Jean Jacquemonde

Jean Jacquemonde (ジャン・ジャックモンド) is a fictional character in the manga series Spriggan. He is a French Spriggan operator who is based in ARCAM's French branch.

Jean's surname name in the OVA was Jacquemondo.

Pre-Spriggan
Born in France, he was subsequently raised by Rick Bordeau and Maria Felton, having Mark Felton as his younger brother. During his pre-teen days, Jean was a street fighter who fought against Trident Corporation agents who were becoming more and more interested in him due to his Werewolf genes that were not used from his DNA. In order to do this, Maria and Mark Felton were kidnapped as a bargaining chip for Jean to cooperate. Later on, a young Tea Flatte who Jean met after beating a group of Trident Corporation agents had infiltrated the Trident research facility where Jean was held. Freeing him from captivity, Jean then used his own will to transform into a werewolf and subsequently escaped from the research center when he was eventually recruited by ARCAM as their Spriggan agent.

Spriggan life
During his time with the Spriggans, he actively assisted Yu Ominae in battling enemies of the ARCAM Corporation from Turkey all the way to the forests of Japan fighting Machiner's Platoon soldiers to brainwashed COSMOS child soldiers. In his first appearance in Turkey, Jean had his first werewolf transformation when Little Boy riddled him with a barrage of bullets from his Colt XM177 assault rifle. Eventually killing his assailant in his werewolf stage by punching Little Boy's head away into pieces of flesh, Jean overcame platoons of Machiner's Platoon soldiers sent to stop him with several dozens dead with others severely wounded.

When Jean was deployed in a mission to Romania, confronted his ex-father who told him of his heritage. In an operation in Ecuador, Jean was severely wounded by Oboro when he first changed Jean into a werewolf before stabbing his chest with a sharp stick, leaving him for death. Fortunately, Percup Ramdi did an operation that managed to heal Jean of his wounds and further acceleterated his rate of self-healing. It is unknown whether he could still transform into a werewolf on his own. In a mission to prevent COSMOS from extracting Rie Yamabishi to the US, Jean stormed a US Army base in Japan alongside Yu and Oboro. However, they were unable to prevent COSMOS forces from escaping.

Jean, grudgingly, teamed up with Iwao Akatsuki and Bo Brantz, two of ARCAM's most fearsome enemies in sabotaging a Trident operation when Larry Markson attempted to harness the power of the South Pole Shrine in order to take control of the world. With Bo's death, the three took on Larry's forces before they were able to get rid of the Fire Snake with the help of Yoshino Somei, Rie Yamabishi and other ARCAM personnel who were forced to assist Trident in gaining access to the fiery artifact.

Gold Rush
In Spriggan: Gold Rush, Jean had minor assistance with Yu when he secured captured research scientists tied up by Trident commandos.

Spriggan: Lunar Verse
Jean appears in Lunar Verse as a support character to Tatsuki Otsuki.

Character
Jean is both a fierce Spriggan operator and a man with a good heart. Though he appears to be a cruel person who did not spare the life of Fatman when he was critically wounded, Jean had his reasons to do so. He warns Yu of his Spriggan duties and not to slack off since their secret war would safeguard every person in the planet, though he didn't hesistate to blow his head off with his Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun when Yu tried to finish Fatman off.

During combat, he tends to be cocky and boasts about either himself or his skills and does not have any sympathy to those who murder people for their own ambitions or because they feel they were doing the right thing. He is also boastful to other Spriggan operatives who don't look out for themselves when they are in trouble.