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Laughing Jack

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Laughing Jack	label	Laughing Jack
Laughing Jack	page	LaughingJack
Laughing Jack	comment	Laughing Jack is a creepypasta featuring the murderous, black and white clown-like abomination of the same name. There are two stories featuring him made by his original author, Snuffbomb:Laughing Jack is told from the perspective of the mother of James, a 5-year-old boy claiming to have made a new friend called Laughing Jack, which his mother assumes to be an Imaginary Friend. However, a series of disturbing events hint at the truth of Laughing Jack's existence and malicious intentions.The Origin of Laughing Jack tells of how the killer clown came to be. He was once a colorful cosmic entity sent as a gift to the poor and lonely Isaac Grossman to be his friend for life. However, after Isaac is sent to boarding school, Laughing Jack's color completely fades from being abandoned for 13 years. Isaac returns as an adult Serial Killer, and unknowingly inspires his clown friend's sadistic streak. He had passed off Laughing Jack as a childhood fantasy, which severely instigates his own doom.
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Laughing Jack / int_1036c075	type	Forceful Kiss
Laughing Jack / int_1036c075	comment	Isaac attempts a Forceful Kiss on the woman he picked up from the bar, but as she wants nothing to do with his sexual advances, she bites his tongue with all her might before trying to escape.
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Laughing Jack / int_149605c1	type	Ambiguous Innocence
Laughing Jack / int_149605c1	comment	Ambiguous Innocence: Young Isaac's reaction to accidentally causing the death of his neighbour's cat (although it was through Laughing Jack, which was accidental) is... laughter, and tearing up over his own joke that cats don't have 9 lives after all. However, he knows that he'll get into trouble with his mother if she finds out when Laughing Jack reminds him so. This likely foreshadows that Isaac would grow to be a cruel Serial Killer.
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Laughing Jack / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Laughing Jack / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Isaac deals with the body of his first victim by crafting her remains into a chair. Besides the wooden frame, its structure consists of bones (which were separated from the flesh in a bin of bleach), with flayed skin sewn into the seat and backing of the chair. Her hair is braided to make the base's lining while her skull decorates the head of the chair.
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Laughing Jack / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Laughing Jack / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Isaac subjects several people to Cold-Blooded Torture before ending them cruelly, such as bashing a boy's head to a pulp and punching a girl in the stomach after force-feeding her with glass. Laughing Jack in turn subjects a gory demise on Isaac by mutilating his face and abdomen before summoning cockroaches to bloat his exposed insides. Finally, he yanks his heart out of his chest.
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Laughing Jack / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Laughing Jack / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Isaac rips off a young boy's fingernails individually with rusty pliers as part of his Cold-Blooded Torture.
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Laughing Jack / int_21846c77	type	Pest Controller
Laughing Jack / int_21846c77	comment	Pest Controller: In the middle of his mutilation of Isaac, many hordes of filthy roaches crawl out of Laughing Jack's mouth to infest Isaac's exposed abdomen.
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Laughing Jack / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
Laughing Jack / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: In both the first story and the prequel, Laughing Jack damages his victims' teeth. In the former, James' teeth are missing when his mother finds his mutilated body. In the origins prequel, he shatters Isaac's teeth with a hammer.
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Laughing Jack / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Laughing Jack / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: When Laughing Jack accidentally kills a cat, young Isaac says, "Wow! I guess cats really DON’T have nine lives!", tearing up from laughter over his own dark joke.
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Laughing Jack / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
Laughing Jack / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: In the mother's Nightmare Sequence, her legs walk her into a seemingly empty circus tent, then the lights suddenly reveal silhouettes of disfigured children approaching and surrounding her. She's unable to move, and the kids proceed to claw at her flesh and tear into her before she wakes up.
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Laughing Jack / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Laughing Jack / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: After brutalising James yet still keeping him alive while pinned to the wall, Laughing Jack disappears from the way of his mother's knife towards the clown, and it lands on James' heart instead. The police find her with the bloody knife and the gory mess left of her child and she's convicted to an insane asylum.
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Laughing Jack / int_3233712a	type	Magical Clown
Laughing Jack / int_3233712a	comment	Magical Clown: Laughing Jack can conjure candy for his child companions (both before and after he became a Monster Clown) and he can make himself invisible or disappear into smoke at will. His origin story shows that the tall clown can fit in a jack-in-the-box and he can make Isaac's toys dance around his room.
