Did Daxter Ever Get to Be Human Again

This page is nearly the character. For the 2006 PlayStation Portable game, see Daxter (game).

Daxter is the deuteragonist of the Jak and Daxter series, beingness the secondary titular playable character, and the supporting sidekick of Jak throughout the master series. He also serves every bit the chief graphic symbol in the cocky-titled spin-off game, Daxter.

He is a one-time human, and was transformed into a Forerunner ottsel upon falling into a night eco silo in The Precursor Legacy. He made his debut in the commencement game at xv years old, with his almost contempo known age at nineteen during Jak X: Combat Racing.^[i] He was raised in Sandover Hamlet alongside his best friend Jak before traveling to the futurity to go a well-known hero.^[2] ^[three] ^[4] ^[v]

Daxter is voiced past Max Casella throughout the series, and Richard McGonagle as Dark Daxter.

History [ ]

Before The Forerunner Legacy [ ]

Nothing is revealed of Daxter'due south past. It is unknown where he originally came from, if he had any family, or how he met Jak and Samos, though it is known that Samos often employed Daxter to clean his hut, and Daxter grew upwards with Jak, though other than this, Daxter'southward story picks upward in the get-go of The Forerunner Legacy.

The Precursor Legacy [ ]

In the beginning of The Precursor Legacy, Jak and Daxter snuck off to Misty Island confronting their watch over Samos Hagai's permission, where Daxter—in human grade—cruel into a dark eco silo after being confronted past a bone armor lurker. Daxter reemerged in the form of an ottsel. They returned to Samos' hut, just to notice that the but person that could change them dorsum was Gol Acheron who lived far n of the continent, and had non been in contact with any of the other sages in years. Additionally, Samos Hagai did not have the ability to teleport them to the dark eco expert, as the other sages' teleport gates had been disabled for "quite a while". Jak and Daxter then go along an adventure collecting power cells in club to power the A-Grav Zoomer'south heat shield so they may travel above volcanic areas in lodge to reach Gol Acheron.

While in Cerise Sage'due south hut in the Volcanic Crater, information technology is revealed that Gol, and his sister Maia, had been overexposed by dark eco and underwent malignant mental alteration, and kidnapped all of the sages and then they tin inundation the world with dark eco past opening the nighttime eco silos using a Precursor robot powered by the rest of the sages' power. When Jak and Daxter were contesting the evil siblings, four large towers emitted large eco beams to create light eco, which Daxter theorized could turn him back. Nevertheless, the light eco could too be used to destroy Gol and Maia and save the world. Daxter decides to salve the globe and remains in his ottsel form for the foreseeable futurity.

Daxter [ ]

In the beginning of Daxter, while inside a bar, Daxter was seen bragging to the patrons about his "adventures", leaving very niggling impression on his audition, except for an old man named Osmo, head of the Kridder Ridder extermination visitor, who saw Daxter'south potential and offered him a job as a metal bug exterminator. Daxter was at showtime uncertain, either considering he did not necessarily want the task, or because he was in the midst of a 2-year-long mission to find his imprisoned companion. However Osmo managed to persuade him into the chore. He then completed various bug-exterminating jobs throughout limited parts of the city while also trying to find Jak and costless him from imprisonment, all the while continuously disappointment the plans of the evil Kaeden.

After a successful task at the Westside Hotel, Daxter meets Taryn at the construction site and she gives him a spray pack. After completing a few more jobs (including an encounter with a hive queen), Daxter sees Jak in a prison house zoomer. He attempts to rescue Jak, but the prison zoomer leads him directly into a group of Krimzon Guards. Luckily, Ximon, Osmo's son, rescues Daxter and explains that there is "something brewing" at a tanker in the Port. Witnessing this conversation was Kaeden, the man who had been trying to close down every Extermination Company in Haven City so the Metal Heads and Metal Bugs could become into the city nether the command of Metal Kor, the Metallic Head leader. After cleaning up the tanker, Daxter meets Tik, who becomes a sort of sidekick to him. Towards the terminate of the game Daxter is helped by Ximon to locate Jak and costless him, thus starting the events of Jak II.

