Cacciatore is a minor antagonist from Samurai Jack. He appears in the 27th episode of the third season, Chicken Jack.
He was voiced by Bob Joles.
What makes him a miserable excuse for a human being?[]
- He contends in illegal underground pet fighting, capturing animals and forcing them to fight to the death against other pets, be they organic or robotic. He captures Jack after he's turned into a chicken by an angry wizard and forces him to fight for his life against dangerous robotic animals.
- Judging by all the cages in his apartment, Jack is far from his first animal, and it seems that many previous animals died because of Cacciatore. He still has two pet rabbits locked up in cages, whom he presumably also uses in fights. We never learn what happens to the rabbits after the events of the episode, so they may have died of thirst in their cages.
- He doesn't give Jack food or medical care, even when Jack is starving. At one point, it looks like he has realized how awfully he has been treating Jack and is going to feed him a big plate of lasagna, only to subvert this and eat the lasagna himself.
- He is greedy and also incredibly gluttonous, eating like a slob while Jack starves in front of him. Instead of using some of his money to get food or medical treatment for Jack, Cacciatore buys himself a fancy new suit and considers getting a new leash for Jack.
- He is very rude; he has red writing on his door reading "GO AWAY!", and when there is a knock at his door he asks "What's a matter, can't you read!?". When he accidentally bumps into the same wizard who transformed Jack, instead of apologizing like Jack did (not that it stopped the wizard from transforming him anyway), he tells the wizard to watch where he's going.
- Unlike many other villains and antagonists on the show, he has no redeeming factors or cool features at all.
Trivia[]
- His name is only revealed in the episode credits.
- He is based on Stromboli from Pinocchio. Both are fat and greedy Italian men named after sauces who exploit the main character of their work.