@@thescoundrel793 Honestly, I'm not sure what's more impressive: that the Scottsman would go toe-to-toe with Jack, or that Jack understood all of his insults.
This man is the real Chad: - Doesn't take crap from anyone (except his wife) - Is very skilled in combat - Incredibly patient (with his wife) - Beyond faithful - Can deal out the greatest insults of all time - Literally can't die - Sticks up for his bros - Can wield Celtic magic - Is incredibly fertile.
Introduced as a side character… John DiMaggio left such a mark, they turned him into the greatest side character in an animated series. Even unmatched til this day.
"Sounds like someones stepping on a cat.....Sounds like someones stepping on a lot of cats." It wasnt until recently enough that I realized after all these years that the Sirens song only effects you if you dont know true love. Because if you arent in love or dont know it, you will fall in love with their song. However, the Scotsman is SO in love with his wife...he is not effected. Which honestly is pretty cute.
What I love about the Scotsman is that he is a perfect foil for Jack, he’s big, brash, loud, and all about brute strength - but he’s a fantastic partner.
My favorite part of when the Scotsman offers his daughters is that jack isn’t too good for them but rather that he already has someone. And the Scotsman accepts it instantly:
> rolls up > challenges ro a fight > mercilessly insult the single greatest threat to reality > laughs in your faces > dies > comes back what a fuckin legend
This man is the bravest man I've ever known. We faced Aku's bounty hunters together. And together, we'll fight the Celtic demons, destroy the Master of the Hunt, and rescue me wife!@@TheShreddedSnorlax
Man, I love the scotsman. He's an oaf, but he's got a heart of gold. He even died to protect jack and take one last swing at Aku's ego on his behalf. He's a hell of a man.
You call this singing? Now my wife, she can sing. Her angelic voice floats such melodious and heavenly tunes, it makes angels weep. The sun rises just to hear her morning melodies, even the sweetest of birds can learn a thing or two from my precious bonnie lass! But you, you've foul loop-de-nuts not fit for a whistle! So what did ye do to me friend here!?
@@davidtimmer596 Siren 1: Oh, yes Siren 2: He was most troublesome Siren 3: Trying to free our slaves Siren 1: Until we sang a song that robbed him of his mind Siren 3: And sent him out to wander the world as a fool Siren 2: Forever Siren 1: While keeping his treasure as a prize
@@sayanking1 you’re still in the world of the minute. Jack takes all of the Scotsman’s 50 daughters as concubines and trains them in the art of war, Sun Zhu style. The firecrotch Dynasty shall rise
A bagpipe playing samurai with runes on his katana? Or a broadsword sized katana . . . Cloud we got a really beef cloud from final fantasy on our hands who ain’t afraid to headbutt ya or eye gouge if he takes after his grandmother on his mother side (don’t forget the Scotsmen’s wife is no joke either and is the mother of every single one of these fine girls.)
If you can get past a true scotsman abrasive personality, he will be the most loyal friend you will ever have. Two of my gaming bros are from the UK, and one is a highlands scot and the other a london brit. Used to bicker nonstop. Now you cant even make english jokes without the scot jumping on you in a heartbeat.
@@nickkayfabe6147 People at times insult the bagpipes by saying it sounds like a dying cat, but to us of Scottish heritage, there is no sound more beautiful. Ergo, the song of the sirens sounded like utter shite. It's irony.
Rewatching the episode where that group of famous bounty hunters team up to ambush Jack and are all defeated in the time it takes for a drop of water to fall makes me *really* appreciate how skilled the Scotsman is to battle Jack to a draw.
Although it’s probably fair to say Jack was fighting with a degree of restraint. The fight could have been over in a instant when he went for that stab at the bagpipes. Could have been his chest instead.
@@kaijuslayer3334 Though The Scotsman might have been skilled enough to know that was not an attack directed to harm him, so he is just enjoying the build up to the actual fight.
