Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer is one of the main characters from the Xiolin Showdown series.

Jack is a self-proclaimed "Evil Boy Genius" and one of the main antagonists. He specializes in robotics and controls his own robot army. In his first appearance, he met the Heylin witch, Wuya, and learned of the mystical Shen Gong Wu. It is stated on one of the old official Xiaolin sites that he has wanted to rule the world since second grade. His grandmother gave him his infamous heli-bot when he turned evil. He often resorted to sobbing in public or screaming in terror due to his many defeats.

Jack lives in his wealthy parents' basement, which he uses as his "secret" lab. He has a younger cousin named Megan.

Examples of Jack's "evil heroes" were Chase Young and Hannibal Roy Bean. Before these two showed up, Jack was the dragons' most formidable enemy. He looked up to those evil heroes and tried to form partnerships with them, usually ending up with him getting hurt (emotionally and physically).

Appearance
Jack is tall (roughly Raimundo's height), thin, and extremely pale, with red eyes and spiky red hair. It is unclear if his appearance is due to albinism and red hair dye or due to spending long hours indoors and dressing up like a villain (hair dye, make-up, red contact lenses). He has an oval-shaped face, a pointed nose, a widow's peak hairline, and thick, black eyebrows.

In Xiaolin Chronicles, his eyes were changed to black.

He is in his mid- to late-teens and dresses in a "Gothic/Punk Rock" style, typically wearing a long, black coat with a high collar, black fingerless gloves, black pants, and black boots with bronze clasps. Accessories include his heli-pack and signature yellow spiral goggles. He has black marks under his eyes, probably drawn on with make-up - certainly the scar-like shape under his left eye. This was evident when he cried or was splashed with water; the black markings dripped down to his cheeks or got smudged.

Personality
Jack occupied himself by designing, building, and repairing his own robotic soldiers, who often double as his own personal servants. His standard is the Jack-Bot. Despite his genius and technological prowess, he was very clumsy, goofy, and immature, and had little common sense. He often used dated and odd-sounding sayings and phrases and was somewhat eccentric. Despite his frequent defeats, he was often over-confident in his own "genius". Also, aside from one defeat from Katnappe, every time Omi lost a Xiaolin Showdown, it was always against him. Aside from being goofy, immature and absent-minded, Jack was also cantankerous, churlish, whiny, and virtually every character in the series found Jack annoying.

Jack's off-screen parents were exceedingly wealthy, but they often ignored him, sending him money and lavish gifts likely out of guilt for their neglect. Jack is very fearful, paranoid, and neurotic; if he found himself in danger, his (faux) confidence slipped, and he often panicked. Jack also "doesn't do well in enclosed spaces", implying he's claustrophobic, and had an extreme fear of rejection and failure. Despite this, Jack attended nearly every Shen Gong Wu appearance, prepared to battle. When Jack was visiting the Ying-Yang World, he lost his bad chi and emerged as "Good Jack", who was overwhelmingly cheery, self-sacrificing, and idealistic. When the opposite occurs and he lost half of his good chi, his more-evil self was nearly identical to his normal self but was much less whiny and childish. Interestingly, even though he was literally missing half his good side at the time, he couldn't say a bigger threat to what he thought was the Bird of Paradise than "I'll hurt you until you cry", implying that Jack isn't willing to hurt others to a serious degree, meaning he isn't truly evil.

Jack was not only among the most inept of the monk's enemies but likely the most good-natured as well. Jack occasionally allied with the side of good, albeit usually with a selfish ulterior motive, such as when he rescued the Xiaolin monks from Wuya in Days Past. He made a genuine attempt to turn good in The Apprentice, although ultimately he gave it up and returned to evil. It was suggested that Jack is not a truly evil character, but was siding with the Heylin because of his fear that he would fail at being good, just as he failed at being evil. His motivation for world-domination was to compensate for his own feelings of worthlessness.

Abilities
Jack was a robotic-engineering genius and commands an army of Jack-Bots. He occasionally modified them to have better defenses, new weaponry, or alterations appropriate for the setting. He invents a time machine, although it required the Eye of Dashi for power. He developed a Shen-Gong-Wu-locating sensor, allowing him to find Shen Gong Wu without Wuya's help.
 * High Intellect: As unbelievable as it sounded, in his own idiotic way, Jack's most dangerous weapon was his genius-level intellect. He was easily one of the top mortal minds on the planet as he was able to create hundreds of devices, including a working time machine and a Shen Gong Wu detector. His most frequently used robots were the Jack-Bots, floating robots, equipped with saws, machine guns and any other kinds of weapons.
 * Figure Ice Skating: He had ice-skating lessons that came in handy in an off-screen showdown.


 * Flight: The Heli-bot his grandmother gave him was used frequently in this way.
 * Well Connected: As shown in the last episode, he (supposedly) was able to gather nearly every single villain that the monks have ever faced, including Chase Young, who considered Jack incompetent, Hannibal Roy Bean, also considered Jack incompetent, and Wuya as well. This showed that he at least had good enough connections to them to cause every single one of them to launch a full attack on the monks. He is also shown in many episodes to be active on villainous websites, connecting villains worldwide.
 * High Physical Abilities: While not a warrior, he had shown above-average physical attributes in his showdowns and Shen Gong Wu hunts. Without his robotic minions, he was largely defenseless against the trained Xiaolin Warriors. Despite almost constant defeats at the hands of his enemies and rivals from both sides, he remained persistent, arriving at nearly every Shen Gong Wu location.

Weapons

 * Monkey Staff: His favorite Shen Gong Wu was the Monkey Staff, as he used it more than any other Wu.
 * Jack-Bots: Jack had a wide array of robots called Jack-Bots with different forms, functions, and weapons that he used as his own army.

Trivia

 * Jack holds many similarities with Sun Wukong the Monkey King from the novel "Journey to the West", as both of them are mischievous, Jack's signature weapon is the Monkey staff, while the monkey king also wielded a staff, and both have a close relationship with a bald monk, among other similarities.
 * Jack has the same name as the San Francisco renaissance poet Jack Spicer.
 * Although Wuya had conquered the world two times and was the most powerful being in the universe in her human form, Jack seemed to respect Chase and Hannibal more than her and he even affiliated with the Xiaolin Monks to defeat her.
 * With the exception of The Return of Master Monk Guan, Jack Spicer has appeared in every episode of every season.
 * He expressed a romantic interest in Kimiko in the episode Chameleon, but this is never mentioned again after that episode aside from Jack calling her "baby" once in "Days past".
 * There is evidence to suggest that Jack has red-green colorblindness, which is characterized as a difficulty in distinguishing between reds, greens, browns, and oranges. In "The Apprentice", Wuya states that Jack can't dress himself because he's wearing different colored socks, to which Jack replies, "I just have trouble with my reds and browns".