The iconic Jeff the Killer story uploaded by GameFuelTv aka Joshua Jordan and written by his brother Travis. It is not the original story but the defining edition due to being public domain. It can be found here
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- Acrofatic: The Fat Bastard Troy can somehow jump over a fence on a skateboard.
- Action Prologue: The opening of the story starts with a child retelling his account of nearly being stabbed by Jeff.
- Adaptation Expansion: The story is sixteen pages long, despite the original being less then two and half minutes.
- Adults Are Useless: None of the parents step in to break up the fight between Jeff, and the bullies. While they do have guns, and use them, you'd think that someone would try to disarm them while they're distracted, but nope. Nobody does anything till most of them are dead, and Jeff is on fire.
- Aerith and Bob: Most of the names are all standard, normal American names, and then there's Jeff's brother Liu.
- Age Lift: Jeff and Liu are aged down to teenagers rather than young adults.
- Ambiguously Human: Jeff despite being fully human is somehow capable of all sorts of inhuman actions, like killing Randy with one punch, and survives being burned alive and horrific self-mutilation.
- Artistic License – Biology:
- Despite only being a child, Jeff is ridiculously strong, being able to break bones like twigs, and tear a towel rack off a wall effortlessly despite the cement, tiles, grout and metal joints.
- Jeff somehow has perfect vision despite burning his eyelids off. Without eyelids in real life, a person would very quickly turn blind because of infections, their eyes drying out, or simply getting damaged by dust or foreign objects, with the only way of preventing this being to constantly hydrate the exposed eyes, a costly and tedious affair.
- Also, Jeff seems completely fine with having a Glasgow Grin, something which usually results in fatal bleeding. In addition, receiving a Glasgow smile and surviving makes it usually very difficult to speak, or eat, or drink, or... well, anything that requires precise movement of the jaws.
- The fact that apparently bleach makes skin turn pure white. In reality, bleach can irritate the skin depending on its concentration, making it turn red and inflamed. First and second-degree burns also make the skin red and inflamed, so even these in combination wouldn't have had the claimed effect.
- The fact that the fire dyed his hair black instead of burning it all off or turning it grey and crusty.
- Also, the doctor, no less, claims that Jeff's insane laughter is a result of the Anesthetics they use. While this is a possible symptom of coming out of anesthesia, anesthetized patients are far more likely to babble and speak either coherent or incoherent nonsense.
- Jeff punching Randy in the heart which results in the latter dying is made trivially easy in the story, whereas in real life it takes exactly the right conditions to cause this to happen. Though, given the over-the-top nature of the fic, the implication might be that Jeff just hit Randy so hard it shattered his ribs, which could have pierced his heart and killed him.
- Artistic License – Chemistry:
- Not only is bleach not flammable, but bleach is a base chemical. While it does cause clothes to become washed out by reacting with the dyes in the fabric, if bleach was left on a person's hand long-term it would cause the skin to become irritated, similar to how an acid dissolves the skin, so if Jeff weren't turned black from being burned alive he would be a lighter-than-normal pink due to the majority of his epidermis sloughing off. The only correct thing about him being drenched in bleach is his skin feeling "tight," a result of said effect of it being a base.
- The versions which involve Jeff being doused in vodka as well as bleach fix one problem but cause another: alcohol is fairly volatile, so it's likely that some of it would have evaporated before Jeff was set on fire. The bleach would have also diluted it a fair bit, so it wouldn't have burnt as spectacularly as described, if it even caught fire at all.
- Household bleach is fairly diluted, so it doesn't really affect human skin unless it's left on there for a long time, and its damage tends to be fairly limited as long as it doesn't get inside the body through the mouth or nose or into the eyes. Presumably washing off the bleach before it did any damage was one of the first things they'd have done at the hospital, so there's really no reason why it should have affected Jeff's face at all.
- Artistic License – Law: Liu falsely confesses to attacking Randy and co and is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation.
- Artistic License – Medicine: After Jeff wakes up in the hospital, the doctor recommends his parents get him a psychiatric evaluation if anything goes wrong. Most doctors would give somebody who went through an experience as traumatic as Jeff's an evaluation as a matter of course.
- Asshole Victim: Jeff and Liu's parents given the mother's immediate response to Jeff's Sanity Slippage, which has prompted him to mutilate himself with a knife, is telling her husband to "get the gun").
- Big Brother Instinct: Jeff and Liu are shown to care for each other before the incident, but who is the older is not established.
- The conflict the brother have with Randy and co is started by Jeff beating them up for taking Liu's wallet despite Liu trying to calm Jeff down.
- Liu shows protectiveness when he allows takes the blame for the fight with Randy and co and allows himself to be arrested
- Black Eyes of Evil: No explanation is given for why they're black, but they're there. Note that sometimes fanart forgoes the black part, and often stylizes them as red.
- Book Ends: The news article that opens the story has an already crazy Jeff say "go to sleep" to a young boy before trying to kill him while the story itself ends with a crazed Jeff saying the exact same thing to his younger brother Liu, gripping him as he gets ready to plunge the knife.
- Buffy Speak:
- During Jeff's final confrontation with the bullies, Keith apparently knocks down a "thing" of bleach, rather than a bottle or even a jar.
- One version claiming to be the original that was submitted to the Creepypasta Wiki consistently used the word "knifed" instead of "stabbed."
- Bullying a Dragon: Jeff beats up Randy, Keith, and Troy. Despite this the three try to get revenge and Randy and presumably Keith and Troy end up end.
- Canon Foreigner
- Jeff's parents are original to this story. In the original Jeff does not live with them at the time of his disfigurement.
- Jeff's bullies Randy, Keith, and Troy are original as well. In the original Jeff accidentally disfigures himself while cleaning his bathroom.
- Character Catchphrase: Jeff's says the phrase "Go to sleep" before he kills his victims.
- Crapsack World: The neighborhood where young children are stabbed (and shot) to death by other young children on a regular basis and where police have the authority to act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner, is considered to be one of the nicer places in this universe.
- Deadly Euphemism: If you run into Jeff, pretty much the only thing you'll hear him say is "go to sleep."
- Death by Adaptation: Jeff kills his parents and brother, even though the original Jeff killed neither of them.
- Department of Redundancy Department:
- "Jeff's mother hugs Jeff".
- From the newspaper excerpt at the start of the pasta: "a pair of two eyes."
- Evil Is Hammy: Randy has dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in a comic book.
- Expy: The Joker. His face, in particular, is chemically bleached like the original, and a Glasgow Grin like the Dark Knight version.
- Fat and Skinny: Troy, to Randy and especially Keith.
- Fat Bastard: Troy, one of the bullies in the story, is implied to be very fat.
- Faux Affably Evil: This is also how Jeff is usually portrayed.
- Fighting Back Is Wrong: The police show up at their door that afternoon to arrest Jeff for attacking Randy and co, even though they tried to mug Jeff and Liu.
- Glasgow Grin: Jeff carves a smile into his face so he can "smile forever".
- Hate Sink: Randy, