Goes back to the past

>goes back to the past
>Kills Aku
>thus meaning he couldn't have gone to the same future that led him to become skilled enough to kill Aku

How will the show address this?

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He was always skilled enough to kill him since the beginning. That's why aku sends him to the future in the first place.

There will be no past-changing time-travel.

If he was that skilled he wouldn't have got thrown into a time portal

The act of traveling through time creates an alternative universe
Jack could return to the past and defeat Aku, but he'd be defeating the Aku of a splintered universe
The Aku that sent him through time would still be alive in the future Jack left

this also if he got sent back a min after he he got sent forward wont everything be ok

he was an autistic fat white kid playing with a Bleach snowball all along

It will be one of those timeloops where the character's path is always to travel into the future and then go back to the past. Happens all the time in fiction.

Best ending.

this is true only if time travel works like that we dont know

Skilled enough to kill aku (with the aid of a magic sword). Time portal magic shit was not going to apply to this samurai

What the fuck is wrong with his right arm? Is this the power of western animation?

He'll kill Aku, but he won't ever make it back to the past

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Aku is just tricky

It'll change his timeline but the future Aku made will still exists. Like how Trunks's bad future still exists.

Here's a basic "time map" I made in a thread some months ago, when this came up too.
This is of cause based upon the assumption that he actually will get back to the past, and that he can actually change anything if he gets there.
If he can't change anything, then remove the blue line.
If he doesn't get back to the past, then remove the blue and green line.

Can Aku even be killed? Jack's dad fought him while he was basically an infant and the most he could do to the creature was seal him away.

Just have Aku come back during another eclipse well after Jack's time with his successors unable to stop him and you get to keep that horrific future Jack winds up in during his youth.

Jack was kicking his ass pretty hard in the first encounter

So basically Jack would have to take you Aku twice. Once in the past and once in the future like Cell and the Androids for Trunks

There's the graveyard encounter too where he chopped him down to a mouse.

He resets the multiverse, although his universe stays true.

The moral of the story will be that you can't go back to the past, but can make future better.

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>he can actually change anything if he gets there.
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If you're going to be self-contradictory there's no point in being "logical" about it.

Then shut up, that's literally the only explination that could fit the "good ending" naritive. Other than, to stay in the future

he'll have to defeat him in the future before he travels back to the past and defeats him there so both timelines have closure

That just shows two different universes that happen to be identical until the point of "time travel" (it's not really time travel because Jack can't go back to his own history, only a history that's identical to his own until the point he reaches it)

Jock will defeat Aku instead

It's still time travel. It's just time travel to another timelines future. Then in theory, he could travel back to his own timeline and his own time period, and do the things that will shape the future of his timeline.
From his point of view, he went to THE future, came back from there, and prevented it, and forged a new one, when he actually just went to A future, came back, and then his timeline went on as it was meant to do.
Nothing was changed about any past, and no future was changed either.

>timelines may only work the way I want them to, unless it makes no sense
>time travel makes perfect sense if its the way I think it makes sense

>another timelines future
AKA not time travel.
- travel to the past
- everything looks like the past you remember
- you change something
- it doesn't affect you
- turns out it's a different "timeline"

Then it was never time travel, you just traveled to a different "timeline" that happens to look like your timeline. But it isn't.

It's still time travel. He traveled some odd thousand years into the future. He just ended up in another universe in the process. It's like saying you didn't time travel because you ended up on the other side of the planet in the process of doing so.
It wasn't JUST time travel, it was also spacial travel, but it was still fucking time travel.

Simple way to put things is that it's a fork in the road user that diverges into two possibilities

the most convincing for me is that the time traveling agent can change the past as he wills, destroying the fake future if he were to take his rightful place at the exact moment he went away.

timelines is way too abstract, having the focus on the agent makes more sense.

Multiverse. The Aku timeline is permanent and cannot be reset. Jack realizes he cannot undo what Aku has done to this timeline. He kills Aku and spends years upon years helping to rebuild an evil-ravaged world.

In his old age he is satisfied with his work and knows he is nearing death. He finally uses a portal to return to the past which creates a new timeline. He defeats Aku so that he can spend his last few remaining years in the peaceful world he never knew.

The future will update to correct itself once past Aku is removed from the equation. Jack's already back in the past, so he won't get updated.

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>after 16 years, people still think the show will end with Jack going back to the past

>he couldn't have gone to the same future that led him to become skilled enough to kill Aku

Jack literaly grew up training to fight Aku.What skill are you talking about?He always could have killed Aku but never did because cartoons

He'll just save another parallel universe then instead.

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He is going to kill Aku in the future, go back into the past, and kill Aku in the past, making both timelines better.

Back to the Future rules. Once he kills Aku he will disappear from existence and his past self gets to experience a life without Aku.

Its in the theme song nigga. He better go back.

that's why he'll defeat Aku 2 times

Future Aku to save the future and Past Aku to save the past

Except that Marty does remember the life he had when his parents were losers.

It depends on how time travel works in the Samurai Jack universe.

I think he might have to kill Aku twice. Kill Aku in the future, then return to the past and kill him there.

Unless Aku is one of those beings who cease to exist if you kill them at any point in time, which would mean that killing Aku in the future will end him in the past.

>Unless Aku is one of those beings who cease to exist if you kill them at any point in time
I doubt it Aku himself was a part of a larger darkness to begin with.

I think Aku is what's tethering Jack to the future. If Aku died, Jack would snap right back to Before the Final Blow Was Struck as if it never happened and kill him. Jack doesn't age because he's still "in" the moment before he almost killed Aku, in a sense.

That's because Marty replaced himself when he came back from fucking with the timelines. is supposing that he doesn't, and that it doesn't create a separate universe.

I'd be okay with this being the explanation.

Being that Jack is now ageless there are really only 2 endings the show can have

1. He goes back to the past and wonders the earth for the rest of time righting wrongs

2. The future made by aku will still exists, so Jack stays in it, wondering the earth for the rest of time righting wrongs

The bit in this clip where Aku and Jack casually talk about directions is one of my favorites in the entire series. Especially when Jack gets frustrated at Aku when he offers to give him a ride.