History Characters / Fridaythe13th

For a list of actors and actresses who have appeared in this franchise and have pages on this wiki, see [[UsefulNotes/FridayThe13thActors here]].

** ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' (1980)

** ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th2009 Friday the 13th]]'' [[Characters/FridayThe13th2009(2009)]]

* ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' (1980)
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPart2''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartIII''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood''
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan''
* ''Characters/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''
* ''Characters/JasonX''
* ''Characters/FreddyVsJason''
* ''[[Characters/FridayThe13th2009 Friday the 13th]]'' (2009)
* ''Characters/FridayThe13thTheGame''

* [[Characters/FridayThe13thTommyJarvis Tommy Jarvis]]

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[[folder:Jason Voorhees (original continuity, 1980-2003)]]

!!Jason Voorhees
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[[caption-width-right:334:'''KILL.''' Also, make mother proud.]]

->''"Mommy, don't let me drown! Mommy?"''

The man behind the mask himself. He was a deformed and mentally disabled kid who was thought to have been drowned in the Crystal Lake in the 50s. He re-emerged 20 years later [[note]](either by surviving his drowning, and going into hiding for reasons unknown, or becoming an undead right there and then)[[/note]] after his mother died, her death triggering [[ThePowerOfHate unrelenting hate]] within him. Jason is an unstoppable monster who kills anyone who makes the mistake of getting near him.

For the [[Film/FridayThe13th2009 rebooted]] mayhem, check its own [[Characters/FridayThe13th2009 character page]].

