Daxter
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| Titles | Orange Lightning Precursor Dark Daxter |
| Hometown | Haven City (formely Sandover Village) |
| Race | Ottsel |
| Role | Ally Mission Support Metal-Bug Exterminator |
| Age | Jak X: 20 |
| Gender | Male |
| Relatives | None |
| Affiliation | Everyone |
| Weapons | Melee attacks Electric Bug Swatter Spray Gun Flamethrower Attachment Ultrasonic Attachment |
- This is the article about the character. For information about the 2006 PSP game, click here.
- "Hey, I'm the real hero here. You can call me 'Orange Lightning!' Zazazing!"
- ―Daxter (from Jak 3)
Daxter is the secondary character from the Jak & Daxter video game series. He's also Jak's sidekick. He is technically an Ottsel, though also a Precursor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
It is unknown if Daxter has a family. Possibly, he is an orphan raised by Samos or another village resident. What is known is that Jak and Daxter are life-long friends, always getting each other into trouble along the way.
[edit] Jak & Daxter: the Precursor Legacy
In the beginning of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak and Daxter are making their way to Misty Island, the one place Samos told them not to go to. They arrive on the island just in time to witness a large gathering of Lurkers being commanded by two unknown twisted people. Little did they know that a Lurker saw them. Jak and Daxter, worried by what they have seen, are on their way off the island when they are confronted by a pool of Dark Eco. Daxter trips over a Precursor Artifact. He throws it over to Jak and begins ranting about the Precursors ("Where did they go? Why did they build this crap?"), when the artifact begins glowing in Jak's hands to the surprise of both. Just then, the Lurker that spotted them came appeared and runs up on the duo to attack. Jak throws the Precursor artifact barrel at the Lurker and kills it, but the explosion throws Daxter into the Dark Eco pool. Daxter flies back out of the pit, unharmed, but has been changed into an ottsel, a mix of an otter and a weasel. They return to Sandover Village and seek help from Samos, the Sage of Green Eco, but he proclaims that he couldn't help Daxter, even if he wanted to. He adds that only Gol Acheron, the Sage of Dark Eco, can help change Daxter back but he lives far to the north. Thus, Jak and Daxter embark on a journey to find Gol Acheron. Unfortunately, it turns out that Gol and his sister Maia were corrupted by Dark Eco and were the pair commanding the hoard of Lurkers at Misty Island. At the near end, Jak battles Gol and Maia and defeats them with the help of the four Sages who combined their powers to form the extremely rare and powerful Light Eco. Daxter realizes that the Light Eco would change him back to normal. He is now forced to make a tough decision: allow Jak to use the Light Eco to defeat Gol and Maia's Precursor Robot or use it to return to his human form. He decides to allow Jak to save the world and stay an Ottsel forever.
[edit] Daxter
In the beginning of Daxter (game), while inside a bar, Daxter is bragging to the patrons about his "adventures," leaving very little impression on his audience, except for an old man named Osmo, head of the Kridder Ridder Extermination Company, who sees Daxter's potential and offers him a job as an exterminator. Daxter is uncertain, but Osmo manages to persuade him into the job. He then completes various bug-exterminating jobs throughout limited parts of the city while also trying to find Jak and free him from imprisonment, all the while continuously thwarting the plans of the evil Kaedan and the Metal-Bugs.
[edit] Jak II
In Jak II, almost immediately after the events recounted in Daxter (game), the ottsel finds Jak and helps him break out of the Haven City Fortress Prison. They meet up with a group of Rebellion fighters known as The Underground, where Daxter meets a girl named Tess, who takes a strong liking to him despite his being an Ottsel. At the end of the game Daxter turns the Hip-Hog Heaven Saloon into The Naughty Ottsel. It displays pictures of Daxter. In Jak II, he can play a game similar to Whac-A-Mole.In the only time daxter is playable he is running from a huge spider in Mar's Tomb
[edit] Jak 3
During Jak 3, Jak and Daxter discover that ottsels are the fabled Precursors in the series' mythology. When the Precursors offer to grant him a wish at the end of the game, he decides to stay as an Ottsel, wishing only for a snazzy pair of pants. The Precursors then creatively interpret a comment by Tess turn her into an ottsel as well. Daxter also has the ability to shoot all twelve different variations of the Morph Gun while Jak is on a Jet Board or Zoomer. If you look closely while Jak is riding the Jet Board
, Daxter is riding the board
[edit] Jak X
By the time of Jak X, Daxter is one of the victims that was poisoned. He plays a significantly lesser part in this game. He is eventually cured by the end of the game. He is, however, available as an unlockable character in the secrets section.
