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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

Tommy Jarvis

Tommy Jarvis

Step 1: Destroy Jason's corpse. Step 2: Muck it up and resurrect him instead. Step 3: Profit?

Played by: Corey Feldman (The Final Chapter and Part V), John Shepherd (Part V) and Thom Mathews (Part VI, Never Hike Alone)

"Jason belongs in Hell. And I'm gonna see that he gets there."

Closest thing the franchise had to a recurring protagonist, Tommy was a young boy who had an interest in all things horror and was a good amateur FX creator. Just like any Friday the 13th survivor-to-be, he was forced to fight for his life when Jason went on yet another killing spree near his family's place. With the help of his sister he manages to bring Jason down for good, leaving him heavily traumatized in the process. He spends many years in mental institutions, and at his worst mentalstate almost becomes a replacement for Jason. Some time later he attempts to cremate Jason's body, so he can be finally released from the demons of his past. This goes spectacularly wrong and he is forced to fight Jason once more. He was the only character in the franchise to appear in more than one installment and not be killed.

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• Action Survivor: The most famous and recurring one of the entire franchise, surviving Parts IV, V, and VI.
• Ambiguously Bi: Downplayed; while peeping on Samantha in IV, Tommy is obviously enjoying the sight, but he reacts even more positively when Samantha's boyfriend Paul comes in and starts kissing her.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: The final twist of Part V shows him adopting the Jason persona. This angle was dropped for Part VI.
• Arch-Enemy: Tommy is Jason's sole recurring enemy, and there's a lot of bad blood between them, with Jason having killed Tommy's mother and tried to kill both Tommy's sister and Tommy himself, as well as Tommy having killed Jason. Despite this, the enmity is mostly on Tommy's part; in The Final Chapter, Jason treats Tommy as just another potential victim, and in Part VI, Jason doesn't pursue Tommy after being revived, simply returning to his old stomping grounds in Crystal Lake. By contrast, Tommy was haunted by Jason for years, and after accidentally raising him from the dead, considered it his responsibility to put a stop to Jason's latest rampage.
• Author Avatar: In Part IV he's a talented special effects maker, with his monster masks and heads all on the shelves and desks of his room. Considering this movie featured the return of Tom Savini as the special effects artist, it's likely Tommy was at least partly based off of him.
• Ax-Crazy: During Part V, as Wrestler in All of Us shown that Tommy wasn't all there in his mind and was damn near psychotic, nearly killing people in his rage induced wake.
• Badass Adorable: The first time he killed Jason was when he was a young boy.
• Badass Normal: In Part VI, Tommy manages to defeat and trap a much stronger and more durable Jason, despite being an ordinary young man.
• Break the Cutie: Tommy was a bright, imaginative boy before Jason came into his life. Putting the killer down devastated the poor boy, leaving him the near-silent shell of a man he is in Part V, with the effects still visible in Part VI despite his more stable mindset.
• Broken Bird: Was forced to kill Jason which led him down to many sanity slippages.
• Cassandra Truth: After inadvertently resurrecting Jason in Part IV, Tommy tries desperately to convince the police that Jason is alive and dangerous again, but, due to Tommy's psychiatric history, his unbelievable story, and a caretaker covering up the desecration of Jason's grave to avoid being blamed for it being dug up, his warnings fall on deaf ears. When bodies start piling up, the police assume that Tommy is the killer, and only realize they're wrong when they go to Camp Forest Green (the former Camp Crystal Lake) and are slaughtered by Jason themselves.
• Children Forced to Kill: He killed Jason at age 12, and spends the next several years in and out of mental institutions.
• Covert Pervert: In his first movie, Tommy doesn't miss a chance to see a girl naked. It evolves to Chivalrous Pervert in his adulthood, when he makes out with Megan in order to trick his guard into fighting him so he could escape from jail.
• Disappeared Dad: Tommy's parents separated before The Final Chapter, and even after his mother is dead, Tommy's father is never mentioned to have taken part in his son's life.
• Flashback Echo: He sometimes flashbacks to the moment he continuously hacked Jason's barely living corpse to ensure his death.
• Foil: Both him and Jason have dead mothers (whose deaths they avenged) and an obsession with killing. Only difference is that Tommy is a hero and will only kill evil people, whereas Jason will kill almost anybody with little exceptions. In addition, he's a Badass Normal to contrast Jason's superhuman abilities.
