Analyzing Evil: Jason Voorhees From The Friday The 13th Franchise

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  @littykitty040 · 2 years ago

  The single most evil thing Jason has done is make fans debate for years over whether he can teleport or not.

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  @OmnicidalClown1992 · 2 years ago

  Very fitting to have the central serial killer of Friday the 13th to get his own Analyzing Evil video ON Friday the 13th.

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  @javierpupo8042 · 2 years ago

  In many ways I&apos;d like to point out Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees are opposites.<br><br>1. Jason is a brute who kills in anyway he can think of in the most efficient way possible. The other is a torturer who revels in killing their target as slowly excruciatingly as possible.<br>2. Children are safe from Jason. There has never been a child he has killed. Freddy <b>targets</b> children. The younger the better to him.<br>3. Jason&apos;s slaughter was born out of abuse and neglect, while Freddy&apos;s was borne out of sadism and happen-stance. There is no easily point-able reason for why Freddy is the way he is.<br>4. One makes their place of slaughter in a private, dark forest that you are safe from so long as you do not enter. Making <b>you</b> the transgressor if you ignore the warnings. The other targets you in the most vulnerable place, that being, your very mind whilst asleep. There&apos;s a transgression to invading someone&apos;s sleeping mind and torturing them from within.<br>5. Freddy has a clearly definable personality. Mocking and toying with his prey and elevating his own sense of ego and power every step of the way. Jason doesn&apos;t have an ego. He kills out of instinct and encouragement begged on by delusions, or the ghost of a loved one.<br>6. One is a child-predator, the other is an overgrown child. Which thematically makes it more satisfying when the one who preys on children is murdered by the who never had a childhood to begin with. Making it all the more satisfying when Jason takes Freddy&apos;s head in the end of the movie.

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  @thedarknight307 · 2 years ago

  Jason and Leatherface is honestly two of the most sympathetic slashers. As both are essentially children in bodies of hulking 7foot tall murder machines <br>Acting on the only thing they really know

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  @OriginalGazGoose · 2 years ago

  &quot;The child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth&quot; I think is an apt description of Jason. He has spent his life in complete isolation and whenever he does interact with society, society spits at his face and punches him in the gut. He learned and known only cruelty and now he shall return the favor tenfold

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  @lukescrew1981 · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s also important to note that Jason never at any point kills (at least directly) any children.

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  @EN-mh4og · 2 years ago

  I think Jason is smarter than most people think. He stalks his prey, he understands how to sabotage his surroundings and instead killing group of punks in Manhattan he just scared them away.

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  @bigkendallas · 2 years ago (edited)

  Basically, he&apos;s mentally a child who thinks he&apos;s protecting his mother from all the people he kills. The voice in his head is constantly urging him on -and He actually thinks he&apos;s saving her. He&apos;s not &quot;evil&quot; per say, just very VERY disillusional.

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  @TetsuShima · 2 years ago (edited)

  To think that all this sh*t with Jason happened because of this dialogue:<br><br>Male monitor: &quot;Hey, I think I&apos;m watching a kid drowning in the lake right now. Shall we save him?&quot;<br>Female Moinitor: &quot;Who cares? We&apos;re making one now!&quot;<br>Male Monitor: &quot;Yeah, who cares?&quot;

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  @31minutesago · 2 years ago

  I like Jason as a force of entropy as compared to evil. He is an earthquake, a tsunami. He is here to disrupt your view of life. It is precarious. At any moment, horror can strike.

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  @CorregatedFish · 2 years ago

  He’s evil but I can’t help but feel bad for him. He really didn’t deserve all that happened to him.

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  @damian_cross · 2 years ago (edited)

  Ok, alot to add here:<br>According to Adam Marcus who directed Jason Goes to Hell, Jason is a deadite. He did not survive the drowning, Pamela Voorhes used the necronomicon on him to make him come back to life as a zombie. That&apos;s where the magic psychic voices come from. As for whether Jason is evil, its important to note that Crystal Lake isn&apos;t exactly rural. It&apos;s a small town near expansive camp grounds and national parks, sure. But its not off the grid at all, its just near the Pennsylvania border on the I-80 in New Jersey. There&apos;s malls, there&apos;s restaurants, there&apos;s civilization. It&apos;s not like Jason didn&apos;t have any human contact leading up to his death. That said, it&apos;s also important to note that throughout the films, whenever Jason encounters children he ignores them (Tommy Jarvis is the exception to this rule because he hit Jason first). Jason isn&apos;t killing randomly, he wants revenge on the counselors and adults who killed him and his mother. He won&apos;t kill kids because he IS a kid.

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