[edit] Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
Daxter went to the brink with Jak to help escort Keira in her quest of becoming a sage. At one point early on, he is doused with Dark Eco, causing him to turn into an eight-foot monster with enhanced melee attacks. Some fans believe this doesn't make sense, because Daxter had already been touched by Dark Eco. He says in Jak 3, "Look at me, Jak; I'm short, I'm hairy, and I itch in strange places. I couldn't do worse." The fact that he turned into a raging, crazy, man-eating monster is only referenced about twice in the entire game, and most critics say it was a bad move on High Impact's part. Ingame the Dark Daxter sequences have absolutely no connection to the story what so ever and comes at more or less completely random moments. In addition to critics many players have stated these sections are a waste of time.
[edit] Personality
[edit] Attitude
Daxter is cowardous character who always hides behind Jak's back and alway trys to refuse facing some danger. Before Jak goes on a fight with Klaww, Daxter says "Jak, I think you are ready to face that monster. I'll stay here and protect Kiera" or before Jak goes to the Metal Head Tower he says "I'll stay here and... protect Sig!". But in Daxter game his heroical nature was realy revealed, showing that if he has no one to protect him, he can protect himself and that his friendship with Jak is undying. On rare occasions Daxter proves heroic even in the presence of Jak. Most notably in Jak III after Count Veger have taunted Jak about Damas being his father and then going down into the catacombs Daxter imediately shouts "Lets get him!".
Daxter, for the most part, is almost never serious and constantly goofs around. But he's always supportive of Jak, especially when he really needs it. Daxter says many memorable lines, perhaps his most famous being, "Stay fuzzy, save the world. Choices," from the end of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. Daxter has many nicknames for certain characters, particularly Samos and Krew. He also finds himself at odds with other characters, especially Samos in the first game, but also with Krew and Pecker. Daxter will find himself insulted plainly by Samos (one prime example of that is that when Jak and Daxter show up from Misty Island in the intro, Samos says that even if he could turn Daxter back into a human, he wouldn't do so, saying that Daxter's having been turned into an Ottsel is actually an improvement) and won't respond back to him. Samos obviously begins to do this after tiring of putting up with Daxter for so long. Samos insults Daxter to such a high level in that when Jak and Daxter meet The Shadow (the younger Samos) in Jak II (who does not recognize the heroes), he says to Daxter, "I never forget a face, especially one that ugly". The only response on Daxter's part is to quietly say to himself, "So it begins." However, when it counts, Samos reminds both Jak and Daxter how they are true heroes.
[edit] Daxter and Pants
A running gag is that for almost the entire time Daxter has been an ottsel, he's complained about not having pants; in Jak II, in response to Jak asking "Where would you be without me, eh, Dax?", Daxter replies, "Well, Jak, I probably wouldn't be two feet tall, fuzzy, and running around in a sewer without a pair of pants. God, I miss pants." At the end of Jak 3, he decides he wants pants more than to be turned back normal. He is granted a pair of three-quarter length denim shorts by the Precursor Leader. When Tess remarks that she wishes she "had a pair of pants just like those," the Precursor leader tells her to "be careful what you wish for." He then turns
[edit] Tess
When Jak & Daxter]] first meet Tess in Jak II, she's with Torn at the Underground in the Slums. She doesn't say anything to either of them & the next time we see her is several missions later when she's undercover as a barmaid at the Hip-Hog Heaven Saloon. She has been sent there by Torn to spy on Krew. Daxter flirts with her & she seems to give the air that she enjoys his antics but cannot take him seriously because he's an ottsel. In Jak 3 however, Tess' personality seems to have changed considerably from reserved to perky & lovey-dovey, & she now takes a much greater interest in Daxter hugging & squeezing him. She also almost completely ignores Jak, leading him to exhibit subtle signs of jealousy at the attention that Daxter is getting from her, such as when he exasperatedly suggests that Daxter & Tess should "get a room". Tess' role has evolved from Daxter's crush in Jak II to his fully fledged girlfriend in Jak 3. Tess has told Jak to protect Daxter or else she would hunt him down & "hurt him real bad" multiple times in the series.
[edit] Trivia
When Jak transforms into either Dark or Light form, Daxter will do a different pose:
- In Dark form, Daxter is scowling and crouching down with his teeth bared.
- In Light form, Daxter is standing straight up with a placid smile and his hands folded in prayer (supposedly).
- When driving, it is actually Daxter who is operating the Morph Gun while Jak steers. So technically you're playing as Daxter.
- In Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (another game by Naughty Dog), in the beginning of the game, Drake's swimsuit says "Ottsel" on his chest and there is a picture of Daxter on his arm.
- Daxter is a character available on PAIN for the PS3 as downloadable content.
- In J&D 1 (and occasionally in 3, if you die repeatedly in said game) Daxter offers a humorous smart remark (ex;"I'll say something really teary at the funeral like "How am I going to get changed back now!?" "Jak can I.. uuh...have your insect collection?" - Daxter).
[edit] Etimology
- Like the most part of character's names, Daxter's name spawns from the ordinary Dexter.
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