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* KarmicDeath:Believe it or not, Jason actually delievers two of them, albiet unknowingly:

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* KarmicDeath:Believe it or not, Jason actually delievers delivers two of them, albiet albeit unknowingly:



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie, and that Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attempt to teach her how to swim, [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for any of them]].

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Among Jason's many kills in the film, 3 three of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Charles. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, painful, and not particularly quick {Except {except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie, and that Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attempt to teach her how to swim, [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for any of them]].
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For years the specter of Jason Voorhees has been haunting Camp Crystal Lake, stalking and killing horny teenagers just like his dear old momma taught him. However, for the last year, Jason has been hanging out at the bottom of Crystal Lake itself, and is now in the mood for a vacation after being awakened by a bunch of teenagers on a pleasure boat (whom he then kills). So where does an undead serial killer go to unwind where he can just be himself?

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For years the specter of Jason Voorhees has been haunting Camp Crystal Lake, stalking and killing horny teenagers just like his dear old momma taught him. However, for the last year, Jason has been hanging out at the bottom of Crystal Lake itself, what with being tied to a rock there, and is now in the mood for a vacation after being awakened by a bunch of teenagers on a pleasure boat frantically screwing (whom he then kills). So where does an undead serial killer go to unwind where he can just be himself?
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For years the specter of Jason Voorhees has been haunting Camp Crystal Lake, stalking and killing horny teenagers just like his dear old mom taught him. However, for the last year, Jason has been hanging out at the bottom of Crystal Lake itself, and is now in the mood for a vacation after being awakened by a bunch of teenagers on a pleasure boat (whom he then kills). So where does an undead serial killer go to unwind where he can just be himself?

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For years the specter of Jason Voorhees has been haunting Camp Crystal Lake, stalking and killing horny teenagers just like his dear old mom momma taught him. However, for the last year, Jason has been hanging out at the bottom of Crystal Lake itself, and is now in the mood for a vacation after being awakened by a bunch of teenagers on a pleasure boat (whom he then kills). So where does an undead serial killer go to unwind where he can just be himself?
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Where the finale happens.

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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Where the finale happens. Justified in that it ''is'' New York.
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*** As many have pointed out, the film doesn't actually ''get'' to New York until the last act.
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* HarpoonGun: However, after being at the bottom of a lake for a year, Jason does have the coordination to properly pull back the rubber band on it. No problem--he stabs a girl with the ''whole harpoon gun''.

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* HarpoonGun: However, after being at the bottom of a lake for a year, Jason does doesn't have the coordination to properly pull back the rubber band on it. No problem--he stabs a girl with the ''whole harpoon gun''.
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** Which is an example of canonical AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, given that [[FridayThe13thPartTwo the very first film featuring Jason as the killer]] has him ''disembowel a dog with his bare hands''. Admittedly, the killing takes place off-screen, but we see the mangled carcass a few minutes further into the movie.

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** Which is an example of canonical AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, given that [[FridayThe13thPartTwo [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 the very first film featuring Jason as the killer]] has him ''disembowel a dog with his bare hands''. Admittedly, the killing takes place off-screen, but we see the mangled carcass a few minutes further into the movie.
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** Which is an example of canonical AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, given that [[FridayThe13thPartTwo the very first film featuring Jason as the killer]] has him ''disembowel a dog with his bare hands''. Admittedly, the killing takes place off-screen, but we see the mangled carcass a few minutes further into the movie.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie, and that Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attemp to teach her how to swim, [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for any of them]].
* LetsSplitUpGang: After the ship's captain is found dead, Julius organizes a hunt-down for Jason.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie, and that Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attemp attempt to teach her how to swim, [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for any of them]].
* LetsSplitUpGang: While the previous films in the series had averted this trope (usually because characters tended to die before they could alert anyone as to Jason's presence), this one embraces it. After the ship's captain is found dead, Julius organizes a hunt-down for Jason.Jason, which leads to the death of two other students. Then, when the boat survivors arrive in NYC and Rennie is kidnapped, Charles suggests doing this again to find her, which leads to the death of Julius.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie and Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attemp to teach her how to swim, it's hard to feel bad for them.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie Rennie, and that Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attemp to teach her how to swim, [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for them.any of them]].
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*KickTheSonOfABitch: Amoung Jason's many kills in the film, 3 of them are two thugs and Charles retrospectivly. Their deaths are brutal, painfull, and not particularly quick {Except for maybe the 2nd thug}. However, considering that the two thugs tried to rape Rennie and Charles was revealed to have nearly drowned Rennie in a half-assed attemp to teach her how to swim, it's hard to feel bad for them.
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KarmicDeath:Believe it or not, Jason actually delievers two of them, albiet unknowingly:

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** Charles is revealed to have pushed Rennie into Crystal Lake when she was a kid {In a horrible attempt to teach her how to swim}, resulting in her nearly drowning. Just seconds after this is revealed, Jason get's back up, chases Charles, and drowns him in a barrel of sewage.

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** *** Charles is revealed to have pushed Rennie into Crystal Lake when she was a kid {In a horrible attempt to teach her how to swim}, resulting in her nearly drowning. Just seconds after this is revealed, Jason get's back up, chases Charles, and drowns him in a barrel of sewage.

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** [[AlphaBitch Tamara]], who had pushed poor Rennie into the waters just because she saw her doing drugs {And didn't even rat her out either}, ends up getting stabbed by Jason with several glass shards

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** [[AlphaBitch Tamara]], who had pushed poor Rennie into the waters water just because she saw her doing drugs {And didn't even rat her out either}, ends up getting stabbed by Jason with several glass shardsshards.


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**One of the thugs that tried to rape Rennie is stabbed by the same needle that he used to drug her.
**Charles is revealed to have pushed Rennie into Crystal Lake when she was a kid {In a horrible attempt to teach her how to swim}, resulting in her nearly drowning. Just seconds after this is revealed, Jason get's back up, chases Charles, and drowns him in a barrel of sewage.
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** The two Thugs who try to rape Rennie end up getting brutally murdered by Jason.

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** The two Thugs who try to rape Rennie end up getting brutally murdered by Jason. One of them even get's [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard stabbed with the very same needle]] [[KarmicDeath he used to drug Rennie]].
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**[[AlphaBitch Tamara]], who had pushed poor Rennie into the waters just because she saw her doing drugs {And didn't even rat her out either}, ends up getting stabbed by Jason with several glass shards
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* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer promised mayhem in New York, the ship Lazarus isn't mentioned at all.

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* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer promised mayhem in New York, the ship Lazarus ''Lazarus'' isn't mentioned at all.all.
** This has more to do with the film's budget: as said budget shrank, filming in New York became prohibitively expensive, which necessitated both the need to film "New York" scenes in Vancouver and spend more time on the ''Lazarus''.
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* FishOutOfWater: Invoked a bit, if only for the premise that Jason, a killer who primarily operated in the woods, is now suddenly wandering in the big city (though the action aboard the cruise ship takes up most of this). The film does at least give a nod of this, mainly in the scene where a confused Jason stares at a billboard displaying a goalie wearing a hockey mask for a few seconds.
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**The two Thugs who try to rape Rennie end up getting brutally murdered by Jason.
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* SlashedThroat: Jason slashes Capt. Robertson's throat when he is checking out Jim's corpse.
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[[caption-width-right:332:Unfortunately, New York didn't hockeymask him back.]]

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* AttemptedRape: Rennie is drugged by a couple of thugs and would have been raped had not Jason, who chased her there, not [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork cleaned house himself]].

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* AttemptedRape: Rennie is drugged by a couple of thugs and would have been raped had not Jason, who chased her there, not [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork cleaned house himself]].
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->''New York has a new problem.''
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* AttemptedRape: Rennie is drugged by a couple of thugs and would have been raped had not Jason, who chased her there, not cleaned house himself.

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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Where the finale happens.
* AlliterativeName: J.J. Jarrett and her buddy Wayne Webber.
* AssholeVictim: Charles is probably the strongest example since his every second on screen seems to be devoted to making you cheer when Jason finally drowns his ass in a barrel of sewage.
* AttemptedRape: Rennie is drugged by a couple of thugs and would have been raped had not Jason, who chased her there, not [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork cleaned house himself.himself]].



* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the scenes were actually shot in Vancouver, Canada.
* CameraFiend: Wayne.
* CarFu: Rennie attempts to kill Jason with a police car.



* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie was supposed to be one-third on the boat, and two-thirds in New York, but budgetary concerns caused the studio to force the director to reverse the ratio.
* GainaxEnding: At the end, Jason gets his with a flood of toxic waste, causing him to become a little boy in swim trunks--apparently his child-self that drowned in Crystal Lake.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: ClosedCircle: The movie cruise ship.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The events leading up to Jason's revival. Jimmy and Suzie are on a boat in Crystal Lake. Jimmy lowers the anchor, which lands on an underwater powerline. Jason's body is just coincidentally right next to it and the anchor starts rubbing the powerline, electrifying Jason's body and bringing him back alive. Even more coincidentally, Jimmy also just happens to have a hockey mask in his boat for Jason to put on.
* CutPhoneLines: Jason cuts the radio communications from the ship Lazarus. Which is rather knowledgeable from one who has never been near the ocean in his life (or unlife, if you prefer).
* DestinationDefenestration: When Charles attempts to run away from Jason, he teleports ahead of him and throws him through a window.
* {{Determinator}}: Jason, oddly so as he shoves off all the easy potential victims just to get the remaining protagonists.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: After Rennie crashes the police car, it blows up.
* EvilOverlooker
* {{Expy}}: The unnamed deckhand for Crazy Ralph from the first two films.
* EyeScream: Jason gets stabbed into the eye with an ink pen (that
was supposed to be one-third on allegedly used by StephenKing) by Rennie.
* FlareGun: [=McCulloch=] grabs a flare gun when he goes looking for
the boat, and two-thirds deckhand.
* FountainOfYouth: [[spoiler: Toxic waste
in the [[BigApplesauce New York, but budgetary concerns caused the studio York]] sewers does this to force the director to reverse the ratio.
Jason... for some reason.]]
* GainaxEnding: At the end, [[spoiler: Jason gets his with a flood of drowns in toxic waste, causing him to become waste and as it lowers it reveals that Jason has turned into a little boy in swim trunks--apparently his child-self that drowned in Crystal Lake.]]
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Julius tries to bring Jason down with his fists, [[OffWithHisHead but it doesn't end well.]]
* {{Hallucinations}}: Rennie is haunted by hallucinations of Jason as a child.



* MonumentalBattle: The original script called for the climactic battle to take place in the Statue of Liberty.

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* MonumentalBattle: The original script called InstrumentOfMurder: Jason bashes J.J.'s head in with her own guitar.
* KickTheDog: Averted. Jason was supposed to kick a barking dog at some point in a film, but KaneHodder decided it wasn't in his character.
* LetsSplitUpGang: After the ship's captain is found dead, Julius organizes a hunt-down
for Jason.
* MirrorScare: Rennie has a hallucination where she sees Jason as a child inside her cabin's mirror just before
the climactic battle to take place in the Statue of Liberty.real Jason attacks [[DangerousWindows through a window]].



* MurderByMistake: After [[BlindWithoutEm losing his glasses]], Wayne shoots the other unnamed shipmate in a fit of panic, thinking he is Jason.



* OffscreenTeleportation
* ThePenIsMightier: Rennie stabs Jason in the eye with a pen.

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* OffscreenTeleportation
NewYorkSubway: Jason chases Rennie and Sean into it.
* OffscreenTeleportation: To the point where the only thing that got in the way of some of the people survive is Jason's teleporting escapades.
* OffWithHisHead: Julius's fate.
* OneSteveLimit: There are two characters with the same first name.
* ThePenIsMightier: Rennie stabs Jason gets stabbed in the eye with a an ink pen.



* TheQuincyPunk
* VictoryByEndurance: Jason vs. a human boxer.