[-Played by: Ari Lehman ([[Film/FridayThe13th1980 first film]]), Warrington Gillette, Steve "Dash" Daskawisz, Ellen Lutter, Jerry Wallace (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 Part 2]]''), Richard Brooker (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII Part III]]''), Ted White (''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]''), Tom Morga (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning Part V]]''), Dan Bradley, C.J. Graham (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Part VI]]''), Creator/KaneHodder (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood Part VII]]'', ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Part VIII]]'', ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' and ''Film/JasonX''), Ken Kirzinger, Spencer Stump and Douglas Tait (''Film/FreddyVsJason'').-]
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* AbusiveParents: In several tie-in materials, it's ''heavily'' suggested or outright shown that Jason's father, Elias, had a tendency to horribly beat Jason as well as cruelly insult him over his deformities. In the original concept for Part IX they briefly considered revealing Jason was sexually abused by his mom, but they scrapped the idea cause even they thought that was too much.
* AlasPoorVillain: Some of his more somber defeats are this.
* AlienBlood: In part 9, while his heart is being examined, a "black, viscous fluid" is found in it. The person doing the examination refuses to believe it is blood, but it actually would make sense, considering blood actually can turn black in real life if it remains deoxygenated long enough, and Jason has been undead for many years by that point.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: He was bullied by the children in Camp Crystal Lake because of his deformed appearance.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: Though he later became a RevenantZombie, he was apparently still living and breathing in the first four movies. Despite this, he sustained injuries that would have killed any normal human being before Tommy hacked him apart with his own machete.
* AndIMustScream: On top of being both immortal and incapable of speech, he's been chained to the bottom of Crystal Lake, twice. And if the last shot of part 6 is any indication, he was still conscious at times.
* AntiVillain: He kills because he believes he's making his mother proud and out of vengeance for the wrong doings people have done to him, but he's usually content to stay in the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake as long as people leave him alone.
* AvengingTheVillain: The death of Pamela Voorhees set many a massacre to come.
* AxCrazy: Jason is definitely past the point of reasoning. Despite being a sympathetic version of this and having a childlike mind, Jason throughout the remainder of his life has mentally snapped to the point of no return once he found out his mother had been killed thus becoming very murderous with his extreme brutality being prominently shown as he kills anyone in gruesome fashion that makes their way to Camp Crystal Lake as a way to bring upon his rampage. Though he will not bother anyone that doesn't enter his home or mess with his territory.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Jason has (unknowingly) prevented at least two rape attempts throughout the series. [[SubvertedTrope He killed the would-be victim in one of them, though]].
* BaldOfEvil: He started out with hair, but later films turned him bald until ''Jason X''.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In ''Jason X'', helped by his cyborg modifications and, well, due to not needing to breathe since at least the sixth movie.
* BeardOfEvil: He had a messy and unkempt beard in ''Part 2''.
* BerserkButton:
** He mainly wants to be left alone, and a majority of his massacres happen because people happen to trespass Camp Crystal Lake.
** 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 [[DeathBySex killed shortly after, or in some cases, during the act]]. A signature scene in ''Part 2'' has him [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice skewer a couple with a spear]] during sex.
** His mother being used against him. When it was revealed that Freddy manipulated him that way in ''[=FvJ=]'', Jason's eyes lit up with rage.
** On top of that, the lady who removes his mask in ''Jason X'' suffers perhaps one of the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruelest]] kills in the history of the franchise.
** Though he is perpetually silent as an adult, sans a single line in ''Part III'' [[note]]"ow!"[[/note]], Jason also clearly does not react well to [[BullyingADragon being bullied or insulted]]. This likely stems from his former life as an ostracized child.
** He cares for the animals around Camp Crystal Lake, and butchered two hunters who killed a deer.
* BigBad: ''Part 2'' onwards. Averted in ''[[JackTheRipOff Part V]]'' and in ''[[SpinOff vs. Jason]]''.
* 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.
* 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, in both ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and ''Jason X'', his mask has fused to his face because he never takes it off.
* BodySurf: When his body is destroyed in ''Jason Goes to Hell'', his heart evolves into a small creature that hops from body to body to get the proper one (of his own blood, that is) that'll return him to his normal state.
* BoringButPractical: His killings. Most of the time is with a machete, but he finds ways to kill his victims very practically, be it from an axe or using his own hands.
* BornUnlucky: His birthday was on a Friday the 13th. For the most part, though, it's ''everyone around him'' who's unlucky.
* BreakoutVillain: In the original film, he was just a RedHerring; 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.
* CainAndAbel: ''Jason Goes to Hell'' reveals that he has a half-sister, Diana Kimble. Unsurprisingly, he's the Cain to her Abel.
* CameBackStrong: He was already abnormally tough and strong as a "living" human. Then he gets struck by lightning and becomes TheJuggernaut.
* ChainedByFashion: He wears the chain that dragged him to the bottom of the Crystal Lake from ''Part VI'' around his neck in ''Part VII''.
* ClothesMakeTheLegend: The hockey mask, which he took from Shelly in ''Part III''.
* ContinuitySnarl: ''Freddy vs. Jason'' reveals that he's terrified of water, a fear that Freddy exploits to nearly kill him, seemingly forgetting that Jason has been shown freely wading into and emerging from water in the previous films, and has even used water to his advantage in order to drown his victims. Likewise with ''Part III'', the flashback that shows Jason attacking Chris has him looking more along the lines of Savini's interpretation of the character from the first movie rather than what he had looked like in the previous movie. This is most likely chalked up as another instance of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness as they were still figuring out Jason's character.
* CoolMask: His iconic hockey mask, which he picks up in the third movie. In the 2009 reboot he outright abandons his makeshift sack-mask when he finds a hockey mask in Donnie's barn.
* CorpseLand: In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', his [[MentalWorld dreamscape]] is filled with the corpses of his victims.
* CoveredWithScars: In ''Part VII'', the director deliberately had it so that all of the injuries Jason had endured in his previous appearances showed in his design. He bears the axe and machete wounds from ''Part III'' and ''The Final Chapter'', as well as the motorboat propeller damage from ''Jason Lives''.
* CrazySurvivalist: Jason starts out as a mortal (albeit ''very'' tough and insane) guy living in the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake and having no tolerance to those he perceives as intruders. Even in his resurrected form he is usually shown to prefer staying in isolation at the Camp.
* CrosscastRole: Jason's legs in the beginning of ''Part II'' is the only time in the franchise Jason was played by a woman. It was a wardrobe test that ended up going so well they decided to use the footage instead of re-filming it.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Dishes out plenty of these over the course of the franchise, and sometimes suffers them ''himself'' given his resurrective nature.
