Characters / Friday the 13th (2009)

Friday the 13th main character index
Jason Voorhees
Main Film Series: Friday the 13th (1980) | Friday the 13th Part 2 | Friday the 13th Part III | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning | Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives | Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan | Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday | Jason X | Freddy vs. Jason
Other Continuities: Friday the 13th (2009) | Friday the 13th: The Game

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Jenna

Jenna Montgomery

Played by: Danielle Panabaker

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Nope. Unlike Chelsea or Bree, she's very much not happy when Trent is acting like an asshole. Enough that she doesn't even spare the time to be angry with him for cheating on her.
• Break the Cutie: Jenna is a warm, selfless, happy person who is quick to protect her friends, but by her last couple of scenes, seeing Jason kill nearly everyone else has left her a nervous wreck.
• Breakout Character: Jenna is the Tritagonist of this film but on this very page, she's listed at the top of all the non-Jason characters and treated as The Protagonist of the movie, and despite being impaled by Jason, is treated as the film's true Final Girl by many viewers.
• Decoy Protagonist: Meant to appear as the film's final girl until Jason takes her out.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: She gets cut down unceremoniously and anticlimactically near the end.
• Composite Character: She's a very loose amalgamation of Chris Higgins from part 3, who was connected to the owner of a lakeside summer house, and Trish Jarvis from part 4, who was helping the brother of one of Jason's victims.
• Final Girl: Of the reboot. Or not.
• Girl Next Door: She's still beauty pageant level gorgeous and dating the rich preppy jock, but is still portrayed as the comparatively decent and good natured member of the pack of boozey jackals.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Jenna says that she hated summer camp as a kid, paints her toenails, and has a distinctly feminine hairstyle and set of accessories. However, she shows interest in taking a hike around Crystal Lake after arriving at Trent's cabin.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Jenna only reaches Clay's shoulder. For reference, Danielle Panabaker is 5'6", and Jared Padalecki is 6'4".
• Hope Spot: Looked like she has a chance to escape with Whitney and Clay and fulfill the Final Girl trope, only to suddenly and unexpectedly getting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jason skewers poor Jenna from behind after catching up to the protagonists as they flee his lair.
• Nice Girl: Is very sweet to Clay and tries to help him find his sister.
• Oh, Crap!: She gives a very wide-eyed expression when Jason drops a decapitated body right in front of her.
• Only Sane Woman: Of her and Trent's group, who is the only one not obsessively discussing or partaking in drugs, alcohol, or sexual indiscretions.
• The Hero Dies: While most of the action is driven by Clay, the majority of the film is from her perspective til about 5 minutes before the end when she apparently dies.
• Pink Means Feminine: Jenna is a gorgeous Girl Next Door type who wears a pink tank top throughout the film.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jenna and Clay see Jason carrying a dead body and narrowly avoid his attention. As Jason leaves, Jenna declares that they have to get out of there (although she cares about warning the others as well as preserving their own safety) after Clay suggests following Jason and brings Clay around to her point of view.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She clearly has much better chemistry with Nice Guy Clay than with Jerkass Trent. Unused concepts for the film include a scene where she engages in Casual Danger Dialogue and asks him on a date while they're trying to get away from Jason.
• Summer Campy: Jenna tells Clay that she never liked the camp she went to as a kid because it had bad food, cheap toilet paper, and too many bugs (in the original script the experience was even more miserable: her mom mom made her go to cheerleading camp when she had little to no interest in that kind of summer camp and the coach groped her).
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: Jenna, seemingly the movie's Final Girl in the vein of Ginny Field or Chris Higgins, is impaled by Jason from out of nowhere during the third act, leaving Whitney as the film's actual Final Girl.
• The Three Faces of Eve: She's the Child, being the sweetest and kindest of all the film's cast, and hardly even swears throughout the movie.
• Turn the Other Cheek: After Lawrence is brutally murdered, Jenna comforts a traumatized Bree, even though she slept with Jenna's boyfriend and was a Smug Smiler afterward.
• Uncertain Doom: Look carefully at where she was impaled. It was on the slight right side of her chest, closer to her lung than her heart. Her eyes are open, there's not a lot of blood, and she's still standing and making sounds for several seconds after she's impaled, making it possible that she wasn't mortally wounded.

