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Spring-Heeled Jack in popular culture

I honestly don't know of any references to this other than an art gallery image[1] and his open-sourced game statistics, under the fiend entry and listed as "Jumping Jack" [2] (which lack the flavor text found in the product linking him to the folklore figure), but Spring-Heeled Jack (also called a "Jumping Jack, or "Bloodfiend" in the book) is a type of fiend in the d20 Modern Roleplaying Game. It can be found in the d20 Menace Manual.

A Screenplay has been written by a couple of UK writers on Spring Heeled Jack and the synopsis can be found at: http://inktip.com/searchbywriterid2.php. It has also been mentioned that this is also available on the script swap website.

I know of someone currently writing a story about a superhero based on Spring Heeled Jack, but he jumps with rocket boots or something.

In the popular RPG "Oblivion" there are a pair of boots called the "Boots of Springheel Jak" that allow you to jump crazy distances. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.77.183.244 (talk) 22:17, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Descriptions of reference works

Updated in line with suggestions by Dreamguy and Allen3.Mikedash (talk) 07:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Footnote 5 has an "op cit" which seems out of place. Could someone fix this? 62.25.106.209 (talk) 12:41, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

In popular culture.

I do not think myself fit to write on Wikipedia, but someone else might note the appearance of Springheel Jack in the latest Elder Scrolls-game? It's called The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion, and if I remember correctly you are asked by The Thieves Guild to obtain the boots of Springheel Jack. I also remember that you get his diary as well, and this I'm not at all sure of but there is a possibility that you also meet him.

As I said, I can't really write here but surely there is someone else who has played this widely popular game?

'Springheel' Jak was a famous thief who lived 300 years earlier in Oblivion. In his diary he discusses becoming a vampire. Upon going out of his tomb he fights you. You must kill him and take the 'boots of Springheel Jak' back to the Gray Fox during a thieves guild quest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.137.153.156 (talk) 02:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

As he's the titular character in the steampunk novel, Burton & Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack (Mark Hodder, Pyr, 2010, http://www.pyrsf.com/StrangeAffair.html), I think that merits a mention. Anyone want to second that and add it to the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.154.224 (talk) 22:27, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

On the science fiction TV series Sanctuary, Spring-heeled Jack is a creature classified as an "Adnormal" (a term for any powerful being that is not human I believe) who has a dark bluish grey skinned demonic appearance and is capable of leaping great distances. He is credited as responsible for the "Jack the Ripper" murders in London. His reasoning for committing the murders is because he claims that London is his rightful home and the humans had been hunting him like a dog, thus he had decided to wage his own war against the humans, using his jumping abilities to evade capture. 173.180.204.18 (talk) 00:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

They are called "abnormals" in Sanctuary. FYI, Spring-heeled Jack featured prominently in the 3rd episode of the 5th series of the ITV/BBC America series Primeval. Doconeill (talk) 19:57, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Jackie Chan Adventures

Spring-Heeled jack had a prominent role in an episode of the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures called "The Return of the Pussycat" from the second season. In it, he is depicted as a trollish man with actual spring heels. He also rhymes all of his lines. PokeHomsar (talk) 18:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

"Alien"?

Grouping: Hoax/Mass hysteria/ Demon/Phantom/Alien

What exactly makes Springheel Jack qualify for 'alien'? --RyanTee82 (talk) 03:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

springheeled jack has shown highly possible likelyness to other well known charectors such as jack the ripper. Im trying to say could it have been a series of unique sociopath that had used this legacy as some kind of diversion to there identity. but im not saying there couldnt be some kind of otherworldly demon or demons going around slapping men and undressing women but just trying to place a point of view. o' and the account of him spitting flames could have just been a joke i mean some drunk asks a girl to get a light knowing when she retuned with a candle he would just scare her by spitting liqure into the open flame.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironmonster (talk • contribs) 18:20, September 21, 2009 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:No original research for the Wikipedia policy that blocks such speculative possibilities from being added as part of a Wikipedia article. --Allen3 ^talk 18:31, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Ironmonster (talk) 19:02, 21 September 2009 (UTC) Ironmonster (talk) 19:03, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Springheeled Jock

Springheeled Jock was a superhero in Grant Morrision's Zenith Phase III. I'm not sure if that meets notability, but it is something I keep meaning to add to the page. MartinSFSA (talk) 04:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Awkard, maybe plagiarized, wording

"Every effort was made by the police to discover the author of these and similar outrages, and several persons were questioned, but were set free." I have a suspicion that even though this sentence is cited, it's not a true paraphrase. No one writes like this in the 21st century. Might want to check Burke, pp. 27-28, to see if it's plagiarized. -65.30.183.17 (talk) 02:24, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Good call in my opinion. The pages are a little different but here is the Scales account which has the paragraph. The Alsop account is here. What do other editors think?
⋙–Berean–Hunter—► 03:01, 21 December 2011 (UTC)