History Characters / FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees

* BullyMagnet: During the dream sequence, young Jason is shown being chased, teased and mercilessly tormented by a group of campers who push him into the lake and leave him to drown.

** While Freddy deliberately seeks victims to kill, Jason mostly sticks to Camp Crystal Lake and only hunts those who he sees as invaders.
** Jason was a bullied child who lost his mother, who was the only one to care for him, starting to mold him into a dangerous force of angered vengeance. He has reasons to be angry and didn't have much opportunities for a normal living, due to his physical deformities and mental disabilities. While Freddy also has a tragic childhood, he has no loved ones and was perfectly able to blend in with society, making his crimes less excusable.
** Jason doesn't mentally torture his victims and instead simply just kills them, as opposed to Freddy's {{mind rape|s}}.
** Jason just kills you. Freddy kills you and [[YourSoulIsMine eats your soul.]]

* BreakoutVillain: In the original film, he was just a RedHerring for those who knew him as the killer from the sequels; a legend of a dead child whose ultimate role was to motivate his mother to avenge his death by killing anyone who dared to try to re-open Camp Crystal Lake. Later films turned him into one of the most iconic characters of horrordom.

* UnstoppableRage: After all that Freddy put him through over the course of the movie, Jason is NOT HAPPY to see him once he's forced into the real world, and spends the rest of the movie expressing just how displeased he has been made. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown PAINFULLY.]]

* UnstoppableRage: After all that Freddy put him through over the course of the movie, Jason is NOT HAPPY to see him once he's forced into the real world, and spends the rest of the movie expressing expressing just how displeased he has been made. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown PAINFULLY.]]

* UnstoppableRage: After all that Freddy put him through over the course of the movie, Jason is NOT HAPPY to see him once he's forced into the real world, and spends the rest of the movie expressing it. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown PAINFULLY.]]

* UnstoppableRage: After all that Freddy put him through over the course of the movie, Jason is NOT HAPPY to see him once he's forced into the real world, and spends the rest of the movie expressing it. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown ''Painfully.'']]

* KilledOffForReal: Eventually happened, believe it or not, and Jason is one of the few well-known slashers who stuck to it. [[spoiler:''Film/Jason X' involves Jason being cryogenically frozen and later awakened in the far future where he goes on another rampage. While initially blown to bits by a combat android, his remains are then reconstructed by nanotechnology as the cyborg "Uber-Jason" and he keeps going until he's shot into space and tackled into the atmosphere of Earth-2, incinerating both him and his attacker and leaving nothing left of either.]] While there has been follow-up media since then, it's largely deemed non-canon as they go into wildly different directions, so as far as the "main" canon is concerned, Jason officially died.

* KilledOffForReal: Eventually, believe it or not, and he's one of the few Slashers who stuck.[[spoiler:Jason X has him revived in the far future and going on a rampage, only to be blown to bits by a combat android. His remains are then reconstructed by nanotechnology as the cyborg "Uber-Jason". He keeps going until he's shot into space and Brodski tackles him into the atmosphere of Earth-2, incinerating both of them and leaving nothing left of Jason's body.]] While there has been follow-up media, it's largely deemed non-canon as they go into wildly different directions, so as far as the main canon is concerned, Jason officially died.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Downplayed. In his debut movie as the main villain, Jason starts out as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute of his mother as he is a serial killer avenging his relative; the only real difference between Pamela and Jason at this point is that he wears a mask and has better durability. ''Part 6'' and beyond turn him into a RevenantZombie with supernatural abilities like EnhancedHealing and DemonicPossession.

** Jason has never laid a finger on any of the animals around the camp (except for food or survival). In fact, killing them, in some non-film material, is one of his [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]].

* TimeAbyss: While he was already immortal after being accidentally resurrected by Tommy Jarvis in in sixth film, being cryogenically frozen by Rowan Fontaine made in ''centuries'' old, and he would've been much older had he [[SealedEvilInACan not been discovered by future scientists]].