Whitney

Whitney Miller

Played by: Amanda Righetti

• Action Girl: Sort of. She's held prisoner for much of the movie but still manages to stun Jason, saving Clay, and delivers the final blow by ramming his machete through him.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Much like Ginny in Part II, Whitney pretends to be Pamela in an effort to stun and kill Jason. Her similar appearance to Jason's mother is why he spares her and keeps her prisoner.
• Expy:
  • A combination of Ginny from part 2, who similarly used her resemblance to Jason's mother against him, Sandra Dier from part 4, who was similarly a victim of Jason that motivated her brother, as well as of Trish Jarvis, who also managed to help kill Jason alongside her brother.
• Final Girl: The opening sequence hints at her being the final girl, only to show her getting offed alongside her friends... Only to reveal not too long after that she's still alive, and aims to keep it that way. The ending leaves her fate ambiguous although the planned script for the sequel was to reveal that Jason did in fact kill her.
• I Will Find You: Clay wants to find at her at any cost and is even willing to fight Jason.
• Living MacGuffin: Clay's attempts to find her form the main crux of the film's plot.
• Redhead In Green: Amanda Righetti is a natural redhead and the outfit that Whitney wears throughout nearly all her screen time is a pair of jeans and a green shirt.
• The Three Faces of Eve: She's the Wife. She's as wholesome as Jenna, but is hardened into a more active combatant against Jason, using a Dead Person Impersonation to distract Jason, and even managing to impale him on his own machete.
• Uncertain Doom: The movie ends with a seemingly still-alive Jason (himself an example of this trope) bursting through the dock to grab Whitney. The credits roll without it being revealed if Whitney lived or died, or if the scene even really happened and wasn't a dream, like Jason's appearance in the first film was.

Trent

Trent

Played by: Travis Van Winkle

• Asshole Victim: Has virtually no redeeming qualities and suffers a brutal death at the hands of Jason.
• Big Jerk on Campus: He is popular, spoiled, arrogant, prickish, and just all around awful in every way possible. He’s such a Hate Sink, you find yourself cheering for Jason when he brutally murders Trent.
• Character Overlap: Word of God has it this Trent is the one and the same Trent DeMarco from Transformers meaning that this film and the Transformers Film Series are possibly in the same universe.
• Dirty Coward: When he realizes Jason is really out there killing, he attempts to save himself and at first Jenna and leave Clay for dead, then when Jenna goes with Clay against Trent's demands, he splits up to save himself.
• Expy: He's basically the Gender Flip version of Alpha Bitches Melissa from Part 7 and Tamara Mason from Part 8.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: The guy tries to throw his panicked and crying girlfriend out of his house and into the wilderness purely just because she spoke to a guy in general that wasn't him. One of his first scenes in the movie is calling Clay a dick for trying to hang up missing posters of his sister and making Trent have to wait all of a minute to buy a bottle of water.
• Hate Sink: With literally no redeeming qualities whatsoever, it's truly a mystery why Jenna even dates this guy to begin with.
• Hope Spot: When he manages to reach the road to escape Jason's rampage and caught the attention of a motorist, it seems he's going to be rescued, until Jason appears behind him and kills him.
• Hypocrite: He cheats on his girlfriend without much concern for disguising it at all, yet acts like the Crazy Jealous Guy when she talks to Clay about his missing sister. He also accuses Jenna of sleeping with Clay immediately after he's finished having sex with Bree.
• It's All About Me: Trent is a self-important Dirty Coward who seems to consider himself the center of the universe and has no respect at all for anyone else. He considers buying himself a bottle of water to be more important than Clay trying to find his missing sister, considering Clay the asshole for making him wait and taking offense at any implication otherwise.
• Jerkass: Where to begin? He's an ass to basically everyone in the movie, cheats on his girlfriend, and otherwise has zero redeeming qualities. It's implied that none of his friends actually like him and they're just using him for a free lake trip (and a roll in the hay, in Bree's case).
• Lack of Empathy: Trent has zero regard for Clay's mission to find his missing sister, callously telling him to get out of the way so Trent can buy some water, throwing out a missing poster that Clay stuck to his car with a look of annoyance, and, even with Jason on the warpath, tells Jenna to abandon Clay, ultimately abandoning them both to save his own hide.
• Pet the Dog: He seems unhappy with the idea of staying in the house as they hear Lawrence being killed and used as bait.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: When Bree's body falls in front of him, he gives this out in reaction.
• Sex Signals Death: Sleeps with Bree and dies shortly after.
• Skewed Priorities:
  • After Chewie burns his lip and falls over, Trent's main concern is that he broke a chair while falling.
  • Trent continues to antagonize Clay even while he and Jenna are desperately trying to get across the point that a killer is on the loose.
• Too Dumb to Live: See Wrong Genre Savvy below.
• What a Drag: After being impaled on some far equipment on a truck, the driver then drives off, unwittingly taking Trent's corpse with him.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: While running away from Jason, Trent comes across a truck, whose driver is willing to pick him up. Trent then starts doubting the driver's friendliness, which gives enough time for Jason to catch up to him.

