CaptainSparklez

CaptainSparklez is basically this dude that plays games n stuff lol.

History of CaptainSparklez
Jordan's original channel was ProsDONTtalkSHIT. He posted mostly Call of Duty videos and worked for Machinima.

On the 23rd of July, 2010 he created his new channel CaptainSparklez due to the explicit language in his other YouTube channel, and kept with posting Call Of Duty gameplay. As Minecraft got mildy popular, Jordan posted a few Minecraft videos with SeaNanners and soon he completely switched his channel from Call of Duty to Minecraft. His first song parody TNT, posted on the Feb 26, 2011 increased his popularity greatly and earned many new subscribers. Jordan knew this song was a hit and continued to work on more. Later the song Revenge was posted and currently holds the record for the most veiwed Minecraft video with 100 million views. Jordan then started his Skyblock Survival series, which has more than 4 million views. His second most famous series, Happy Wheels soon gained popularity on his channel, advancing him to 800 thousand subscribers. Then came his Minecraft Survival Let's Play, generally appearing to be more popular among his other series. His third parody soon came along giving him the subscriber boost to almost a million. The song affiliated in this video is titled, Fallen Kingdom. Following this success, Sparklez accepted the invitation offered by the Machinima team to participate in the Survival Games, which he came 2nd in and competed in the other 3, known to be the dark horse and the one to always look out for, only ever losing to AntVenom. His popularity is still continuing to expand as of now and is currently working on more of his gameplay series. In December 2012, Maron appeared in the inaugural episode of The Fine Brothers' YouTubers React and has continued to be part of YouTubers React, though he was not in Episodes 5 or 6. In his time on YouTubers react, he has spoken about "Gangnam Style", Fred Figglehorn and Rewind YouTube Style among many others.

Personal Life
Generally keeping private in regards to his personal life, little is known outside of CaptainSparklez's channel. Appearing to be his intention, additional insights concerning Jordan's personal history are somewhat vague. However, it is known that he resides in Santa Barbra, CA.

On the 30th of May, 2011, an interview with CaptainSparklez was held with a popular Minecraft podcast titled as, The Shaft. During their discussion, Jordan did state that after a short time experiencing being in a gaming industry (from an outside perspective), this led to him switching from chemical engineering to computer science. Explaining that he to balancing college and YouTube commentating is somewhat of a difficulty, Jordan stated that a gaming company, such as Valve, suited him the most.

The discussion leads off to a topic related to CaptainSparklez's channel, his videos, the making of his videos, development maps, etc.

It is revealed in many episodes that Jordan has taken gymnastics, and in the final episode of Assasin's Creep, he said he would film a video of him doing a ground-off Backflip. He showed a video of himself doing a backflip in his video celebrating the fact that he had earned a million subscribers. He also did perform one on stage at Minecon 2012 at his panel in which when asked by a fan to do so he quickly cleared the stage and did it in front of a large audience. Also for one of his previous 'million subscriber milestones', he showed a video in which a younger version of himself did the backflip.

Accomplishments

 * Earned over 5,000,000 subscribers!
 * Holds the top 4 most viewed Minecraft videos ever, with the top one Revenge at over 100,000,000 views.


 * Minecraft Style featured in Google's Year in Review.


 * Fallen Kingdom featured in Google's Rewind YouTube Style 2012


 * More than 1,030,000,000 total video views[13]


 * Exclusive panel at Minecon 2012. (His songs also played most of the time)


 * Appearing on national TV at the Spike Video Game Awards.


 * A "King of the Web" award recipient.


 * Revenge is the most watched gaming related video on YouTube.