** His death in Part IV has his hand sliced open with his own machete by Trish, and later Tommy lodges the thing through his right eye. You get a loving shot of the blade sliding into his skull as he sinks to the floor. Even then, he's still twitching in agony, and Tommy rips the machete out and furiously ''bludgeons'' Jason over and over with his own weapon until his head is reduced to mush.
* {{Cyborg}}: Becomes one in ''Jason X'' due to malfunctioning {{nanomachines}} using metal and other replacements to fix his lost tissue.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Jason's rise to becoming an unstoppable SerialKiller stems from his traumatic childhood. [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer As a child Jason was bullied very harshly by the fellow campers from Crystal Lake who often teased and abused him due to his appearance by tossing him into lake which is supposedly where he drowned.]] Then to top it all off it turns out he survived but the downside is that he witnessed his mother being decapitated which caused Jason to mentally snap and become the sympathetic killer he is today.
* DarthVaderClone: Jason is somewhat of a horror movie take on the Sith Lord. He was a young, innocent person who suffered a horrible accident that transformed him into [[EvilisBigger a monstrously big force of evil]] not to mention being [[MalevolentMaskedMen a masked terror]] driven to villainy because of a loved one (although in this case, she is also a killer just like him).
* TheDeadHaveEyes: Jason has one perfectly normal eye in ''Part VI'' after he resurrects (the other was destroyed by Tommy Jarvis), despite having been dead and rotting for years.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Jason varies between "a killer who doesn't know any better for the sake of his mommy" and "a sadistic butcher who revels in terror and slaughter" depending on the film.
** This also goes for Jason's "territorialism"; sometimes he is content in staying within the Camp Crystal Lake area, and sometimes he ventures into other places around Crystal Lake to strike terror and mayhem.
** These days Jason's known for his "code of ethics" where he would never harm a child or an animal, according to Kane Hodder when playing him. In spite of this, the counselors in Part II come across the butchered corpse of a dog in the woods, which may or may not (depending on whether the ending was a dream) may be the cute little pooch that walked up to Jason earlier.
* {{Determinator}}: As Freddy said, "Why won't you die?!" To be fair, the only time he stopped was when Tommy killed him. Or when ''burning up on entry to atmosphere'' killed him.
* DisappearedDad: His father is never mentioned, and is presumed to be dead.
* DisproportionateRetribution: His ''entire drive'' is this. It doesn't matter if you're a councillor, here to party, or just driving by, he catches you on Crystal Lake grounds, you're ''dead.'' It's safe to say he's lost any and all ability to tell people apart from his tormentors.
* 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.
* DraggedOffToHell: What happens to him at the ending of ''Jason Goes to Hell''.
* DramaticUnmask: Always to reveal a deformed or rotting face, which is never consistent movie to movie. Inverted in ''Part VI'', where he starts unmasked in his grave and dramatically masks at the end of the opening scene.
* TheDreaded: To the extent that ''Jason Goes to Hell'' opens with the [=FBI=] setting up a sting operation to take him down.
* DrivenToVillainy: His mother's death worked as a catalyst for all the massacres to come; as far as we can tell there's no indication Jason ever killed anyone prior to that event. (Although he certainly scared the daylights out of Chris when she got lost in the woods according to a flashback.)
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As a mortal human, he was strong enough to crush a man's skull with his bare hands and tough enough to survive being hanged, stabbed in the shoulder, and an axe to the face. After being revived as a RevenantZombie, he's even stronger, and NighInvulnerable to boot.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Even if he is a bloodthirsty killer, Jason still cares for his mother. So much so that he built an altar for her and presented his victims to her severed head. He (and his mom) are the page picture. It is often shown that the only reason (or at least the main reason) he kills isn't due to enjoyment or hatred of his victims, but simply believing he is making momma proud.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** It is stated by Creator/KaneHodder that Jason doesn't strive for killing children or animals, though the character averted this [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early in the series]].
** In some of the sequels, Jason appears quite content to stay within the camp borders and not bother anyone. In these examples, he would only go on a killing spree if someone invaded his "territory" first.
** He even spares a group of thugs in New York after they threaten him. All he does is lift up his mask, and the thugs promptly beat it and he leaves them alone. This may, however, have been simply because, for once, Jason just didn't feel like killing someone; at the time, Jason was hunting down the two main characters of [[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan the film]] and might have not wanted to waste his time on [[ItMakesSenseInContext the bozos who were pissed about their radio]] (there's really nothing about them that would make Jason a bad, or worse, guy for offing them, compared to his normal victims).
** Jason has never laid a finger on any of the animals around the camp (except for food or survival). In fact, killing them is one of his [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]].
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: In ''Part VI'', he is resurrected as a zombie (specifically, a revenant: a very pissed off zombie) and stays like this onwards through the movies until the 2009 reboot.
* EvilerThanThou: Anytime a ''Friday the 13th'' story has another antagonist, Jason will ultimately prove to be the greater threat and waste the asshole trying to exploit him without batting an eye. The sole exception is ''Freddy Vs Jason'' where Freddy pulls this on him, being a reality-warping sadist who nearly destroys Jason by [[MindRape mentally torturing him.]] Fortunately with a little help from some hapless teens, Jason soon turns the tables and clobbers Fred.
* EvilIsBigger: The shortest actor to play Jason - in adult form, anyway - was 6' 1" (1[=.=]85 m). It's even [[http://www.fandango.com/kenkirzinger/celebrityphotos/p235161-71974 more apparent in]] ''Freddy vs. Jason'' (for reference, Robert Englund is 5' 9¾" / 1[=.=]77 m).
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Being the BigBad of the franchise tends to do that.
* EvilUncle: Fits the role when it was revealed that he has more relatives in ''Jason Goes to Hell''.
* EyeScream: Tommy killed him in ''The Final Chapter'' by slicing halfway into his head with his machete, destroying his left eye in the process. In ''The New Blood'', his left eye is clearly missing. Near the end of ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy stabs him in both eyes.
* FacialHorror: Beyond the fact that his face is so horribly disfigured from birth that the idiom "a face only a mother could love" is spot-on, Jason continually gets grievous injuries on his face which leave scars that further makes him hideous to behold without a mask, including axe and machete wounds to the face, a propeller to the face, and ever-increasing levels of decomposition after becoming undead.
* FatalFlaw: Water in all its forms, as he drowned in it as a child.
** Also ''fear'' of water, which Freddy [[FlawExploitation exploits]] to nearly kill him. Granted this is buried ''extremely'' deep in his psyche and Freddy could only weaponize it because the fight was in Jason's mind. Outside of that, his main thoughts about water involve "Good place to hide" and "Great for drowning people."
** His [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas extreme devotion to his mother]]. Ginny used this to her advantage to distract and wound him with a machete in ''Part 2'', and Freddy did the same to trick him into going to Springwood in ''vs. Jason''.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Jason's entire existence could arguably be considered as such. He is doomed to endlessly return from the dead, more decayed and monstrous than before, in a never ending quest to kill those he thinks are hurting him. Even worse, ''Manhattan'' and ''Freddy Vs Jason'' imply that on the inside, he's still the same scared and confused kid he was years ago.
* FearlessUndead:
