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- He stars as Jefferson "Jax" Jackson on CW's The Flash (2014) and in its spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
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He also appeared in British film Attack the Block (2011) and the blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow (2014). He stars as Jefferson "Jax" Jackson on CW's The Flash (2014) and in its spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
- January 1, 1
- 1.82 m
- London, England, UK
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"When you get a bunch of broken pieces, and you put 'em all together the right way, they make something new, and suddenly, they don't feel so broken anymore. And I'm pretty sure that's what a family is."
—Jefferson's speech to the Legends before his departure
Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (born September 12, 1993) is a mechanic and a former member of the Legends. After the death of Ronnie Raymond, he took his place as one half of the transmuted and conjoined meta-human called Firestorm alongside Martin Stein. Jax was then recruited by Rip Hunter on a mission to take down Vandal Savage; although Jax was initially unwilling to join the team, Stein, who was desperate to become a time traveler and knew that he couldn't be separated from Jax for long without his powers becoming unstable, drugged him and forced him to come along. Despite joining the team against his will, Jax later grew to like being part of the team, and he began to act as the mechanic of the Waverider as well as a member and the second-in-command of the Legends, a group of individuals dedicated to protecting the timeline from time criminals.
After the death of Martin during the Earth-X invasion, Jax took a leave of absence from the team with their blessing. Five years after leaving the Legends, Jax married Alanna Jackson and they had a daughter, Martina, named after Martin. Later, in order to help Ray and the Ex-Legends save Mick Rory's children, Jax became the new Captain Cold.
Original multiverse New multiverse
Jax is still alive in the new multiverse. With the exception of Rip Hunter, no one knows the workings of the Waverider better than Jax.
Potential future
A few months later, Jax received a message from the 2018 Legends, asking for his help in defeating Mallus, similar to the original multiverse. In a potential future in 2049, Jax went to a bar in Star City to meet with Ray, Sara Lance, Kendra, Mick, Scythian, and Wally West . As they chatted, Jax talked about how Martina became a scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs, surprising her friends, and they kept talking about her children until Jax, Sara, Mick, Ray, Kendra, and Scythian disappeared.
Powers Abilities
"High school quarterback, 4.0 student. He's got the physical attributes." —Barry Allen on Jefferson Jackson •Peak of human physical condition: Jax is gifted with great natural talent in athletics. During his time in high school, he was a star quarterback who earned a full scholarship to any college/university of his choosing. However, after the particle accelerator explosion, his leg was too damaged to ever play football again, costing him his scholarship. He was fast enough to run across the 360 foot-long Koshmar grounds in under 12 seconds (over 20.45 miles per hour), even with his torn ACL. •High-level intellect: Whilst he lacks a college degree, Jax is highly intelligent, having quickly learned how to operate and perform maintenance on the future technology of the Waverider. He is also shown to be a talented actor, able to perform an accurate British accent. •Expert mechanic/engineer: To help his mother with bills, Jax gained a job in a car repair. To which, his skill at have prevented very adaptive, able to apply it to the various needs of the Waverider and technology encountered on their travels. He eventually was appointed by Rip to be chief engineer for the Waverider (though Mick Rory regularly reminds him that he's the only engineer on board). Jax's intellect from his time traveling adventures has risen to a point where he finds himself bored with 21st century engineering. •Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: While unknown to what degree, Jax has shown some skill at hand-to-hand combat, being able to fight off and even tackle a member of Vandal Savage's cult while the Legends attempted to reclaim Carter Hall's body. This is probably due to his past experience as a quarterback. He is also shown to have a very effective punch, able to knock out a League of Assassins member with a single strike and hold off a 12th-century knight wielding a sword with a bow. Jax was even later able to disarm and knock out Malcolm Merlyn who is one of the best fighters in the multiverse after stabbing him with an arrow. •Skilled marksman: In the Old West, Jax used a revolver to shoot a gun out of a man's hand while on a horse. He also wielded a bow in the 12th century and fired two arrows in the chests of two knights on horses.
Weaknesses
•Torn ACL: Due to being hit by dark matter rather hard and subsequently slamming into a wall, Jax's ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) was badly damaged and as a result, he cannot run too hard on it. This is evidenced when Jax ran across the Koshmar prison courtyard to get to a power switch, only to barely make it due to his knee cramping.
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•Cold gun: Jax was given the cold gun by Mick Rory. •Captain Cold's jacket: Jax was also given the Leonard Snart's jacket by Mick Rory. •Goggles: Jax also wears a pair of blue wraparound goggles, which are designed to protect his eyes from the flashes given off by his Cold Gun.
The FlashDC's Legends of TomorrowVixenArrowSupergirlComics•Apparently, Firestorm doesn't exist on Earth-38, implying that if Jefferson has a doppelgänger on that Earth, he never became Firestorm.
•Jax must merge with Martin Stein weekly, to stabilize him.
•Oddly, Jax shows no similar symptoms as Stein; this suggests the nuclear power is solely held by Stein and Jax is simply the stabilizer.
•A chronic problem for Jax while traveling with the Legends is that he faces racial prejudice in years before the late 1900s.
•Jax calls Stein "Grey" due to his age and the color of his hair. Stein initially was irritated by this nickname, but came to accept it.
•When Stein was Captain, he said his name was "Captain Grey".
•In the DC comics, Jefferson Jackson is a former student of Bradley High School in Manhattan, New York. During his tenure at Bradley High, Jackson became a member of the school's championship basketball team, where he met fellow student Ronnie Raymond. The two became close friends, and Jackson frequently aided Raymond during the numerous episodes wherein the latter would find himself embroiled in conflicts with his rival Cliff Carmichael. Jackson dated a young woman named Stella, and the two frequently double-dated with Raymond and his girlfriend, Doreen Day.
•Jax's background borrows elements from the New 52 origin stories of both Ronnie Raymond and Victor Stone aka Cyborg, all of them being former high school quarterbacks with promising futures, before an accident occurs that ends that dream and instead leads them into the life of a superhero.
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Nov 7, 2019 · Franz Drameh (Jefferson "Jax" Jackson/Firestorm) Shortly after Victor Garber exited the series, Franz Drameh did the same. Though the door was left open for the possibility of the character to...
He stars as Jefferson "Jax" Jackson on CW's The Flash (2014) and in its spinoff, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016).
Jan 21, 2016 · Why Jax joins the team: "Stein is always bossing Jax around, and Jax doesn't like it," Drameh says. "Stein kidnaps Jax and takes him aboard for this life-threatening mission against his will.
Jan 28, 2016 · In "Legends of Tomorrow," the 23-year-old actor plays Jefferson "Jax" Jackson, the new half of Firestorm's two-person dual identity. The Nuclear Man previously made his live-action TV debut on "The Flash" as a composite of the scientist Martin Stein ( Victor Garber ) and S.T.A.R. Labs engineer Ronnie Raymond ( Robbie Amell ).
