8 Video Game Fan Theories So GOOD They Became Real
5. The Jackal Is Jack Carver - Far Cry 2
More-or-less since Far Cry 2 came out in 2008, there's been a popular fan theory that the shooter's antagonist, The Jackal, might in fact be Jack Carver, the protagonist of the original game.
Above all else, there's a clear physical resemblance between the two characters, they've got relatively similar backstories, and best of all, Far Cry 2's game data even refers to The Jackal by the model name "jackcarver."
It all made perfect sense, then, but Ubisoft wouldn't finally put fans out of their misery until 2021, when Far Cry 2's Creative Director Clint Hocking confirmed to IGN that the fans were 100% on the money. Hocking said:
"The Jackal is actually supposed to be Jack Carver from the original Far Cry... Jack Carver in the original Far Cry was this shifty, smuggler, gun runner kind of crook... The idea was [the Jackal] is just him, 10 years later or something, after he's seen whatever he saw on this island [during the events of Far Cry]. Maybe it was drug induced, maybe it's post-traumatic stress disorder, or maybe it's real. But the idea is, a decade later, he has levelled up his smuggling game, and he's gotten embroiled in this conflict."
There you have it - after watching the Far Cry fanbase agonise over this theory for more than a decade, the bigwigs finally legitimised it.