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Jupiter is Missing!" This article contains content that could be distressing to some viewers. Reason: This article contains mentions of mental health-related issues as schizophrenia and psychosis.
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| “ | Oh, is he back? Is he really back? | ” |
―Jupiter in Jupiter is Missing! | ||
| “ | Hey, I don't play favorites. | ” |
―Jupiter in The Army of the Moons | ||
| “ | Ooh, what sizes? I need extra extra extra extra... | ” |
―Jupiter in A store in SPACE!? | ||
| “ | I-I did something a few billions of years ago... well, me and Saturn actually. Somethin'... wrong... | ” |
―Jupiter in Jupiter is Missing! | ||
Jupiter is a protagonist in SolarBalls. He is the 5th planet from the Sun and the largest and most massive planet in the whole Solar System.
Story
In his first canonical appearance in The Big Bang - Part 1, he is timid and afraid. He soon develops a friendship with Saturn. He gets annoyed at Planet X for no particular reason though in Part 2. He also wants to have his orbit closer to Saturn on the other side of the Asteroid Belt. When the Sun is distracted, he tries to cross but crashes into newly formed Rocky Planets.
In The Big Bang - Part 3, Planet X, who tried to stop Jupiter from doing it, attempts to make Jupiter tell the Sun of his actions. Jupiter does not though. He says he needs time to think about what he will say to the Sun. When Planet X tries to tell the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn use their gravity to stop him; they accidentally eject Planet X from the Solar System. When the Sun notices Jupiter is gone, Jupiter lies that X left to explore other star systems.
In the next episodes before and during the Moon Revolution, Jupiter is more a background character explaining facts while acting as the Solar System's "Big Brother." He also holds the Asteroid Belt in check. He does let Ganymede, Europa, Callisto, and Io search for Titan, which leads to them getting involved in the Moon Revolution. He does show paranoia about Planet X during the arc as his moons leave him.
In Jupiter is Missing!, he leaves the Solar System because of this paranoia. His moons go looking for him and find him. The Galilean moons find him and help him back to his orbit. In What if the planets were ordered by SIZE? - Part 1, Jupiter goes insane in his orbit far away from everyone except Saturn. He thinks he deserves it for what he did to Planet X. In Part 2, he runs even more mental, but the planets agree to go back to their original orbit.
In The Solar System Trials - Part 3, he is pressured to defend Ganymede and Europa. He tries to but the Sun interrupts him with their banishment. In The Search for Planet X - Part 1 , Jupiter tries to tell Mars about Planet X but Saturn stops him.
During Planet X Returns! - Part 1, when the moons try to make the Sun reverse his decision to banish Ganymede and Europa. When he is asked is he has anything to say, he explains how he and the Sun orbit around each other. The planets and moons cheer him on, he leaves because he still feels guilty about Planet X. When Mars asks him about it, he does not tell him about what he is hiding. In Planet X Returns! - Part 3, Planet X, Europa, and Ganymede explain the truth. He feels remorse but does not have a chance to explain. He apologizes and is banished from the Solar System.
In What if We Replace Jupiter - Part 1, he thinks his punishment is fair and that he deserved his exile. Soon in Part 3, the Galilean moons, Titan, Neptune, and Luna go looking for Jupiter. He does not think the interaction is real, but he does say how he kept the Asteroid Belt in check and used his gravity to keep the Solar System stable. He still thinks his actions are useless and do not excuse his destruction of Rocky Planets.
The moons try to get him back. They hold a competition between the moons and Planet X to see if X will leave and Jupiter will come back. When Planet X leaves the Solar System after feeling guilty himself for not trying to fix anything and just have his revenge. At the end of The Battle of Planet X - Part 4, he apologizes to Planet X and that he should be in the Solar System to protect everyone. He tries to stop X from leaving the Solar System, but Planet X voluntarily leaves to try to be the "Jupiter" in another system and gives him Guillermo.
Personality
At the beginning of his life, Jupiter appeared to be rather afraid in contrast to his current personality, however, he had the Sun to comfort him during the time before Saturn’s formation.
Presumably millions of years later, Jupiter began to grow more stubborn, often finding the Sun's rule of staying in his orbit stupid and annoying as he couldn't be with Saturn and instead had to share an orbit with the original rocky planets, who were still forming at the time. While mentioning this with a conversation with Saturn, in a frustrated tone, he said: "As if he doesn't have enough planets already," when Saturn hinted that the Sun believed that one of his planets could eventually sustain life.
Jupiter would deny the possibility of this after Saturn claimed that. Jupiter would learn his lesson after destroying all the original rocky planets with his gravitational influence by migrating past the Asteroid Belt. He and Saturn fabricated a story to explain what had happened to the rocky planets, but Planet X was disgusted by their lies and eventually tried to expose the truth.