** Reckless when alive, but prone to damage and hurt. As a zombie, Jason shows no hesitation or fear since he feels neither.
** Subverted ''only'' twice, both instances in ''Freddy vs. Jason''; when confronted with water, he's like a DeerInTheHeadlights. He also has a fairly memorable OhCrap moment when he chops off Freddy's arm in the dream world, only to see Freddy grow it back and laugh at him.
* {{Fingore}}: During the final showdown in ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy slices his fingers off. Since he retains them in the chronologically-later ''Jason X'', it can be assumed they eventually grew back.
* FreudianExcuse: His near-death experience as a child and witnessing his mom's death are the reasons why he commits murders.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Jason went from being an ordinary child with a skull deformity to a giant zombie SerialKiller with a body count of over 200.
* GeniusBruiser: Downplayed. Although he may not have such smarts to earn himself a diploma or two, he makes up for it in being clever and resourceful.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy personally manipulates Jason into coming BackFromTheDead and terrorizing Springwood, knowing that the fear and panic Jason causes will give Freddy enough power to escape Hell and haunt the town again. The plan worked, but Freddy didn't anticipate that Jason would continue to intrude on his territory and steal his potential victims.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Of both the original movie and ''A New Beginning''; in the former, Pamela seeks to avenge his apparent death, and in the latter, Roy Burns uses his persona to become a copycat to avenge his son's death.
* TheGrotesque: Given he was born with hydrocephaly, drowned as a boy, and is always suffering from decomposition, unmasking him always reveals a NightmareFace.
* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: He has hair and a beard in ''Part 2'', but ''Part III'', which takes place immediately after, renders him completely bald.
* HandicappedBadass: Jason has severe physical and developmental disabilities, but he is nonetheless abnormally strong and tough, as well as surprisingly cunning when it comes to trapping his prey.
* HealingFactor: ''Jason X'' gave this reason for his resilience. It is unknown if he had it from the start, or developed it during his resurrection via lightning strike.
* HeroKiller: Kills [[FinalGirl Alice Hardy]] in ''Part 2'', [[DecoyProtagonist Rob Dier]] in ''Part 4'', [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Sheriff Garris]] in ''Part 6'' and [[SerialKillerKiller Creighton Duke]] in ''Jason Goes to Hell''.
* HomeFieldAdvantage: He knows the area around Camp Crystal Lake quite well, though he adapts pretty well when he gets away from it (though in ''Jason X'', a VR Crystal Lake is quite the distraction to him). In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Lori and her friends even move both Freddy and Jason to Camp Crystal Lake for their showdown with the intent to [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this trope.
* IconicSequelOutfit: While Jason is the TropeCodifier for HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, he didn't even have his hockey mask until the [[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII third film]], where he takes the mask after killing Shelly and it has been a mainstay ever since.
* 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.
* {{Immortality}}:
** Jason combines ResurrectiveImmortality, TheUndead, ImmortalityInducer from ''Jason Goes to Hell'', LegacyImmortality from ''Part V'', and especially JokerImmunity.
** Subverted in his FatalFlaw, which is a crippling weakness to all forms of water; waterflow can debilitate or stop him, and enough water can even drown him. As stated of the franchise creator, Jason isn't ''technically'' immortal. He can somewhat die, but is simply strong enough and regenerates fast enough to stay alive. Explosives as in ''Jason X'', can kill him, and something as powerful as atmospheric heat, also in ''Jason X'', too can incinerate and kill him. For good.
* ImmuneToBullets: As a zombie, though he's weak to the classic headshot. As a cyborg, the bullets don't even faze him.
* ImplacableMan: Before his first death, he [[RasputinianDeath survived being hanged, taking an axe to the forehead (though the hockey mask helped), a machete through the collarbone, and was still moving after Tommy sliced half-way into his head]]. After returning as a [[RevenantZombie revenant]], he [[ImmuneToBullets soaks up gunfire]] like a zombie Franchise/{{Superman}}, isn't at all bothered by being set on fire, having the ceiling of a house dropped on him, being impaled, and more, all while racking up a body count of over 150, with his victims including normal people, cops, and soldiers, as well as surviving TWO '''[[SeriesFauxnale final chapters]]'''. When he has set his sights on someone, he does everything he can to get them. Somehow this trait gets reset when he is defeated.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He is an adept marksman and knife thrower.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Jason has used a lot of weapons, and he once killed one of his victims with a ''party horn''.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Jason alternates between using his trusty machete or a wide array of sharp things he finds along the way.
* IronButtMonkey: Out of the plethora of horror villains, Jason gets the most abused, which says something.
* IronicFear: In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', it's revealed he's deathly afraid of water due to his childhood drowning. A fair enough reason in-and-of itself, if not for the fact that his murders often involves him having to wade through/being thrown in large bodies of water.
* JokerImmunity: The entire reason he was brought back for ''Jason Lives'' onwards after being KilledOffForReal in ''The Final Chapter''; he's just too damn popular.
* TheJuggernaut: He started out as a ''[[MadeOfIron very]]'' [[MadeOfIron tough]][[note]](Machete through a collarbone or an axe to the head? No problem!)[[/note]] backwoods killer. By ''Jason X'' he is a cyborg and almost indestructible.
* KickTheDog: Dips into this from time to time. He's at his most villainous in ''Part III''; none of his victims in that film were anywhere near his home at Camp Crystal Lake, and in fact he deliberately wandered into ''their'' territory to just randomly kill everyone he meets.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Every now and then, whenever an AssholeVictim is involved.
* KillItWithWater: Parts VI and VII have him defeated by restraining him and leaving him at the bottom of the lake, ''Manhattan'' has him washed away in a flood of sewage water, and Freddy Krueger deduces that water is the only thing Jason's actually afraid of. It only works until the sequel, but nothing else can even bother him for more than a few minutes.
* KnifeNut: Uses knives in all shapes and sizes when available if an axe or machete aren't.
* KnightTemplar: As ''Freddy vs. Jason'' shows, he kills because he believes he's making the world a better place by only killing those he finds immoral and unworthy of life. All to please his mother.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: He's a giant zombie SerialKiller, and a NighInvulnerable killing machine who does what he does [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas because he thinks he's pleasing his mother]] and just wants teenagers to keep their booze and premarital sex out of Camp Crystal Lake. ''Freddy vs. Jason'' pits him against [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] a {{sadist}}ic child murderer who can hunt people anywhere in the world so long as they're asleep, and freely admits he kills people [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Lori and her friends even pit the two [[EvilVersusEvil against one another]] and decide to root for Jason on the grounds that he's the LesserOfTwoEvils.
* LightningBruiser: It mostly depends as when he was alive in the first few movies, Jason is both surprisingly fast enough to chase down multiple victims, being able to tank alot of damage, and strong enough to crush a man's skull. However once he becomes a zombie he becomes a MightyGlacier that only moves in very short bursts in order to grab ahold of someone.
* LightningCanDoAnything: In ''Part VI'', it was two lightning strikes that brought Jason back to life.
