In Other Media
In the Mortal Kombat comics series, Jax makes his first appearance in Goro: Prince of Pain #1. The comics' Jax has a tendency to make jokes and puns during fights, but remains mostly faithful to his game characterization. During Goro's miniseries, Jax sets out to find Sonya, eventually reuniting with her and capturing Kano. During the miniseries Battlewave, Jax is attacked by Goro and left in a coma. He later foils Jade and Smoke's attempt on his life and joins Johnny Cage in Outworld after Sonya went missing while investigating Shang Tsung's island. In the epilogue, Jax's arms are injured by Baraka, which set up the plot for his receiving his cybernetic implants. Jax, alongside Sonya and a team of exclusively-created Special Forces agents, was also featured in a two-issue miniseries entitled U.S. Special Forces, in which the team engages Black Dragon member Rojack in his attempt to get treasures from another dimension.
Jax (spelled as "Jaxx") makes a brief appearance in the first Mortal Kombat film, in which he accompanies Sonya on the raid on Kano's club and unsuccessfully tries to stop her from boarding Shang Tsung's boat near the beginning of the movie. He was played by Gregory McKinney.
In Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Jax (played by former American Gladiators actor Lynn "Red" Williams) fights alongside Sonya and her friends against Shao Kahn, and though his ambiguous cybernetic enhancements are explored to a small degree, he was overall a comic relief and tough talking supporting character. During the film, Jax fights against Cyrax together with Sonya, and defeats Motaro.
Jax appears in the animated series Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm as one of the leading characters, voiced by Dorian Harewood. He was portrayed as a cool-minded character and almost always in a friendly mood, despite occasional clashes with Raiden.
Michael Jai White played Jax in the short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth and the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy. During the first and second episodes of Legacy, he leads a SWAT team in an assault on the Black Dragon warehouse to find and rescue Sonya. He confronts and fights Kano, during which he punches Kano with enough force to sever his right eye. One of Kano's thugs throws a grenade towards Jax and he is severely wounded. He does survive, however, but at the cost of his arms.
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