Why Captain Jack Harkness Isn't The Face Of Boe

Captain Jack Harkness is a character from Doctor Who and the Torchwood series who is immortal and can't die. This happens in S1 of Doctor Who when he is exterminated by Daleks and bought back by Rose Tyler (Bad Wolf) The 9th doctor leaves Jack with the dalek dust. In S3 of Doctor who after S1 of his own spinoff Torchwood, The Doctor meet again in the Masters first appearance in NuWho. In the final episode of S3 Jack says that people called him the Face Of Boe. Another character the 9th/10th doctor knew. Martha and the doctor are seen laughing as Harkness goes off to be with the torchwood crew. But is he actually The Face Of Boe? Originally In the 11th Doctor episode in S6 a good man goes to war. His head was meant to be chopped off but it never happened.

[parrot]

Is it not possible that the fixed point in time Rose accidentally made was his dying on New Earth? That he was essentially forced by reality itself to survive until that point, as he gathered more and more genetic mutations, since his body rebuilds itself far far longer than any human body naturally can leading to him becoming The Face of Boe

[SerathDarklands]

I think your theory is plausible, not so much because he wants to mess with the Doctor, but because we know that Jack has taken other people's identities before. "Jack Harkness" isn't even his real name, he took that off of an RAF pilot in WWII. He's a man that's always running, always having to adapt, and taking on the identity of 'the Face of Boe' is likely just him trying to hide or start over.

[Ben-hfon]

There is a line where River Song gets one of those time travel watches. It was obtained by the monks and and it eluded to it being Jacks, or someone with a similar description, and that person would have faced a special form of decapitation that didn't kill him

[martyncole]

Maybe his immortality wasn’t as permanent as everyone thought which would make sense.

[TheWhovinerd-]

It’s heavily implied in Gridlock that Boe died by using up the last of his life energy to save the people of New New York.
This would make sense as to how Jack would eventually die. Boe states in his second appearance that he is dying, yet we see him alive and well. Boe also says he’s grown tired of the universe because he’s lived for billions of years.
Jack would have lived for millions of years because of his ability. He still ages, but very slowly. So it can be assumed he evolved over the years.also why would Boe call the Doctor Old friend if he didn’t know him? He also knows the Doctor isn’t alone Heavily implying about the master With his dying words Y.A.N.A. Furthermore, RTD and John Barrowman have both confirmed that Boe is Jack so there’s no debate about it. Xx

[oniflora]

in the series 1 finale from torchwood, jack was dead for days after using his life force to defeat abaddon, and boe used his life force to free the citizens of new (x15) york in gridlock, and these episodes were broadcast within mere months of one another, so the connection feels VERY intentional - and i dont think the face of boe/jack is dead, just dead for enough a period of time to last till the end of the universe, as that life force will have worn out after the billions of years in his life span

[SalooBC]

Martha did mention the face of Boe to the Doctor right in front of Jack, so I really think he's just fucking with them.

[johna]

I really hope Jack being the Face of Boe is never confirmed on screen.

[AndrewHalliwell]

How did the face of Bo know YANA was the Master?

Simple. Jack was there.

[BreaksBee]

everyone telling that the face of boe isn't jack are wrong its been confirmed multiple times, there even was a cut episode with the eleven doctor that should of showed him lose his body.

[golden_gloo]

Having Jack and River Song on screen together in A Good Man Goes to War would have been amazing.

[spluff]

My interpretation for the Face of Boe's "death" is that he didn't actually die. The machine's process transferred his life essence into New New York to power the doors, but he lives on in a sense within the systems of the city, without a body.

[MatthewCaunsfield]

I like that the connection was never fully confirmed - there's also the reference to "Boe-kind" in one episode, which suggests that there may be more of his species out there.
Or is Jack/FoB the literal father of them all???

[jameshead]

Just wondering if he was the unseen entity that was sensed when the doctor goes to the end of time

[cyanscholar]

How could Jack die if he's a fixed point in time? Well, technically, from a non-linear non-subjective viewpoint, time is more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-whimey... stuff...

[fandomweebsvsmemes]

Guys, he's been dead for days before reviving. Even without the death god incident. Why could he not have been dead for a few extra hours, the doctor leaves, and he'd just pop back up again?

[Davewho-dr]

What if the name of the face of bow comes from jack becoming the face of bow in the future, leading to the past jack to be nicknamed the face of bow.

Similarly like the word doctor coming from the Doctor

[TheGlobadier]

Jack lived for around 5, 000, 000, 053 years

[spluff]

The traffic fumes theory doesn't make sense since he was a giant head in the Long Game, millions of years before the founding of New Earth.

[SerathDarklands]

We also know that the 'exposed to the gas' on New New Earth can't be right, because we see him as the Face in the second episode of Series One, he's attending the death of Earth.