- "Felix, pick up the phone, now. I need you to pick up the phone. It's been three hours since I told you to bring Edd and Molly home. What happened to my children? If anything happened, Felix, You must tell me. You haven't called me in three hours I need to know what's going on. I've tried to call you all night. What the hell is wrong with you? I-I've been trying to contact you all night, I've been calling everyone for you. Just what the hell is wrong with you?! Three hours, you didn't call! I asked you to do one simple favor for me. I need to know where are they. Where did you-!?"
- ―one of Jack Walten's ignored message left to Felix Kranken, May 2nd, 1974
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Jack Walten is a major character in The Walten Files. He is the founder of Bon's Burgers, husband of Rosemary Walten, and father of Sophie, Edward, and Molly Walten. Him and his family are the namesake of the series and his fate is currently unknown.
Description[]
As of 1974, he is 42 years old and 6'5. Although there is not a colorized image of him, it has been confirmed that his hair color is brown and his eyes are black. His suit was said to be a dark red color by Martin Walls[1], and according to the main Find Jack Walten page, he was last seen wearing it.
He was the co-founder of Bon's Burgers, and went missing on the June 11, 1974, about two weeks before the opening of Bon´s Burgers.
He is described as a hard-working man (although referred by Sophie as a workaholic) and a happy father of three.
Appearance[]
Jack Walten was only ever seen in black and white besides Bunnyfarm's slight greenish tint coloring. Jack is always seen wearing a suit with a tie with shoulder length curly hair. He is generally seen smiling with only two exceptions being his missing poster where he appears to be in a more neutral face and a BtScene where he is seen looking far to his left in a more serious/focused face. He is also seen as a drawing in Relocate Project in the same art style as the rest of that animation, in black and white.
According to Find Jack Walten, Jack has brown hair and wears a red suit which is possibly the same suit Jack is generally shown in with a striped tie. According to Martin, he has a small tooth gap.
In CyberFun Tech, he was finally shown in color, wearing a striped black suit and striped white tie.
A common theme of his appearance are his red eyes and smile, which may indicate something about his current appearance and status.
History[]
Jack was born in Chile on September 23, 1932. At some point, he moved to the United States, specifically Michigan. He had a seemingly happy life before the events of The Walten Files. He studied at Cleary University in Howell, Livingston County, and graduated in 1959. That same year, he married Rosemary with whom he would have three children.
Jack was well known in Brighton, Michigan for his company "Bunny Smiles Incorporated" and his restaurant franchise "Bon's Burgers" which he was in the process of opening with his close friend, Felix Kranken.
On May 2, 1974, Jack was busy with work while his wife had to take their eldest child, Sophie, to the dentist. Jack called Felix to ask him to pick up his two younger children, Ed and Molly, to attend a school party, and then bring them back home at 9 pm. Felix initially refuses as, unbeknownst to Jack, that same day, Felix's estranged wife Linda left him because of his alcoholism. Felix eventually agreed to the favor as he was fond of Ed and Molly.
During the school party, Felix left the children on their own and he drank excessively in the adults-only area. At 10pm, about an hour after Molly and Ed were supposed to be home, they find a drunken Felix. They question his condition, but are eager to get home as they were already late. On the way to the Walten home, Felix lost control of the car and crashed instantly killing both children. In an attempt to cover up their deaths, Felix buried their bodies in Saint Juana's Forest. Jack is heard near the end of the flashback sequence of BunnyFarm, frantically calling Felix dozens of times and berating him in voice messages, worried sick about his children who were supposed to be home hours ago.
Jack goes to the house of Felix Kranken though Felix is not there. Jack bangs on the windows and threatens to murder Felix if he did anything to Edd and Molly. Jack and Rosemary Walten eventually discover that Felix is responsible for Ed and Molly’s deaths and are angry and heartbroken.
Personality[]
- "Let me out of here."
- ―Jack Walten, Company Introductory Tape
Jack's personality has not been revealed all that much, since we have not seen much of him. He is described by others as hard-working and a happy father, with Sophie describing him as a workaholic. Martin Walls has said he is a good husband and father, being quite protective of his children. Jack tried his best as a parent, he was strict, unintentionally pushy and very exigent, but still was a good father regardless.[2]Like Sophie, Jack doesn't want to feel weak, and not being about to control his future. Jack is a control freak and due to that, doesn't like not being in control and feels weak when he isn't. He is Christian.
Jack believes in appearances are important, wanting to be a perfect role model figure that you'd see in a magazine which is why he himself was in one.
Even though Jack is a co-founder of BSI, he somewhat voluntarily chose to work from behind the scenes and focus on logistics and financials, leaving Felix to take on the actual role of the CEO/Manager. This may imply that Jack is humble about his work and did not want to be in the spotlight or that he is not good at actual company management but still wanted to contribute to BSI in some way.
Despite this, and perhaps his most recognizable part of his personality, Jack has extreme anger issues, as seen in a phone call with Felix in BunnyFarm, and he will get so angry that the only person who can calm him down is Rosemary. This anger got to the point where in CyberFun Tech, he drove to Felix’s house in the middle of the night, repeatedly shouted and pounded on his front door, and threatened to murder Felix if he found out he did something to Edward and Molly while dropping them off, despite him being his close friend.
