XXXIII Would be 33.

Actually, the true ending is in the game Samurai Jack: Battle Through time. It’s a secret ending and it’s confirmed as the true ending to the show by Genndy Tartakovsky. Jack finally has happiness

He does return to where the portal used to be though. You can see the Guardian's red sunglasses smashed on the floor and it's heavily implied that he got killed by Aku, with the portal later being destroyed.

That dude said "countless eons." An eon is a billion years if I remember correctly. That means, that man is literally older than every culture or living creature on Earth.

I’d really wanted to see the Conan the barbarian Jack. I remember when they’ve shown that scene where the Guardian showed his future,where he’s old and also king,left me so many discussions about that part. I remember they’ve even shown it on the comic too,where he forms an army and fights Aku and realises that he’s meant to be in the future rather than going back to the past.

It’s a fun theory, but obviously it was just a teaser at the end of the episode and not intended to be connected to final season over a decade later. The original show teased a lot of possible ways for jack to return to the past since there wasn’t a foreseeable ending at the time. This was just one of them

There a animatic on the disk set showing the rest of the final scene for jack. At the tree, after he accepts ashi is gone and the lady bug flies off, his spirit is summoned to the astroplain where the three deities of his universe odin, Vishnu, and ra stand before him. The congratulate him and offer there thanks for his great sacrifice I'm aku defeat. Jack talks a few moments gives the I need not thanks hero speech. But they stop him and retort saying he deserves a reward for all his efforts. They captured ashi spirit before it was erased and the they create a human body for her to inhabit. And there jack and ashi embrace under the tree.

Something always bugged me about how the show ended. I get that Ashi disappeared because killing Aku in the past means she was never born, but why did it take so long? Are we supposed to believe she was fine for the months it would have taken to get all of Jack's old teachers together, but causality suddenly kicks in during the wedding? And if causality does matter shouldn't Aku's death create a paradox, since the new timeline's Jack never would have met Ashi? Then there's the fact that neither Jack or Ashi realised this would happen. Jack's explicit goal was to change the past and stop Aku's version of the future from existing. It never occured to either if them that changing history might change history? If they knew Ashi would disappear and went back to destroy Aku anyway, that would make Ashi's sacrifice seem noble. It might even give Jack a reason to hesitate when it comes time to deliver that final blow. However, the cannon ending just makes Jack and Ashi seem kind of dumb. The answer to all of theses questions is that the creator wanted an twist ending that would tug at peoples heart strings and sacrificed everything else to make it happen. Okay. Rant over. TL,DR: Ashi's death was manipulative and made no sense.

I never noticed that almost hidden clever detail about the guardian and the time portal till now. This would be an excellent segue to bring Jack back for Aishi. Good catch!

XXXII (Roman) = 32 (Arabic) Also: Jack returns to the same Time Portal in episode C. Only to find it destroyed. This theory is still feasible. There is no indication when, who or what destroyed the time portal.

Ashi could only have been born if Aku was never defeated in the past. Jack would have had to let Aku ruin the Earth for centuries or who knows how long before she was born.

Here's my theory. The writers just wanted a quick ending and took very little of the original series into consideration. How it ended wasn't the original plan.

Honestly I wouldn’t mind if Jack was permanently stuck in the future after killing aku. Jack taking on a leadership role as he helps rebuild the world he is stuck in and bring happiness to a world aku messed up would have been more bittersweet than ditching everyone and going back to the past while everyone in that timeline gets erased.

Since in Samurai Jack time is lineal, it is clear that without Aku, Ashi and the future S.Jack was in does not exist. If Aku exists, not only Ashi but everyone from S.Jack's travels also would exist, which means the Scotsman and the rest. It has to be noted that this show not only had heavy influences from SciFi and other fantasy works, but obviously Japanese story telling, and S.Jack was shown to be inspired by a character extremely similar to Ogami Itto from Kozure Okami. This is important because the story of Kozure Okami has a bitter sweet ending, and many can tell that there are great Japanese shows and stories that also have these tropes. Japan has a great attraction towards sappy stories and depressed characters, not in a gloomy way, but in the caring way. In a sense this is the clear image we get of S.Jack at the end of the last season when he stands up after he sees the lady bug. This is like the saying that says "Better to have known love and lost it, than to have not known love at all". In essence, great characters don't necessarily get the happy ending we expect, for when S.Jack defeated Aku, his timeline was restored along with all of the people that Aku destroyed after sending S.Jack into the future, which of course includes his family and country. Ashi in a way represented a moral dilemma for S.Jack, to be selfish and stay with a woman created by the evil he has been fighting for half a century and that he fell in love with only to damn all of the victims of Aku which of course included his family, or sacrifice his own selfish desire and be a real hero saving countless of lives from Aku's reign of terror that spanned into the future.

