When the evil Aku returns to threaten the empire, a young prince trains for years to eventually fight and defeat him, but before Aku can be fully vanquished, he sends the prince into the future where he battles through threat after threat (with stories told in pictures more than words) in his quest to return to his own time.
I thought once like you, but the sword is only a tool. What power has it compared to that of the hand that wields it?

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  1. Samurai Jack by Genndy Tartakovsky (10 August 2001).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Genndy Tartakovsky