When The 100 begins its journey in the pilot episode, Thelonious Jaha is the Chancellor of a space colony that includes 12 separate stations fused together. He's the last Chancellor after nearly 100 years of humanity living in space, and though he might not always be the leader those on the Ark want, he's who they need.
That changes as the show continues. It turns out that the leaders who step up and do the most for humanity are the same teenagers Jaha sends to Earth on a potential suicide mission. He makes a lot of hard calls that polarize the characters around him as well as the audience, but everyone can agree there's still more to learn about him.
10 Jaha's Blood Type Changes
It's safe to say that a person's blood type can't spontaneously change. In this instance, it's more of a continuity error as the writers made a decision that changed Jaha's blood type as they were building the world of the show.
In the pilot episode, Jaha is shot. When Abby has to operate on him, she asks for more A-negative blood because of how much he's lost. When the writers were promoting the show via Tumblr, however, one of the bits of information they provided was that everyone on the Ark had O-negative blood, negating Jaha's blood type in the first episode. O-negative blood has the lowest risk of complications during transfusions, and it's referenced as the "universal donor" type, so the idea is that everyone on the Ark is compatible.
9 He Lives Longer On-Screen Than The Page
The 100 is inspired by a series of novels by Kass Morgan, but the books have very little in common with the TV show. That's because they were being written at the same time.
The first novel wasn't actually complete when the pilot for the show was written, so the two deviate almost immediately. One of the ways they are very different is Jaha's place in the story. Jaha actually dies very early in the books, not making it to Earth to try to help humanity survive or grieve for his son. In fact, his son survives much longer on the page, becoming a main character in the novels.
8 Jaha Is The Last Of "Skaikru" To Come To Earth
When Lexa welcomes the Sky People to become a part of the Grounders, she dubs them Skaikru, and the name sticks until the next apocalyptic decision. What some fans might miss, however, is that the last official member of Skaikru to make it to Earth is Jaha.
Jaha is the one person left behind in what remains of the Ark to make sure all of the other stations can get to Earth. He eventually figures out a way to get himself there as well, making him the last person from the Ark to set foot on soil. The prisoner ship that brings people from the sky to Earth six years later does not include members of Skaikru.
7 He Is An Engineer
No one begins their career as a leader of their people. Bellamy works as a guard on the Ark before stepping up on the Ground. Clarke trains to become a doctor before she ends up in prison, and then on Earth leading teenagers in survival skills. Jaha starts his story in The 100 as the Chancellor, but he didn't always have this role.
Before that, he was an engineer. It only gets mentioned a handful of times in the series, so it's easy to miss, but his engineering background is one of the reasons he understands so much of Raven's complicated explanations when no one else does.
6 Isaiah Washington Brought Kindness To Jaha
Jaha might seem like he has a hard edge to him, but behind the scenes, actor Isaiah Washington believed in spreading kindness and positive feedback on-set. Sachin Sahel, who played Jackson for the run of the series, spoke highly of Washington in an interview.
Sahel explained that though he didn't have many scenes with Washington initially, the latter made sure to personally thank everyone for all the work they did on the show. He did it by writing out thank you cards, and Sahel thought it was a "small gesture that he didn't have to do that made a world of difference," on-set.
5 Jaha Is Personally Responsible For Over 600 Deaths
It's often Clarke who is remembered for the large amount of blood on her hands, but no one's hands are truly clean in The 100. Jaha is responsible for just as much death during his time as Chancellor — and after.
More than 300 lives on the Ark are culled when Jaha needs a way to make the oxygen last just a little bit longer. Likewise, nearly that many are also gassed by Jaha and Kane to prevent everyone from trying to stay in the Second Dawn bunker at Polis as the world ends. Jaha justifies his actions by sacrificing the few so that the many left of humanity can still survive.
4 His Name References Him As A Leader Of The People
It's never been stated if Jaha was named Thelonious by the writers for a specific reason, or if they just wanted a name that sounded a bit regal. If they did choose the name with its meaning in mind, they picked a good one.
His name is actually derived from a Germanic name, Theodoric. The first half of both names references "people," while the second is a reference to "ruler." That makes his name roughly translate to "leader of the people."
3 Washington Chose To Audition For Jaha
It's a rare privilege in the entertainment industry for a role to be written for a specific actor - or for producers to be ready to hand over a role if an actor expresses interest. While the former isn't true of Jaha in The 100, the latter certainly is.
Isaiah Washington revealed that he had a copy of The 100 script for a long time before he read it because he wasn't interested in doing television again after Grey's Anatomy. Once he did read it, however, he was so invested that he got in contact with producers right away to tell them he was interested in a part. He was told the role was his, that he didn't need to audition, but according to Washington, he "wanted them to hear what they made [him] feel while reading the script," so he auditioned anyway.
2 The Showrunner Wanted A Hero's Death For Him
While season 4 aired, Washington made the decision to end his time on the show. That meant he only appeared in a handful of episodes of the fifth season before his character died helping Octavia. Because the writers knew that Washington would be departing the series in advance, they were able to plan for it.
Showrunner Jason Rothenberg said that Jaha, "was driven and obsessed and needed to do what was right for his people all the time. I wanted to be true to that with his death... to make sure that it was heroic and emotional." Jaha makes the choice to stand up for Octavia as the leader in the bunker, sacrificing himself and giving her a piece of advice right before he takes his last breath.
1 Jaha Is Bellamy's Father
In the television series, the identity of Bellamy and Octavia's father is never revealed. That's not entirely the case in the novels. On the page, Bellamy and Octavia share a mother, but not a father.
While Octavia's father is never revealed in the books, Bellamy's is. Bellamy finds out eventually that Chancellor Jaha was his father. That would have made for another source of tension between Bellamy and Wells Jaha in the television series.
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