Jason Voorhees

**Jason Voorhees** is a serial killer and the main antagonist of the *Friday the 13th* franchise. Although he famously wasn't the villain in the first film, he would inherit the role in its sequel, *Friday the 13th Part II* as well as its subsequent installments, including the reboot with the only exception being *Friday the 13th: A New Beginning*, where he is the secondary antagonist.

He is a deformed murderer who is known for wearing a hockey mask to cover his deformities and killing those who dare to step foot in 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, 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 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.

## History

### Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees is an indirect antagonist in this film and is only present through flashbacks. When the protagonist Alice met his mother Pamela, she recounted how she and her husband had Jason born as a hydrocephalic, making him physically deformed. Because of this, his mother never took him to school, and was extremely overprotective of him.

Pamela later took a job as a cook at Camp Crystal Lake, where the other campers would frequently bully Jason because of his deformity. Jason drowned when his bullies pushed him into Crystal Lake. The bullies ran off after realizing their actions.

The camp counselors were unaware of what was happening, as they were busy partying elsewhere at the time. Pamela proceeded to kill many of the camp counselors and campers in later years for vengeance over Jason's drowning. As soon as she finishes recounting his story, Pamela directs her anger towards Alice, viewing her as another camper conniving in the suffering of Jason. Alice denies this, but Pamela doesn't listen to her and violently attacks her. After a violent confrontation, Alice finally decapitates Pamela.

### Friday the 13th Part II

He later appears in the sequel, as the killer seen wearing a sack over his face to hide his deformities. Supposedly, Jason never drowned in the lake and had been surviving all these years as a hermit in the woods. According to legend, Jason stumbled upon witnessing his mother decapitated by Alice, the sole survivor of Pamela's spree. Taking revenge, he tracked down Alice a month later and murdered her with an ice pick to her temple. Since then, Camp Crystal Lake had been off-limits to everyone.

Five years later, he discovered the whereabouts of a nearby training camp within the area of Camp Crystal Lake, and began to murder many of the camp counselors as well as a local named Crazy Ralph, who always warned people about Crystal Lake being doomed. Eventually, he fought two of the remaining counselors named Ginny and Paul inside his makeshift shack, which contained a shrine where his mother's head and clothing were put onto and having bodies of his victims surrounding it. While Jason was distracted into fighting Paul, Ginny managed to slam the machete used by his mother into his shoulder before escaping.

### Friday the 13th Part III

Surviving the events, Jason headed down to a nearby store to steal new clothing and murdered the owner and his wife. Nearby, he then hid inside a barn at a house in the Crystal Lake area named Higgins Haven. When the inhabitants of the house returned to the area, he once again returned to his killings and murdered many of the inhabitants in the area, including three hostile bikers. During his spree, he managed to take and don a hockey mask from a nearby victim named Shelly.

While fighting the last survivor Chris Higgins, she remembered him as the same man who previously attacked her in the woods two years ago, just before hanging the killer with a noose. When he freed himself and while in the process of finally killing one of the bikers named Ali who had awoken from being unconscious by him, Chris then struck him in the head with an axe, supposedly killing him.

### Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Despite his wound, Jason managed to survive and revived inside the morgue, where he kills an attendant and a nurse before escaping and setting out to the Crystal Lake again. After escaping, he targeted a nearby rental house owned by a group of teenagers for the weekend, across from a house owned by the Jarvis family.

He once again proceeded to brutally slaughter many of the residents in the area, including a hitchhiker and the older vengeful brother of one of his previous victims, whom had been tracking down Jason since then. After murdering everyone else, Jason continued into targeting the last two survivors, Tommy and Trish Jarvis. In the fight, Tommy manages to distract Jason by shaving his head, resembling Jason at a younger age. While distracted, Trish took a machete and slammed into the side of his head, splitting his head upon falling down into the blade. As Trish and Tommy embrace, he sees Jason's fingers slowly move and continues to hack at his body with the machete.

### Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

Although Jason Voorhees did not appear as the killer in *Friday the 13th: A New Beginning*, he is seen in dream sequences and hallucinations by an adult Tommy Jarvis, five years later since the demise of Jason. Instead, a different antagonist named Roy Burns appeared in the film, using Jason's identity to avenge the death of his son Joey and murdering the nearby residents of a halfway home named Pinehurst, as a copycat killer. Burns was eventually killed and in the process, his true identity was revealed to the characters and audience.

### Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Years later, it is believed by authorities that Jason was cremated, but this is proven false when an adult Tommy finds Jason's burial with his friend Allen Hawes and attempts to burn him. While stabbing at his corpse with a metal pole, lightning strikes at the pole connected into Jason, and soon brings the mass murderer back to life as a strong zombie. Allen attempts to knock Jason unconscious with a shovel, but it shatters to pieces as soon as it hits his head. Jason rips Hawes' heart out while Tommy flees to his car. Jason then dons his hockey mask once again. Jason returns to his vengeful killing spree and murders many of the victims at Camp Crystal Lake (renamed to Forest Green), including the camp counselors, a gravedigger, five paintball players, but spares the little children but had a fascination with one little girl and killed (once he finally realized that Jason had returned) Sheriff Garris and two of his officers before Tommy used a boulder and chain to chain him to the bottom of Crystal Lake. To finish him off, Tommy and the sheriff's daughter Megan activate a boat propeller's blade and uses it on Jason's face, cutting off part of his mask and breaking his neck.

### Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

Jason was accidentally reawakened by Tina Shepard, who used her telekinetic powers in an attempt to resurrect her father, who drowned in Crystal Lake. His chain was snapped, allowing him to return and kill Jane and Michael, whose birthday several people were celebrating at Camp Crystal Lake and most of the people at the party, as well as Tina's mother and her doctor, Dr. Crews, until only Tina and Nick were the only ones left. Tina fought Jason off using her telekinesis, and eventually snapped his mask in two, revealing his hideous zombie-esque face. Eventually, Tina summoned the spirit of her father, who dragged Jason to the bottom of Crystal Lake and chained him there again.

### Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

Jason was reawakened by a boat on Crystal Lake when its anchor caught on a power line, shocking him and releasing him from his prison. He killed the boat's inhabitants Jim and Suzy, donning a new mask from then, and stowed aboard the S.S. Lazarus, a cruise ship on its way to New York occupied by several high school graduates. Jason killed all of them as they reached New York, including the teacher Charles McCulloch (who, like Garris, denied Jason's return until moments before his death), leaving only Rennie and her boyfriend Sean. He eventually chased them into the sewer, which flooded with toxic wastes and swept him away, despite the survivors having a hallucination where it transformed him into his child self.

### Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

The NYPD notifies the FBI of Jason Voorhees. The FBI, finally aware of his existence, set up a sting operation and successfully managed to shoot him down and blow him to pieces just before he could kill an FBI agent luring him to the shooting spot. However, not even this could kill him by now. His heart lived on, and at the morgue, it hypnotized a coroner into eating it. Jason's spirit possessed the coroner.

In the form of a worm-like creature, Jason's soul transferred to different people to possess them (gruesomely melting and killing his previous host once he leaves them because Jasons rage was too strong for their bodies), and killed several people in an attempt to be reborn through Diana Kimble, her daughter Jessica, or her baby daughter Stephanie, because, as the only remaining blood relatives of Jason, they are the only ones he can be reborn through. Likewise, only Diana or Jessica can truly destroy him by striking at his heart with a mystical dagger. Bounty Hunter Creighton Duke told all this to the film's male protagonist, Steven (Jessica's boyfriend) and Steven told Jessica everything Steven was told by Duke. Jason managed to kill Diana by accident on which he was trying to kill Steven and eventually he managed to discover her corpse at the Voorhees house and was reborn through it.

