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From The Codex
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Articles About Jacket
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| Hotline Miami | Jacket |
| Crossovers | PAYDAY2 - Travis Strikes Again |
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“ | Do you like hurting other people? | „ |
| ~ Richard to Jacket |
Background
Jacket is the main protagonist and player character of Hotline Miami, and a side character in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Over the course of the first game, he dons various animal masks and performs a number of brutal assassinations in response to cryptic messages left on his answering machine. The second game explores the causes and consequences of his massacres two years after the first game's events, with Jacket himself making brief appearances in several cutscenes.
General Information
Name: Unknown, referred to as Jacket, potentially Richard (The masks gifted to 50 Blessings Hitmen are usually named after them directly)
Origin: Hotline Miami
Sex: Male
Age: Unknown, at least mid-twenties (Given Jacket was enlisted into the military sometime before 1985, and the events of the first game takes place in 1989, this would indicate that he is at least 22-years-old in Hotline Miami, with two additional years passing by the time Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number begins)
Classification: Jacket, The Miami Maniac
Species: Human
State of Being: Regular
Occupation: US Special Forces Operative (formally), 50 Blessings Hitman (formally, unwilling), Prisoner (currently)
Status: Both Alive and Deceased (After the events of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, nuclear war breaks out across all of America and kills off the entire cast, including Jacket. Although upon replaying the game, a sequence will began where Richard acknowledges the cast returning to relive their ultimately futile fates which strongly suggests that the events will persist so long as the characters continue their doomed paths)
Alignment: Lawful Good initially (Jacket enlisted into the military and was apart of an elite four-man special forces that fought in Hawaii against Soviet Troops. Although his initial intentions are left ambiguous, he followed orders from his colonel with good intentions), Chaotic Neutral after the death of Beard in a nuclear blast in Los Angeles (After Beard's untimely death in Los Angeles, Jacket spiraled into a crazed hatred towards Russia and joined an organization called "50 Blessings" that forced him into the role of a hitman against the Russian mafia. Although he takes pleasure in killing these individuals due to justifying his actions as a conquest for revenge, he is sickened by the idea and actions of directly killing innocent lives)
Threat Level: Metropolitan Threat (Jacket singlehandedly became a threat to the entire Russian Mafia, allowing for rival mafias to take over territory previously claimed across Miami)
Codex Statistics
Tier: At least 9-C physically, Higher with certain masks, 9-B to 9-A with weapons
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Attack Potency: At least Superhuman level physically (Jacket has the raw power to split open a man's skull with a mere head bash, and crush said skulls with a single stomp. Jacket can swing open doors with enough power to knock grown adults several feet and unconscious. He is able to tear people's jaw off with ease, and snap a man's necks without little to no difficulty), Higher with certain masks (The Tony Mask allows him to physically kill opponents with a single punch, and the Don Juan mask grants Jacket the power to kill people by simply swinging a door open), Wall level (Jacket can utilize simple objects like bricks with such efficiency that he can shatter the skulls of over three adult men all at once. Jacket has experience with and indirect/direct access to various firearms and close-range weapons) to Room level with weapons (The 50 Blessings Organization can supply deadly explosive weapons such as rocket launchers to their hitmen[1] which have an explosive yield of a tenth of a ton of TNT)
Durability: At least Superhuman level (Jacket is shown to be able to handle the recoil of his own brutal attacks without any strain on his body whatsoever), Higher with Sheer Will (Jacket has endured major injuries through sheer grit and determination like being blasted by an elevator explosion, or shot through the skull)
Striking Strength: At least Superhuman Class physically (Jacket can very easily bash the skull in of foes), Higher with the Tony Mask (The Tony Mask empowers Jacket with greater physical strength), Wall level to Room level with weapons
Lifting Strength: At least Superhuman (Jacket can tear the jaw off of his opponents with relative ease. He can also throw large sledgehammers tens of meters with ease and can throw small objects like knives through massive multi-layered windows), Higher with the Jake Mask (The Jake Mask allows Jacket to throw any kind of object with lethal power)