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* TheQuincyPunk
TheQuincyPunk: Jason briefly encounters a group of them during his visit to Manhattan.
* QuizzicalTilt: Jason does it when he sees a hockey billboard which has a mask similar to his.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Sanitation worker's death.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: [=McCulloch=] is quite literal one in Rennie's flashback.
* StaggeredZoom: Used when Rennie decides to ram Jason with police car and we're shown that she's once again seeing a hallucination of younger Jason.
* TeleportSpam: Jason spams his teleportation skills to torment Eva before strangling her.
* ThisCannotBe: [=McCulloch=]'s reaction when he sees that Jason survived the police car crash.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailer promised mayhem in New York, the ship Lazarus isn't mentioned at all.
* UseYourHead: Jason breaks the window to Rennie's cabin with his head and [[DangerousWindows attacks her]].
* VictoryByEndurance: Jason vs. a human boxer.Julius the boxer.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Jason sees the toxic waste flood headed his way, he starts vomiting.



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* WrenchWhackWellDoneSonGuy: Established between the captain Robertson and his son Sean in their initial scene. He shows regret over it later on and tells Jim to avoid putting too much pressure on his own son.
* WrenchWhack: Jason kills the sanitation worker with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own wrench]].
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* ExecutiveMedding: The movie was supposed to be one-third on the boat, and two-thirds in New York, but budgetary concerns caused the studio to force the director to reverse the ratio.

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* GainaxEnding: At the end, Jason gets his with a flood of toxic waste, causing him to become a little boy in gswim trunks--apparently his child-self that drowned in Crystal Lake.

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* ExecutiveMedding: The movie was supposed to be one-third on the boat, and two-thirds in New York, but budgetary concerns caused the studio to force the director to reverse the ratio.
* GainaxEnding: At the end, Jason gets his with a flood of toxic waste, causing him to become a little boy in gswim swim trunks--apparently his child-self that drowned in Crystal Lake.



* ThePenIsMightier: Rennie stabs Jason in the eye with a pen

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* OffscreenTeleportation
* ThePenIsMightier: Rennie stabs Jason in the eye with a penpen.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Boxing with Jason is just a bad idea.
* TheQuincyPunk
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* AttemptedRape: Rennie is drugged by a couple of thugs and would have been raped had not Jason, who chased her there, not cleaned house himself.


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* CityOfWeirdos: Jason is a hulking undead serial killer in a hockey mask, and he ''still'' isn't the weirdest thing in New York.
* GainaxEnding: At the end, Jason gets his with a flood of toxic waste, causing him to become a little boy in gswim trunks--apparently his child-self that drowned in Crystal Lake.
* GratuitousRape: Fortunately (sort of) Jason is there to break it up.


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* NewYorkCityCops
* ThePenIsMightier: Rennie stabs Jason in the eye with a pen
* VictoryByEndurance: Jason vs. a human boxer.
* WalkDontSwim: A deleted scene would have showed Jason doing this.


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* ZombieGait: Technically Jason has been undead for a long time by now, but he really gets the walk after getting hit in the face with some toxic waste.

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New York City, of course.

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[[BigApplesauce New York City, City]], of course.



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* TheBigRottenApple: New York in the 1980s was exactly the sort of wretched hive that Jason could call home.
* HarpoonGun: However, after being at the bottom of a lake for a year, Jason does have the coordination to properly pull back the rubber band on it. No problem--he stabs a girl with the ''whole harpoon gun''.
* MonumentalBattle: The original script called for the climactic battle to take place in the Statue of Liberty.
* MuggingTheMonster: Two street toughs confront Jason after he kicks their boom box. He just turns around and lifts his mask at them. The run away at top speed.
* WrenchWhack
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The eighth ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' film.

For years the specter of Jason Voorhees has been haunting Camp Crystal Lake, stalking and killing horny teenagers just like his dear old mom taught him. However, for the last year, Jason has been hanging out at the bottom of Crystal Lake itself, and is now in the mood for a vacation after being awakened by a bunch of teenagers on a pleasure boat (whom he then kills). So where does an undead serial killer go to unwind where he can just be himself?

New York City, of course.
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