Editing Jack

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{{For|the character in ''Minerva's Den''|Jack McClendon}}
{{Charinfobox
|name=Jack
|image=Jack222.png
|birthplace=[[Rapture]]
|family={{sp|width=100%||[[Andrew Ryan]]<br>(father; deceased)<br>[[Jasmine Jolene]]<br>(mother; deceased)<br>Пëтр Ряновский<br>(paternal grandfather){{Novelsource|icon}}<br>Дмитрий Ряновский<br>(paternal great-uncle; deceased){{Novelsource|icon}}<br>Васи́лиса Раяновская<br>(paternal great-aunt; deceased){{Novelsource|icon}}<br>unnamed maternal grandmother<br>[[Sally]]<br>(adoptive daughter)<br>At least four unnamed adoptive daughters<br>(formerly [[Little Sisters]])}}
|birth=c. 1956
|affiliation=[[Frank Fontaine]] (formerly)<br>[[Brigid Tenenbaum]]
|gender=Male
|hair=Brown<ref name="Passport">[[:File:Passport diffuse.png|Jack's unseen passport in ''BioShock'']]</ref> <br>(''[[BioShock]]'')<br/> Light Brown<ref name="BAS face model">[[:File:Jack 2.jpg|Jack's unseen face model in ''Burial at Sea'']]</ref><br/> (''[[Burial at Sea - Episode 2]]'')
|eyes=Brown<ref name="Passport" /><br>(''[[BioShock]]'')<br/>Green<ref name="BAS face model" /><br/> (''[[Burial at Sea - Episode 2]]'')
|game=''[[BioShock]]''<br/>''[[BioShock: Rapture (Novel)|BioShock: Rapture]]''<br/>''[[Burial at Sea - Episode 2]]''<br/>
|actor=Nate Wells<br>(English)<ref>[http://www.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/b/322438377 BioShock with designer JP LeBreton Part 1] video playthrough hosted by [http://www.idlethumbs.net/ Idle Thumbs]</ref><br>
Adam Sietz (various takes/English)<ref>[[Talk:Jack#Voice Actor|Confirmation]] from Adam Sietz and vocal samples</ref><br>
[[Wikipedia:de: Oliver Mink|OliverMink]]<br>(German)<br>
Juan Carlos Lozano<br>(Spanish)<br>
[[Wikipedia: Hiroshi Shirokuma|Hiroshi Shirokuma]]<br>(Japanese)<br>
Dmitry Polonsky<br>(Russian)<br>
|aliases = Ace In The Hole<br>Jack Wynand<ref name="Passport" /><br>Little Moth<ref>Said by Sander Cohen through numerous [[Radio Messages: Fort Frolic|radio messages]] in Fort Frolic during ''BioShock''.</ref>
|height = 6' 2" (1.88 m)<ref name="Passport" />
}}
[[File:Jack Ryan Portrait.png|border|left|100px]]
{{Quote|When Mum and Dad put me on that plane to visit my cousins in England, they told me, 'Son, you're special, you were born to do great things.' You know what? They were right.|Jack|BioShock}}

'''Jack''' is the protagonist of ''[[BioShock]]''. He is a young man who, prior to his unwilling arrival in [[Rapture]], was a passenger on an [[Apollo Air Flight DF-0301|airplane]] that crashed near the [[The Lighthouse|lighthouse]] that provided entry to the underwater city. During his journey through Rapture, Jack comes across a number of gene-altering substances, known as [[Plasmid]]s, that he uses to empower and protect himself. According to the passport he used to board the plane, his full name is Jack Wynand and he is twenty-four years old.
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==History==
[[File:Baby Jack.JPG|thumb|250px|''Jack as a baby, accompanied by Tenenbaum on the left and Suchong on the right, as seen in his flashback during Andrew Ryan's monologue.'']]
Jack is the illegitimate son of [[Andrew Ryan]] and [[Jasmine Jolene]], Ryan's lover. While pregnant, Jolene suffered some financial difficulties and decided to sell Jack, as an embryo, to [[Brigid Tenenbaum|Dr. Brigid Tenenbaum]] on behalf of [[Frank Fontaine]], without consulting Ryan.<ref>Jasmine Jolene's Audio Diary: [[Pregnancy]]</ref><ref>Andrew Ryan's Audio Diary: [[Betrayal]]</ref> Jack was to be Fontaine's back-up plan if he was ever forced into an unfavorable situation by Ryan, which happened during [[Rapture Civil War|Rapture's Civil War]].<ref>[[Radio Messages: Olympus Heights - Apollo Square#2. Tenenbaum - Angry at Fontaine|Radio Message]] from Brigid Tenenbaum in Olympus Heights during ''BioShock'': "''You are angry at Fontaine, yes? Now you know the truth. You are his tool, brought back to Rapture to save him.''"</ref><ref>Frank Fontaine's Audio Diary: [[Falling Into Place]]</ref>

