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** Jeff's parents are named Peter and Margert, it wasn't till elven years after the original video was released that sessuer revealed Jeff's parents as Jeffery Sr and Elizabeth.
** Jeff's brother is Liu, even though sessuer later revealed Jeff's brother's full name is Roman Liu Hodek.
** Jeff's parents are named Peter and Margert, it wasn't till elven years after the original video was released that sessuer revealed Jeff's parents as Jeffery Sr and Elizabeth.
** Jeff's brother is Liu, even though sessuer later revealed Jeff's brother's full name is Roman Liu Hodek.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Jeff kills his parents and brother, even though the original Jeff killed neither of them.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Jeff kills his parents and probably his brother, even though the original Jeff killed neither of them.
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* {{Expy}}: ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
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* {{Expy}}: ComicBook/TheJoker. His Jeff's face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, original incarnation of ComicBook/TheJoker, and has a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
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* FightingBackIsWrong: The he police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
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* FightingBackIsWrong: The he police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.attacking Randy and co, even though they tried to mug Jeff and Liu.
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** Jeff claims cutting his eyelids off would allow him to never sleep again. In reality, people can sleep with their eyes open in a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos. In addition, it is impossible to completely stop sleeping without dying (see fatal familial insomnia); the longest time someone has spent without sleeping without any stimulants is 11 days, and long before that point, the brain will force any but the most resilient (or the most drugged up) individuals to fall asleep.
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** Also, the ''doctor'', no less, claims that Jeff's insane laughter is a result of the Anesthetics they use. While this is a possible symptom of coming out of anesthesia, anesthetized patients are far more likely to babble and speak either coherent or incoherent nonsense. Watch some videos of dental patients waking up and talking for the first time after surgery for proof.
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** Also, the ''doctor'', no less, claims that Jeff's insane laughter is a result of the Anesthetics they use. While this is a possible symptom of coming out of anesthesia, anesthetized patients are far more likely to babble and speak either coherent or incoherent nonsense. Watch some videos of dental patients waking up and talking for the first time after surgery for proof.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff and Liu are shown to care for eachother before the incident, but who is the older is not established.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff and Liu are shown to care for eachother each other before the incident, but who is the older is not established.
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* BeigeProse: One of the story's many problems. See BuffySpeak below.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff makes it clear that he cares about Liu.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff makes it clear that he cares about Liu.
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** The conflict the brother have with Randy and co is started by Jeff beating them up for taking Liu's wallet despite Liu trying to calm Jeff down.
** Liu shows protectiveness when he
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** Unbelievably the ''prose'' uses this; during Jeff's final confrontation with the bullies, Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach, rather than a bottle or even a jar.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** Jeff despite being fully human is somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive and horrific self-mutilation.
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**AmbiguouslyHuman: Jeff despite being fully human is somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive and horrific self-mutilation.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's says the phrase "Go to sleep."sleep" before he kills his victims.
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* EnfantTerrible:
** Jeff is officially 13.
** Randy, Troy and Keith, implied to be 12, somehow have the ability to obtain knives and guns.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has been shown in ''Jeff the Killer vs Jane the Killer'' that he will not hurt a baby.
** Jeff is officially 13.
** Randy, Troy and Keith, implied to be 12, somehow have the ability to obtain knives and guns.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has been shown in ''Jeff the Killer vs Jane the Killer'' that he will not hurt a baby.
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* GlasgowGrin: Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever". How he does not bleed to death from this is anyone's guess.
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* GlasgowGrin: Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever". How he does not bleed to death from this is anyone's guess.
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** The trio of bullies certainly qualify, being downright ''cartoonish'' and willing to murder Jeff themselves.
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** The trio of bullies Randy, Troy, and Keith certainly qualify, mugging fellow students and being downright ''cartoonish'' and willing to murder Jeff themselves.
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* TomTheDarkLord: "Jeff" isn't exactly the most frightening of names.
* TragicVillain: An attempt to make Jeff sympathetic is made. It doesn't work very well.
* TragicVillain: An attempt to make Jeff sympathetic is made. It doesn't work very well.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police arrest Liu after he [[FalseConfession falsely confesses]] to attacking Randy and co, is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation. The boy in prologue is saved because the police show up shockingly f
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* MorePopularSpinoff: This story is the defining version of Jeff the Killer despite not being the original.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The story is sixteen pages long, despite the original being less then two and half minutes.