I was so pissed when they showed the guardian was dead. I was so looking forward to that rematch.

Interesting video, however the likeliest possibility is that they just forgot about this episode and mistakenly retconned it, It may also just refer to the fact that he just finally managed to travel to the past with the help of Ashi Edit: It seems that in S5E9 we see the smashed glasses of the guardian on the floor of that place, implying that Aku killed him and sealed the portal, shame, would have been great to see that plotline fulfilled

I feel that Jack's hate for aku outweighs his love for ashi and he's ok holding the L on that one.

This was disproven by Genndy already. According to the series creator they planned an extended ending which they released the story boards for shortly after the series ended. In the original ending just after the lady bug lands on Jack he is teleported to the God's of good where they return Ashi to Jack as a reward for his journey. However Genndy wanted the series to end in an epic way and just to have Ashi back was in his words too predictable.

When talking about time travel, the argument that Ashi would stop existing falls apart when Jack slays Aku in the past. If she disappeared, then the entire series should have never existed, least not with Aku having conquered the world cause he died. He would have never made Ashi and she would have never returned Jack to the past to slay Aku. The only way the series and the Samurai that we know and love can exist is if the timeline splits so both futures exist. Therefore Ashi would still exist, because that future wouldn't be erased. If the timeline was truly linear, then best case scenario would be Ashi lives and dies with age or combat alongside Jack. But once she dies, the Aku part of her would unknowingly keep going, growing in strength till it turns into Aku, fully regenerated and very, very confused. Then he shrugs and conquers the unsuspecting world. Happy ending we get in the game, but also a twist that lets the series exist in a linear timeline.

It was mentioned in the season 5 premiere that Jack doesn’t age because of the time portal that brought him there froze the aging process but I doubt that the second time portal progressed it

Here is my head cannon based on the video game ending where Ashi does not vanish: Samurai Jack realized that since Ashi did not vanish, the timeline where Aku's evil is law also exist. This means that by destroying Aku he made an alternative timeline. Jack wishing to help his friends in that timeline, dresses up as the battle King we saw in the episode where he found and fought the Portal guardian and decides to battle him again. Jack now successfully beats him as the prophesy stated and uses this portal to travel in the future in the original timeline to free his friends from Aku. He travels back, goes to Aku's tower where the rebellion happens in the last episodes of season 5 and defeats him again, freeing people from Aku. He then says goodbyes to his friends and once again goes back to the past in his alternative happy timeline. The end.

In case you were wondering, XXXII is 32 in Roman Numerals. Also, I would think Jack the samurai meets up with the girl he bumped into when he was but a child only now she's an adult and they get together. That's just me though, and I'm pretty sure the writers forgot about that flashback scene.

In the Samurai Jack comics final issue written way before season 5 it shows an old Jack with a crown. He leads a large army against Aku but the thing is he gives up trying to go back. The moral was supposed to be that you can't change or go back the past but look towards the future.

We wait more than 12 years for it come back and all we get is a handfull of episodes.

I always loved the idea that with Aku gone, Set (The god of Choas) ends up wrecking havok and Jake and Aku must team up to defeat the god

king jack leading everyone against aku was an awesome concept but they earsed all that when jack defeated aku in the past

Right before Aku sent him through time, he was trapped ON the sword. If Jack banishes him to the sword and sheath it, it would be a VERY LONG TIME before a weeb finds the sword and released the Aku. Unless the sheath a solid steel block and thrown to the mariona trench which will keep Aku trapped for a very long time. Haha when he is released, he will be the exact same as GlaDOS in the game Portal 2. He will forever replay the final battle in his mind

If time portals influence one's biology or maybe cover one in some kind of time field shielding a traveler from the influence of time flow, then Ashi should be covered in the same field like Jack.

