Jonathan J. O'Neill

Jonathan J. O'Neill


Biographical and chronological information
Homeworld:	Earth, Eur'uui Universe
Home universe:	Eur'uui Universe
Nationality:	American
Ethnicity:	North American
Date of birth:	October 20, 1952 (1429 N.E.)
Date of death:	97 (revived) 2002 (revived)
Physical and biological description
Species:	Human (Tau'ri)
Gender:	Male
Hair color:	Brown
Societal and political information
Affiliation:	Stargate Command, Alliance Joint Military
Rank:	General
Occupation(s):	Military Leader
Serial number:	69-4-141
Spouse(s):	Sara O'Neill (ex-wife)
Children:	Charlie O'Neill (son, deceased)
Other relative(s):	JOnathan O'Neill (clone)
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"He's an amazing man. After everything he's done, he's still modest, quite self effacing actually. He even likes people to think he's not as smart as he really is. Bottom line: He's an incredibly strong leader who's given more of himself for this program than anyone has given for... well... anything I can imagine."

— Marian Hawke

Jonathan J. O'Neill, also known as John or, most commonly, Jack, was a male Tau'ri from the Eur'uui Universe, served seven years in the Stargate Program, formerly as a Colonel and also as the leader of Stargate Command's main team, SG-1. After being released from stasis a few months after the Battle of Antarctica, O'Neill was promoted to Brigadier General and became the new Commanding officer of the SGC, replacing Lt. General George S. Hammond. O'Neill led the SGC for a year before also being replaced by Major General Henry Landry with O'Neill being promoted to Major General and reassigned to The Pentagon to become head of Homeworld Security following the event of the First Multiverse War in his home universe of which created the Stargate Union. Served as one of the most notable officers in the Alliance Joint Military to oversaw the campaigns against the Axis of Empires and the Coalition of Independent States, even played a significant role in the Great Battle of Endor to cripple the Axis' stronghold of their advance military station, the Death Star II, along with other events such as the Gi'ru Conflict, the Great Battle of Endor and the Group 935 manhunt mission.

Following the foundation of the Multiversal Federation, he was the 9th Supreme General of the. He was the original leader of the Tau'ri-Jaffa Alliance and later became the commander of Alliance Joint Military. Delenn has called him "O'Neill of Stargate America", or, jokingly,

Biography[]

In the far, distant past, at least one Ancient became an ancestor in O'Neill's family line, passing down the Ancient Technology Activation gene to him

Early Life[]

Jack O'Neill was born on October 20, 1952 (1429 NE) in Illinois, USA and moved to Minnesota at a young age. His father-in-law described him as being an Irishman, confirming that he is of Irish descent. According to his clone, apparently he never really did embrace high school.

According to his clone, apparently he never really did embrace high school. Despite that, and several references to his seemingly less than stellar intellect, he graduated from the Air Force Academy as a Second Lieutenant and received an award for Academic Excellence.

At some point, he married Sara O'Neill and together they had a son and named him Charlie.

Jack's professional life has been adventurous. He joined the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. In the 1980s, he had a parachute accident near the border of Iran and Iraq and fractured his skull. During his career, he served as test pilot.

In 1982 (1449 NE) when O'Neill was a Captain, He along with Charles Kawalsky participated in Operation East Fly, which was a covert mission to East Germany. The mission went bad and O'Neill's friend and Commanding officer Colonel John Michaels was killed.

During the Gulf War in 1990 (1457 NE), O'Neill was left behind on a mission by Colonel Frank Cromwell and spent 4 months in an Iraqi prison. This caused Jack to develop a grudge against Cromwell.

In 1995 (1458 NE) Charlie accidentally shot himself while playing with his father's pistol, this tragic accident took a major impact on Jack and his wife's marriage.

