Top 5 Dead Or Alive: Samurai Jack

You see the title. You know who’s name is in it. I don’t see what the fuck I gotta even give you an intro for. Samurai Jack put numbers on the board for Cartoon Network. Scratch that, run the track back — I don’t see what the fuck I gotta even give you an intro for. Samurai Jack put Cartoon Network on the map, I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t fucking care! I’m not hearing it. The finesse of the story telling, the detail of the visuals, and the adventures were taken to a point that had Samurai Jack rocking 4 Emmys (and a multitude of awards and nominations). I was fucking with it back in high school because I got to see a person of color voiced by a person of color coming for the throne in the anime/cartoon genre at the same damn time. I was there for it then and still here for it now. Let’s just talk about why Samurai Jack has his jersey in the rafters above some of the best to ever do it.

1) “I told you I would show up, screaming out “Akuuuuuuuuu” ’till the world blow up” Sun, we don’t even know Jack’s real name. All we know is he is the son of an emperor wielding a sword forged from human future and trying to sheath that shit up in Aku’s grill. Aku came to Earth talking that evil sorcerer shit, he was defeated and Jack was the back-up plan for his eventual return. Jack’s father (more on him later) met with the world leaders about the danger of Aku, then enacted a plan that was simply, “If something happens to me take my lil mans right here and make him the most dangero…