Minecraft
Jordan has played many different Minecraft adventure maps including -
 * Gloria - with Mark (AllShamNoWow) and Nick (NFENvids).
 * Survival Games - with all his buddies.
 * Revenge of the Gods - Also with Mark and Nick.
 * The Emperor of Minopia - with Mark and Nick.
 * Survival Let's Play
 * It's Better Together - with Mark only.
 * Mini Hostile Rage Quit Holidays
 * Escape the Puzzle Master
 * Assassin's Creep
 * Cube Inc.
 * The Making of "Deep Space Turtle Chase"
 * The Island Horror - with Tiff, Mario, Trevor and Adam.
 * Hardcore Parkour - with the people above and Tiff's brother, Anthony.
 * The Desert's Puzzle
 * Way of the Warrior
 * Minecraft Updates
 * Minecraft Creations, Tutorials and Mods
 * Redmurk Mystery
 * MES Facility
 * Minecraft Portal
 * Zombie Craft
 * The Labyrinth of Doom
 * Songs, Speed-Art and Song Tutorials
 * EscapeCraft 2 & 3 - Mark and Nick
 * EscapeCraft the One
 * Lux Perpetua
 * Skyblock, Skyblock Reloaded and Skyblock 2.0 - Mark and Nick
 * TNT Olympics- with Taylor, Seth and Etho
 * The Tomb of Rath
 * Minecraft Star Wars- with Mark
 * Chronotide
 * Déjà Vu
 * Crown Conquest- with Mark
 * Herobrine's Mansion - with Mark and Nick
 * Wrath of the Fallen - with Mark and Nick
 * Respawn: The Unseen Journey - Nick

"TNT" a Minecraft Parody of Taio Cruz's Dynamite
On the 26th of February, 2011, he released his first song, TNT, a parody of Taio Cruz's Dynamite.

"Revenge" a Minecraft Parody of Usher's DJ Got Us Falling In Love Again
Their next song came on the 19th of August, 2011, also being their most famous song at 79th place on the YouTube Top 100 Charts. The song affiliated in this parody is titled Revenge. Revenge has now passed the original Usher video in number of views.



"Fallen Kingdom" a Minecraft Parody of Coldplay's Viva La Vida
On the 1st of April, 2012, Sparklez, again, posted another parody titled, Fallen Kingdom, after a few days of absence without posting any videos. The original song is Viva La Vida, by Coldplay.



"Minecraft Style" a Minecraft Parody of PSY's Gangnam Style
On October 21st, Sparklez posted the fourth song; Minecraft Style, which as you can guess, is a parody of Gangnam Style. Sadly, Sony and Universal has reinstated their copyright claim and has blocked it from being viewed in almost all countries. CaptainSparklez said, "I'll be seeking legal consultation to determine whether or not it's worth my while to continue fighting it. Until then... bummer." Recently, he has stated that he will reupload the video but with the tune tweaked. As of June 27th 2013, it has been re-uploaded

"Take Back the Night" a Minecraft Original Song
On August 31, CaptainSparklez posted the fifth song: "Take Back the Night". This song is original to avoid copyright infringement, like the fate of "Minecraft Style" for a couple months. The music video of this song is also a sequel to the music video of "Fallen Kingdom". The song was created by TryHardNinja for his new album "In Real Life".

Harlem Shake v. Minecraft
Is a response to Harlem Shake By Baauer a nd was animated by Jordan. It is presumed to be a teaser of Dig Build Live where he is working on it with Slamacow as the guy dancing to the Harlem Shake is the main character of the series.

It was uploaded on Feb 14, 2013.

First Game
Captainsparklez volunteered as tribute on the 17th of April, 2012 with some of his buddies. When it started, he made a mad dash to the chest he found in the earlier game where the server got haywired. He noticed Luclin about after he got the contents in the chest and killed him. Shortly after, he killed Ihascupquake followed by Chimneyswift on the second day. He encountered his killer, Antvenom, twice in the games. The first encounter was not that much of a battle. He was chasing Sly and ended up getting distracted by dying mooshrooms (spawned by TheSyndicateProject [SynHd]). He walked up a steep hill and saw Antvenom. Seeing that Ant had armor, Jordan backed off and fell down a cliff. His second encounter was much more hectic. He saw Antvenom coming through the forest and jumped a cliff. Ant then proceeded to shoot Jordan with his bow and his shot hit Jordan back into a lavafall. By then Jordan's health receeded to 5. He threw his potion of harming. The first throw hit Ant, but the second fell into the water. Ant hit him with a diamond sword and eventually killed him.

Second Game
The second game was worse for Jordan. He immediately got hunted down by Team Bomb Squad, composed of Seamus, Sly, ImmortalHD and Syndicate. He lost them, but got lost himself. He found a chest with a golden sword and a raw porkchop. He then met a skeleton who shot him off the building. Sparklez repositioned himself to fall back into the building but by then, he had two hearts left. After a long wait on his building, he saw AntVenom chasing down Seamus towards his direction. He tried to parkour to a nearby bookshelf but failed, fell and died. The game's video was posted on YouTube with the title of "The Unfortunate Tale of CaptainSparklez".

