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{{Useful Notes}}
[[File:Jack_the_Ripper_4878.jpg|frame|Yours truly, Jack the Ripper...]]
{{quote|''Dear Boss...''}}
{{quote|"Years from now, people will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th century..."
|''[[From Hell]]'' }}
One of the first, and most likely still most famous. Not just ''a'' serial killer: ''The'' [[Serial Killer]]. ▼
▲One of the first, and most likely still most famous. Not just ''a'' serial killer: ''The'' [[Serial Killer]].
▲The Ripper is commonly held to have killed at least five prostitutes in Whitechapel area of London's East End in the fall of 1888:
* Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols (08/31/1888)
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However, there is some controversy concerning the actual total, with some investigators including other prostitute murders performed in a broadly similar fashion before and after the 'canonical' five. In addition, there is (and will likely always be) a lack of consensus in the case of Elizabeth Stride, the only canonical victim to show no signs of [[Squick|postmortem mutilation]]. All five of the canonical victims died with their throats cut, and all but Stride were heavily mutilated postmortem; this, combined with a witness report and the fact that Stride's body was still warm when police arrived, led investigators to assume that in Stride's case the killer was interrupted, leading to the attack on Eddowes later the same night (what has come to be known as the 'Double Event').
From the complex nature of the mutilations, involving relatively quick and neat removal of specific organs, it is probable that the killer had at least some knowledge of
The murder and mutilation of prostitutes cut almost straight to the heart of Victorian morbidity, causing a wave of panic in London. This was exacerbated by a series of taunting letters to the Central News Agency and the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee between the "Double Event" and Mary Kelly's death. One of these letters purported to include half of Catherine Eddowes' missing kidney -"Tother half I fried and ate it was very nise". All except this last are now usually considered to be hoaxes perpetrated by the reporters themselves, including the one in which the Ripper received his famous name.
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Things became even more complicated when the killings (probably) stopped after Mary Kelly's death, and the case went more or less cold. Although as noted a few similar murders briefly revived fears for some years thereafter, it was and is widely believed that the killer's growing psychosis reached full expression with the Kelly murder, after which s/he either committed suicide, died naturally or was committed for other reasons.
The suspects named then and since represent an extraordinary cross-section of society of the time, ranging from a homeless Jewish butcher to various middle-class medical students to the Heir to the British Empire. The theory that the killer was a woman, a vengeful/insane midwife dressed as a man, has also been bandied about from time to time. Another popular notion has it that the killer had been infected with
Chief Inspector George Abberline, the distinguished DI in charge of the case, apparently pinned his colours on George Chapman, a Polish immigrant barber-surgeon who killed three wives in succession; when Chapman was convicted, Abberline sent the officers a telegram reading "You've got the Ripper at last!" However, Chapman's known MO was poison, not the knife and, while it it not unknown for serial killers to change their MO, it is virtually unheard of to go from a rage-driven knife murder to the more distanced poisoning.
More recently, there has been some speculation that the Ripper was American, based on a similar contemporary murder in New York and the coincidence of the chief suspect in that case having spent some time in England. Another controversial new
The name "Jack the Ripper" influenced the nicknames of a lot of later killers, especially Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".
The Ripper case is particularly tantalizing for writers who want to make [[An Aesop]] or [[Historical In-Joke]] about [[Victorian London]], as the case was never solved and much of the documentary evidence associated with it has been either lost or destroyed. It is also fairly common in stories whose pitches involve the phrases "[[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]" or "[[
It has also attracted [http://www.casebook.org a reasonable number of dedicated students] called "Ripperologists" and also a fair number of guided walks in the East End on the subject.
{{creatortropes}}
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Several theorists have speculated that the killer might have been a woman, possibly another prostitute.
* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: All known victims were horribly mangled, and in one case, dismembered. Indeed, what makes the Ripper stand out as a [[Serial Killer]] has always been the sheer brutality of the murders.
