Hey its been a while for one of these! So lets dive into Jack-O's lore why not!? As always got timestamps so say you already know her gameplay throughout the various games, why not skip right to the lore? Jack-O's whole arc is certainly an odd one to say the least. The Ultimate bro move? Or horrific trashfire that cost millions of lives? As always these videos are out of the usual wheelhouse so I normally don't ask but I would sincerely appreciate any likes/shares you guys could give, thank you!

Can also be summarized as " Asuka spends 200 years as the Devil because he's a good wingman."

Jack-o in a nutshell: Girl who needs candy to survive but can never survive because she has died like like 4 times

Asuka is probably one of if not the best wingman you can get. Dude literally 100% ensures you that you can get toghether with ur dead gf

You telling me guilty gear was just the most over the top wingman story...

Guilty Gear’s story is literally the ravings of a mad man

"Your girlfriend had a crappy immune system, but was a BRILLIANT scientist!" - Asuka

I can’t believe Jack-O’s been around for 6 years. To me she still felt like a recent addition to the GG cast. I feel like an old man.

Jack-Os ending with Sol where she accepts herself as an individual that's allowed to pursue happiness is very sweet and probably my favourite resolution that came out of Strive's story mode, I hope we see more moments of them and with their family in non Earth threatening scenarios.

The fact sol stopping jack-o from sacrificing herself and forcing the "hard mode" path to deal with i-no because he finally got his girl back and absolutely refuses to repeat the whole Wife gone. Think about wife. Regret. Phases is the most sol thing ever alongside him not really caring if it's aria or jack-o is why they deserve their happy ending.

Asuka was so dedicated to not physically third wheeling the homie took an express trip the to moon.

I'm so glad Fred Flintstones gets to be with his Fruity Pebble.

I appreciate that you actually follow lore of fighting games, not alot of people like to do that and disregard fighting game lore in general, guilty gear is a little more complex but you seem to have it down. Respect my man!

Sol can be happy that she is his Wife. I want to see them with there daughter Dizzy. A family reunion.

Actually, Sol is still a Gear but lost the source of his powers (“the seed”) making him less powerful than he was throughout the series. He even said it himself that he’s not fully human.

My time spent learning Guilty Gear's lore has prepared me for this! It's amazing how far Frederick and Aria have come; with Frederick being turned to Sol Badguy by Asuka/"That Man" and, towards the end of Strive, reverted back to Frederick by the same person; while Aria became Justice, and would later have her soul fused with Jack-o Valentine, so that they would both would be able to reunite after over 100 years! ^^

Its finally here, later than I thought but things rarely go as planned in youtube world. First one of these style of vids in some months, but there will be more to come I am sure depending on how things go. If Baiken becomes DLC? A video on her is very likely. Sometime before KoF 15's launch there will be these style of videos, but covering the games as a whole rather than just 1 character. Plus more? I don't know!?!?!

To be fair, Asuka does say some of the stuff we have associated with him was done by happychaos and the crusades were never part of the plan. That was the universal will having a bit of a laugh. Still though, looking at Jack-O I think you could make the argument it was all worth it.

"Your father was a brilliant scientist" Vegeta to Goku This is all I could think of when hearing about Frederick Douglas.

So the plot of the Guilty Gear, as a whole, is to use space magic many many times so Sol can stay monogamous while having 2 wives? NICE

*Aria* : I won't do cryostasis, I'm dying. *Asuka* : How about I make it so that Fred's alive when you wake up. *Aria* : Alright! *Asuka* (to himself): OK, I *could* just tell Fred about this and put *him* in cryostasis as well, OR... I *could* just turn him into an immortal monster without any explanation or his informed consent so he both develops a seething hatred of me and is alive when Aria wakes up... yeah, definitely the latter's the better idea. *Turns Fred into a gear, all hell brakes loose* *Asuka* (to himself): The US government wants to use gears for war... I *could* simply not help them, OR... I wake Aria up, turn her into a gear like Fred (which nearly drove him crazy) AND give her control over ALL gears EVERYWHERE. What could possibly go wrong? yeah, definitely the latter's the better idea. *Turns Aria into Justice, humanity is nearly wiped off the face of the Earth* *Asuka* : OK, but Fred and Aria are both alive and (kinda) happy! *Fred kills Aria* *Also, turns out Aria had been pregnant for a 100 years and decided to lay her egg before being killed, out of which came Dizzy* *Asuka* : Alright, given my record here, I *could* just leave it at that, OR... *Jack-O*!