Third Game
The third game was not uploaded to CaptainSparklez's YouTube channel, for unknown reasons, possibly because of recording failure. Through other's videos however, fans were able to find out what had happened to him. Near the end, CaptainSparklez and ImmortalHD had a battle on the beach, with ImmortalHD being the victor. Jordan ended up in fifth place that game.

Fourth Game
The fourth game was also not uploaded, possibly because of his mediocre performance. However, his fans easily found out what had  happened via other people's videos. A few minutes after the grace period ended, Jordan was ambushed by Slamacow inside a building and became first one to die.

Subsequent Games
After those defeats, Captainsparklez had been playing a good amount of survival games with xRpMx13. In the fifth survival games, Jordan had a hard time finding good gear in the beginning. However because of HuskyMudkip placing his useless armor in a chest Captainsparklez found, he was geared for the death match. In the deathmatch, even with a disadvantage, Captainsparklez was able to triumph over the trubutes. The second round was a co-op round where Jordan played with xRpMx13. Midway during the round,  xRpMx13 was killed by JollyajaX leaving Captainsparklez by himself. Mid death match, Captainsparklez was overpowered by BajanCanadian and NoochM. Though putting up a tough fight, CaptainSparklez was killed ending up in 3rd place.

CaptainSparklez did not participate in the sixth survival games, presumably due to the fact that he was sick and unable to record.

Deep Space Turtle Chase


On 15th October 2011, CaptainSparklez released what seemed like months and months of hard work a custom map onto the forums and called it Deep Space Turtle Chase!. There were traps all over the place and puzzles and traps that worked like punishment systems and redstone mania. He did a bit of a play through on his channel too.

He did half of the work by giving ideas and the VoxelBox team including Ridgedog and Deamon from the Noxcrew Gameshow created them. 9 episodes were shown on his channel about him building some parts of the adventure map especially the art of terraforming.

Survival Series
By far Jordan's most watched series on youtube, he has 39 episodes of his first series, 76 episodes of his second series, 9 episodes of his third series and his fourth series is still going on.

Season One - Minecraft Let's Play Survival
The Journey of Plural Heroes began on Febuary 4th, 2012 when Sparklez decided to do a "Let's Play" once and for all since many people loved to watch those like the one by the Yogscast. Within a month, the Let's Play series became a very popular part of his channel. On the sixth episode, one of CaptainSparklez's most famous characters was introduced - Jerry the Slime. Eventually, Jerry despawned and Sparklez built a memorial on his tree which he later called 'Jerry's Tree'. There was another slime called Ben, but he was stuck at the bottom of a ravine so Sparklez was forced to kill him. Then on episode 28, Sparklez created Evil Kenevil, his trusty Iron Golem. His 500th video featured the Minecraft pimps re-designing Jerry's Tree into something like the Home Tree from Avatar. On episode 29, the next character was introduced called "Mine Sheep", a sheep down in CaptainSparklez's mine. Mine Sheep returned on episode 33, the same episode where Sparklez implemented the face-cam. He ended the first season when he defeated the Ender Dragon in episode 39.

Season two - Modded Survival: Divine RPG
Season 2 began on November 3rd, this time including mods Jordan has installed for more added content. The mods included:
 * Divine RPG which includes 75 new bosses/mobs, 7 new dimensions, and countless new blocks and other items.
 * Tale of Kingdoms which lets you take control of your own kingdom, letting you build structures, recruit allies and destroy enemy camps.
 * Damage Indicators, which allows the player to look at the type, remaining health, applied potion effects, the name, and the model of a mob. It also displays the amount of damage the player has dealt when attacking
 * Team Fortress 2 Teleporter mod which was removed due to the teleporters causing some kind of trouble in the Nether. He now uses command blocks.
 * Not Enough Items which is similar to Too Many items, only it includes the crafting recipes of all craftable items. CaptainSparklez utilized this mod to find out complicated crafting recipes for the DivineRPG mod.
 * The Pet Bat mod which allowed Sparklez to express his love of bats by keeping them as pets, which allowed him to obtain Gary the Bat.
 * The Jerry Mod which adds the Slime and Jerry tiers of armor and weapons, very useful against the powerful DivineRPG monsters.
 * BiblioCraft which adds many new aesthetic features like display cases, armor stands, and shelves, which turned out to be not that useful, for CaptainSparklez did not use the mod a single time in the series.

