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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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Tina Shepard
Tina Shepard
"I'm Tina, from next door."
The heroine of Part VII. When she was a little girl living near Crystal Lake, she accidentally killed her father with her latent psychic abilities after he hit her mother. That moment left her psychologically devastated and she would spend some time at a mental hospital. She returned to her old home years later as a part of her treatment by Dr. Crews. While there, she accidentally resurrects Jason from his watery grave with her psychic powers. As Jason starts another killing spree, she's forced to gain control over her powers and in the end gives Jason one of the biggest asskickings of his (un)life.
Played by: Jennifer Banko (as a child) and Lar Park Lincoln
- Accidental Murder: In a fit of rage at her father's abuse of her mother, a young Tina inadvertently drowned him in Crystal Lake. The guilt of it causes her no end of stress.
- Action Girl: The most action-y of all the final girls in Friday the 13th, and perhaps the only character in the franchise to not only survive a straight fight with Jason, but dominate him.
- Badass Adorable: Don't let her appearance or generally meek personality fool you: when she cuts loose she's one of the few characters in the franchise to outright overpower Jason.
- Berserk Button: Do NOT hurt her mother. Her father being abusive to Amanda is what led to Tina accidentally killing him. And when Jason does kill Amanda, well, suddenly Tina doesn't have any problem controlling her abilities.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Mental troubles aside, she's still a Nice Girl. That said, her psychic powers are enough to strike fear into even Jason.
- Broken Bird: Accidentally killing your abusive dad and then spending years in a mental institution under the care of a doctor who's gaslighting you can have that effect on a person.
- Cassandra Truth: Tina tries to tell about Jason's presence, but Dr. Crews chalks it up to hallucinations.
- Daddy's Girl: She loved her father a lot, even if he was prone to drinking too much and abusing her mother.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Killed her dad by accident during a fight that her father had with her mom, causing Tina to lose control.
- The Dog Bites Back:
- At one point, fed up with Crews' mind games and his utter refusal to let her leave Crystal Lake, Tina telekinetically throws a television at his head.
- After finding her mother dead at Jason's hands, Tina unleashes her full might against the undead killer, dishing out the worst beating Jason had taken up to that point (he ends up being electrocuted, crushed beneath a chunk of roof, thrown through a flight of stairs, hanged and dropped into the basement, and immolated before Tina finally lets up).
- Expy: They nicknamed her movie Jason vs Carrie for a reason.
- Fainting: She faints when she sees the resurrected Jason.
- Final Girl: Of New Blood.
- Foil: To Jason himself; they're both very powerful, while also suffering from bullying and traumas connected to Crystal Lake and their parents (both Jason's mother and Tina's father died there). Unlike the hulking and hideous Jason, Tina is an attractive young woman, and while Jason is a Close-Range Combatant who relies on his monstrous strength and resourcefulness to kill his victims, Tina is a Long-Range Fighter who uses her telekinetic powers to fight back against Jason. Furthermore, while Jason is long past any possible help and was never interested in it, Tina is seeking psychological help to cope with her traumas (though she has the misfortune of winding up with Dr. Crews as a therapist).
- Girl Next Door: She is introduced like this to Nick.
- Horrifying the Horror: It is quite obvious that Jason is confused and even scared when Tina starts to use her powers against him. However, at the end of the confrontation, he is furious.
- Large Ham: Especially in the scenes where Tina uses her powers.
- Long-Range Fighter: In contrast to Jason, she stands back and invokes Powers Do the Fighting.
- Mind over Matter: She has telekinetic abilities which she uses to move objects big and small, including Jason.
- Necromancer: She's responsible for Jason coming back for another rampage, when trying to rez her father. By the climax, she gets it right.
- Outside-Context Problem: Tina is this to Jason. Chronologically, she is the first legitimately supernatural element he's been faced with. When she first unleashes her powers on him, his body language conveys just how completely shocked and caught off guard he is.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When fully unleashed, her psychic powers are able to do some serious destruction and bring down buildings, the most impressive being setting off an explosion that blows up her entire house.
- Playing with Fire: She can light things on fire and spread existing ones.
- Psychic Powers: Has telekinesis, and some degree of pyrokinesis, future sight, and resurrection. These powers make her one of the few characters in the franchise who can actually fight Jason on more even footing.
- Psychoactive Powers: Tina's powers depend on her emotions. Knowing this, Dr. Crews tries to inflict emotional stress on her to study her, instead of helping her to get over her mental trauma.