He then briefly grabbed Jessica in her top before he then knocked out Duke with a bear hug which crushed him and Jason then went after Jessica and Steven again whom pushed him out the window and then he fought Steven, before Jessica stabbed him in the heart, and he was dragged to Hell. As Steven and Jessica walk off together with their baby, Jason's masks is seen remained on the surface. But Freddy Krueger's hand grabs his discarded mask and pulls it into the ground.

### Jason X

Jason was captured by the U.S. government in 2008. After many unsuccessful execution attempts, they decided in 2010 that since Jason could not be killed, he must be frozen until they could find a way to destroy him. However, one of the doctors wanted to research his ability to regenerate lost tissue for a profit, but was killed when Jason escaped. One of the government researchers, Rowan, managed to cryogenically freeze Jason, but was frozen in the process when Jason stabbed her through the wall of the chamber. Jason remained frozen until 2455, when some students on a field trip discovered him and Rowan and took them aboard their ship, the *Grendel*, and headed back to Earth 2 (the original Earth was dead, having experienced either an apocalypse or suffering nuclear fallout). He was thought to be dead, but he woke up and killed most of the ship's crew, including most of the students, Professor Braithwaite Lowe, and Sergeant Brodski's grunt team (though Brodski survived Jason's attempt to kill him). Eventually he fought an android, Kay Em, who blew off his right arm, left leg, a portion of his chest, and his head. However, a nanotechnology medical station brought him back to life and transformed him into an equally unkillable cyborg, Uber Jason, using scraps of metal and cloth around the room. Eventually, Jason blew up the ship, and the explosion sent him flying toward the shuttle where Rowan, Tsunaron (the last surviving student), and Kay Em (who, at this point, is only a head because Jason punched off her head during their initial confrontation upon Jason's "upgrade") were escaping. Before he could reach them, however, he was intercepted by Brodski, who somehow escaped the explosion, and knocked down toward Earth 2, where both were burned in its atmosphere by the reentry, seemingly destroying the undead killer once and for all. After crashing in a lake, The two teens go in to investigate. As they go, Jason's charred mask is seen sinking to the bottom of the lake, hinting he survived.

### Freddy vs. Jason

Contrary to what Creighton Duke believed not even this could prevent him from being resurrected, this time not by lightning, but by someone from inside Hell itself. In *Freddy vs. Jason*, set before the events of *Jason X*, Freddy Krueger brought Jason back to life, disguised as Mrs. Voorhees, so he could kill for him at Elm Street so people would believe that he returned (since their fear gives Freddy his power, and if no one remembers him, he cannot come back). Once Jason spread enough fear around, Freddy was able to return, but Jason did not stop killing, stealing his potential victims from him. So Freddy possessed someone to inject Jason with tranquilizer so he could enter his dreams and kill him.

In the meantime, Lori Campbell and Will Rollins were taking Jason to Camp Crystal Lake so he could fight Freddy and have a home field advantage. Freddy nearly killed Jason before he woke up. When Lori pulled Freddy out of the dream world, Freddy and Jason engaged in a bloody battle, while Freddy landed numerous hits on Jason, they did little more than irritate him and failed to slow him down until the battle moved to the docks where Jason brutally slashed Freddy in submission.

Jason was about to finish Freddy off when Freddy uses his glove to slice Jason's fingers off forcing him to drop his machete. Taking Jason's weapon, Freddy sliced him with both the Machete and his glove and eventually drives the blades of his glove in Jason's eyes, still not able to kill him. The two continue to fight and as the fight progresses Jason pulls Freddy's arm out of its socket and Freddy drives the Machete into Jason's chest. Jason then punches a hole into Freddy's stomach, and the two only stop fighting when Lori sets fire to a large number of propane tanks with gasoline, the resulting explosion sending both of them into the lake.

Freddy emerges a short time later with Jason's machete, to kill Lori and Will, but the two are unintentionally saved by Jason who stabs Freddy with his own severed arm, after which Jason sank below Crystal Lake after Lori decapitated Freddy and threw Jason's machete into the lake and left with Will. However, Jason survived, and walked out of Crystal Lake carrying Freddy's head.