Season two summary:
CaptainSparklez completed his kingdom from Tale of Kingdoms mod. He also went through and cleared all the Twilight Dimensions, such as Dravite Hills, Mythrill, Azurite, etc. He also beat the Dungeons of Arcana dimension, where he obtained a Staff of Starlight. He also spawned and defeated all the Twilight Bosses from DivineRPG. He also beat the final dimension, which had a separate inventory from the Overworld and a whole set of new items, called the Vethea. He also went ahead and defeated the Ayeraco Horde. His series ended the episode after he defeated Lady Luna and the Hive Queen. On his final episode he went up to Jerry's Memorial and finished it by placing down all the statues of all the bosses from the DivineRPG mod.

Season three - Modded Survival: Aether II
Season 3 was made up of the Aetheric Crusade modpack. The following mods are contained in the modpack:
 * Aether II: The Genesis of the Void which adds a dimmension opposite to the Nether called the Aether filled with many sky related mobs as well as dungeons filled with intense boss fights, such as the Slider's Labyrinth
 * Rei's Minimap, which adds a little map to the corner of the Minecraft screen and allows the player to navigate and create waypoints
 * Gravestones, which creates a gravestone when a player dies and allows him/her to reobtain the items by right-clicking on the gravestone
 * Herbology mod, which adds a ton of herbology-related items such as herb medicine
 * Damage Indicators, which allows the player to look at the type, remaining health, applied potion effects, the name, and the model of a mob. It also displays the amount of damage the player has dealt when attacking
 * Chisel mod, which adds an item called chisel and a whole variety of chiseled blocks

New Season Four - Modded Survival: Hexxit
==== CaptainSparklez posted a vlog expressing his true opinions on the Aether, stating that the mod is still in Alpha state and there isn't much to do except for the Slider's Labyrinth, and the fact that there isn't as much excitement as there was in the prior season. H e decided that he would start another series out of the new modpack Hexxit, which is equipped for adventure, which is what most viewers are seeking from his videos. The Aether series will be revisited once the Hexxit series is over.====

Season Five - Modded Survival: Feed the Beast
Season 5 has at this time no scheduled start date, but will feature Feed the Beast. The following mods have been confirmed in season four
 * Feed the Beast which is a modpack that adds in a bunch of content such as machines, magic, and much more. Feed the Beast includes the following mods:
 * Industrialcraft 2 which adds machines and energy
 * Thaumcraft 3 which adds sources of magic to create devices and materials
 * Redpower 2 which adds a bunch of circuitry related items
 * Not Enough Items which is similar to Too Many items, only it includes the crafting recipes of all craftable items.
 * Buildcraft 3 which adds machines that perform various mining and building tasks
 * Thermal Expansion which adds machines that can change water into ice and more
 * BiblioCraft which adds many new aesthetic features like display cases, armor stands, and shelves.
 * Equivalent Exchange 3 which adds magic that converts materials into others
 * Factorization which adds machines to increase production
 * Twilight Forest which adds a new dimension filled with new mobs and dungeons  and much more

CaptainSparklez (Status: Alive; died multiple times but respawned)
CaptainSparklez is the skin for Jordan's minecraft avatar, although many fan arts have pictured Jordan himself instead of the skin. He is the protagonist of the series, being in every episode of the series (Which is obvious as he is the series.) CaptainSparklez is actually the minecraft form of Usher and was used in Jordan's most watched video, Revenge. After that, Jordan decided to use Usher and stuck with it ever since. His original skin was Batman but now his good friend Xrpmx13 uses it.

Jerry the Slime (Status: Despawned)
The so-called deuteragonist of Jordan's series, Jerry is a small slime Jordan discovered in a cave in Episode 6 of his survival let's play. Seeing his cuteness, Jordan decided not to kill him and kept him in a small pen, but ended up despawning; much to Jordan's disappointment. To carry on the legend of Jerry and his soul, Jordan built the first version of Jerry's tree in Episode 9 of his survival let's play. In Episode 28.5, or his 500th video, the minecraft pimps redesigned Jerry's tree to make it more monument like than just a stack of trees. Jordan also crafted Jerry's Sword - A Slime Sword after installing the Jerry mod. As a memorial for serving him well, Jordan placed Jerry's Sword in a frmae at the memorial alongside Land Shark's fin. After that, many different videos were made about Jerry, even a game about him was made and lastly, may his soul rest in piece.

