Valmont

Alias

Big V
Filthyrich1

Origin

Jackie Chan Adventures

Occupation

Gangster

Head of the Dark Hand (both formerly)l
Bus driver

Powers / Skills

Martial arts
High intelligence

Leadership
Criminal strategist
Engineering knowledge
Considerable amounts of resources

Hobby

Making money.

Goals

Become richer.
Bring all the talismans to Shendu.

Get back to his adult age.
Get Shendu's spirit out of his body (all succeeded).
Steal the lost treasure of Ching Xi Hung after Shendu’s betrayal.
Steal all the talismans.
Steal the golden elephant statue (all failed).
Get an oni mask to control his army of shadowkhan (formerly).

Crimes

Organized crime

Smuggling
Theft
Fraud
Abuse
Kidnapping
Attempted murder
Brainwashing
Terrorism
Conspiracy
Extortion
Vandalism
Burglary
Bank robbery
Jailbreak

Type of Villain

Greedy Crime Lord

Valmont is the secondary antagonist of the cartoon series Jackie Chan Adventures. He serves as the secondary antagonist of the first two seasons, a minor antagonist of Seasons 3 and 4, and a supporting protagonist of Season 5. He is the leader of the Dark hand and Shendu's former right-hand man.

Appearance

Valmont is tall and muscular, often wearing a green vest over a black shirt and yellow tie. He has blue eyes, medium skin tone, and shoulder-length linen blonde hair (he wears a ponytail). He also has a small gold earring. When he appeared in Season 4, his suit was wrinkled and slightly torn, his hair was uncombed, and he also had a five-o-clock shadow.

History

Valmont was the spoiled child of a wealthy family. He learned that money could get him anything he wanted, making him grow into a greedy man. He created the Dark Hand, a criminal syndicate that worked on stealing and smuggling ancient treasures. Eventually, Valmont came across the statue of Shendu, who made a deal with him: if he and his men retrieved his talismans, which he needed to return to his original form, he would give them his secret treasure.

Valmont accepted the deal. When Jackie Chan retrieved a shield from an ancient temple, Valmont sent his henchmen to steal the shield, as it contained the rooster talisman. After fighting the Dark Hand, Jackie learns about them and Valmont through Captain Black, boss of Sector 13, who was after them.

Jackie is forced to fight them again, as well as the Shadowkhan controlled by Shendu, but they succeed in retrieving the shield. However, Jackie's niece Jade had taken the Talisman. Black convinces Jackie and his uncle to help him retrieve all the talismans, which sets the two groups to face each other several times. Jackie gets the upper hand, retrieving all talismans save for two.

After learning that Jackie had been split into two by the tiger talisman, Valmont convinces the evil half to bring the talismans for him, but he decides to fight them later after being convinced by the good half. They fight their way through the Dark Hand building, but Valmont succeeds in giving back the talismans to Shendu. Fully restored, Shendu betrays Valmont and runs away to Hong Kong, where his temple is located, so Valmont bring his men to follow him and steal Shendu's treasure. Jackie and Jade fight and kill Shendu, making his temple to disintegrate, along with all the treasure, so Valmont retrieve the talismans as a consolation prize, sharing them among his men to use them on their crimes.

Jackie would try to stop them, at the same time that Shendu, in spirit form, was trying to possess Jackie. When Shendu is about to succeed, Valmont attacks Jackie when Jackie's back was turned, so Shendu ends possessing him instead. Shendu forces the Dark Hand to help him release his brothers and sisters from the Demon Netherworld, while Valmont can't do a thing. After they fail to release the brothers and sisters, only Shendu's own portal remained, but Jackie and Uncle used a spell to send Shendu back to the Netherworld, while Jade, who was trapped there, managed to escape. Valmont was now free from Shendu, but his resources eventually ran low, after so much travels and failures.

Valmont would later regroup with his henchmen and plan a new crime, but they were eventually enslaved by Daolon Wong, which left him alone. On his own, Valmont had to steal things for himself since he no longer had anyone to do it for him. He eventually met Daolon Wong again and tried to force the Dark Chi Wizard to return Finn, Ratso and Chow back to him, only to have Wong turn him into a child instead. Wanting to be an adult again, Valmont went after the horse that inherited the Horse Talisman's healing power but it didn't turn him back into an adult. Uncle eventually broke the spell, which Valmont was grateful until he found out Captain Augustus Black was just about to arrest him.

Later on, he used a memory potion on his reformed former Enforcer Tohru so he'd not remember he no longer works for Valmont. Together, the two of them tried to steal a golden elephant statue but, when Valmont left Tohru to fend for himself against the guards keeping the statue, Tohru defected again.

Valmont reappeared during the Oni Mask saga when he bought one of the Oni Masks at a virtual auction under the alias "Filthyrich1", which was shown to be misleading since he was then living at a small apartment (and that, according to Jade, he “wasn’t rich, just filthy”). He claimed to have bought the mask "fair and square" with "stolen money", and hoped to control a tribe of Shadowkhan, so he could use them to steal treasures and managed to wear half of it. However, he found himself in a predicament similar to the one he had while Shendu possessed his body, until the half-mask was removed from him.

He once tried to work for Drago but was dismissed without a chance to show his value to Shendu's son.