## Portrayals

* He was portrayed by Ari Lehman in *Friday the 13th*.
* He was portrayed by the late Steve Daskewisz when masked and Warrington Gillette when unmasked in *Friday the 13th Part II*.
* He was portrayed by the late Richard Brooker in *Friday the 13th Part III*.
* He was portrayed by Ted White in *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter*.
* He was portrayed by Tom Morga in *Friday the 13th: A New Beginning*.
* He was portrayed by C.J. Graham in *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*.
* He was portrayed by Kane Hodder in *Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood*, *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*, *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday*, and *Jason X*.
* He was portrayed by Ken Kirzinger in *Freddy vs. Jason*.

## Personality

Jason is an inexpressive and difficult man to read, even without his mask. Jason is also utterly unrelenting, 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 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 kill any trespassers without so much as a pang of remorse doing so. 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 attachment to his mother. Jason blindly complies with her, as she was the only person to show any kindness towards him as a child. Therefore, those who understand this can use his love against her.

He is not exactly the brightest machete in the cabin, either, as he is easily manipulated by those who imitate his mother and depending on the movie he also suffers irrational aquaphobia. These weaknesses in particular were exploited by Freddy Krueger. Although he is a very simple-minded and rather slow individual, Jason is outright intelligent. 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 is also rather imaginative and dull-minded, as he cannot grasp the fact that he is himself immortal, and believes that he can drown, despite the fact that he is undead. This is shown when Freddy easily tricks him into thinking he was drowning in the real world.

Freddy's facade as his mother also fooled him. Interestingly, Jason despises seeing teenagers drinking, taking drugs, and he is especially disgusted by sex, presumably the reasons are these were what lead 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 was dealt with as a child. It also indicates that Jason might also kill people because he cannot relate to them despite his naive nature.

## 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 kill his victims. Unlike his predecessor Michael Myers, he does have soft spots around animals, children, or anyone not involved in his missions. He never speaks in the present; the closest he ever comes to this are the various grunts of either pain or effort he lets out in the first three movies his adult form appears in.

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 *Friday the 13th*, 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 *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*, played by Timothy Mirkovich, Jason's child form appears repeatedly in hallucinations; however, the design of his child-self is inconsistent. 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 *Friday the 13th Part II*, 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 buldge 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.
* In *Friday the 13th Part III*, his design resembles more of the original design than his appearance in *Part II*. Despite taking place a day after the events of the previous installment, his head 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 graduatially becomes worn and scratched, and receives an axe cut to his head that would remain on the character and his mask in subsequent sequels.
* In *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter*, 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.
* In *Friday the 13th: A New Beginning*, he is 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 more 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.
* In *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*, his skin is pitch black and heavily composed, covered in holes and tight wrinkles. 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.
* 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 motor boat attack of the previous film, helping to show off Jason's exposed mouth although in *Part VI: Jason Lives*, 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 *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*, 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 New Blood*, 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 *Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday*, 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: The New Blood* 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 *Jason X*, 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: Jason Takes Manhattan*. The mask itself is smaller, darker, dirtier and more angular than the previous versions, appearing much colder and more unnerving. Additionally, Uber Jason has a refined, metallic mask with metal straps fusing it to his head. He also has both of his eyes back in this film.
* In *Freddy vs. Jason*, 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

* **Immortality**: Jason has been hanged, stabbed with an axe in the head and didn't die. That said, he can still be killed off for small periods of time.
* **Super Durability**: Jason is extremely hard to kill, able to withstand injuries such as stab wounds, bullet wounds, fire (to an extent), and anything else.
* **Super 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
* **Inhuman Survivability**: Jason can survive almost everything, he was hit by an axe to the head, hanged, stabbed by a machete, smashed on the head with a computer monitor, hammer claw through the neck, and a machete slammed into his head.
* **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.
* **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.
* **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, including teenagers, elders, and almost anyone else. Although children and animals do not seem to be in Jason's interests.
* **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 has seemed to 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 he continues to pursue the protagonists, having no interest in simple civilians (although he did kill several people who tried to help them) or the children.