- Seers: She is able to see some future events, like her mother's upcoming death.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In trying to bring her father back from the dead, she focuses on a body she senses in Crystal Lake, where her father had died. Unfortunately for Tina (and everyone else in the vicinity), the body belongs to Jason, who is revived and freed, going on yet another killing spree.
Nick
Nick
Played by: Kevin Blair
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. Nick explains to Tina he's not actually friends with Melissa and the others despite what Melissa thinks. He's only with them because it's his cousin's birthday.
- Nice Guy: He, Maddy, Tina and her mother are the only likeable characters in the film.
Melissa
Melissa
Played by: Susan Jennifer Sullivan
- Abhorrent Admirer: She lusts after Nick and refuses to understand he doesn't care about her at all. It's only a minute before she dies that Melissa finally gives up on him.Melissa: All is fair in love and war.
Nick: Melissa, I don't even like you. - All for Nothing: She screws Eddie to make Nick jealous, despite Nick's repeated insistence he wants nothing to do with her. So not only does that gambit fail to catch Nick's eye, Melissa didn't even enjoy having sex with Eddie.
- Alpha Bitch: Not only is she a gigantic bitch to Tina for no reason, she also has sex with the resident nerdy guy, only to tell him she doesn't really care about him and was just doing to make someone jealous.
- Asshole Victim: Not even Nick or Tina were sad to see Melissa go. When she dies, the two are more worried about the fact they're in the same room with Jason.
- Beauty Is Bad: Melissa is a very beautiful young woman, but her personality is totally abhorrent; she lusts after a man who is obviously not interested, manipulated Eddie into sleeping with her in a futile attempt to make Nick jealous, and mocks and insults Tina for having been in a mental institution.
- Death by Irony: Melissa took a lot of pride in her looks, and was vain enough to believe that Nick, who made no secret of disliking her, was attracted to her regardless. Said good looks end up being ruined when Jason buries an axe in Melissa's face.
- Hate Sink: The best that can be said for Melissa is that she's not quite as loathsome as Dr. Crews; she's a jealous, vain, manipulative, and cruel bully who mocks the mentally ill and has no problem conning someone into sex just to make someone else (who doesn't even like her) jealous, then shamelessly admitting to it. She's obviously not meant to be liked by the audience.
- Manipulative Bitch: She's constantly trying to get Nick's attention and uses Eddie for that and to help harass Tina.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: She cruelly mocks Tina for having been in a mental institution.
- Profane Last Words: Just before Jason enters the room and buries an axe in her face, Melissa's last words to Tina and Nick are "fuck you both!".
- Rich Bitch: She gloats about a pearl necklace her dad bought her. Tina destroys it after Melissa's stunt with Eddie and that straight jacket.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Right before she dies she tells Tina and Nick to go fuck themselves as she tries to storm out of Tina's place. And then opens the door to see Jason with an ax.
- Sexual Karma: She seduces Eddie and tries to sleep with him just to make Nick jealous. It not only fails, but Eddie proves to be incapable of turning her on at all, prompting her to kick him out of her bed mid-sex.
- Stalker with a Crush: Melissa goes as far as to follow Nick and Tina around when they think they're alone to listen to their conversations.
Amanda Shepard
Amanda Shepard
Played by: Susan Blu
- Mama Bear: For her daughter Tina.
- Sacrificial Lion: Her death is what makes Tina confront Jason and unleash every ounce of her power on him.
Dr. Crews
Dr. Crews
Played By: Terry Kiser
- Asshole Victim: Possibly the biggest of the entire series; Crews is a manipulative Dirty Coward who deliberately raises Tina's stress levels and provokes her traumas to exploit her powers for his own ends.
- Big Bad Wannabe: He wants to exploit Tina's powers for himself and his own selfish needs. While that could potentially make him a threat in any other work (like if this film he appeared in would instead a feature adaptation of Friday the 13th: The Series or a film like The Fury), he just so happens to be in a movie that's already part of a Villain-Based Franchise - which means there's a certain borderline invincible killer running around the woods that makes him look like small potatoes in comparison.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Appeared to be caring and concerning, but actually opportunistic and manipulative.
- Bullying a Dragon: For someone fully aware that Tina accidentally killed her father as a child and her powers are based on emotions and stress, you'd think he'd try to be more careful in how he approaches dealing with her, regardless of his end goals. Instead, pretty much every scene he shares with Tina involves him getting her angry enough at himself that things in the room start breaking. The fact he survives long enough to be killed by Jason instead is pure luck.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Jason guts Crews with a week whacker.
