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Daxter
Daxter shown on the original cover of his eponymous game.
Game series	Jak and Daxter
First game	Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Created by	Charles Zembillas, Joe Pearson
Voiced by (English)	Max Casella
Voiced by (Japanese)	Teiyu Ichiryusai

This article is about the character. For the video game, see Daxter (video game).

Daxter is the secondary character from the Jak and Daxter video game series. He is also Jak's sidekick. He is voiced by Max Casella. In the Japanese version, he is voiced by Teiyu Ichiryusai (一龍斎 貞友).

Daxter was a "human" from Sandover Village, and a friend of Jak. In the beginning of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak and Daxter are making their way to Misty Island, the one place Samos told them not to go. They arrive on the island just in time to witness a large gathering of Lurkers being commanded by two twisted people. Jak and Daxter, worried by what they are seen, are on their way off the island when they are confronted by a pool of Dark Eco. While Daxter inspects the pool, Jak locates a small Red Eco barrel. When they go to leave, however, a Lurker Commander attacks them. Jak throws the caustic barrel at the lurker and kills it, but the explosion throws Daxter into the Dark Eco pit. Daxter flies back out of the pit, unharmed, but has been changed into an ottsel, a hybrid of an otter and a weasel. They return to Sandover Village and seek help from Samos, Sage of Green Eco, but he proclaims that he couldn't help Daxter, even if he wanted to. He adds that only Gol Acheron, Sage of Dark Eco, can help change Daxter back, but he lives far to the north. Thus, Jak and Daxter embark on a journey to find Gol. Unfortunately, it turns out that Gol, and his sister Maia, were corrupeted by dark eco, and were the two twisted people Jak and Daxter saw at Misty Island. At the near end, Jak battles Gol and Maia, and defeats them with the help of the four Eco Sages who combine their powers to form White Eco. Daxter realizes that the White Eco would change him back to normal. He is now forced to make a tough decision. He decides to allow Jak to save the world and stay an ottsel forever.

During Daxter, inside a bar, Daxter is bragging to the patrons about his so-called adventures. Of course, this leaves very little impression on his audience, except for an old man named Osmo, head of the Kridder Ridder Extermination Company, who sees Daxter's potential and offers him a job as an exterminator. Daxter refuses but the old man tricks him into the job. He then completes various jobs throughout some of the city.

During Jak 3, he finds out that ottsels are the fabled Precursors in the Jak and Daxter mythology.