Jason Voorhes

Murder anybody who sets foot into Camp Crystal Lake or gets in his way (mostly succeeded).
Kill Tommy Jarvis (failed).
Kill Freddy Kruger (succeeded).
Do everything that he believes his mother wants (failed).

### Type of Villain

Undead Serial Killer

Jason Voorhes is the main antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise and the titular secondary antagonist of the crossover film

He is a deformed, monstrous serial killer who is known for wearing a hockey mask to cover his deformities and intimidate his enemies and murdering those who dare to step foot in his hunting grounds, Camp Crystal Lake out of vengeance for his mother Pamela whom he witnessed being decapitated.

When he was a human, Jason was exceptionally durable and difficult to kill, along with being very strong, but he could still feel pain and eventually was brought down by Tommy Jarvis, who continuously hacked away at him with his own machete. However, this would not be the end, for years later, he'd be brought back from the dead via a lightning strike by complete accident by Jarvis as an undead revenant which granted him supernatural abilities. Jason is also notable for using a machete as his preferred weapon with a close second being an axe, but he also has been known to use just whatever item he finds lying around and even his bare hands.

## Portrayals

* He was portrayed by Template:W as a child in *Friday the 13th*.
* He was portrayed by the late Template:W (masked) and Warrington Gillette (unmasked) in *Part II*.
* He was portrayed by the late Template:W in *Part III*.
* He was portrayed by the late Template:W in *The Final Chapter*.
* He was portrayed by Template:W in *A New Beginning* (in dream and illusion sequences only).
* He was portrayed by Template:W in *Jason Lives*.
	+ Stunt coordinator Dan Bradley was originally hired to play Jason before being replaced by C.J. Graham. Despite this, the paintball scene remains intact, which Bradley filmed before being let go.
* He was portrayed by Template:W - who also portrayed Leatherface in *Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III* - in *The New Blood*, *Jason takes Manhattan*, *Jason Goes to Hell*, *Jason X* and the Game.
* He was portrayed by Template:W in *Freddy vs. Jason,* who also did some of Kane Hodder's stunts in *Jason Takes Manhattan*, and has also portrayed Pa in *Wrong Turn 2: Dead End* and Rusty Nail in *Joy Ride 3*.

## Personality

Jason is an enigmatic and foreboding figure, seldom exhibiting any human characteristics outside of a burning desire to hunt and anger at those who invade his land. Jason is also utterly relentless with his prey, pursuing his desired quarry without ever backing down, not even allowing grievous bodily harm inflicted upon him to hinder his determination. Despite his crude and simple nature, he does experience intense emotions, though his behavior is more akin to a feral-minded beast defending its territory than a cognitive vengeful human, as most of his victims are those who show up without him approving. Even if Crystal Lake were to change its name, he would stick to the stretch of land, and murder any trespassers without so much as a pang of remorse, as his delusions believe his mother would want. While Jason is mentally ill, his mindset is completely unlike that of anyone else, and the only remotely human aspect of this unhinged man is his obsessive attachment to his mother. Jason blindly complies with her, as she was the only person to show any kindness towards him as a child. He frequently hallucinates that his mother is there with him, guiding him and etching him towards murder. Therefore, those who understand this can use his love against him, such as Sally in the second film.
He is not exactly the sharpest machete in the cabin, either, as he is easily manipulated by those who imitate his mother and (depending on the movie) he may suffer from irrational aquaphobia. He is also rather child-like. These weaknesses in particular were exploited by Freddy Krueger who used him to commit another killing spree, so people would start fearing him again. Although he is lacking in a dazzling imagination, high level of ingenuity, and can be rather narrow-minded and dull, Jason is certainly no slouch, as he exhibits quick wits and resourcefulness when hunting his prey or fighting. His brand of intelligence is less a smart human plotting and scheming and more a very bright animal who can act unpredictably and catch its prey off guard. Despite his lack of normal thought-processes, he does exhibit excellent stealth and cunning, as well as being a skilled master archer. Despite his practical knowledge, Jason can be slow at times, oblivious to the obvious, and failed to grasp the fact that he is himself immortal, believing that he can drown, and fearing water despite the fact that he is undead, this is clearly due to his deep-seeded trauma of his childhood. This is shown when Freddy easily tricks him into thinking he was drowning in the real world.