Relationships[]
- "I wanted to know I could trust you.. So I need to know what happened."
- ―A likely cut line of Jack's, Season 1 Official Trailer
Felix Kranken[]
Felix Kranken and Jack Walten are close friends who met at Cleary University. They bonded over wanting to start an animatronic-themed restaurant, and eventually, their shared dream became a reality. They were the owners and founders of Bon’s Burgers. Their relationship takes a sharp turn when Felix got into a car crash due to him being drunk enough to not pay attention to his driving behavior, and accidentally killed Jack's two youngest children, Edd and Molly Walten. Jack was furious that Felix had not replied to any of his 20+ calls about Edd and Molly and despite him being his close friend, he stated "Just what the hell is wrong with you?" to Felix. Soon after that, Jack went missing. Though he cares about Felix dearly, Martin has stated that Felix is often the one to cause him to lose his temper.
After the crash, Jack and Felix are still in contact and in business with each other, taking the founders photo together. Felix eventually reveals about the crash to Jack and Rosemary as said by Felix himself in CyberFun Tech Collection. Jack and Rosemary were heartbroken to hear the deaths and both hated Felix for what he had done.
Him and Felix's friendship wasn't an overly strong one, it was more so just business partners who are cool (or assumingly were) with each other.[3]
If Felix and Jack were to go for a "guys night out," it would likely be to a bar.[4] He would win in a fight against Felix.[5]
Rosemary Walten[]
Rosemary Walten is Jack Walten’s wife. She and Jack show no signs of having a struggling marriage before Jack goes missing and Rosemary dies. In fact, Rosemary attempts to look for her husband for many days and hours, showing how much she loved Jack. It is stated that their relationship is healthy. He and Rosemary enjoyed slow-dancing together.[6][7] His considers her to be his favorite artist, because she is the one who created designs for the characters.[8] Their favorite holiday is Christmas.[9]
Going out for a night with Rosemary, they would likely go to the theatre often, but spend time lightheartly arguing over which movie to watch.[10]
Sophie Walten[]
Sophie's own relationship with Jack is somewhat unknown and most of the information we do get is after her memory loss and trauma, which is more often than not negative or neutral. According to Sophie on SophieWalten (Page), Sophie had very few memories of Jack, most likely the effects of her medication for trauma. She even forgot her father's own name and physical features due to the medication. Sophie did note that Jack worked a lot, meaning he was a workaholic, and that Sophie couldn't spend much time with him. She also stated that Jack had a deep intimidating voice and that he had anger issues.
Edd and Molly[]
Find Jack Walten[]
Before the change to Findjackwalten.com on January 1st, the link led to a string of text relating to the disappearance of Jack Walten. The website read as follows:
Name: Jack Walten
Age: 42 Years Old
Height: 6'2
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Black
Last Seen: June 11th, 1974
Last Seen Wearing: Dark Red Suit
Mr. Jack Walten, born September 23rd, 1932, was a hard working man and the happy father of 3. Walten studied in "Cleary University" in Livingston County and graduated in 1959, on the same year he married Rosemary Peony Walten. He would later raise a family with Rosemary.
Mr. Walten became highly known on Brighton, MI. for his company "Bunny Smiles Incorporated" and his restaurant franchise "Bon's Burgers". However, he would mysteriously disappear 2 weeks before the opening of Bon's. Little has been known about Jack's whereabouts for the past 4 decades, but there's still hope to get closure on this man's disappearance.
Most recent news about Walten's disappearance goes all the way back to the year 1979. Felix Kranken, company co-founder of Bunny Smiles would state the following in a radio interview.
"I still wonder about what happened to my best friend, to this day I get people asking how I've handled the situation, how I've managed to keep on with this company knowing that he's been gone for years. It's hard to look back at Jack, because... I know that those happy memories and experiences I had with Walten and his Family will never happen again. And he'll never get to see what our dream company turned out to be. But there's still hope, I guess"
-Felix A. Kranken, MLBQ FM Radio, March 29th, 1979
Please contact us in case of any sighting or clues as to what could've possibly happened to Mr. Walten
Trivia[]
- The name "Jack" is a common diminutive for "John," which originates from the Hebrew names Yohanan ("Graced by God") and Yehohanan ("God is gracious"). Of note is that "Juana" originates from these names as well. The German word "walten" can be translated as "reign," "prevail," "rule," and "at work (as a force or principle)."
- Jack Walten's appearance was based on one of the founders of Atari, Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell was also a founder of Chuck E. Cheese, a popular children's restaurant chain that also featured singing animatronics.
- Other appearances are edited pictures of Rodney Alcala, otherwise known as the Dating Game Killer, and Martin Walls himself.
- Jack is voiced by Martin Walls.
- Jack overall concept is inspired by Martin's Father.
- When asked if Cartoon Bon was closer to personality of Jack and Sophie, it was stated Cartoon Bon's personality is closer to Jack's than Sophie's.
- According to Martin, he is a very bad cook.[11]
- He is a clumsy dancer.[12]
- In college, Jack enjoyed planning pranks.
