Jim Hawkins is one of the main protagonists in Treasure Planet. Jim is a very adventerous, caring young lad. During the beginning of the film he was the "alienated" teenager, constantly in trouble and "like a stranger" to his mother,
Sarah Hawkins. In the DVD's Visual Commentary, the directors said that to emphasize Jim's "Bad Boy" reputation, they added the black jacket, and the shadow or "eye-mask" over his eyes. By the end of the movie he no longer wears or needs the black jacket, and the eye-mask is gone.