• Hallucinations: He sees apparitions of Jason in Part V.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In Part VI; the cops end up believing that he's behind Jason's killings.It doesn't even help that Tommy was shown in Part V to be actually psychotic for a time and contemplated on killing Pam, which was likely recorded by the authorities and gave them a reason to suspect him.
• Heroic BSoD: He should be the poster child of this trope.
• I Should Write a Book About This: It's mentioned in the spin-off novel Carnival of Maniacs that he authored several.
• Important Haircut: As mentioned above. Also a Traumatic Haircut.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In Part V and Part VI, Tommy is shown as a young adult, still suffering from the trauma inflicted by Jason in The Final Chapter.
• Make Sure He's Dead: When he sees Jason seemingly about to pull off a Finger-Twitching Revival, he completely flips out, grabs the machete, and attacks him with it.
• Mr. Fanservice: Part V gave a grown-up Tommy a Shirtless Scene that showed off John Shepherd's impressively toned upper body.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Tommy killed Jason to protect his sister Trish.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Is the one responsible for Jason becoming an unstoppable zombie. In his defense, he was trying to make sure Jason would stay dead.
  Tommy: I tried to destroy him, but I fucked up!
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Tommy's sister Trish was the Final Girl for The Final Chapter, but it was Tommy, the Tagalong Kid, who put Jason down, seemingly for good.
• Pinball Protagonist: In Part V; the goings on have nothing to do with Tommy or his issues with Jason. He simply had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and for the most part, he's just minding his own business until the climax brings him face-to-face with Roy Burns.
• Protector Behind Bars: In Part VI, Tommy is arrested for "make-up" Jason being alive.
• Retcon: Part V ended with him completely losing his mind and seemingly becoming another Jason ripoff. Part VI ignores this somewhat, ditching the Jason angle but making his Sanity Slippage a plot point.
• Sanity Slippage: Part V was not kind to him at all, having recurring nightmares about Jason Voorhees to the point where he was about to become another Jason copycat, though this ended up being an Aborted Arc, the novelization elaborates he barely managed to stop himself stabbing Pam.
• Sanity Strengthening: Between Part V and Part VI; during Part V, Tommy suffered from nightmares and hallucinations about Jason, could barely bring himself to speak, became violent at the drop of a hat, and ended the film coming dangerously close to becoming a murderer himself, but by the time he appears in Part VI, Tommy is much more verbal, social, and stable, and although he remains haunted by Jason, he never shows signs of hallucinating him (though Hawes mentions that the hallucinations still linger), and despite some moments of short temper, never harms or tries to harm anyone other than Jason.
• Serial-Killer Killer: Zigzagged, but ultimately subverted. He kills both Jason Voorhees and Roy Burns, while coming dangerously close to becoming a full-fledged Serial Killer himself. However, unlike many examples, he is somehow able to overcome his inner demons before Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, meaning he is not ultimately motivated by a pathological desire to kill unless he is directly protecting himself or others from harm.
• The Quiet One: In Part V, he talks very little to the other characters in Pinehurst.
• Tagalong Kid: To his sister in The Final Chapter.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: As he hugs Trish at the end of The Final Chapter, Tommy stares ahead with a dead-eyed expression, the first sign of the trauma that defines him in the next two films.
• Trauma Button: The mere sight of Jason's corpse at the beginning of Part VI triggers Tommy's traumatic memories of killing him back during The Final Chapter, causing him to Freak Out, grab a piece of cemetery fence, and ram it into the corpse's heart in a fit of rage. Sadly, this fence post provides the perfect conductor for the lightning strike that brings Jason back to life.
• Unknown Rival: While Tommy was haunted by Jason since killing him, when they meet again in Part VI, Jason never shows any sign of recognising Tommy as the boy who originally killed him, going on a rampage totally unrelated to Tommy and treating him like just another enemy when they meet again at the climax.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He accidentally revives Jason as a Revenant Zombie in Part 6. While Tommy does stop Jason in the same movie, Jason eventually escapes his imprisonment and uses his new supernatural abilities to wreak further havoc in Part 7 and beyond.
• Villain Killer: Tommy was the first one to successfully kill Jason Voorhees himself, burying Jason's own machete into his skull and hacking at him to make sure he was dead. Tommy also killed Roy Burns in Part V, as well as putting a stop to the revived Jason's rampage in Part VI,
• Wrestler in All of Us: Pulls off some nice throws and slams in Part V.