Jack was "born" and "grown" by the scientists of [[Fontaine Futuristics (Business)|Fontaine Futuristics]], including [[Yi Suchong|Dr. Yi Suchong]] and Brigid Tenenbaum. According to Audio Diaries by Dr. Yi Suchong, who was responsible for Jack's development, Jack, by the age of one, weighed fifty-eight pounds and had the "gross musculature of a fit nineteen-year-old", thanks to [[Lot 111]].<ref>Yi Suchong's Audio Diary: [[Baby Status]]</ref> Dr. Suchong also reveals in another Audio Diary that he was responsible for the mind control imprinting that Frank Fontaine requested.<ref>Yi Suchong's Audio Diary: [[Mind Control Test]]</ref>

Jack's similar genetic structure to Andrew Ryan meant that he would be able to use the city's [[bathysphere]]s that were in lockdown,<ref>Sullivan's Audio Diary: [[Bathysphere Keys]]</ref> be resurrected at [[Vita-Chamber]]s,<ref>Yi Suchong's Audio Diary: [[The Vita Chamber]]</ref> and the [[Security Devices|automated security]] of Rapture would not be as effective against him.<ref>Frank Fontaine's Radio Message: [[Radio Messages: Olympus Heights - Apollo Square#15. Frank Fontaine - Ryan's flesh and blood|Ryan's flesh and blood]]</ref>

Sometime in 1958, before Fontaine faked his own death in a shoot out with [[Sullivan|Chief of Security Sullivan's]] forces, Jack was smuggled out of Rapture in a bathysphere and sent to the surface as a sleeper agent, living out his pre-programmed life as Jack Wynand where he had memories of being born in 1936  and living on a farm in Overlook, Kansas with his "parents". Jack boarded a [[Apollo Air Flight DF-0301|plane]] in 1960 supposedly visiting his cousins in England. However Frank Fontaine "activated" him using the trigger phrase "[[Would You Kindly]]", when the plane passed near Rapture's location in the North Atlantic, Jack hijacked it using a gun that was smuggled onto the plane in the form of a present gifted from home, forcing it to crash land at the coordinates of the Lighthouse, the main entrance to Rapture.

==''BioShock''==
[[File:Jack Surveillance.png|thumb|250px|''Surveillance pictures of Jack in Rapture.'']]
{{Main|Rapture Storyline}}
During the events of ''BioShock'' Jack arrives in Rapture in a Bathysphere taken from the lighthouse on the surface. In the beginning, he explores the different areas of Rapture under the guidance of [[Atlas]], who speaks to him through a short wave radio. Jack's main objective, at first, is to find a functional bathysphere that will return him to the surface. Atlas promises to help him if in return Jack will save his trapped family in [[Neptune's Bounty]]. This proves to be more difficult than it seemed at first, as Andrew Ryan notices the intrusion and cuts off access to Neptune, keeping close tabs on Jack and setting [[Security Devices]] and [[Splicer]]s on him from then on. Jack is forced to detour through [[Medical Pavilion]], encountering the deranged cosmetic surgeon [[J.S. Steinman]]. After killing him, Jack meets Brigid Tenenbaum for the first time. She implores him not to hurt the [[Little Sister]]s, and gives Jack a way to rescue them, although Atlas advises against it, as he believes that they are monstrosities that have a higher reward when harvested (it becomes the player's choice to save or harvest them).

When Jack finally reaches Neptune's Bounty he makes his way to the [[Smuggler's Hideout]] where Atlas's family are allegedly trapped in a submarine. Jack is supposed to meet Atlas there, but when he enters the control booth to open the submarine, Andrew Ryan makes his move, sending a wave of Splicers that force Atlas to flee and destroying the sub, apparently killing Atlas' wife and son. Jack escapes through a tunnel to [[Arcadia]], and Atlas informs him that their new objective is to put an end to Andrew Ryan.

[[File:Would You Kindly.png|thumb|left|250px|''The "Would You Kindly" board, with Jack's picture under Andrew Ryan and Jasmine Jolene's, who were his parents.'']] 
Jack makes his way through Arcadia, the [[Farmer's Market]], and [[Fort Frolic]], facing numerous obstacles. In Fort Frolic, Jack makes the discovery that Jasmine Jolene was Ryan's murdered lover, although he does not realize the significance of this at first. While trapped at Fort Frolic, Jack is forced to work for [[Sander Cohen]] and assassinate his former disciples for one of Cohen's deranged works of "art".

