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Jax is the deuteragonist (alongside Ragatha, but also quite a contagonististic character) of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus, voiced by Michael Kovach. He is a lanky lilac rabbit who is trapped in the Digital Circus along with five other victims.
Appearance[]
Jax appears to be an Anthropomorphic lilac cartoon rabbit whose design evokes the look of early cartoon characters, also known as "rubber hose" characters. He has long bunny ears on the top of his oval-shaped head, and his overall build is tall and slender, with a rather long neck. Jax's eyes have yellow sclera, with square black pupils. Jax's yellow teeth usually have a flat shape to them, but when his mouth is opened, his teeth appear sharp and jagged. (or if taken context of that scene, it also can be a one-time thing purely made for comedic purposes.) Jax has thin eyebrows that appear in the majority of the scenes.
Jax wears light, pink-colored overalls and pale-yellow gloves. His overalls have yellow buttons on them and also have a single lighter pink rectangular pocket on the front and lighter pink sections on the bottom hem of his overalls.
Personality[]
Jax is a mischievous (occasionally flat-out bloodthirsty), laid-back, calm, sassy, impulsive, egotistical, sarcastic, and brazenly condescending individual, and rarely shows any empathy or remorse for those around him. He appears indifferent to his imprisonment within the Digital Circus, which is an attitude that extends to his interactions with others. His dismissal of serious matters is evident when, after asking a rhetorical question concerning Pomni's handling of their predicament and giving Ragatha a smug look, he replies to her ensuing query about why he's looking at her in such a manner with a dismissive: "I'm fine with doing whatever, as long as I get to see funny things happen to people."
Jax's lack of care for others is further emphasized when he maliciously steps on Gangle's already broken comedy mask, allows the Fudge Monster to devour the inhabitants of the Candy Canyon Kingdom, or when he throws a bowling ball at Kinger and Gangle for his purposes of hiding from an abstracted Kaufmo. He pays little mind to the opinions of others and the group's consensus does not concern him. Rather than engaging authentically with the others, he seems to participate in the general activities of the Digital Circus only for his amusement or benefit.
Despite his occasional bouts of rash, impetuous behavior, like breaking a digital 'Spare' sign for no rational reason, he normally maintains an unexpectedly calm and composed demeanor. Yet, his flattery is generally insincere and often borders on outright insult.
Arguably, Jax is inherently selfish, only spurred into action against the Gloinks when they begin to pester him. Even when the Gloink Queen accuses him of continuing to observe the unfolding events despite deeming them 'dumb and weird', he responds by saying, 'I'm only here to hide from the-' only to be interrupted by an abstracted Kaufmo abruptly crashing into the Gloink Queen's lair; his phrasing potentially insinuating a singular concern for his well-being. He also was the only one of the captives to not show up for Kaufmo's funeral, however he is shown to be briefly saddened by it before quickly snapping back to his normal attitude, so it is possible that he does to some extent care for his friends and that his total lack of care for them is merely a front, as he was shown to be deeply upset watching the abstracted Kaufmo be put away in the Cellar. Furthermore, while he typically uses insulting nicknames for his "friends", he used a far more positive "Kaufy" when referring to the abstracted clown and apparently loaned a ball to him, implying he might have had a closer relationship with Kaufmo than he did with the others.
He's also shown to have a fondness for bloodshed, combat, death, and chaos, as shown in episode 2 when he is severely disappointed at the lack of all of the above, before quickly being overjoyed upon realizing that the The Fudge was coming to destroy the Candy Canyon Kingdom and its residents, an act he purposefully incited by leaving the entrance unlocked, which gave him zero benefit besides personal happiness as the adventure was already completed. He also shows very little regard for the lives of his fellow captives, such as when he was fine with Pomni potentially dying during the truck ramming sequence in episode 2, but whether or not his disregard for them is a front or not has not yet been fully established. On the other side, he did save Gangle and Kinger from Kaufmo's abstracted form and uses "they/them" pronoun's when addressing Zooble.
