Talk:Forgotten Daughters/@comment-3084254-20140804063109/@comment-2059440-20140804211215

Jack is a Lovecraftian super-entity that is just below the Hatter in power, being in many ways the predatory portion of "madness" (while Hatter is just madness in general).

Jack takes innumerable forms and many of them, as Edwin stated below, start off as "heroic" individuals but are vessels by which he enters a world and corrupts it - creating scenarios where he is remembered as a trickster, rogue or "hero" when in reality he is far, far worse.

Red wrote a good collection of tales about Jack and how his heroic acts are all part of his network of lies - think of Jack as the ultimate manipulator, he can control his world like a storybook and takes great delight in screwing around with it like a malevolent, highly sociopathic, manchild / demon archetype.

Jack is one of a relatively few number of beings that do not even have a fixed origin, he just kind of "appeared" - most likely he is part of the Hatter (like how Misery is part of Evil) but he far surpasses the Hatter in terms of cruelty.

Hatter is stronger than Jack in terms of cosmic power, Jack is more malevolent than Hatter in terms of deliberately screwing with people - for no reason than he finds it "fun".