History Recap / SamuraiJackS3E6JackAndTheTravelingCreatures

-->'''Guardian:''' You can't use it yet, Samurai Jack. Not yet... not yet.

* JawDrop: Jack has one when he sees that Guardian was unharmed by the missiles he sent back at him, with only his suit ruined.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The fight ends with the Guardian beating Jack into unconsciousness with his own bare hands, and nearly finishes him off before he gets a command from the portal itself to spare him.

** The opening voice-over references a character called "Goseki" in the city of "Kojima". This is a nod to mangaka Creator/GosekiKojima whose work had been previously alluded to in [[Recap/SamuraiJackS2E6JackRemembersThePast Season 2 Episode 6]].

*** If you get the Guardian of the Time Portal mad, he will go all blue {{Hulk|ingOut}} on you!

* ShoutOut: The opening voice-over references a character called "Goseki" in the city of "Kojima". This is a nod to mangaka Creator/GosekiKojima whose work had been previously alluded to in [[Recap/SamuraiJackS2E6JackRemembersThePast Season 2 Episode 6]].

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Guardian explains that only one man has been prophesied to defeat him and gain access to the time portal. Unfortunately for Jack, he's not that man.

-->'''Guardian:''' You can't use it yet, Samurai Jack. Not yet...not yet.

* AmbiguousSituation: The vision the portal shows of is an older Jack. We're never given any indication if this is Jack's future, much less if it's before or after returning to his time, or if this is a ''possible'' future. The IDW comics would take the latter route.

* AmbiguousSituation: The vision the portal shows an older Jack.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Guardian is the sole character in the series to defeat Jack in single combat, with nothing but his own strength and skill to boot. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Aku is even better by means of being a demon and The Guardian having no celestial weapons.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: The vision the portal shows of an older Jack. [[spoiler:While this never came to pass, it's heavily implied to be one of alternate timelines as the comic book version of Jack would end up resembling this version. A possible suggestion is that this is what Jack will look like ''after'' he returns to his time]].

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Guardian explains that only one man has been prophesied to defeat him and gain access to the time portal. Unfortunately for Jack, he's not that man... [[spoiler: yet. Unfortunately Aku gave zero shits to that.]]

* StrongAndSkilled: The Guardian is both much stronger and a better fighter than Jack. [[spoiler: It wasn't enough against Aku however.]]
* WeWillMeetAgain: The final scene has the portal showing the Guardian an image of Jack as an aged king returning to the portal, implying that they will fight again and Jack will emerge victorious. [[spoiler: Sadly it would not come to pass.]]

* StrongAndSkilled: The Guardian is both much stronger and a better fighter than Jack

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Guardian is the sole character in the series to defeat Jack in single combat, with nothing but his own strength and skill to boot.

* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Guardian explains that only one man has been prophesied to defeat him and gain access to the time portal. Unfortunately for Jack, he's not that man... [[spoiler: yet.]]

* WeWillMeetAgain: The final scene has the portal showing the Guardian an image of Jack as an aged king returning to the portal, implying that they will fight again and Jack will emerge victorious.

* StrongAndSkilled: The a0Guardian is both much stronger and a better fighter than Jack

* ApologeticAttacker: The Guardian apologises to Jack for beating him into the ground, and allows him to be rescued. Though this is only after the portal tells him that Jack is the one destined to use it.

* ApologeticAtacker: The Guardian apologises to Jack for beating him into the ground, and allows him to be rescued. Though this is only after the portal tells him that Jack is the one destined to use it.

* AffablyEvil: The Guardian is very honorable moral and polite.

* CurbStompCushion: Jack initially holds his own for a bit against the Guardian, using the various weapons scattered around the Guardian's area to fend off the Guardians assault and disarm him from his Sai blades. Jack even manages to hit the Guardian with his own missiles... [[NoSell but this has no real effect except for ruining the Guardian's suit and pissing him off.]] After that, The Guardian quickly inflicts a CurbStompBattle on Jack.
* HumongousMecha: The Guardian's grounds are littered with them, all of them having been destroyed trying to gain entrance to the portal.
* {{Kaiju}}: The three great beasts that bring Jack to the time portal.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: With Samurai Jack having produced a fifth season taking place 50 years later, it's possible that the experience Jack has gained in that time will deem him worthy to face the Guardian again and grant him permission to use the time portal. [[spoiler: Tragically, that never happens as Aku made sure that the Guardian's time portal would never fulfill its duty and the Guardian has either fled to parts unknown or Aku eliminated him with his time portal.]]

* HumongousMecha: The Guardian's grounds are littered with them, all of them having been destroyed trying to gain entrance to the portal.

After an long, hard, arduous battle, the Guardian soon manages to knock Jack unconscious after being enraged by the destruction of his suit, but before he can kill Jack by crushing him under a large boulder, the time portal intervenes, apparently telling the Guardian something that he understands and has him stand down and spare Jack's life, before having the bird-like creature that brought Jack to the time portal return to take Jack's unconscious body away after the Guardian loads him onto the creature. Once the creature has departed with Jack, the Guardian looks after them with a saddened look before turning to the time portal as it displays a vision of Jack, looking much older and wiser, standing triumphant on a cliff edge.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: With Samurai Jack having produced a fifth season taking place 50 years later, it's possible that the experience Jack has gained in that time will deem him worthy to face the Guardian again and grant him permission to use the time portal.

--->'''Guardian:''' You can't use it yet, Samurai Jack. Not yet...not yet.