Eventually, Jack reaches [[Hephaestus]], where Atlas asks him, "''Now, would you kindly head to [[Office of Andrew Ryan|Ryan's office]] and kill the son of a bitch? It's time to finish this.''" Ryan had set up strong defenses, but Jack eventually breaches them and enters [[Rapture Central Control]] only to find that Ryan has set the entire complex into self destruct, which will also destroy the city. Jack enters Ryan's office and sees the "Would You Kindly" board upon which Ryan has connected all the evidence about Jack's true past. Jack finally encounters Ryan for the first and last time in a scene during which Ryan proves that Jack has been a slave under the control of Atlas the entire time, saying "[[A man chooses, a slave obeys]]". Ryan forces Jack to kill him, and he takes his [[Genetic Key]] to shut down the self-destruct mechanism. Finally, Atlas reveals his true identity as Frank Fontaine and thanks Jack for handing the keys to Rapture to him, before betraying him, trying to kill Jack with the city's security devices, but Jack is led to an escape route by Tenenbaum's Little Sisters. Jack enters a vent only to have it collapse under him and is knocked unconscious.

Jack wakes up in [[Tenenbaum's Sanctuary]], where she informs him that while he slept she removed most of the mental conditioning that Dr. Suchong put in his mind. Jack is no longer vulnerable to the "Would You Kindly" command, but Fontaine reluctantly proves that he still has control over Jack when he leaves the sanctuary by activating the phrase "[[Code Yellow]]". This causes Jack's heart to begin the slow process of shutting down (though it will not kill him, but it will lower his health bar to a certain degree). With the help of Tenenbaum, Jack finds the cure for the conditioning, a chemical produced by Dr. Suchong called [[Lot 192]]. Finally, Jack completely frees himself from Fontaine's mind control. Once he is free, Tenenbaum urges him to go after Fontaine and take his revenge, Fontaine obliges by challenging Jack to a showdown.

However, in order to pursue Fontaine, Jack is forced to "become" a [[Big Daddy]] to trick a Little Sister into thinking he is one of their protectors. However, this transformation is not complete, as he does not have the suit grafted onto him (he never wears the gloves, either), nor is his mind altered in the process. The only physical change he undertakes is the automated vocal cord surgery, which Frank Fontaine (truthfully or not) warns over the radio is irreversible in an attempt to stop him. Afterward, Jack confronts a heavily spliced Fontaine in a final battle, and after defeating Fontaine the cut scene starts. Jack is knocked to the ground by Fontaine. When Fontaine is about to attack Jack, a group of Little Sisters pounce on Fontaine with the hypodermic syringes they use to extract [[ADAM]] out of corpses, killing Fontaine.

Depending on the player's actions throughout the game, Jack will either become the new, power-hungry ruler of Rapture and leader of the [[Splicer]]s, or he escapes to the surface with at least five Little Sisters, raising them as his own daughters until dying of old age, with the now adult women comforting him at his deathbed. This ending is considered to be canon in Burial at Sea: Episode 2.

==''BioShock 2''==
[[File:Bio2 Siren Alley Pumping Station 5 Jack Paintings.png|thumb|250px|''A painting of Jack who is believed to be a sort of messiah to [[the Rapture Family]].'']]
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In ''BioShock 2'', Jack has seemingly become a man of legend among the Splicers left in Rapture. Even [[Sofia Lamb]] looks upon him positively, seeing his lack of free will as a boon and inspiration for her to begin her Utopian Experiments. [[Simon Wales]] believes Jack to be a god, mentioning how he killed Andrew Ryan. In [[Siren Alley]], paintings of Jack's activities in Rapture can be seen, with subjects such as the plane crash, Dr. Steinman, and Jack's wrist about to be injected with a Plasmid. In one of Frank Fontaine's Audio Diaries, set directly before the beginning of ''BioShock'', he mentions "''I've got a hell of a surprise for Andrew Ryan. Long time comin'. And right about now, I expect the prodigal son is bookin' his flight…''"

Several Splicers can be heard mentioning Jack. In the [[Atlantic Express (Level)|Atlantic Express]] workshop, three Splicers have a conversation around a burning barrel as [[Subject Delta]] approaches. One of them speculates that Jack is "''highballin with all the can-can girls''" on the surface and in possession of the nuclear warhead seen on the submarine in the "Sad" and "Bad" endings, which he will use to destroy the city if anyone "''gets lippy''". Another states that he saved the Little Sisters and went up "''happy ever after.''" This is a reference to the first game's two possible endings.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFLYL6ESSFE "''BioShock 2'' Easter Egg Jack Reference"], ''BioShock 2'' gameplay video on YouTube</ref> [[Brute]] Splicers can also be heard referencing Jack; when idle, they mention their refusal to have children out of fear that they will suffer the same fate as Andrew Ryan. As in the first game, Jack's name is never mentioned in dialogue.

