Jason Voorhees

Jason Voorhees is the main antagonist in the *Friday the 13th* franchise and the secondary antagonist in the *Freddy v.s Jason film*. He has made appearances in numerous comics, novels, and video games. Jason is an abstruse, non-verbal, mentally ill, undead serial killer who will murder anyone who enters Crystal Lake out of vengeance for his mother, Pamela Voorhees.

## Background

Born on June 13, 1946, in the small town of Crystal Lake, New Jersey, to Pamela Voorhees and Elias Voorhees, Jason was born with facial deformities and mental disabilities. He was raised by Pamela, who isolated him and educated him in their home. In 1957, Pamela was hired as a cook for Camp Crystal Lake, a summer camp; and brought Jason along with her. Jason was taunted and bullied by the other kids at camp, and they eventually threw him into the lake, causing him to drown. None of the camp counselors noticed this misconduct as they were preoccupied with sexual intercourse. Shortly after Jason's "death," the camp was shut down but eventually reopened a year later. After the summer camp had reopened, Pamela proceeded to murder the two camp counselors who were supposed to look after Jason, blaming them for his death, causing the summer camp to close again. However, Pamela was not aware that Jason didn't die. By some means, Jason was able to make it out of the lake safely and aimlessly lived out in the woods, thinking that his mother had passed away. Many years later, the son of the Camp Crystal Lake founders made efforts to reopen the camp again. Pamela was infuriated by his actions and murdered him and all the employees except for one. Alice, the only surviving employee, decapitated Pamela with a machete. Jason had secretly witnessed his mother's death and went on a mission to avenge her by killing Alice. He accomplished his goal, and the beginning of his mass killing sprees would start sometime later in 1984. Jason would ultimately be killed the same year by Tommy Jarvis. In 1990, Tommy Jarvis set out to unearth and destroy Jason's body. However, things don't go as planned when a lightning bolt strikes a fence post impaled in Jason's torso, resurrecting him.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Enhanced Superhuman Physique:**
	+ **Superhuman strength:** In Part 2, Jason was shown to have some sort of enhanced strength capable of impaling victims with ease and was capable of breaking out a window with a single shot and his fist was barely formed and within Part III was capable of crushing someone's head while lifting them and later throwing said 100+ pound man through a window, and finally in Part IV he was able to twist a man's head around along with a hacksaw, crushing a teenager's skull against a wall, being able to break through a window and throw girl out of said window with ease, and was able to smash through a door completely demolishing it. Thus making it his default strength, for when he was alive as he was rarely overpowered by normal individuals.
	+ **Superhuman speed:**
	+ **Superhuman durability:**
	+ **Pain Resistance:** Jason as a human still has a human personality and he has felt pain the same as humans but had shown an exceptional amount of tolerance for it as shown in *Part III* and *Part IV* he still shows human reactions when being stabbed and slashed by Chris and Tommy. Jason withstood fatal injuries that would kill or cripple a normal person under normal circumstances such as being hanged, an axe to the head, a machete through the shoulder, and being impaled through the head. As an undead, Jason no longer responds to pain and can generally function in situations where pain would disable a normal person. However, in *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday*, Jason can be heard groaning in pain while being shot at by the FBI.
	+ **Stealth (Stalk/Super Speed):** Jason can seemingly appear near his victims through means of walking; he can easily slip in and out of areas undetected. This is best seen in *Part VIII* when Jason kills Charles. He can swim at incredible speeds, completely unrestricted by water resistance. He can make himself go unnoticed in his surroundings, allowing him to freely act without being noticed, essentially allowing himself to slip into the shadows to go unnoticed and reappear behind his victims for a quick and easy elimination.
* **Revenant Zombie Physiology:** After being resurrected from a lightning bolt strike caused by Tommy Jarvis stabbing his corpse with a metal rod, Jason was accidentally brought back to life as an Undead but unlike the usual Zombies, Jason doesn't want to eat human flesh like usual zombies but instead Jason Voorhees has kept his human personality and kept his former memories intact meaning now he is just a Zombie with intelligence.