Trish Jarvis

Trish Jarvis

The older sister of protagonist Tommy Jarvis and Final Girl of The Final Chapter.

Played by: Kimberly Beck

• Action Survivor: Trish admirably holds her own against Jason, burying a claw hammer into his neck and splitting one of his hands and slashing his chest with a machete.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: She pleads for Rob to not confront Jason alone.
• Alone with the Psycho: Happens twice. First, after Rob is killed. It occurs again when she tries to get Jason away from Tommy. Unlike the others who see him alone, Trish is probably the only person left alone with Jason to survive the film.
• Big Good: She serves as this to Tommy. Although this is made more evident after Rob's death, Trish is the one Tommy listens to and is protected from when Jason enters the Jarvis residence in the film's third act. Up until the conclusion, she is the only one to strike Jason repeatedly and keep surviving.
• Big Sister Instinct: She tries to protect Tommy.
• Combat Pragmatist: Trish normally runs from Jason unless she has some weapon or there's a purpose behind engaging with him, such as attempting to give Tommy enough time to get away from their house.
• Disappeared Dad: Her parents are mentioned to have separated, though early in the film, Trish mentions that her father had called her.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Thanks to her hard work, and a finishing move by Tommy, the pair survive the film.
• Excellent Judge of Character: From seeing Tommy continuously strike a downed Jason, Trish was able to see he was affected by the killing, which is demonstrated by the older Tommy of the following film.
• Final Girl: Of The Final Chapter.
• Group Hug: Has this with her brother and mother.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blonde hair and will do anything she can to keep her brother safe.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Trish tries to do this when she lures Jason away from the Jarvis house to give Tommy a head start on running, but she survives and Tommy doesn't leave.
• Improvised Weapon User: She's forced to defend her brother and herself with a hammer and a machete.
• Made of Iron: Able to not only survive falling from a second-story window, but get up and continue trying to keep her brother safe.
• Mama Bear: When her little brother is in danger she becomes this.
• Mistaken for Murderer: Rob slashes his own tent after seeing Trish's shadow inside and mistaking her for an attacker, likely Jason.
• Parental Substitute: Trish becomes the authority figure for her brother whenever their mother isn't around, especially after Jason kills her.
• A Simple Plan: Trish devises a plot to distract Jason elsewhere to give Tommy time to flee. It doesn't work, as Tommy stays in the house, much to Trish's chagrin.
• Sole Survivor: By the film's end, Trish and Tommy are the only survivors of Jason's rampage.
• Too Dumb to Live: Subverted. She is warned by Rob to run as he is being murdered, but instead walks back to where he was killed, and where Jason is waiting for her in the dark. She still manages to survive.
• Undying Loyalty: Trish has this for Tommy. She will give her life to defend him.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Rob, who dies the same night the pair share a kiss, leaving the promise of a relationship between the pair forever a mystery.
• Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: One of the few characters in the entire franchise to use Jason's machete against him.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Trish disappears from the films after The Final Chapter, with neither Tommy nor anyone else mentioning her status, though Tommy is shown to have a picture of Trish and their mother in Part V.