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Laughing Jack / int_3346eb29	type	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
Laughing Jack / int_3346eb29	comment	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Implied. Just before his mother steps into James' room and finds her son pinned to the wall with his guts spilling out, she can feel warm thick liquid at her feet, which is implied to be James' blood.
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Laughing Jack / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Laughing Jack / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Or kill the dog and stuff it with candy. Laughing Jack hangs the corpse of Fido, the family's dog, from the kitchen's light fixture, for seemingly no other reason than just to horrify James' mother even more, since the candy in the dog's open stomach matches the candy that was given to her son earlier.
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Laughing Jack / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Laughing Jack / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: When the mother charges towards Laughing Jack with a knife for gutting James, he vanishes into black smoke, and the knife lands on her son's still-beating heart, killing James. This lands with the mother getting institutionalised in a mental asylum for the criminally insane.
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Laughing Jack / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Laughing Jack / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: When Laughing Jack first witnesses Isaac's violence, he thinks of it as an entertaining game. He's very playful when he tortures Isaac, considering it alike to a show; he makes a balloon animal out of his intestine, he says "If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all!" before lobbing his tongue off, and he slices off Isaac's lips just to say that he "hasn't been flossing regularly". Justified since Jack is designed to be Isaac's playmate for life and adapts to Isaac's likes, so as Isaac gets more sadistic, so does Laughing Jack.
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Laughing Jack / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Laughing Jack / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: The origin story describes the torture as it happens. Firstly, there's Isaac's victims, most of whom are brutally tortured before they are killed. Finally, there's Laughing Jack's torturous mutilation of Isaac, which involves nailing him to his own torture bed, heavy damage to his eyelids (with hooks) and retina (with a needle) and cutting open his abdomen to disturb his intestines, amongst other nasty things.
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Laughing Jack / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Laughing Jack / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Some of Isaac Grossman's victims are children. He kidnaps a boy in a burlap sack, Bound and Gagged throughout the whole torture process, which includes removing his fingernails with pliers, smashing his kneecap and carving an insult that Isaac's mother called him into the boy's chest. He's filled with so much hate at the boy still clinging to life that he bashes his head until it's nothing but chunks. There is also a girl that Isaac force-feeds with glass before using her stomach as a punching bag.
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Laughing Jack / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
Laughing Jack / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Isaac Grossman is homeschooled by his mother as the family is very poor, and he wonders if he too could be happy like other children if he had friends to play and laugh with. Laughing Jack's arrival excites him, as he's overjoyed to finally have a friend.
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Laughing Jack / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Laughing Jack / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: When he is first exposed to violence, Laughing Jack laughs for the first time in 13 years since he was abandoned. It starts as a chuckle escaping his lips before escalating into howls of laughter at Isaac's "fascinating new game".
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Laughing Jack / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Laughing Jack / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Isaac grabs a lead candlestick from his nightstand to bash the back of a lady's head, and it bursts open like a bloody watermelon.
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Laughing Jack / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
Laughing Jack / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: Isaac has to leave Laughing Jack behind when he goes to boarding school, so Jack must stay in his box until Isaac returns. Years pass as he waits to reunite with his friend and be free again, and Jack loses his color and joy in the process.
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Laughing Jack / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Laughing Jack / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The origin story starts and ends around Christmas. Isaac finds the Laughing Jack-In-A-Box by his bed on Christmas morning. In the ending, the police find Isaac's dead body, weeks after he was murdered, on Christmas Eve.
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Laughing Jack / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
Laughing Jack / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: Years away from home turned Isaac into a cruel man, and after he returns, he turns his workshop into a murder nest to torture his victims in before killing them. Isaac's magical friend that he dismissed as childhood fantasy, that being Laughing Jack, degraded from the abandonment and adapted to Isaac's cruel personality as he watches Isaac's kills from his shelf. After Jack breaks free from his box, he tortures Isaac to death.
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Laughing Jack / int_57ca867e	type	Force Feeding
Laughing Jack / int_57ca867e	comment	Force Feeding: One of Isaac's murder victims is a a girl who he force-feeds with glass before punching her stomach a lot.
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Laughing Jack / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Laughing Jack / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: The mother has a nightmare occurring in an Amusement Park of Doom, presumably Laughing Jack's, where she's led into a circus tent and torn apart by disfigured children before she wakes in a cold sweat.
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Laughing Jack / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
Laughing Jack / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: In Laughing Jack's origin story, besides outright referring to himself as a "not-so-imaginary friend" to Isaac, the clown says he can't let anyone else see him or they wouldn't be allowed to play anymore, which leads Isaac's mother to think that he's lying about Laughing Jack's existence. When Isaac returns 13 years after being sent to boarding school, seeing Laughing Jack again is a severe shock to him, because Isaac had dismissed him as childhood imagination.
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Laughing Jack / int_61dd80f	type	Vengeful Abandoned Toy
Laughing Jack / int_61dd80f	comment	Vengeful Abandoned Toy: Laughing Jack was once Isaac's playmate who came in a jack-in-the-box, but he was trapped alone in it for years, waiting for his friend to return from boarding school. While at first emotionless when he returns but doesn't reopen his box, Jack gets jealous when Isaac has a new "friend" , but then Jack comes to enjoy Isaac's murderous activities since he likes whatever Isaac likes. In a mix of adapting to Isaac's new love for violence and resentment towards being abandoned, Jack tortures Isaac with his own murder weapons before killing him.
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Laughing Jack / int_660d1f3e	type	Amusement Park of Doom
Laughing Jack / int_660d1f3e	comment	Amusement Park of Doom: The mother's Nightmare Sequence occurs in a rundown amusement park where everything is black and white, including the prize dolls which hang by nooses and have stitched grins. She walks into a tent playing "Pop Goes The Weasel" and is mauled by a horde of disfigured children before waking up.
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Laughing Jack / int_7141f5cd	type	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him
Laughing Jack / int_7141f5cd	comment	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: At one point during Isaac's absence, his father drunkenly beats his wife as usual, but she doesn't get back up. He is later hanged for killing his wife.
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Laughing Jack / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Laughing Jack / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: After smashing the head of the woman who refused his advances, Isaac spends weeks crafting her body into a chair and repurposing his workshop into a murder nest. Then he kidnaps a boy to torture him before killing him. His next "guests" are a blind old woman and a young girl. He's had several victims over the span of several weeks before he meets his own bloody end at Laughing Jack's hands.
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Laughing Jack / int_786afb29	type	Looks Like Cesare
Laughing Jack / int_786afb29	comment	Looks Like Cesare: After his corruption, Laughing Jack's colors disappear, including his red hair which turns into mangled black locks, and his tan complexion turns white as dark circles develop around his eyes.
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Laughing Jack / int_7bc8c453	type	Origins Episode
Laughing Jack / int_7bc8c453	comment	Origins Episode: As the title suggests, this is an origin story for Laughing Jack, taking place in the 1800s, likely 2 centuries before the events of his first story. It provides the details of how Laughing Jack became a murderous Monster Clown.
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Laughing Jack / int_8071d6ed	type	Alcoholic Parent
Laughing Jack / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Isaac's father uses most of his earned money on lots of alcohol. He often returns home and shouts at his wife in a drunken rage during their arguments, sometimes escalating to beating or worse. At one point, she doesn't get back up from his beating, and the father is executed.
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Laughing Jack / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Laughing Jack / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: When his mother finds out about the dead cat (which he was partially responsible for killing), Isaac is sent to boarding school that very evening, which separates him from Laughing Jack. No description is given of the boarding school, but it proves to be incredibly counter-productive in changing his bad behaviour, as he returns as a sadistic adult.
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Laughing Jack / int_88f16cee	type	Go Out with a Smile
Laughing Jack / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: Implied. Isaac's last memory that flashes before his eyes is when he first met Laughing Jack, his very first friend. When the police find his body months later, despite his mangled face and rotten body, he almost looks happy.
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Laughing Jack / int_8a12772d	type	Grayscale of Evil
Laughing Jack / int_8a12772d	comment	Grayscale of Evil: The titular clown is all black and white, and ultimately proves to be a lethal False Friend to James. The mother finds herself in an eerie black and white Amusement Park of Doom inhabited by disfigured children in her nightmare, which is implied to be Laughing Jack's realm. In the origin story, Laughing Jack was once a colorful clown, but years of abandonment caused his colors to fade away, and being exposed to violence made him a murderous Monster Clown.
