Laughing Jack

	"WARNING"
	This profile is based off the story "Laughing Jack", it contains depictions of torture and death towards people and animals, especially children characters. Sexual assault and domestic abuse is present in the prequel story "The Origin of Laughing Jack". This profile merely exists to describe the character of Laughing Jack and does not condone or support anything written in the creepypastas.

Laughing Jack is a cosmic entity that befriends lonely children by appearing to them inside a jack-in-the-box toy before eventually sadistically killing them. His look is of a black-and-white monochrome clown with contrasting monstrous features.

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Laughing Jack
“ All around the mulberry bush The monkey chased the weasel The monkey though twas all in fun… „ ~ "Pop! Goes the Weasel" nursery rhyme that is commonly depicted with Laughing Jack
Origin
Origin	Laughing Jack
Creator	SnuffBomb
First Appearance	Laughing Jack
Actor	N/A
Characteristics
Species	Cosmic Entity
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him/His
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Possibly 200+
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Unknown
Status	Alive
Alignment	Originally Chaotic Neutral, later becomes Chaotic Evil
Occupation	Friend for Life
Time Period	19th-21st Century
Language	English
Combat Style	Reality Warper
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Isaac Lee Grossman (Formerly, Best Friend), James (Formerly, Friend), James' Mother (Enemy), Unknown Dozens of Children (Formerly, Friends)
Enemies	Isaac Lee Grossman, James' Mother

Background

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Laughing Jack’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Laughing Jack is the name of the central antagonist of the popular horror creepypastas "Laughing Jack" and the prequel "The Origin of Laughing Jack". Originally in the prequel story set on Christmas Eve in 19th century London, England, Laughing Jack was a more colorful, cheerful, and innocent clown entity who appeared in a magical jack-in-the-box toy and just wished to play and have fun with his new best friend--Isaac Lee Grossman, who was seven at the time--though hiding his existence to anybody but him. At first, it gives Isaac a more hopeful outlook to life as his family life was very poor, but that would change three months after their first encounter. On a certain sunny summer day, Laughing Jack and Isaac were playing pirates outside. Isaac, captivated by fantasy, asked Laughing Jack to restrain a neighbor's cat up until he accidentally kills it by holding it too tightly. Bizzarely, found this to be hilarious and only started to worry when Laughing Jack pointed out that Isaac would get in trouble for the dead cat. Failing to pin the blame on Laughing Jack, Isaac is forced to go to boarding school and Laughing Jack has to patiently wait in his box for thirteen long years. Laughing Jack became apathetic and his appearance faded into black-and-white during those thirteen years as he resigned to his fate of never escaping his box. However, after both of Isaac's parents died, Isaac (now around 20 years old) inherited his old childhood house in which he began to invite people over (much to the envy of Laughing Jack) and slowly be overcome by sadistic torture and murder. This corrupted Laughing Jack to enjoy the sadism he witnessed, and when once freed by Isaac by accident, his appearance changed to be a more grotesque version of himself, and began to inflict the sadistic torture he had witnessed. After killing Isaac, he set off to meet new friends. A few centuries pass and Laughing Jack now has found a new friend by the name of James (who is 5 years old) in "Laughing Jack". James' mother notices her son's odd behavior and questions him about his new friend, which makes Laughing Jack become more agitated and aggressive towards her. Eventually, Laughing Jack murders the family dog and tortures James to near death, taunting the mother and causing her to accidentally kill her own son, all the while laughing and persumably still stalking her.

Appearance

Current Form

• Laughing Jack is a humanoid cosmic entity that appears like a clown. He is typically depicted as being a tall and lanky black-and-white monochrome clown with mangled black hair hung down in twisted locks, long swirly nose, monstrous teeth, and long black claw-like fingers who wears a clown outfit with feathery shoulders and baggy pants.

Original Form

• Laughing Jack used to look like a tall, thin, colorful clown, with bright red hair, a rainbow swirly nose, and feathery shoulders on top of his colorful clown outfit.