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* AerithAndBob[=/=]OddNameOut: Most of the names are all standard, normal American names, and then there's Jeff's brother [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Liu]].
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* AerithAndBob[=/=]OddNameOut: AerithAndBob: Most of the names are all standard, normal American names, and then there's Jeff's brother [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Liu]].
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* BullyingADragon: Again, the three kids from Jeff's origin story.
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* MorePopularSpinoff: This story is the defining version of Jeff the Killer despite not being the original.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police arrest Liu after he [[FalseConfession falsely confesses]] to attacking Randy and co, is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police arrest Liu after he [[FalseConfession falsely confesses]] to attacking Randy and co, is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation. The boy in prologue is saved because the police show up shockingly f
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** In the original story, Jeff is -- despite being fully human -- somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive AND horrific self-mutilation.
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** In the original story, Jeff is -- despite being fully human -- is somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive AND and horrific self-mutilation.
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** Despite only being a child, Jeff is ridiculously strong, being able to break bones like twigs, and tear a towel rack off a wall effortlessly -- cement, tiles, grout and metal joints be damned!
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** 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 exactly the right conditions to cause this to happen. Normally it takes several powerful hits to the chest to cause death, or very rarely an extraordinarily traumatic impact at just the wrong moment during the heart's compression cycle which causes fatal arrhythmia.[[note]]This sadly happened to a Junior Varsity softball player attending Ramona High School in 2013, when he was hit in the chest by a fastball.[[/note]] Though, given the over-the-top nature of the fic, the implication might be that Jeff just hit Randy so hard it shattered his ribs, which could have pierced his heart and killed him.
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** 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 exactly the right conditions to cause this to happen. Normally it takes several powerful hits to the chest to cause death, or very rarely an extraordinarily traumatic impact at just the wrong moment during the heart's compression cycle which causes fatal arrhythmia.[[note]]This sadly happened to a Junior Varsity softball player attending Ramona High School in 2013, when he was hit in the chest by a fastball.[[/note]] Though, given the over-the-top nature of the fic, the implication might be that Jeff just hit Randy so hard it shattered his ribs, which could have pierced his heart and killed him.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Liu is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Liu [[FalseConfession falsely confesses]] to attacking Randy and co and is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
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* AssholeVictim:
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great (given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to ''mutilate himself with a knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great (given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to ''mutilate himself with a knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
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* AssholeVictim:
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
**AssholeVictim: Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great (given given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to ''mutilate himself with a knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
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* FightingBackIsWrong: The original story also uses this trope, as the police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
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* FightingBackIsWrong: The original story also uses this trope, as the he police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
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* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, were made to be hated given the fact they bully Jeff for fun and show no remorse for doing so.
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* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, were made who try to be hated given extort Jeff and Liu. To avenge getting beaten up, the trio attempt to attack Jeff at a party while threatening the guests with guns, despite the fact they bully Jeff that Jeff's brother Liu went to Juvie for fun and show no remorse for doing so.said fight.
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** Four 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.
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** Four 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.
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* KarmaHoudini: Jeff himself is this. The original has him kill his whole family and go on to become a serial killer, [[WouldHurtAChild with no qualms against murdering children]]. The story offers no indication that he will be brought to justice anytime soon.
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* KarmaHoudini: Jeff himself is this. The original has him kill kills his whole family and go on to become a serial killer, [[WouldHurtAChild with no qualms against murdering children]]. The story offers no indication that he will be brought to justice anytime soon.
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* OneHitKill: Jeff does this to Randy, [[FridgeLogic somehow]].
* PoliceAreUseless: "We found three kids, ''two stabbed''." Keith was the only one who got stabbed, so the police have got bad information.
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* OneHitKill: Jeff does this kills Randy with a single punch to Randy, [[FridgeLogic somehow]].
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* PoliceAreUseless:"We found three kids, ''two stabbed''." Keith was the only one who got stabbed, so the The police have got bad information.arrest Liu after he [[FalseConfession falsely confesses]] to attacking Randy and co, is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
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* TeensAreMonsters: The trio of bullies certainly qualify, being downright ''cartoonish'' in the original and willing to murder Jeff themselves. And of course, Jeff himself in the end.
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** The trio of bullies certainly qualify, being downright ''cartoonish''in the original and willing to murder Jeff themselves. And of course, themselves.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: The FatBastard Troy can somehow jump over a fence on a skateboard.
* ActionPrologue: The opening of the story starts with a child retelling his account of nearly being stabbed by Jeff.
