Anthony Burch commented, "I think in Jack's mind, he's the protagonist in the cop movie where his daughter is killed and he goes on a rampage." Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! establishes the character as initially having possibly good intentions, though ultimately becoming a villain. Jack is framed as believing everything he says, even his lies, including those regarding his treatment of his daughter, Angel, whom he essentially enslaves. "It was important to us that Jack thinks of himself as a hero, no matter how bad things got."įocused heavily on bravado and looking good, Handsome Jack considers himself "the hero" on Pandora, viewing everyone else as a "bandit". The character is depicted with two differently-colored eyes, giving him an asymmetrical design, as well as a mask of a face that covers his own. Dialogue in Borderlands 2 establishes his past as a "code monkey", before taking credit for the Vault Hunters' actions in the first Borderlands. Introduced as the president of the Hyperion Corporation, in his first appearance Jack and Hyperion have taken over the planet Pandora with Jack becoming a dictator, putting up propagandist posters of himself around the planet. Clarke won "Best Performance by a Human Male" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards for his role. Handsome Jack has received critical acclaim. In Borderlands 3, Jack appears in a voice cameo. The Pre-Sequel! revolves around Jack's rise to power, while Tales features Jack as a hologram who gets injected into the mind of one of the game's protagonists. The character is voiced by Dameon Clarke.Īfter his introduction in 2012's Borderlands 2, Jack appears again in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! and Telltale Games' Tales from the Borderlands. Primary concerns fell on making him balance both the seriousness and humor of the game. Jack was conceived early on as a fellow Vault Hunter " frenemy" before being changed to an outright villain to make Borderlands 2 clearer. Jack shows narcissistic traits, believing himself to be a heroic character and savior of others. He is the President of the Hyperion Corporation, which takes control of the planet Pandora, and is the main antagonist of Borderlands 2. Handsome Jack is a fictional character in Gearbox Software's Borderlands video game franchise. "Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot" ( Borderlands 3) (2019) Let the online discourse begin.Handsome Jack as depicted in Borderlands 2 Yellowface officially released this week.I am trying to take all those tropes and inject them all into a singular white female protagonist who is deeply unlikable and try to crack the code of what makes her so interesting to listen to regardless. And I'm thinking of the protagonist, like the main character of Gone Girl, the main character of The Girl in the Window. I'm also thinking a lot about a very common voice in female led psychological thrillers, because I always really love reading widely around the genre that I'm trying to make an intervention in.Īnd I noticed there's this voice that comes up over and over again, and it's a very nasty, condescending protagonist that you see repeated across works. I love writing unlikable narrators, but the trick here is it's much more fun to follow a character that does have a sympathetic background, that does think reasonable thoughts about half the time, because then you're compelled to follow their logic to the horrible decisions they are making. And I'm playing with that argument by doing the exact thing that June is accused of, writing about an experience that isn't hers. So I really don't love arguments that reduce people to their identities or set strict permissions of what you can and can't write about. I think fiction should be about imagining outside our own perspective, stepping into other people's shoes and empathizing with the other. And I think that's anathema to what fiction should be. You would see Asian American writers being told that you can't write anything except about immigrant trauma or the difficulties of being Asian American in the U.S. I think they're actually quite limiting and harmful, and backfire more often on marginalized writers than they push forward conversations about widening opportunities. You can only write about this experience if you've had that experience." I think it's hilarious that all of our assumptions about who gets to do cultural appropriation, or when something counts as cultural appropriation, kind of go away when you invert who is of what identity.Īnd I think that a lot of our standards about cultural appropriation are language about "don't write outside of your own lane.
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