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| “ | You don't fucking steal from us! Y'all better get your asses out here. We ain't fucking around! You made the biggest mistake of your lives! Enough of this bullshit! Drew, start putting your boot to these doors! | „ |
| ~ Jake as he and the bandits hold Lee Everett's group at gunpoint. |
| “ | Lee: Why are you doing this? Just leave us the f-ck alone! Jake: "Why?" This f-cking guy... Why?! Because we gotta, THAT'S "WHY"! |
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| ~ Jake revealing his sadism. |
Jake is the secondary antagonist of Telltale Games' 2012 episodic video game The Walking Dead.
He is the ruthless leader of the Save-Lots Bandits, a group of barbaric survivors mainly consisting of former Save-Lots employees who raid nearby camps to maintain themselves.
He was voiced by Maxwell Zorbel.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General/Background[]
- Being the leader of the Save-Lots Bandits, he raided and killed countless survivor camps across Macon, Georgia, backing off only if the survivors hand over their own supplies willingly.
- Among Jake's confirmed victims in this regard were the St. John family's farmhands, as well as Ben Paul's high school band class from Stone Mountain.
- Despite his limited interactions with Lee and the other protagonists, he was sufficiently characterized in all of his scenes to not be labeled as a Generic Doomsday Villain:
- Even as the leader of the Save-Lots Bandits, Jake is constantly bickering at his henchmen and was considered paranoid by members such as Bart and Gary-- so much to the point it was "pissing everyone off" and found himself any sort of excuse to kill his own bandits.
- Additionally, in "Long Road Ahead", even if Lee offers the bandits all their supplies in return for safe passage, Jake refuses, believing they will "pay [them] a visit later" for revenge despite nothing proving that Lee's group has any rational reason to do so, much less their manpower.
- Both these scenes imply that he extorted Ben and continued raiding every camp and survivor, not only to steal supplies, but to ensure no faction could have the chance to rise up against him and put an end to his bloodthirsty power fantasy.
- Jake is also shown to be a sadist as it's made clear he and his bandits deliberately chose to rape Jolene's daughter, Danielle, even after promising her and her daughter safety if they tagged along with them, and told right to Jolene's face that they were going to take her daughter into woods for god-knows-what (presumably to kill her off).
- Jake hurled threats and even laughed to Lee and Mark while he and the other bandits fired upon them, promising to come back later as they escaped, and later chose to lie to Ben that he had his friend hostage instead of simply threatening his life.
- Much like the rest of the Save-Lot Bandits, his murders, robberies, and rape were all motivated from the absence of authority and freedom that the outbreak resulted in. However, Jake takes it a step further; If the player chooses to ask why they're specifically targeting Lee's group, Jake bluntly states that he just wants to ("because we gotta"), him believing sparing the group will result in them retaliating (as stated above), and even smirkingly calls Lee a "hard motherf-cker" instead of killing him immediately when he boldly tells Jake to get out, hinting at both pettiness and some personal villainy. Furthermore, when Lee requests to split the supplies evenly, Jake argues that he could instead kill everyone and take all the supplies for himself, thus doubling him as a sadistic power-hungry thug.
- While he answers to Lee's question about the reason of his actions as "because we gotta, that's why", there is no indication of any extremism or even a slight mitigation for his heinous actions, so it is more of a petty and brief justification for himself.
- Even as the leader of the Save-Lots Bandits, Jake is constantly bickering at his henchmen and was considered paranoid by members such as Bart and Gary-- so much to the point it was "pissing everyone off" and found himself any sort of excuse to kill his own bandits.
- While the heinous standards for The Walking Dead are admittedly very high, Jake manages to stand out because of the horrific crimes he committed and impact he had on the narrative in spite of his lower resources and limited screen time.
- As Carley puts it, Jake's group was "a little more than meth-riddled forest people" who don't even last a full half-year into the apocalypse, yet their crimes are comparable to Bill Carver, Badger and Joan, who were all heavily-armed dictators and foot soldiers who lasted over 2-4 years.
Season 1[]
- He, alongside Bart and Linda, raped his former fellow bandit Jolene's young daughter Danielle, who is to have been a minor like Clementine, and also allegedly Jolene herself.
- The bandits then took Danielle away from her mother into the woods never to be seen again, most likely killing her and even laughing in Jolene's face afterwards, thus turning her into the homicidal maniac Lee and Danny meet.
- While one could argue the rape aspect of this to be offscreen villainy, the story paints a pretty clear picture of what actually happened. Before dying, Jolene tells Lee and Danny that the bandits "didn't treat my girl nice at all" before taking her away. Furthermore, there's a recording in Jolene's video camera of her getting cornered in her own tent by Jake, Bart and Linda, all the while she curses their names for being "fucking rapist monsters".
- The bandits then took Danielle away from her mother into the woods never to be seen again, most likely killing her and even laughing in Jolene's face afterwards, thus turning her into the homicidal maniac Lee and Danny meet.
- He kills a fellow bandit with a point-blank shotgun blast to the face over some stolen food, unloading the entire magazine into his corpse before calling him an "asshole" and walking away.
- In an attempt to kill Andrew, Lee and Mark, he shoots the latter in the shoulder with an arrow, indirectly resulting in Mark's later dismemberment and death at the hands of the cannibalistic St. John Family.
- After extorting group medical supplies from Ben for several weeks with false pretenses about their friend being still alive and consistently attacking the group with arrows and guns, Jake eventually breaks into the Travelier Motel and holds most of Lee's entire group at gunpoint. This includes Clementine and Duck, both of whom are children.
- Overall, despite the fact that Jake doesn't even live long enough to see it happen, he's still responsible for leading the bandits' ensuing shootout at the motor inn, during which Duck gets bit by a walker and later dies, resulting in Katjaa's grief-induced suicide, and Kenny starting to become mentally unstable. Furthermore, extorting Ben for medical supplies eventually causes Lilly to snap and kill Carley/Doug after (rightfully) suspecting a traitor in the group, thus kickstarting Lilly's path to becoming the sadistic child slaver seen years after as the leader of the S.S. Fitzgerald Crew of the Delta.
- While he is not unreasonable, as he was willing to "hash out some terms" when Lee says they can reach a new deal, and Jake seems to accept it seconds before he is killed, it was only for his and his group's benefit, as regardless of whatever deal they reached, he was still going to systematically extort Lee's group for more supplies.
Trivia[]
- According to the unused audio clips for "Starved For Help", Jake forced Ben to watch as the bandits gangraped his female classmate, leaving her alive and forever traumatized afterwards. Had this audio clip stayed in the final product, it would have made Jake a serial rapist due to having more than two victims, and thus more heinous.
- He shares many similarities to The Crazed Man, another PE, from the TV series:
- They're both leaders of their respective bandit groups that extorted and robbed other communities.
- They are serial rapists.
- Their men forced family members to watch their loved ones be raped.
- Both of their groups attempted a hostile takeover of another community (with the Crazed Man's group temporarily succeeding).
- They're both indirectly killed by the main protagonists.
External Links[]
- Jake on the Villains Wiki
- Jake on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Jake on the Walking Dead Wiki
- Jake on the Pathetic Pinhead Wiki
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