Commander Tech 49 Jack Harper is the main protagonist from Joseph Kosinski's 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction film, Oblivion.
He is portrayed by Tom Cruise, who also played Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible films, Jack Reacher in the movie of the same name and its 2016 sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man, John Anderton in Minority Report, Ray Ferrier in War of the Worlds, Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July, Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men, David Aames in Vanilla Sky, Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai, and Major William Cage in Edge of Tomorrow.
In the year 2077, the 50 year-old commander of the 2017 NASA mission to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The mission was diverted when a massive unknown object was detected, later known as the Tet.
During the mission the crew compartment known as the "Odyssey" was ejected. His wife, Julia Rusakov, was amongst the crew members saved—all in a state of delta sleep.
Jack and his co-pilot and lover Victoria Olsen are captured by the Tet in order to use their genetic material for producing the thousands of clones later used on Earth. Their fates remain unknown.