History Literature / JeffTheKiller

** The remake on the other hand completely subverts this. [[PurpleProse Let's just say it overcorrected]].

* CloudCuckooLander: At best, this is the {{Fandom}}'s semi-{{canon}}ical depiction of him.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has been shown in Jeff the Killer vs Jane the Killer that he will not hurt a baby.
* EvilIsHammy: Randy has dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in a comic book.

* FightingBackIsWrong: ''Jane The Killer'', an alternate telling of the ''Jeff the Killer'' story from the point of view of a girl named Jane, features the titular character watching the confrontation between Jeff and Randy at the bus stop. Her reaction to Jeff beating up the school bully is to consider him a monstrous person hiding an inner evil. ''Bad Creepypasta'' pointed out how horrible this thinking is, pointing out that Jeff did nothing but defend himself and defeat the kid that everyone else, including Jane herself, is afraid of. The original story also uses this trope, as police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.

* InformedAttribute: Jeff doesn't really become "the killer" by the end of the remake; he only kills his parents, who he obviously murdered for personal reasons as opposed to "losing his sanity". It's not implied that he'll continue his killing spree.

* MadeOfIron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, thrown through a glass door, having a glass bottle broken over his head, being set on fire, falling down a flight of stairs, burning off his own eyelids, and giving himself a GlasgowSmile. It's shocking that he can even walk, let alone become a serial killer.

* OneHitKill: Jeff does this to Randy, [[FridgeLogic somehow.]]

** The fact that after Randy, Troy and Keith dies, they're never mentioned again, and it's not even clear if Troy and Keith actually died.

* TrophyChild: This is how Jeff and Liu's parents act in the 2015 remake. When he and his brother get in trouble for standing up to the local bullies, their parents take the side of the cops, refuse to listen to their children about what happened even when in private, and even send Liu away as punishment. This is all because the bully, Randy, is the son of their father's new boss, and they'd rather look good to their new neighbors than support their children. After Jeff is in the hospital for being hit with a flare gun, his mother is more concerned with how he'll look than if he'll be okay mentally or physically. All of this makes it no wonder they die in this version of the story.

** In a downplayed example, the bullies, while still huge jerks, never try to kill anyone in the remake. There is also no mention of them mugging other kids at knifepoint. They simply mess with Jeff and Liu's bikes and get into a fistfight with them. When they try to get revenge on Jeff later, they do it away from anyone else, and only try to beat him up, whereas in the original, they attacked him at a birthday party and threatened all those present.

** Also, Jeff seems completely fine with having a Glasgow Smile, something which usually results in fatal bleeding. In addition, receiving a Glasgow Smile and surviving makes it usually very difficult to speak, or eat, or drink, or... well, anything that requires precise movement of the jaws.

** The version which involve Jeff being doused in vodka as well as bleach fix one problem but cause another: alcohol is fairly volatile, so it's likely that some of it would have evaporated before Jeff was set on fire. The bleach would have also diluted it a fair bit, so it wouldn't have burnt as spectacularly as described, if it even caught fire at all.

* BaitTheDog: When Jeff is forced to come to Randy's house in the official remake, Randy seems like [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not such a bad guy after all]]. The impression given is somebody who only got into a fight against Jeff and Liu because he felt provoked and is willing to let bygones be bygones. As a result, the reader starts thinking he might be a RedHerring who [[NotHisSled has nothing to do with Jeffery Woods becoming Jeff the Killer]]. Even Jeff starts to like him after a while. Then he tries to force Jeff to let Keith and Troy beat him up and his true colors are revealed.

* EvilIsHammy: Randy has dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in a comicbook.

* MadeOfIron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, thrown through a glass door, having a glass bottle broken over his head, set on fire, falling down a flight of stairs, burning off his own eyelids, and giving himself a GlasgowSmile. It's shocking that he can even walk, let alone become a serial killer.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the official remake, Jeff spares Liu, and his reasons for killing his parents are more understandable since they were not particularly nice to him or Liu. The opening with him trying to kill a child is cut, and it's not even clear if he plans on continuing to kill people.

* AssholeVictim: The three kids from Jeff's origin story.

* BeigeProse: One of the story's many problems. See BuffySpeak below.

