Jacqui Briggs
Jacqui Briggs is a female video game character who features in Mortal Kombat.
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Biography
Jacqueline Sonya Briggs was a female human born in Earthrealm as the daughter of Jax Briggs and his wife Vera. After Jax was resurrected from being one of Quan Chi's slaves during the Netherrealm War, he met Vera and they went onto marry, becoming parents to Jacqui. After her birth, he became overly protective of Jacqui and wanted her to live a normal life. After her birth, he became overly protective of Jacqui and wanted her to live a normal life. At some point, Jacqui became a professional kickboxer and eventually competed in the Junior Olympics and enlisted in a training camp.
Jacqui was part of a small Special Forces team led by her friend Cassie Cage, alongside Takeda Takahashi and Kung Jin. After a training exercise where they battle Sub-Zero, the group heads to Outworld, where they resolve the civil war between Kotal Kahn and Mileena. After apprehending Mileena and recovering Shinnok's amulet, they are imprisoned by Kotal Kahn, but they escape with the use of Takeda's telepathy. After Shinnok is freed, Jacqui pilots the team's aircraft as they attempt to reach the Sky Temple before he corrupts the Jinsei. She is forced to make an emergency landing in the Dead Woods. Takeda, who has been flirting with Jacqui for much of the mission, finally gets a positive response from her when he says the woods remind him of his childhood. Enroute to the Sky Temple, the team is intercepted by Kotal Kahn's forces, who believe they worked with D'Vorah to steal Shinnok's amulet. She battles Reptile, who has spit in Takeda's eyes, and saves her friend's eyesight by washing his eyes with water. Takeda calls her beautiful. Their intimate moment is interrupted by Kotal's warriors and Ermac, who promises to destroy Jacqui as he destroyed Jax's arms. Jacqui defeats the construct, avenging her father's maiming. Jacqui then defeats Ferra & Torr and Kotal Kahn in turn, but the team is surrounded. They are rescued by Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei, and proceed to the Sky Temple. She worries that destroying the Elder Gods would not just destroy the Heavens, it will destroy everything in the universe. There, Jacqui and Takeda are wounded by Kitana, but insist they can fight off the revenants while Cassie and Kung Jin chase after Shinnok. They are successful in holding off Liu Kang, Kitana, Kung Lao and Sindel until the crisis is averted, and promise to go on a relaxing date somewhere safe -- preferably poolside.
Jacqui has been promoted to sergeant, following Cassie defeating Shinnok. She joins her, Raiden and the Special Forces to attack on the Netherrealm to prevent their call to war, at the cost of Sonya's life. Jacqui, Johnny and Cassie encounter younger versions of Johnny, Sonya and Jax, while Dark Raiden is erased from existence, leaving behind Shinnok's amulet. Back in the Special Forces base, Jacqui tries to contact her father, the present Jax, but the connection has been shut down due to the time quake. The past Jax tests his new cybernetic arms, and Jacqui talks with him about what happened to the present Jax: since his traumatic experiences as a revenant, and worst of all, the death of his wife Vera a year prior, Jax has become a shut-in, only feeling safe at the Briggs' farm. Jacqui, the current Johnny, and the past Jax finds Cassie, alive but injured, who informs him that the past Sonya has been captured. However, their troubles are not over, as Kano had fitted Sektor with a nuclear bomb, which he activates during his exit. They are saved by the timely arrival of Raiden, who teleports them to the Shirai Ryu's fire garden seconds before the explosion. Jacqui and the past Jax arrive at Shang Tsung's courtyard in an attempt to find Kronika's crown. The Briggs' approach the old courtyard, only to find corpses of the decayed Shaolin monks, realizing that the island has been abandoned since after the first tournament. The revenants of Jade and Kabal ambush them, but were easily defeated. After Jacqui and the past Jax defeat the duo, they continue on further into Goro's Lair in search for the crown. While walking along the cavernous corridors of the lair, Jax remembers how he was imprisoned prior to the first Mortal Kombat tournament. They approach the well of souls, only to be distracted by Noob Saibot and his clones. Jacqui demands to know who Noob is, and he reveals his identity as Bi-Han, who Jax confirms as the first Sub-Zero that had been murdered by Scorpion. The two manage to defeat Noob Saibot and his shadowy clones, and take the crown. They are then shocked by the sudden arrival of the present Jax, who reveals that he has sided with Kronika in an attempt to alter time, so that his daughter will never become a soldier. The younger Jax berates his older self, stating that his suffering is no excuse for betraying his unit and family. This leads to a showdown between past and present Jax, before the younger Jax defeated his present self.