* [[Disposable Sex Worker]]:
* [[Finger in the Mail]]: A kidney from the Ripper's fourth victim was mailed to the authorities.
* [[I
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Well, in theory, but the fact that the murders stopped may well mean that he died or was convicted of an unrelated crime, so he didn't necessarily get off
* [[The Killer Was Left-Handed]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: All known victims were killed by multiple stab wounds.
* [[Murderers Are Rapists]]:
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]
* [[Small Role, Big Impact]]: There were five known victims - while it would be wrong to trivialize such a thing, the Ripper's crimes ironically seem penny-ante when compared to modern [[Serial Killer]]s, including those he inspired.
* [[Victorian London]]
▲* [[Disposable Sex Worker]] - a curious aversion, considering how frequently this trope and serial killers are associated; despite the lowly social status of the victims, the killings so horrified Victorian society that they formed the impetus for numerous social reform movements, and the police's inability to locate the killer (and arguably inept handling of the investigation) spurred numerous reforms in the Metropolitan Police and its methods.
▲* [[Murderers Are Rapists]] - as far as we know, a notable aversion. Of course, the victims were prostitutes and they were mutilated so badly it can't be known what was forced and what was not. He may have subjected his victims to something called [[wikipedia:Piquerism|Piquerism]] though.
See also [[Jack the Ripoff]].
{{examples|The following works feature appearances by or references to the Ripper case:}}
* Who could forget ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' and its
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Who could forget ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' and its Vampire Jack the Ripper, transformed by a super powered Aztec mask-awakened arch-vampire, of a sort bred by ogres to be consumed? No, really.
* The ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie, ''The Phantom of Baker Street'' involves both hunting for Jack the Ripper in a computer game and the descendant of the real ripper.
* Ciel in ''[[Black Butler]]'' investigates the Jack the Ripper murders. {{spoiler|Turns out that the killers were his aunt and her flamboyant [[Shinigami]] butler.}}
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** In the mainstream DCU, Jack the Ripper was Red Jack (a ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Shout-Out]]), a godlike being who later fought the [[Doom Patrol]]. Or he was Mary Kelly's boyfriend, encouraged by the demon Buzz from Peter David's ''[[Supergirl]]''. Or he was posessed by a different demon, Calibraxis from ''[[Hellblazer]]''. Or, just possibly, he was [[Vandal Savage|Vandal]] [[Julius Beethoven Da Vinci|Savage]], and was stopped by Resurrection Man.
*** In an issue of ''[[Superboy]]'', Project Cadmus is hired to analyse the Ripper's DNA and find out who he was. Instead, [[Mad Scientist]] Dabney Donovan uses the sample to create a monster called Ripjak.
** In
** The ''[[Madame Xanadu]]'' series also involves the Ripper, but rather than reveal his identity his actions are described by the [[The Phantom Stranger|Phantom Stranger]] to be the universe's "balancing act" response to actions undertaken by Madame Xanadu centuries ago. As it goes, Jason Blood / [[Etrigan]] fathered a child on one of the Ripper's victims, and had she carried the child to term, it would have been the greatest horror that could ever walk the Earth. The Ripper murders were a byproduct of the universe attempting to prevent this from happening, and ultimately succeeded. Afterwards, Stranger, while not actively interfering, does take matters into his own hands, and arranges for the Ripper to fall and break his neck rather than continue, because while he "only observes" what takes place, he was as repulsed as any by the murders, even though he accepted the necessity of them.
* Alan Moore's ''[[From Hell]]''; the title is a reference to the letter to the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee that contained what was claimed to be Catherine Eddowes' kidney.
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* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' comic spin-off "Tales of the Vampires" included a story in which the Ripper was a vampire, the twist being that the policeman investigating turned out to be a vampire as well, who eventually killed the Ripper for being too splashy and risking exposing the existence of vampires to the public.
* A ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comic reveals the Ripper became a Cenobite.