Sara

Sara

Played by: Barbara Howard

• Decoy Protagonist: Meant to appear as the movie's final girl until she dies
• Nice Girl: Among the nicest of the series.
• Shower of Love: Sara and Doug make love in the shower. She doesn't even get a chance to dress herself before being killed.

Doug

Doug

Played by: Peter Barton

• Mr. Fanservice: Pretty Boy Doug gets an extended Shower Scene, though once Jason turns up, it shifts right to Fan Disservice.
• Nice Guy: He's very sweet and affectionate to Sara.
• Shower of Love: He has sex with Sara in the shower. He doesn't even have a chance to get out of the shower before Jason kills him.
• Your Head Asplode; Jason crushes his head in the shower.

Jimmy

Jimmy

Played By: Crispin Glover

• Dead Guy on Display: After killing Jimmy, Jason pins his body to a doorway. Ironically, Jason himself later has to tear Jimmy's body down to pursue Trish after she escapes from him.
• Impaled Palm: Jason stabs his hand with a corkscrew before killing him.
• Nice Guy: Jimmy is a sweet, if dorky, guy.
• Sucks at Dancing: Jimmy's idea of dancing is... odd, to say the least, though it seems to endear him to Tina and Terri.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ted.

Ted

Ted

Played by: Lawrence Monoson

• Casanova Wannabe: Despite mocking Jimmy as a "dead fuck", Ted strikes out with both Tina and Terri. Adding insult to injury, Tina hooks up with Jimmy and compliments his performance in the bedroom (though to his credit, Ted is happy for Jimmy).
• Plucky Comic Relief: Provides a lot of comedic moments.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jimmy. For all the ribbing Ted gives Jimmy, after Jimmy has sex with Tina, Ted is happy for his friend, despite striking out with Tina himself.

Samantha

Samantha

Played by: Judie Aronson

• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jason kills her by stabbing her in the stomach with a knife, with the blade going out the back.
• Really Gets Around: Has a reputation for having sex with everybody. She denies this however and says she only has sex with Paul.
• Tomboy: She dresses fairly masculinely.

Paul

Played by: Alan Hayes

Paul

• Groin Attack: A particularly horrifying example, with Jason using a harpoon gun to spear him in the balls.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Initially seems to be interested in having sex with Tina (and cheating on his girlfriend with her), but ultimately calls it off and does the right thing since he genuinely cares about Samantha. Pretty decent friend to the rest as well.

Tina and Terri

Played By: Camilla and Carey More

• Always Identical Twins: They're identical twin sisters.
• Destination Defenestration: Tina is tossed out of the window by Jason.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Tina pursues boys with girlfriends and wants to stay out late where Terri prefers to hang out with their new friends and wants to go home before it gets dark.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Terri gets impaled through the back by Jason.
• Pet the Dog: Despite being perfectly willing to pursue boys with girlfriends, once she has sex with Jimmy, Tina assures him that she enjoyed herself and he isn't a "dead fuck", as Ted claimed.
• Pink Means Feminine: Both wear pink shirts.

Rob Dier

Rob Dier

Played by: E. Erich Anderson

• Big Brother Instinct: Rob comes to Crystal Lake to find Jason and avenge his murdered sister, Sandra.
• Decoy Protagonist: Initially seems to be the guy who's going to bring down Jason for good, but Jason kills him easily.
• Face Death with Despair: Understandably doesn't take being hacked to death well to the point where he loudly repeats "he's killing me" over and over again until Jason is finished killing him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Rather than take the machete Trish is holding, Rob opts to go into the basement, where he knows Jason is, to retrieve a knife. Jason inevitably attacks and makes short work of Rob.