Biography[]
"PILOT" (Episode 1)[]
Jax is first introduced in the opening song, in which Pomni knocks into him, knocking over Kinger who falls onto Gangle. Upon seeing Pomni, he asks Caine if she is another one of his NPCs or a "New Sucker", saying that they will need to redo the whole theme song if so. Jax dryly eggs Pomni on when she tries in vain to pull off her nonexistent headset. Shortly after, Jax explains to Pomni that there is no way to leave, remarking that Kinger has been there the longest, and is going crazy as a result. Jax, while asking Caine if they're having a new adventure, walks over and steps on Gangle's broken comedy mask, letting it let out another crunch and making Gangle sob. After returning from her tour and saying she saw an exit, Jax dismisses Pomni's statement, explaining how if there was an exit, they'd already have left, all the while swiping Zooble's right arm and using it to scratch his back, getting strangled by said arm shortly afterward. Later, he grumbles that he "said that like five minutes ago" when Caine agrees that they should have a brand-new adventure for the newly-named Pomni.
After Zooble gets stolen by some Gloinks, he brushes it off, asking if Ragatha and Pomni want to go get something to eat. Later, after Kinger says that Kaufmo has been going insane, he teases Pomni that she might also be going insane for wanting to find an exit like him. He then breaks the fourth wall by remarking to the audience after Pomni expresses her wish to talk to the clown, saying that she's still thinking the Circus is a dream. After getting hit on the head by a stray Gloink, he pairs himself up with Ragatha and Pomni to go check on Kaufmo and pairs Gangle and Kinger up to go get Zooble. After Kaufmo doesn't open the door, Jax states that he has a key to all their rooms and that he has left a centipede in Ragatha's room, shortly before unlocking the clown's door.
Upon unlocking the door, Jax, Ragatha, and Pomni are greeted by an abstracted Kaufmo. Jax thanks Kaufmo for holding onto a bowling ball, takes it, and runs off, leaving Ragatha and Pomni.
Jax later finds Gangle and Kinger looking at what they call "The Zooble Hole", completely out of breath and panting, having run away from Kaufmo. After giving a sarcastic update on Kaufmo's state, Jax then throws the bowling ball at the pair, sending both of them tumbling down as he jumps after them. After kicking a stray bowling pin and breaking a 'Spare' sign irritably, they are all then greeted by The Gloink Queen, as the hole ends up being her nest. He antagonizes the Gloink Queen until they spot Zooble, who asks the three to help them, calling them "idiots". Jax says that he doesn't want to help Zooble anymore just for that.
Gangle and Kinger play rock-paper-scissors to see who will get Zooble, in which Kinger, who wins, tries to grab onto Zooble's head but his hands simply detach along with the former. After Kaufmo falls on The Gloink Queen, Kinger gets Zooble's head, and Jax remarks casually to an alarmed Gangle that Kaufmo's got abstracted. Jax, Zooble, Kinger, and Gangle all leave on the escalator afterward, in which Jax says "ladies first" to Gangle, but then pushes her out of the way, questioning why he would say that. Jax can be seen in the end scene eating the digital feast with the other performers.
"Candy Carrier Chaos!" (Episode 2)[]
Jax appears as a silhouette on Pomni's nightmare, along with other silhouetted versions of Caine and Ragatha commenting about her 'attraction' which later makes Pomni wakes up from her nightmare. Following this, Jax can be seen along with the rest of the crew meet up at the stage to listen to Caine about plans for another adventure which will lead them to the Candy Canyon Kingdom.
Jax along with the other members of the crew, arrive to the Candy Canyon Kingdom after being teleported by Caine. They are being pulled on a carriage entering the kingdom, after the ride and meeting up with Princess Loolilalu to help with the issues of the bandits, the princess gives the crew a war rig which Jax immediately gets interested for it due to the violence that may come for the adventure. Jax goes to become the driver of the truck but later makes Gangle drive because he doesn't like the sound of the horn.