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Laughing Jack / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Laughing Jack / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Lots of Isaac's actions would later spell his own doom. By telling Laughing Jack to not let go of the cat, it dies, which gets Isaac sent to boarding school. Despite his promise to return and set Jack free, he forgets he was even real, abandoning him and causing Jack to lose his color and emotion. Isaac becoming a Serial Killer influences Jack (since his personality adapts to Isaac's), and finally, Isaac's former friend brutalises him with his own murder weapons.
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Laughing Jack / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Laughing Jack / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Laughing Jack is a black and white ragdoll-like clown with striped baggy clothes, shoulder feathers and a swirly cone nose. As well as Creepily Long Arms and razor sharp teeth. While originally a benevolent clown, being exposed to violence after years of abandonment corrupted him into a malicious entity who enjoys slaughtering children.
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Laughing Jack / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Laughing Jack / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: "Pop Goes The Weasel" is Laughing Jack's signature tune, often used in sinister atmospheres. The song plays inside the mother's nightmare, where she finds herself in an Amusement Park of Doom before she walks into the tent where the music is coming from. It halts before the climax, and she is torn apart by a group of disfigured children. The mother can also hear "Pop Goes The Weasel" playing outside her cell at the end of the story.
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Laughing Jack / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Laughing Jack / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Laughing Jack was abandoned for 13 years and lost his color and emotion as a result. Then Isaac's dad is hung for beating his wife to death, and Isaac inherits the house. Laughing Jack is exposed to Isaac's newfound penchant for violence and becomes a Monster Clown.
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Laughing Jack / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
Laughing Jack / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: Laughing Jack poses as a friend to the young James, who says the clown has been playing with him and giving him sweets. But it's all in Jack's sick game to eventually maim him gruesomely.
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Laughing Jack / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
Laughing Jack / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: Laughing Jack starts as a colourful clown man, but years of abandonment have caused all his colors to fade away, leaving him as an emotionless husk of his former self, completely black and white. When he leaves his box after being influenced by Isaac's violence, Jack appears much more demonic as well, having also developed razor sharp teeth and Creepy Long Fingers.
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Laughing Jack / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Laughing Jack / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Upon realising that her knife hit her son's heart instead of the merciless clown who bloodied him, James' mother is devastated beyond belief.
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Laughing Jack / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Laughing Jack / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Isaac kills an old blind woman with an ice pick to the eye socket. Laughing Jack forces Isaac's eyelids to stay open with fish hooks so that he "wouldn't miss the show", he injects an adrenaline needle into Isaac's retina and fiddles it around to keep him from drifting off, and finally he pulls the needle out along with the eyeball.
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Laughing Jack / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Laughing Jack / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear: After Isaac tells him that he's leaving for boarding school, Laughing Jack reassures the crying boy that he'd be waiting for his return, smiling as a single tear runs down his cheek.
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Laughing Jack / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Laughing Jack / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: For all the serial killing, torture and other crimes Isaac has committed, he's implied to die with a smile as he lastly recalls the time he met his first (and likely only ever) friend, Laughing Jack, who also happens to be the one brutalising Isaac to death.
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Laughing Jack / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Laughing Jack / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Isaac's mother is abusively strict to her son, while the father wastes his day's earnings on alcohol and drunkenly abuses his wife, which likely contributes to her abuse of her son.
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Laughing Jack / int_b50504d	type	Creepily Long Arms
Laughing Jack / int_b50504d	comment	Creepily Long Arms: Laughing Jack's striped arms dangle past his waist and appear to have no bones, complementing his ragdoll-like design. The origin story shows that his arms can elongate and constrict living beings to death.
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Laughing Jack / int_b9514d6a	type	Balloon of Doom
Laughing Jack / int_b9514d6a	comment	Balloon of Doom: A variant. Laughing Jack cuts off a bit of Isaac's intestines to make a balloon animal, inflating the foul organ and twisting it into a poodle shape.
