See also Hockey Mask and Chainsaw, a common referential character depiction in which Jason's mask is combined with Leatherface's chainsaw.
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Anime & Manga
- Ebisu in Dorohedoro has a poster of Jason in her room.
- Fruits Basket: When the main characters visit the Sohma lake house with Hatori, Shigure muses out loud that this is the kind of setting where Jason would show up. When Kyo asks who "Jason" is, Shigure messes with him by telling him it's a new species of bear (which Kyo and Tohru are both gullible enough to believe right away), but Yuki later correctly points out that Jason is a character from a horror movie.
- Great Teacher Onizuka: Onizuka's last opponent in the 100-man arm wrestling competition is a guy named Jason who wears a hockey mask.
- Irresponsible Captain Tylor has a hockey mask-wearing Space Marine named Jason who's always unavailable on Fridays. Yes, he uses a chainsaw for CQC.
- A threatening ninja makes a sudden appearance in an episode of Ninja Nonsense, wearing Jason's hockey mask and wielding an axe. He then removes the mask and notes that it's his turn to chop the wood and goes away.
- Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary: Chapter 43 is a parody of several slasher movies, and opens with a group of students telling a ghost story that's clearly based on a Jason-expy, down to him drowning in the lake. Then people actually start seeing the killers around camp. It turns out it was just their teacher and the camp director pranking a couple of students who tried to prank their classmates by dressing up as bloody ghosts.
- Junichi-sensei from Sket Dance goes by "J-son" and his face resembles a hockey mask.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In the splash page for Chapter 76, Naddy dresses up like Jason.
Comic Books
- As The Punisher fights a tough criminal named Roc in one of his War Zone annuals, he notes that the guy's "just like Jason, he never dies!" when he keeps on going even after having his neck snapped.
- One of Usagi Yojimbo's enemies is an Implacable Man named Jei-San.
Films — Live-Action
- As the plot thickens in Evil Laugh, Barney says "I just hope a guy in a hockey mask named Jason doesn't show up!"
- Fear Street: In 1978, teens are stalked by a Sackhead Slasher at summer camp.
- One excerbated character in Psycho Cop Returns complains that "this is not Friday the 13th Part Infinity" when others start to get spooked by the villain's antics.
- Sleepaway Camp films:
- Judd and Anthony in Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers dress as Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger in an attempt to scare Angela. It backfires as she appears dressed as Leatherface and kills them.
- In Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, Angela manages to fish out a hockey mask from the water. Right afterward it's remarked that the date is Saturday the 14th.
- Slumber Party Massacre II has two police officers named Vorhees and Kruger.
- In Wrestlemaniac, there's a diner called Chez Voorhees.
- Scream:
- In Scream (1996), Ghostface quizzes Casey Becker on horror films. He asks her who the killer in Friday the 13th was. She answers Jason - which is incorrect, as he didn't show up until the sequel.
- Scream 2:
- When Cici is on the phone to the drunk sister, she gets a Ghostface phone call and has her drunk sorority sister on the other line. When she tells the drunk sister that she thinks she's not alone, the drunk sister mimics Jason's "ki-ki-ma-ma" leitmotif.
- Randy mentions that Mrs Voorhees did a pretty good job of killing people when he suspects Hallie of being the killer. He's wrong about Hallie but right that the killer is a woman and Billy's grieving mother like Mrs Voorhees in the Friday films - who kills Randy herself.
- Scream VI
- One of the Ghostface killers in the film is named "Jason" and is shown watching Jason Takes Manhattan in his apartment later (the film is set in New York).
- Triangle: Christopher Smith has said that the Sackhead Slasher appearance of that killer was a homage to Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2.
- Us: Adelaide's sweet, mask-wearing son with unusual behavior is called Jason.
Literature
- One of Cal Leandros's horror Shout-Out pseudonyms in the book Blackout is Calhoun J. Voorhees.
- The Case Files of Ibrahim Helsing: In The Miskatonic Affair, Ibrahim talks about how disabled men getting murdered in New Jersey and in Texas made people think he couldn't handle tackling paranormal jobs.
- The Dresden Files: In Ghost Story after Boz emerges from the pit Harry describes his approach as lumbering towards Mort with Voorheesian steps.
