Jerry Mouse

Heroic Vehicle
Full Name	Jerry Mouse
Alias	A-JAX/2
Origin	A-Jax / Typhoon
Transportation	Jet fighter
Creation	A-Jax Strike Force
Location	Sea Easter Island Space
Users	Cpt. Ocker Ensign Gilbert
Usage / Powers	Flight Supersonic Speed Space Travel Armaments Triple cannons (stages 2, 5) Particle beam (stage 8) Air-to-Air Missiles (stages 2, 8) Air-to-Surface Missiles (stage 5)
Purposes	Destroy the Alien Planetoid and Liberate Earth
Status	Determinant
Type of Heroic Vehicle	Modified Aircraft

The Jerry Mouse is one of the two protagonists of the 1987 arcade shoot 'em up A-Jax, alongside its partner the Tom Tiger. It is a heavily modified F-14 Tomcat fighter jet built as part of an elite combat unit known as "A-Jax" to combat an alien invasion against Earth.

History

In the year 2007, an unnamed nuclear superpower encountered an alien faction. Deciding to work with aliens, the two sides worked together to construct multiple military fortresses on Earth and an artificial planetoid in space. At some point however, that partnership came to a sudden end when the aliens betrayed the superpower and launched an invasion and overpowered the superpower nation, cutting off its communication from the rest of the world. With their former partner out of the way, the aliens turned their attention to subjugating Earth. After learning that the planetoid was capable of deploying nuclear weapons against the planet at aliens' leisure, the situation became even more dire. As a result, the United Nations launches an elite strike force under the codename "A-Jax" in order to quell the invasion and destroy the planetoid. Part of A-Jax strike force was Jerry Mouse.

While Tiger Tom dealt with majority of alien military, the Jerry Mouse tackled the faster pace areas of the mission, launching a counterattack against a reprogrammed aircraft carrier and an alien base called Delta, destroying both strongholds and crippling the alien's defense that are guarding them. Once the armada is decimated on Earth mostly by the diligent work of Tom Tiger attack helicopter, the final alien planetoid fortress is located in space. Tom Tiger is not able to get there, so Jerry Mouse is launched into space, where it confronts the remainder of the alien forces on approach to the planetoid. After a brief, but intense battle, the Jerry Mouse destroys the planetoid and returns to Earth, thus ending the alien invasion and saving the planet from a nuclear annihilation - not to mention stealing all the thunders of cheering audiences.

Crossover Appearances

Airforce Delta Storm

The Jerry Mouse makes a guest appearance in Airfare Delta Storm. Like its game counterpart, it is a modified F-14D Tomcat, but with different stats. It can be obtained pretty early in-game. Though expensive, the jet's price is worth it as it has great overall stats. Its main downside however is that two vulcan cannons are spread apart, making it difficult to aim its guns properly.

Airforce Delta Strike

The Jerry Mouse makes a return in the sequel. Its design is more original, but still has an overall resemblance to the F-14 Tomcat. Unfortunately, its performance is considerably poor. While its overall stats are still good, its arsenal of weapons makes it unreliable in combat, as it uses rockets instead of missiles like most aircraft. In addition its special weapon, the Multi-Lock Air-to-Air Missile is highly inaccurate, as it often times misses targets, especially ones with high mobility. Alongside the Super Fighter it is generally considered one of the worst Konami Legacy aircraft.

Weapons

Due to the fast-pace nature of its missions, the Jerry Mouse's weaponry is much more simplified (and realistic) than those of its partner's arsenal. Nonetheless, each weapon proves to be essential to its objectives.

• Machine Gun - fires a standard, semi-automatic machine gun that is capable of destroying smaller enemies easily.
  • Particle Beam - appears only in final eighth stage, Jerry Mouse's machine guns are upgraded into this arrow-shaped weapon. In-game function is same as machine guns, thus this change is purely cosmetic.

• Air-to-Air Missiles - deploys a missile below the aircraft, which then travels forward. Up to three can be deployed at once before a short cooldown period.
  • Air-to-Surface Missiles - appears only on the fifth stage, Jerry Mouse's missiles, when deployed, will travel along the ground in a straight line, making them potent against tanks.

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Trivia

• Originally, Konami was developing separate games featuring Tom Tiger and Jerry Mouse on those games. But creating stages for those games became difficult, causing production delays. So Konami decided to merge two concepts into one. Thus A-Jax was created.

• The Jerry Mouse is heavily based on the F-14 Tomcat featured in Afterburner, as the third-person shooting gameplay of the jet's levels are nearly identical.

• The Jerry Mouse, alongside its partner the Tom Tiger's names, are a nod to the cartoon duo Tom & Jerry.