### Supernatural Powers

* **Resurrection**: If Jason is defeated, he can always resurrect. When he resurrects, he becomes more powerful. This power is somewhat similar to a Zenkai Boost (from *Dragon Ball Z*).
* **Immortality**: Jason can seemingly never die permanently for no matter what happens, he just keeps getting back up. Although, being condemned to hell seems to be able to trap Jason.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Upon being resurrected, Jason's strength has increased to the point he can rip a man's heart out with his bare hands, fling a full-grown man by the arm with enough force to tear the limb from its socket while the body is sent flying or knock a human head off 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.
* **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 no longer exist due to being a corpse. He is shown to be able to endure extreme amounts of physical harm without slowing down at all.
* **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 also 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 (as in *Jason X*, having his head blown off by Kay-Em 14 made him be incapacitated).
	+ **Parasite Physiology**: If the host he possessed is somehow killed, like severing the throat, Jason will take the appearance of parasite-like being (called a Hellbaby) and picks his next living target.
* **Teleportation**: It is 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 just, instantly on the ladder, able to thrown him off, or in *Part VII: The New Blood* when he was capable of instantly going underwater without one of the victims noticing or feeling the shift in the water.
* **Oxygen Independence**: Due to being resurrected, 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. This also shows that he has limits regarding his durability.
* **Supernatural Senses**: Jason seems able to sense when people enter Camp Crystal Lake and seems to know exactly where to find anyone in his territory.

### Bionic Powers

**Bionic Physiology**: In *Jason X*, when his head, arm and leg was destroyed, his body was rebuilt into the cybernetic Über-Jason by a regenerative nanotechnology process.

* **Body Modification and Limb Replacement**: Due to being rebuilt, Jason's body was modified into a cyborg and had his right replaced with a cybernetic arm.
* **Space Survivability**: Due to being rebuilt, Jason was able to survive the vacuum of space.

## List of murders committed by Jason Voorhees

Below is the full list of Jason Voorhees' confirmed murders in his film appearances.

### Friday the 13th Part II

* 1: Alice Hardy: Stabbed in the head with an ice pick
* 2: Crazy Ralph: Garroted with barbed wire
* 3: Deputy Winslow: Struck in the back of the head with a hammer claw
* 4: Scott: Throat slit with a panga machete while ensnared in a rope trap
* 5: Terry McCarthy: Killed off-screen
* 6: Mark Jarvis: Struck in the face with the panga machete
* 7: Jeff: Impaled along with Sandra with a spear
* 8: Sandra Dier: Impaled with a spear along with Jeff
* 9: Vickie Perry: Stabbed with a kitchen knife

### Friday the 13th Part III

* 10: Harold Hockett: Struck in the chest with a meat cleaver
* 11: Edna Hockett: Stabbed in the back of the mouth with a knitting needle
* 12: Fox: Pinned in the neck with a pitchfork
* 13: Loco: Impaled through his stomach with another pitchfork
* 14: Shelly Finkelstein: Throat slit off-screen
* 15: Vera Sanchez: Shot in the eye with a spear gun
* 16: Andy Beltrami: Hacked with a machete
* 17: Debbie Klein: Stabbed through her back with a knife
* 18: Andy and Debbie's baby: Killed when Debbie is murdered
* 19: Charles Garth: Thrown into a fuse box and electrocuted
* 20: Chili: Impaled through her stomach with a curated fire poker
* 21: Rick Bombay: Head crushed
* 22: Ali: Hacked to death with a machete

### Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

* 23: Coroner Burns: Throat slit with a hacksaw and neck snapped
* 24: Roberta Morgan: Gutted with a scalpel
* 25: Unnamed Hitchhiker: Stabbed through the throat
* 26: Samantha Lane: Impaled through a raft
* 27: Paul Guthrie: Shot in the crotch with a spear gun
* 28: Terri Moore: Impaled and pinned to a wall
* 29: Tracy Jarvis: Killed off-screen
* 30: Jimmy Mortimer: Pinned in the hand with a corkscrew and struck in the face with a meat cleaver
* 31: Tina Moore: Thrown from a window to her death
* 32: Ted Cooper: Stabbed in the back of the head with a kitchen knife
* 33: Doug Bell: Head crushed against shower wall
* 34: Sara Parker: Hit in the chest with a double-bit axe
* 35: Rob Dier: Hacked to death with a garden claw

### Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

* 36: Allen Hawes: Heart ripped out
* 37: Darren Robinson: Impaled and thrown with a fence post
* 38: Lizabeth Mott: Impaled through the mouth with the fence post
* 39: Burt: Arm ripped and thrown at a tree
* 40: Stan: Decapitated with a machete
* 41: Katie: Decapitated with the machete
* 42: Stan: Decapitated with the machete
* 43: Roy: Mutilated with the machete off-screen
* 44: Martin: Stabbed with a broken glass bottle
* 45: Steven Halavex: Impaled with the machete
* 46: Annette: Impaled with the machete
* 47: Nicola Parsley: Face smashed against RV wall
* 48: Carter Andrews: Stabbed through the head with a combat knife
* 49: Elizabeth Baker: Head twisted
* 50: Paulina Mott: Mutilated off-screen
* 51: Officer Thornton: Dart thrown in the forehead
* 52: Officer Pappas: Head crushed
* 53: Mike Garris: Snapped in half

### Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood

* 54: Jane McDowell: Stabbed in the back of the mouth with a tent stake
* 55: Michal Rogers: Tent Stake thrown into the back
* 56: Daniel Carter: Punched through the chest and neck snapped
* 57: Judith Williams: Bashed against a tree in a sleeping bag
* 58: Russell Bowen: Face split open with an axe
* 59: Sandra Casey: Drowned in the lake
* 60: Maddy Paulson: Throat slit with a sickle
* 61: Benjamin MacNeal: Head crushed
* 62: Katherine Pataki: Stabbed in the eye with a party horn
* 63: David Peabody: Stabbed in the stomach with a kitchen knife
* 64: Eddie McCarlo: Struck in the neck with the machete
* 65: Robin Peterson: Thrown from a window to her death
* 66: Amanda Shepard: Impaled with a sling blade
* 67: Dr. Crews: Disemboweled with a string trimmer
* 68: Melissa Paur: Struck in the face with an axe

### Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

* 69: Jim Miller: Stabbed in the abdomen with a spear gun
* 70: Suzzanah Donaldson: Stabbed with the spear gun
* 71: Jessica Jarret: Bashed in the head with an electric guitar
* 72: The Unnamed Boxer: Hit in the chest with a hot sauna rock
* 73: Tamara Mason: Stabbed with a glass shard
* 74: Jim Carlson: Impaled thrice with a spear gun
* 75: Admiral Robertson: Throat slit with a knife
* 76: Eva Watanabe: Strangled
* 77: Wayne Webber: Thrown into a control panel and electrocuted
* 78: Miles Wolfe: Thrown and impaled on ship antenna
* 79: Unnamed Deck Hand: Hit in the back with a fire axe
* 80: Homes: Impaled with syringe
* 81: JoJo: Head bashed against a steam pipe
* 82: Julius Gaw: Decapitated with a single punch
* 83: Unnamed Irish Cop: Killed off-screen
* 84: Charles McCulloch: Drowned in sewage
* 85: Unnamed Diner Chef: Thrown against a mirror
* 86: Unnamed Sanitation Worker: Head bashed with a wrench

### Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

* 87: Creighton Duke's Unnamed Girlfriend: Unknown (only mentioned, happened before the movie)
* 88: Eric Pope: Head Stabbed in the with an Autopsy probe
* 89: Unnamed Guard: Fingers in head (off-camera)
* 90: Unnamed Guard: Fingers in head (off-camera)
* 91: Alexis Peterson: Slashed to death with a scalpel
* 92: Deborah Caldwell: Impaled and ripped in half with a rail spike
* 93: Luke McCabey: Killed off-camera
* 94: Edna: Head slammed in car door
* 95: Coroner Philip: Possessed by Jason's heart (and kills 7 people) before melting and possessing Josh
* 96: Unnamed Bathroom User: Killed (Unknown cause; deleted scene only)
* 97: Vicki's Unnamed Boyfriend: Killed (Unknown method; deleted scene only)
* 98: Diana Voorhees (Kimble): Knife Sharpener thrown in back/impaled (accident)
* 99: Deputy Josh: Possessed (and Jason uses him to murder 3 people) and melts after Jason possesses Robert Campbell
* 100: Ryan: Head slammed into a locker door
* 101: Brian: Head slammed into Mark's/both necks snapped
* 102: Mark: Head slammed into Brian's/both necks snapped
* 103: Ward B.: Arm broken/ripped and thrown into diner door
* 104: An Unnamed Diner Patron: Slammed onto diner counter
* 105: Shelby B.: Drowned/scalded in deep fryer
* 106: Joey B.: Jaw bashed in
* 107: Vicki: Skewered with barbeque skewer, head crushed
* 108: Robert Campbell: Possessed by Jason (before killing 8 people) and melts when Jason leaves him
* 109: Randy Parker: Possessed by Jason and he assaults Jessica Kimbel, forcing Steven to slit his neck open with a machete

### Jason X

* 110: Samuel Johnson: Killed off-camera and hung from chains
* 111: Unnamed Guard: Head bashed with machine gun
* 112: Unnamed Guard: Choked, used as a shield from gunfire, and thrown
* 113: Unnamed Guard: Head bashed with noose pole
* 114: Unnamed Guard: Neck snapped with chains
* 115: Aloysius Wimmer: Noose Pole thrown through back
* 116: Sgt Marcus: Thrown through metal door
* 117: Adrienne Hart: Face frozen with liquid nitrogen and destroyed on a counter
* 118: Stoner Zachery: Stabbed with Uber-Machete and dragged away
* 119: Azrael Benrubi: Back broken over Jason's knee
* 120: Dallas: Head bashed against wall
* 121: Sven: Neck Snapped
* 122: Ken Klune: Thrown and impaled on a drill
* 123: Geko: Throat slit with Uber-Machete off-camera
* 124: Kicker: Cut in half with Uber-Machete
* 125: Briggs: Impaled on spiked chandelier off-camera
* 126: Lou Goddard: Killed with Uber-Machete
* 127: Braithwaite Lowe: Hacked apart and decapitated with Uber-Machete
* 128: Trevor Crutchfield: Electrocuted on control panel with head bashing
* 129: Kirra Cooper: Rammed the shuttle into the ship
* 130: Waylander: Back broken and exploded
* 131: Janessa Zachary: sucked into outer space through a grate Jason broke
* 132: Sgt Elijah Brodski: Burned in Earth's atmosphere. Sacrificed himself

It's confirmed when Jason had knocked the Grendal into the Solaris it killed 19,727 people this was confirmed by
Todd Farm on Twitter. It's also worth noting that Jason X is that last entry of the franchise chronologically speaking (taking place many years after *Freddy vs. Jason*) and he's stated to have killed over 200 people (this number applies before Adrienne's death).