* An horror comic story (Astonishing #18) that [[Did Not Do the Research]] had an adventurer visiting the grave of Jack the Ripper (with the absurd inscription 'Jack the
* In the French [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Prequel]] to ''[[Peter Pan]]'' by Regis Loisel, Jack murders Peter's abusive prostitute mother apparently out of pity for him, but still clearly traumatizing the poor boy. Furthermore, it's implied that this event in fact launched the Ripper murders, as it apparently made Jack loathe all prostitutes as abusive monsters.
* The [[Marvel Universe]] offers several contradictory explanations of who Jack the Ripper was.
** An issue of ''[[Doctor Strange]]'' had it that he was possessed by a servant of the [[Dimension Lord]] Dormammu.
** ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' #372, featuring an immortal(ish) serial killer whose preferred method was killing women with his knives, included a carefully hedged speculation that he might have been Jack the Ripper.
* In the [[Strangers in Paradise]] arch "Molly & Pooh", a pair of high society killers believe they've discovered the identity of the Ripper and dispatch him in his old age. This story has [[
* A brief [[OEL Manga|manga-styled production]] from [[Seven Seas Entertainment]] involved an [[Alternate History]] in which Jack the Ripper's daughter is a doctor and [[Knife Nut|throwing knife expert]] aboard [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|the submarine of Captain Nemo's son]], resisting the French Empire not quite eighty years after [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s victory at Waterloo. This "series" sank after just one volume.
== Fan
* In ''[[The Renegades]]'', [[Dark Action Girl|Larxene]] runs into Jack one night during the group's stay in Victorian London. She has a bit of fun leading him on before showing him that she [[Knife Nut|carries knives, too]], then has even more fun as she uses them on him.
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* ''[[The Lodger]]'', based on the novel of the same name and directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]].
* ''[[Time After Time]]'' features [[H. G. Wells]] going forward in time to stop Jack the Ripper in 1970s San Francisco. Jack [[Villains Blend in Better|fits in]] a bit better than Wells does:
{{quote|'''Jack the Ripper:''' "Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an ''amateur''."}}
* ''[[From Hell]]'', based very loosely on the [[Alan Moore]] comic book.
* [[Historical In-Joke]] (albeit an anachronistic one) in ''[[Shanghai Knights]]''. The reason the killings stopped? Jack tried to victimize Chon Lin and...
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* The mini-series ''Whitechapel'' concerns a group of detectives having to deal with a copycat killer in present-day Whitechapel.
* ''[[From Hell]]'', based on Alan Moore's same-named graphic novel. Inspector Abberline, played by [[Johnny Depp]], gradually uncovers a complicated conspiracy behind the murders (involving the Royal Family, natch.)
* [[Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (film)|The animated version of ''Batman: Gotham by Gaslight'']] parallels its print version, with Batman going up against Jack the Ripper. Ironically enough, one of his victims ''isn't'' a woman. That would be Hugo Strange, who was helping Batman find out who the killer was. {{spoiler|What's even more ironic is that the Ripper is James Gordon, who in this movie is more along the lines of James Gordon Jr.}}
== Literature ==
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*** {{spoiler|Which is rather stupid, as it's an open secret that the reigning British monarch in [[Shadowrun]] goblinized decades ago, and was quietly dethroned along with all the other goblinized royals, to hide the fact that the bloodline is rife with troll genes. If ''that'' didn't discredit the monarchy, to bigots and haters of bigotry alike, who's going to care about some cheesy old knife murders?}}
** Also referenced in the Shadowrun short story "Whitechapel Rose", whose eccentric decker protagonist patterns his online persona on Jack the Ripper.
* [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s [[Author Tract]] ''Threepenny Novel'' identifies the [[Villain Protagonist]] Macheath with
* ''[[A Night in the Lonesome October]]'' by [[Roger Zelazny]] features Jack's dog as the main character. In the novel Jack is a magic-user, [[Anti-Hero|actually on the side of good]] and kills to obtain the materials to stop an eldritch armageddon and/or when affected by his curse.
* Terry Moore's ''Molly and Poo'' short stories feature the Ripper.