The story is ridiculous, to say the least, but I could not help myself smiling the whole time after the "Godzilla" line. Definitely a fun bizarre story.

rooflemonger doing Standing Dust chess moves by uploading a video on jack-o after the jack-o challenge blew up

Every wonder why the series is called Guilty Gear? Well because I have no life and I went through several wiki's and videos regarding the matter myself I'm gonna share it with you anyway. So here you go. Though this is not the actual beginning or end to the lore of the series to understand why Guilty Gear is called Guilty Gear the first thing you need to know is that in the Guilty Gear series all technology has been outlawed and in its place magic has been adopted as it’s substitute. A Gear is any organism that has been injected with Gear cells. Gear cells increase the strength, resilience, energy, self-regeneration ability, etc. of whatever they touch. Basically Gear cells make whatever it’s injected into a super version of itself, but the cost is that usually the organism will lose most if not all higher brain function and turn into a mindless brute monster. Three scientists, Asuka, Fredrick, and Aria are placed as the heads of The Gear Project. The Gear Project was initially started in hopes of curing terminal diseases/protecting mankind, but power hungry nations quickly sought out the opportunity to militarize Gears. All three are good friends but Fredrick and Aria eventually fall in love and become a couple. Aria then ends up contracting a terminal disease that will kill her in a short time. Asuka and Fredrick want to cryogenically freeze her until they can find a cure but she rejects the idea wanting to spend her last days with Fredrick. It’s a bit unclear but I believe she does eventually die but not before Asuka injects her with Gear cells and then cryogenically freezes her body. He also injects Fredrick with Gear cells. He did this in hopes of finding a cure to save Aria and thus allowing them both to have time to spend the rest of their lives together once a cure for Aria is found as anyone injected with Gear cells doesn’t really age. Fredrick was infuriated by his Gear transformation and destroyed the lab before running away, The Gear Project was soon after shut down. Asuka continued secretly researching The Gear Project on his own but the military kept intervening in hopes of militarizing his research. To combat military use of Gears he developed Justice, a “complete” Gear capable of commanding all other Gears made after it. This way regardless of who or what got access to Gears Justice could always reel them back in. However The Universal Will (kind of like God in the Guilty Gear universe but not really), whose goal was to restart the human race by wiping it out completely intervened and caused Justice to command all Gears to attack humans. This started The Crusades, a 100 year war between humans and Gears. During this war there’s only about four people of major importance, Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Kliff Undersn, and Testament. Sol Badguy is a bounty hunter who seemingly showed up out of nowhere during The Crusades and started killing all Gears he came across. He earned his name from the general public not really knowing what else to call him based on his very rash behavior. Ky Kiske was a sword prodigy who did a lot of great things within the Holy Order (a large organization that spearheaded fighting Gears during The Crusades) during The Crusades to fight against Gears. Kliff Undersn was the commander and one of the most prominent killer of Gears during The Crusades, also Ky’s mentor. Kliff fought Justice numerous times during The Crusades and while he was never able to kill Justice neither was Justice able to kill him. Testament is Kliff’s foster son. Testament at some point was captured by government agents and converted into a Gear against his will. Now a Gear he is now able to be controlled by Justice and under Justice’s control he was ordered to switch sides and join in destroying humanity. He meets his father Kliff in battle and Kliff defeats him though he does not kill Testament. Justice is later weakened in a battle with Sol but Sol is unable to kill her. Instead Justice is sealed away in a dimensional prison by the Holy Order, this ends The Crusades. About five years later there is a rumor than Justice will return. To prepare for her possible return the Holy Order proposes a tournament to decide the strongest fighter to take on Justice should she actually return. The tournament was open to all and killing was allowed. Sol ultimately reigns victorious in this tournament and it is then revealed that the tournament is not a precaution to prepare for Justice’s return but instead every fighter that was killed in the tournament is to be a blood sacrifice to revive Justice, and Testament, still under Justice’s influence orchestrated the entire thing. Testament says only one more sacrifice is needed to revive Justice and so Sol and Testament fight with Sol being the winner. Testament then decides to sacrifice himself to revive Justice thus freeing her from her dimensional prison. Both Ky and Kliff lose to Justice but Sol defeats her. During the fight Sol’s headband is broken and it reveals a marking on his head similar to the one Justice has, this reveals Sol to be a Gear. Justice attempts to control him but cannot. Sol tells her the reason she can’t is because she can only control Gears made after her but he is the original prototype Gear. This reveals Sol to actually be Fredrick, one of the three scientists that originally worked on The Gear Project. In her dying words Justice tells Sol she wishes the three of them could have one last conversation together. This reveals Justice to be Aria, the woman Fredrick (now Sol) fell in love with so many years ago working on The Gear Project. Sol is now stricken with an immense amount of guilt as he believes himself to be responsible for the worlds last 100 or so years of disaster. He was one of the original researchers of The Gear Project that ultimately led to him becoming the first prototype Gear, that then lead to the creation of Justice, to the 100 years of war that was The Crusades, he then failed to kill Justice which led to her being only sealed away and then being released, to now standing over the body of his once love that he himself just killed. Sol Badguy is now a GUILTY GEAR.