Freddy's façade as his mother also fooled him. Interestingly, Jason despises seeing teenagers drinking, taking drugs, and he is especially disgusted by sex, presumably this is also due to his trauma as these are the reasons that led to his supposed drowning as a child. However, due to the fact that he does not even try to socialize, he may simply be misanthropic and reclusive, having no desire to assimilate himself into society. This mindset has undoubtedly spawned from all of the abuse that he dealt with as a child. It also indicates that Jason might also murder people because he can't relate to them despite his naïve nature and that some of his victims remind him of those who abused him in the past.

Despite his murderous rage towards people, Jason does not appear to wish to harm any young children. In *Jason Lives,* Jason actively avoids the young children who are camping at the lake and only goes after the older counsellors and any other adults in the vicinity. When Jason found a cabin full of young children, he ignored the children and instead began chasing after the adult counsellors instead. Kane Hodder revealed that Jason also will not intentionally harm animals either. It is presumed that he prefers to murder people who intruded on Crystal Lake, as in *Jason Takes Manhattan*, Jason openly walks past several people in New York City, ignoring all of them and only chasing after those who previously intruded on Crystal Lake; even simply scaring a group of punks off who confronted him by showing them his deformed face rather than outright killing them. While he did kill some people in New York City, he only did so because they got in his way and physically impeded his task of stalking and killing those who intruded on Crystal Lake.

## Character Description

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 murder his victims. Unlike his predecessor Michael Myers he does seem to have soft spots around animals, children, or anyone not involved in his missions, although he will murder the lattermost if they get in his way. Not counting flashback scenes, he never speaks; the closest he ever comes to this is during *Jason Goes to Hell* after his spirit possesses Officer Randy Parker and says "*Freeze! Get the hell away from her, Ed!*" after Sheriff Landis grabs Jessica Kimble who believed she was the one possessed.

In each film where he appears in, his actual face differs, whether past or present:

