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Character Name: Colonel Jack O'Neill
Character Fandom: Stargate Sg-1
Canonical Point of Entry: Just before he's promoted to General
Background: O'Neill was born in Chicago on October 20, 1952, and raised in Minnesota. He has made many enemies in his years of service, and arguably fewer friends. While married to a woman named Sarah, Jack went on a mission between the borders of Iran and Iraq in the 1980s. He was parachuting and hit the ground hard. There was no rescue. Instead, he spent nine days making it out on his own, back into allied territory.

Jack spent several years in a black-ops unit of the U.S. military. He made a friend in the military named Major Charles Kawalsky who served with him in at least one black-opt mission (and later in the stargate program until he was possessed by a Goa'uld and killed). Amongst his various missions, he was imprisoned in Iraq for four months after a mission under the command of Frank Cromwell went bad. He escaped from the prison and his motivation came from wanting to see Sarah again. His son, Charlie, was concieved shortly there after.

During his off hours Jack spent time with his wife and son. Family brought terrific meaning to his life. Simple games of catch and baseball, his son's favorites, fulfilled the parts of his existence that were inaccessible through his military career. Two weeks before a terrible accident, Charlie came home wanting a water gun, but Jack forbade him to have, thinking the boy was too young to handle even a pretend weapon. But one fateful autumn day, on the day Charlie came home from school with his class pictures, the boy uncovered his father's handgun and fatally shot himself inside their home. Jack and Sarah heard the shot from outside the house, and rushed Charlie to the hospital. Charlie died.

The impact of Charlie's death sent O'Neill into deep depression. He was deactivated from duty until two of General West's officers arrived at his house, informing him that he had been brought back into active service at the Creek Mountain facility. The top-secret Stargate project was approaching a critical juncture. O'Neill accepted the mission that, if Dr. Daniel Jackson succeeded in opening this "door to heaven," he would go through to the other side to assess the situation and, if he found any hostile threats to Earth, would give his life to destroy the Stargate with a nuclear weapon.

The Stargate was opened around 1996, forever changing O'Neill's life. On the other side of the portal was the Supreme System Lord Ra, who had seeded the world of Abydos with humans. With the help of Jackson and the native Abydonians, O'Neill instead used the bomb to obliterate the false god in orbit aboard his mothership. O'Neill returned to Earth, leaving Jackson, per his request, on Abydos.

Arriving home from the mission, O'Neill found Sarah wished him gone from their home. Soon divorced, he was alone for the first time in over a decade. With the Stargate program shut down and transplanted to Cheyenne Mountain, Jack retired from service. He quit smoking and spent much of his time in solitude, some on his roof staring at the stars through a telescope. It was there on his roof, one year later, that he learned that the Stargate had been reopened and a new threat had emerged.

With the inception of Stargate Command under Major General George Hammond, O'Neill agreed to come out of retirement to command the flagship field unit, SG-1. Along with Samantha Carter, his new second-in-command, he returned to Abydos to retrieve Dr. Jackson and uncover the source of the new Goa'uld threat. But his good friend Skaara, an Abydonian boy, was soon kidnapped by the Goa'uld System Lord Apophis, giving O'Neill a very personal reason to seek out and fight this new enemy.

Personality: Jack is a simple man, of simple thoughts, who enjoys quiet fishing at his cabin, and thrives on the adventure of going through the gate. As a general rule, he dislikes scientists. When Dr. Samantha Carter joins his team, he is at first wary of her. She proves herself to be an excellent addition to his team. He routinely stops all complex scientific discourse, demanding the simplest possible explanation at all times. He is not known for complex thinking of any sort beyond military strategies.

He possess a sharp, sarcastic sense of humor, and is not above taunting an enemy in the heat of battle, or while in captivity. He has a problem with authority figures and has a casual approach to them, which can sometimes be obviously disrespectful. He'll defy orders if he thinks it's the right course of action and he isn't very good at diplomacy. He has also developed a valid mistrust of new alien races, and expects trust to be earned and loyalty to be proven.

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