After leaving the Kingdom, the crew meets with the bandits who were already aware of their presence on the outskirts of the kingdom. Jax is the first to give directions to Gangle of an idea when they get closer to the bandits and shoot them to get control of the bandits' truck. Afterwards, when both trucks are close Jax throws Pomni out of the truck to which she lands between both trucks, where her arms get attached to both trucks later stretched when both trucks get away from each other. Jax seeing this he asks her to stay like that meanwhile he finds his bazooka. Before Jax can cross over to the bandits' truck, Pomni loses her grip and lands on top of the bandits' truck, much to Jax's frustration. Jax later shoots the bazooka which throws a shoe and hits one of the bandit which makes him to fall off the truck.
The boss bandit decides to shift the truck's path onto a rocky road as a way to get war rig away. Jax later shouts to Gangle to get closer to where the bandits' truck is going while having issues going forward due to the rocky road. Seeing this, Jax tells Gangle to ram into the bandits' truck while they have the chance, Gangle having doubts she gets interrupted by Jax when he threatens her to reveal her secret, which Gangle obeys to ram them. The bandits now knowing the crew is trying to ram them out of the cliff, they activate another feature of the truck, adding spikes on the side of their truck. Following this, Kinger throws an anchor with a very long rope at Pomni, but the rope flies for a long time, causing Jax to ask if the anchor was tied to anything before the rope gets pulled back and pulls the truck over to the bandits' truck. While the bandits try to move their truck, it moves both trucks until they collide. The collision made the crew's truck fall down to a fudge river, to which Jax blames Gangle for the wreck and making Pomni be separated from the group.
After the collision disaster, the remaining crew now on a fudge river observe how fudge bubbles pop revealing The Fudge, a blob monster made out of chocolate fudge sauce. The fudge attempts to eat the truck thinking it was food, and after an argument with Ragatha regarding The Fudges' views on eating people, Jax agrees with his opinion, much to Ragatha's annoyance. Jax then offers a deal to the fudge, saying that if he helps catch the bandits, he will let him back into the kingdom. As he somehow took the key from Ragatha.
The Fudge later carries the tanker and circus crew back to the kingdom, and Jax expresses his disappointment about the adventure, thinking it would have extreme violence and blood. After moments of The Fudge traveling to the Kingdom, the crew spots the replica tanker with Pomni and Gummigoo shooting out of the ground and lands right into The Fudge, flattening him. After the crew gets out to check on Pomni and Gummigoo, Jax later expresses all of his disappointment again about the adventure, which Ragatha tells him that there might be violence and blood in the next adventure. When the crew go back to the kingdom and receiving the thanks from Princess Loolilalu, a large explosion is heard, and Jax realizes and remarks that he didn't leave the gate unlocked for nothing, letting The Fudge back into the kingdom. Princess Loolilalu asks Jax what he did, but only for the crew to enter the portal back into the circus as The Fudge is heard attacking the mannequins.
Later, Jax listens to Ragatha talking about funerals for abstracted circus members, showing sadness before walking off.
Upcoming Episodes[]
In the video POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE, Jax is seen in a teaser as a worker for Spudsy's, which is some sort of fast-food industry.
Trivia[]
- Gooseworx stated on Twitter that Jax is her favorite character, calling him an "awful boy"[5]. She also claims to be a simp for Jax when asked "How did you felt about the Jax simps?", responding "I'm one of them."[6]
- During the GlitchX 2023 AMA, Gooseworx said that "[Jax] couldn't not be my favorite, because I specifically designed him to be everything I like in characters. I like terrible characters."[7]
- Gooseworx confirmed that Jax is 22, making him the youngest character in the circus. Zooble is also 22 but half a year older.[2]
- Gooseworx had also confirmed that no one in the circus likes Jax.[8]
- Jax is one of four characters that appear in more than one "Meet the Character" shorts, with him being in his own and Gangle's. The other three are Bubble (who appears in Kinger's and his own), Ragatha (who appears in Jax's and her own), and Caine (who appears in the same shorts as Bubble).