	+ **Supernatural Strength:** After becoming a revenant zombie, Jason's superhuman physical strength has become titanic, and immediately demonstrated his newfound power by punching right through Tommy's friend's body and gouging his heart out with a single punch. Jason is capable of sending his victims flying through the air. His feats of strength include going through concrete, decapitating someone with a single punch, freeing himself when he was pinned by a fallen tree and can break humans in half as well as rip limbs from their bodies just small portion of his new zombie strength, as he tossed a man with a single thrust and ripped his arm off in the process and then proceeded to decapitate three people with a single machete slash, smashed a girls head against a metal wall protruding her facial expression through it, and is able to twist a girls head off without any effort, and is able to break Officer Mike Garris in half by bending him backwards.
	+ **Immortality:** After becoming a revenant zombie in Part VI (Part 6), Jason has become functionally immortal, which means he does not age and physical injuries or illness that would have killed a normal human would eventually heal and won't truly affect him.
		- **Regeneration:** Jason after becoming a Revenant Zombie now possesses a unique ability to regenerate any lost and damaged tissue at an accelerated rate. As a result, he can sustain bullet and knife wounds and be essentially unaffected by them. This ability allows him to recover from any fatal injuries that are physically caused to him. So in the logical sense, he can only be incapacitated by being chained to the bottom of Crystal Lake but even still he will be almost and always be restored to "perfect" health, his constantly changing state of deformity can be attributed to his constant regeneration. This regeneration, however, is not perfect, as Jason still possesses an undead, desiccated appearance of exposed bones and deteriorating tissue. Technically being undead, his body is not affected by existing detrimental contaminants. He has complete immunity to all kinds of poison, virus, disease, bacteria, etc. (However, it's not fully known how he can still be sedated as proven when Freddy had possessed Freeburg was able to render him unconscious with two syringes, and at some point, in the future, Jason was kept imprisoned via a combination of chained restraints and some unknown sedative substance administered to him by an I.V.)
	+ **Resurrection:** When Jason is "defeated" as shown at the end of Part 6 he is kept in a hibernating state and only outside forces such as the supernatural or human forces such as Tina Shepard telepathically and accidentally reviving him from his watery prison and Freddy Krueger who resurrected Jason due to the fact Jason doesn't decay like the regular dead and was capable of returning Jason when entering his dream.
	+ **Supernatural Durability:** As an undead Jason now has beyond superhuman durability able to endure and tank virtually anything thrown at him from taking revolver shots and even surviving a motorboat propellor to the face.
* **¨Teleportation¨:** Jason seemingly possessed this ability in Friday the 13th Part VIII, but it hasn't been confirmed if he did.
* **Weapons Proficiency:** Jason can use anything at his disposal as a weapon, he can create improvised weapons and instantly use them effectively
* **Hunting Skills/Tracker:** Jason can track down, trap, and pursue a person/group relentlessly for miles, He can adapt to his surroundings instantly, and will not stop until his target(s) are dead as seen in Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Lives, and Friday the 13th Part 2.
* **Intimidation/Overwhelming:** Due to his overwhelming presence for those who enter his territory, the constant stories of his death/his killing sprees, and constant times when victims thought he was dead just for him to instantly recover; Jason can induce fear into anyone even with his name and causing many to try to flee when he appears. Some are even unlucky enough to accidentally remove his mask, revealing the decaying/deformed face of Jason, scaring them even more. His Intimidation can cause his victims to become desperate in their attempts to escape/defeat him, make mistakes for him to take advantage of, and even cause them to be clumsy when scared.
* **Intelligence:** Jason is shown to be extremely intelligent and high-functioning while possessing some tactical sense and strategic planning despite his hydrocephalic deformities. He lays traps for his victims as seen in *Part 2*, 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 perfect, as he is always able to go wherever he wants to go, usually back to Crystal Lake even from long distances. He can escape all manner of bonds. Every one of his kills is unique, and he always finds creative ways to get to his victims as well. Beyond this, though, his intellectual capabilities are unclear and not clarified for the duration of the series, only being shown in his tactical malice towards camp counselors and his never ending objective to kill anyone that wanders into the territory of Camp Crystal Lake.

