Jack Harkness
Jack Harkness is a male television character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Origin
Jack Harkness
It was known that he as an inhabitant of the 51st century. (Torchwood: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) He had a younger brother who was known as Gray. (Torchwood: Adam) As a young boy, he was noted to had lived in a tiny place on the Boeshane Peninsula. (Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords) In those years, he spent time with his brother and father playing cricket where the family wold sing around a campfire. One day, their home came to be attacked by a host of creatures in what was described as the worst day of his life. He and his brother came to flee but ended up losing his brother Gray during the confusion after accidentally letting go of his hand. Upon returning home, he found his mother crying over his fathers dead body where he spent years looking for Gray without success. Eventually, he came to bury the memory of what happened along with all the happy memories of his father. (Torchwood: Adam)
He eventually came to be the first person from there to sign up with the Time Agency. (Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords) He was known to had gone undercover during World War II in 1941 where he assumed the identity of an American volunteer named Captain Jack Harkness who had died in the prior January. (Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness)
Later on, he came to work with a fellow Time Agent who went to operate under the name of John Hart where the both were partners both professionally and sexually. At one point, the pair spent five years in a two-week time loop where they became the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. (Torchwood: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)
Once he was sentenced to death, he ordered four hypervodkas as a last meal and ended up bedding both executioners at the same time. (Doctor Who: The Doctor Dances)
At some point, he came to acquire a small sleek Chula warship that had been fitted for human use and could turn invisible. Afterwards, Jack came to find out that the Agency had erased two years of his memory. He then left the Agency and became a time-travelling con artist where he ran scams using his knowledge of future events. Typically, he preferred schemes that involved collecting payment for items he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see them. Thus, he would often find pieces of space junk that he directed at the future disaster site where he would sell the items to passers-by and allow the goods to be destroyed before the merchandise could be picked up by the buyer (Doctor Who: The Empty Child)
Doctor Who
The former Time Agent came to be a con man where one of his scams involved stealing a Chula ambulance with him crashing it during World War II during the London Blitz. Looking to sell his acquisition, he pretended to be an American volunteer in the Royal Air Force but was unwittingly responsible for unleashing a nanomachine plague on London in 1941. It was during this time that he first spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon where he saved her by taking her onto his ship. She came to quickly deduce that he was from the future and it was in this time that he met her companion the Doctor. He came to believe that they were freelancers like himself but the Ninth Doctor quickly determined that the site of the Chula ambulance was where the Empty Child plague had begun though Harkness denied any responsibility as he claimed that the ship was simply space junk. (Doctor Who: The Empty Child)
He came to use the Time Agency's vortex manipulator he kept on his person to return to Cardiff that was the site of an active space-time rift. Jack reasoned that the TARDIS wold come to this site in order to refuel itself thus giving him an opportunity to reunite with the Doctor. Thus, he looked to go back to the early 21t century but accidentally ended up in 1869 with the vortex manipulator burning itself out leaving him stranded in that era. (Doctor Who: Utopia)
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Overview
Personality and attributes
After joining the Time Agency, people were proud that he was the first from the Boeshane Peninsula to join the organization and used to call him the Face of Boe. (Doctor Who: The Last of the Time Lords) The name Jack Harkness was actually an identity he stole from an American volunteer who had been killed in World War II. (Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness)
Powers and abilities
Due to being from the 51st century, he possessed a kind of pheromones that made him naturally smell nice with it being confused for being aftershave by earlier eras. (Torchwood: Fragments)
After his death, he was brought back to life by Rose Tyler after she looked into the heart of the TARDIS and gained god-like powers. This had the effect of turning Jack Harkness into a fixed point in time and space that was never meant to have happened. Thus, his existence was seen with revulsion by time sensitive beings who reacted impulsively to be away from him. (Doctor Who: Utopia)
Notes
- Jack Harkness was portrayed by actor John Barrowman where he featured in the setting of Doctor Who.
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