* 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]].
* AgeLift: Jeff and Liu are aged down to teenagers rather than young adults.
* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** In the original story, Jeff is -- despite being fully human -- somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive AND horrific self-mutilation.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Despite only being a child, Jeff is ridiculously strong, being able to break bones like twigs, and tear a towel rack off a wall effortlessly -- cement, tiles, grout and metal joints be damned!
** 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, with the only way of preventing this being to constantly hydrate the exposed eyes, a costly and tedious affair.
** Also, Jeff seems completely fine with having a GlasgowGrin, 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.
** Jeff claims cutting his eyelids off would allow him to never sleep again. In reality, people can sleep with their eyes open in a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos. In addition, it is impossible to completely stop sleeping without dying (see fatal familial insomnia); the longest time someone has spent without sleeping without any stimulants is 11 days, and long before that point, the brain will force any but the most resilient (or the most drugged up) individuals to fall asleep.
** The fact that apparently bleach makes skin turn pure white. In reality, bleach can irritate the skin depending on its concentration, making it turn red and inflamed. First and second-degree burns also make the skin red and inflamed, so even these in combination wouldn't have had the claimed effect.
** The fact that the fire dyed his hair black instead of burning it all off or turning it grey and crusty.
** Also, the ''doctor'', no less, claims that Jeff's insane laughter is a result of the Anesthetics they use. While this is a possible symptom of coming out of anesthesia, anesthetized patients are far more likely to babble and speak either coherent or incoherent nonsense. Watch some videos of dental patients waking up and talking for the first time after surgery for proof.
** 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 exactly the right conditions to cause this to happen. Normally it takes several powerful hits to the chest to cause death, or very rarely an extraordinarily traumatic impact at just the wrong moment during the heart's compression cycle which causes fatal arrhythmia.[[note]]This sadly happened to a Junior Varsity softball player attending Ramona High School in 2013, when he was hit in the chest by a fastball.[[/note]] Though, given the over-the-top nature of the fic, the implication might be that Jeff just hit Randy so hard it shattered his ribs, which could have pierced his heart and killed him.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry:
** Not only is bleach not flammable, but bleach is a base chemical. While it does cause clothes to become washed out by reacting with the dyes in the fabric, 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 versions 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.
** Household bleach is fairly diluted, so it doesn't really affect human skin unless it's left on there for a long time, and its damage tends to be fairly limited as long as it doesn't get inside the body through the mouth or nose or into the eyes. Presumably washing off the bleach before it did any damage was one of the first things they'd have done at the hospital, so there's really no reason why it should have affected Jeff's face at all.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Liu is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: After Jeff wakes up in the hospital, the doctor recommends his parents get him a psychiatric evaluation if anything goes wrong. Most doctors would give somebody who went through an experience as traumatic as Jeff's an evaluation as a matter of course.
* AssholeVictim:
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great (given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to ''mutilate himself with a knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
* BeigeProse: One of the story's many problems. See BuffySpeak below.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff makes it clear that he cares about Liu.
* 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]].
* BookEnds: The news article that opens the story has an already crazy Jeff say "go to sleep" to a young boy before trying to kill him while the story itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Liu, gripping him as he gets ready to plunge the knife.
* BuffySpeak:
** Unbelievably the ''prose'' uses this; during Jeff's final confrontation with the bullies, Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach, rather than a bottle or even a jar.
** One version claiming to be the original that was submitted to the Creepypasta Wiki consistently used the word "knifed" instead of "stabbed."
* BullyingADragon: Again, the three kids from Jeff's origin story.
* CanonForeigner
** Jeff's parents are original to this story. In the original Jeff does not live with them.
** Jeff's bullies Randy, Keith, and Troy are original as well. In the original Jeff accidentally disfigures himself while cleaning his bathroom.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
* CrapsackWorld: The neighborhood where young children are stabbed (and shot) to death by other young children on a regular basis and where police have the authority to act as JudgeJuryAndExecutioner, is considered to be one of the ''nicer'' places in this universe.
* DeadlyEuphemism: If you run into Jeff, pretty much the only thing you'll hear him say is "go to sleep."
* DeathByAdaptation: Jeff kills his parents and brother, even though the original Jeff killed neither of them.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "Jeff's mother hugs Jeff".
** From the newspaper excerpt at the start of the pasta: "a pair of two eyes."
* EnfantTerrible:
** Jeff is officially 13.
** Randy, Troy and Keith, implied to be 12, somehow have the ability to obtain knives and guns.
* 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.