* MacheteMayhem: TropeCodifier for it.
* MadeOfIron: Even while alive, he survived getting hung, stabbed in the shoulder, and an ''axe to the face.''
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Even while alive, he hardly ever reacts to wounds or pain, to the extent that he barely reacted at all to Trish Jarvis splitting his hand down the middle with his own Machete in ''The Final Chapter''. Notable exceptions are ''Part III'', where he groans in pain and reacts quite negatively to Chris stabbing him in the hand and then the leg, and in ''Jason Takes Manhattan'', where he screams in agony after Rennie throws a barrel of toxic waste in his face.
* TheManTheyCouldntHang:
** Chris in ''Part III'' tries off him by putting him on a noose and dropping him, but Jason climbs down from it after PlayingPossum for a moment.
** In ''Jason X'' it's mentioned that he survived multiple execution attempts while imprisoned at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. [[HighVoltageDeath Electrocution]], [[GasChamber gas]], [[ShotAtDawn firing squad]], hanging... not one of them succeeded. Eventually, Rowan gave up and decided the only way to stop Jason for good was by [[HumanPopsicle freezing him]].
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The circumstances of how he survived his childhood drowning. ''Part 2'' presents it as a case of NeverFoundTheBody, but ''Jason Lives'' goes with the theory that Jason ''did'' drown and was already a supernatural force from the beginning.
* MegatonPunch: Jason decapitates Julius in part VII with a single punch. As well as punching through someone's heart in part six. He also does this multiple times when fighting Freddy where he manages to launch him several feet in the air with only one hit.
* MightyGlacier: In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', he walks slowly and hits heavily. In contrast, his opponent Freddy Krueger (after he is pulled out of the dream world) is a FragileSpeedster who gets in plenty of hits but is in big trouble if Jason manages to get one hit in. However it should be noted that Jason himself moves only in very short bursts of speed when he manages to get his hands on someone rather than being totally agile.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Mirrors reveal Jason's true form inside the people he has possessed in ''Jason Goes to Hell''.
* MobileMenace: Started out like this, and gradually turned into [[OffscreenTeleportation a blatant teleporter]] by the ending of ''Part VII''.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Jason's rotting appearance in parts ''VII'' and ''VIII'' shows that he has a wider mouth than normally possible, and has more teeth because of it.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about the time between his "drowning" in Crystal Lake in 1957 and murder of Alice in 1979.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Gets ridiculous by the last third of the original series as he gains [[RevenantZombie undead status]], [[OffscreenTeleportation teleportation]], [[BodySurf body switching]], [[HealingFactor regeneration]] and a [[{{Cyborg}} cyborg body]], in that order.
* NighInvulnerability: As a zombie. In fact to the point that not even ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]'' can kill him... until finding out about his fear, at least. Still, even Krueger has a tough time with it.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Taking into account all his appearances throughout the original series, he is by the end a cyborg zombie demon serial killer.
* NoSell: Most attempts to attack Jason wind up as this due to his being MadeOfIron. One instance, Jason takes a shovel to the face, and the shovel ''shattered''.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Jason is practically a young boy inside the body of a monster and doesn't kill for any malicious reasons.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Jason is purely not into killing for malicious purposes, but rather does so out of having a childlike mind and mentally snapping after his mother died out pure unadulterated rage from her death. After he gains his vengeance he simply wants to be left alone, but will kill anyone who enters his home as he believes it will make his mother proud of him, even hearing her voice ordering him to murder and make people suffer for the atrocities committed towards them (i.e. being the kids that nearly drowned Jason and the counselors failing to protect him).
* NotQuiteDead: Has pulled this off in all the films, except in ''The Final Chapter'' where he attempts this 'til Tommy [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill makes sure he ain't coming back]].
* OffscreenTeleportation: He pulls this off quite a bit in the later installments:
** In ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan]]'', this was intentionally accentuated in the script in order to make the killer seem more terrifying, because you couldn't know where he would turn up next. At one point, a teacher who'd been running away from Jason runs into a building that only has one entrance... and is promptly tossed out of the second story window by Jason, who'd been waiting for him.
** In the same film, a character scrambles up the mast of a ship. It is explicitly shown that Jason is just staring at the man climbing the ladder, not even bothering to move. Next cut is the man (who is climbing extremely fast), ''near about to reach the top a 30 foot mast in seconds'', being ripped off mid-climb and being thrown to his death as though Jason was underneath the man the entire time.
** ''Film/JasonX'' used it extensively. Jason almost never ''walked'' into a room. He was just there. Or worse, sometimes he appears outside the (one-exit) room when the victim walked in. Taken to ridiculous heights in the first major gun battle, where three soldiers with full-auto rifles unload on him, never turning away. In the split second of darkness which comes with them accidentally shooting out the lights, Jason is gone.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: He's a RevenantZombie, driven by need to kill, as this was his main reaction towards anyone before becoming an undead.
* PossessionBurnout: In ''Jason Goes to Hell''. Whenever he {{Body Surf}}s into another body, his previous host gruesomely melts away.
* PowersViaPossession: Those possessed by him in ''Jason Goes to Hell'' also gain his trademark SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability.
* ThePowerOfHate: One of Jason's main motivating factors is his hatred and rage for those who enter the camp as he was bullied by multiple children back in his day and no one would save him because of their obliviousness towards him drowning as well as for murdering his mother.
* ThePowerOfLove: Jason extremely loves his mother and takes vengeance on anybody who enters the camp where she died. His entire devotion to her is why he brutally murders people because he believes it will make her proud of him.
* PsychopathicManchild: A subtle one. Jason's body is that of a huge, powerful adult, which he puts to use killing everyone he meets, but his mindset, even prior to zombification, is that of a child, who kills out of a mixture of loneliness, a desire to please his mother, a hope that his killings will bring his mother back, and a sheer lack of understanding what death means. This is even noted InUniverse, as early as his first "real" film.
* QuizzicalTilt: His usual reaction to interesting things is to tilt his head.
* RasputinianDeath: Before the first movie, he nearly drowned at Camp Crystal Lake. He managed to survive and take shelter in the woods nearby in the following years. Come the second movie, he's impaled with a machete. In the third, he is strung up with a chain and axed in the head. He somehow manages to survive ''that,'' but is skewered in the head — once again with a machete — in the fourth film. When his ''corpse starts twitching,'' Tommy hacks away at him until he actually ''remains'' dead. At least until he's reanimated by lightning.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When he becomes a cyborg in ''Jason X'', he has red eyes with two yellow irises.
* RedRightHand: His deformed features, which change film to film.
