The Three Monks are a mystical group that helped Jack find Truth and continue his journey after the latter had almost given up. They appeared in Episode XX: Jack and The Three Monks
Character Outline
Synopsis
Trivia
- Speculation exists that the monks were in fact the three gods Odin, Ra and Vishnu, who came to Jack in order to remind him of his duty and set him back on his path. Given the mysterious nature of the monks, not to mention that they used element of wind to blow off Jack's straw hat in order to bring him to them, the awareness of Jack's doubt of his duty and their appearance in his vision when he passed out, rebuking him and showing the suffering of his people under Aku's tyranny and then vanished mysteriously, then the speculation is not far-fetched after all.
- It should be noted that when Jack's father met the three gods for the first time, they at first appear before him as monks.
- It is possible that the gods are watching over Jack. In Jack and the Lava Monster, the gods of Asgard, including Odin, and the warrior that Jack have freed from Aku's curse can be seen watching over him. There are possibility that Jack are intended to destroy Aku in the future instead in the past, given his constant failure to return to his own time. In Jack in Egypt, the god Ra, after destroying the three minions of Set, were being questioned by Jack about time portals. He then flies of without answering Jack, prompting Jack to said, "Perhaps not."
- This means that Vishnu is the only god Jack has not, directly or otherwise, interacted with in some way, for some reasons (he summoned Ra, and guided the Viking warrior to Odin).
- It should be noted that Jack is a Buddhist, and Siddharta Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is considered by some Hindus to be Vishnu's 9th avatar.
Quotes
Jack: What do you search for?
Monk #1: Truth.
Monk #2: Do you give up?
Monk #1: Will you abandon their hope?
Monk #2: Can you not feel their desperation?
Monk #1: Will evil forever rule the world?
Monk #1: HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN!?