* {{Expy}}: ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
* FatAndSkinny: Troy, to Randy and especially Keith.
* FatBastard: Troy, one of the bullies in the story, is implied to be very fat.
* FauxAffablyEvil: This is also how Jeff is usually portrayed.
* FightingBackIsWrong: The original story also uses this trope, as the police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
* GlasgowGrin: Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever". How he does not bleed to death from this is anyone's guess.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, were made to be hated given the fact they bully Jeff for fun and show no remorse for doing so.
* HollywoodHealing:
** Four 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.
** Despite Jeff being stabbed, and having the shit beaten out of him, his burns are the only things mentioned afterwards.
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens with a news report detailing one of Jeff's attempted killings, and states that he has been killing people for quite some time. The rest of the story details Jeff's StartOfDarkness.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The cops in this universe apparently operate like this, since they seemingly have the authority to sentence people on the spot with even the flimsiest of evidence.
* KarmaHoudini: Jeff himself is this. The original has him kill his whole family and go on to become a serial killer, [[WouldHurtAChild with no qualms against murdering children]]. The story offers no indication that he will be brought to justice anytime soon.
* KidsAreCruel: Randy, Keith, and Troy are all implied to be only twelve years old.
* KillItWithFire: Presumably what [[spoiler:Keith tried to do with Jeff, though it didn't actually work.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Jeff's first kills were a group of bullies who stole Liu's wallet and threatened both of them with a knife.
* LaughingMad: Jeff lets one out when he sees his deformed face in the mirror.
* LeanAndMean: Keith, one of the bullies from the story, was implied to be very skinny.
* MadeOfIron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, being kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, getting 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.
* ManOnFire: Jeff after Keith sets him ablaze.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: After Jeff disfigures himself, his mother starts thinking about killing him almost immediately.
* MyNaymeIs: Assuming that Liu isn't supposed to be adopted, or the use of a foreign name, and is just a really weird spelling of "Lou", or "Louie".
* NightmareFace: The image that started it all is ''very'' hard to get out of your head, and can be quite a shocker. The picture it was based on (hit the link in the opening paragraph for a comparison) is not at all better.
* OneHitKill: Jeff does this to Randy, [[FridgeLogic somehow]].
* PoliceAreUseless: "We found three kids, ''two stabbed''." Keith was the only one who got stabbed, so the police have got bad information.
* PracticallyJoker: Jeff is pretty much just some green hair dye away from being a perfect carbon copy of the Clown Prince of Crime himself. He has a name starting with the letter "J", a chemically bleached face [[GlasgowGrin set into a permanent hideous smile]], a tendency to kill people, an [[LaughingMad uncontrollable habit of bursting into insane laughter]] and a backstory that saw him go mad after having "one bad day ".
* SanitySlippage: The origin story is about how Jeff became a psychotic killer.
* SelfMadeOrphan: The night Jeff returns from the hospital, he kills both his parents.
* 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.
** Jeff can be considered this too, since he inflicted injuries upon himself that would severely cripple him, and eventually outright kill him.
* TakingYouWithMe: Keith presumably ''tries'' to do this with Jeff by tossing his lighter at the latter, who has been coated in vodka and bleach. Considering he vanishes from the story after this point, it's unclear if he even dies from doing this or not.
* TeensAreMonsters: The trio of bullies certainly qualify, being downright ''cartoonish'' in the original and willing to murder Jeff themselves. And of course, Jeff himself in the end.
* TerribleTrio: Randy, Troy, and Keith, the three bullies that mugged and assaulted Jeff and his brother.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Jeff" isn't exactly the most frightening of names.
* TragicVillain: An attempt to make Jeff sympathetic is made. It doesn't work very well.
* UngratefulBastard: After killing his parents, Jeff, for some reason, decides to kill his brother, even though his brother took the blame for attacking Randy and company.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being one of the three main antagonists, what happens to Troy is unclear. Unlike the other two bullies who explicitly die, he is never mentioned again after getting hit in the face with a towel rack, and falling to the floor.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The original tries to make Jeff out to be one of these. It doesn't work that well.
* WouldHurtAChild: The story opens with a report detailing Jeff's attempted murder of a child.
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!!Tropes
* {{Acrofatic}}: The FatBastard Troy can somehow jump over a fence on a skateboard.
* ActionPrologue: The opening of the story starts with a child retelling his account of nearly being stabbed by Jeff.
