I got to meet handsome jacks voice actor at a convention once, I wasn't allowed in but snuck in, and he called me put for it, but let me stay, it was great

"Everybody thinks they're the heroes of their own stories" -Handsome Jack

One thing I loved about Handsome Jack was the fact that after you kill Angel, I really could not tell if he was just pissed you killed his daughter, or pissed because you robbed him of his key to the Warrior and this was him just coping to make you the bad guy in his mind.

Handsome Jack has my favorite line in any game ever. It's when you've infiltrated his city and are destroying his statues, there's a moment of silence, then a deadpan, "You are such an asshole." No grandeur, but no subtlety either. Just his blunt, honest opinion of the player character. It's refreshing in a way.

You really start to feel bad for Jack after playing through the pre-sequel because he was played like a fiddle, and thrown to the side once he was no longer needed, it makes his final words in borderlands 2 all the more impactful, he really was a good guy, but even good people have their limits Edit: to yall who disagree with me, that's fine, have ur own opinion, just be nice with how you phrase it

They betrayed me because they didn’t have the balls to do what it takes to save the innocent. That’s why….I wanted to rid Pandora of those Backstabbing bandits….

The epitome of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain”

Handsome jack is charismatic af

Finally someone mentions borderlands after all these years 🙌. One of the best games with one of the best villains

I love Handsome Jack as much as the next guy. Really. I love Borderlands 2. It’s my favorite game of all time. But honestly, this video just comes off as “Handsome Jack is the most realistic video game villain of all time because he has a backstory”

"Jack's story is the most realistic..." Immediately starts talking about ancient alien civilizations.

The most realistic villain in borderlands is that guy who tripped down the stairs and died

"The most realistic story for a villain" "Ok, so in an alien planet full of aliens..."

Had to make the two face reference

"You are bandits and I am the godd@m hero!"

Good to know. One of my friends kept mentioning that this character was super hot but had no idea who it was.

Jack isn’t a good person. But he’s not pure evil, either. He absolutely does things that cannot be justified, even with the context of his entire backstory, such as how he makes his daughter feel like her mother’s death was her fault, which, while it was, he shouldn’t have kept reminding her of it. And he lured new vault hunters to pandora just to kill them, when his stated goal was cleaning up Pandora, yet doing this clearly suggests that he really just wants to exterminate all “bandits”, and if anyone responds to his trap, he plans to have them executed, even though there’s a possibility that one of those supposed bandits just really needed money, and didn’t intend to kill anyone to get it. Jack does seem to genuinely want to fix Pandora, but everything he did in pursuit of that goal only hurt people more. Perhaps he could have been a hero, if the vault hunters had pointed out his unheroic characteristics to him, rather than choosing to betray him, and permanently scar his face. But that’s a big maybe. At the end of the day, Jack is a mass murderer, with as much charisma as he has blood on his hands. He believes himself to be the hero, but this leans more towards delusion, than justifiable idea. He’s a complex character.

If " You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" was personafied

"The most realistic villain in gaming" *Owns an multi billion dollar company that heals the vault hunters that he's trying to kill and wondering how they still alive*

Handsome jack is hand down my favorite villain in any media, hes funny, hes 3 dimensional, he feels real and thats what makes him lovable but also scary.

Dutch Van Der Linde: “And I took that personal.”

"handsome jack is the most realistic villian" "he starts on a planet with aliens"

He is the most realistic because he is talking to you via radio throughout the game 🗿

'You Are The Bandit, and I AM THE GODAMN HERO!' - Handsome Jack.

As a AI Version of Handsome Jack said everyone's a hero of Their Own Story

Poor Jack.

"I will pay you to kill yourself" -Handsome Jack- 😂 still one of my favorites lines

Jack is not a villain. He is the GODDAMN HERO!