- When he is happy or doing something devious, his eyebrows sometimes appear.
- Jax owns "keys to everything" as stated by himself in the pilot when unlocking the door to Kaufmo's room. However, it is never elaborated on as to how he obtained these keys. Although, none of the doors have keyholes. (Including Kaufmo's.)
- So far, the only time his teeth have been shown separately is when Zooble is strangling him.
- On every other occasion, his teeth are stuck together as "one," and don't move when he's talking.
- When asked to describe Jax as a song, Gooseworx replied with Don't Fence Me In (Bonelab OST)[9], but it is unknown if it genuinely relates to Jax or not.[10]
- According to Gooseworx, Jax is a "highly impulsive jerk wad".[11]
- Jax along with Caine are the only characters to break the Fourth Wall, with Jax staring directly at the camera and commenting "She still thinks it's a dream" after Pomni tries to reassure herself that she's just dreaming.
- In one of the teaser images in which he is next to Pomni and Caine is a reference to the iconic photos of John Lennon doing his funky walk with Yoko Ono along the Rue d'Antibbes during the Cannes Film Festival, 1971.[12]
- In an early concept, it was planned for Jax to be female.
- A Tumblr user asked about this gender change for Jax and Pomni, with the answer being it "never really 'happened' and was just a consideration once" but was simply dropped.[13]
- Jax is the first character from The Amazing Digital Circus to get his official plushie, aside from Pomni.
- According to GlitchX 2023:
- When Gooseworx first reached out to Kovach, she asked him to do a voice like that of Raggedy Andy for Jax.[14]
- Kovach mentioned that he didn't want to copy Raggedy Andy's voice exactly because it has a "soft and uplifting" sound, so he toughened it up and made it a bit more vulgar in attitude while keeping it carefree.[15]
- Jax's design was inspired by Popee from Popee the Performer, because Gooseworx is a big fan of the show and she wanted a psychopathic rabbit character like Popee in her show.[16]
- Kovach asked Gooseworx if Jax brushes his teeth because "they're kinda yellow", to which she responded, "There's no way Jax brushes his teeth. Look at those things!"[17]
- When asked about the characters' favorite foods, Kovach suggested that spaghetti be Jax's favorite food. Gooseworx accepted the suggestion, saying "Jax loves spaghetti."[3]
- Jax chose his name and came up with Gangle's name.[18]
- Jax is said to be afraid of corn, to which Gooseworx responded that it reminds him of the farm.[4]
- Jax is said to be the first character to know exactly what swimsuit he would wear.[21]
- Gooseworx has confirmed that "every character has a reason why they act the way they do" when asked if Jax had a reason for his behavior. She also confirmed that Jax is a troubled individual.[22]
Other language VAs[]
| Language | Voice Actor | Localized name |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | معتصم بالأشهر (Motasm Belasher) | جاكس |
| Filipino | Bryan Dave Bobadilla Perez | Jax |
| French | Benoît Fort-Junca | Jax |
| German | Julian Göke | Jax |
| Hungarian | Bálint Kovács | Jax |
| Indonesian | Richard M.R.Toelle (Pilot), Ian Saybani (Episode 2) | Jax |
| Japanese | 菅原壮一郎 (Soichiro Sugawara) | ジャックス |
| Polish | Bartek „brateg” Mojsiewicz | Jax |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | William Viana | Jax |
| Russian | Макс Манн (Max Mann) | Джекс |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Pablo Gandolfo | Jax |
| Thai | กฤตธี มุมทอง (Krittee Mumthong) | แจกซ์ |
| Turkish | Doğukan Akdeniz | Jax |
| Ukrainian | Ігор Корженко (Ihor Korzhenko) | Джакс |
| Hebrew | Artdrowingx | ג'קס |
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