Ben the Slime (Status: Dead; Killed by Jordan)
Probably Jerry's twin brother, Ben is another small slime Jordan found at the bottom of a ravine in Episode 7 of his survival series. Sadly, he was stuck at the bottom and could not get back up and so Jordan killed him for a slime ball. He is the first mob friend that Jordan named to have a name not similar to Jerry.

Einstein the Pig (Status: Alive)
Einstein is a pig kept in a farm at the base of Jerry's tree. He has been there troughout his entire series but Jordan has never killed him for pork. He lives together with his family and the brown sheep which Jordan had much difficulty herding.

Evil Kenevil the Iron Golem (Status: Vanished off the face of Minecraftia; likely killed by a Divine RPG mob)
The guardian of Jerry's tree, Evil Kenevil is an Iron Golem Jordan brought to life to fend of mobs on the lobby. He was made on Episode 28 of his survival series. His death was unknown to Jordan and he probably died when Jordan was somewhere else.

Mine Sheep (Status: Unknown; Probably alive, as passive mobs do not despawn)
In Episode 29 of his survival series, Jordan stumbled upon Mine Sheep while on his way out of a ravine. He was standing at the edge of the bridge linking the two sides of the ravine together. Jordan thought of killing him for wool but spared him to let him carry on mining. In episode Episode 33 of the series, Jordan found Mine Sheep again bakc in the same ravine, which was obvious as passive mobs do not despawn. Till this day, he might still be mining away...

Gary the Bat (Status: Despawned after uninstalling the Pet Bats mod)
In Episode 17 of his modded survival, Jordan installed the pet bats mod after reviewing the mod itself and coincidently stumbled upon Gary at the end of the episode. His original name was Zubat but Jordan renamed him "Gary" to make him sound like Jerry. Sadly, like all his modded friends, Gary despawned when Jordan uninstalled the mods of the modded survial series.

Larry the Moon Wolf (Status: Dead; Killed by Jungle Dramacryx or fell off Jerry's Tree)
In episode Episode 35 of the modded series, Jordan ran into a pack of moon wolves but thought nothing of them, but in Episode 37, Jordan spawned Larry in the overworld after being unsuccessfully able to teleport him through the portal. Unfortunately, he died much to Jordan's sadness, but it wasn't that bad as even if he was alive, he would have despawned after uninstalling the divine RPG mod.

Mary the Bunny (Status: Despawned after uninstalling the DivineRPG mod)
In Episode 36 of the modded series, Jordan discovered some bunnies with the power to transform into a bunny hulk after being attacked. Naming her Mary, she was brought into the overworld as well in Episode 37. Somehow after multiple episodes, her face disappeared, probably due to a bug but Jordan stuck with that. Sadly, she despawned after Jordan uninstalled the divine RPG mod.

Kerry the Cat (Status: Alive, duplicated for some reason after the Hexxit series started)
To complete his family of "Erry-s" Jordan tamed a cat at the base of Jerry's tree and named her "Kerry". She is still alive as she is a vanilla mob but duplicated when Hexxit started. She is still alive and well in Jordan's Bedroom.

Aerry the Moa (Status: Unknown; glitched into the void)
When Jordan started his Aether series, his main goal was to breed a Moa. This caused him many problems and when he finally did in Episode 6 of the Aether series, Aerry the moa hatched from the incubator. His death in Episode 8 was rather unexpected and left Jordan confused.

Chokobe Bryant the Chocobo (Status: Dead; Killed for feathers)
When Jordan finally spawned him in the hexxit series, he couldn't ride him without a sadle and killed him for feathers, but luckily met and tamed another one with the name of:

Chokobe Bryant Jr, (Status: Alive)
Sadly, Chokobe Bryant Jr, was also abandoned by Jordan after he ran off exploring in his freezerite boots but he will probably come back for him.

