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Jason Voorhees

The Friday the 13th film series
(1980-)

Jason Voorhees has primarily been an antagonist in the films, whether by stalking and killing the characters, or acting as a psychological threat to the lead character. He first appeared as the child of Mrs. Voorhees, who drowned in Crystal Lake when two camp counselors were supposed to be watching him, but were having sex instead.

Films
Jason made his first appearance in the original Friday the 13th (1980), not as the film's killer, but as a memory of his mother, Mrs. Voorhees. Though the character is never truly seen, he is the subject of the plot of the film, as Mrs. Voorhees seeks revenge for the death of her boy which she sees as the fault of the counselors. Jason's second appearance was in the sequel, Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Jason is a man and gets his revenge on the girl who decapitated his mother. Jason returns to Crystal Lake, guarding it from all intruders. Five years later, a group of teenagers come to Crystal Lake to set up a new camp, only to get murdered one by one by Jason. Ginny Field, the lone survivor, finds a cabin in the woods with a shrine built around the severed head of Mrs. Voorhees, and surrounded by mutilated corpses. Ginny fights back, and slams a machete through Jason's shoulder. Jason is left for dead as Ginny is taken away in an ambulance. In Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982), Jason escapes to a nearby lake resort, Higgins Haven, to rest from his wounds. At the same time, Chris Higgins returns to the property with some friends. An unmasked and reclusive Jason kills anyone who wanders into the barn where he is hiding, and takes a hockey mask from a victim to hide his face, as he leaves the barn to kill the rest of the group. Chris fends off Jason by sending an axe into his head, but the night's events drive her into hysteria as the police take her away.

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) continues the story, with Jason found by the police and taken to the Wessex County morgue. Once delivered, Jason awakens and kills an attendant and nurse, and then makes his way back to Crystal Lake. A group of friends rent a house on Crystal Lake and become part of Jason's rampage. After killing all of the teens next door, Jason seeks out Trish and Tommy Jarvis. While distracted by Trish, Jason is attacked and killed by Tommy. His appearance in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) was short lived. Tommy Jarvis was committed to a mental hospital after the events of The Final Chapter, and has grown up constantly afraid that Jason will return. Jason's body was supposedly cremated after Tommy killed him. Roy Burns uses Jason's persona to become a copycat killer at the halfway home to which Tommy was moved. The only moments of Jason's appearance are through the hallucinations and dreams of Tommy. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) had Tommy visiting Jason's grave after having been released from a mental institution. It is revealed that Jason's body was never actually cremated, but buried in Forest Green cemetery (formerly Crystal Lake cemetery). Tommy inadvertently resurrects Jason, via a piece of cemetery fence which acts as a lightning rod. Jason returns to Forest Green, still believing it is Crystal Lake. Tommy finally manages to get Jason back to the lake that supposedly caused his death as boy. Tied to a boulder at the bottom of the lake, Jason is left to die.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) begins an undisclosed amount of time after Jason Lives. Jason is resurrected again, this time by the telekinetic Tina Shepard, who was trying to resurrect her father. Jason begins killing those who occupy Crystal Lake, and after a battle with Tina, Jason is returned to the bottom of the lake. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) sees Jason return from the grave, brought back to life via an underwater electrical cable. He follows a group of students on their senior class trip to Manhattan, boarding the Lazarus to wreak havoc. Upon reaching Manhattan, Jason kills the rest of the survivors, with the exception of Rennie and Sean; he chases the final two into the sewers, where Jason is caught and melted away by toxic waste.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) marked the second time Jason was killed off. Jason, through unexplained resurrection, returns to Crystal Lake, where he is being hunted by the F.B.I.. The F.B.I. sets up a sting to kill Jason, which proves successful. Through possession, Jason manages to survive by passing his black heart from one being to the next. Though Jason is hardly seen throughout the film, it is learned that he has a sister and niece, and that he needs them to get his body back. After resurrecting his own body, Jason is finally killed by his niece and dragged to Hell.

Jason X (2002). The film takes place in the future, where Jason has again been resurrected, though it is not explained how. He is being held and experimented upon in a research facility. It is determined that he has regenerative capabilities, and that cryonic suspension is the only possible solution to stop him since he cannot be killed. Jason breaks out of captivity and manages to slice through the cryo-chamber, spilling the cryonics into the room freezing the only other survivor, Rowan. Four hundred and fifty-five years later, Jason's body is discovered by a team of students studying Earth. Upon being thawed by the team, he proceeds to murder everyone aboard the spacecraft, before finally being blown into space, and landing on Earth 2. Jason's most recent appearance was in Freddy vs. Jason (2003), set in the present. Freddy Krueger has grown weak, as people in Springwood, his home, have suppressed their fear of him. Freddy, who is impersonating Pamela Voorhees, sends Jason (Ken Kirzinger) to Springwood to cause panic and fear. Jason accomplishes this, but refuses to stop killing. A battle ensues in both the dream-world and Crystal Lake. The winner is left ambiguous, as Jason surfaces from the lake holding Freddy's severed head, which winks and laughs.

Appearance
The trademark hockey mask did not appear until Friday the 13th Part 3. Since Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Jason has has superhuman strength, and near invulnerability. He has been seen as a sympathetic character, albeit one whose motivation for killing has often been cited as driven by the immoral actions of his victims. In Friday the 13th: A New Beginning does Jason reappear as a hallucination

The physical design of Jason Voorhees has gone through many changes. For Friday the 13th Jason was make bald, so he would look like a "hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead", with a dome shaped head.

For Part 2, Jason was given long hair and one eye made "droopy eye".

Jason's hockey mask - molded from a 1950s Detroit Red Wings hockey mask - became a staple for the character for the rest of the series. Holes would be punched into the mask, and the markings were altered.

For The Final Chapter, Jason would turn full circle in terms of his look from child to man.

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood sought to make Jason more of a classic monster along the lines of Frankenstein. From the beginning, Jason's appearance was meant to reflect that of the damage he received in the previous installments and for Jason to appear rotted, with bones and ribs showing. Also to incorporate the exposed flesh concept more into Jason Goes to Hell and have Jason's skin to overlap with the mask, to make it appear as if they had fused and he could no longer remove his mask.

In the tenth Friday the 13th film, one concept brought into the film was Jason's regenerative abilities. He was given more hair, and more of a natural flesh appearance, a more gothic design with added chains and shackles, and a more more angular mask.

In Freddy vs. Jason, Jason had a "pooled-blood look" with black skin, based on the idea the blood had pooled in the back of his head, because he had been lying on his back for a long time.

 

 

SUMMARY

 

ARCH RIVAL :	Anyone who goes to camp Crystal Lake or had anything to do with his original death or his mother's.
STRENGTHS :	As the film series lengthens, Jason becomes more indestructible and more superhuman in strength.
WEAKNESSES :	In the early films Jason could be injured using simple weapons such as axes and knives.
WEAPONS :	Knives, Axes.
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