Even without all the betrayal, Jack was on his way to become Handsome. He already locked Angel away and has recruited the Vaulters to plunder Elpy‘s vault

He is one the most memorable villians in the gaming history just by the fact that he is with you and you slowly see how he is and how his mind is corruptos to root just because he once tried the Hero role but he lived enough to become the villians of his own story

Jacks character is one of the best written villains to this day

Jack is a good villain. No, a great villain. Realistic though?? That's one hell of a reality you live in man.

So to create an realistic villain backstory. (Or relatable one) Give them something we all can relate to, like trying to help others, etc. but twist it so much that they basically become insane, and kill people you know.

Dutch: Am i a joke to you? Son?

Just because a character is well fleshed out doesn't make them realistic it just makes them a good character.

The fact that some people see Jack as an anti-hero rather than a villain is a cold reminder that even the most ruthless dictators in history have people that say, "He/She wasn't that bad."

Jack is one of the most sympathetic villians out there. He was betrayed by everyone he ever trusted in the presequel he genuinely wanted to be a hero and a good person but lilith and the others tried to kill him just because of one drastic move he made by killing his entire science team to eliminate a chance of a spy. I wouldnt have agreed with buy i would have understood why he did it. Presequel does a good job at making you feel sorry for jack and want to help him get revenge on lilith and the others

Well, if isn't saucy jack

Senator Armstrong: appears in the very last section of the game, yet leaving the most memorable moments. And memes too.

Handsome jacks name speaks for itself.. He is handsome.

A kind reminder that in Pre-Sequel he, while not as unhinged as later on, already had someone hired to take plastic surgery to be his body double, because he already was high enough in the corporate ladder of Hyperion where he would need someone able to take a bullet for him. So even before everything, he's already a slimy manager of an evil.space supercorporation, who also has a magic daughter locked up in his home "for her own good", and he's putting his faith and future into digging up alien tech. Pretty realistic I'd say, we all know a guy like that.

I'm still glad my kid self bought BL2 a couple days after release when I had the chance, because I never seen nor played a BL game. Jack is what got me captivated and other stuff also

"You're the only one running pal, I can fly!"

My brother told me when Handsome Jack taken over. Actually meant the Jack we know died spiritually as Handsome Jack was born during BLPS

Narrator: Handsome Jack is the most realistic villain... Also narrator: An ancient alien species has placed vaults with futuristic technology in a planet busting creature!

“Most realistic Villain in gaming history” *Starts on an alien planet*

jack isnt even a bad guy. he really did want the best for everyone.

"He is most realistic because he resembles fictional character" Some people should leave their rooms more often

Jack is thee best villain in any BL universe.

"Unlike most villains, Jack stays with the player throughout the game through the radio." Pagan Min and Atlas: I'll just go f myself then.

"Handsome Jack is the most realistic villain in gaming" *proceeds to talk about a different planet and alien races*

"Handsome Jack is the most *realistic* villan because he lives on an alien planet and talks to you alot" 💀

Look I'm not I'm dead I always come back

After seeing Lilith in this and after beating borderlands 3, I shouted in my head NOT LILITH

He is by far my #1 most hated villain ever

Loool already sounds realistic being his story starts on another planet

This is probably one of the main reasons why I love borderlands 2 so much. :3

His story is super sad and really made me cry man cause as a male and had gone through what he's gone, I'd might have done the same thing

Fun fact, his french voice actor is the same that play Eric Cartman

This man saw his own death in a vission and still decided it was worth it, genuine hero.

Yep totally realistic especially the first 30 seconds 🤣

He’s a good villain, the “most realistic” lmao gtfo Edit: I thought it was a joke with the first 15 seconds

He's a great villain because like you mentioned. He was made to be a villain, he truly wanted to help people and it just repeatedly blew up in his face

Boy that’s not a convincing argument for most convincing video game villain EVER.