## Equipment

* **Hockey Mask:** THE thing that makes Jason the recognizable horror icon he is. While he originally donned a potato sack in Part 2, he got his trademark mask from one of his victims in Part III, though he’d get many a replacement hockey mask throughout the series, usually because of the previous one sustaining too much damage. And yet, despite the damage it takes, it usually has that iconic axe mark in it. Like all hockey masks, it protects Jason’s face from serious harm (no seriously, Kane Hodder has gone on record saying that the mask may have saved his life during a stunt).
* **Machete:** A large, heavy knife, his signature weapon. Jason uses his machete whenever possible.
* **Dual Machete:**
* **Kitchen Knife:** Aside from his signature machete, a weapon that Jason frequently uses throughout the Friday the 13th franchise is a knife. Jason uses the knife to either stab his victims or slit their throats.
* **Wood Axe:** Before the machete, there was the axe, Jason's second-most-used weapon in the series which can break through a door and stab the person behind it, Jack Torrance style. He’s also used a double-sided axe in a few movies. If a victim runs away, Jason can simply throw the axe at them with perfect accuracy.
* **Pickaxe:** Another weapon Jason keeps at Camp Crystal Lake is a pickaxe, a tool normally used for prying. The pointed end of the pickaxe is used for breaking and prying while the flat blade is for hoeing, skimming, and chopping. Perfect for killing horny teenagers.
* **Pole:** During his fight with the government soldiers, Jason grabbed a noose pole and smashed it against a soldier’s head. Part of the pole broke, turning it into a makeshift spear. Dr. Wimmer tried to flee the scene, but Jason threw the broken pole and successfully killed Wimmer via impalement.
* **Spear Gun:** The spear gun is another murder weapon Jason frequently uses in his franchise, most notably in Part III, The Final Chapter, and Jason Takes Manhattan. It’s a firearm that shoots a spear or harpoon at victims a good 10 to 26 feet away. Jason also uses the spear gun as a stabbing weapon to sadistically torment his victims.
* **Bow and Arrow:** What’s a camp killer without using a bow and arrow? Though unlike a normal camper, Jason is very skilled with it, as he’s able to hit people miles away on a speeding boat.
* **Pitchfork:** Another weapon Jason has at his disposal is a pitchfork, a tool used against his victims in Part II, Part III, and The Final Chapter. To kill his victims, Jason drives the pitchfork through their mouths from behind or into their stomach to lift them up. The pitchfork is even strong enough to burst through a wooden door.
* **Weed Whacker:** The only motorized tool that Jason has used in any Friday film. He used it in The New Blood to end the life of final girl/telekinetic teenager Tina’s corrupt doctor Christopher Crews by disemboweling him (though most of the onscreen carnage was cut thanks to the MPAA).
* **Helicopter Blade:**
* **Hellbaby:**

## Alternate Forms

### Über Jason/Jason X

Über Jason, or Jason X, is the upgraded, more powerful, futuristic version of Jason Voorhees. After being destroyed by an android, his body was rebuilt by futuristic nanomachines. This alternative form of Jason is ruthless and will slaughter anything that crosses its path. All of his previous abilities are enhanced to a greater degree.

* **Nigh-Invulnerability:** Due to the nano ants fully resurrecting and upgrading Jason into an unknown metal substance around a majority of his body he is now completely immune to bullets and other such things as the only thing capable of damaging this new body was when Sgt. Broski had intercepted Jason in space, sending both of them through earth II's atmosphere and back into reentry leaving only Jason's mask behind but Jason might have survived.
	+ **Ultimate Regeneration:** Nanomachines can rebuild him atom by atom.
* **Incomprehensible Strength:** Already possessing both Superhuman and Supernatural Strength this new form dubbed as Über Jason has dramatically increased his newfound abilities capable of punching down a steel beam door which was bolted and sealed with a single punch displaying his new monstrous strength.
* **Vacuum Space Survivability:** Due to Nanotechnology upgrades Über Jason's Mask gives him the capability to survive in the vacuum of space without having any known side-effects.
	+ **Radiation Resistance:** Resistant to radiation manipulation.
	+ **Vacuum Adaptation:** Über Jason survived and adapted to the vacuum of space.
* **Supernatural Senses:** He can see in any environment, hear the blood pumping in veins, and detect living organisms.
* **Absorption Replication:** Can be enhanced via absorbing projectiles, energy, and biological matter.
* **Possession:** His nanomachines can convert corpses into Über Jason clones. Also, His nanomachines can use direct injections to transform humans into Über Jason clones.
* **Intangibility:** Can phase through solid objects at will.
* **Adaptive Regeneration/Resurrection:** His body and nanomachines adapt on a sub-cellular level, gradually becoming resistant to whatever had previously been able to affect him. This makes it near impossible to harm him twice with the same thing. Each time he is wounded, his durability is enhanced.
* **Electricity Attacks:** Can unleash lightning bolts if his nanomachines are adequately charged.
* **Information Analysis:** Über Jason can be guided by nanomachines, who can show him how to operate various devices. The nanomachines can not only comprehend Über Jason's desires, but they can also make him aware of things.
* **Upgraded Physiology:** Über Jason has a wide variety of enhancements.
* **Resurrective Rebirth:** Jason Voorhees was reborn as Über Jason after being exposed to regenerative nanotechnology.
* **Hacking Mastery:**
* **Ice Manipulation:**
* **No Heat Signature:**