Personality

Pre-Time SkipPost-Time Skip

• Cares for Isaac: Laughing Jack calls himself Isaac's best friend, so he tries to cheer him up and have fun with him.

• Innocent Fool: Laughing Jack was playing with Isaac outside when he accidentally killed a cat and did not realize that consequences that would befall both Isaac and him.

• Twisted Clown: After Laughing Jack was released from the box after many years of isolation and witnessing Isaac's sadistic display, he too began to copy the behavior and enjoy it.

Goals

• Befriend all the lonely children of the world (Ongoing).

Relationships

Isaac Lee Grossman

• Best Friends

Isaac is persumably Laughing Jack's first best friend and his too. He at first enjoyed and was happy to be around Laughing Jack, playing with him every chance he got. Unfortunately, one day while playing pirates with Laughing Jack, he goes too far and kills a cat and tried hiding it, eventually leaving the two friends separated for over thirteen years. Both would change dramatically, and not in a good way.

• Bloody Reunion

Isaac returned back to his childhood home after a long time, he had changed for the worst as he brought people to his home (causing Laughing Jack to react negatively with envy as he felt abandoned and replaced) and killed them in a sadistic bliss. Laughing Jack watching this from his box became twisted and enthralled by the new Isaac he saw. Eventually, Isaac finds the box that Laughing Jack was kept in and accidentally releases him, completely forgetting that he had ever existed. Laughing Jack in a sadistic manic state, decided to greet his old best friend by committing similar acts he witnessed Isaac doing but to a worse extent and wishes him a hearty goodbye, before leaving him for good.

James

• New Friend

James is a lonely and quiet child of the age of five who met Laughing Jack one summer day in the backyard becoming friends instantly with him. He played with him before being called back in by his mother, telling his mother about his new friend, but his mother chalks it up to being an imaginary friend. The next day, he is out in front of his house eating candy that Laughing Jack had given him.

• Disposable

Eventually, either due to his mother's interference or otherwise, he ends up meeting a gruesome fate, being nailed up on the wall with organs spilling to the floor, missing his eyes and tongue, eventually being accidentally killed by his mother due to Laughing Jack's trickery.

James' Mother

• Obstacle

James' Mother is a single mother who is constantly worried about her child, James, but cannot keep an eye on him all the time due to being busy and tired most of the time. Once she became aware of the name Laughing Jack, she started having a nightmare of being in a twisted world reflecting Laughing Jack and his possible children victims overwhelming her, and wakes up to find her son's toys all over her, put by Laughing Jack himself.

• Pinning the Blame

Her worries only kept being met with more strange behavior as she became more protective of her son towards the unseen threat. This causes Laughing Jack to retaliate by murdering the house dog and stuffing it with candy and trashing rooms around the house, eventually maiming and injuring James to near death, tricking her into kill her son and taking on the blame. She was sent to a psychatric hospital as a result, where she is still being taunted by Laughing Jack.

General Information

Name: Laughing Jack

Nicknames/Other Names: Jack, Clown, Monster

Origin: Laughing Jack

Overall Series: Laughing Jack

First Appearance: Laughing Jack

Latest Appearance: The Origin Of Laughing Jack (The original story is locked behind Deviantart's age verification, this is a reupload of the story)

Creator: SnuffBomb

Gender: Male

Assigned Gender: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Handedness: Unknown

Age: Possibly 200+

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 19th-21st Century

Timeline: Creepypasta

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Possibly still in a jack-in-the-box toy

Story Role: Main Antagonist

Legacy: Unknown Legacy (Only children and sometimes adults are ever aware of Laughing Jack, and either end up dead or deemed insane)

Influence: Personal Influence (At first makes his friends happy, but then tortures them and kills them, traumatizing survivors such as a parent)