Jupiter attempted to stop Planet X with his gravitational pull, begging him for more time to explain to the Sun what he did and explaining that new rocky planets were already forming, but Planet X wouldn't yield. After asking Saturn for help, the two gas giants accidentally ejected Planet X from his orbit altogether, launching him far beyond the Kuiper Belt where he would remain alone for billions of years.
Jupiter immediately felt horrible for what he did and wanted to go and help him, but Saturn stopped Jupiter and explained and doing so would cause even more chaos due to their gravitational influence, convincing him that they would just have to live with their guilt and try to be better. Jupiter seems to have matured from this ordeal, presumably vowing with Saturn to be good for now on as the next generation of Rocky Planets formed from the debris of the former rocky planets. However, he would remain distraught from lying to the Sun about what he did, and fearful that Planet X would return someday seeking revenge.
Jupiter has grown into a very wise role model for the terrestrial planets like the Sun originally asked him to be. He always shares his knowledge with those who need it, like when Earth suggested traveling to another star, Jupiter refuted the idea, explaining they would freeze along the way. He also clarified that he could never become a second Sun due to lacking the necessary circumstances. Jupiter is also the biggest and most respected planet in the solar system, as revealed in 'The Moon Club - Part 1,' according to his own moons.
Like Saturn, Jupiter also cares for his moons, but tends to forget and mispronounce the names of his minor moons. However, he tends to be more lenient with them, shown when he immediately approved Ganymede's "adventure" to find Titan, although he warned them not to go near the Asteroid belt, showing his care for them.
While Jupiter is usually calm and easygoing, he can sometimes get annoyed and irritated. For instance, he showed annoyance at Saturn's overprotectiveness of Titan and quarreled with others for the first time. Despite his patience, it has limits, as shown in 'The Army of the Moons' when he mentioned that Saturn had been shouting Titan's name for weeks while searching for him. This demonstrates that although Jupiter's patience can last for long periods of time, it is not limitless, and that even he has his limits when it comes to sources of annoyance.
Jupiter is also shown to be perceptive, aware of his surroundings, and observant of others. Such as in 'Venus vs Mars,' he quickly figured out what Venus and Mars were doing during their fight and explained it to Saturn. For instance, he explained that Venus used his gravity to pull in asteroids and then used their velocity to send them flying back at Mars. In 'Why is Venus Missing?,' he demonstrated his perceptiveness again by overhearing a conversation between Mercury, Earth, and Mars about Venus' whereabouts and so he decided to step in to explain that Venus was actually in his orbit behind the Sun.
Lately, Jupiter has shown symptoms of paranoia, stress-related psychosis, and even schizophrenia. The final one is exhibited by Neptune as well and is a result of distance from the other planets (excessive loneliness), but the first two are as a result for ejecting Planet X from the Solar System. Interestingly, Saturn does not exhibit any symptoms of this, despite participating in ejecting Planet X from the system as well. This could imply that most of Jupiter's guilt comes from the fact that he destroyed and ejected planets, and he fears what the Sun, planets and moons would think of him if they found out. It also implies that the thought has often come up at the back of his mind, and he feels a fresh wave of guilt every time the thoughts come back to haunt him.
In "The Solar System Trials - Part 3", it appears that Jupiter was attempting to admit what he did to Planet X, however, he was interrupted before he could. He also still seems to hesitate to admit what he did to Planet X, trying to tell everyone during The Solar System Trials - Part 3, and in Search for Planet X - Part 3.
In Planet X Returns! - Part 1, when the Sun claims that nothing would change if his planets left, Jupiter argues that this isn't true, as he is so massive that he and the Sun actually orbit around each other. Using this fact, he tries to convince the Sun to allow Ganymede and Europa to return, or else he will leave and have a big impact on the Solar System. The other planets and moons begin to cheer Jupiter on for standing up against the Sun, but the praise starts to make Jupiter feel guilty. Eventually, it gets too much and he begs everyone to stop, then subsequently leaves. Later on he is seen losing it as he remembers his past mistakes, until Mars confronts him and asks him what he was hiding for him to feel guilty about being praised. When Jupiter struggles to explain, Mars says that he'd better come clean about it before things are made worse before leaving. Saturn then comes and asks Jupiter what he's going to do.
In Planet X Returns! - Part 2, it appears that Jupiter had decided to tell the Sun the truth, as both he and Saturn head back to the Sun to confess. As he's about to open up to the Sun, the star says that "something's wrong". Jupiter initially misinterprets this thinking the Sun is talking about Jupiter's odd behavior, before the Sun clarifies that he senses "intruders" approaching at a very fast speed. Knowing precisely who it is, Jupiter looks on in horror as his greatest fear–Planet X's return–has become a reality.