Jak Ii [ ]

In Jak Ii, immediately after the events recounted in Daxter, Daxter found Jak and helped him interruption out of the Haven City fortress prison house. Outside they run across two persons coincidentally waiting for them outside of the prison house. It was an elderly homo introduced as Kor, with a child by his side. Jak and Daxter shortly thereafter had to defeat a squadron of guards in club to "protect" the human and the kid, where Kor then directs them to the Underground movement. At that place Daxter met Tess, where over the course of the game they formed a relationship. Jak and Daxter are sent on various missions working for new characters. Daxter was only playable a few times in the game: First in the Tomb of Mar while beingness chased by a Widowmaker; second during the Class 2 race afterward Jak and Keira, the pb race squad member and race team mechanic respectively, had a feud; and finally during the Metal Head Brew mini-game.

Jak 3 [ ]

In the beginning of Jak 3, Jak, along with a few of the Chiliad Quango of Haven City representatives, a few soldier escorts, Daxter, and Bill are transported to the Wasteland as Jak was being banished there for life, plant guilty in association with the traitor gang-lord Krew. Daxter was permitted to go back to the urban center, and told to practise so by Jak, though he stayed behind in the Wasteland, constitute behind the cloud of dust left by the air train. This illustrated the inseparable relationship between Jak and Daxter. Over the course of the game, Daxter helps Jak through Spargus and the Wasteland as his sidekick. In the latter parts of the game, information technology is revealed that ottsels are actually Precursors, and Daxter was instead "blessed" instead of his perception of being "cursed". Whenever the Ottsel Leader granted Daxter any wish for helping Jak save the universe, he wished for a pair of pants. Daxter has worn these pants in every game afterward this time. When Tess, Daxter's main love interest, expressed that she "wished she had a pair just like those", the Precursor comically inverse her into an ottsel, further solidifying the two's relationship.

Daxter is playable in various missions throughout the game, starting with the Wasteland, when he helped Jak corral wild leapers; and then in the Nifty Volcano, where he pushed downward a pillar helping Jak traverse parts of the volcanic surface area; in the Port where he manned a missile turret to deactivate a KG bulwark; in the eco grid where he collected the necessary codes to deactivate the grid; and in the KG war factory to actuate and deactivate barrier devices. Every bit with Jak Ii, Daxter also operated the Morph Gun while Jak was driving a zoomer, and additionally rode aslope Jak while using the JET-Board.

Jak Ten: Combat Racing [ ]

During Jak X: Gainsay Racing, Daxter, along with Jak, Keira, Ashelin Praxis and Torn were poisoned with black shade past Rayn after toasting to his death while attending his volition in Kras Urban center. Krew's post-life holographic host said that the group would accept to enter the Kras City Grand Championship and win in club to receive the antitoxin.

Daxter played a minor function in this game, though did serve every bit an unlockable character afterward playing for five hours. He however retained his pants received from the Precursors in Jak 3. Daxter and Tess' human relationship was hardly nowadays during this game, except towards the stop when they were featured having a potable together at the Naughty Ottsel.

The Lost Borderland [ ]

Daxter traveled to Brink Island along with Jak and Keira to assistance find a new eco source after the globe began shorting out. After helping an Aeropan air craft, the group travels to Aeropa, where Daxter falls into a sewerage network while travelling the town. While nervously exploring the sewers, Daxter was doused with large amounts of dark eco waste product, transforming him into a large beast known as Dark Daxter. Daxter, like Dark Jak, was able to perform enhanced gainsay abilities while in this form including throwing dark eco bolts, smashing the ground with superstrength, and a frenzy where he spins in a storm.

Characteristics [ ]

Appearance [ ]

Earlier becoming an ottsel, Daxter appeared to be an ordinary, orange-haired, buck-toothed boy with red and white tunic with fair trousers. He too appeared to exist a few inches shorter than Jak. Afterwards the transformation, Daxter became a 2-foot-ten-inch-tall^[6] ^[7] mustelid with orange fur and a yellow underbelly. He oftentimes made remarks nearly his claws, whiskers, and paws, typical to a mustelid species.

Throughout the games Daxter makes various remarks virtually how he misses pants. In Jak iii, nevertheless, he is granted a pair of three-quarter length denim shorts with a pocket-sized hole for his tail by the Ottsel Leader upon request after the Precursor granted him one wish.