* 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]].
* AgeLift: Jeff and Liu are aged down to teenagers rather than young adults.
* AmbiguouslyHuman:
** In the original story, Jeff is -- despite being fully human -- somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive AND horrific self-mutilation.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Despite only being a child, Jeff is ridiculously strong, being able to break bones like twigs, and tear a towel rack off a wall effortlessly -- cement, tiles, grout and metal joints be damned!
** 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, with the only way of preventing this being to constantly hydrate the exposed eyes, a costly and tedious affair.
** Also, Jeff seems completely fine with having a GlasgowGrin, 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.
** Jeff claims cutting his eyelids off would allow him to never sleep again. In reality, people can sleep with their eyes open in a condition called nocturnal lagophthalmos. In addition, it is impossible to completely stop sleeping without dying (see fatal familial insomnia); the longest time someone has spent without sleeping without any stimulants is 11 days, and long before that point, the brain will force any but the most resilient (or the most drugged up) individuals to fall asleep.
** The fact that apparently bleach makes skin turn pure white. In reality, bleach can irritate the skin depending on its concentration, making it turn red and inflamed. First and second-degree burns also make the skin red and inflamed, so even these in combination wouldn't have had the claimed effect.
** The fact that the fire dyed his hair black instead of burning it all off or turning it grey and crusty.
** Also, the ''doctor'', no less, claims that Jeff's insane laughter is a result of the Anesthetics they use. While this is a possible symptom of coming out of anesthesia, anesthetized patients are far more likely to babble and speak either coherent or incoherent nonsense. Watch some videos of dental patients waking up and talking for the first time after surgery for proof.
** 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 exactly the right conditions to cause this to happen. Normally it takes several powerful hits to the chest to cause death, or very rarely an extraordinarily traumatic impact at just the wrong moment during the heart's compression cycle which causes fatal arrhythmia.[[note]]This sadly happened to a Junior Varsity softball player attending Ramona High School in 2013, when he was hit in the chest by a fastball.[[/note]] Though, given the over-the-top nature of the fic, the implication might be that Jeff just hit Randy so hard it shattered his ribs, which could have pierced his heart and killed him.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry:
** Not only is bleach not flammable, but bleach is a base chemical. While it does cause clothes to become washed out by reacting with the dyes in the fabric, 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 versions 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.
** Household bleach is fairly diluted, so it doesn't really affect human skin unless it's left on there for a long time, and its damage tends to be fairly limited as long as it doesn't get inside the body through the mouth or nose or into the eyes. Presumably washing off the bleach before it did any damage was one of the first things they'd have done at the hospital, so there's really no reason why it should have affected Jeff's face at all.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Liu is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: After Jeff wakes up in the hospital, the doctor recommends his parents get him a psychiatric evaluation if anything goes wrong. Most doctors would give somebody who went through an experience as traumatic as Jeff's an evaluation as a matter of course.
* AssholeVictim:
** The three kids from Jeff's origin story.
** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great (given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to ''mutilate himself with a knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
* BeigeProse: One of the story's many problems. See BuffySpeak below.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff makes it clear that he cares about Liu.
* 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]].
* BookEnds: The news article that opens the story has an already crazy Jeff say "go to sleep" to a young boy before trying to kill him while the story itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Liu, gripping him as he gets ready to plunge the knife.
* BuffySpeak:
** Unbelievably the ''prose'' uses this; during Jeff's final confrontation with the bullies, Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach, rather than a bottle or even a jar.
** One version claiming to be the original that was submitted to the Creepypasta Wiki consistently used the word "knifed" instead of "stabbed."
* BullyingADragon: Again, the three kids from Jeff's origin story.
* CanonForeigner
** Jeff's parents are original to this story. In the original Jeff does not live with them.
** Jeff's bullies Randy, Keith, and Troy are original as well. In the original Jeff accidentally disfigures himself while cleaning his bathroom.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
* CrapsackWorld: The neighborhood where young children are stabbed (and shot) to death by other young children on a regular basis and where police have the authority to act as JudgeJuryAndExecutioner, is considered to be one of the ''nicer'' places in this universe.
* DeadlyEuphemism: If you run into Jeff, pretty much the only thing you'll hear him say is "go to sleep."
