Awesome / Freddy vs. Jason

The titans of horror prepare to clash.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked. You have been warned.

• Every fight Jason has against Freddy is this. Seeing Krueger beaten up, limbless, and desperate to survive makes any viewer satisfied that karma is totally manhandling Freddy's third-degree-burned ass. Those fights pale in comparison, however, to Freddy vs. Jason at Camp Crystal Lake:
  • Freddy realizes he's been pulled back into reality. This is bad enough for him already, but then the majorly pissed Jason flips a table out of his way as the place burns around them, a metal remix of the Jason theme starts playing, and one of film history's greatest Oh, Crap! moments begins. It's awesome.
    • Robert Englund's utterly terrified look as he sees Jason absolutely sells it. Even if you're more a Freddy fan than a Jason fan, knowing that Freddy finally found something that straight-up scares the piss out of him is awesome.
  • Freddy fires propane tanks at Jason like torpedoes — and most of them zoom past Jason as he does an Unflinching Walk.
  • "Why won't you DIE!?"
  • "Hey, asshole! UP HERE!"
    • The cable edit version ("Hey, Einstein!") works just as well, given Freddy's character.
  • At one point, Freddy is messing Jason up something fierce. First he slices off half his fingers on one hand, catching his machete as he drops it and begins hacking away at him. We've seen Jason get hit with his own weapon before, but to see him crawl away as Freddy is tearing his back to shreds with the machete was pretty damn humbling. To cap it off, Freddy rolls Jason's limp body over and shoves two of his finger blades into his eyes.
  • Once the fight is near its end, the two keep fighting even after they have clearly worn themselves down to almost nothing. Freddy slowly slides the machete into Jason's chest. Then Jason rips Freddy's freaking arm off. By this point, it could be argued that they have mangled each other worse than they have any other victim in the past, just due to the sheer fact that they're both so hard to kill.
  • When Lori and Will ignite the gas tanks at the dock, Jason and Freddy both share a weary Oh, Crap! as everything explodes. There's a rather nice shot of their flaming bodies flying into the sky and landing in the lake.
  • Jason beating Freddy in perhaps the most badass way imaginable: impaling him through the back with his own notorious weapon. And not just the bladed glove itself. He pierces Freddy's arm through his body. He then falls back into the lake, as if content.
  • To round out a fight full of awesome moments: Lori Campbell decapitates Freddy with Jason's machete.
    • And that's without mentioning the combination Pre-Mortem One-Liner/Ironic Echo she delivers to him beforehand:
      Lori: WELCOME TO MY WORLD, BITCH! [decapitates Freddy]
    • Even better, Monica Keena has said that Freddy scared her as a child. She thought her child self would be proud of her for beating Freddy.
  • After Freddy tried and failed to kick him in the balls, Jason grabs Freddy, smashing him halfway through the window (one-handed, no less), and starts running dragging him across the windows and walls, breaking them over Freddy's body. It's more awesome because it's the first time you ever seen Jason run since he chased Trish Jarvis.
  • Jason gets one in the first fight with Freddy in the dream world for actually putting up a fight at all. He tanks all of Freddy's attacks (until Freddy manages to dredge up his childhood fears) and even catches him off guard once or twice. For a while, Freddy seems actually flabbergasted by his inability to harm him.
    • To drive the point home: Freddy is a Reality Warper without equal in the dream world, able to do absolutely anything he can imagine. This still isn't enough to overcome Jason's Made of Diamond status and inflict any actual harm. Freddy actually found someone too tough for him to hurt even in their nightmares.
    • This is kind of spoiled once Freddy dredged up Jason's fear of water; after that, Jason is able to be hurt by Freddy just like any other person.
• Jason comes across a rave party in a cornfield and starts tearing a path of destruction through a ton of sex-starved teenagers while he's on fire.
  • Even better, Jason starts said massacre by throwing his flaming machete through the air, perfectly nailing the teen he was chasing right through the chest.
  • You gotta give the raver that set Jason on fire in the first place some credit: Dude just saw a tall man kill his friend by snapping his neck so hard it did an 180º, and what does he do? Throw all the beer he had on Jason, followed by grabbing one of the torches in the cornfield and set Jason ablaze. It predictably doesn't work, but you still gotta give props.
• When Mark refuses to do Freddy's bidding knowing he'll get killed. It makes you wonder what this poor kid must've gone through with his brother to finally stand up to Krueger. Freddy even terrorized him by turning into his brother prior to this.
• Kia gets a good verbal smackdown in on Freddy before he kills her. Especially the Oh, Crap! moment that Freddy has when he realizes that she's right: His infamous bladed glove? It probably won't even be capable of slowing Jason down.
  • Though she didn't expect to get axed, her distracting Freddy pretty much counts as a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Lori's declaration that she's going to make sure Freddy dies after revealing to Will that Freddy was the one who murdered her mother, thus sparking the events that led to Will being committed to Westin Hills.
  Lori: He has taken everything from us! He has ruined both of our pasts! And I am not leaving until I SEE HIM DIE!
• Jason killing the raver who attempted to rape Gibb. Sure, Gibb dies as well, but it was better than her current situation, and shows that Jason does have something humanizing him other than his devotion for his mother and him staying away from killing children.
  • Subverted, in that Jason could not have known that Gibb was being tormented by Freddy in the dream world, and wouldn't have cared that she was about to be raped in the real world. But intention or not, he did save her from both of those experiences.
• As monstrous as Freddy is, it takes guts to screw with a juggernaut like Jason during their first fight. He allows the Camp Crystal Killer to chop off his arms, then acts like he's been already defeated before making his severed limbs reappear and sarcastically quipping "Ooo, scary".
• Another for Freddy is when he's pulled into the real world, which reduces him from a Reality Warper to a tougher than average Fragile Speedster. He sees Jason and pulls an Oh, Crap! face, but then faces his considerably stronger foe down and actually gives him a tough fight, using the fact that Freddy is much smaller and faster than the Mighty Glacier that is Jason.
• Freddy's narration in the opening focuses on some of the people who have overpowered him and kicked the crap out of him, including Nancy Thompson, Alice Johnson, Tracey, Doc, and Maggie Burroughs. While Nancy was naturally going to be mentioned, that the film's willing to acknowledge the roles Alice and the others took in beating Freddy despite the criticisms aimed at the movies they were featured in goes to show they earned their places as worthy adversaries.
• The scrapped ending sounds like it would have been made of awesome if ever realized into a sequel. Freddy and Jason are still duking it out in the bowels of Hell when spiked chains appear and pin both to the walls. Then a voice says, "Gentlemen, what seems to be the problem?" THEN out of the shadows walks Pinhead himself!

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