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==''Burial at Sea - Episode 2''==
{{Main|Burial at Sea - Episode 2}} 

{{Quote|I can see all the doors, and what's behind all the doors. And behind one of them - incredibly - I see him.|Elizabeth|Burial at Sea - Episode 2}}

[[Elizabeth]] returned to Rapture, despite losing her powers after she was killed by a Big Daddy. Her motives were forgotten, aside from settling her guilt after leaving [[Sally]] behind. It was then made clear that she came back to Rapture based off of her memory from what she saw in the future in the [[Sea of Doors]]. While in Rapture, before the fall, she had visions of Jack's journey to Rapture - and was unaware of this future or for whom it was for. Elizabeth returns to Rapture to rescue Sally, now a Little Sister, and in the clutches of Atlas and his men. Because of her memory of the future, she vaguely remembers the path and claims that she is Suchong's lab assistant and can get Atlas and his men out of the sunken [[Fontaine's Department Store (Business)|department store]] and back into Rapture - in exchange for Sally. She holds her end of the bargain and returns Atlas to Rapture, but is captured by his men.

Atlas claims that Dr. Suchong had been working for him and would help him achieve his goals through an "ace in the hole". However, Atlas has yet to receive the information on his ace and since Atlas believes that Elizabeth is Suchong's lab assistant, he believes he can get the information out of her through torture. Through mental recognition of the future, Elizabeth reveals that the ace is in [[Dr. Suchong's Free Clinic]] in [[Artemis Suites]]. Elizabeth arrives in Suchong's clinic and comes across the room in which Jack was raised and conditioned to find what is referred to as the "ace in the hole". Suchong was [[Mind Control Test|successful]] in the conditioning of the ace. Elizabeth then witnesses the death of Dr. Suchong by a Big Daddy and retrieves the information on an ace - another encoded message by Suchong, and photos relating to Jack's "family" and location on the "farm."

Elizabeth delivers the information to Atlas in exchange for Sally, but realizes that he will just kill her anyway and accepts this fate. After being struck by Atlas, Elizabeth finds herself in the bathroom of the [[Apollo Air Flight DF-0301]] and walks down the aisle as she approaches Jack just as he receives his orders, opens the package, and hijacks the plane. Atlas cannot read the encoded message, but as Elizabeth reads the message given to Jack in the future, and the encoded message in Suchong's letter, she reveals it says, "Would you Kindly". Atlas then prepares the orders to get Jack on the airplane and initiate his plan to take Rapture. Atlas then strikes a last, fatal blow before Elizabeth witnesses the events to come by Jack: hijacking and crashing the plane, arriving in Rapture, rescuing Sally and the other Little Sisters, and taking down Ryan and Fontaine.

As Elizabeth dies, she remembers what she saw behind the doors one last time—and witnesses Jack at the Lighthouse ascending from Rapture with Sally and other cured Little Sisters after the events to come.

==Videos==
{{Videogallery
|video1=File:Bioshock Gameplay Andrew Ryan &amp; Atlas speech
|caption1=''Jack's Iconic Confrontation.''
|video2=File:Bioshock - JACK IN 3RD PERSON!!
|caption2=''Jack in Third Person.''
|video3=File:Bioshock 2 Easter Egg Jack Reference
|caption3=''Jack's Reference.''
|video4=File:Bioshock 2 Easter Egg Jacks Plane
|caption4=''Jack's Plane Reference.''
}}

==Gallery==
===Models===
<gallery widths="194">
Jack security.png|''Security Photo of Jack at the [[Kashmir Restaurant]].''
Security Jack 1.jpg|''Security photo of Jack at the Medical Pavilion.''
Jack's Home Photo.jpg|''A photo of Jack's "farm home."''
Lab Photo.png|''A photo of Jack's actual home, the lab he was created in.''
Jack Wallet.jpg|''Jack's wallet from the plane.''
Jack Passport.jpg|''Jack's passport (never used in-game).''
Jack's Hands Prototype.jpg|''Prototype for Jack's hands.''
Jack Hands.jpg|''Jack's hands.''
BioShock-R-hands-normal.jpg|''Render of Jack's hands from'' BioShock: The Collection. ''By Scott Army.''
BioShock-R-hands-enrage.jpg|''Render using Enrage.''
BioShock-R-hands-beez.jpg|''Render using Insect Swarm.''
Jack 1.jpg|''A better look at Jack's model.''
Jack 2.jpg|''A closer look at Jack's face.''
PlaneGiftTag Diff.png|''The note given to Jack as seen in'' Burial at Sea - Episode 2.
</gallery>
===In-Game Images===
<gallery widths="194">
CognitiveConversion.png|''A blackboard out lining Jack's mental conditioning.''
jackhijack.PNG|"''To Jack. Would you kindly not open until…''"
jackrescue.PNG|''Jack waits at the lighthouse for the arrival of rescued Little Sisters.''
</gallery>