Alright, theory time: I believe that jack-o is not some special artificial personality put into this clone of aria, but rather a front created by Aria herself to avoid having to face the world that she destroyed as Justice. Like, isn't it just a little bit wierd that Aria who believes her time with Fredrick is literally more valuable than life itself would just be fine with some robot personality getting with her boyfriend while she just has to sit like a prisoner in her own body? It completely goes against Aria's established character, however if my theory is correct it handily explains everything. For example: because Aria views her time with Friedrick as sort of the ultimate happiness in life, she's hesitant to get with him again as jack-o because she believes she doesn't deserve it because of all the suffering she put him through as Justice, and then at the end of Strive she, once again, makes the decision that time with Fredrick is more important than life itself by choosing to not save the world. Anyways, this *is* just a theory, for all I know the devs might well decide that Aria has actually been an alien from an ancient civilization that lived on the moon or something this whole time

I can safely say, that as someone who studies different stories to become a better writer, Jack-O is the most unique and insane character I have ever seen on a writing perspective XD Then again, more to come, I suppose!

I haven't watched any of the cinematic but have tried to keep up with the lore through wikis since the Xrd era. I've always felt... Am I just not really getting it? But then to hear others explain it, I'm like, oh okay-- T-that's just how it is. I got it!

“Lazer shoots I-No pretty good” 🤣 haha iv been seeing so much about this game so thank you for explaining some of the plot in a way that i could actually follow!

Great video! Stoked to get more of this style of content. Keep em coming!

Thanks for the fun vids, as always! I love the goofiness of some of the world of fighting games.

Ah yes, can't forget the challenge. But in all seriousness, having followed the story for years, Guilty Gear can be completely out there

I like these types of videos as strive is my first guilty gear and I don't know anything about the lore. Nice video man

Some lore thing that would take another hour and a half to explain? "Don't worry about it" Why is this trying to achieve that? "Don't worry about it" I love that 3 hour video explaining the lore of Guilty Gear that i watched multiple times because i forced a friend of mine to watch it with me

Explaining this character's lore is like, trying to explain why chapter 40 of a story happens the way it does without having read any of it. She makes total sense, but man you need to know a lot for that. I swear guys tho, her story is pretty tragic, this conclusion was awesome as a GG fan.

11:40 thats a little rough. She's not losing her free will, from her perspective she never had free will to begin with. JackO's strongest feeling is supposed to be a love for aria's love for fredrick.