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Laughing Jack / int_badc6225	type	Barred from Every Bar
Laughing Jack / int_badc6225	comment	Barred from Every Bar: A lot of Isaac's father's earnings are spent on copious amounts of alcohol after his long shifts, and sometimes he returns home after having been thrown out of every bar in London to drunkenly abuse his wife.
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Laughing Jack / int_bc21c08f	type	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
Laughing Jack / int_bc21c08f	comment	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: As Isaac bleeds out from the torturous mutilation wrought onto him, memories of his life flash before his eyes.
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Laughing Jack / int_bd25b911	type	Scary Jack-in-the-Box
Laughing Jack / int_bd25b911	comment	Scary Jack-in-the-Box: Laughing Jack first came from a colorful "Laughing Jack-in-a-box", which aged from the time the clown was abandoned and trapped in his box. When Isaac uses the discolored, dusty box again as an adult, it plays a distorted, off-key tune of "Pop Goes The Weasel" before releasing the corrupted Laughing Jack.
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Laughing Jack / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Laughing Jack / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Befitting his reputation as a hysterical killer clown, Laughing Jack's constant smile is a demented sharp-toothed grin. When he first catches sight of bloody violence in his origin story, he develops a small smile before it grows along with his escalating laughter, and he keenly watches the rest of Isaac's murderous activities with eager eyes and a big unfading grin.
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Laughing Jack / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
Laughing Jack / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Implied, James' mother is horrified at how defiled and mutilated the children that appear in her nightmare are. The children slowly approach and surround her to tear her apart, to the sound of sickening laughter before she wakes up, unsettled.
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Laughing Jack / int_ca39ac3e	type	Troubled Abuser
Laughing Jack / int_ca39ac3e	comment	Troubled Abuser: Isaac's mother verbally abuses her son, calling him a "useless worm" among other things. She's also a frequent victim of Isaac's father's alcohol-induced violence, so she's likely taking out her frustration on Isaac. At one point, she succumbs to the injuries of his beatings.
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Laughing Jack / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
Laughing Jack / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Played with. When Laughing Jack introduces himself to Isaac as his new friend for life, he says that he adapts to Isaac's changing personality. After Isaac is whisked off to boarding school and returns as a bitter adult, Jack's joy has faded too. However, it's when Isaac becomes a Serial Killer that Jack develops a similar interest in his sadistic activities as they all occurred in his view, although Isaac had no idea he was there.
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Laughing Jack / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
Laughing Jack / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The story is named after the "imaginary" Monster Clown that causes the violence and madness that plagues his victims.
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Laughing Jack / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Laughing Jack / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Twice does young Isaac tell his mother about Laughing Jack, and she doesn't believe him. The first is when he leads her to his room to see him but earns a slap and no dinner since no one is present. Laughing Jack explains that he must hide himself from his parents so that they could still play together. Ironically, when Isaac fails to convince his mother that Jack killed the neighbor's cat, Isaac is sent away to boarding school soon after.
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Laughing Jack / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
Laughing Jack / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: Isaac's mouth bleeds from injuries to the tongue twice. Isaac attempts a Forceful Kiss on the woman he picked up from the bar, but as she wants nothing to do with his sexual advances, she bites his tongue with all her might before trying to escape. Isaac yells insultingly at Laughing Jack for nailing him to the torture bed, to which the clown replies, "If you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all!" before stretching out Isaac's tongue and slicing it off with a knife.
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Laughing Jack / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Laughing Jack / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Before Isaac becomes a Serial Killer, he re-fashions the workshop in his home into a murder nest, loading it with a torture bed, murder tools and weapons. After weeks of claiming victims, Laughing Jack is unleashed from his box on Isaac's shelf, and having been influenced by Isaac's violence, he nails Isaac to the torture bed and mutilates him with his own weapons.
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Laughing Jack / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Laughing Jack / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Isaac swings a lead candlestick at the back of a woman's skull with enough force to break her head open. It bursts like a watermelon and blood spreads all across the room, a few drops even get on Laughing Jack's box.
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Laughing Jack / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Laughing Jack / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Isaac Grossman was a poor child with very few belongings and a Friendless Background, but when he returns 13 years after being sent to boarding school, he's grown to be a cruel man (not unlike his father, but) with a growing interest in Cold-Blooded Torture and murder. This behaviour could have been influenced by his Abusive Parents or the boarding school, but even as a child, he laughs hysterically when his friend gets a cat killed, likely hinting at an early personality sign.
