Jason Voorhees

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> There's a legend around here. A killer buried, but not dead. A curse on Crystal Lake, a death curse. Jason Voorhees' curse. They say he died as a boy, but he keeps coming back. Few have seen him and lived. Some have even tried to stop him. No one can. People forget he's down there, waiting...
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> **Unknown Civilian.**

**Jason Voorhees**, also known as **The Crystal Lake Killer**, is a hockey-masked, immortal, zombified, undead serial killer. He is the son of Pamela and Elias Voorhees.

## Overview

Jason is extremely difficult to kill due to him being accidentally raised from the dead but is quite durable, even taking a machete to the head and surviving. He was born with physical defects. He goes around killing people with a machete, but also uses any other weapons or methods of killing that he can find. He (alongside Michael Myers) has one of the highest body counts in slasher history and is among the most famous in the spiritual world, in that he has gone the entire time rarely speaking.

## Appearance

Jason Voorhees is a large, muscular man recognized by wearing a hockey mask to cover his face, and the use of a machete as his weapon of choice. He is also notable for being a masterful and authoritative weapon provisionary, able to use seemingly anything around him to brutally kill his victims. Unlike his predecessor Michael Myers, he does seem to have soft spots around animals, children, or anyone not involved in his missions.

## Powers and Abilities

Even as a living human, Jason possessed uncanny resistance to harm and injury, managing to survive injuries that would be either kill or disable others, such as being stabbed in the shoulder with a machete, being hanged, and even receiving an axe to the head. Furthermore, Jason either cannot feel pain or has a high tolerance for it, showing little reaction to injuries such as having his hand split down the middle with his own machete. Even after being impaled through the eye with his own machete, he still showed some signs of life. After he is unintentionally resurrected by Tommy, Jason has become more powerful than ever before.

### Neutral Abilities

* **Super Durability**: Jason is extremely hard to kill, able to withstand injuries such as stab wounds, bullet wounds, fire (to an extent), etc.
* **Super Strength**: He also has super strength, as he can lift people up above the ground, crush their heads, or smash through walls--similar to Michael Myers.
* **Pain Suppression**: Jason is shown to resist physical pain, such as getting his hand cut, his leg stabbed or getting hit in the head with an axe.
* **Stealth Tactics**: Jason's killing style mostly relies on stealth to get to his victims without anyone realizing he's there; he was able to stalk and hunt down Sgt. Brodski's grunt team--again, similar to Michael Myers.
* **Machete Proficiency**: Jason's most signature weapon is his machete which he uses to stealth take downs, slice, stab and slashing methods.
* **Feral Mind**: By being consumed by rage over the death of his mother, Jason will kill anybody who enters Camp Crystal Lake excluding children and pregnant women.
* **Enhanced Tracking**: Jason can track people down at great distances whenever they're out on a ship, in a police station or a diner.
* **Enhanced Marksman**: Jason can throw objects at great distances, such as throwing a machete on fire through a cornfield.
* **Speed Swimming**: Despite the fact he couldn't swim when he was a kid, but when he was full grown, Jason was able to catch people quicker when they're on a boat in the lake at a distance.
* **Escape Intuition**: Jason can break through binds and fetters, and able to escape any captivity such as getting caught by the government.
* **Intelligence** - Despite being considered mentally disabled (possibly due to his hydrocephalic), Jason is shown to be reasonably intelligent, or at least high-functioning. He lays traps for his victims, can be seen restraining victims to avoid detection, and he carefully arranges the bodies of his victims, occasionally using them as blockades or projectiles. His sense of direction is quite advanced, as he is able to find his way back to Crystal Lake even from long distances, and he appears to know how to disable both electricity and phone lines. He can operate spear guns and gas-powered tools as well. Every one of his kills is unique, and he always finds creative ways to get to his victims as well. Clay says, "Where's my keys?" after searching for his motorcycle, indicating that Jason stole the motorcycle keys to stop him from escaping Camp Crystal Lake.

### Supernatural Powers

* **Healing factor** - As explained, Jason possesses a unique ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissue at an accelerated rate. As a result, he can sustain bullet and knife wounds and be unaffected. This ability allows him to recover from particularly fatal injuries, although his flesh has still notably decayed when his face is seen without his mask. He has been incapacitated by chaining him to the bottom of a lake or impaling him through the head, suggesting that there are limits to his regenerative ability, but this is of limited use.
* **Possession** - When he was blown apart, his spirit survived and was able to possess others in an attempt to regain his body.
* **Resurrection**: If he is defeated, he can be resurrected always, when he resurrected becomes more powerful.
* **Immortality** -- once again similar to Michael Myers
* **Enhanced Strength**: Upon being resurrected, Jason's strength has increased to the point he can rip a man's heart out with his bare hands, or knock a man's head of with a single punch.
* **Regenerative Durability**: Upon being resurrected, Jason can endure far more damage and heal from whatever injury he receives, such as getting impaled by his own machete and recovered from it.
* **Bullet Immunity**: Jason is completely immune to bullets, he was brought down by a shotgun but still kept getting up.
* **Pain Immunity**: In his undead state, Jason's pain receptors were disable to the point he's completely immune to physical pain.
* **Invulnerability**: In his undead state, Jason is completely immune to any physical damage he receives.
* **Supernatural Survivability**: Jason can survive any situation due to being resurrected, such as being set on fire, electrocution and getting blown up.
* **Hypnotizing Heart**: If he is blown to bits, his heart can hypnotize them into eating it.
* **Possession**: Upon eating the heart, the person will be possessed by his soul and still maintaining his abilities, he can only be reborn through another Voorhees, he can possess other people through oral contact leaving the former host to gruesomely melt away. He seems to lose this ability once he is killed by his niece, Jessica Kimble, when she stabbed him in the heart with a special dagger and he was dragged to Hell having his head blown off by Kay Em apparently killed him).
* **Parasite Physiology**: If the host he possesses is somehow killed, like severing the throat, Jason will take the appearance of parasite-like being and picks his next living target.
* **Teleportation**: It's unknown on how he got it, Jason seems to teleport to get to his victims, it was shown when a man was climbing up a ladder, but Jason was, instantly on the ladder, able to be thrown him off.
* **Oxygen Independence**: Because of being resurrect, Jason can survive without the need for oxygen. This power does have its limits, however, because Freddy Krueger was able to nearly drown him in the dream world.

## Quotes

> Mommy, don't let me drown! Mommy?
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> **Jason Voorhees as a child.**

## Trivia

* He was created by Victor Miller, Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham and Tom Savini.
	+ The name "Jason" was created by merging Miller's sons' names "Josh" and "Ian". While the surname "Voorhees", was made out of a high school girl that Miller knew, which had the last name Voorhees.
* Jason was originally gone to be named Josh but was changed to Jason because Josh sounded "too nice", Jason was named after a school bully that Victor Miller knew.
* Jason was directly inspired by legendary serial killer Michael Myers. The creators of the Friday the 13th franchise even outright admitted the concept of Friday the 13th was in fact inspired by Halloween due to its universal success which had come out a few years earlier. Most of Jason's characteristics and tropes were even copied from Michael, which often leads to fans comparing the two slashers due to their notable similarities. The main differences are that Jason is depicted as a more sympathetic character due to his tragic past and his earnest love for his mother being the primary motivation for his murderous activities, whereas Michael is a sadistic psychopath who kills for no reason other than his own enjoyment and was not negatively influenced to become what he is. Jason is also surprisingly somewhat more moralistic in his killings than Michael, since that he will not harm animals or young children (below the age of 14). Conversely, Michael has no problem in slaying children of any age and has been shown brutally killing and eating dogs.