More logical theory: the writers forgot about continuity & changed the ending

Fact of the matter is is they changed the ending without explanation. That's that.

Nicely done bro

This is my theory. GT got so burnt out with Samurai Jack, that he simply just wanted it to end. GT ended the show as is, and that's the final ending we're getting. The whole guardian thing sounds exciting for Jack fans but GT probably thought that if he were to take that route there would probably be another 5 seasons of samurai jack. He gave up, and wanted to give us his ending. Rushed, and bitter sweet.

I feel Jack going back kinda ruins some things as time and time again he gives it up to help the people of the future rather than the past. Because he does eventually go back he erases all the people he has saved making the sacrifice and strife pointless.

The only way he can be with her is by staying in the future which creates no paradox as his absence already created the future aku brought on by him simply defeating aku and staying in the future he would avoid the problem entirely of her vanishing.

The way I see it is something unexpected happened in the timeline which changed the Guardian's original prophecy of King/Barbarian Jack to never come to pass. What could it be? We don't know, but this change is what leads to what we've seen in season 5. But the story in the comics follows THAT prophecy.

i think that is to complicated even for my head canon. I think a more plosable sinario is that the prophesy was mutable, and as for Jack being ageless but also having that gray streek in his bleard and wrincals, lets chack that up to a prolonged period of stress and malnerishment.

Jack would be able to marry Ashi from the video game ending. Since this is overall canon said by Genddy, its fine, but I truly feel a Samurai's journey would be plagued with tragedy( though I'm sure fans complained about it to begin with).

Great theory! I would love to watch it.

I like it. I think that once he gains enough clout, he would use the time portal to go and capture Aku and keep him alive so he could live out his days with Ashi, knowing that eventually his other timeline self would kill Aku. So the loop ends, and restarts again whenever Aku breaks free.

I love your concept, but I don't see Jack being selfish or stupid enough to resurrect Aku just to resurrect Ashi. Instead, I propose that he feels regret not only for Ashi, but for the alt timeline he abandoned. He never actually killed Aku in the future, only the past. Who's to say that timeline doesn't still exist as its own thing? The gods don't seem to care all that much, so Jack has to be the one to save them once and for all.

I'm curious Has anyone ever read the comic book Ending to Samurai Jack? Because it does show the True/Intentional Ending of Sanurai Jack. And I honestly prefer it on some level compared to the 5th season Ending You should try and find it by looking up Samurai Jack: Jack the Legend To sum it up, Jack gave up on going to the past and focused on the future. What he's done in this timeline and the allies he's gathered, he has an army behind him as he announces that they've finally mapped out/ tracked the Teleportation Pattern and spots of Aku's hideout. So even if Aku runs, it's only a matter of time before Jack and the others put an end to Aku. It ends with Jack and his allies riding over to Aku's liar. Open ended, unlike the animated Ending, but it still sticks with me