- Konrad Zaar the Maniac Guard in the horror-themed Fighting Fantasy book Moonrunner is a blatant Medieval European Fantasy Expy of Jason.
- In Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Gabe and his friends are the victims of queerphobic hate crimes by two masked men, one of whom wears a Jason mask.
- The Final Girl Support Group, one of the characters is an Expy of Alice from the first film who survived an encounter with a Gender Flip version of Pamela.
Live-Action TV
- American Horror Story: 1984 is a Patische of slasher movies and is set at a summer camp where only the counsellors are picked off and which started in the 1950s with the drowning of a young boy and his mother going insane as a result.
- At the start of the Salute Your Shorts episode "They Call Me Ms. Tibbs", the kids were picking up garbage from the lake. Telly finds a hockey mask and a machette, which worries her.
- In Living Color!: A skit with Magenta Thompson has her teaching an acting class and showing off a past role in a Friday the 13th film, where Jason not only brushed her aside to kill another woman, but actually spoke, growling out, "Outta my way, bitch!"
- The Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life" has Lister excited about seeing the new Friday the 13th film - Friday the 13th part part one thousand six hundred and forty nine.
Music
- Thrash/punk band Death Curse features Jason's hockey mask and machete in their logo. The name itself comes from a line from the first movie ("It's got a death curse").
- The music video for E-Type's "Angels Crying
" is heavily based on the early Friday the 13th films. It even emulates the title crashing the screen. - "A New Beginning" by Wolfie's Just Fine is one giant homage to the Friday the 13th film of the same name, even replicating some of the kills from it.
- "Criminal" by Eminem contains the lyric, "I'ma be a fuckin' rapist in a Jason mask". Furthermore, he'd often appear in concert wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw.
- Ice Nine Kills have two songs devoted to the franchise ("Jason's Mom" and "Thank God It's Friday"), and Jason also gets a mention in the third, "Your Number's Up".
- An official artwork used in Halloween-themed merch of blink-182 since 2019 depicts Jason's appearance in The Final Chapter with a blue shirt and a mask with the band's smiley logo introduced in their self-titled album. More recently, said artwork was animated for screening in live performances of the song "Violence" (itself from the self-titled album).
Professional Wrestling
- In the late 1980s, Stampede Wrestling booker Bruce Hart turned Karl "Butch" Moffat into Jason The Terrible. The gimmick caught on and was later recycled in other promotions.
Video Games
- The Halloween 2013 update for Bad Piggies gave an assortment of Halloween masks, including Jason's hockey mask.
- The protagonist and his frog in Blaster Master are named Jason and Fred.
- Blood:
- Cheat code for temporary invulnerability is "Voorhees".
- "Crystal Lake", the fourth level of episode four features several, starting with its name. The setting is a summer camp, "ki-ki-ki-ma-ma-ma" can be heard in the soundtrack's ambience, a hockey mask and a machete can be seen hanging on wall, there's a table for a severed head surrounded by candles (meant to evoke the altar for Jason's mother in Part 2) and a lone raft sits in the middle of the lake (which stands for the canoe at the end of the first film).
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark: Jason (presumably a carnie in costume, but with this series you never know) is seen hanging out with several other slasher movie icons backstage at the carnival's Haunted House.
- The Trapper from Dead by Daylight is heavily based on Jason's reboot characterization; a crazed, deformed survivalist wearing a mask (sadly, not a goalie mask). As his name suggests, his particular villainous schtick is Bear Traps, but he can get personal with a machete.
- Dead Frontier has a machete named The Amputator, which comes with a hockey mask.
- Dead Island has a boss named Jason, who is armed with a machete and can be found in hidden shack in a forest.
- Jason's hockey mask can be unlocked in Dead Rising 2 by using every kind of melee weapon against the zombies.
- In Final Fantasy VI, Edgar has a 25% chance to instantly kill an enemy with his Chainsaw tool. He puts on a hockey mask and the chainsaw turns into a weed-whacker (which Jason actually used) when it triggers.
- In Final Fantasy VII, Vincent transforms into an amalgamation of Jason and Leather Face when using his Hellmasker Limit Break.
- In Gex, one of the enemies in the Cemetery world is a hockey mask-wearing psychopath, who also wears a red and green-striped sweater and wielding a chainsaw.