Daxter besides retains goggles and aviator's gloves throughout the entire series equally a abiding aesthetic.

Personality [ ]

Daxter has provided comical relief throughout the series, and despite being a significant plot gene in The Precursor Legacy and Daxter, was not really nowadays there for whatever purpose otherwise.

In an interview with Naughty Dog's creative managing director, Dan Arey, it was stated that "Jak is the hero you desire to be, Daxter is the hero you're afraid you are. Daxter is only a footling bit concerned, a trivial fleck afraid, and he would rather have the easy way out."^[8] He also stated that they used Daxter as a "secret weapon" for when scenes outset to get boring,^[viii] allowing the character to use witty only camp jokes, often using poor pickup lines and allusion. Daxter besides, despite being cowardly, attempts to paint himself in the hero's light, exaggerating stories to make him out to be the "real" hero, with Jak only as a sidekick, though when faced with danger aptly backs away.

Admitting, Daxter has shown some heroic and loyal traits, sending later on Veger when he taunted Jak most his babyhood and early separation from Damas, his father. Daxter likewise stayed behind with Jak when he was banished to the Wasteland, and also went on a two-year-long journeying to complimentary his friend from prison house. Additionally, afterward existence doused with nighttime eco for a 2nd time, Dark Daxter appears to be braver and reckless, being a self-proclaimed "top-of-the-nutrient-concatenation" predator.

Abilities [ ]

Daxter has very few notable abilities. He was playable in Jak II, Jak three, and The Lost Borderland during a few sections when only Daxter could reach certain areas because of his size. His move-set is relatively similar to Jak'due south, though simplified. He tin spin kick, and whack his enemies with a lunging strike forward using his tail. He is too capable of hanging on to netting, allowing him to climb and swing from place-to-place. He has too proven to be a very skilled driver despite his size, having placed commencement in the Grade 2 race during Jak Ii. He is as well a skilled combatant (usually when faced against creatures shut to his size) equally shown in Daxter for his ability to exterminate metal bug infestations, even taking on creatures of behemoth proportions such every bit Issues queens as well every bit Kor's right hand, Kaeden.

Information technology was not until The Lost Frontier when Nighttime Daxter became bachelor, that he had whatever special abilities. Dark Daxter was dissimilar to Dark Jak and replaced many usual playable Daxter sections. Dark Daxter was a huge monster that could selection up and throw enemies, shoot dark eco bolts, and slam his fists on the ground. He could also use a powerful frenzy assail, which was an immensely fast spinning set on which used up dark eco quickly, just could break through several things such every bit doors, and quickly defeat enemies.

Equipment [ ]

Daxter uses very lilliputian equipment throughout the series. In all games, he retains goggles and gloves. During Daxter, Osmo gave Daxter exterminator's equipment which included an electrical bug swatter, a spray gun, a flamethrower attachment for that spray gun, and an ultrasonic attachment also, which was similar to the spray gun, only launched "ultrasonic" bombs at enemies. Daxter will also operate the Morph Gun while Jak is driving a zoomer.

Relationships [ ]

Jak [ ]

Daxter has had numerous relationships with other characters throughout the series. The first, and almost meaning is his closest companion and co-titular character, Jak. They have been close friends throughout the series, and maintain an inseparable nature, seen especially in Jak iii, when Daxter stayed behind with Jak as he was being banished to the Wasteland, and when Jak stayed behind with Daxter when he was offered to travel the universe with the Precursors. Additionally, Daxter spent ii years in Haven Metropolis trying to free his friend from prison. Daxter has likewise shown a protective nature over Jak, citing that "nobody hurts [his] friend, and lives to brag about it."^[5]

Love interests [ ]