After watching and reading other people's take. I'm just gonna do this then... *Breathes in* The portal was for future Jack after the events of the series and before the Battle Through Time (The Secret True Ending's final scene). For some reason years into the future after defeating Aku and Ashii died, Jack at some point decided to go on a Journey. He comes across many challenges and becomes king of a... well... kingdom. I say this because obviously, the crown and cape are not from Japan but then again, it is also obvious that with some gray on his beard, he did somehow age, which we did not see in the 50 years before defeating Aku. He had grown beards before but never with gray. To avoid confusion, let us call this Jack "King Jack", and the one we followed in the series as "Series Jack". Now when the prophecy said: "Only one man has been prophesized to defeat me, and that man is the only man who can use this time passage.", it could mean that YES, it was Jack as shown in the picture, but not Series Jack... at the guardian's words: "Not yet." So it had to be Series Jack, but in the future. Not an alternate version of him. But then there was a scene later where Series Jack returned to this portal and we saw it destroyed, with the guardian's glasses, lying on the ground, broken. Some have said it was Aku who did this but I have another view. What if King Jack defeated the Guardian and entered into the portal BEFORE Series Jack arrived to see the wreckage? Hear me out... I already established earlier that Jack aged when he became King Jack and that it was THIS version of Jack that would defeat the Guardian and use the Time Portal. Let's just say that Jack spent around 1-2 years to reach this point. If we count the 50 years he was thrown into the future, this point in time would have been 51-52 years from Jack's original time. He was 25 when his journey started and when he returned to his own time after 100 years of time passing, he began to age again. If after 52 years (77 year old Jack) and the 100 year mark where Series Jack returned to the portal, King Jack visited it to alter the events of time to somehow save Ashii. Then this would mean that the prophecy still came to pass. Now the problem here is that when Jack defeated Aku, the future was changed. But what if whatever happened to the world, the Guardian and the Time Portal wouldn't have been affected? They would only be affected by the progression of time and exist regardless of the differences in the progression of time. In other words, the space containing the Guardian and the Time Portal is an isolated space. He would always be alive before King Jack defeated him and would die or disappear along with the Time Portal right after. Still with me? Now what would him saving Ashii result in? King Jack's existence would then be erased and will be overwritten by the Secret True Ending's final scene. A sacrifice, that knowing him for 5 seasons and more from the fanbase, would not hesitate to do. So as a fan... I request those fans who can animate or are have connections... Please let us have an animated short where King Jack (77+ years old) fights the Guardian and goes back in time to save Ashii.

I think snubbing Jack was a dick move. It's a rare day I call out Gendy, but I've got to just shake my head at that choice. Jack went through a lot. He absolutely deserves happiness.

Does anyone know how is the music when the guardian speaks after defeating jack, called? I've been searching for a long time without any success (

I think the most likely given his caracter (forgive me if I’m rusty, its literaly the first piece of media I’ve seen of him in like 10 years I think) is that he didnt necesarely jump timelines, but went into the future where she would still be born, and grow up normaly. Even if she grows to be a completely different person (wich for narative purposes ofcourse I’d prefer not too for a happy ever after) I think he’d still find peace in at least having seen his love for one final time, getting some needed closure

I like this theory I'd even add on that the higher beings in his world allowed him to fight the guardian for the chance since he faithfully obeyed them for so long thus allowing him to meet the guardian from the prime timeline

My only nitpics is i think season 5 should of just jumped like 20 years in the future instead of 50 if they wanted to include the jack dosent age thing for some reason was kinda odd to me. But that way it wouldnt be as weird to see all his frineds still alive. Ending wise since they wanted to have the love interest i think I think she should of dissapeared almost immediately after akus death causing a sad emotionally painful moment for jack, and then his return home, though a happy celebration, when allowed to reflect after in solitude would provide the somber bittersweet moment. It just kind of weird she lasted for what seemed like weeks.

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What I like to think is that, because Jack was seen in Aku's future as a unifying force of heroism under the enslaved masses and freedom fighters, all of which who looked up to Jack as a hero if not their de-facto leader (even if Jack did not want that title), Jack adopted that experience when he returned to his own timeline to unify the world. He already traveled the world once in his youth before fighting Aku, then traveled it several times during his 50+ years in the future, he can do it again in the past. I know nothing of Japanese history or culture but even I can tell that the cape and crown he wore was not of Japanese design. My theory is that Jack unified the world in the past when he returned so that, similar to Aku but in a "good" way. Like his father once said after beating Aku the first time, "we must be prepared should this evil ever return", and Jack knew that "we" meant the entire world. Jack not only rules Japan, but he is the ruler of the Earth and his outfit is meant to show that he is more of a universal leader than a ruler of Japan only. The portal was only showing Jack at his peak years where Jack had prepared the world for an ideal future. Maybe he uses the portal when his "quest has come to an end" to do it in another time period, idk. I already know Samurai Jack had a series of sort-of official comics where this old Jack design was a completely different story: Jack could age normally in Aku's future, and he was about to lead a coalition of different freedom fighters that he met throughout the show for a final assault against Aku, with Jack as their de-facto leader. We don't know what the implied ending of the comic series would be after that. That ending is fine, but I feel like it ends too early. I never had an issue with the Season 5 finale and I actually kind of like the bittersweet idea behind it, despite how oddly forced Ashi's timed disappearance was (why not immediately? why conveniently during the wedding?). It leaves a lot of room for interpretation while still showing that Jack has accomplished his overall goal, and learned so much more in the past few days of his life than arguably the past 50 years, and still managing to smile at the end. I feel like the secret ending of Battle Through Time was just an attempt to retcon the series ending for butthurt fans who didn't get the perfectly happy ending where everyone wins. I don't have a problem with it being a what-if scenario, but everyone insisting that's the real ending just cause that's the one they prefer is kinda shitting on what Genndy wanted in the first place. Time travel is an incredibly confusing trope to implement btw, and I don't think Samurai Jack did it correctly but I try to overlook that because then it makes you wonder if Jack's adventure did nothing for anyone in the future since none of them will even exist or be where they are without Aku, so all that really mattered in the end was Jack. It's confusing.

