Jupiter's Legacy character George Hutchence (a.k.a. Skyfox) may have superpowers, but that's not the strangest thing about him. A wealthy orphan, George has a ritual of insisting that 99 eggs be cooked for him every morning, boiled to varying degrees, and each morning selects the egg he most feels like eating. So, what's with all the eggs?
This character detail is actually lifted straight from the comics. In the prequel series Jupiter's Circle, George's egg ritual is featured amid a montage of moments that highlight his eccentricity - which also includes him sword-fighting in a company boardroom, running naked through Central Park at night, and defeating a supervillain by drinking him under the table. Reflecting on his erratic behavior with concern, George's girlfriend Sunny describes him as "larger than life, but somehow very fragile too."
This characterization of George is evident in Jupiter's Legacy episode 3, which shows a window into George's life and how he keeps his pain and loneliness at arm's length by, as the episode title and accompanying song put it, "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine." He avoids his best friend, Sheldon Sampson, in the wake of Sheldon's father dying because George has unresolved issues related to the death of a parent. As he cheerfully walks through the halls of his mansion, the camera lingers for a moment on the portraits of his own deceased mother and father on the walls. In many ways George is still a little rich boy who never grew up, and so he uses the wealth his parents left him the same way that a child would: for ludicrous and extravagant displays. Moreover, the enormous dining room table being filled with two long lines of eggs is a useful distraction from the fact that no one else is sitting at the table.
George's forced cheerfulness in the face of hard times mean that maintaining his egg ritual is all the more important after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. George comes from inherited wealth and has never had to deal with not having money, unlike the Sampsons, whose steel empire was built from the ground up fairly recently in history (it's for this particular reason that Walter finds George's egg display so distasteful). When George's own finances are hit by the impact of the stock market crash he is in a great deal of denial about losing everything he has, and so he insists on keeping up his ridiculous flexes of wealth until all of his money is gone. Unable to face the fact that he has nothing left, George finds a new distraction: going on a wild adventure in search of Sheldon's mysterious island.
The reasons behind George's love of eggs in Jupiter's Legacy aren't entirely tragic, though. George is also an inventor at heart, and created all sorts of ingenious pieces of technology while he was with the Union of Justice. The creation and testing of eggs boiled at many different temperatures and for different lengths of time is born out of a curious and scientific mind, and George would go on to use the same obsessive fixation on tiny details when piecing together his inventions. And besides, it's always good to have a bit of protein with breakfast.