* {{Revenge}}: Basically the whole point of the franchise. The only reason Jason goes on a mass murdering spree is due to his childhood back in Camp Crystal Lake as he was bullied harshly by the kids and neglected by the counselors which ultimately caused him to drown in the lake or so it seems. After being revealed to be alive and witnessing his mother's death he grows up into a massive SerialKiller, [[TheJuggernaut Juggernaut]] who will exact his bloodthirsty revenge on those who he believes caused him so much despair in the past. Although he won't actively hunt others and is perfectly fine with being left alone unless someone trespasses on his territory which will make him very upset.
* SackheadSlasher: ''Part 2'' has him wearing a sack with a single eyehole tied around his neck with a bit of rope to hide his face, which he replaces with his trademark hockey mask in ''Part III''.
* ScarsAreForever: Had his other eye missing for a long time after his resurrection, as originally he died when Tommy Jarvis lodged a machete into his skull, destroying it in the process. This also applies to the axe-wound in his head from ''Part III'' (He's often shown retaining the axe gouge in the Hockey Mask as well, even when he's gone through multiple ones).
* TheScourgeOfGod: Jason kills those first who are shown to be more promiscuous and so on.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** Several movies have him imprisoned under Crystal Lake in some way. Naturally it doesn't last.
** ''Jason X'' has him cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the film.
* SerialKiller: He's a serial spree killer, or alternatively a serial ''mass murderer''.
* ShrineToTheFallen: In ''Part 2'', he keeps a shrine to his mother's severed head.
* SilentAntagonist: For most of the time, but there are exceptions;
** In ''Part III'' he responds to getting stabbed in the hand by saying "ow!"
** He's also capable of speech when possessing bodies in ''Jason Goes to Hell'', but even then he opens his mouth only once in attempt to trick the protagonists.
** Then there's that one ''really'' bizarre moment in ''Part VIII'' where he calls out "Mommy, don't let me drown!" in a child's voice before getting submerged in toxic waste. Although, this was likely happening in his head.
* SignificantBirthDate: It was the June 13th, 1946. Which was a Friday the 13th.
* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: While he is ''insanely'' tough, Jason doesn't seem to have any form of regeneration, and conspicuously retains the various injuries he suffers from film to film. ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and ''Jason X'' show that he can be brought down and kept down with sufficient gunfire, it just takes ''a lot'' of bullets to do the job. Oddly enough, ''Jason X'' does state that he has a HealingFactor.
* SuperStrength: Jason was a very strong individual before he became an undead, being able to crush heads like melons. However once he becomes an undead, his strength is now increased to monstrous proportions.
* 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]].
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: He gets blown up at the beginning of ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and spends almost the entire movie afterward as a little sludgy black eel monster, which Creighton Duke implies is his true form.
* TranquilFury: His ground state of being when he's not visibly enraged. As he's pretty much in a constant state of fury he will coldly murder anyone who comes across his path.
* TraumaButton: Being reminded of his old life as a child, and usually pressing any of these are able to leave him stunned for a certain amount of time.
** In Part 2, he's temporarily stopped in his tracks when Ginny impersonates his mother with her old sweater.
** Something similar happens in part 4, when Tommy shaves his head to look like him as a boy. It freezes him up long enough for Trish to knock his mask off, and Tommy to impale his head with his own machete.
** In ''Manhattan'' he froze up when saw the toxic waste covered water flooding the sewer. Not only that, he remembers his last thoughts as a child calling to his mother as he drowned, and pukes up water before getting submerged in the toxic waste.
** This gets exploited by Freddy Krueger, who notices he's shocked by the presence of water in his boiler room, and then plunges Jason into a nightmare where he relives his original drowning. It backfires when Jason wakes up [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and proceeds to punt Freddy all over Crystal Lake.]]
* UndeadChild: He appears in this form at the end of Part 1. It largely depends on whether you think he really did drown as a child, and then somehow grew into an adult body.
* UnexplainedRecovery:
** It's established in the first film that he drowned as a child before the film took place. Come ''Part 2'', however, Jason shows up alive and well as an adult, with no explanation as to how he survived the drowning, with the idea that he was a case of NeverFoundTheBody being presented by Paul. However, ''Jason Lives'' and ''Jason Takes Manhattan'' go with the idea that Jason did indeed drown as a child and came BackFromTheDead.
** ''Jason Goes to Hell'' makes no effort to explain how he survived his toxic waste dip at the end of ''Jason Takes Manhattan''. ''Jason X'' similarly leaves it open how he came back after being DraggedOffToHell at the end of ''Jason Goes to Hell'', though ''Freddy vs. Jason'' reveals that Freddy brought him back.
* UnskilledButStrong: He's got SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, but he's not really much of a fighter and relies on sheer brute force to kill for the most part. Prior to becoming Über-Jason in ''Jason X'', Kay-Em 14, programmed with knowledge of martial arts and gunplay, utterly curb-stomps him and blows off AnArmAndALeg, along with [[OffWithHisHead his head]], and when he takes on Freddy in the real world in ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy jumps around him and lands far more hits than Jason manages to land. To quote Freddy in a DeletedScene:
-->'''Freddy''': You're slow. You're ''stupid''. And you got no style!
* UnstoppableRage: What drives Jason to kill and butcher almost anyone he comes across due to all of the pain he went through and even thinking about it fuels his anger. By the time of ''Part VI'' when he becomes a zombie he has become the incarnation of rage itself and so forth.
* VictoryByEndurance: In ''Jason Takes Manhattan'', he faces off against Julius, a boxer, in GoodOldFisticuffs. He never even throws a punch, and stands there [[StoneWall soaking up hits]] until Julius wears himself out, after which Jason [[OffWithHisHead punches his head clean off]].
* VillainProtagonist: He's the main character of his series and he's also the main villain despite being a sympathetic version of this.
* WalkingSpoiler: At least in the first film, since any info about him gives away the killer's motivation.
* WeaksauceWeakness: ''Parts VI'' and ''VII'' go with the theory that if Jason is trapped beneath the waters of Crystal Lake, the area where he originally drowned, he will be immobilized for a long period of time.
** Anything that brings out memories of his childhood, such as someone impersonating his mother, a young Tommy Jarvis shaving his head to match Jason's younger appearance, or Freddy Kreuger forcing him to relive his childhood drowning memories, will at the very least stun him or cause him to pause, leaving him vulnerable briefly. Of course, in many cases, if others don't make this opportunity count it turns into a pretty nasty BerserkButton instead.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: ''Freddy vs. Jason'' reveals that he had a fear of water when he was a child. Even as a zombie he's not fond of it; the waters from Camp Crystal Lake is one of very, very, very few things that can subdue him. However Jason has shown to atleast tolerate water as he was able to pull off a few kills in water and is very adept in using it to his advantage.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Jason is one of the best known slashers in horror history, but somewhere deep (very deep) inside is a MommasBoy that [[MissingMom deeply misses her]] and [[WellDoneSonGuy feels he has to please her]]. Also, as a dream sequence in ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' showed, the campers were pretty relentless in picking on him when he was just a small, deformed boy.
* WouldHurtAChild: When he was alive. After his death, he's shown being intrigued by children [[WouldntHurtAChild but ultimately leaving them alone]].
* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: While already pretty tough as a human, he becomes almost unstoppable after he's resurrected as a zombie.
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[[folder:Tommy Jarvis]]
!!Tommy Jarvis

