Jason Carver

Jason Carver is a major antagonist in Netflix's Stranger Things franchise. 
 
He was a rich athlete dating the most popular girl in school but his perfect world began to unravel as a new evil threatened Hawkins. After his girlfriend Chrissy's death, he sought revenge on Eddie Munson and his Hellfire Club teammates, including Jason's former mentee, Lucas Sinclair.
 
He was Portrayed by Mason Dye, who also portrayed Garrett in Teen Wolf.
 
== Biography ==
== Personality ==
Jason is a prideful, preppy and popular teenager who has patriotism for his town and school. Unlike others abusers in the show (like be Billy Hargrove, Steve of Season 1, Troy and James and Angela) he doesn't bully people "inferior" to him and knows when to draw the line. He has never gone to the extreme of doing cruel things for the sake of it or for sadistic pleasure. While he disliked Eddie, Jason never actually bullied or harassed him, only responding when Eddie annoyed him in the first place. Jason genuinely cares about his teammates and about his girlfriend, Chrissy. He was also very kind to Lucas Sinclair, as he welcomed him to his team and cared for him during his hangover. Jason is also able to motivate his school with speeches, using the tragedies of Hawkins to incite people to play.
 
Although he considers himself a good person, Jason is not as good boyfriend for Chrissy as he thinks, as he cannot see that she's struggling with depression. He is unable to accept the fact, as he sees her as "perfect". As such, it is possible that their relationship was formed only because they are both popular young people.
 
After Chrissy's death, Jason is determined to avenge her, however, he slowly becomes blinded by anger and thinks that Eddie is responsible for her death due to incriminating evidence (that is to say, that he saw him running away from his house after allegedly "committing" the act). As his anger grows more and more, Jason stubbornly believes that Eddie is part of a satanic cult and doesn't accept any other answer. He is quite capable of threatening, hunting down, and assaulting the Party or anyone affiliated with Eddie. However, Jason's main motivation was to stop Hawkins from murderers 1986, with the thought that Eddie would kill again.
 
After seeing his best friend Patrick die, Jason is heartbroken, and he feels worse while carrying Patrick's corpse to a shore. Upon learning that Nancy and her brother, Mike, are associated with the party, Jason covertly threatens Nancy at gunpoint. When he sees what he believes is Max being possessed by a satanic cult, Jason tries to save her and kill Lucas, thinking he was hurting her. Even when Lucas tries to reason with him, Jason refuses to hear the truth, showing how far off the edge he is due to his mental pain and sleep deprivation. In the end, Jason dies thinking he was doing a heroic act when all he did was led to Max indirectly to her demise.
 
==Trivia==
 
* Jason is somewhat similar to Billy Hargrove, Max's stepbrother. 
** They like playing basketball and are popular teens. 
** They also have enmity with Lucas and are rivals to a major male character, with Jason with Eddie and Billy with Steve respectively. 
*** However, Caleb McLaughlin spoke out in Jason's defense, arguing that he was very nice to Lucas and never judged him because of his race, unlike Billy who was a racist. 
** He also said that Billy is ten times worse, and the hatred towards Jason was unnecessary in his opinion, since he was just a misunderstood character who was trying to do a genuine heroic act trying to avenge Chrissy's death.
* Mason Dye claims that if Eddie wasn’t around during Patrick's death, Jason would have believed his innocence. He also says Jason knew his theory wasn't technically rational but his mind was simply trying to make sense of the impossible scenario he saw.
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