* Jason has appeared multiple times as a child, starting in the original film, though none of the appearances since were ever consistent.
	+ In the Template:W, portrayed by Ari Lehman, Jason appears briefly at the end. His deformities are primarily a large, bald, oblong cranium, with asymmetric eyes, and an oblong mouth which caused a severe overbite.
	+ In the 8th film, played by Timothy Mirkovich, Jason's child form appears repeatedly in hallucinations; however, the design of his child-self is inconsistent, most likely due to them being hallucinations from someone who had never seen him. He is first seen as a normal child with full hair and no deformities. He is then shown with his shifted eye on the left side instead of the right. Lastly, he appears at the end to resemble somewhat of the original design, minus the deformed eye placement.
	+ In Freddy vs. Jason, the design of Jason as a child takes on a less extreme version of the original film's deformities.
* In the Template:W, Jason's deformities remain somewhat consistent with the original portrayal by Ari Lehman. This time, his upper jaw is straighter, but tilted upwards and filled with rotting, yellow teeth. He has a mass of red, messy hair on top of his head, as well as scattered mass of terminal hair on his chin, neck, and cheeks. A rectangular bulge of bone is seen on his forehead that skews his eye slightly, one of the only deformities that stays consistent throughout all of the films. He is shown wearing a sack over his head with a single eye hole, wrapped with rope around his neck to keep it in place. While clearly insane, his physical strength and toughness in this movie are still well within the limits of a mortal human. While he is capable of running in a few scenes, he prefers to keep at a slow, plodding pace while pursuing victims.
* In the Template:W, his design resembles more of the original design than his appearance in *Part 2*. Despite taking place a day after the events of the previous installment, his head, for unexplained reasons is now completely bald and bulbous like the original design, with visible forehead deformities, and his right ear warped. The deformed eye is now shifted more below and is also shown with a slight cleft lip with deformed gums. This marks the debut of Jason wearing the hockey mask, which has one red chevron above the eyebrows, and two pointing upwards on the cheeks. The mask gradually becomes worn and scratched, and receives an axe cut to his head that would remain on the character and his mask in subsequent sequels. This is also the first movie where Jason truly seems more like an inhuman monster, his muscular frame appears twice the size as it was previously, albeit, most likely due to the change in actor, and is able to withstand wounds that would clearly kill a normal human.
* In the Template:W, Jason's design is much more faithful to his appearance in the first film. His skin appears to be slightly pale from the forehead wound, with his left cheek becoming wrinkled and seared. The mouth is now broken outward, with his teeth jutting out and overlapping. His shifted eye, crooked like the original, also becomes bloodshot. In the end, his left, normal eye is destroyed by Tommy when he slams a machete into the side of his head, and would be absent from future sequels until *Jason X*. While his mask remains the same as before, it is much more worn and damaged, with the bloody axe cut on the top left. The forehead chevron is partially worn off, while the lower chevrons would completely wear off by the climax. Physically, he is much like the previous film, but now seems nearly immortal, his first action being to come back to life while still in the morgue.
* In the Template:W, he is only seen as a hallucination to Tommy Jarvis, as well as appearing an earlier nightmare sequence. His face is also never seen, the skin is dark and decomposed, with worms initially crawling through the eyes of his mask. Two variants of the mask appear, with the first mask being rounder and with the top chevron no longer partially worn off. The other variant appears at the end, resembling the mask from the previous film, but instead the blood from the axe wound drips down almost completely. The "Jason' in this film is not the real Jason Voorhees, but an impostor, who seems more-or-less human. Notably, this version seems unable to run at all, never moving above a plodding walk.
* In the Template:W, his skin is pitch black and heavily decomposed, covered in holes and tight wrinkles. Having been brought back to life by lightning after a botched attempt to destroy his body, there is no longer any question that Jason is now an unkillable abomination and no longer human. This begins the appearance of Jason lacking the shifted eye, which is replaced with a normal, functioning eye, as the left eye remains rotten and completely destroyed from his death by Tommy Jarvis. In addition to his jaw and teeth being straighter, the skin on his mouth and left eyebrow has rotten off to expose the bone, his axe cut, and his teeth. After taking his mask from Tommy Jarvis, it resembles the same from the previous film, but with the axe cut no longer bloody, and his top chevron slightly wearing off by the end.
* In the 7th film, Jason has reached a middle ground between decomposed and regeneration. His head has torn skin and pus-filled wounds all over it. His right eye is once again shifted, but to a less severe degree, in order to allow Kane Hodder to properly see through the makeup. The nose portion of his skull has a rather odd, doubled-over deformity on it. His mouth has far less teeth in it and his cheek has ripped open, allowing his incisors to be visible even when Jason's mask is on. On the subject of the mask, it is supposedly the same one from the previous film and has suffered severe water erosion. It also retains the chevron on the forehead as well as the axe wound. Additionally, it now has a large chunk of the left cheek missing from the motorboat attack of the previous film, helping to show off Jason's exposed mouth although in Part VI, the damage was on the opposite cheek, the straps were brown leather and sat higher whereas here they're black leather and sat lower and the mask is overall much smaller. The mask is broken in half in this film.
* In the Template:W, Jason's body seems to have reached a stable point. His wounds no longer appear infected and, despite him still being undead and having sickly grey skin, he seems to have healed a fair bit since Part VII, the axe wound on his head having formed a scar. His left eye seems to have tried to regenerate to a degree, with his eye socket being healed and a blob of pus oozing out of it. His jaw is similarly opened like in the seventh film, but they've stabilized somewhat. His teeth are gone, sans a few, and his nose bones lack the doubled effect from the last movie. He gets a new mask in this film, with a sleeker chevron on the forehead, and for the first time since the fourth film, new chevrons on the cheeks. The mask has the axe wound, and, uniquely, has the eye holes blacked out so Jason's eyes could not be seen, likely to cover up Kane Hodder's eyes better, as the prosthetics were much harder to see through than before.
* In the Template:W, Jason's normal appearance has his mask fused to his face, thus Jason is never seen unmasked in the film; thus, multiple variations on the idea had surfaced with the most prominent and accepted version being the variant featured in *Friday the 13th: The Game* with the other two more well-known variants being prop heads. The mask appears to be burnt to a degree with the axe wound, and the wear from Part VII on the left cheek, as well as missing the two cheek chevrons. Two variants of said mask exist, one that is mostly intact and another version with the right eye hole broken out through the side of the mask.
* In the Template:W, Jason's mask is no longer fused to his face, although his face seems to have suffered severe rot and blistering, likely from the toxic waste that surrounded him in the finale of Part VIII. The mask itself is smaller, darker, dirtier and more angular than the previous versions, appearing much colder and more unnerving. Additionally, Über Jason has a refined, metallic mask with metal straps fusing it to his head. He also is covered from head to toe in metallic parts. He also has both of his eyes back in this film.
* In *Template:W*, his head resembles his kid form in that film, with an enlarged cranium. His skin is also rotted to a coal-black color and has small growing hairs on the back of his head. Although he is never seen unmasked in the film, there are behind-the-scenes photos on the internet showcasing the whole design.