A year of grieving for the death of his son, O'Neill was recruited by the Airforce for a mission that is classified and set up a team to travel through a device known as the Stargate and set on a desert planet Abydos with the help of an archeologist named Dr. Daniel Jackson (Eur'uui). Unknown to the team, he brought a nuclear warhead should they come across any hostiles to Earth, believing the mission was suicide. Ra, the Supreme System Lord of the Goa'uld Empire, discovered it and decided to send it to Earth with added Naquadah ore magnifying its destructive power by 100 times. While there, he met Skaara, who reminded him of Charlie, but still activated the bomb. While Jackson tried to save Sha're, a local woman with whom he had fallen in love, O'Neill battled Ra's First Prime, finally decapitating him with the Transportation rings. Ra, however, had altered the bomb, making it incapable of deactivation. When Ra learned that the Abydonianshad rebelled, he took his mothership into orbit. O'Neill, unable to deactivate the bomb due to Ra's plan to destroy the Earth, sent it up to the ship, killing Ra in the explosion, but inadvertently beginning Eur'uui Earth's war with the Goa'uld.

War with the Goa'uld[]

A year after the mission to Abydos, O'Neill resigned from the Air Force and at some point during the mission, his wife left him. Major General George S. Hammond requested that he return to Stargate Command to discuss the events during the Abydos mission, after Apophis and a group of his Jaffa arrived on Eur'uui Earth through the Stargate for a brief period of time, kidnapping Senior Airman Carol Weterings. Hammond, believing that Ra had survived and not yet knowing there were other Goa'uld and Stargates throughout the galaxy, ordered a nuclear warhead sent to Abydos upon O'Neill's confession that the previous weapon was not detonated on the surface of the planet, but on Ra's ship while it was in orbit and that O'Neill instead ordered the people of Abydos to bury the Stargate. Knowing that the people of Abydos were innocent, including Dr. Jackson, who remained on the planet after the mission, he requested a team be sent to the planet, but he was denied and thrown into the Stargate Command brig. There, he met his old teammates Major Charles Kawalsky and Major Louis Ferretti. After some time, Hammond returned to the brig and talked with O'Neill about going to the Abydos. In order to contact Jackson and ensure safe passage, O'Neill took a Kleenex box and threw it through the Stargate to Abydos. He explained the action by stating that Daniel had allergies. Some time later, it was returned with the message, "Thanks. Send More".

O'Neill was recalled to active duty and resumed serving with the United States Air Force, regaining his original rank of Colonel. Hammond later authorized O'Neill, Kawalsky and Ferretti to return to Abydos, along with the Airforce scientist Captain Samantha Carter. On Abydos, O'Neill was able to reunite with Daniel Jackson, however, another attack by Apophis injured Ferretti and saw Skaara and Sha'retaken. The team returned to Earth with the gate address of the planet Apophis traveled to from Abydos. Under the authorization of Hammond, O'Neill was made the leader of the team SG-1, with Carter and Jackson, and along with SG-2 under the command of Kawalsky, they were sent to the planet Apophis had retreated to. Upon meeting some local inhabitants, the teams discovered the name of the planet to be Chulak, the homeworld of Apophis. SG-1 was captured by Apophis and nearly executed until O'Neill convinced Apophis' First Prime, Teal'c, to join him. O'Neill was able to acquire a staff weapon and blast a hole in the cell, and his team, along with the prisoners, were able to escape back to Earth.

First Multiverse War[]

Great Battle of Endor[]

O'Neill took part in the final conflict with the Galactic Empire as one of the officers leading the Alliance Ground Forces on the Forest Moon of Endor.

Personality[]

"You have a thing for The Simpsons, fishing, Mary Steenburgen, the color peridot, and you're a terrible ping pong player!"

—Montgomery Scott ^[src]

Jack has a very dry sense of humor (which he acquired after his mission to Abydos, before that he was a quiet and serious man) and is impatient with complicated explanations. However, in a conversation with Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter, he explains that he is worried about her because she has not tried to baffle him with scientific babble for a few days. When he is asked a scientific question he doesn't know the answer to, he often jokingly answers with "magnets," or some variation of the term. As stated by Cassandra Fraiser, Jack pretends he's not as smart as he really is.