Daxter has displayed flirtatious attitudes towards multiple women multiple times throughout the series. Starting with The Forerunner Legacy, Daxter invited Keira out on a date on the A-Grav Zoomer she was working on, and additionally tried to get her to notice him various times by strutting and flirting.^[2] While she admired Daxter as a friend, she allow him know that she was clearly not interested in him romantically. In Daxter, he also fabricated remarks towards Taryn. Starting in Jak Ii, Daxter met Ashelin Praxis, and other than making a few remarks in two consecutive cutscenes did not show much more interest in her than in other previously met female characters (though this may be because Ashelin threatened him with violence and so mostly ignored him afterward). During Jak 2 Daxter also met Tess (who goes on to exist his primary love interest) which at beginning he shows little interest. When he meets her at the bar, he begins to evidence some gradual involvement. He afterward brags to her about his would-be adventures, which she believes instantly and becomes impressed with Daxter's "prowess" and "heroism". Daxter takes a liking to her largely because of this. In Jak 3, their relationship appears to become more than serious as Daxter does non flirt with whatever other female graphic symbol. Their relationship is farther solidified when Tess was transformed into an ottsel towards the end of Jak three.

Not-canon appearances [ ]

PlayStation Move Heroes [ ]

Daxter, along with Jak, appeared in the game PlayStation Motion Heroes, accompanying characters from similar and affiliated video games, Ratchet & Clank, and Sly Cooper. Jak and Daxter were sucked into a wormhole which subsequently dumped them on a mysterious planet, where Jak offset suspected Ratchet of the sudden turn of events.

It was and so revealed that two creatures named Lunk and Gleeber were responsible, who set a competition for the three duos known equally the "Inter-Universal Hero Games". The Games were really a malicious plot to steal chunks of the planets of the heroes in order to form a ring effectually a mysterious new planet in the universe, Lunk and Gleeber existence an evil alien duo who enslaved an conflicting race known every bit Whibbles, forcing them to mine the heroes' planets hollow. The squad defeats the conflicting duo and manages to use the device for themselves to render home safely.

PlayStation All-Stars Boxing Royale [ ]

Daxter and Jak also appear in the game PlayStation All-Stars Boxing Royale. In their story, Jak and Daxter set up out to find a stronger source of eco. They meet Ratchet and Clank and proceed to fight after Daxter mistakes them for a two-headed brute, meanwhile Clank calls him a weasel animal where after it escalates speedily.

They went through several more than battles, fighting against various strange characters and people. Eventually they managed to win and remember the "eco", which turns out to be "All-Star Power", an unrelated power source. They then return dwelling house. This is the first game since Jak 3 which reflects upon Daxter and Tess' relationship again, after Daxter citing that he wishes to return home to her.^[9]

In other media [ ]

Information technology can be seen in the beginning of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune that an ottsel head (possibly Daxter'south) on the arm of Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher, as well as the word "ottsel" across the chest.
In Wipeout Pure, a transport called the Daxtinator was available every bit DLC. The ship is modeled after Daxter.
Daxter is featured equally a DLC character in the PlayStation 3 exclusive game Pain.
In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, when Ratchet gains a gadget piece, Clank does the same dance as Daxter when a power cell is collected, but is interrupted by Ratchet. A sign poster of Jak and Daxter tin can also be found occasionally in that game.
In the game Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, the histrion can collect a treasure called "Lutrela nivadensis" which is Daxter wearing a leopard skin loincloth. Its clarification is, "The Lutrela Nivadensis is a rare hybrid species of the Carnivora family. It is known for its orangish fur and loud mouth."^[10]
Daxter makes an appearance during Uncharted iii: Drake'due south Deception multiplayer.
Daxter appears in the 2016 movie Ratchet & Clank when Clank is trying to identify Ratchet.

References [ ]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Naughty Canis familiaris (2005). Jak X: Combat Racing. PlayStation 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Naughty Dog (2012). Jak and Daxter: The Forerunner Legacy. PlayStation 3. Sony Interactive Amusement.
↑ Fix at Dawn (2006). Daxter. PlayStation Portable. Sony Interactive Amusement.
↑ Naughty Canis familiaris (2012). Jak Two. PlayStation 3. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ ^five.0 ^5.1 Naughty Dog (2012). Jak three. PlayStation three. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ Naughty Dog (2012). Jak II. PlayStation three. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ Naughty Dog (2005). Jak X: Combat Racing. PlayStation 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Video Game News - Naughty Dog's creative director talks about Jak X: Combat Racing. GameZone. 2004. Accessed {{{access-date}}}.
↑ SuperBot Entertainment (2012). PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale. PlayStation 3. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
↑ Sanzaru Games (2013). Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. PlayStation iii. Sony Interactive Amusement.

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