Jack Baker

"Welcome to the family, son!"

- Jack Baker

Jack Baker was the secondary antagonist of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and the patriarch at the so-called "Dulvey Haunted House", a large house in the Southern United States. He was the husband of Marguerite Baker and father to Zoe and Lucas Baker.

Biography
The Baker family disappeared from community life sometime around 2014, with people believing the house to be abandoned. Over the next few years the occasional appearances of the residents led to the house's reputation as being haunted.

In June 2017, the rumored hauntings got the attention of TV producer Andre Stickland, who led his Sewer Gators paranormal investigation team into the house where they were killed by Jack and his wife, with Jack also attacking a fourth person who followed them in later, proceeding to either "welcome" the person to his family, taunt him for not having a family when he succumbed to an infection, or somehow managed to dispose of any evidence tying him and his family to the murders of Sewer Gators after the person escaped.

Personality
Jack is a very sadistic and violent individual who wears a grin most of the time. He is very abusive toward his son, Lucas Baker, cutting off his arm. He's also very vocal toward his wife, throwing swears her way. He is also someone who refers to Ethan joining his family, but very upset when Ethan doesn't comply. Mia constantly refers to him as daddy. It is learned that Jack is infected by Eveline who forced him to act in extremely aggressive and violent ways.

When Jack is encountered later after being freed from his body, he is a kind and peaceful father who helped Eveline and Mia Winters when he found them next to a downed tanker. He seemed like a concerned individual who had good intentions. However, he started to lose himself to Eveline's infection. Even though this is a direct contrast to Jack experienced throughout Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour
Jack followed the protagonist into the house during the demo, where he ends up attacking them. He'll "welcome" the person to his family, taunt him for not having a family when he succumbed to an infection, or somehow managed to dispose of any evidence tying him and his family to the murders of Sewer Gators after the person escaped.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Jack makes his return in Biohazard, punching Ethan Winters in the face, knocking him out after the latter slashed Mia Winter's throat. He then ties Ethan up at the dinner table consisting of pieces of meat and organs from various humans, showing that the family engages in cannibalism.

While Jack insists that Ethan eat the food, Lucas Walker throws his bowl at Ethan, causing Jack to slice off Lucas' arm, prompting Lucas to scream, "not again!", making this occasion seem commonplace in the household. Jack attempts to force Ethan to eat with the Bakers when a phone-call ends up causing them to leave.

Jack is later encountered when Ethan is exploring the house, holding a shovel, and grinning sadistically. He starts smashing around the house trying to stop Ethan, and even smashes the family table. He remarks having to replace it as Ethan escapes.

He is later encountered in the garage, bisecting the deputy's head with a shovel. This leads to a fight with Ethan, where Ethan tries everything he can, with Jack tanking every attack. Ethan eventually gets into his car (That was previously stolen by the Bakers during his time passed out) and starts roaring around the garage, running Jack over multiple times. After some time, Jack disappears, causing Ethan to catch his breath in victory. This victory is short-lived however, as Jack actually mounted the car and ripped the top off. He grabs the steering wheel, and starts mocking Ethan as he takes control of the car. Jack then redirects the car toward some exposed steel bars and rams them, despite Ethan's protests. While Ethan survives, Jack stabbed himself on the bars. The damaged car then catches on fire as Ethan attempts to leave the garage. Then, a fiery Jack gets out of the car, causing Ethan to start fighting him AGAIN. Jack ends up being defeated after the car explodes, causing Ethan to tell an extinguished Jack to stay dead. However, once Ethan starts going up the ladder, Jack grabs Ethan telling him if he wants to see something remarkable. Grabbing Ethan's gun, and moving it toward his mouth, Jack fires, blowing a hole through his head. He plops to the ground, seemingly dead.

Later, Jack, who is regenerating from the gunshot earlier and is also topless from being burned, ends up opening a door Ethan is walking into, and grabs him. He begins stalking Ethan around the common area of the house. If seen, Jack will begin to attack Ethan until he escapes from him.

Ethan ends up engaging Jack in combat once again in the dissection room. After a small skirmish, Jack grabs an oversized, man-made pair of chainsaw-shears, while Ethan grabs a normal chainsaw. Showing resilience and endurance, Ethan weakens Jack multiple times in order to chainsaw him, exposing Jack's growths. Eventually, Jack gets chainsawed to a point, where is upper body completely explodes. Despite his upper body getting blasted, his lower body starts to stand and walk, but eventually falls to the ground, once again, seemingly dead.