* BlackEyesOfEvil: No explanation is given for ''why'' they're black, but they're there.
** Note that sometimes fanart forgoes the black part, and often stylizes them as [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]].

* BuffySpeak: Unbelievably the ''prose'' uses this; Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Jeff is fucking strong for his age. He's able to rip a towel rack off the wall with little effort, and break another kid's wrist with even less.

* EnfantTerrible: Jeff is officially 13.

* {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face in particular is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.

* HollywoodHealing: Three days after having one of his wrists broken by Jeff, Randy is able to use his wrists just fine. Despite this, he still has a bruise on his nose from where Jeff punched him, which you think would have healed first. This is more likely a PlotHole than anything else.

* KarmaHoudini: In the remake, Randy, Keith and Troy get off scot-free by lying their way out of it. And somehow making them think Jeff ''shot himself with a flare gun.''

** TeensAreMonsters: Jeff in the end.

* StupidEvil: Despite lying to the police to get Liu arrested, Randy, Troy, and Keith have no problems attacking Jeff and trying to kill him at a birthday party with tons of witnesses. Even if Randy had won, he would have been arrested for murder. Randy even admits that he lied right in front of everyone. The three don't even have the sense to wear masks to hide their identities.

* TheUnpronounceable; A very mild case revolving around Jeff's brother Liu's name. While the name itself isn't hard to say in theory, just exactly ''how'' you're supposed to say it is where the confusion starts. People are divided between whether or not it's supposed to be said "Lee-oo" or just "Lou". A very small fraction of people think it's supposed to be pronounced like "Louie", and at least one person as evident by the WMG page has theorized that "Liu" is actually just short for his real name which is an older version of the name "Leopold" which is "''Liu''pold." Needless to say the author never clarified, and the name is just one of the many [[SnarkBait Snark Baits]] in the story.

* WouldHurtAChild: The story opens with a report detailing Jeff's attempted murder of a child.

** Don't forget Jeff killing Randy with [[Manga/OnePunchMan ONE PUNCH]].

** Jeff punching Randy in the heart which results in the latter dying is made trivially easy in the story, whereas in real life it takes several powerful blows to the heart before any ill effects take place.

It eventually become almost synonymous with Creepypasta itself, mostly known thanks to the ridiculous amount of spinoffs, as well as its infamously {{Narm}}y and unrealistic origin story, both of which have turned something originally [[RuleOfScary totally off-the-rails frightening]] into something...[[NightmareRetardant well, not so much]]. Over the years, the other well-written Creepypastas have resulted in this ''Jeff the Killer'' becoming increasingly derided and disliked, so much so that it got removed off the ''Creepypasta'' Wiki and placed on its sister site, the Wiki/TrollpastaWiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written Creepypastas. A [[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer_2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was equally criticized for the fact that while it attempted to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it also made a large number of these itself.

* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less - popular sequel called "Jeff Is Back", which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...

* SparedByAdaptation:

* {{Seque}}: There's a slightly less - popular sequel called "Jeff Is Back", which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...

* Sequel: There's a slightly less - popular sequel called "Jeff Is Back", which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...

[[https://creepypastaclassics.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer Jeff the Killer]] is a particularly infamous Trollpasta (formerly considered a {{Creepypasta}}).

* MadeOfIron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, thrown through a glass door, having a glass bottle broken over his head, set on fire, falling down a flight of stairs, burning off his own eyelids, and giving himself a GlasgowSmile. It's a shocking that he can even walk, let alone become a serial killer.

Jeff the Killer is a particularly infamous Trollpasta (formerly considered a {{Creepypasta}}).

The story was formed sort of spontaneously by a user named "Sesseur" on the old Encyclopaedia Dramatica back in 2008, based on speculation about the origin about a particularly unsettling picture on the Creepypasta article called "joy.jpg," which may or may not have been a heavily Photoshopped picture of an overweight girl used to bully her two years before. A video on [[https://www.youtube.com/ Youtube]] soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.

It eventually become almost synonymous with Creepypasta itself, mostly known thanks to the ridiculous amount of spinoffs, as well as its infamously {{Narm}}y and unrealistic origin story, both of which have turned something originally [[RuleOfScary totally off-the-rails frightening]] into something...[[NightmareRetardant well, not so much]]. Over the years, the other well-written Creepypastas have resulted in this ''Jeff the Killer'' becoming increasingly derided and disliked, so much so that it got removed off the ''Creepypasta'' Wiki and placed on its sister site, the Wiki/TrollpastaWiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written Creepypastas. A [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer_2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was equally criticized for the fact that while it attempted to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it also made a large number of these itself.