Travel Speed: At least Athletic Human (Jacket is an incredibly agile individual capable of rampaging and slaughtering through a multi-story building in mere minutes), Superhuman with Graham and Brandon Masks (The Graham Mask increases Jacket's speed by twenty-five percent, whereas the Brandon Mask further increases it by fifty percent)
Combat Speed: Supersonic (Can kill several trained men in a matter of seconds and before they can even react. Can kill Dodger enemies who are specifically trained to avoid projectiles such as gunfire and get in close quarters), Higher with Tony Mask (The Tony Mask increases Jacket's execution speed greatly)
Reaction Speed: Supersonic (Jacket can maneuver around gunfire and avoid it with enough precision. Former soldier Corey is agile enough to roll out of gunfire and completely avoid it)
Stamina: At least Peak Human (Even after being shot in the head and undergoing life-saving surgery, Jacket was able to awake from his medically-induced coma while drugged and began his revenge by first going to the police station and raiding it for information, then following up by attacking the Father's club and getting information on his whereabouts before finally ending his revenge by killing the leader of the Russian Mafia)
Range: Standard Melee physically, Extended Melee with melee weapons, Tens of Meters when throwing any object, Hundreds of Meters with firearms
Powers and Techniques
Equipment
This is in regards to the type of equipment a character carries. There's varying levels of equipment which give the following:
Equipment the character usually carries on their person.
Equipment the character normally uses, this and on hand should realistically only be separated in cases where one has equipment they normally use not on their person.
Equipment that the character never really uses and isn't something they're able to use normally.
Equipment that a character can use or has used that can only be used once.
Equipment the character no longer has.
Notable Techniques
A list of some abilities the character generally uses.
Other
Standard Tactics: Jacket is highly aggressive and often will brutally kill his foes with his hands. If this is not possible, he will simply utilize his surroundings, such as practical objects or nearby weapons, to kill his foe as quickly as possible.
Weaknesses: Jacket is an unstable individual who often fights without thinking of the immediate consequences that follow.
Trivia
- It is possible that Jacket's real first name is "Richard", since it is the name of the first mask received in the game (mailed to him personally by 50 Blessings), and it grants no special abilities. It is worth noting that most masks, such as Jake and Richter, are shown to be named after their original owners.
- Jacket's family and his relationship with them is completely unknown. His parents are never mentioned or alluded to, we don't know if he was an only child or not, and he doesn't have any visible photos of them in his apartment. Given the lack of family photos in his home, it is possible Jacket is either estranged from his family, or moved away and isn't in regular contact with them. It is also possible, however, that the presence of flowers by his hospital bed in “Trauma” indicates that he does have someone out there that cares about his well-being.
- On the Dennaton Games website, there is a picture of Jacket with the name "Fritz" embroidered onto his jacket. If not his surname, it could be the name on the jacket or a clothing brand, as there is no indication at all that the jacket originally belonged to him, nor do we know if he bought it new or not.
- Jacket is the only playable character who doesn't have a single line of official dialogue in the games. He does talk over the phone to Beard in the outro to Casualties, but the game only expresses this by Beard regularly pausing and responding to whatever Jacket said.
- Ironically, he is one of the only character who makes any vocal noise, he does it when vomiting.
- Consequently, Jacket is also the only playable character without an unmasked dialogue sprite.
- Canonically (e.g. in-game, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, official artwork) Jacket owns the Tony Mask, the Richard Mask, and the Aubrey Mask, and has used the Fireaxe, Baseball Bat, Pistol, Throwing Knives, Shotgun and/or Machine Gun, Double Barrel and Trophy.
- Like Biker, Jacket is easily interpretable as a meta self insert of the player: taking the game's events fairly passively and silently going through the motions, putting much more effort into exploring a variety of violence implementation and mission completion rather than exploring the reasons behind what he's doing. Jacket is a gamer himself and regularly escapes into recreational activities to wind down from what he's just done, and these are associated with the player's high score screen.