Actually minions have a lore reason being that she uses the guilty gear 2 overture valentine magic

Who is Jack-O' anyways? A question asked by many. Including Jack-O'

this is insane bullsh*t. i love it. Edit: i feel like it should be mentioned the Asuka, harbinger of the crusades and thus millions if not billions of deaths, wanted to go to the moon to start a podcast.guilty gear goes full throttle at every opportunity, but it can never seem to find the gas, if you catch my drift.

Sol at the "punching Ino in the guts part" literally blasting his own theme and following the lyrics. What a madman

Thanks for the content Roof

Thank you mr monger. I specifically asked for this and you replied saying you would. I know you planed on it already but thank you.

I like the fact you glossed over O yeah they casually sent that mand to the moon dont worry about it

Her halo completely dissappears at the end of the strive, just like when Justice and jack-o merge i wonder what's the explanation behind it and what it could mean

Jack-O is genetically engineered by Daisuke to be best girl and he succeeded

I think the definition of the Valentines are more so that they are beings that originate from the Backyard and don't actually have any direct connection to Aria. Jack-O's resemblance is intentional by Asuka's design and the first Valentine's resemblance was basically pure coincidence.

Jack-O in Strive is like Venom and Zato's bastard child gameplay-wise.

Great vid, but Just a couple of things 1)I think that when I-no became god she kinda fused with the Backyard, so when Jack-O went inside her she was essentially going into the Backyard and was gonna delete system 32 on the computer that was god I-no. 2) It’s not entirely clear if Sol is a full normal human. If im remembering right he says he’s not *quite* human but he is close enough and definitely doesn’t have his full gear strength anymore.

So the point here is it's all the original's fault since he went to the backyard. I'm just happy Sol and Jack O' will grow old together and maybe live in the moon doing a three man radio show.

Finally the return of my favourite series!!

Been waiting

Came here to learn a meme's background got an entire history lesson, love this kind of rabbit hole

Thanks for this given all I really knew of Jack-O was that she was essentially a clone or at least homunculus of Sol's love interest, so getting more details was appreciated. Nothing too surprising here (to me), down to the "love conquers all" ending that romanticizes an attitude that could, you know, *doom the world* but conveniently doesn't because there just happens to be another way. Yay.... That said, as someone who still hasn't watched the _Guilty Gear Strive_ story, it *was* pretty hilarious to see Sol just casually having his hand inside of I-no given all of the innuendo that she normally makes. Rather easy to imagine all of the jokes she would make about it if she wasn't hideously depressed enough at the time to the point that she's essentially trying to end the world.

Great video, I find the lore interesting. I plan to pick up and beat the older games story modes to learn more. I see PC is best to have them all on one platform.

yo but godbless the Jack'O challenge. So many tiktokkers falling on their faces, was hilarious.

The one thing I find odd is how her hair changes, it almost feels like a reverseable dual colored wig.

got lured in by Jak-o being cute and now i feel like im required to binge all of the guilty gear law frick

Not gonna lie this is some interesting lore

I don't play guilty gear but i saw some jack-o video's about The *Crouch* which lead me watching this video, and now I know about jack-o other than the *Crouch* Hahaha also nice video.

I love this videos Rooflemonger. A little side note/correction: The reason why Justice killed billions was that the universal will (Ariels) hijacked and corrupted Justice. Not because he wanted to kill everyone for the sake of the love story of his best friends.

I’d love to see one of these videos on yoshimitsu from tekken

One bit of lore. Justice was meant to bring peace to the world cause she had the abillity to stop and control all the gear weapons used by the nations in wars. Outside intervention by the universal will caused her to lose control, which resulted in the mess. So yes, the world got fucked due to asuka acting matchmaker but it wasn't on purpose.

11:14 you said jack-o close too fast to where it smushed into yakko from animaniacs I recently picked up a CRT monitor and was thinking to myself the animation seems a bit choppy on my regular LCD panel but might look pretty good on the CRT I played guilty gear before just for a quick play and it didn't seem very different from games like King of fighters or your traditional 2D fighter but there seems to be some story line behind it if so I might give it a shot I've been more of a story guy in recent years for video games

Noice vid. Love hearing more and more lore for characters in the GG world. One thing I'm concerned with is, does this make it the last Guilty Gear game? Cause Sol is the Guilty Gear and now he's no longer a Gear and Guilty anymore does that mean we just leave him behind? And only focus on Ky as a Gear and make him Guilty for somthin? IDK but I love the story and lore of the games and want to see more of the world and the characters be happy.

