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| “ | You don't f-cking steal from us! You made the biggest mistake of your lives! Y'all better get your asses out here! We ain't f-cking around! 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. |
Jake is one of tbe three secondary antagonists (along with Crawford and Andrew St Johnson) in the first season of Telltale Games' The Walking Dead video game series.
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?[]
- Being the leader of the Save-Lots Bandits, Jake is responsible for countless survivor camps across Macon, Georgia getting shot up and raided for their supplies, 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.
- Alongside two other bandits named Bart and Linda, Jake raped his former fellow bandit Jolene's young daughter Danielle, who is most likely to have been a minor in her single digits 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 "f--ing rapist monsters".
- 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 "a**hole" 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 we see years after as the leader of the S.S. Fitzgerald Crew of the Delta.
- While he's 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.
- 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 footsoldiers who lasted over 2-4 years.
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
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