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* The Michael Slade novel ''Ripper'' describes a series of occult-themed murders in 1990s Vancouver (investigated by Slade's fictional elite task force Special X) which are revealed over the course of the novel to be directly inspired by/copied from the Ripper murders by way of [[Aleister Crowley]] (!), thus advancing an occult-motivated theory of the original crimes (and postulating an identity for the Ripper himself).
** Note that it doesn't ''conclusively'' state who the Ripper was, only who Crowley's followers and the novel's own killers ''think'' he was. The "Ripper's Trunk" could've been yet another example of Crowley's theatrics.
* ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' by [[Kim Newman]] follows the investigation of the Ripper murders in an alternate history where Count [[Dracula]] married [[Queen
* The [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] spin-off novel ''Beasts in Velvet'' by Jack Yeovil (actually [[Kim Newman]] again) features the Warhammer universe's version of the Ripper murders, investigated by the Warhammer universe's version of [[Dirty Harry]]. (It's better than it sounds.)
* In the [[Philip Jose Farmer|Philip José Farmer's]] novel ''A Feast Unknown'', Jack the Ripper is the father of the two heroes Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban ([[Expy|expies]] of [[Tarzan]] and [[Doc Savage]], respectively).
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* Jack the Ripper shows up in the 1888 segments of ''[[Final Destination]]: Destination Zero''. Turns out he died when [[Grim Reaper|Death]] caused him to be crushed and ground up in the mechanisms of a bridge.
* Paul West's novel ''The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper'' focuses on the Ripper's targets.
* Dacre Stoker's and Ian Holt's ''Dracula the Un-Dead'' proposes that the Ripper was not just a {{spoiler|vampire}}, but a {{spoiler|lesbian vampire}}
* ''The Peculiar Mating Habits of Wasps'' is a story in which Watson notices that [[Sherlock Holmes]] has no alibi for the nights of the Ripper murders, and begins to suspect foul play. As evidence mounts, Watson finally follows Sherlock only to find out {{spoiler|that Holmes has indeed been behind the slayings}} and the prostitutes had all been approached by the same client: {{spoiler|a man infected by an alien creature which was controlling him, using the prostitutes as incubators for its eggs. Holmes had been following it and killing the larvae}}, explaining the mutilations. The story ends with the whole affair taken care of, with an obligatory title drop.
* [[The Monstrumoligist]]: [[Complete Monster|Dr. John Kearns]] is actually the Ripper.
* Neil Gaiman's ''The Graveyard Book'' features a self-fulfilling prophecy set in motion by the murder of a family by one of the "Jacks-of-all-trades." While the murders maintain no similarity to the actual Ripper slayings, canonical or apocryphal, the name is a shout out, since in every conversation among them the killers refer to one another as "Jack."
* One of the [[Jakub Wedrowycz]] stories shows that the protagonist was
* In ''[[Secret Histories]]'' series by Simon R. Green, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Mr. Stab]] performed several gruesome human sacrifices in Victorian Whitechapel in order to obtain immortality. It worked, but [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|this form of immortality]] had [[Can't Have Sex Ever|consequences for which he was not prepared.]]
* A central character in the later books of [[Time Scout]].
* ''[[Fate/Apocrypha]]'', a spin-off [[Light Novel]] of ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', features Jack the Ripper as an Assassin-class Servant whose master is a prostitute. Jack the Ripper is also [http://images.wikia.com/typemoon/images/e/e4/Jack_i.png a skimpily-dressed loli].
* Gordon Korman's kids' trilogy about the ''Titanic'' has the Ripper stowing away aboard the ill-fated ship. He dies after the ship sinks.