- The description for the axe weapon in Illbleed mentions that it used to belong to a guy named Jason.
- The Maniaxe helmet turns Kid Chameleon into a hockey mask-wearing brute who throws axes.
- Jason himself became a Guest Fighter in Mortal Kombat X, following on his rival Freddy's appearance in the previous installment.
- In Saints Row 2 a hockey mask can be found near a small lake and some cabins. It turns into a skull when you pick it up.
- Rick, the hockey mask wearing protagonist of Splatterhouse. The similarities are so apparent that the mask was recolored red in the western Turbografx-16 release to avoid legal trouble. The mask was presented in its original form when an arcade port of the game was included with the 2010 reboot. Sequels, including the reboot, would alter the mask into a more monstrous, skull-like appearance though Rick's look is still heavily referencing Jason.
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: One of the enemies in Pumpkin Zone is called "J-son". It is a creature that wears a hockey mask similar to Jason's, with a dagger stuck at the top of the mask.
- Several baddies in Zombies Ate My Neighbors are chainsaw wielders wearing hockey masks as part of its intent to homage classic horror films.
Webcomics
- Butch R. Mann's looks in Chopping Block is based Jason. Jason himself appears in one strip, where their lookalikeness makes it easy for Butch to trick him into a Mirror Routine.
- The janitor Jeffrey in Eerie Cuties wears a hockey mask similar to Jason's.
Web Original
- The Angry Video Game Nerd: For his first Halloween Episode, the Nerd played the Friday the 13th video game, in which he was visited by the real-life Jason (actually Mike Matei in the costume) who ordered him to continue playing, despite him wanting to quit.
- Zero Punctuation:
- In the BioShock review, Yahtzee describes the dificulty of it's Spiritual Predescessor as "Between challenging and murderous," the latter personified by Jason winding up to chop some coeds.
- Another describes the villain as "At the approximate power level of Jason Voorhees watching people fuck," as depicted by the Man Himself sweating and tugging at his collar while looking through a window.
- He described Ellie from The Last of Us Part II as "A less eloquent Jason Voorhees" (and gives her a hockey mask and machette within the first 10 seconds).
Western Animation
- The Dan Vs. episode "Dan vs. The Family Trip" is a one big shout-out to Friday the 13th, as Dan finds himself in a camping trip with a killer known as "Hockey-Masked Maniac" in the area.
- Family Guy:
- In "It Takes a Village Idiot and I Married One" he is interviewed by Quahog 5 News reporter Tricia Takanawa, who asks how he feels about the lake being clean again. He calmly responds that the wildlife will be coming back and it will revitalize the tourism in the lake, to which he takes good pride as Jason kills two teen girls during the interview with his trademark machete. He appears later as the manager of the store Britches and Hose, where he threatens to kill an employee if she screws up her job as the cashier.
- In the DVD version of "We Love You, Conrad", Jason reads scripture while killing two flower girls at the Russell-Wilcox wedding.
- When a dead kid is discovered at Camp Fresh Start in "Killer Queen", everyone looks at Jason who says he is just there to drop off his son, Justin Voorhees. Justin tries to stab Jason but he points out that doesn't work on him.
- Jason buys a cabin overlooking a summer camp from Brian in "Brian the Closer". When Brian tries to explain about the cabin being the site of previous murders, Jason assures him he already made the sale.
- Monster Mash (2000) features a villain named Freddy DeSpaghetti, whose visual design◊ is clearly based on Jason, with a colander for a hockey mask.
- The Simpsons:
- "Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood" has gang of kids, led by Ernest Borgnine, getting lost and finding their way to an abandoned summer camp. They are then attacked by a mysterious assailant who's accompanied by familiar sound effects.
- In "Cape Feare" Bart tells Homer that he is a little unnerved and wants Homer not to scare him. Homer promises, leaves, then re-enters dressed like Jason shouting: "Bart, you wanna see my new chainsaw and hockey mask!", naturally making Bart panick again.
- In "Blazed and Confused", Homer is trying to get reservations over the phone for a camping site, and asks for "the campsite where the guy in the hockey mask kills all the campers". The Park Ranger on the other end of the phone tells Homer that that's just a movie, before being killed by Jason, who takes note of Homer's address.
- South Park: Jason appears among the evil characters in "Imaginationland".