- Jacket has either two or three ex-girlfriends. He's being consoled on a break up by Beard in 1986, he has a stripped twin sized bed in his apartment in early 1989, and his relationship with his girlfriend is explicitly followed. The pairing of him next to Rachael Ward in Apocalypse and her role in Midnight Animal as his 1989 girlfriend could place Ward as his early 1989 ex. The Ambush intro in 1985 seems to imply a sibling bond between Jacket and Alex, both being the only ones standing away from the bar smoking and ready to leave, This is the only time Alex is shown smoking a cigarette, an animation otherwise restricted to Jacket.
- Jacket is referenced several times in the heist game Payday 2. He is shown at the end of the Hotline Miami DLC trailer, beating an unnamed Russian mobster to death with a baseball bat after rampaging through the building, several animal masks can be purchased for the Payday 2 heisters, and a DMC DeLorean is the getaway vehicle in the Hotline Miami heist on day 1. As of the Hotline Miami 2 Update, Jacket is now a playable character and is unlocked by purchasing the Digital Special Edition of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. He never directly speaks, instead playing pre-recorded messages from a tape player to communicate with teammates, though he can be heard panting heavily if he sprints for too long. Jacket comes equipped with a customized Cobray M-11/9 machine pistol named "Jacket's Piece" and a claw hammer named "Carpenter's Delight". His associated Perk Deck is called "The Sociopath", for obvious reasons; the perks "No Talk", "Tension", "Clean Hit", "Overdose", and "Showdown" in his deck are all named after Hotline Miami levels. Because the Payday and Hotline Miami universes seem to be mutually incompatible, Jacket's appearance is most likely non-canon to the Hotline Miami universe.
- There has been some debate on if the Jacket seen in Payday 2 is an impostor, due to not only the conflicting canon, but also some pieces of evidence pointing towards the character being aware he is not really Jacket, but these are often brushed off as Jacket simply dissociating.
- Jacket's signature varsity jacket is based on the outfit of Axel Foley, the protagonist of the Beverly Hills Cop films.
- Jacket resembles Jasper Byrne, one of the music artists for the game.
- In Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, his suit sprite reuses Jasper's sprite from the first game.
- While in the game Jacket collects several masks, only Richard, Tony, and Aubrey are shown as evidence in his trial in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. However, this could be because these were the only three of his masks which were actually found by the police.
- Jacket easily has the highest body count out of any playable character in the series, in front of The Son and Richter.
- Jacket's standing execution, where he rips out the throat of an enemy might be a reference to a scene from the movie Road House, where the protagonist, Dalton, kills one of the antagonists, Jimmy, by ripping out his trachea with his hand.
- Jacket is the very last character shown to die in the entire series, being killed by a nuclear blast in his prison cell during the credits of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
- There are several similarities between Corey and Jacket, most notably both being messy, being very quiet, and wearing a signature varsity jacket of a distinct style, she was also is referred to as the "female version of Jacket" in the Artbook.
Gallery
Battle Records
Put the character's official canon fights here.
It should be written in the following way
- [[Character's Name in bold]] - [A link to the fight in question]
- Conditions: Conditions and context the character had or the opponent had.
- Location: The location of the fight.
- Note: Any extra context that needs to be added about the fight in question, normally a note saying if the character was holding back, if they would have realistically won, etcetera.
*The Father - [ Fight Here]
- Conditions: Jacket had to fight his panthers and his bodyguard before killing the Father.
- Location:
Other fights the character has won.
Plot important fights the character has lost.
Other fights the character has lost.
Plot important fights the character has had a draw in.
Other fights the character has had a draw in.
For really rare cases where there is no confirmed note for who won, lost, or if there was a draw for a fight. These are normally for fights that have no canon mention of what happened and who won.
References
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Categories
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For example, the most important categories in Son Goku's page are "Characters", "Dragon Ball", and "Tier 6".
