The Birth of Evil
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| “The Birth of Evil” | |
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| Samurai Jack episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 11-12 |
| Written by | Don Shank Genndy Tartakovsky |
| Directed by | Genndy Tartakovsky Randy Myers Robert Alvarez |
| Production no. | 311-312 |
| Original airdate | August 16, 2003 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| List of Samurai Jack episodes | |
The Birth of Evil is a two-part serial of Samurai Jack's third season. The episodes aired on August 16, 2003.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Part 1
This "epic" story tells how Aku came to exist, and how he came to be in conflict with Jack's father.
Shortly after the birth of the universe, a gigantic, black entity of pure evil emerged into the depths of space, and was all but destroyed by three god-like beings known as "the deities", Odin, Ra, and Rama. During the battle, a small fragment fell away from the entity and drifted through space for an unknown period of time before falling to Earth during the era of the dinosaurs, thereby causing their extinction.
This fallen fragment became a dark sickness that infected the land, slowly, but surely spreading around the country and plaguing everything in its path throughout the course of Earth's primitive history. Jack's father attempted to dispel the evil with an arrow coated in a special substance fired at the core of the evil. However, the arrow did not destroy the evil, but instead gave it self-awareness, personality, humanoid form and the capacity to shape-shift. Aku was born.
[edit] Part 2
Continuation of the story (as told to a young Jack in the first episode of the series) about how his father defeated Aku.
Jack's father was chosen by the deities to destroy Aku, and was given the sword forged from the goodness in his heart to do it. At the end of their epic battle, Aku was imprisoned within the earth in the form of a giant, twisted, gnarled, black tree.
[edit] Trivia
- When the mythical cloud horse (possibly Sleipnir) comes down to help Jack's father out of a tight spot, his hooves, when connecting to the ground, make flowers, vines, and grass spring from dead earth. A similar scene is in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke as the Forest God walks, things grow.