O'Neill appears to not prefer strict formality, reflected in his choice of duty uniform. After his promotion to Brigadier General and commander of Stargate Command, O'Neill continued to wear Battle Dress Uniform as his regular uniform even though his duties largely consists of paperwork, simply updated with the appropriate rank insignia. He only wears Service Dress Uniform at occasions where a civilian would wear a suit, or when he's representing the United States Air Force. Even as head of Homeworld Command at The Pentagon, O'Neill has stuck with combat fatigues.

O'Neill has a tendency to not lock his house when leaving, which has caused some unwanted visits. Jack O'Neill also naturally possesses the Ancient Technology Activation gene. O'Neill loves cake, often referencing it when formal situations or events arise with the phrase "I hope there's cake". He goes out of his way on several occasions to make sure cake is being served to celebrate a particular event. His favorite color is peridot. If he could have dinner with one person in the world it would be Mary Steenburgen. He used to be a cigarette smoker but quit during the mission to Abydos. His favorite television show is The Simpsons which he mentioned of hoping to visit a reality of it one day if they find one. In his free time, O'Neill enjoys fishing in the lake next to his cabin in Minnesota. After several failed attempts to get Carter to come with him, he finally succeeded shortly after the fall of the Goa'uld Empire. He also enjoys boxing, chess, golf and ping pong. Given his encounter of alternate realities of his world and realities once thought to be fiction, O'Neill often gives some advice and knowledge he knows and gets along with them.

The Asgard showed great fondness toward him, and likewise O'Neill showed great fondness towards the Asgard and in particular to Thor. Loki even stated that: "O'Neill is legendary" hinting at the Asgard's view of him. To them, he led his people through the galaxy and proved to them that the Tau'ri were well on their way to be the "Fifth Race". He also downloaded, twice, the knowledge of the Ancients and through this created the Replicator disruptor which saved their planet. They also named a new class of warship after him. When Eur'uui Earth was accused of stealing over Asgard, Nox and the Tollan's technology, even attempted the of the Alliance as well, the Asgard and the Alliance chose him alone to prove his people weren't the culprits.

O'Neill also has a tendency to give people, usually Goa'uld, nicknames. Included are "T" for Teal'c, "B" for Ba'al, "Zippy" for Zipacna, "Cammy" for Camulus, and "Marty" for Martouf.

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Quotes[]

"If you're as old as the Ancients, couldn't you just um, maybe talk to them into helping us?"

"Believe me, I would have, General. But unfortunately the Ancients are so stubborn, even if the galaxy was invaded, they wouldn't lift a finger. Nothing but a bunch of hypocrites with all the power and knowledge they refuse to do anything."

—Jack O'Neill and Siegfried

"You mean to tell me the Galactic Empire finally built their second Death Star, and it’s now given upgrades from their so-called pals? I don’t like the sound of that."

— Learning about the Second Death Star being constructed by the Axis.

"The Borg tried to assimilate the Replicators? Shouldn’t that be good news or bad?"

— Jack's response about the Replicators and Borg in conflict

"Wait a minute! Your saying the Ancients were much OLDER than we thought? And they don’t want to help?! Why am I not surprised! I bet it’s genetic."

— Jack O’Neill learning the existence of the Second Human Empire in 1512 N.E..

"for crying out loud, we keep telling you, we did not start that fight! Your officers opened fire on our ships right after they met and opened up a peaceful first contact message. What were we suppose to do? Let our remains drift into cold space?"

"And yet you have armed ships and fleets, as well as working with aliens? I do not find this less suspicious if it was a trick."

"That's because we work together and fought alongside each other in a war far deadlier than the previous one you had. Ever heard the phrase, ask first, shoot later? Okay, so maybe you had some bad encounters with others, but we've always been cautious of who we run into."

—Jack O'neill in an attempt to negotiate with the representatives of the Federation of Super Earth after the Milky Way Edge Incident.