- His favorite color is red.[13]
- He would likely hate history as a school subject.[14]
- Jack speaks Spanish and Martin likes to think that he has a Chilean accent, as he voices him.[15] Jack is the only Walten to fluently know Spanish.
- He never bothered teaching his children Spanish due to them living in America.
- Jack believes that if you don't know how to speak Spanish, don't try to speak it.
- Jack is Latino (Chilean).[16]
- Jack would lose his mind knowing about Chuck E Cheese.[17]
- He keeps his look fancy and old-timey, almost as if he was straight from the 1930s.[18]
- Jack really hates anything with funky patterns.[19]
- His major in college was business.[20]
- His favorite song is Fool For a Blonde, possibly from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which came out after his disappearance.[21]
- He would have despised YouTube.[22]
- He would type like an old man on a computer.[23]
- He is terrible at cooking.[24]
- Garfield would have been the only cartoon Jack would not have hated had he been around to see it.[25]
- He likes songs from the 20s-40s/classical music.[26][27]
- As of the series' timeline, he is more of an extrovert.[28]
- The old Findjackwalten.com page listed his hair color as brown, while Martin has said that his hair is dark brown.[1]
- As stated by Martin on a Twitter live, Jack and Susan would try and scare the rest of the Bon's Burgers crew, as they are the tallest and most intimidating.
- In a Twitter space, Martin stated that Jack would drive a red 1974 Buick Apollo.
- Originally on discord, Martin said Jack drove a 1970 Red Holden.
- Jack's favorite food is spaghetti.
- Jack would smoke Marlboro cigarettes.
- He would always bring sandwiches for the BSI employees, but if you did a bad job that day, you wouldn't get one.
- Jack would be a very popular person in Brighton, attending charity events and other public events.
- He's an accountant.
- Before the company creation, he would have many different office jobs.
- When becoming a parent, he was scared/nervous.
- Him and Rosemary were "highschool sweethearts" when younger.
- Jack's hair grows very fast.
- He wouldn't like his kids calling him Jack.
- Jack owns a gun, possibly a shotgun and is a good shooter.[3]
- He owns a gun, apparently a shotgun.
- He would shoot after Brian if he ever showed up at the Walten household to hit on Rosemary.[3]
- His favorite alcoholic drink is Ramazzotti or wine.[3]
- The Walten Files Crew joked that if Jack asked Rosemary to make him a sandwich in a misogynistic mid-20th century way, she would in response give Jack a death stare and would make him a sandwich with just a bunch of salt on it.
- Jack has the worst road rage our of any of the characters.
- Him and Sophie Walten are the most misunderstood characters, stated by Martin
Theories[]
Note: these are not confirmed/canon nor are the creators of the wikis claiming them to be so, these are just some possible theories made by the fandom.
- Exactly how and why Jack disappeared is unknown at the moment, but some theorize that Felix could have killed Jack for knowing too much about the car crash in which Edd and Molly died.
- This theory is mostly debunked with the release of the fourth episode. In it, it is revealed that Felix had told Jack about the crash. However, in the description for Lacrimosa, it is also revealed that he had lied to Jack, by telling him that Edd and Molly ran away while he was unconscious, even though in reality, they died in the crash.
- Another possible theory is that due to the grief of losing two children at the hands of his friend, he may have committed suicide.
- Jack may have somehow been trapped in the tapes-- his face appears repeatedly and seemingly anomalously in Little Bon's Neighborhood. His face is on the "really funny movie" that Little Bon had bought, and the only thing seen on the TV while Little Bon and his friends are watching the movie is the words "Let me out of here."
- There is also a theory floating around that Jack may be alive and well in Florida. Someone under the alias frightnitez on Twitter ran several file names of the images from findjackwalten.com through a decryption process and found interesting results when plugging the resulting text into Google Search.
- A popular theory amongst fans is that Jack Walten is stuffed inside and possessing Bon, as he is the only one who went missing who isn't confirmed to possess anything yet, and it's not confirmed who possesses Bon. Another thing fans like to point out in support of this theory is that the only animatronic Jack ever appears with so far is Bon.
- Something those who believe in this theory also use the fact that Susan Woodings states that Bon's right arm is more broken, which is the same arm Jack shook Felix's with in the founder's photo.
- However, this theory has been made more questionable with the reveal of "Bon", the spirit who possesses Bon, whose personality is quite the contrast to Jack's. "Bon" has also been confirmed to enjoy murder, while Jack does not show any murderous intent besides his act of anger for the safety of his missing children, threatening to kill Felix if he hurt them though if this truly is unreasonable is up for debate.
- Another theory is that Jack's spirit is split between "Bon" and Showbear, due to the difference between Showbear's fatherly spirit and "Bon"s grief and sadness. This is very improbable though, since Showbear is no longer affiliated with The Walten Files.
- Pumpkin Rabbit could be a metaphor for "Bon" and possibly Jack.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://twitter.com/smiles_bunny/status/1373473138332348416
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 THE RETURN OF KYLER AND MARTER, a twitter space with Martin Walls, Kyle DeNigris, and Eva.
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