## Feats

### Strength

* Casually breaks open doors.
* While human, can completely shatter through wooden doors
* Effortlessly tosses around hay bales weighing hundreds of pounds.
* Throws a dead body through a window.
* Crushes a man's skull and causes his eyeball to pop out.
* Threw a metal rod hard enough to impale someone
* Impales a man with a spear gun and lifts him up with it.
* Lifts a woman off the ground and brutally stabs her.
* Smashes through a window, grabs, and throws a person out of the window onto a car.
* Slices a man's neck with a hack saw and twists the man's head 180 degrees around.
* Lifts and flips a car over.
* Lifts a massive scorching boiler weighing over ten tons off of himself.
* Takes down a helicopter and obliterates the pilot with a playground ride.
* Ripped someone in half with his bare hands
* Folded Michael Garris in half
* Folds a man and a bed in half.
* Throws a person hundreds of feet away with a spear.
* Effortlessly throws Freddy Krueger.
* Pierces a man's eyes and rips the man's head off his body.
* He twists a man's neck 180 degrees without effort.
* Throws a man away and accidentally rips off the man's arm.
* Lifts and strikes a person inside of a sleeping bag into a tree.
* Stabs a woman into a tree.
* Cut through a tree
* Bisects a person with his machete. 2.
* Pressed a head through metal
* Punched a man’s head through his body
* Sent a woman flying at incredible speeds with a single machete swipe.
* Decapitates a man using a clipboard.
* Decapitated three people at once
* Lifts a shopping cart and uses it as a weapon.
* Deeply cuts into a jock's shoulder and backhands Maggie.
* Kills a group of ravers while on fire.
* Punches, dents, and breaks down a 120 lb reinforced steel door.
* Punches a boxer's head off in one hit.
* Knocks down a metal security door with one punch.
* Punched through a steel door.
* Smashed through a wooden wall.
* Sends Freddy flying with a punch.
* Sends a woman flying with a backhand.
* Lifts a man with one hand in a possessed body.
* Jumped through a window that was "unbreakable" and soundproof.
* Uprooted a large tree and threw it far away, killing two people.
* Cut two people and a tree in half all at once
* Ripped a woman in half and crushed a man’s skull with his bare hands
* Broke down huge blast doors with enough force that people felt the impact.
* Broke Creighton Duke’s back with a bear hug
* Punched an advanced android's head off.
* Punches and rips through metal.
* Punched through Allen Hawes’ body
* Smashed Adrienne’s frozen face on a countertop so hard that it shattered
* Smashed the front end of Ash Williams’ car
* Shown to be consistently stronger than Ash Williams physically
* Stabbed Freddy Krueger with his hand, ripped Freddy’s arm off, and later impaled Freddy with his own severed arm
* Defeated Jason X ll, who is superior to Über Jason, who can:
	+ Shake an entire space station
	+ Throw trees like javelins (16.78 - 50.368 megajoules)
	+ Shatter steel walls (449 megajoules)

### Speed

* Dodges a machete swing and quickly knocks a man out.
* Dodged knife swings
* Blocks a machete swing.
* Moves faster than eyesight/teleports. 2.
* Blitzes special forces underwater.
* Jumps up to the first floor from the basement.
* Quickly kills two mercenaries.
* Killed hunters before they could react
* Outruns a helicopter shooting at him.
* Swam 41 to 110 miles to New York City within 12-24 hours.
* Swiftly killed a squad of soldiers.
* Vanishes from the view of Space Marines.
* Dodged a speeding van despite having a hurt leg
* Utterly destroyed a man's head in a nanosecond.
* Stabbed a person over fifty times at flash-lightning speed.
* Scales to Jason X ll who is superior to Über Jason, who could blitz soldiers (60.96 m/s)

