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->''"I really like this one. it's like an 80s horror film."''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety MrCreepypasta]] on Jeff's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_23mSZDF1A sequel]]'''
''[[https://creepypastaclassics.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer Jeff the Killer]]'' is a particularly infamous {{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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]". A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
This is a combination of [[http://www.dailydot.com/lol/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/ original research]] and memories of former ED editors, whose words must be taken at face value because in 2011 most of the relevant image discussion pages and user profiles for ED [[MissingEpisode were deleted in their entirety]] when the lead admin attempted to erase the site off the internet; though ED was resurrected, the discussion pages with any information relevant to the case were not recovered. However, like everything else on the Internet, [[MultipleChoicePast one person's guess is as good as anyone else's]].
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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[{{Pun}} crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied on 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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!!Tropes associated with Jeff the Killer:
* {{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]].
* 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.
** In one interpretation, a story simply entitled "Jeff", he looks completely normal, with no real deformities except for eyes that turn red the angrier he gets.
* 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.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: At best, this is the {{Fandom}}'s semi-{{canon}}ical depiction of him.
* CopHater: In ''Jane The Killer'', Jane's father is an ex-cop who now hates them, as he was framed for stealing drugs and was forced to leave. He enforces a strict "no cop" policy.
* CrapsackWorld: You know the neighbourhood 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? That neighbourhood 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."
* 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}}:
** Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday]]. (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
* 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:
** ''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 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.
* {{MST}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPPpfHclyA BAD]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOwDHMjKpM CREEPY]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcf7Iij5PA PASTA]] has done an MST'd reading of the story in a very lemony, snarky way. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i520aRuZXLo The Internet Historian]] and some other Youtubers got in on the fun as well.
* 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.
* NothingIsScarier: Averted, and is one of the main reasons the story isn't considered scary at all. We know everything about who Jeff is and why he is the way he is.
* 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.
* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less-popular sequel called ''Jeff Is Back'', which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...
* 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.
* 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 infamous in the story.
* 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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->''"I really like this one. it's like an 80s horror film."''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety MrCreepypasta]] on Jeff's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_23mSZDF1A sequel]]'''
''[[https://creepypastaclassics.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer Jeff the Killer]]'' is a particularly infamous {{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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]". A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
This is a combination of [[http://www.dailydot.com/lol/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/ original research]] and memories of former ED editors, whose words must be taken at face value because in 2011 most of the relevant image discussion pages and user profiles for ED [[MissingEpisode were deleted in their entirety]] when the lead admin attempted to erase the site off the internet; though ED was resurrected, the discussion pages with any information relevant to the case were not recovered. However, like everything else on the Internet, [[MultipleChoicePast one person's guess is as good as anyone else's]].
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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[{{Pun}} crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied on 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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!!Tropes associated with Jeff the Killer:
* {{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]].
* 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.
** In one interpretation, a story simply entitled "Jeff", he looks completely normal, with no real deformities except for eyes that turn red the angrier he gets.
* 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.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: At best, this is the {{Fandom}}'s semi-{{canon}}ical depiction of him.
* CopHater: In ''Jane The Killer'', Jane's father is an ex-cop who now hates them, as he was framed for stealing drugs and was forced to leave. He enforces a strict "no cop" policy.
* CrapsackWorld: You know the neighbourhood 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? That neighbourhood 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."
* 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}}:
** Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday]]. (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
* 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:
** ''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 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.
* {{MST}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPPpfHclyA BAD]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOwDHMjKpM CREEPY]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcf7Iij5PA PASTA]] has done an MST'd reading of the story in a very lemony, snarky way. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i520aRuZXLo The Internet Historian]] and some other Youtubers got in on the fun as well.
* 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.
* NothingIsScarier: Averted, and is one of the main reasons the story isn't considered scary at all. We know everything about who Jeff is and why he is the way he is.
* 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.
* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less-popular sequel called ''Jeff Is Back'', which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...
* 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.
* 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 infamous in the story.
* 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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->''"I really like this one. it's like an 80s horror film."''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety MrCreepypasta]] on Jeff's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_23mSZDF1A sequel]]'''
''[[https://creepypastaclassics.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer Jeff the Killer]]'' is a particularly infamous {{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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]". A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
This is a combination of [[http://www.dailydot.com/lol/4chan-x-origins-jeff-the-killer/ original research]] and memories of former ED editors, whose words must be taken at face value because in 2011 most of the relevant image discussion pages and user profiles for ED [[MissingEpisode were deleted in their entirety]] when the lead admin attempted to erase the site off the internet; though ED was resurrected, the discussion pages with any information relevant to the case were not recovered. However, like everything else on the Internet, [[MultipleChoicePast one person's guess is as good as anyone else's]].