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Laughing Jack / int_e35a1ad4	type	Sweets of Temptation
Laughing Jack / int_e35a1ad4	comment	Sweets of Temptation: The titular clown carries candy that he offers to kids, and after his corruption, he maintains the practice to build trust with children and kill them. James' mother is unsettled to find her son outside with candy, who she assumes to be from a stranger, and not the so-called Laughing Jack like he claims. Later, James gets mutilated and nailed to the wall by the very clown who posed as his friend and playmate.
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Laughing Jack / int_e6521611	type	Creepy Long Fingers
Laughing Jack / int_e6521611	comment	Creepy Long Fingers: Laughing Jack has grotesquely long black fingers which come close to scraping the floor as they dangle from his Creepily Long Arms. Besides grabbing people with the help of his extendable arms, they make quick work of puncturing holes in people's organs. note While likely part of his design in the first story as well, Jack's fingers are only mentioned in the origin story.
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Laughing Jack / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Laughing Jack / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Implied, since Laughing Jack is engineered to take after Isaac's changes in personality, the clown might not have had a say against becoming a Psychopathic Manchild after Isaac becomes a sadistic Serial Killer. He doesn't contest to young Isaac laughing at the corpse of the cat that the clown accidentally killed either.
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Laughing Jack / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Laughing Jack / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: A 5 or 6 year old boy that Isaac kidnaps in a burlap sack is tied up and gagged upon falling out of the bag, and stays that way throughout the whole torture process.
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Laughing Jack / int_ed3dc201	type	Addiction Displacement
Laughing Jack / int_ed3dc201	comment	Addiction Displacement: After Isaac offs a woman he brought over in a booze-filled rage and configures to use her remains to craft a chair, it is said that "after that night, Isaac never touched another drop of alcohol again, for he now possessed a much more macabre thirst."
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Laughing Jack / int_f251d263	type	Attack the Mouth
Laughing Jack / int_f251d263	comment	Attack the Mouth: Ater cutting off his tongue, Laughing Jack slices off Isaac's lips with a knife and shatters his teeth with a hammer.
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Laughing Jack / int_f414f9a1	type	Attack on the Heart
Laughing Jack / int_f414f9a1	comment	Attack on the Heart: After saying his final goodbyes to Isaac, Laughing Jack yanks his heart out of his chest as a last act of violence on Isaac's heavily mutilated body.
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Laughing Jack / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Laughing Jack / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: An adult Isaac brings home a woman he picked up from the bar. They talk casually before a passionate kiss, but as he gets too intimate, the lady moves his hand away before pushing him off and slapping his face. He punches her in the nose and tries to assault her again, but she fights back, responding to his Forceful Kiss by biting his tongue. She doesn't escape, however, as Isaac angrily bashes her head open.
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Laughing Jack / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Laughing Jack / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: In a playtime of pirate gone too far, Laughing Jack takes hold of a cat that young Isaac calls an enemy spy, but his arms constrict the cat too hard that a loud "snap" is heard and it falls limply on the ground when dropped. To Jack's surprise though, Isaac laughs hysterically, only showing concern upon realising that his mother would notice the dead cat and disposes it over the fence. His mom finds out anyway and has Isaac sent to boarding school.
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Laughing Jack / int_fd9763d3	type	Non-Ironic Clown
Laughing Jack / int_fd9763d3	comment	Non-Ironic Clown: Initially, Laughing Jack was a cheerful vibrantly colored clown whose sole purpose was to be Isaac's friend, and he entertained him with candies, games and making his toys dance around in his room. This non-malicious clown would change into a Monster Clown after being abandoned for years and exposed to Isaac's violent activities.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Amusement Park of Doom / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Antagonist Title / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Clown Media / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Cold-Blooded Torture / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Creepily Long Arms / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Devoured by the Horde / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	False Friend / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Grayscale of Evil / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Magical Clown / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Murder by Mistake / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Nightmare Sequence / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Not-So-Imaginary Friend / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Overdrawn at the Blood Bank / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Sweets of Temptation / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	The Tooth Hurts / int_a0933cd
Laughing Jack	hasFeature	Undead Child / int_a0933cd

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