** Jason actually weaponizes the trope in ''Part VIII''. When a biker gang confronts him, he turns to them and takes his mask off, showing them his face. [[UnrevealAngle The shot's angle]] prevents us from seeing it before the later DramaticUnmasking, but the gang are so horrified by it that they flee in terror.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's even stronger than before when he becomes a zombie in ''Jason Lives.'' One scene has him accidentally rip a man's arm off, sending him flying into a tree, and then stare at the arm in comical confusion.

* IdiotSavant: Jason is described InUniverse as being mentally retarded, yet he has a natural instinct for not only [[ImprovisedWeapon turning anything he can get his hands on into a killing implement]], but also for stalking his quarry, avoiding detection and setting up traps, ambushes and diversions. Arguably becomes more basic DumbMuscle after his resurrection, as being undead means he is less vulnerable to being attacked and so he can simply wade directly into attacks and tank the damage. He loses most traps but keeps the stealth approach.

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* EvilVsEvil: As the premise and title of the movie note, it comes down to Jason, an implacable engine of death, versus Freddy, a soul-eating dream demon with a penchant for murdering children.

** Jason doesn't mentally torture his victims and instead simply just kills them, as opposed to Freddy's [[MindRape mind rapes]].

[-'''Main Film Series:''' ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' [[Characters/Fridaythe13th1980 (1980)]] | ''Characters/FridayThe13thPart2'' | ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartIII'' | ''Characters/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' | ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' | ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' | ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'' | ''Characters/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' | ''Characters/JasonX'' | ''Characters/FreddyVsJason''\\

'''Other Continuities:''' ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th2009 Friday The 13th]]'' [[Characters/FridayThe13th2009 (2009)]] | ''Characters/FridayThe13thTheGame''-]]]]]

The one and only [[MalevolentMaskedMan man behind the mask]] himself. Jason Voorhees was a deformed and mentally challenged boy who was thought to have been drowned in the Crystal Lake in the 50s. He re-emerged over two decades later [[note]](either by surviving his drowning, and going into hiding for reasons unknown, or revived as an undead right there and then)[[/note]] after his mother Pamela died, her death triggering [[ThePowerOfHate unrelenting hate]] within him. In current times, Jason is a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut of a monster who roams about the confines of Crystal Lake, indiscriminately slaughtering those on the his turf and racking up one of, if not the largest body counts of all horror icons.

* BladeOnAStick: He's used a few spears/pikes from time to time, a notable example is in ''Part VI'' where he actually uses the same wrought iron pole that brought him back to life as an improvised spear. Luckily for him the fence pole has a spearehead.

** He's not a fan of people doing the horizontal tango, and seems to view sex as [[SexIsEvil a morally wrong act]]. Most people who have sex in the series tend to be killed shortly after, or in some cases, [[OutWithABang during the act]]. A signature scene in ''Part 2'' has him [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewer a couple with a spear]] during sex.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Later movies establish that he has black blood, an impossibly large heart, and a brain that is the size of a dinosaur's brain. The black blood can be justified by him being undead since the sixth movie and his blood darkening from oxygen depravation, but why his brain and heart are so impossibly massive are a mystery (besides some evil magic shenanigans).

* BodyHorror: In addition to his deformed face, from ''Part VI'' onwards, he's a rotting zombie, with ''Part VI'' explicitly showing him to be swarming with maggots. In ''Part VII'', he's decayed even further, with his ribs and spine exposed. And if that wasn't enough, it;s said that in ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and maybe in ''Jason X'', his mask has fused to his face because he never takes it off.

* [[ButForMeItWasTuesday But For Me, It Was Friday]]: Whether or not they include the aforementioned [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]], some of the murders seem to indicate that they don't really mean that much to him. One such notable example is ''Part III'' - after killing Vera with the speargun, Jason simply drops the now-useless weapon and turns and walks away without a second glance, as he is always ready to march on and claim (yet) more victims. In fact, the only people who truly seem to avert this are [[ArchEnemy Tommy Jarvis]], [[Film/FreddyVsJason Freddy Krueger]], and arguably [[FinalGirl Chris Higgins]].