* A character who appears in three of [[David Drake]]'s ''[[Hammer's Slammers]]'' stories is nicknamed "Ripper Jack" because his given name '''is''' Jack and he likes to carry a knife in case his gun jams. He's never suggested to be particularly psychotic, though.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
* ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]''
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''
** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Or they saw it as suitable punishment for the man]].
{{quote|'''Sebastian''': In the pursuit of my holy cause, I... did things. Terrible things. Unspeakable things. The world condemned me... but it didn't matter, because I believed I was right and the world was wrong! I believed I was the divine messenger! I believed I was-
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'''Sebastian''': Good luck to you in your holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May your choices have better results than mine. Remembered not as a messenger, remembered not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian... Remembered only... as Jack." }}
*** A typo in the script led to Sheridan saying that Jack the Ripper was active in the West End rather than the East End; unfortunately, as the camera was focused on his face at the time, the subsequent dub to have him say East rather than West was extremely obvious.
* ''[[The Outer Limits]]''
* ''[[Special Unit 2]]''
* ''[[Sanctuary]]''
** And it was later revealed that the insanity was not, as first thought, caused by brain damage from his teleporting ability, but rather was the result of his body being invaded by a malicious energy creature in a [[Shout-Out]] to the above [[Star Trek]] episode. His teleportation was what made him vulnerable to the energy creature, so the initial theory wasn't wrong, just incomplete.
* A 2009 [[ITV]] drama called ''Whitechapel'' has someone re-creating the Ripper murders in 2008 London. More or less, as location filming problems and the changing geography of the city (most of the relevant streets have now gone in slum clearances) has meant some murders have moved location slightly, something noted by the characters. The first episode does have someone stabbed 39 times in line with the Martha Tabram murder (one of the non-canonical ones before the five), but survives when the one aimed for her heart glances off a rib.
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* Parodied by ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' in their ''The Phantom Raspberry Blower Of Old London Town'' series of sketches, written by [[Spike Milligan]] (as you can immediately tell from the [[The Goon Show|Goon-esque]] title).
* On ''[[Smallville]]'', Chloe calls immortal villain Knox a "Jack the Ripper wannabe". Knox nonchalantly responds, "I ''was'' Jack the Ripper."
* On ''[[Peep Show]]'', [[Butt Monkey]] Mark is offered a chance to give historical tours of
* In ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'', Murdoch pursues a Toronto serial killer widely believed to be Jack the Ripper, with the assistance of a Scotland Yard detective who investigated the Whitechapel murders. {{spoiler|The [[Detective Mole|detective is revealed to be]] the Ripper, and is stabbed to death by Doctor Ogden when he attacks her in the morgue.}}
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Good Man Goes to War" reveals what put a stop to his killing spree - a Silurian detective '''ate''' him. Apparently he was stringy.
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* "[[Forever Knight]]" portrayed the Ripper as a vampire who was somehow tainted, even as a human, so LaCroix was unable to finish draining him. He ordered Nick to kill him, but Nick did not, and the man went on to become Jack the Ripper. Later, he traveled around and was responsible for a number of other serial killer cases. He is eventually killed in a fire after attempting to attack Natalie in a car.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', which regularly references real-life serial killers, has made several nods to the Ripper, including an episode centering around a gender-flipped reproduction of the murders carried out by a woman against male victims.
== Music ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** In the
** There is also a monster in the extraneous source book ''Cityscape'', that is called a Ripper. Although it isn't human it is an obvious reference due to its ability to hide among humanity and serial killer nature.
** Another domain, Paridon (a not-quite [[Victorian London]]
** And the domain of Invidia (at least in 2nd Edition) had the Midnight Slasher stalking the streets killing women {{spoiler|who was actually female herself. The domain's then-darklord had an affair with her father, driving him to kill his wife and then himself. As a final act, the darklord then kissed the child (who had witnessed the deaths) on the forehead, driving her into madness and pathological hatred}}.