### Freddy vs. Jason

* 133: Trey Cooper: Stabbed 10 times with machete and folded in half in bed
* 134: Mr. Muller: Decapitated off-camera (presumably with the machete)
* 135: Blake Muller: Hacked with machete
* 136: Frisell: Impaled and thrown away with long pipe
* 137: Gibb Smith: Stabbed with a pipe
* 138: Shack's Unnamed Friend: Head twisted
* 139: Shack: Flaming Machete thrown through back/impaled
* 140: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 141: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 142: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 143: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 144: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 145: Unnamed Raver: Slashed with fire machete
* 146: Stafford: Crushed under metal door off-camera
* 147: Scott Stubbs: Electrocuted with a console through machete
* 148: Bill Freeburg: Possessed by Freddy Krueger and slashed in half with machete
* 149: Charlie Linderman: Thrown and bleeds out after being impaled on a wall bracket
* 150: Kia Waterson: Slashed with machete and hits a tree

## List of weapons used by Jason Voorhees

* 1: Machete (signature and most common weapon)
* 2: Ice Pick
* 3: Barb Wire
* 4: Hammer
* 5: Superhuman Abilities
* 6: Spear
* 7: Knife
* 8: Meat Cleaver
* 9: Knitting Needle
* 10: Pitchfork
* 11: Speargun
* 12: Water
* 13: Fuse Box
* 14: Fire poker
* 15: Hacksaw
* 16: Scalpel
* 17: Corkscrew
* 18: Spikes
* 19: Heights
* 20: Vehicles
* 21: Walls
* 22: Garden Claw
* 23: Tree Branch
* 24: Glass
* 25: Hunting Knife
* 26: Dart
* 27: Tent Stake
* 28: Trees
* 29: Sleeping Bags
* 30: Sickle
* 31: Party Horn
* 32: Tree Trimming Saw
* 33: Electric Guitar
* 34: Sauna Rock
* 35: Harpoon
* 36: His Hands
* 37: Trickery
* 38: Electric Control Panel
* 39: Syringe
* 40: Steam Pipe
* 41: Sewage
* 42: Diner Mirror
* 43: Wrench
* 44: Autopsy Probe
* 45: Metal Grating
* 46: Rail Spike
* 47: Knife Sharpener
* 48: Locker
* 49: Diner Door
* 50: Diner Counter
* 51: Deep Fryer
* 52: Barbecue Skewer
* 53: Chain
* 54: Machine Gun (as a blunt weapon)
* 55: Noose Pole
* 56: Metal Door
* 57: Liquid Nitrogen
* 58: Counter
* 59: Large Drill
* 60: Uber Machete
* 61: Crane Hook
* 62: Fear
* 63: Explosion
* 64: Outer Space
* 65: Earth's Atmosphere
* 66: Bed
* 67: Long Pipe
* 68: Fire
* 69: Console
* 70: Freddy Krueger's arm
* 71: Nanobot Technology
* 72: Hellbaby
* 73: Hunting Knife

## Trivia

* Jason has probably the highest body count in horror film history. According to the documentary *His Name Was Jason*, Jason killed over 300 people in the course of the films. Jason Voorhees has taken the lives of (at least) 146 people. Michael Myers follows behind with (at least) 121 people while Freddy Krueger sits at the lowest with a body count of 35.
	+ Later revealed to be over 19,000+ kills under Jason's Kill Count after the events of *Jason X*.
* He appears twice as a cameo in *Ready Player One*, alongside Freddy Krueger and Chucky. His appearance in the film is modeled after his look in *Mortal Kombat X* which was primarily modeled after his look in *Freddy vs. Jason*.
* Unlike his counterpart Michael Myers, Jason started off as a mortal serial killer before resurrection in *Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*.
* A Yo-Kai named Jason Dog was based on him.
* His death won the Golden Chainsaw Award in Dead Meat's "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" kill count.
* Him and fellow horror icon Freddy Krueger are both opposites in terms of the elements that once killed them with Jason's death occurring by drowning in water whereas Freddy's was being burned alive.
* Before Ken Kirzinger played Jason in *Freddy vs. Jason*, he played the role very briefly for one stunt and portrayed a diner chef in *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*.