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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[{{Pun}} crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied on 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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!!Tropes associated with Jeff the Killer:
* {{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]].
* 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.
** In one interpretation, a story simply entitled "Jeff", he looks completely normal, with no real deformities except for eyes that turn red the angrier he gets.
* 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.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: At best, this is the {{Fandom}}'s semi-{{canon}}ical depiction of him.
* CopHater: In ''Jane The Killer'', Jane's father is an ex-cop who now hates them, as he was framed for stealing drugs and was forced to leave. He enforces a strict "no cop" policy.
* CrapsackWorld: You know the neighbourhood 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? That neighbourhood 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."
* 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}}:
** Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday]]. (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
* 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:
** ''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 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.
* {{MST}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPPpfHclyA BAD]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKOwDHMjKpM CREEPY]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcf7Iij5PA PASTA]] has done an MST'd reading of the story in a very lemony, snarky way. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i520aRuZXLo The Internet Historian]] and some other Youtubers got in on the fun as well.
* 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.
* NothingIsScarier: Averted, and is one of the main reasons the story isn't considered scary at all. We know everything about who Jeff is and why he is the way he is.
* 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.
* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less-popular sequel called ''Jeff Is Back'', which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...
* 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.
* 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 infamous in the story.
* 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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* 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 shows no remorse for doing so.
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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 shows show no remorse for doing so.
* 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 ".
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* 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 infamous in the story.
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* 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 say, the author never clarified, and the name is just one of the many infamous in the story.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Presumably how [[FatBastard Troy]] can jump over a fence on a skateboard.
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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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
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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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
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[[https://creepypastaclassics.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer Jeff the Killer]] is a particularly infamous {{Creepypasta}}.
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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 Website/TrollpastaWiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written Creepypastas (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was also criticized for the fact that while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied by 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied by 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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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'' Creepypasta Wiki and placed on its sister site, the Website/TrollpastaWiki, Trollpasta Wiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written poorly written Creepypastas (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, 2015 but was also criticized for the fact that that, while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bulliedby on 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," jpg]]". A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
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** One interpretation, in a story simply entitled "Jeff," he looks completely normal, with no real deformities except for eyes that turn red the angrier he gets.
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** One In one interpretation, in a story simply entitled "Jeff," "Jeff", he looks completely normal, with no real deformities except for eyes that turn red the angrier he gets.
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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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** 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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** Household bleach is fairly dilute 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.
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** Household bleach is fairly dilute 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.
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** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' with a knife is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
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** Jeff and Liu's parents certainly aren't exactly great given (given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that SanitySlippage, which has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' ''mutilate himself with a knife knife'', is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
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** "Jeff's mother hugs Jeff"
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** "Jeff's mother hugs Jeff"Jeff".
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** 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.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has been shown in Jeff the Killer vs Jane the Killer that he will not hurt a baby.
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** Randy, Troy and Keith Keith, implied to be 12 12, somehow have the ability to obtain knives and guns.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Has been shown inJeff ''Jeff the Killer vs Jane the Killer Killer'' that he will not hurt a baby.
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** Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face in particular is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday.]] (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday.]] (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
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** Of ComicBook/TheJoker. His face face, in particular particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a GlasgowGrin like the ''Dark Knight'' version.
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote BeyondBirthday.]] Birthday]]. (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond
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* FatBastard: Troy, one of the bullies in the story, was implied to be very fat.
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* FatBastard: Troy, one of the bullies in the story, was is implied to be very fat.
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* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on doing so.
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* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on for doing so.
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* 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'.
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* 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', "Lou", or 'Louie'."Louie".
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* PoliceAreUseless: "We found three kids, ''two stabbed''" Keith was the only one who got stabbed, the Police have got bad information.
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* PoliceAreUseless: "We found three kids, ''two stabbed''" stabbed''." Keith was the only one who got stabbed, so the Police police have got bad information.
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* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less-popular sequel called "Jeff Is Back", which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...
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* {{Sequel}}: There's a slightly less-popular sequel called "Jeff ''Jeff Is Back", Back'', which manages to have better writing but is still relatively the same...
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* 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.