- Dirty Coward: Accused to be one by Amanda. Proven true when Crews used Amanda as a human shield to vainly protect himself from Jason.
- Dr. Jerk: As most of his tropes will tell you, he is a real piece of work. He's grossly unethical (exploiting Tina's traumas and trying to increase her stress levels is the exact opposite of what any decent psychiatrist would do), manipulative, and totally selfish.
- Gaslighting: Under the guise of helping Tina, Crews convinces her mother to return her to Crystal Lake, which, as Crews knows, will worsen her stress. He also removes evidence of Jason's presence so as to make Tina seem even more unstable, writes off Tina's visions of Jason as mere delusion (despite having newspaper clippings about Jason's rampages and likely knowing that the visions are legit) and uses threats of re-institutionalizing her in order to force the Shepards to continue following his "treatment".
- Hate Sink: Crews' blatant lack of ethics, callous manipulation of Tina, and his repulsive cowardice show that he's meant to be despised by the audience.
- In-Series Nickname: Tina calls him "Bad news Crews."
- Laser-Guided Karma: After using Amanda as a human shield, the having the audacity to beg Tina for help, Crews ends up being Jason's next victim, eviscerated with a weed whacker.
- Manipulative Bastard: Crews spends the entire film gaslighting Tina and doing everything he can to provoke her powers for his own benefit, even threatening to institutionalize her if either Tina or her mother call him out on his blatantly cruel methods. Crews does all this under the guise of helping Tina, a thin facade that falls apart completely when Amanda comes across his notes.
- Pet the Dog: His one moment of debatable decency comes when he tells Tina not to run into the woods, knowing that Jason is still lurking about. Of course, this is after he threw her mother in front of Jason to save himself, and it was Crews' own unwillingness to tell Tina what happened to Amanda that made Tina run off to find her.
Robin
Robin
Played by: Elizabeth Kaitan
- Asshole Victim: Its hard to feel sorry for her when she dies, considering how she treated Maddy.
- Destination Defenestration: Jason throws her out a window.
- Manipulative Bitch: Towards her friend Maddy. Robin encourages Maddy to be more forward with her crush, David, all the while Robin herself is having sex with him while Maddy's away trying to gussy herself up for him.
- Pet the Dog: Or in this case pet the cat, she's not a very nice person but she's genuinely very sweet when she finds a cat, Jason throws her out of the window moments later(thankfully the cat is unharmed).
Maddy
Maddy
Played by: Diana Barrows
- Nice Girl: Maddy is the sweetest character in the film, making it all the more sad that she winds up one of Jason’s victims.
- Slashed Throat: Jason cuts her throat with a hook.
David
Played by: Jon Renfield
- Chick Magnet: Robin and Maddy both like him a lot.
- Decapitation Presentation: After being stabbed, Jason decapitates him and puts his head in a flower pot for Robin to find.
Eddie
Eddie
Played by: Jeff Bennett
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed, but he did some very amoral things at Melissa's behest.
- Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Melissa seduces him in a attempt to make Nick jealous, but he proves to be so inept at sex that she gives up on the idea in the middle of the attempt.
- Most Writers Are Writers: Makes elevator pitches of his bizarre story ideas in nearly every scene he's in. He also mentions that he's been rejected by a lot of science fiction magazines.
Russell
Played by: Larry Cox
- Jerkass: Most of his dialogue is being rude and angry with the others, although some of it is justified.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He volunteers his uncle's cabin for a friends birthday party and has to repeatedly see the place damaged and disrespected.
- Spoiled Brat: He comes across as privileged and overly prickly.
Sandra
Played by: Heidi Kozak
- Gold Digger: She tells Russell that she's attracted to the size of his... wallet although based on her tone of voice she might have been joking.
- Ms. Fanservice: She just gratuitously strips down and wades into the lake to go Skinny Dipping when Jason arrives.
- Nice Girl: She tries to calm down Russell when he's agitated, shows concern at Kate and Ben's relationship problems and is nice to Tina and disapproving of Melissa's rudeness.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, the second film had a different Sandra.
Kate
Kate
Played by: Diane Almeida
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted. She dies, but she is certainly not amongst the first to do so.
- Eye Scream: Jason stabs her through the eye with a party horn.
Ben
Ben
Played by: Craig Thomas
- Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Like Kate, he dies but not till far later.