Jack isn't encountered again until later when Ethan finds Zoe Baker, Jack's biological daughter, and Mia Winter, Ethan's missing wife. This time, his regeneration has led him to increasing multiple scores in size, into a reptile-like monstrosity covered in Eveline's black goo. While swearing at Zoe, Jack ends up screaming about how they're being plotted against, and how Ethan continues to plot against him. Jack's speech has also become much more demonic and strained. This leads to a battle in the outhouse, where Jack, now sporting several eyeballs on his new body, attempts to crush him to death with his massive claws. Ethan, using many more weapons at his disposal, ends up defeating Jack by taking out his eyes, who retreats into the flooded section of the outhouse. Jack soon ambushes Ethan from underwater and begins to swipe at him in a confined space, but allows his final eyeball to be exposed in his head. As Jack seemingly begins to rot away, Zoe comes back to open the door and allow Ethan to leave. However, Jack grabs Ethan once more, readying for another fight. Zoe tells Ethan to use a dose of the serum on him. When Ethan does, Jack crystallizes completely, killing his body for good.

If Ethan ends up curing Mia, a cured Jack will be seen later while Mia is exploring the tanker in a dreamlike state. Jack explains that he picked up Eveline, and Mia by the abandoned tanker, not knowing who he picked up. A saddened Jack then tells Ethan that he didn't want to hurt Ethan, but he couldn't help it. He continued to explain that Eveline forces her way into the head of his family, changing them against his will. Offering a very real explanation, Eveline just wanted a family. However, he wants Ethan to stop Eveline and free his family. The dreamlike state ends while Jack and Zoe disappear, evidently at peace into death.

Resident Evil: Beginning Hour
Jack Baker, alongside the rest of his family, is shown to be skilled at stealth. This is especially evident in how he managed to ambush the fourth individual with absolutely no indication that Baker was even in close proximity when the fourth individual tried to leave via the back door, as well as his role in killing the Sewer Gators film crew.

He was also shown to have nearly superhuman endurance and strength, as evidenced by his lifting Ethan by the neck in some encounters with one arm, as well as his shrugging off several otherwise fatal wounds such as being caught in the explosion of a car. Similar to his son Lucas, he also has some degree of regenerative abilities. Even when shot in the heart, it was only sufficient enough to stun him for a few seconds. It is heavily implied that these traits were the result of Eveline's gift.

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Jack's stealth skills are shown in full during the game as he walks eerily quietly. He will usually show up out of nowhere, or when the player least expects it, as evidenced by Jack confronting the player face to face, rather than behind if he can help it.

As a benefit of his infection by the Mold, Jack possesses a significantly increased strength threshold that far belies of man of his age and build. Jack has been shown to effortlessly and brutally throw Ethan through walls. He can also wield obscenely large weapons in combat, such as man-made sheers; and use smaller weapons with amazing precision and strength, as shown when he destroys a dinner table with a shovel, splintering it.

Jack's regeneration is on a whole different level as compared to the rest of the Baker family due to his being the first of the Bakers to be infected by Eveline. He is a constant enemy throughout the game as he is invulnerable to conventional means of attacks. While these will slow him down for a couple of seconds, he does continue to fight until he gets stopped by something with much more power. Examples of his superior regenerative powers are (in order of sequence): he gets shot in the head, blowing a hole through the right portion of his skull, lit on fire, and engulfed in a fiery car explosion. He still comes back for more throughout the game as his upper body explodes following a fight with Ethan Winters. Jack then regenerates into a monstrous entity, with his eyes bulging out of its sockets, with him being covered in Eveline's contamination. The only thing that truly stopped him was the administration of the serum, calcifying his body and turning it into dust, removing the threat of Jack Baker for good.

Quotes

 * "It's over, boy!"
 * 'Ethan! Ethan! Ethan!"
 * "Oh, no, no, no, no...! Now you gonna get it!"
 * "This was supposed to be a very special feast."
 * "Shut the hell up, Marguerite!"
 * "You thought you could just slip out before dinner was done?"
 * "I'm gon' squash you like a bug."
 * "Goddammit! How'm I gon' replace this?"
 * "That gun is not gon' work the way you think it will."
 * "Oh boy! Now you look what you done, motherfucker!"
 * "This is the end, you know?"
 * "You ain't gettin' away!"
 * "Boy you are nothing'! Just a man without a family."
 * "You came to the wrong house, boy!"
 * "Welcome to the family, son!"
 * "Boys got to eat, got to have his supper!"
 * "Where's my little Ethan?"
 * "Hello there! ...How you been?"
 * What's the matter son.. you outta ammo?
 * "Here piggy piggy piggy!"