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* UngratefulBastard: After killing his parents, Jeff Jeff, for some reason reason, decides to kill his brother, even though his brother took the blame for attacking Randy and company.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: "Go to sleep."
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* CharacterCatchphrase: Jeff's "Go to sleep."
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* BookEnds: The News article that opens the pasta has an already crazy Jeff say ”go to sleep” to a Young boy before trying to kill him while the pasta itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Luo before stabbing him to death.
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* BookEnds: The News news article that opens the pasta story has an already crazy Jeff say ”go "go to sleep” sleep" to a Young young boy before trying to kill him while the pasta story itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Luo before stabbing Liu, gripping him as he gets ready to death.plunge the knife.
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* CatchPhrase: "Go to sleep."
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* PlotHole: Many, but these are just a few.
** This one tends to stand out the most. Though it technically was self-defense, absolutely no charges are ever pressed against Jeff for killing one, and if Troy and Keith also died, then three people. If Liu was sent to juvie for just one incident that was also self-defense[[note]] Though to be fair, the cops who arrested Liu didn't know that.[[/note]], it's rather jarring that Jeff didn't face any consequences.
** The fact that after Randy, Troy and Keith die, they're never mentioned again, and it's not even clear if Troy and Keith actually died.
** How Liu got his injuries is never explained.
** How Randy is able to use his wrists despite Jeff breaking one of them a few days prior.
** Jeff receives a stab wound and gets the shit beaten out of him at the party, but his burned face seems to be the only thing he is treated for at the hospital.
** This one tends to stand out the most. Though it technically was self-defense, absolutely no charges are ever pressed against Jeff for killing one, and if Troy and Keith also died, then three people. If Liu was sent to juvie for just one incident that was also self-defense[[note]] Though to be fair, the cops who arrested Liu didn't know that.[[/note]], it's rather jarring that Jeff didn't face any consequences.
** The fact that after Randy, Troy and Keith die, they're never mentioned again, and it's not even clear if Troy and Keith actually died.
** How Liu got his injuries is never explained.
** How Randy is able to use his wrists despite Jeff breaking one of them a few days prior.
** Jeff receives a stab wound and gets the shit beaten out of him at the party, but his burned face seems to be the only thing he is treated for at the hospital.
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* BookEnds: The News article that opens the pasta has an already crazy Jeff say ”go to sleep” to a Young boy before trying to kill him while the pasta itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Luo before stabbing him to death.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* UngratefulBastard: After killing his parents, Jeff for some reason decides to kill his brother, even though his brother took the blame for attacking Randy, Randy and company.
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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. Not a bottle of bleach, or even a jar of bleach, but a thing of bleach!
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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. Not bleach, rather than a bottle of bleach, or even a jar of bleach, but a thing of bleach!jar.
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** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[LightNovel/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday.]] (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
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** When it comes to people drawing him, he often times unintentionally turns out looking like [[LightNovel/AnotherNote [[Literature/AnotherNote Beyond Birthday.]] (Or, at least what they ''think'' Beyond Birthday looks like; his description in the novel is quite vague.)
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* NothingIsScarier: Averted, and is one of the main reasons the story isn't considered scary at all. We know everything about who Jeff is and why he is the way he is.
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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 (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was also criticized for the fact that while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
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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, Website/TrollpastaWiki, dedicated to non-serious and poorly-written Creepypastas (referred to at one point on the Wiki as [[JustForPun crappypastas]]). A [[Literature/JeffTheKiller2015 remake]] was posted in 2015, but was also criticized for the fact that while it managed to fix the broken grammar and plot holes, it still wasn't that great overall.
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* 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.
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both the joy.jpg and the deranged version were before jtk
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced with a 2005 edit of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
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** Unbelievably the ''prose'' uses this; Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach.
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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.bleach. Not a bottle of bleach, or even a jar of bleach, but a thing of bleach!
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* ActionPrologue: The opening to the story starts with a child retelling his account of nearly being stabbed by Jeff.
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* ActionPrologue: The opening to of the story starts with a child retelling his account of nearly being stabbed by Jeff.
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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 lagopthalmos. 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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** 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 lagopthalmos.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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** 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 the 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 the 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 and Liu's parents are certainly aren't exactly great given the he mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' with a knife is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
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** Jeff and Liu's parents are certainly aren't exactly great given the he mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' with a knife is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
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** Randy, Troy and Keith implied to be 12 somehow have the ability of obtaining to obtain knives and guns.
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** The original story also uses this trope, as police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for "attacking" Randy.