@@kaijuslayer3334given the sword can only hurt evil, it wouldnt have done anything to the scotsman. Dude straight up looked at evil and flipped it off in the scotsman way
5:33 For those who are curious: Mr. Pajama-Wearing (He looks like he's walking around in bed wear), Basket-Face (his face looks like a basket, simple), Slipper-Wielding (he can't fight like a man), Clype (a snitch)- Dreep (to sink low and tackle; almost like a sucker punch; again, he can't fight like a man) -Bachle (this one requires you to understand some Scot specific stuff, I'm sure if you search you can get the history... basically means its someone who is wretched and down on their luck... Also like to trudge along shuffling when your shoes are worn and can't afford new ones), Gether (to form, Gather) -Uping(verb form of "up") -Blate (someone who is bashful)-Maw(mouth), Blithering (to snivel or talk foolishly), Gomeril (man-servant), Jessie (refers to a large woman's blouse, it's like saying "sissy"), Oaf-Looking (self explanatory), Schooner (its actually scunner; someone who pisses you off), Nyaff (saying he sounds like a small dog yelping when he talks, ineffective at work and idle or lazy), Plookie (acne ridden, or otherwise spotted faced; poor complexion), Shan (shameful, shame), Milk-Drinking (saying he's a baby. like an infant drinks its mother's milk), Soy-Faced Shilpit (yellow faced puny weakling lacking in any conviction), Mim-Moothed (saying he still has his milk teeth, baby toothed), Sniveling, Worm-Eyed (he has lazy eye/wandering eye), Hotten-Blaugh (a heap of sickly blue colored muck; modern speak: "you're a sack of excrement"), Vile-Stoochie (a bad trip, also may refer to a meaningless brawler. basic meaning "you must be crazy if you think you can fight me"), Cally (sweetheart; effeminate) -Breek (breeches; pants) -Tattie (potatoe) Girly-Pants-Potatoe
John DiMaggio is one of those actors who doesn't seem like he would put effort in a small role like this. But as you can see, he's passionate about playing characters when he can just shout his lungs out.
Can we just appreciate how much the Scotsman adores his wife? He's so in love with her that even Sirens can't effect him! He just loves her beyond all all else, and then he raises his daughters with the same levels of love and respect. Like she can yell and roar at him till her throat goes sore but he just looks at her like she's the sun and he's a sunflower, but he still understands just how strong she is. They're tots equals, heck, she's stronger than he is from the looks of it.
I'd like to think Jack after getting home to his own time tell stories of his adventures in the future "One of my closest friends was this big angry Scotsman who I dueled to a draw, helped save his wife, he saved my life, came back as a ghost after Aku killed him for taunting him then tried to get me to marry one of his daughters"
Left out the most iconic line from the episode with the sirens when they reveal they brainwashed Jack into a fool just for fun: "That's it! She-dogs must pay!". Gotta admire the workaround they found to basically call the sirens "bitches" in a PG cartoon.
So many years after the end of "Samurai Jack" and this guy still remains one of the best characters in all of Western animation. I'll give it to Genndy Tartakovsky, he knew how to make an engaging show.
“Flora. What in bonnie blazes are ya wearin? I take you out for a day o’ battle and ya dress like yer goin’ dancin’. COVER YERSELF! YOU’LL CATCH YER DEATH O’ COLD!”
10:16 I've always found that look the sirens give each other hilarious, you can tell they're thinking "Either this guy's crazy, iron willed, or we need find his wife."
There’s a reason that nobody attacks a bad pipes demo while they’re taunting, they get VERY AGGRESSIVE if you interrupt them. It’s about as hard to beat an angry demoman as trying to market garden a Natasha heavy with full HP while they’re fully revved and looking at you.
Well this guy is the one who came the closest to downright KILLING jack. Jack couldn’t even lift his sword, the only thing that stopped him from succeeding was the Scotsman had a sword that was too heavy, therefore the Scotsman couldn’t lift his sword either.
He refuses to go bc is his will is stronger than many bc even if he dies he won't what gives him this will is his love for his people and daughters and wife that's why he won't die so easily
You know, their first meeting, Jack literally could've jumped over Scottsman and be on his way. But then we wouldn't have the best bromance in history.
