He's known as 'Beard,' but you might know him as 'The Soldier' from Hotline Miami 2's Hawaii stages. How do we know this? Well, you'll notice between each of the first game's stages that Jacket sees the same man working in the pizza joint, local bar, and VHS store. In Jacket's mind, he's still fighting a war. It's clear Jacket has a few issues, as if his curb-stomping, eye-gouging antics weren't proof, but why is he so happy to kill people when ordered? It's because he's a former US military officer who is used to killing on demand, and he's still doing it because he suffered a horrendous case of post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by a terrible event during his term of service.
