Home it is!”

Kreese: "Looks like Jack was bein' a pussy, and relied on his chainsaw a little too much... In my day, we didn't have that problem."
Howard: "What did you use?"
Kreese: "I had a disposable razor on my arm."
Howard: "Did it work?"
Kreese: "No to the p..."

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

He originally had a far different design, as seen in his gallery, which had a much more cartoonish, top heavy and caricaturely muscular design as well as a more infuriated and angry appearance, it is unknown why this aesthetic was changed, aside from a dissatisfaction with the aesthetic.
- Another piece of concept art, specifically the one that depicts him in silhouette on a motorcycle, depicts him wielding what appears to be a double-barreled shotgun, meaning that he could've wielded one himself at one point in the game's development.
The skull on the back of his jacket might be a reference to the coat with a similar design worn by Gene from God Hand, a game created by Clover Studios, whose former members founded PlatinumGames, the developers of MadWorld.
He is stated to be 47 years old in Anarchy Reigns, although it is unknown if he is also 47 years old as well in MadWorld.
He might derive his first name from the infamous London serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
He competed and won in the 2001 DeathWatch Games. As the winner, he is considered by DeathWatch as the current "reigning champion." In the beginning of the last area, Jack hints at how he has "three games under the belt." It can be deduced that he has competed and won two other times aside from the 2001 games.
It is unknown how Jack got a chainsaw attached to his arm. One explanation could be that he lost his original arm in a previous Deathwatch game. Another could be that the chainsaw arm is a gadget placed on his actual arm to be used as a weapon in the DeathWatch games, although given how his bionic arm displays no skeleton when he is electrocuted, it is extremely likely to be a bionic arm. He had the chainsaw attached to his arm before meeting Agent 13, so it is not a gift.
Him having a chainsaw mounted in his right arm might be a reference to the Green Specters from God Hand, who were an uncommon enemy spawning after the defeat of another enemy that had a blade mounted on their right arm.
Jack might be partially inspired by the Marvel Comics character, The Punisher, considering that he wears dark clothing with a skull located on it and possesses a tendency for preforming extreme and imaginative feats of violence on his enemies, he also possesses a past as a member of the military.
His general appearance and his cybernetic arm might be a reference to Jet Black from the famed anime series Cowboy Bebop.
One of Jack's finishers is homage to Sub-Zero's Spine Rip Fatality from Mortal Kombat, another ultra-violent game.
The "Aerial Backbreaker" that Jack can use on airborne enemies is a reference to the Kinniku Buster, a move used by the protagonists of the wrestling manga series Kinnikuman (generally known in the west as M.U.S.C.L.E., for the toyline brought over there), and it's sequel Kinnikuman Nisei (known as Ultimate Muscle in the west) Kinniku Suguru and his son, Mantaro Kinniku.
He, along with the Black Baron, RinRin, Mathilda, and Big Bull appear as playable characters in another beat-em-up game similar to MadWorld, Anarchy Reigns.
Jack's chainsaw arm bears a striking resemblance to the chainsaw-hand of Ash Williams from the Evil Dead series.
His general appearance could be a possible reference to Hellboy, due to his incredibly short hair, goggles (which resemble Hellboys horns) and mechanical forearm.
Cayman is Spanish for "Crocodile", suggesting that Jack has Hispanic heritage. His surname could be in reference to Alligator wrestling.