they had this ending bcoz they had to give the finale to legendary Samurai Jack story. seasons were not revised in time and the story they had imagined at the time of original telecast couldn’t be continued to the desired ending in 2 seasons.

It's a fun theory with some backup.. well done

nice theory i believe we could get a guardian backstory one day

My absolute favorite moment out of the entire show.

That is an interesting theory. I like it❤️

I always wonder this too , I was so interested in that scene with older King Jack . The samurai Jack universe has great potential, it can be not always about Aku , there are other threats out there even worse the Aku . I would love for that future to be explored , we need to see what that Jack is all about .

A better ending would've been where Jack eventually meets up with Ashi's ancestor who looks like her and later on they're married. And that's my head canon..

... This theory, can/is technically correct; in fact, all theories involving Samurai Jack are technically Correct. The thing about Time travel in any story is that it's incredibly f*cked from start to finish unless you establish how time travel work's in the story you've written. Such as Manifest Destiny where we have no free will or time becomes mutable in the theory of schrodeinger's cat where time is as it is, both timelines can't exist so you either need to make time work where you do exist or you don't. Rick and Morty explained this better in Season 2, Episode 1; Involve something with time travel or manipulation, then everything is theoretical as you become a living theory of what's to happen next and you either fix it or get boned. Samurai Jack worked for so long because instead of establishing rules for time travel, it uses time travel to start the epic and doesn't bother using it until the end, being a launch point instead of using it in constant, the ability to travel through time to create complex's in the story that would bite the writers in the ass later; where this somewhat comes full circle. The time portal could have been used by an older Jack, the comic book ending of Samurai Jack; which I think would have been a far better ending could have taken place first, Samurai Jack killing Aku in the 'AKU' Timeline as the Regal King and then defeat the guardian of the time portal to either return to his time or beat Aku again. Maybe go back a moment to in the timeline where Jack LOST his sword of some form and the King Jack take's his place at the final moment when Jack and Ashi leaves. Even though Samurai Jack got a perfect ending from both the show AND the game itself 'Battle Through Time;' the ending is left too loose for fans wanting the show to end one way or a different way and in turn it creates theories and theory vid's like this. If there's anything to learn from the theory video; if your going to include time travel in a story, establish rules how time work's, stick to them as if they are a religion and make sure when the story ends; to cut off EVERYTHING, kill the ability to travel through time (like dropping a monster into a volcano where you can witness it's death safety making sure it can't get back up) and to keep a fan or reader to go back and poke holes in it again.

there was an official comic series that has an alternate ending before the final season was floating around. The cover has Jack in the King outfit.

Guardian: state your intention, destination of travel and name: Samurai jack: Gotta get back, back to the past, Samurai Jack.... *unsheathes sword* Samurai Jack: Watch out!!!

Ashi's death wasn't tragic; it was stupid. It made no sense for her to survive Aku's death long enough to start walking down the aisle...

Wow 3 seconds in and he's already making me feel old.

I believe this theory now. It is a great and satisfying theory. Good job.

My only real headache was season 5 was the absence of the guardian they just show up to the time portal and they're his glasses are broken absolutely no indication of who defeated him and when and why just fucking let down but other than that season 5 was fucking awesome

Some have found the Season 5 ending be bittersweet, I found it to be horribly confusing. Given the series implies a linear timeline especially. After all, if you kill Aku in the past AFTER he has already sent past Jack into the future, which means there is no Ashi in the future, then that means there is no Ashi to bring Jack BACK from the future to kill Aku in the past, which creates a self feeding loop of paradoxes. Either there is no linear time and as such Ashi shouldn't have disappeared, or there is linear time and it is impossible for Jack to slay Aku in the past....buuut that is not what the final episode shows which makes it horribly confusing.

