The Real Story Behind Jackie Chan Adventures
Let take a break from Looney tunes so you breath a little before my 2 final part of looney tunes or maybe more not sure i will search each character if you love karate and doing Chinese moves you going to love this one well i respect the real Jackie Chan movies but what the cartoon one is hiding let find out on the lucky amulet.
So you remember all those Talismans he collect that give him powers and the ending was getting all together to the dragons to wait him up and cause more trouble to get everything back to normal again...
there one about time travel...
There are four JCA episodes that feature time travel - ‘Rabbit Run’, where the time travel is done through Section 13 technology and the rabbit talisman; 'J2’ and 'J2 Revisited’, where Future Jade escapes into the past with Uncle’s chi magic; and the 'Deja Vu Stone’, where the time travel’s done through the stone.
I’m going to define references -
- Past [character] = version of character prior to the main episode time period, ie. usually ~1976, where Jackie Chan is about ten
- Present [character] = version of character during the main episode time period, ie. ~2000, where Jackie Chan is about thirty-four
- Future [character] = version of character after the main episode time period, ie. usually ~2020, where Jade Chan is grown up and an agent
The clues I used are below the cut.
- In 'Rabbit Run’, Present Jade turns up in the past and helps out her young uncle - and while she’s doing so, Present Jackie notices that a scar on his arm which he remembers is now missing. Present Jackie continued to expect the scar to be there even after it vanished from his arm.
- In the same episode, Past Jackie nearly drowns; Present Jackie notices that he seems to be fading out of existence at the same moment this happens.
- Present Valmont and Present Jackie also don’t seem to remember meeting while they were still children, even though the time travel ensured they did.
- In J2, Future Jade states she has only an hour to save her future. She destroys Shendu’s teeth at the fifty-ninth minute or so. Fifty-nine minutes after Future Jade disappears into the past, a trussed-up Future Uncle and Future Jackie notice that the dragon teeth no longer exist and cannot be used to summon Future Shendu to eat them.
- In J2 Revisited, Future Jade has the source of Future Jimmy’s/Iso’s power destroyed in the past, but this does not erase Future Jimmy/Iso being hauled off to jail for his misdeeds.
Which leads to the Folding Theory (not an idea original to me).
Imagine Time as a linear tapestry sewn to a long piece of cloth, running forward in a line.
Time travel then folds the cloth, so that two different parts of the line are now running parallel to each other along the fold. The fold itself still runs in a forward direction.
Now, since the cloth’s been brought together, the front fold can affect the back fold, and the back fold can affect the front fold. (The back fold is the past and the front fold the future.) But this only lasts as long as the fold does. If the fold’s held in place for only an hour, then once that hour is done, the tapestry returns to lying in a flat, linear design.
The fold is now taken out. The tapestry’s linear again. The back fold and the front fold now have nothing to do with each other.
The changes in the front fold design only appear on that part of the front fold. The front fold can still trace back the exact previous design on the tapestry that led to the present design.
The changes in the back fold only appear on that back fold. And the back fold now splits away and becomes its own separate piece of cloth, because it’s no longer the same fold that produced the front fold. As the design on that new back fold unfolds forwards, it may continue in a design similar to that which led to the front fold, or it may become totally different.
You CAN save your present by changing your past, but the change will not be retroactive. The effects of the change will only be observable in your present AFTER you have time-traveled.
Corollary: the past you traveled to is now an alternative universe, forming its own time-track separate to yours.
Canonical and speculative examples:
Suppose that Present Jade accidentally killed Past Jackie in 'Rabbit Run’. (I know - very sad.)
- Present Jade would remember, “I had an Uncle Jackie. There are records of his birth, records of me living with him, and there are records of his disappearance as an adult. I know why he disappeared–the past version of him died while I time traveled.”
- Past Uncle would remember, “A future version of a great-niece I don’t yet have accidentally killed my nephew. I will carry on as best I can, knowing that my future is missing something.”
This scenario is basically what happened with Jackie and his scar.
- Present Jackie remembers, “I tried something stupid and got a scar, but it disappeared during the time that we time traveled. The scar still appears on my past photographs and doctor’s records.”
- Past Jackie remembers, “My future niece stopped me from getting a scar. I can choose to be reckless and make my future something different, if I want.”
Or that Jade Chan killed her own grandma.
- Present Jackie remembers: “Uh-oh, Jade accidentally killed her own grandma. There are records that my niece existed, but my niece has disappeared now. I’d better go back in time myself and see if I can fix that!”
- Past Jackie remembers: “What a shame my auntie is dead. And to think that she was pregnant when she died, and might have had a child called Shen who would have been my cousin. Perhaps this sorrow will have an impact on my future.”
Or even what might’ve happened with Valmont.
- Present Valmont remembers, “I didn’t get into crime until I was eighteen, but I was really good at it. It looks like my past self had a natural aptitude for it at nine.”
- Past Valmont remembers, “My future minions came and told me of my great destiny as a crime lord, I’m going to pursue it - and maybe even avoid some of future me’s mistakes! Watch out, Chan.”
Or what happened to Drago and Shendu’s teeth, regarding the first Future Jade episode, 'J2’.
- Future Shendu remembers, “My son found my teeth, started a summoning spell to bring me back, and trussed up Future Jackie Chan and his Future Uncle as my first meal. Then Future Jade time travelled and destroyed my teeth in the past. My teeth suddenly disappeared while the spell was being cast and I was forced back into the Demon Netherworld.”
- Past Shendu remembers, “I don’t have teeth any more, so my son can’t use them to bring me back. Perhaps I’ll use a different plan in my future…like, say, falling into the Demon Netherworld with my son and all the talismans at the end of an epic battle near the rubble of Section 13.”
Or also what happened with Iso, regarding the second Future Jade episode, 'J2 Revisited’.
- Future Iso/Jimmy remembers, “I chose to be an evil chi wizard, my past self came and helped defeat me, and now I’m being hauled to jail. The formal records of my various crimes remain.”
- Past Jimmy remembers, “I met a future version of me who went bad. I’m going to choose not to go bad, but since I didn’t meaningfully change that while the time travel was going on, I didn’t cause Future Iso to suddenly turn good again.”
Even the Deja Vu Stone episode can be interpreted as running on this, although this artefact could be taken to operate differently to time travel via talisman or chi magic. Personally, my theory for the Deja Vu Stone is that it creates a pocket universe where the controller of the stone is free to make as many changes to their past life as they like. When the controller chooses, they then terminate the pocket universe simulation, and their real universe is reshaped according to the pocket universe. But applying this theory of time travel to that episode works also.
- Present Tohru remembers, “Jade and Uncle say that Jackie went back into the past scenes from his life and replaced his old self. He nearly died several times over, but he was always rescued by green portals just in time. He ensured that his past was not changed, and my present continues as it was.”
- Deja Vu Stone Tohru remembers, “This is a very weird fight, where Chan’s after that strange stone rather than the talisman. I wonder if there’s anything I can do to change myself by starting to learn about artefacts such as that stone? Or if there’s anything significant about that wizened old man with heterochromia and tattoos that the Enforcers hauled off from Chan’s shop?”
See you in part one of this one.
