The Jack-Utonium Theory

I wrote this on the old Tumblr a couple of years before Adult Swim announced a revival of Samurai Jack that concluded the series. It's a theory I had that connects that series to The Powerpuff Girls. It's a little silly, but it works, I guess. -jh

 Here’s a theory that connects both shows that NOBODY even considers.

Powerpuff Girls is the timeline that is, and Samurai Jack is the timeline that could have been.

The warrior the world calls Jack was honed to be the world’s defender, the savior of the evil that is Aku. And before he gave the ultimate evil his final end, Aku flung him to a timeline where he ruled over all life. The warrior’s task is to find a way to go back in time and undo Aku’s reign and bring peace to the world. 

Anybody who has seen Samurai Jack knows the premise. 

Now, here’s the rest of the story. 

Over time, Jack fought and fought his way through whatever Aku throws at him and succeeding, and he finally finds a way to get back to his past and confront Aku in his own time.

And he is victorious. This evil is vanquished, and the world knows peace.

Jack gets his victory and lives a great life. His legend is told through his ancestors over generations.

The latest in that generation is Professor Utonium. Now, even though he initially was attempting to create life through alchemy, he subconsciously knew he had to creator protectors of this world to continue the legacy of his ancestor, the “samurai Jack." 

Crime was on the rise, and he was determined to do something about it. A newer, more sinister evil was preparing to take on an unsuspecting world, and was guiding every chaotic action in the works, including Utonium’s pet monkey Jojo interrupting the experiment by introducing the volatile "Chemical X” to the formula.

There are no accidents.  Everything happens for a reason. There was no reason for the “Chemical X” to be above the mixing bowl unless he was going to add at least a drop or two in it. 

Thus, the Powerpuff Girls were born.

They are the antithesis to the samurai Jack. Chaotic compared to his calmness. Disorderly compared to his methodical order. And yet they have the same mission of saving the world from various villains and creatures as well as confront the evil that is… well, he’s so evil, even his name sparks dangerous, harmful thoughts that it’s never uttered by anybody, so he’s only referred to as… Him. 

“Him” is the only being on par with Aku power-wise, and since there’s no Aku, he’s the ultimate evil now.

Think Back to the Future Part Two or X-Men: Days of Future Past for what I’m getting at with alternate timelines. 

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