Clay

Clay Miller

Played by: Jared Padalecki

• The Atoner: Implied; by his own admission, Clay "took off" as a young man, leaving Whitney to look after their mother, and to care for her when their mother became ill, something he sounds none too proud of when telling it to Jenna, suggesting that it's an extra motivation to find Whitney.
• Big Brother Instinct: Clay keeps up the search for his sister long after anyone else has given up, and he proves willing to fight Jason Voorhees to protect her.
• Combat Pragmatist: While Whitney distracts Jason, Clay attacks him from behind by slamming a bear trap into his shoulder and wrapping a chain around his neck.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Clay is no match for Jason in a straight fight, but he does make a dedicated effort during the climax, even managing to tackle Jason into a wall (no mean feat, given Jason's size).
• Determinator: Despite receiving no help from the police or Crystal Lake locals (one of whom even encourages Clay to give up), Clay refuses to give up on finding Whitney, and he even holds his own in a fight with Jason to try and protect her.
• Expy: Shares some similarities to Rob Dier from The Final Chapter, since he's motivated by his lost sister and all. Also likely meant to harken Tommy Jarvis, who was the closest thing to Jason's nemesis in the series, and first slew him alongside his sister. There are also deliberate elements of Sam Winchester in his performance.
• Final Boy: Quite possibly the only survivor of the movie.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Clay is One Head Taller than Jenna. For reference, Danielle Panabaker is 5'6", and Jared Padalecki is 6'4".
• Made of Iron: Clay manages to stand up to multiple thrashings from Jason and keep going, even managing to fight back.
• Nice Guy: Is quiet and inoffensive and manages to shrug off most of Trent's squawking with frustrated bewilderment.
• You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: As Trent keeps getting all Alpha Male in Clay's face, Clay has zero fucks to give, apparently feeling quite confident Trent poses no real threat to him. This trope is implied, as Clay is headed for far scarier things than Trent.

Bree

Bree

Played by: Julianna Guill

• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: A possible explanation for her seduction of Trent (which could bring their sex scene into Questionable Consent territory, especially given that he wasn’t drunk himself) and wandering off alone towards an open window when she knows there’s a killer lurking nearby is that she's drunk.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: She's clearly attracted to Jerkass Trent, and eventually manages to get him to have very wild sex with her. An early scene has her clearly liking that Jenna and Clay have clear chemistry, implicitly because she wants them together so she could have Trent.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Trent has ample reason to never shut up about her breasts.
• Calling Your Orgasms: Bree lets Trent know that she is close, before The Immodest Orgasm ensues.
• Camera Fiend: She's shown filming everyone's bizarre antics early in the film. And she also uses it to make a Home Porn Movie with Trent.
• Deadpan Snarker: As Trent keeps going on about how "stupendous" her breasts are, she wryly replies "Wow, you sure know how to make a girl feel special."
• Easily Forgiven: By Jenna, although this may just be a case of averting Skewed Priorities.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's a party girl, but even she won't drink out of a dirty sweaty shoe.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Spends a lot of her screen time getting drunk or playing drinking games with the men in the group.
  • Unlike many examples, it's subtly implied that the "party girl" part is a result of the hard-drinking, as she seems more reserved and amiable earlier in the day, but is seen drinking steadily throughout it. By the evening, she is dancing provocatively and coming onto Chewie and then Trent.
• Hysterical Woman: When she hears Lawrence being horrifically killed while she and the others can’t help him, she heals for someone to do something and then breaks down crying and whimpering. Ironically, Jenna is the one who helps her out of it.
• Immodest Orgasm: Bree lets the viewer and Trent know that she is thoroughly enjoying having sex with him with her constant moaning, and this doesn't stop until she orgasms equally loudly.
• Informed Attribute: Her friendship with Chelsea. The two never even interact.
• Jerkass: Downplayed compared to Trent, but she still sleeps with her friend's boyfriend and shows no sympathy when Jenna finds them in the act, not that Jenna is too bothered about it. Bree's actress Julianna Guill did later say in an interview that Bree had a "vindictive streak".
• Lampshade Hanging: She's the only one to comment on Clay and Jenna's obvious chemistry, which is far stronger than that she has with Trent. Specifically, she comments "This should be interesting" when she sees Clay walking into the cabin with Jenna.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's the one to provide nudity for the audience, and the third woman to show her boobs on camera.
• Not So Above It All: Quickly goes from being a Deadpan Snarker in Sarcasm Mode to Trent to a case of The Immodest Orgasm.
• Pet the Dog: She's polite to Clay when he comes over to the house, offering him a beer, and also is clearly affected by Lawrence and Chewie being killed.
• Pink Means Feminine: Bree is one of the most genuine characters in the film and wears pink underwear.
• Rasputinian Death: Jason strangles her a bit, hangs her bodily from a coat hook on a door, Trent then shoots the door thinking her struggling noises are Jason, with the bullet hitting her, and then finally Jason throws her out the window onto the hood of Trent's car.
• Sex Signals Death: She has sex with Trent and dies shortly after, without having done much else in the film.
• Sexy Shirt Switch: She spends several minutes just wearing a collared shirt from Trent's bedroom, although unusually for the trope — although not the franchise — the actual sex between the two was shown in great detail.
• Shipper with an Agenda: Implied. She's very obviously attracted to Trent, enough that she was a wild sex scene with him. The smile on her face when she sees Jenna letting Clay into the cabin makes it seem like she wanted Clay to "steal" Jenna from Trent so that she could have Trent to herself. Also Downplayed in that she doesn't actively try to hook them up.
• Smug Smiler: Gives Jenna a smug look after emerging from the bedroom with Trent. It does not last long.
• The Three Faces of Eve: She's the Seductress. As you can see from most of her entries in this folder, she's a Hard-Drinking Party Girl and the biggest Ms. Fanservice.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Her reaction to Trent wanting her to drink out of the shoe after he was the one who lost the beer pong game.