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** 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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* MyNaymeIs: Assuming that Liu isn't supposed to adopted, or the use of a foreign name, and is just a really weird spelling of 'Lou', or 'Louie'.
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* 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'.
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** Jeff receives a stab wound and gets the shit beaten out him at the party, but his burned face seems to be the only thing he is treated for at the hospital.
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* KnifeNut: Jeff is rarely seen without a knife of some kind.
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Fluffy The Terrible is for dangerous animals with cutesy names. Jeff is human...ish, so Tom The Dark Lord is more suitable.
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," traced back to a shock image around the year 2005 in japanese circles of a Photoshopped image of a middle-aged asian woman, but the original photo hasn't been recovered. A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008. Channel blameitonjorge documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," traced back to a shock image around the year 2005 in japanese circles of a Photoshopped image of a middle-aged asian woman, but the original photo hasn't been recovered. jpg]]," A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008. Channel blameitonjorge documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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The origin of the image associated with the Creepypasta may be more interesting than the story itself. For years, multiple rumors flew around the image, including that it was an edited photo of an overweight girl who was bullied by 4Chan and killed herself, or that it was an edited photo of an early camgirl. In 2015, Sesseur claimed in an interview that he made the image himself with a latex mask and some makeup. But shortly after, copies of the image and its alt were found on the Japanese internet dating back to years before Sesseur's first post, as far back as 2005. According to sources on the Japanese internet, including some of the earliest uploaders of the image, the original image was part of a video of a middle-aged woman getting close to the camera, causing her face to appear white, although this image or video has never been found and may well be lost to time, assuming these rumors are even true. [=YouTuber=] blameitonjorge has documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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The story of the bullied girl has been revealed to be a hoax, this video documents it as the image was stolen for a prank in poor taste in 4chan.
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg 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 Website/YouTube soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
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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 "[[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8FwiK6ti--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18vxahbvpu1cdjpg.jpg joy.jpg]]," which may or may not have been traced back to a heavily shock image around the year 2005 in japanese circles of a Photoshopped picture image of an overweight girl used to bully her two years before. a middle-aged asian woman, but the original photo hasn't been recovered. A video on Website/YouTube soon surfaced of this picture edited to be [[NightmareFace deranged and scary]] in October of 2008.
2008. Channel blameitonjorge documented the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVAie3i18SA search for this image.]]
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** KnightTemplarBigBrother: Jeff's first kills were a group of bullies who stole Liu's wallet and threatened both of them with a knife.
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* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Jeff's first kills were a group of bullies who stole Liu's wallet and threatened both of them with a knife.
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** Jeff and Liu's parents are certainly this in the official remake, and in the original they still aren't exactly great (beyond the aforementioned AdultsAreUseless, the mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' with a knife is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
* 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 [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk 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 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 [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk his true colors are revealed]].
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** Jeff and Liu's parents are certainly this in the official remake, and in the original they still aren't exactly great (beyond given the aforementioned AdultsAreUseless, the he mother's immediate response to Jeff's SanitySlippage that has prompted him to mutilate ''himself'' with a knife is telling her husband to [[OffingTheOffspring "get the gun"]]).
* 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 [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk his true colors are revealed]].gun"]]).
* 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 [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk his true colors are revealed]].
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Jeff makes it clear that he cares about Liu. The remake increases this trope tenfold by having Jeff spare his brother and tell him that he loves him.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Randy becomes this in the official remake. This is also how Jeff is usually portrayed.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Randy becomes this in the official remake. This is also how Jeff is usually portrayed.
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* GlasgowGrin: This is Jeff's shtick. Often makes people compare Jeff to ''Film/TheDarkKnight''[='=]s Joker.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on doing so, while they get killed in the original, but in the remake they get off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free]] which makes them even more hated.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on doing so, while they get killed in the original, but in the remake they get off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free]] which makes them even more hated.
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* GlasgowGrin: This is Jeff's shtick. Often makes people compare Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever". How he does not bleed to ''Film/TheDarkKnight''[='=]s Joker.
death from this is anyone's guess.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on doingso, while they get killed in the original, but in the remake they get off [[KarmaHoudini scot-free]] which makes them even more hated.so.
* HateSink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, they were made to be hated given by the fact they bully Jeff for fun and shows no remorse on doing
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* SlasherSmile[=/=]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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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UN8T6jQow Bridgette Near's take on Jane the Killer]], on the other hand....
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* 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? [[ThisLoserIsYou It's written in second person.]]
