Jean Jacquemonde
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Jean Jacquemonde (ジャン・ジャックモンド Jan Jakkumondo?) is a fictional character in the manga series Spriggan. He is a French Spriggan operator who is based in ARCAM's French branch.
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[edit] Origin
[edit] Pre-Spriggan
Born in France, he was subsequently raised by Rick Bordeau and Maria Felton, having Mark Felton as his younger brother. During his pre-teen days, Jean was a street fighter who fought against Trident Corporation agents who were becoming more and more interested in him due to his Werewolf genes that were not used from his DNA. In order to do this, Maria and Mark Felton were kidnapped as a bargaining chip for Jean to cooperate.[1] Later on, a young Tea Flatte who Jean met after beating a group of Trident Corporation agents had infiltrated the Trident research facility where Jean was held. Freeing him from captivity, Jean then used his own will to transform into a werewolf and subsequently escaped from the research center when he was eventually recruited by ARCAM as their Spriggan agent.
[edit] Spriggan life
During his time with the Spriggans, he actively assisted Yu Ominae in battling enemies of the ARCAM Corporation from Turkey all the way to the forests of Japan fighting Machiner's Platoon soldiers to brainwashed COSMOS child soldiers. In his first appearance in Turkey, Jean had his first werewolf transformation when Little Boy riddled him with a barrage of bullets from his Colt XM177 assault rifle. Eventually killing his assailant in his werewolf stage by punching Little Boy's head away into pieces of flesh, Jean overcame platoons of Machiner's Platoon soldiers sent to stop him with several dozens dead with others severely wounded.[2]
When Jean was deployed in a mission to Romania, confronted his ex-father who told him of his heritage.[3] In an operation in Ecuador, Jean was severely wounded by Oboro when he first changed Jean into a werewolf before stabbing his chest with a sharp stick, leaving him for death. Fortunately, Percup Ramdi did an operation that managed to heal Jean of his wounds and further acceleterated his rate of self-healing. It is unknown whether he could still transform into a werewolf on his own.[4] In a mission to prevent COSMOS from extracting Rie Yamabishi to the US, Jean stormed a US Army base in Japan alongside Yu and Oboro. However, they were unable to prevent COSMOS forces from escaping.
Jean, grudgingly, teamed up with Iwao Akatsuki and Bo Brantz, two of ARCAM's most fearsome enemies in sabotaging a Trident operation when Larry Markson attempted to harness the power of the South Pole Shrine in order to take control of the world. With Bo's death, the three took on Larry's forces before they were able to get rid of the Fire Snake with the help of Yoshino Somei, Rie Yamabishi and other ARCAM personnel who were forced to assist Trident in gaining access to the fiery artifact.
[edit] Non-Canon Appearnce
In Spriggan: Gold Rush, Jean had minor assistance with Yu when he secured captured research scientists tied up by Trident commandos.
[edit] Character
Jean is both a fierce Spriggan operator and a man with a good heart. Though he appears to be a cruel person who did not spare the life of Fatman when he was critically wounded, Jean had his reasons to do so. He warns Yu of his Spriggan duties and not to slack off since their secret war would safeguard every person in the planet,[5] though he didn't hesistate to blow his head off with his Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun when Yu tried to finish Fatman off.[6]
During combat, he tends to be cocky and boasts about either himself or his skills and does not have any sympathy to those who murder people for their own ambitions or because they feel they were doing the right thing.[7][8] He is also boastful to other Spriggan operatives who don't look out for themselves when they are in trouble.[9]
[edit] Trivia
- Jean's surname name in the OVA was Jacquemondo. Whether or not it was a mistake or not remains a mystery.
[edit] References
- ^ Not much information is revealed on what happened to them, but they were assumed to be killed by Trident agents after Larry Markson learned of Jean's escape from their French research center
- ^ The werewolf transformation was only shown in the Noah's Ark chapter of Spriggan. It was not shown until he was deployed in Ecuador.
- ^ Rick Bordeau confronted Jean and explained that his werewolf genes were from him, thus making him and Jean the only known carriers of the said gene in their family line.
- ^ In a gunfight with COSMOS child soldiers, now under the auspices of the Trident Corporation, he saw his own blood when he was shot in the chest and legs. His werewolf transformation did not occur possibly because Percup Ramdi used his faith healing techniques to restrain him from doing so.
- ^ Jean warns that every man, woman and child will be endangered if Yu doesn't execute his duties properly as a Spriggan
- ^ This scene occurred only in the OVA.
- ^ During the Turkey mission, Jean boasts that he wanted to finish off Fatman and Little Boy because they are oppressors since they "fit the bill", an indication of his hatred against those who want to use out-of-place artifacts to rule the world and turn the Earth into their own utopia
- ^ Jean: "Jean Jaquemonde is here to stomp on oppressors. You fit the bill."
- ^ Jean fired a PG-2 rocket from an RPG-2 on Fatman's M61 Vulcan ammo pack, scolding Yu on letting him beat him hard after saving him.
[edit] See also
| Characters |
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| Yu Ominae | Jean Jacquemonde | Tea Flatte | Oboro | Yamamoto | Rie Yamabishi | Yoshino Somei | Mayzel | Iwao Akatsuki | Bo Brantz | Larry Markson | Henry Garnum | Sho Kanaya | Minor Spriggan characters |
| Organizations |
| ARCAM Corporation | ARCAM Private Army | Trident Corporation | COSMOS | Spriggans | Minor Spriggan organizations |
| Mystical locations |
| Forest of No Return | Phantom Island | Reverse Babel Tower | South Pole Shrine |
| Mystical artifacts |
| Fire Orb | Mask of Palenque | Noah's Ark | Berserker | Crystal Skull | Program YAMA | Holy Grail | Vajrayana | Ark of the Covenant | Megiddo Flame | Gold Statue of Pachacamac |
| Other mystical items |
| Armored Machine Suit | Armored Muscle Suit | Hihiirokane | Magical Circle of Chaos | Message Plate | Omihalcon | Soma |
| Others |
| Franchise | ISBN Codes |