Lawrence

Lawrence

Played by: Arlen Escarpeta

• Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Lawrence dies, but is not amongst the first to go.
• Everything Is Racist: Invoked in a joking way; Lawrence claims that making him pump gas would be a bad look, and trolls Chelsea for assuming that the music he's trying to sell is rap (which it is, as Lawrence admits with a grin a moment later). He doesn't seem to consider either moment to actually be racist, only saying so to either get out of work or make a joke.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Somewhat rare for Jason, Lawrence's death was dragged out much longer than his usual blunt and swift methods.
• Plucky Comic Relief: With Chewie.
• The Bait: An attempted villainous example. After Jason hurls an axe into his spine, he makes no move to finish off the helpless Lawrence. Instead, Jason lets him beg and plead for help, hoping to draw the others out. However when Clay doesn't fall for it, Jason simply finishes him off.
• The Stoner: Shares a romantic relationship with Chewie's bong.
• Those Two Guys: With Chewie, who spend the movie drinking and smoking together while ogling Bree.

Chewie

Chewie

Played by: Aaron Yoo

• Big Eater: A given for his character type; when the group stops at a gas station, Chewie picks up a huge armful of junk food.
• Plucky Comic Relief: With Lawrence.
• The Stoner: Brings his bong which he has affectionately named, and gets drunk as fast as he can the moment they reach the lake.
• Those Two Guys: With Lawrence.
• Unfazed Everyman: Rather than scream or run at first on seeing Jason, he tries to act friendly to him offering a hockey stick with his mask...it worked about as well as you'd expect, but props for trying what others didn't do in the previous movies.

Chelsea

Chelsea

Played by: Willa Ford

• All Girls Want Bad Boys: When Nolan decides to go on a joy ride in a boat he was told to leave in its place, Chelsea asks "[W]hat does it say about me that I find that hot?"
• Break the Cutie: While cutie might be the wrong word, she's nice enough, the original script characterizes her as more sexually innocent than her friend Bree, and she is left terrified for a drawn out period after seeing Nolan die and trying to swim to safety from Jason, only for him to beat her to the far shore.
• Dumb Blonde: Blonde and not very smart.
• Ignored Epiphany: Chelsea questions whether they should take Trent's boat after he told them not to but relents after Nolan calls her a "scared little girl."
• Innocently Insensitive: Subverted. She asks Lawrence if his CD is rap, and he acts offended and accuses Chelsea of stereotyping (for which she apologizes) before admitting that his CD is rap.
• Ms. Fanservice: Pretty much all she does is wakeboard topless and die.

Nolan

Nolan

Played by: Ryan Hansen

• Deadpan Snarker: When Trent tells Nolan "I pay, you pump" in regard to filling up their car, Nolan cracks that he also gives good blowjobs.
• Dumb Blonde: Just like his girlfriend, Nolan isn't very bright.
• Forbidden Fruit: Nolan admits that as soon as Trent forbid him from taking his boat for a joy ride, the temptation to do so became irresistible.
• The Generic Guy: Much like Chelsea, he really has no discernible personality traits.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He gets an arrow through his skull pretty suddenly. So he's got that going for him.

Donnie

Donnie

Played By: Kyle Davis

• Asshole Victim: It's really hard to feel bad when Jason gets him.
• Jerkass: Obnoxious, creepy, and very confrontational.
• Slimeball: Donnie is a total dick, and that's without getting into his weird sexual preferences.