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[[caption-width-right:257:Step 1: Destroy Jason's corpse. Step 2: Muck it up and resurrect him instead. Step 3: Profit?]]

->''"Jason belongs in Hell. And I'm gonna see that he gets there."''

Closest thing the franchise had to a recurring protagonist, Tommy was a young boy who had an interest in all things horror and was a good amateur FX creator. Just like any ''Friday the 13th'' survivor-to-be, he was forced to fight for his life when Jason went on yet another killing spree near his family's place. With the help of his sister he manages to bring Jason down for good, leaving him [[HarmfulToMinors heavily traumatized]] in the process. He spends many years in mental institutions, and at his worst mental
state almost becomes a replacement for Jason. Some time later he attempts to cremate Jason's body, so he can be finally released from the demons of his past. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This goes spectacularly wrong]] and he is forced to fight Jason once more. He was the only character in the franchise to appear in more than one installment and not be killed.

[-Played by: Creator/CoreyFeldman (''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]'' and ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning Part V]]''), John Shepherd (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning Part V]]'') and Thom Mathews (''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Part VI]]'', ''Film/NeverHikeAlone'').-]
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: The final twist of ''Part V'' shows him adopting the Jason persona. [[AbortedArc This angle was dropped]] for ''Part VI''.
* ArchEnemy: He's the Nancy Thompson or Alice Johnson to Jason's Freddy.
* AuthorAvatar: In ''Part IV'' he's a talented special effects maker, with his monster masks and heads all on the shelves and desks of his room. Considering this movie featured the return of Creator/TomSavini as the special effects artist, it's likely Tommy was at least partly based off of him.
* AxCrazy: During ''Part V'', as WrestlerInAllOfUs shown that Tommy wasn't all there in his mind and was damn near psychotic, nearly killing people in his rage induced wake.
* BadassAdorable: The first time he killed Jason was when he was a young boy.
* BrokenBird: Was forced to kill Jason which led him down to many sanity slippages.
* ChildrenForcedToKill: He killed Jason at age 12, and spends the next several years in and out of mental institutions.
* CovertPervert: In his first movie, Tommy doesn't miss a chance to see a girl naked. It evolves to ChivalrousPervert in his adulthood, when he makes out with Megan in order to trick his guard into fighting him so he could escape from jail.
* FlashbackEcho: He sometimes flashbacks to the moment he continuously hacked Jason's barely living corpse to ensure his death.
* {{Foil}}: Both him and Jason have dead mothers and an obsession with killing. Only difference is that Tommy is a hero and will only kill evil people, whereas Jason will kill almost anybody with little exceptions. In addition, he's a BadassNormal to contrast Jason's superhuman abilities.
* {{Hallucinations}}: He sees apparitions of Jason in ''Part V''.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: In Part VI; the cops end up believing that ''he's'' behind Jason's killings, [[NotHelpingYourCase it doesn't even help]] that Tommy was shown in ''Part V'' to be actually psychotic at the time and contemplated on killing Pam, which was likely recorded by the authorities and gave them a reason to suspect him.
* HeroicBSOD: He should be the poster child of this trope.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: It's mentioned in the spin-off novel ''Carnival of Maniacs'' that he authored several.
* ImportantHaircut: As mentioned above. Also a TraumaticHaircut.
* MakeSureHesDead: When he sees Jason seemingly about to pull off a FingerTwitchingRevival, he completely flips out, grabs the machete, and attacks him with it.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Is the one responsible for Jason becoming an unstoppable zombie. In his defense he THOUGHT he'd put him back down.
* {{Retcon}}: ''Part V'' ended with him completely losing his mind and seemingly becoming another Jason [[JackTheRipoff ripoff]]. ''Part VI'' ignores this somewhat, ditching the Jason angle but making his SanitySlippage a plot point.
* SerialKillerKiller: Zigzagged, but ultimately subverted. He kills both Jason Voorhees ''and'' [[JackTheRipoff Roy Burns]], while [[HeWhoFightsMonsters coming dangerously close]] to becoming a full-fledged SerialKiller himself. However, unlike many examples, he is somehow able to overcome his inner demons before JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, meaning he is not ultimately motivated by a pathological desire to kill unless he is directly protecting himself or others from harm.
* TheQuietOne: In ''Part V'', he talks very little to the other characters in Pinhurst.
* TagalongKid: To his sister in ''The Final Chapter''.
* TraumaButton: The mere sight of Jason's corpse at the beginning of ''Part VI'' triggers Tommy's traumatic memories of killing him back during ''The Final Chapter'', causing him to FreakOut, grab a piece of cemetery fence, and ram it into the corpse's heart in a fit of rage. Sadly, this fence post provides the perfect conductor for the [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning strike that brings Jason back to life]].
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Pulls off some nice throws and slams in ''Part V.''
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* AxCrazy: Jason is definitely past the point of reasoning. Despite being a sympathetic version of this and having a childlike mind, Jason throughout the remainder for the rest of his life he mentally snapped to the point of no return once he found out his mother had been killed thus becoming very murderous with his extreme brutality being prominently shown as he kills anyone in gruesome fashion that makes their way to Camp Crystal Lake as a way to bring upon his rampage. Though he will not bother anyone that doesn't enter his home or mess with his territory.