==Behind the Scenes==
*For some technical reasons, the sentence spoken by Jack during the game's introduction is in fact not played entirely, but can be found complete in the audio file <code>vo_s_1_pl_playerintro</code>. Oddly, all versions of ''BioShock'' dubbed in other languages (French, Italian, German and Spanish) play the translation of the whole sentence at the beginning of the game. [[File:Bioshock first line.ogg|Uncut variant of Jack's first line.]]
*In the ''BioShock'' game files for the first level, there is a passport for Jack that never appeared in the game. It states his (fake) name as "Jack Wynand" and other erroneous information.<ref name="Passport" /> The surname "Wynand" may have been a reference to Gail Wynand, a main character in Ayn Rand's 1943 novel ''The Fountainhead''.
[[File:Jack's Family Photo.png‎|thumb|125px|''Jack's "family" photo.'']]
*Jack's passport shows that he was born on September 1st, 1936.
*Jack's wallet shows an [[Irrational Games]] business card in one of the pockets. The person standing between the older man and woman in the family photo at the top of the wallet is the Lead Designer at Irrational Games, Bill Gardner.<ref>[http://www.rapturearchives.com/img/library/dossiers/fullsize/Jack_Wallet.jpg Image of Jack's wallet] at [http://www.rapturearchives.com/index.php The Rapture Archives]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100830014300/http://irrationalgames.com:80/community/forums/irrational-general-discussion/a-small-picture-showing-you-irrational-actually-never-died Post by Joe Faulstick] on the "A small picture showing you Irrational actually never "died" :)" thread in the [http://irrationalgames.com/community/forums/ Irrational Games Forums] (Archived)</ref> And according to a Tweet by Amanda Gardner (Bill Gardner's wife) <ref>[https://twitter.com/amandasgardner/status/1327225151067308032 Amanda Gardner's Twitter]</ref>, Bill Gardner was used as the basis for Jack's appearance.
*The original game had Jack mutate more and more with Plasmid use, and would make players decide if they wanted to splice themselves to the point of inhumanity, or keep Jack human, at the cost of safety.{{Fact}}
*During the ending cutscenes of ''BioShock'', Jack's chain tattoos are about half as large as they are in-game.
*Jack, or the playable character in this case, was originally called Joe in the first developer demo which was narrated by [[Ken Levine]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzoVzKRRBg BioShock Tech Demo *HD*] On YouTube</ref>
*The player uses Jack's model in the ''[[Challenge Rooms]]'', but the downloadable content is not considered part of the canon, so this is just used as a placeholder.
*In ''[[BioShock 2D (Mobile Game)|BioShock 2D]]'', it seems that Jack's hair color is dark brown/black and he wears a beige vest over his sweater, similar to his outfit from the ''BioShock'' trailers.<ref>[[:File:Howniceofthem.JPG|Jack in the mobile game]]</ref>
*Until ''Burial at Sea'', Jack never had a true character model, and what images there were of him were brief or unclear. Even in-game during ''Burial at Sea'', Elizabeth never gets a clear look at Jack (he either has his back turned on her or his face silhouetted), just his attire (a sweater, jeans and spectator shoes). However, he has a full model in <em>Burial at Sea</em>'s game files, showing his complete appearance.
*During Jack's flashback in ''BioShock'', the player can see the firearm in the gift is similar to the revolver from the first game, but in ''Burial at Sea - Episode 2'', the gun Jack is holding is a [[Hand Cannon]].
*According to Ken Levine, Jack's sweater was inspired by a member of <em>BioShock</em>'s design team, Dorian Hart, who used to wear one.<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheJohnRT/status/555151908995084289/photo/1 Post by Ken Levine on Twitter.]</ref>
*When Elizabeth walks down the aisle of the  [[Apollo Air Flight DF-0301]] in ''Burial at Sea - Episode 2'', Jack is shown holding his cigarette in his right hand, while in the first ''BioShock'', he is holding it in his left.

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