* DeathByAdaptation: Jeff kills his parents and brother, even though the original Jeff killed neither of them.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
** "Jeff's mother hugs Jeff".
** From the newspaper excerpt at the start of the pasta: "a pair of two eyes."
* EnfantTerrible:
** Jeff is officially 13.
** Randy, Troy and Keith, implied to be 12, somehow have the ability to obtain knives and guns.
* 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.
* {{Expy}}: ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
* FatAndSkinny: Troy, to Randy and especially Keith.
* FatBastard: Troy, one of the bullies in the story, is implied to be very fat.
* FauxAffablyEvil: This is also how Jeff is usually portrayed.
* FightingBackIsWrong: The original story also uses this trope, as the police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
* GlasgowGrin: Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever". How he does not bleed to death from this is anyone's guess.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, were made to be hated given the fact they bully Jeff for fun and show no remorse for doing so.
* HollywoodHealing:
** Four 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.
** Despite Jeff being stabbed, and having the shit beaten out of him, his burns are the only things mentioned afterwards.
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens with a news report detailing one of Jeff's attempted killings, and states that he has been killing people for quite some time. The rest of the story details Jeff's StartOfDarkness.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The cops in this universe apparently operate like this, since they seemingly have the authority to sentence people on the spot with even the flimsiest of evidence.
* KarmaHoudini: Jeff himself is this. The original has him kill his whole family and go on to become a serial killer, [[WouldHurtAChild with no qualms against murdering children]]. The story offers no indication that he will be brought to justice anytime soon.
* KidsAreCruel: Randy, Keith, and Troy are all implied to be only twelve years old.
* KillItWithFire: Presumably what [[spoiler:Keith tried to do with Jeff, though it didn't actually work.]]
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Jeff's first kills were a group of bullies who stole Liu's wallet and threatened both of them with a knife.
* LaughingMad: Jeff lets one out when he sees his deformed face in the mirror.
* LeanAndMean: Keith, one of the bullies from the story, was implied to be very skinny.
* MadeOfIron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, being kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, getting 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.
* ManOnFire: Jeff after Keith sets him ablaze.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: After Jeff disfigures himself, his mother starts thinking about killing him almost immediately.
* MyNaymeIs: Assuming that Liu isn't supposed to be adopted, or the use of a foreign name, and is just a really weird spelling of "Lou", or "Louie".
* NightmareFace: The image that started it all is ''very'' hard to get out of your head, and can be quite a shocker. The picture it was based on (hit the link in the opening paragraph for a comparison) is not at all better.
* OneHitKill: Jeff does this to Randy, [[FridgeLogic somehow]].
* PoliceAreUseless: "We found three kids, ''two stabbed''." Keith was the only one who got stabbed, so the police have got bad information.
* PracticallyJoker: Jeff is pretty much just some green hair dye away from being a perfect carbon copy of the Clown Prince of Crime himself. He has a name starting with the letter "J", a chemically bleached face [[GlasgowGrin set into a permanent hideous smile]], a tendency to kill people, an [[LaughingMad uncontrollable habit of bursting into insane laughter]] and a backstory that saw him go mad after having "one bad day ".
* SanitySlippage: The origin story is about how Jeff became a psychotic killer.
* SelfMadeOrphan: The night Jeff returns from the hospital, he kills both his parents.
* 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.
** Jeff can be considered this too, since he inflicted injuries upon himself that would severely cripple him, and eventually outright kill him.
* TakingYouWithMe: Keith presumably ''tries'' to do this with Jeff by tossing his lighter at the latter, who has been coated in vodka and bleach. Considering he vanishes from the story after this point, it's unclear if he even dies from doing this or not.
* TeensAreMonsters: The trio of bullies certainly qualify, being downright ''cartoonish'' in the original and willing to murder Jeff themselves. And of course, Jeff himself in the end.
* TerribleTrio: Randy, Troy, and Keith, the three bullies that mugged and assaulted Jeff and his brother.
* TomTheDarkLord: "Jeff" isn't exactly the most frightening of names.
* TragicVillain: An attempt to make Jeff sympathetic is made. It doesn't work very well.
* UngratefulBastard: After killing his parents, Jeff, for some reason, decides to kill his brother, even though his brother took the blame for attacking Randy and company.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being one of the three main antagonists, what happens to Troy is unclear. Unlike the other two bullies who explicitly die, he is never mentioned again after getting hit in the face with a towel rack, and falling to the floor.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The original tries to make Jeff out to be one of these. It doesn't work that well.
* WouldHurtAChild: The story opens with a report detailing Jeff's attempted murder of a child.
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