Closest thing the franchise had to a recurring protagonist, Tommy was young boy who had interest in all things horror and was a good amateur FX creator. Just like any ''Friday the 13th'' survivor-to-be, he was forced to fight for his life when Jason was on yet another killing spree near his family's place. With the help of his sister he manages to bring Jason down for good, leaving him [[HarmfulToMinors heavily traumatized]] in the process. He spends many years in mental institutions, and at his worst mental

* 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 his [[SealedEvilInACan chamber not been discovered]].

* 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 his [[SealedEvilInACanchamber not been discovered.

** Then there's that one ''really'' bizarre moment in ''Part VIII'' where he calls out "Mommy, don't let me drown!" in a child's voice before getting submerged in toxic waste.

* ArchEnemy: He's the Nancy Thompson to Jason's Freddy.

* EyeScream: Tommy killed him in ''The Final Chapter'' by slicing halfway into his head with his machete, destroying his left eye in the process. In ''The New Blood'', his left eye is clearly missing. It was eventually restored when Freddy Krueger revived him.

* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: While he is ''insanely'' tough, Jason doesn't seem to have any form of regeneration, and conspicuously retains the various injuries he suffers from film to film. ''Jason Goes to Hell'' and ''Jason X'' show that he can be brought down and kept down with sufficient gunfire, it just takes ''a lot'' of bullets to do the job.

* UnskilledButStrong: He's got SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, but he's not really much of a fighter and relies on sheer brute force to kill for the most part. Prior to becoming Über-Jason in ''Jason X'', Kay-Em 14 is programmed with knowledge of martial arts and gunplay, and when he takes on Freddy in ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy jumps around him and lands few more hits than Jason manages to land. To quote Freddy in a DeletedScene:

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Jason is purely not into killing for malicious purposes, but rather does so out of having a childlike mind and mentally snapping after his mother died out pure unadulterated rage from her death. After he gains his vengeance he simply wants to be left alone, but will kill anyone who enters his home as he believes it will make his mother proud of him even hearing her voice ordering him to murder and make people suffer for the atrocities committed towards them (i.e. being the kids that nearly drowned Jason and the counselors failing to protect him).

* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Chris in ''Part III'' tries off him by putting him on a noose and dropping him, but Jason climbs down from it after PlayingPossum for a moment.

* BrokenBird: Was forced to kill the maniac who murdered his mother.
* ChildrenForcedToKill: He killed Jason in self-defense at age 12, and spends the next several years in and out of mental institutions.

* {{Foil}}: Both him and Jason have dead mothers and an obsession with killing. Only difference is that Tommy is a hero and will only kill evil people, whereas Jason will kill almost anybody with little exceptions. In addition, he's a BadassNormal to contrast Jason's superhuman abilities. Because of all that, Tommy is something of a GoodCounterpart to Jason.

* MakeSureHesDead: When he sees Jason seemingly about to pull off a FingerTwitchingRevival, he completely flips out, grabs the machete, and goes to town on Jason's body with it to make sure he doesn't get back up.

* SerialKillerKiller: Zigzagged, but ultimately subverted. He kills both Jason Voorhees (twice, if one counts zombie-Jason's dormancy at the end of ''Part VI'') ''and'' [[JackTheRipoff Roy Burns]], while [[HeWhoFightsMonsters coming dangerously close]] to becoming a full-fledged SerialKiller himself. However, unlike many examples, he is somehow able to overcome his inner demons before JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, meaning he is not ultimately motivated by a pathological desire to kill unless he is directly protecting himself or others from harm.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: ''Freddy vs. Jason'' reveals that he had a fear of water when he was a child. Even as a zombie he's afraid of it; water is one of very, very, very few things that can put a permanent end to him.

* UnskilledButStrong: He's got SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, but he's not really much of a fighter and relies on sheer brute force to kill for the most part. Prior to becoming Über-Jason in ''Jason X'', Kay-Em 14 easily kicks his ass when programmed with knowledge of martial arts and gunplay, and when he takes on Freddy in ''Freddy vs. Jason'', Freddy runs circles around him and lands far more hits than Jason manages to land on him. To quote Freddy in a DeletedScene:

* LightningBruiser: It depends on the actor playing him. In the first few movies at least, Jason is both surprisingly fast and strong enough to crush a man's skull.

* MegatonPunch: Jason decapitates Julius in part VII with a single punch.
* MightyGlacier: In ''Freddy vs. Jason'', he walks slowly and hits heavily. In contrast, his opponent Freddy Krueger (after he is pulled out of the dream world) is a FragileSpeedster who gets in plenty of hits but is in big trouble if Jason manages to get one hit in.

* {{Revenge}}: Basically the whole point of the franchise. The only reason Jason goes on a mass murdering spree is due to his childhood back in Camp Crystal Lake as he was bullied harshly by the kids and neglected by the counselors which ultimately caused him to drown in the lake or so it seems. After being revealed to be alive and witnessing his mother's death he grows up into a massive SerialKiller, [[TheJuggernaut Juggernaut]] who will exact his bloodthirsty revenge on those who he believes caused him so much despair in the past.

* AntiVillain: He kills because he believes he's making his mother proud, and he's usually content to stay in the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake as long as people leave him alone.

* AxCrazy: Yep, Jason is definitely past the point of reasoning. Despite being a sympathetic version of this and having a childlike mind he still has very severe murderous intentions throughout the remainder of his life towards those who enter his home as he has mentally snapped to the point of no return once he found out his mother had been killed thus becoming very vengeful. His extreme brutality is prominently shown as he viscously kills anyone in gruesome fashion that makes their way to Camp Crystal Lake as a way to bring upon his rampage in a homicidal fury.

* BloodKnight: He derives a satisfaction by killing people because he believes it will make his mother proud and it'll be vengeance for his supposed death.

* ThePowerOfLove: Jason extremly loves his mother and takes vengeance on anybody who enters the camp where she died. His entire devotion to her is why he brutally murders people because he believes it will make her proud of him.