The Briggs' start to leave Goro's Lair. Cetrion arrives, and convinces them that the crown belongs to her mother. Both Jacqui and Jax refuse to surrender the crown, so Cetrion opens a fissure that swallows Jacqui, leaving her hanging over a cavernous pit. Cetrion tells Jax to surrender the crown, in return for sparing Jacqui's life. The older Jax begs his younger self to relinquish the crown for Jacqui's sake, and, reluctantly, past Jax agrees, tossing the crown to his older self. Cetrion keeps her word, reversing her spell to save Jacqui. Jacqui angrily demands how her father can do this to her, which prompts him to respond that he's doing it for her. Cetrion and the present-day Jax then teleport back to Kronika's keep. Moments later at the Fire Garden, Cassie, Jacqui and past Jax approaches Raiden, who recalls other timelines with him fighting Liu Kang. He soon relinquishes the amulet and tell Liu Kang and Cassie that he has realized that Kronika has been manipulating them to fight in every timeline, with Liu Kang dying in every one. After the revelation and with Kharon recruited, Jacqui, the past Jax, Cassie, Raiden, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, the past Kung Lao, the past Kitana, Sheeva, the past Jade and Baraka lead a joint Special Forces/Shaolin/Outworld task force to assault Kronika's keep. After realizing that Kronika duped him into aiding her endless war schemes in all timelines, the older Jax surprisingly returns to the heroes' side and reunited with Jacqui once again. Together with the Kombatants, she joined in the battle to combat the Netherrealm minions guarding Kronika's keep, but was affected by the temporal reversion, except for Kang.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Jacqui Briggs was a young, athletic woman with a muscular build. She has brown eyes and shoulder length brown hair which she keeps in cornrows in a small ponytail. Her civilian attire as depicted in the comic consist of a white t-shirt with black pants or purple shorts.
Briggs had dedicated her life to soldiering, and excelled at it.
She loved her father but yearns to help Earthrealm in its fight against hostile realms.
Jacqui Briggs was the daughter of Jackson Briggs and his wife Vera Briggs. Briggs was very protective of her family, but was easily annoyed whenever her father’s history of being Quan Chi's slave is brought up, as shown when Kung Jin continues to casually do so.
Jacqui enjoys the time she spends with Cassie, but was often annoyed by her friend's lack of hindsight in their youth and is often the voice of reason when the two get into predicaments. During missions, Jacqui becomes very serious and supports Cassie’s leadership.
Most recently, she had become romantically involved with Takeda Takahashi, Kenshi’s son and Scorpion’s apprentice. The pair were later mentioned to had gotten engaged.
Powers and abilities
At some point, Jacqui became a professional kickboxer and eventually competed in the Junior Olympics and enlisted in a training camp. She was trained Junior grade Olympic boxer, able to go toe-to-toe with Cassie and knock a grown man unconscious with her bare hands. Her fighting skills were further developed through Special Forces training.
She uses a pair of electronic gauntlets that greatly enhance her physical strength and can fire plasma energy, shotgun rounds, or machine gun rounds and rockets, depending on her variation.
Later on, Jacqueline now sported augmented digitized leg additions which work in unison with her bionic arm guards. They serve to increase her kicking power and lower body mobility in conjunction with her gauntlets, allowing her to deliver several high speed energized kicks in an instant.
On top of the lower body armor, her upgraded equipment can further augment her physical melee by channeling energized currents through her limbs in order to further augment her impressive brawling power.
Ms. Briggs also better incorporates more of the advanced weapons tech of Earthrealm's outer world response agency in battle. Making greater use of explosives and barrier generator technologies in conjunction with the chaingun function of her augmentative bracers. Said gauntlets also dole out energy pulses as blasts and arcing grenades which can painfully cling an enemy in plasma fire.
By adulthood, she came to enlist in the Special Forces where she reached the rank of Specialist and held the position of Sergeant.
Notes
- Jacqui Briggs was voiced by actor Danielle Nicolet with motion capture done by Brenda Barrie where she featured in the setting of the Mortal Kombat universe.
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