Trivia / Jackie Chan Adventures

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: While the show incorrectly conflates Yin with being light and Yang being dark when it's the opposite, its portrayal of Yin being passive and Yang being aggressive does correctly fit with the words' associations.
• Acting for Two:
  • James Sie voices Jackie, Chow, and Shendu. Made more interesting when Shendu possesses Jackie in "Demon World (Part 1)".
  • Clancy Brown voices Captain Black, Ratso, and Super Moose.
  • Xiao Fung and Tso Lan are both voiced by the late Glenn Shadix (who passed away from a head wound from falling in 2010).
  • Po Kong and Bai Tza are both voiced by Mona Marshall.
• Actor Existence Limbo: After already being replaced once, Valmont is reduced to a pair of nonspeaking cameos in season five.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Jackie's inspiration for this series came from his love of watching cartoons growing up.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • The series' Netflix profile picture◊ made Gnomekop, a one-off villain for a single episode, out to be the Big Bad.
  • Some sources have claimed that Stacie Chan, Jade's voice actress, is Jackie Chan's real life niece. Stacie is not related to Jackie Chan despite the shared surname.
• The Danza: Stacie Chan as Jade Chan.
• Dueling Works: The second and third seasons of JCA were aired alongside The Mummy: The Animated Series. JCA managed to get a few more seasons in than The Mummy, which was put in stasis for 5 years after two seasons.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Uncle, who is Chinese, is voiced by Japanese actor Sab Shimono.
  • The Japanese Tohru is voiced by African-American actor Noah Nelson.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Uncle's ignorance of the Oni and the Japanese culture in season four is an example of this due to Uncle's voice actor, Sab Shimono, being Japanese.
• No Export for You: The PS2 game never got released in America, only in Europe.
• The Other Darrin:
  • When Hak Foo originally debuted in the first season episode "The Dog & Piggy Show", he was voiced by Jim Cummings. After he became a regular, starting with season 2, John DiMaggio took over the role. In "Deja Vu", when Jackie relives the events of Hak's debut episode DiMaggio still voices the character.
  • Likewise, Julian Sands voiced Valmont, but only for seasons 1 and 2. Andrew Ableson voiced his handful of appearances in seasons 3 and 4.
  • The Monkey King was voiced by Bill Tanzer in his first appearance and Billy West in his second.
  • After originally being voiced by Corey Burton, all other appearances by Xiao Fung have him voiced by Glenn Shadix, who also voiced Tso Lan (Burton was actually never credited as Xiao Fung in any of the episodes where that character appears).
  • Jade's future adult self in "J2: Rise of the Dragons" is voiced by Lucy Liu. Her next appearance in "J2: Revisited" has her voiced by Jade's regular actress Stacie Chan.
• Out of Order: Three episodes in season 2 officially take place before the season 1 finale, all feature Tohru still working with the Dark Hand and one is a direct prequel to Viper's debut. Notably the actual Myth Arc doesn't get going for a few episodes in and "Demon World", a major two-part event, resolves the Myth Arc in the middle of the season. The rest of the season is devoted mostly to standalones, but given the structure of the season they may or may not take place between the end of season 1 and the Myth Arc of season 2. The later three seasons don't have this issue, as season 2 had the most episodes total and there is less filler in the Myth Arc.
• Playing Against Type: Clancy Brown, normally a villain actor, playing a "good guy" in Captain Black and Super Moose. They're only several of these types of roles he's done, with Sergeant Zim from Starship Troopers (which also involved Sony/Tristar and is technically another military role), Raiden ^note  which is a Shock and Awe character; ironically, Tchang Zu's voice sounds more like Clancy Brown than Frank Welker, who was never credited in the end-of-episode credits for the role; also ironically, one of Brown's co-stars from Starship Troopers, Casper Van Dien, later appeared in Mortal Kombat: Legacy's second season from Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and a doctor in Cowboys & Aliens being some of the few other good examples.
• Real-Life Relative: Xu Lin from "The Lotus Temple" is voiced by Ashlie Chan, sister of Jade's voice actress Stacie Chan. (They are of no relation to Jackie Chan however.)
• Recycled Script:
  • They even lampshade it. Season 1 had the team looking for the 12 Talismans of Shendu, and Season 2 had them trying to prevent the unsealing of the 8 Demon Sorcerers. Season 3 had the Talismans destroyed, and their powers transfer to their animal namesake (the same magic in a new container), and Season 5 had them looking for the artifacts of the Immortals who imprisoned the Demon Sorcerers (same elemental powers in new containers). Season 4 is the only completely original season with the Oni Masks.
  • The entire main story arcs of all five seasons follow the same basic structure: Locate and obtain potentially dangerous (if not apocalyptic) magical powers scattered all around the world, before the bad guys get to them first.
  • In "Black and White and Chi All Over", the scene where Drago is trying to recruit new henchmen (with mostly pathetic results) plays out a lot like a gag from "Tough Luck" when Finn was trying to start his own gang.
• Schedule Slip: JCA managed to become a small part of September 11th in a few ways, which affected the demon portal arc with the rest of Shendu's family and one of the real Chan's planned films.
  • The airing of the JCA Season 2 premiere "The Stronger Evil" (along with the rest of the Kids' WB! lineup for Fall 2001, which included the American debut of Yu-Gi-Oh!) were postponed by two weeks due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks from Al-Qaeda, which started The War on Terror. This was probably due to a trend of censoring and editing out any images of the now-destroyed World Trade Center; for example the next Season 2 episode "The J-Team", which included a brief shot of the NYC skyline. One of the extra episodes that took place during Season 1, "Through the Rabbit Hole" (the final episode in the Season 2 docket), had already aired the Saturday before the attacks, and the other two Season 1 fillers aired in the two weeks where "The Stronger Evil" and "The J-Team" were supposed to air, followed by the episode "The Mother of all Battles" (and the first episode on the production order that follows the "Demon World" episodes), then the season officially began at the end of the month.
  • On a related note, the real Jackie Chan was supposed to star in Nosebleed, a movie about a window washer working at the World Trade Center who foils a terrorist plot, which was immediately cancelled for obvious reasons. Allegedly according to an urban legend, Chan even missed out on attending the planned filming that was supposed to begin on the morning of September 11, 2001.
• Stock Sound Effects: Shendu's roars and growls actually come from the legendary T-Rex scene from Steven Spielberg's classic Jurassic Park. The roar became one of the effects from Lucasfilm's Skywalker Sound division.
• Write Who You Know: According to real-life Jackie, the characters of the show are based on certain people in his life:
  • Jade is based on an assortment of Jackie's nieces.
  • Uncle is based on Jackie's father and agent.
  • Tohru is based on one of Jackie's stunt team members and himself.
• You Sound Familiar: Minor villains Origami and Bartholomew Chang are both voiced by Timothy Dang.

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