Count Veger (Jak and Daxter)
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Count Veger is one of the prime characters of the Jak and Daxter series. He is a major villain and important character who makes his debut in Jak 3. Voiced by Phil LaMarr.
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[edit] Personality
"Yes. You were that child. I took you from Damas, hoping to harness your eco powers for my experiments...then I lost you to the Underground. You seem upset. Did I tell you too late? you were the son of the great warrior Damas. Oh, and he never knew...how delightful."- Veger showing his sense of dark humor over the death of Jak's father.
Count Veger is a cocky power broker and head of the Grand Council of Haven City and one of the major threats to the war. Veger is strict, punishing, and a man by-the-book. Daxter has a habit of mispronouncing his name by saying "Count Vulgar" or "Vegen", which infuriates Veger. He thinks himself superior to his opponents, that being Jak, Daxter, Ashelin Praxis, and her Freedom League. His "superiority" often gets him mocked by the main characters. He is also very cruel and has displayed schadenfreude in the death of Damas in front of Jak.
[edit] Appearance
Veger is a well-known character to the series for his slim features and hooked nose. He has a few bald spots on his head and appears to be in his late fifties or even early sixties. Veger is always wearing a suit with a cape to the back making him look of noble family.
As an ottsel, his fur is brown and tan, unlike the orange and yellow combinations of the others. His white shirt and red ascot remain in place, but his coat is gone. He still looks like he's going bald, even though he's covered in fur, so technically he isn't.
[edit] Background
He kidnapped Jak as a kid (prior to the events in Jak 2), and took him away from Damas's life. But Veger lost Jak to Kor and the Underground, meaning Veger would have a lot of knowledge about Jak's past.
[edit] Daxter
Count Veger is seen arguing with Erol about the Dark Warrior Program. During this time he is Baron Praxis's secondary lieutenant (next to Erol), being a magistrate in Baron Praxis's ministry, the later Grand Council.
[edit] Jak 3
Count Veger is seen at the very beginning banishing Jak to the Wasteland due to his own choice, not the Governor of Haven City, that being Ashelin. She protests at Veger for the choice but he's decided on his favorite choice for Jak, banish him. Pecker, Onin's interpreter and Daxter, Jak's sidekick aren't giving the option to be left for dead but go along as well. Ashelin saves Jak from Veger's sadistic way of leaving for death by giving him a beacon. When Veger returns to Haven with the governor he takes control of the remaining city, setting up signs of himself in the streets of New Haven and launches a suicide attack to the port claiming it only to have half of the Freedom League being cut off. Desperate, Veger activated a white shield barrier to prevent the Metal Heads from attacking from the ruins west to New Haven. He then started to look for way to accesess the catacombs via the help of the Golden Order Precursor Monks. Veger is seen later with an acquaintance of Jak, Seem. Veger promises her if she stays true to her word she will "Meet [her] makers." Veger ambushes Jak in a port from the eco mines to Haven City with a large Precursor robot. Veger runs away and is seen later coming into the Freedom League HQ, he claims that his guide through the catacombs, unlike Jak's, is more clearer but gets defeated in a vote between him and Jak. Ashelin then officially dissolves the Grand Council and strips Veger off his title, command and all priviledges. Veger has Damas killed in the ruins of Haven and at the footsteps to the catacombs so he and Jak can talk. Veger tells him his past and leaves for the core of the earth in the catacombs. Veger then holds Jak and Daxter at gun-point in the core on the Precursor platform when Jak is given the gift of eternity and becoming a Precursor but Veger takes it from Jak and becomes an ottsel (which is what a Precursor is). Veger insults the three leading Precursors and gets blasted away. Veger is seen later at the ceremony of Earth's win from the Dark Makers, he starts to leave with the other Precursors but is nominated as Kleiver's sidekick. Kleiver goes on to compete in the Kras City races and, for an unknown reason, Veger does not appear alongside him in Jak X.
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