So funny how The Scotsman is just so annoyed by the sirens' singing, he'll flat-out roast them. A pity, since they're so beautiful...but again, sirens tend to be alluring on purpose.
i love how Genndy Tartakovsky really uses the concept of silence to make a scene much more dramatic and interesting, then he created the Scotsman who can't go a scene without filling people with a landslide of insults and still be able to bring the badassery and intensity when fighting a garbage smelling, muscle mountain, like himself, or his wife.
Ah I always loved the Scottsman. You aren't a true fan of Samurai Jack if you never enjoyed his appearances because whenever he shows up, things get really fun. I think aside from how that one episode ended, Scottsman's wife still likes Jack and thinks of him as part of the family. Plus it never gets old watching them just chat and be best friends even in a life or death situation.
One of the saddest parts about Jack succeeding in his mission is the Scotsman probably no longer existed. The world was denied his concentrated badassery.
Asher Tye Not exactly. While yes the Scotsman won’t appear for a while, he was born in the future, and most likely will still be born, however Jack and him will not meet if he lost his immortality the moment he returned to his time. Meaning they won’t meet again unless they bump into each other in the afterlife.
@free wifi plaket faced hinoot would best be described as calling jack a perverted lyre, but can best be interpreted as calling him a yellow skinned pervert. or, that's just a rough estimate. the other ones, just imagine the first word as saying fucking, and listen for animal or object names.
Ey lad, us Scot’s man’s can be the most loyal but also the most badass people you’ll ever meet, because here in Scotland, there is no difference between friends and family, there all just family
In life and death the Scotsman was The Sigma Male of the future. Unwavering loyalty to his friends and family, utterly unstoppable in combat, and in the final season he managed to depress Aku take him out for several episodes and just rose from the dead as a celtic ghost of unimaginable power.
No lying when watching Samurai jack for the first time he was the first character I saw besides Aku and Jack. And to this day I still mimic his insults ^w^
@Joseph Waters WHAT? 🤯 I got my info from Google. Though now that I think about it, its probably the ones he named off during the last episode. Cause I just remembered that the scotsman literally had an army of daughters when they assaulted Akus tower.
It's been years but he's the most manly characer I've ever seen. He's so in love with the love of his life, that the siren's singing isn't just bad for him, it's ear shattering compared to his wife to his own ears. Ladies, find a man that is in love with you *this* much and you'll never want to know another person in your life.
As someone of Scottish heritage, this is an entirely accurate representation of how we are. Entirely. Also, kick ass use of The Snake Charmer's cover. I play that song on a boombox every time I leave the house.
9:08 That cut him deeper than ANY blade ever could, and Jack knew it. If shit WASN'T going down before that, it certainly was then. All hail the Scotsman! A true warrior, husband, AMAZING father (Seriously, how the hell?), Jack's only TRUE rival, and, of course, Jack's one and only BFF! I dare say, he was Jack's Bro For Life.
I swear to God this Scotsman to me is one of the most relatable and funniest characters I've ever seen. I swear to God I can picture me and all of the scenarios.
Only one other being in the entire series fought Jack one on one, the only time Jack lost a one on one fight, was against the Guardian. The Scotsman bears a very unique honor in matching Jack. Every other time Jack lost, he was outnumbered.
Tartakovsky could've very well made the series entirely about a Scotsman in post apocalyptic Japan, fighting Aku and I'd have watched it. He's hilarious!
a true legend to the end, a true warrior to the end, a true Scotsman to the end but most importantly a true friend to the end, rest in the halls of Valhalla, you've truly earned a warriors rest
Valhalla was Nordic hevean, the sworn enemies of the Scotsman. Many Clans were started due to the Scotish sticking up for their faith, Christianity, and slaughtered the loud and lightly armoured Vikings while hiding in the mist. It is true that the Scotish were pretty loud themselves but that was mostly to confuse their enemies and to let others to attack from behind or even directly infron without their enemies noticing before it was too late.
@@ryanmaclean1720 well God damn I didn't know that, thanks for the info, I love viking history but am ashamed to say I've never delved too deep into it, still love the scotsman even if he isn't a viking XD