The reason why Jack didn’t appear back to the guardian in a foretold way is AKU slayed them after Jack lost his sword. Once AKU knew the one power to stop/repel him was out of the picture he did in fact destroy all time manipulation devices and any force between. Furthermore AKU is the master of all dark arts and is the only being with time magic. He could easily overturn a foretold prophecy. The Jack not aging theory is open for interpretation on viewers understanding. Could be AKU magic, time paradoxes, story writing, or it’s a cartoon and the artists love Jack and not Old Man Jack.

I love how everyone is sad about Ashi, but literally no one gives a shit about the fact that Jack has become a mass murderer that makes Aku look like a hero in comparison. He literally ended the existence of untold up to trillions of possible even more creatures. Everyone we have known and see in the future will now have never existed. It's so baffling that no one ever mentions this.

I have said it before and i will say it again, my bro educated in physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Becamed a professor, created the powerpuff girls and stayed singel as fuck fam!!

The Guardian looks like the kid from episode one. The one hanging out with the kid who calls Jack Jack. Lol

I feel sad whenever I see the ending scene of great cartoon, especially one this sad

Great f work dude

The Game version has Ashi survived and it was wholesome

In your theory, Jack had to have met a spell caster or learned a method to trap Aku i stead of killing him. That way Aku is no longer a threat and Ashi lives

no, the writer explained that he forgot about the prophecy and wanted to make it different. This really is a plot hole.

PLEASE TELL ME THIS SONG IN THE BACKGROUND!

One theory I was gonna do is the 3 missing episodes. You know how each season is 13 episodes but for some reason the last one is 10? I think the 3 episodes could've been used to explain things as who was the Priestess, what happened to the Scotsman (also the others) and what is the future. Also that samurai jack game we got after is just a what-if/good-ending type of scenario.

They gave him a gurren lagann ending man. The first thing I thought of when that scene played was the wedding in the last episode.

3:31 uh well idk if anyone else has mentioned this yet but, jack did return to that portal in season 5 and finds it and the guardian had at some point been destroyed by aku, which im ok with, that was my personal headcannon back to the past, but kind of an easy way out im glad they dedicated an entire season going in a different direction. Also grey streaks? Uh hello since they decided later that jack cant age for some weird reason, whos to say that in that gates prophacy just didnt depict a possible future,,, where jack had just drinken a glass of alien milk or whatever hand had gotten it all over and dripping down his long mustache?

The ending we got was so fucking insulting to me, but not for the reasons you might expect. I could've come to terms with Ashi vanishing from existence after they defeated Aku since that's already what I naturally expected, but then...she didnt. They had her fall over (to psych us out I guess) and then she just goes "I felt him leave me..." which, to the viewer, is only going to make them thing "oh, so only the AKU part of her stopped existing". They then go on to have a montage that takes place over God knows how long, and then out of fucking NOWHERE during their wedding during some indeterminate time later, THEN logic decides to fucking "kick in" and delete her from existence. ALL other media I've ever seen that covers similar concepts got it right, with character's older selves vanishing instantly or just a few seconds after their younger self dies, never once have I ever seen a depiction where they not only does the character live on for a while and then suddenly vanish some time later. Know why? Because most writers are smart enough to know THAT DOESN'T WORK. They deliberately psyched us out and then showed us an entire fucking montage of "oh, I guess everything is alright" only to then go JUST KIDDING LOL

This actually fits the ending we got if you think about it. While he didn't use that exact portal he did use a portal at the time he became a leader who motivated all the people that came to his aid to fight against Aku. While he did have a long beard at around that time he didn't wear a crown, making the crown more of a metaphor than an actual crown. If he travelled back to the moment he left sooner he could have lost to Aku since he wasn't skilled enough to defeat him yet.