### Durability

* Takes a shovel to the head and is hanged.
* Survives having a TV smashed into his head and electrocution.
* Survived being attacked in Freddy's dream world.
* Survived an FBI task force shooting him with various firearms (pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, and an LMG).
* Healing factor.
* Survived a massive explosion and was sent flying.
* Survives a house explosion.
* Survives a car explosion.
* Submerged in toxic waste.
* Yanked taser rockets off his body.
* Survived a fall off a mountain.
* Tanked 40+ hits from an experienced boxer.
* Unaffected by fire.
* Hit by a police car.
* Takes a stab to the heart.
* Invulnerable to pepper spray.
* Survives being run over in a possessed body.
* Survived every execution method by the US government.
* Shot at point-blank range with a shotgun, then several times with SMGs.
* Shot multiple times with a futuristic rifle.
* Punches capable of liquifying organs did not affect him.
* Unaffected by a massive point-blank space station explosion.
* Bulletproof and fireproof in his Über Jason form.
* Unharmed by a massive burst of electricity.
* Tanked an explosion powerful enough to trigger an earthquake a mile away, breach a planet's atmosphere, and cause a storm.
* Survived atmospheric reentry and was slammed into the ground, creating a large crater.
* Withstands thirty pulsar blasts.
* Withstands dozens of laser shots capable of vaporizing metal and burning humans.
* Survives a chainsaw attack.
* Survived a black hole/wormhole (This also counts as a strength feat).
* Walks off bullets with no issue, from pistols to boomsticks
* Survived a house exploding on him, none the worse for wear (0.534 tons of TNT)
* Tanked beatings from Freddy Krueger
* Survived gas chambers and lethal injections
* Survived a ten tonne boiler being dropped on top of him (10.91 megajoules)
* Ignored his machete be cleaved into his chest
* Survived an RV crash
* Scales to Jason X ll who is superior to Über Jason, who:
	+ Crash landed on Earth with enough impact to create a crater (36.4 - 91 megajoules)
	+ Survived this point-blank explosion (283.474 megajoules)
	+ Survived a nuke at point blank range (at least 24.457 tons of TNT, at most 43 megatons of TNT)

* Was given numerous death penalty punishments & still lived
* Survived being burnt, dipped in nuclear waste, cremation, & liquid nitrogen
* Survived a working speedboat motor tear his throat and break his neck.

### Skill

* Uses his mother's decapitated head as a distraction to kill Alice.
* Disables a house's phone line.
* Shoots a spear perfectly into a woman's eye.
* Built a shack in the woods.
* Stealthily kills a man.
* Obliterated mercenaries, special forces, and officers.
* Accurately threw his machete into a man's back from dozens of feet away.
* Disarms a person armed with an axe.
* Throws a dart into an officer's head.
* Skilled in archery.
* Capable of killing people with a firearm.
* Notices a trap after having his intelligence boosted.
* Breaks free from chains, distracts guards by placing a man in his former position, and then sneak attacks one of them.
* Impersonated a soldier.
* Capable of detecting every living organism on a spaceship.
* Kills a space marine with no one noticing.
* Über Jason can see in any environment.
* Notices a hologram.
* Jason's sensing capacity has been improved by nano-ants.
* His nano-ants can absorb incoming ballistic, incendiary, radiation, and other energy sources, which make him more powerful.
* Defeated Satan.
* Led a Deadite army to Washington D.C.
* Fought Ash Williams.
* Fought Freddy Krueger
* Escaped from hell.
* Beat the force of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis.
* Survived drowning
* Took control of Crystal Lake as his main territory
* Killed Freddy Kruger with some outside help
* Fought Tommy Jarvis, Tina Shepard, Über Jason, and Leatherface
* Woke up after a century of cryostasis and immediately began killing again
* A clone of Zombie!Jason fought his future counterpart, Über Jason, although ultimately lost
* Crossed into the realm of Mortal Kombat and fought Liu Kang
* Total confirmed body count: 720 (according to the Friday Wiki, give or take)
* Tried to kill Satan
* Escaped Hell by force

## Weaknesses

* **Aquaphobia:** Jason sometimes suffers from an abnormal fear of water (*Freddy v.s Jason*)
* **Manipulation:** He can be manipulated by those who imitate his mother.

## Fun Facts

* Kane Hodder has played the role of Jason Voorhees more than any other actor.
* He was initially going to be named Josh.
* He has killed at least 20,000 people (including people on board the Solaris).
* He killed 207 dogs, 17 cats, 4713 angelfish, guppies, neons, and mollies, 3 gerbils, 14 rats, a pony, and a Komodo dragon via a space station explosion.
* Ken Kirzinger, the tallest actor to play Jason Voorhees, wore three-inch lifts in Freddy v.s Jason, making him 6'8".
* He acquired his iconic hockey mask in *Friday the 13th, Part III*.
* Kane Hodder's favorite Jason kill was the sleeping bag kill in *Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood*.
* Jason only spoke in *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday.* While in a body he possessed, he says, “Freeze! Get the hell away from her, Ed!”
* He fought Leatherface in a comic book before fighting Freddy Krueger.
* There are twelve total *Friday the 13th* movies.
* Defeated and took the Devil's pitchfork (*Friday the 13th: The Game*.)
* *Freddy v.s Jason* is the highest-grossing film in each series, grossing over $116 million worldwide.