Language: English

Ethnicity: Unknown

Religion: Unknown

Classification: Cosmic Clown Entity

Species: Cosmic Entity

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Befriending lonely children

Combat Style: Reality Warper, Street Fighter

Affiliations: Isaac Lee Grossman (Formerly), James (Formerly), Unknown Dozens of Children (Formerly)

Enemies: Isaac Lee Grossman, James' Mother

Height: Tall

Weight: Thin

Status: Alive

Alignment: Originally Chaotic Neutral (Initially played games with Isaac Lee Grossman, and in one of the games killed a cat and is concerned of Isaac getting into trouble), later becomes Chaotic Evil (Laughing Jack mentioned that he adapts to Isaac's personality, so after being contained in a box for 13 years and watching Isaac sadistically murder people, he begins to turn sadistic as well)

Threat Level: Street Threat

Potential

• Type(s) of Potential: Adaptive Potential
• Level of Potential: Unrealized Potential
• Description: He learns new tricks from watching Isaac, so its possible that there are many abilities he himself still not knows.
• Limitations: If Laughing Jack ever returns to his original box for whatever reason, he will not be capable of doing anything until released by an external party.

Archetype: Monster

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: Unknown-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: Unknown: Powerful level (Crushed a cat with both of his arms without much trouble)

Durability: Unknown: Powerful level

Striking Strength: Unknown: Powerful Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown: Powerful Class

Travel Speed: Unknown: True level

Attack Speed: Unknown: True level

Reaction Speed: Unknown: True level

Stamina: Limitless (Laughing Jack states that he never gets tired of playing)

Range: Unknown (Laughing Jack is able to extend his arms to different lengths, but there is no concrete limit stated)

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: Unknown level

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Powers and Techniques

• Stealth Mastery (Laughing Jack hides from adults to avoid detection and only reveals himself when he taunts them)

• Enhanced Senses (Laughing Jack can see outside of his box)

• Weapon Usage
  • Knife Usage: Laughing Jack grabs a knife to maim and torture Isaac, possibly doing the same to other victims.
  • Hammer Usage: Uses it to inflict blunt trauma on Isaac.

• Reality Warping (Laughing Jack manifests himself inside a jack-in-the-box toy to Isaac when he first meets him, he also causes a door to be unable to open. He notably also conjures cockroaches out of his gullet to torture Isaac)

• Biological Manipulation
  • Transformation (Laughing Jack is able to stretch his arms to different lengths. Additionally, when he was stuck in a box for thirteen years and witnessed Isaac's new personality, his skin, hair, and clothes changed colors, had sharp teeth, and grew long fingers)

• Dream Manipulation
  • Nightmare Induction (Laughing Jack makes James' Mom have a nightmare of the many possible victims he has killed)

• Possibly Illusion Manipulation
  • Standard Illusion (Laughing Jack turns into a cloud of black smoke, disappearing from James' mother point of view, who was trying to kill him. It is not stated whether he was actually there and teleported away or if he was just an illusion)

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Notable Techniques

• Stretchy Arms: Laughing Jack is shown multiple times using his arms to grab anything that he can. He has a strong grip on whatever he has his hands on, and there are no explicit limitations to how far he can reach.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Laughing Jack befriends his victims who are normally lonely children. After an unspecified amount of time later, he eventually tortures them before either killing them or having a third party kill them for him.

Weaknesses: If Laughing Jack ever returns back to his jack-in-the-box, he is physically unable to do anything, but watch his surroundings until he is freed.

Trivia

• Laughing Jill was a character created by both SnuffBomb and Sabrina Nightmaren as a genderbent version of Laughing Jack as a joke. Comparing dates, Laughing Jill's design was created first back in December 16, 2012, while the original Laughing Jack creepypasta was only posted on Deviantart on March 3, 2013. SabrinaNightmaren is the current owner of Laughing Jill.

Battle Records

2+ - 0 - 0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

• Isaac Lee Grossman - Mentioned
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Isaac's Home

• James - Laughing Jack tricked James' mother into killing him
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: James' Home

• Dozens of Children - Implied
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Unknown

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