The Image is well known and is considered to be one of the scariest creepypasta images ever made.

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The Image is well known for being terrifying and is considered to be one of the scariest creepypasta images ever made.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Jeff somehow has perfect vision despite burning his eyelids off. Without eyelids in real life, a person would very quickly turn blind because of infections, their eyes drying out, or simply getting damaged by dust or foreign objects.

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Not only is bleach not flammable (something fixed in some retellings of the story, where he was drenched in alcohol as well as bleach), but bleach is a base chemical. While it does cause clothes to become washed out if bleach was left on a person's hand long-term it would cause the skin to become irritated, similar to how an acid dissolves the skin, so if Jeff weren't turned black from being burned alive he would be a lighter-than-normal pink due to the majority of his epidermis sloughing off. The only correct thing about him being drenched in bleach is his skin feeling "tight," a result of said effect of it being a base.

The Image is notorious for being terrifying (If it hasn't dissuaded you from the website) and is considered to be one of the scariest creepypasta images ever made.

* BaitTheDog: When Jeff is forced to come to Randy's house in the official remake, Randy seems like [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not such a bad guy after all]]. The impression given is somebody who only got into a fight against Jeff and Liu because he felt provoked and is willing to let bygones be bygones. Even Jeff starts to like him after a while. Then he tries to force Jeff to let Keith and Troy beat him up and his true colors are revealed.

* BaitTheDog: When Jeff is forced to come to Randy's house in the official remake, Randy seems like [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he's not such a bad guy after all]]. The impression given is somebody who only acted out against Jeff and Liu because he felt provoked and is willing to let bygones be bygones. Even Jeff starts to like him after a while. Then he tries to force Jeff to let Keith and Troy beat him up and his true colors are revealed.

* AdaptationalNameChange: In ''Jeff the Killer (My Version)'', Liu is called Andy. Randy, Keith, and Troy become Michael, Stephen, and Greg respectively.
* AdultsAreUseless: None of the parents step in to break up the fight between Jeff, and the bullies. While they do have guns, and use them, you'd ''think'' that someone would try to disarm them while they're distracted, but nope. Nobody does anything till most of them are dead, and Jeff is on fire.
* AerithAndBob[=/=]OddNameOut: Most of the names are all standard, normal American names, and then there's Jeff's brother [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Liu]].

** The remake on the other hand completely subverts this. [[PurpleProse It doesn't improve the story.]]

* TheUnpronounceable; A very mild case revolving around Jeff's brother Liu's name. While the name itself isn't hard to say in theory, just exactly ''how'' you're supposed to say it is where the confusion starts. People are divided between whether or not it's supposed to be said "Lee-oo" or just "Lou". A very small fraction of people think it's supposed to be pronounced like "Louie", and at least one person as evident by the WMG page has theorized that "Liu" is actually just short for his real name which is an older version of the name "Leopold" which is "''Liu''pold. Needless to say the author never clarified, and the name is just one of the many [[SnarkBait Snark Baits]] in the story.

It eventually become almost synonymous with Creepypasta itself, mostly known thanks to the ridiculous amount of spinoffs, as well as its infamously {{Narm}}y and unrealistic origin story, both of which have turned something originally [[RuleOfScary totally off-the-rails frightening]] into something...[[NightmareRetardant well, not so much]]. Over the years, the other well-written Creepypastas have resulted in this ''Jeff the Killer'' becoming increasingly derided and disliked, so much so that it got removed off the ''Creepypasta'' Wiki and placed on its sister site, the ''Trollpasta'' Wiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written Creepypastas. A [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer_2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was equally criticized for the fact that while it attempted to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it also made a large number of these itself.

* YouBastard: The entire purpose of the story "Jeff." It features a nameless character being captured by a more human-looking Jeff, who calls them out on using pictures of his murders and posting them in message boards for shits and giggles. At the climax, Jeff forces them to remove the heart of one of his already horrifically mutilated victims. Oh, and the kicker? [[TheLoserIsYou It's written in second person.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Turns into this in the Worm Jeff saga.