Option 2, the writers simply changed their minds about how they wanted the story to end and simply ignored that episode.

one second i watch last season and i remeber portal was destoyed and we saw sunglasess broken of guarian.

my idea is that the portal allowed Jack to go back to when Past jack was about to kill Aku and tell his past to stop and let Aku live and everything else follows with Aku being explained that killing the past kills the future and so events go differantly.

Samurai Jack is like peanut butter with jam. The recipe is simple, but yet very good.

Nope. Samurai Jack is single timeline only. Once Aku is defeated, the timeline with his woman no longer exists. He could not travel back in time to it. Because it simply no longer IS.

I have my own head canon of the events after season 5 and it partly has what was suggested here as a basis for it and more. Also the ending in season 5 was an open ended ending which was to be continued if anyone with creative writing would do so but fans didn’t like that and wanted their own Disney tale type of ending

J'ai apprécié la victoire finale de Jack sur Aku mais la disparition de Ashi m'a mis mal, c'est tellement triste pour Ashi et pour lui, ils méritaient le bonheur. C'est comme si Aku avait remporté une victoire au-delà de la mort. Ça mériteraient tellement un film post saison 5 où Ashi reviens à la vie avec ses souvenirs grâce aux créatures qui l'ont aidé et guidé avec une nouvelle créature qui a ce pouvoir. J'aime tellement le personnage de Ashi

I saw a fan creation where the gods the ones who created the sword they give Ashi back to Jack!

jack actually goes back to this portal in season 5 and he find the portal destroyed and the glasses of the guardian, this implies that aku killed the guardian and destroyed the portal like he does with ALL time portals 50 years before the series, but this was what made jack discover the ashi time portal and finally goes back in time, what means that was the destiny that the portal and guardian must be defeated for jack destroys aku, and also in a comic book with a alternative ending, jack just stay in the future and decide to defeat aku in the future with a aramy of all the people he helps with a revolution war, and create a new kingdom of justice and peace in the future where he was the king by the bless of the people and he becomes like in the vision of the future, then when he defeat aku after a war and stablish the kingdom and a lineage and become king of the future, he finally can defeat the guardian and use the time portal to defeat aku in the past and finally acomplish his mission creating peace in the future and in the past

actually if you look closly in the final season theres a scene with the gaurdians glasses laying on the ground destroyed implying that aku killed him and destroyed the portal

Part of the reason Samurai Jack doesn't age is due to the magical sword. I'm not saying he gets his powers from it, like Thor in the MCU. But, it definitely grants him above human and even above animal abilities. Think to the jump good episode. Here, we have aa race of primates that evolved to jump impossibly high distances. They train him to do so, he out jumps them all. This man can cross blades with robots that can move way faster than humans, can out run bullets and is strong enough to cut through steel. It's not really hinted at, but to the things Jack can, one can't be human. Originally, I theorize that the point of the show having Jack come so close to going back but either failing or giving it up to save someone else was the general narrative. Sometimes, when you lose something, you never get it back. And even if you did, who you have become after losing it would make it awkward or impossible to accept having it again. You lose one thing and end up again 10 times as much. They ruined that when they had him go back. We all knew what would be undone if he did ever go back. I always thought the Spartan episode was truly how it was meant to end.

the ending of samurai jack is straight up a Gurren Lagann reference

I like this theory. It sounds very interesting.

Good theory

cool theory

I love samurai jack literally my childhood

Man, it's already been 5 years since season 5 finished.

Just play the season five video game if you want jacks wife alive. I like how the original ending of season five plays out.

I think the "Not yet", especially since this was before the cancellation, was intended to be an open ended promise to mostly kids and teens watching. The final ending, while bittersweet, still ends on a nice note where Jack comes to terms with losing Ashi, something the audience, now adults, can better relate to. So while the original ending may be what was intended, the actual ending what we have. Ignore the vision in the time portal and really nothing changes or conflicts.

Ah! I forgot about that portal.

There are few problems with this theory: I don't think Jack would return to a time where Aku exists, he simply wouldn't risk Aku escaping. Also just because he can use the portal when he is older, doesn't mean he is aware of that fact, nor he would want to fight the guardian again, and even if he returns, what would he do? Kill other Jack and replace him? He would just return to past as an old man and it doesn't guarantee saving Ashi. Also that guardian must have appeared after Aku became a ruler. Its not normal for a green skinned person to exist without Aku.