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Jack's sword, forged by the gods Odin, Ra, and Vishnu, went missing at some point after Season 4 ended and before Jack grew his hair and beard out. Our hero now sports a beard and armor, and it's a terrific reference to the climax of the show's original pilot film, in which Jack took out an army of the mechanical bugs on his own.īut one thing's obviously missing, and Scaramouche, the musically minded assassin Jack faces later in the episode, points it out: "Wait, back off, Beardsley. As quickly as a giant robot beetle army circles a mother and two children, Jack makes his heroic entrance, mowing them down with a spike-wheeled motorcycle and blowing them all away with guns and explosives. The Samurai Jack premiere, "XCII," drops viewers right into battle. Here's what we know about where the season will go so far, based on last night's premiere and information established by previous episodes of the series: Cartoon Network And as we learn in a flashback, no longer possesses his iconic, magic sword. The setup of the new season is simple: Jack, who has not aged after 50 years of fighting Aku's forces in the future, has grown weary of his struggle and his guilt. The premiere episode, now available to stream online, is a banger that rivals the epic scope of Game of Thrones, carries the emotional weight of Logan, and features more robots than Westworld could shake a pistol at. Luckily, to the ecstatic applause of Jack fans everywhere, Cartoon Network's Toonami commissioned one final season for 2017.

The saga of a samurai from the past fighting an evil wizard in the future, Tartakovsky had planned on finishing the story in a movie. Thirteen years ago, Samurai Jack, the action-packed, animated brainchild of Genndy Tartakovsky ( Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Powerpuff Girls), ended with little fanfare after a fourth season.