## Powers and Abilities

### Natural Abilities

* **Master Hand to Hand Combatant**: Jason Is an incredibly formidable and fierce opponent as he uses his greater strength and durability to his advantage in fights as shown when he punched a young man's head off with a single punch.
* **Superhuman Durability**: Jason is extremely hard to kill, able to withstand injuries such as stab wounds, bullet wounds, fire (to an extent), and almost anything else including weapons used by other supernatural killers such as Freddy Krueger's claw.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Jason also has super strength, as he can lift people up above the ground, crush their heads, or smash through walls — similar to Michael Myers.
* **Limited Regeneration**: Jason has survived various injuries that would disable normal people and continue his killing sprees with full activity. Though decapitation and big explosions can kill him, similar to Michael Myers. Although, it seems that nothing can truly kill Jason forever thanks to his regenerative properties and resurrection.
* **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 that he is there. Most notably shown when he can kill many people in one house without anyone hearing him, while planting dead bodies everywhere without making a sound.
* **Weapons Proficiency**: Although Jason's most signature and iconic weapon's shown to be his machete; with which he uses to perform stealth take downs, slice, stab and slashing methods (sometimes even decapitation), as stated above he's known to use just about anything he can get his hands on (a large, razor sharp surgical machete-like blade temporarily replaced his signature machete in the tenth film), providing for some very creative kills.
* **Feral Mind**: By being consumed by rage over the death of his mother, Jason will kill anybody who enters Camp Crystal Lake, resulting in the area being considered cursed by locals due to his frequent murders.
* **Superhuman Tracking**: Jason can track people down at great distances whenever they are out on a ship, in a police station or a diner.
* **Superhuman Accuracy**: Jason can throw objects at great distances, such as throwing a machete on fire through a cornfield.
* **Speed Swimming**: Despite the fact, Jason could not 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**: While being mentally disabled, Jason seems to have overcome his mental handicaps. He avoided detection for nearly 30 years and built a shack all by himself, this actually points out that he is quite intelligent.
* **Soft Spots**: Jason seems to show his soft spots around children, babies and around people who have not entered Crystal Lake. This is mostly noticeable in the sixth film, where Jason would not go after the children camping at Crystal Lake and was only interested in the older counsellors. In the eighth movie, Jason openly ignored New Yorkers and only killed those who impeded his task of stalking those who intruded Crystal Lake. It is also revealed that Jason will not harm animals.
* **Resourcefulness**: Jason is known for killing people in many different ways such as using a kazoo to impale someone in the eye; or drowning someone in a barrel of toxic waste, and even smashing someone against a tree while they are in their sleeping bag, once more as previously stated.