In Planet X Returns! - Part 3, Jupiter attempts to convince the Sun that they aren't intruders, but the Sun ignores him and launches asteroids at them. When the Sun tries to finish them, Jupiter steps in and shields X and the three moons from the Sun's asteroid bombardment. In spite of this, X remained furious at Jupiter, and quickly shut down any attempts for Jupiter to talk, saying that he was going to talk, but not at him. When Jupiter tries to appeal to Ganymede and Europa, the former interrupts him and says that they already know what he did. Before Jupiter can say anything else, X interrupts him and calls the two Galilean moons to his side, with Ganymede visibly pained over what they're about to put him through.
Europa defended Planet X and explained why he left the solar system but the Sun refused to believe it. However, Jupiter intervened and assured that Europa was indeed correct which shocked the other planets. Saturn quickly tried to share the blame, but Jupiter told him to stop, saying that he shouldn't make things up. When the Sun asked Jupiter why he lied, Jupiter was immediately shut down by Planet X. Planet X explained to the Sun that Jupiter ejected him to silence him from telling the truth. Saturn tried to object to the accuracy of this statement, but Jupiter stopped him again and silently gestured not to try and defend him. Planet X further elaborated on what happened to the original rocky planets and Jupiter's Grand Tack caused their destruction. Gritting his teeth, Jupiter affirmed that it's all true, resulting in all the other planets crying out, voicing their disapproval. The Sun announces that Jupiter isn't the planet they thought they were, and before he can give the word, Jupiter accepts his banishment. In his absence, he asks the Sun to have Planet X take his place, and allow Ganymede and Europa back into the Solar System, taking up an orbit around Planet X alongside the rest of Jupiter's moons. The Sun accepts the proposal and re-instates the exiled moons back into the Solar System. Before Jupiter leaves, he tries asking the Sun one last thing, but the Sun–struggling to cope with the truth–turns down the question, simply asking Jupiter to leave. Jupiter shares one last glance at his fellow planets, before departing from the Solar System, uttering that he's sorry.
During the "What if We Replaced Jupiter?" arc, Jupiter seems to exhibit signs of decreasing sanity, even while Guillermo is by his side, as Neptune did when he was in the Belt. When approached by the moons, Jupiter thinks his imagination is getting the better of him as he questions if they are real. Additionally, the guilt from the Grand Tack appears to have taken him over completely as he no longer thinks he deserves to return to the Solar System after everything he has done for it, like nothing he did afterwards would matter anyways. After he explains what happened after the Grand Tack, he yells at them to shut up, refusing to acknowledge their compliments and promptly leaves, telling them he will only return if the Sun wants him to.
Additionally, during the final part of the aforementioned arc, Jupiter tells everyone that, after the Grand Tack and the deaths of countless rocky planets, he had been protecting the ones that survived for the rest of the Solar System's life, including a previously unnamed Theia. Not only was he keeping the asteroid belt in check, he was also responsible for the capture and ejection of foreign asteroids.
Trivia
- He is considered to be the smartest of the characters, most likely because of his age and him being the first planet in the Solar System.
- He has a small face relative to his size, similar to Io and Sun.
- Jupiter is the biggest and the most respected planet in the Solar System.
- His title of "the most respected planet" was challenged in the Planet X Arc, when his past was revealed.
- Jupiter is the second character to narrate a sponsor section or break the fourth wall, after Uranus.
- He speaks with a faint Southern U.S. accent.
- He hates the Kuiper Belt.
- Despite this, he is perfectly fine with the Asteroid Belt, which is technically the same as the Kuiper Belt, the only difference is the distance to the Sun. It's possible he hated the Kuiper Belt due to Planet X.
- He often reads books about Greek mythology.
- He is one of the four characters who were banished from the Solar System.
- Even though Jupiter has lived in the Solar System his whole life, he seemed to be able to move without the Sun's gravitational influence when he took X's old spot past the Kuiper Belt.
- He is the 2nd largest object (in terms of both radius and mass) in the Solar System, falling after only the Sun and before Saturn.
- While the Sun makes of 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System, Jupiter makes up a large part of the remaining 0.14%, having a mass about 2.5 times all the other planets combined.
- As a result of Jupiter's large mass, the Sun and Jupiter technically orbit around each other, with their Barycenter being outside of the Sun's surface.
- While the Sun makes of 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System, Jupiter makes up a large part of the remaining 0.14%, having a mass about 2.5 times all the other planets combined.
- He has the second smallest tilt among all the planets at approximately 3.13°.
- The first planet is Mercury with his tilt at approximately 0.01°.
- He is one of the nine characters to have their own plush, the others being Earth, Venus, The Moon, Titan, Astrodude, Saturn, The Sun and Planet X.
- He appears to have Schizophrenia as shown in the Planet X arc.
- Jupiter has green lightning, which is not shown or mentioned in the series.
- In five billion years due to the migration outwards of the Gallilean moon system, Jupiter will enter a secular spin-orbit resonance with Uranus' nodal precession mode. This means it's axial tilt will increase anywhere from 6° to 30°.