Borderlands is op

"Handsome jack is the most realistic video game villain" Dutch van der land is better in my opinion All of the things that you said to prove he's the most realistic villain Dutch has tenfold He's in the camp he's with you in the missions and in the end he betrays you You might say that he isn't a villain but he is Arthur say's he became more of who he was Or the trolly station or Tahiti and hosea's death and micha controlling him But micha couldn't control him if he was better You the player Know so much about him And instead of Arthur being betrayed you are You feel betrayed that the man you did all this for will throw it And even after the gang went they're separate ways he managed to damn them all If he didn't stop Arthur at the cliff Micha would be dead and if he was Dead They wouldn't found john who killed all the gang members and killed dutch but caused John's death He's one of the best villains and i think he's a better villain in my opinion Excuse me for the Grammer English isn't my native language

You skipped over the most important reason, He believes hes the hero

Handsome Jack voice actor (Dameon Clarke) is such a great guy, I recently met him in May 11 at San Antonio TX at a convention called The Nostalgia con where I got to talk to him and got his autograph (:

He isn’t, take a break from Reddit.

Idk about realistic, but he is very very layered. There’s definitely a level of sympathy for Jack because there’s tons of evidence of him being pretty decent upon arriving on pandora, this is especially apparent in borderlands 3 with that small side quest that takes place in Jacks and Tannis’ old home together. We see him in a completely different light and see one of the many moments that broke his psyche.

And one thing that I like about handsome jack over most villans is that, he showed the perfect balance between insanity and knowledge. Yes he was pushed over the brink and lose his sanity but kept his prior knowledge and used it for his own benefit instead of being a generic maniac

Him eating the pretzels is the reason he’s the most realistic pretzels, because he acknowledges they suck

Just because hes a greate villian doesnt mean hes "realistic" stop using that as a desriptor of fiction. Its inacurate in most cases.

Handsome Jack is an amazing villain, but, I disagree with him being the realistic villain. Vaas definitely beats him in that regard.

Helga Steele and the Calypso Twins have nothing on Handsome Jack, the one true King of Pandora!

Jack and vaas are my favorites

"-the amount of time the game takes to flush out his character." Gotta love these captions

Nobody can convince me That Dutch van der linde and Micah bell aren’t the best written video game villains

He is the "most realistic"character ever. Starting on the planet Pandora 😂

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain

Bowser is still the most realistic (that I know of) I think. We don’t get as much screentime per game with him like with Jack, but everything just fits together very well. William Afton in FNAF is the same, but tbh most his lore is pieced thanks to the books.

People keep saying that jack wasn't like this before his betrayals but moxie literally said he burnt down an orphanage while they where dating, before the events of the pre-sequel

"Was a hero until he was betrayed over and over again" Sounds like me lmao

"Jack is very realistic" 2 seconds later: "Jack was born on an alien planet"

He’s the personification of you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

The fact handsome jack is a vault hunter but since he’s partnered with a corporation he’s instantly seen as evil, aside from him being thrust at players as “the big bad evil guy”

Dutch from red dead redemption is a pretty realistic villain in my opinion

Making a hero turned "villain" character, I'm taking notes

Jack: let's make Pandora great again

I was thinking Two-Face too. Afterall, "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".

He's not a villain he's a super villain and he has that taste we all feel at times

Handsome Jack is a Gintama tier villain Heartfelt story, makes you laugh, actually very dangerous.

The saddest thing is Jack's trip to insanity could of been avoided had the Lost Legion not intervene with changing the future.

Ancient aliens and futuristic technology in vaults sounds like assassins creed to me

In borderlands 2 I felt like he was the actual hero and we were the bad guys who killed his kid destroyed his assets to make pandora a better place and overall caused chaos

Most realistic villain…. Instantly talks about him being on another planet

Best villain in the story of gaming, pretty hard to top him.

If handsome Jack succeeded he would still fail because the twins would show up and leech The warrior

Vault hunters are closer to villains than Jack, even after becoming handsome.

Yup cause every real life villain lives on another planet with aliens