** One of the included adventures in the ''Ravenloft'' expansion ''Masque of the Red Death'' had the heroes investigating the actual Ripper murders (on a more supernatural version of Earth). {{spoiler|The killer turned out to be the deranged spirit of a doctor's dead wife possessing the bodies of homeless men. However, it is also implied that this woman is in fact one of Ripper's victims who became a [[Copycat Killer]] as a spirit; exactly which is left ambiguous.}}
* ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'' has it that Jack the Ripper stopped killing (in a manner the public would notice) because he became a member of [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job|The Ashwood Abbey]], who felt they could direct his darker impulses in more constructive directions (or rather, destruction directed towards the supernatural). This proved ineffective, as he repeatedly relapsed into killing innocents, though the Abbey tried to cover it up. They finally decided to do away with him, since [[Even Evil Has Standards|even depraved, hedonistic, wealthy thrill-seekers have standards]]. They gave him the concession of not eating him, [[I'm a Humanitarian|something he apparently did]].
** Death wasn't the end of Jack, though. When he died, he spawned a spirit of murder incarnate, who still stalks Britain to this day.
** The folks at [
* The default ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' campaign setting has Jack-a-Knives, a Jack the Ripper interpretation as a possessing spirit.
* Savage Worlds campaign setting ''"Rippers"'' features the [[Big Bad]] "Jack" who was one of the first Rippers. The Rippers get their name from their habit of ripping parts from monsters and implanting them into themselves . By the game's time, Jack is so deformed that he needs to rip human parts in order to survive.
== Theatre ==
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* In the Knight's Court area of Marleybone in [[Wizard 101]], a (literal) cat burglar known as [[Expy|Jacques the Scratcher]] has been attacking and robbing (or "scratching" as they call it) local women, and Scotland Yard requests your help in tracking him down.
* ''[[MediEvil 2|Medi Evil 2]]'' has a boss named "The Ripper" who runs around 1800s Whitechapel and kills prostitutes. You do the math. He kills Sir Dan's love interest, leading Dan into a [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]... until he finds a time machine...
* Ditto ''[[Arcanum]]''. Turns out the killer is actually trying to prevent a highly powerful demon from unsealing the
* The Virtual Boy game ''Jack Bros'' had an adorable [[Super-Deformed]] Jack the Ripper as one of the playable characters, along with Jack Frost and Jack O'Lantern.
** This is a reference to ''[[Mega Ten]]'' where Jack Frost and Jack O'Lantern are in nearly every game, and Jack the Ripper is their slightly-less-commonly-recurring "brother."
* ''Shadowman'' had a plot about a demon called Legion gathering five serial killers and using magic to make them immortal as part of a plan to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Four of the killers were fictional but the fifth was
* In the computer game adaptation of ''[[Space 1889]]'', you may encounter (and fight) Jack the Ripper while exploring London.
* Sakuya Izayoi, of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series has a spellcard in Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night called "Jack the Ripper." Appropriate, considering her attacks consist of throwing thousands upon thousands of knives at enemies. Her other spellcards in her boss appearance also have a "serial killer" theme, being called "Another Murder" or "Killer Doll".
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== Webcomics ==
* The main antagonist of ''[[Mayonaka Densha]]'' [[Hidden Agenda Villain|possibly]].
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924081938/http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1622 this comic (the third one on the page)] by Warren Ellis, Saucy Jack finally reveals his identity (Note: this version ''does not'' avert [[Murderers Are Rapists]].)
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* Had ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' been renewed for a sixth season, there would've been a story arc in which Carnage would be sent to [[Victorian London]] through a dimensional wormhole and would commit the Ripper murders ([[Gory Discretion Shot|Offscreen,]] [[Could Have Been Messy|obviously.]])
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", Chief Wiggum asks sarcastically to a fleeing Homer, "Well then, if you know everything, who was Jack the Ripper?" to which Homer replies "[[From Hell|The Queen's]] [[Shout-Out|private surgeon]]". Chief Wiggum has only one response, "Wow."
* In ''[[Family Guy]],'' Quagmire,
* Jack the Ripper shows up briefly in [[Futurama]] when the virtual reality program Kif and Amy are in malfunctions.
* In [[Total Drama World Tour]], Chris hires Jack the Ripper for a challenge in which the contestants have to catch him to win. {{spoiler|It's really Ezekiel in a costume}}.
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