Yrrej the Magma Cube (Status: Unknown, probably despawned)
In the Nether explorations, Jordan met a small Magma Cube and named him Yrrej, which is the opposite of "Jerry", presumably due to the fact that Magma Cubes are like the Nether versions of Overworld slimes. Jordan left him in the Nether and he probably despawned after that, with the exact same fate as Jerry.

The Three Stooges (Status: Dead; All suicided into lava)
All three were hired by Jordan in the Guild Master's Castle in Episode 7 of the modded series but then immediately caused a lot of trouble for Jordan. One of them was stuck fighting a Cyclops. They served as horrible servants to Jordan and they eventually fell into lava in Episode 8 of the modded series.

The other Three Stooges (Status: Dead; Two were killed, the last caught on fire)
They were also hired by Jordan and this time they proved to be better than their previous counterparts. Sadly they also died horribly.

Jerry's Army (Status: Abandoned by Jordan and drowned)
After the update where slimes could now spawn in swamps, Jordan discovered a giant slime outside his door in Epsiode 9 of the modded series. After killing many of them, Jordan left the rest to follow him and named them "Jerry's Army" shortly after they left his mine, Jordan had to abandon them at the edge of the swamp as they could not swim after him and would drown.

Jerry's Army 2 (Status: Unknown, probably despawned)
Another herd of slimes Jordan discovered, he also left them shortly after he discovered them and they have probably despawned by now.

Barry the Aerbunny (Status: Dead; killed by a Cockatrice)
In Episode 5 of the Aether 2.0 series, Jordan right clicked a Aerbunny and it hopped onto his head, hence the name "Bunny Hat". He was going to bring him back into his Aether Tower but got shot by a Cockatrice. It turned out that the Cockatrice was aiming at Jordan but missed and hit Barry instead. Jordan mentioned he was going to call him "Barry" if he was still alive.

Kermit the Frog (Status: Dead, accidentally killed by Jordan)
In Episode 25 of Jordan's hexxit series, Jordan suddenly had the idea of grappling a frog with his longshoot to see what would happen. In the end, Jordan did not ride the frog but ended up having the frog on a leash. He named him Kermit after raiding a pirate ship. Sadly, when Jordan got attacked by zombies, kermit got killed. A common misconception on his death was that the zombie killed him, but what actually happened was that while trying to hit the zombie, Jordan hit kermit instead.

Jungle Stegosaurus the Jungle Dramacryx (Status: All despawned after uninstalling the Divine RPG mod)
The main antagonists of Jordan's modded series. After many attempts to kill Jordan, they were described as a nuisance by Jordan; interrupting his intros, falling down on top of him and almost killing him sometimes. They would almost be in every episode of the modded series. They were given the name "Jungle Stegosaurus" due to the fact they resembled Stegosaurs but actually looked more like Dimetrodons. At first Jordan just found them patrolling the lobby of Jerry's tree but after many attacks, Jordan's hatred on them increased and increased. Jordan also mentioned the only good thing about uninstalling the divine RPG mod was that no more Jungle Stegosaurus were there to attack him.

Land Shark (Status: Dead; killed by Jordan)
Because Jordan wanted to get aqua pellets, he went on a seafood killing spree; killing mobs like crabs and more crabs. When Jordan tried to kill a shark, he almost got killed and had to retreat back to the shore. Much to his disbelief, the shark crawled up onto land and killed him. After many episodes of preperations, in Episode 33 of the modded series, Jordan finally killed Land Shark. To celebrate his victory in killing land shark, Jordan climbed up to the top of Jerry's Tree to the memorial area and placed his fin in a frame together with Jerry's Sword.

Carrot the Kar-OT (Status: Dead; killed by Jordan)
The Kar-OT is a boss that can be spawned in the Augite dimension in the divine RPG mod. After Jordan killed him, Carrot exploded and a bunch of angry bunnies emerged.

Harry Potter the Pig Mage (Status: Dead; killed by Jordan)
Pig mages as pigmen with testificate bodies that roam around the nether. Because of their ability to shoot fireballs and their wizzard like behaviour, Jordan named a specific one "Harry Potter". He eventually killed him in Episode 12 of his Hexxit series.

Sky Den
Sky Den is a series done by Jordan. It is a version of Skyblock that has more stuff in it along with so-called"villagers" and with different islands, which can be reached by building bridges to them.

Friends:
Howie the Cowie (Status: Alive)

Pup (Status: Alive due to respawning)