I wanna know where she got a new halo from cause her old one just disappeared right when she turned human.

Jack-O: Dead man Wonderland Shiro + Guilty Gear with Sols wife mixed in with extra flavor!❤

Quite ironically, if Asuka hadn't been the best wingman ever, everything would've ended up much, much worse. Without Justice, Universal Wills second attack would've succeeded, causing pretty much just the end of the world. Sure, Asuka using Justice to destroy Japan to stop that caused the Crusades and all, but in the end the world didn't quite end.

We're here for your wife Sol! ❤

when asuka takes "I got you bro" very seriously

I watched the guilty gear 101 3 hour crash course... And boy.

Lol, sup. I found this vid 2 years after it was uploaded

The Jack-O minions are actually a ref to GG Overture. The Dota game of Guilty Gear. Before league came out, there was GG2, and before GG2 there was the warcraft 3 dota mod. As the first Valentine used less cute minions for the majority of the game. PS: bets on Jack-O and Sol having Aria as a daughter? Cause that'd be the most cliche anime ending.

Wait.. sol is normal. But there is supposed to be a second campaign? What are we gonna do!? There is still the problem of the world ending, other characters haven’t had there character arcs finished… WHATS HAPPENING!!??

15:25 ino's into it.

To be absolutely fair. We dont know 100% Sol is Human now. In classic Daisuke story telling Fashion. Ky asks "Sol are you Human now?" Sol says "No at least not entirely." So is he half gear? or is he not OP undying mega gear like before?" WHO KNOWS. Thanks Daisuke.

whats up (how can u know i will watch this video in 2 years)

Can you do a history of soul calibur characters like Voldo or Tira?

I'll always love this character! Jack-o or Aria, but to me is great. Just finding out that Jack-O wants to be someone is very interesting to me and starts developing emotions crazy and I love that. She may be an AI, but if she wants to be someone, that is something I can respect and could see myself helping her out if I was in Sol's position too. Life truly is a wonderful thing. It's great they both had a good ending!

Now that sol is human, it'll only be a few games until we have old man sol

I already loved Jack-O from her design but this super weird backstory makes her so much better. Also of course the white house is a flying fortress.

This is a Kingdom hearts plot, just replace every instance of "soul" with "heart"

Oh yeah, she definitely fits

Actually, the That Man who was responsible for all the killing during the Crusades was in fact Happy Chaos.

Anyone know the name of the outro song?

This girl eradicated billions as justice, but sure, let's let all that go because she crouches like that 🙄🤣

I only joined with Strive, so pardon my confusion, but... ...is Jack-0 just a corrupted Backup-File of Aria? :O

If you make one on goldlewis it should just be "everything was terrible in the fgc until July 27th, 2021, then everything was good."

I came to this video to wonder why Jacko has the minions. And they are literally just there for no reason lolol

what’s up, recently got into gg

Shes just so funny & fun to play as in Rev2

whats the background music in the vid

2:39 i feel like you skipped the part where she has dual personalities?

Yo waaait Sol loses his powers???? Waaaahhh how epic Does it end here for him???

Why is jacko the counter to Ino. It seems weird for asuka to set things up that way.

Honestly if you trim out all the lasers, robots, and different dimensions, you end up with a nice and charming romcom plot about a woman who's in an accident, loses her memory and wakes up as a completely different person, and now her husband has to learn how to love again. Guilty Gear is The Vow.

Asuka is thee best wingman ever... like Best friend, like Bro before world...

Sol got that 2 in 1 package.

I have no fucking clue what's being talked about, but I was there for BlazBlue's story when Calamity Trigger came out. I think I can handle Guilty Gear's story.

17:17 and it did that with only 2 pieces.

Does this mean sol badguy won't be in the next game due to not having his gear abilities?

Jack-O become wife, mother and grand-mother all in 1 day