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Jimmy | |
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Personal Info | |
Full Name | Jimmy |
Alias | Iso |
Race | Human |
Nationality | American |
General Info | |
Base of Operations | Iso's lair |
Occupation | Student Chi Apprentice Dark Chi Wizard |
Affiliation | Jade Chan Tohru |
Previous Team | Iso's Henchmen |
Details | |
Debut/Closing | Season 5 Episode 11 |
English | Sam Riegel |
"I may be a freakoid now, but there's no way I'm turning into a mega-loser like you." |
Jimmy is one of Jade's friends from school. In a possible future, he grew up to be the Chi Apprentice of Tohru. Secretly, this version of Jimmy was the true identity of Iso, an infamous Dark Chi Wizard.
Appearance
Jimmy is a young Caucasian boy around the same age as Jade. He has dark blue eyes and brown medium-length hair. As a schoolboy, Jimmy wears a yellow-with-white-trim T-shirt, blue jeans and orange sneakers. After becoming Tohru's apprentice, Jimmy can be seen wearing a purple long-sleeve polo shirt, light gray chinos and black sneakers. Whilst in the persona of Iso, Jimmy's outfit consists of a skin-tight crimson jumpsuit (which Jade remarks is made out of spandex) with an accompanying mask to conceal his true identity.
History
As a young boy, Jimmy attended an unnamed middle school in San Francisco. Struggling to fit in and make friends, Jimmy often felt like a "freakoid". When two bullies threw his backpack into a tree, Jade helped him retrieve it before offering to introduce him to "some real freakoids". After school, Jade brought Jimmy back home with her whilst Uncle, Tohru and Jackie were busy conducting a locator spell to find the remaining half of the Arcanum of Chi, an ancient magical orb capable of increasing the power of any chi spell tenfold. Jimmy's quick thinking enabled him to save the orb when the location spell ingredient caused Tohru to drop it.
After being moved from Uncle's shop to Section 13 for safe keeping, the Arcanum was stolen by a mysterious intruder. Witnessing the event unfold, Jade observed that the thief had arrived from the future through a time portal. Before it could close, Jade pursued the thief back through the portal into the future where she encountered her future self at Section 13. Future Jade explained that the time-traveler was a Dark Chi Wizard named Iso, revealing him to be number one on Section 13's most wanted list. Along with her future self, Jade was greeted by future versions of Jackie, Uncle, Tohru and, to her surprise, Jimmy. Jade learned that Tohru had become a full Chi Wizard and that Jimmy was now his Chi Apprentice.
When Future Jade inferred that Iso's lair was located somewhere within a local shopping mall, her present self proceeded to investigate against her wishes. After Future Jade caught up with her present self in the mall, the pair inadvertently stumbled upon Iso's lair and the stolen half of the Arcanum. Upon being confronted by Iso, both Jades fled the lair with the orb half, prompting Iso to pursue them through the mall. After the Jades commandeered an unattended hoverscooter, Iso employed his wizardry to create a makeshift hoverboard from the lid of a trashcan before proceeding to summon a large metal serpent out of an escalator. By working together, the Jades were able to evade Iso and regroup with the others back at Section 13.
With the stolen half of the Arcanum reclaimed, the Chans prepared to send Jade back to her own timeline. Before she could be returned to the present, however, Jade's future self was fired from her post at Section 13 by Captain Black, holding her responsible for the wake of destruction left at the mall. After turning in her badge, Future Jade proceeded to pack her things. Meanwhile, Future Jimmy informed Present Jade that he had discovered a spell to locate the second half of the Arcanum, determining that it was situated at the top of a dormant volcano named Eagle's Peak a short distance away from the city. When Jade invited him to accompany her in retrieving it, however, Future Jimmy refused, suggesting instead that she bring along her future self, inferring that retrieving the remaining half of the orb would help win back her job.
When the two Jades returned with the second half of the Arcanum, Jimmy proceeded to unite both halves together before finally revealing himself to have been the true identity of Iso all along. With his power enhanced tenfold by the now-complete Arcanum of Chi, Iso proceeded to summon an army of demonic henchmen to eliminate the Chans and destroy Section 13. Amidst the ensuing battle, Future Uncle inferred that in order to defeat Iso, they must first discover his weakness, prompting them to summon a time portal to the present so they could determine his weakness from his present self. Back in the present, Jimmy was still at Uncle's shop with Tohru. Without time to explain, Jade brought him with her to the future. Upon witnessing the actions of his future self, Jimmy was horrified at the type of person he was seemingly destined to become. When Jade asked Jimmy what scared him the most, the latter confessed that he was afraid of heights, explaining why he couldn't retrieve his backpack from the tree and why he refused to accompany Jade up Eagle's Peak to fetch the other half of the Arcanum.
To improve their odds in the fight against Iso, Captain Black equipped the team with a selection of Talismans. Whilst Jackie, Uncle and Tohru kept Iso's forces occupied, Future Jade distracted him with the Snake Talisman long enough for her present self to swoop down on him with the Rooster Talisman, leaving the Dark Chi Wizard dangling high in the air. Frightened, Iso dropped the Arcanum, causing his minions to vanish. Before the orb could hit the ground, Jimmy leapt over and caught it, mirroring the time he saved the Arcanum back in the present. Jade subsequently dropped Iso before the others where he was confronted by Jimmy, who firmly declared that, while he may be a "freakoid" now, he refused to ever become a "mega-loser" like him. With Iso finally apprehended, Future Jackie entrusted the Arcanum to Jade, suggesting that, even with Iso in custody, it would be safer for her to destroy it back in the present.
It is implied that after returning to the present with Jade, Jimmy never went on to become Iso and instead became a better version of the person he was.
Personality
Powers and Abilities
As a Dark Chi Wizard, Iso was a skilled practitioner of Chi Magic. He used a piranha[1] fish to blast chi energy in the same way Uncle uses a blowfish. In addition to casting time portal spells, Iso could summon a large metal serpent out of an escalator and even create a makeshift hoverboard from the lid of a trashcan. After uniting both halves of the Arcanum of Chi together, Iso was powerful enough to summon a seemingly endless army of demonic henchmen at his will.
Weaknesses
Jimmy is revealed to be afraid of heights, explaining why he couldn't retrieve his backpack from the tree and why he refused to accompany Jade up Eagle's Peak to fetch the other half of the Arcanum. This weakness is ultimately used against Iso in the final battle.
Appearances
TV Show
Season 5
Trivia
- Iso's chi incantation "Zhe Yiqie Bu Shunli" (这一切不顺利) is Chinese and roughly translates to "It's not going well".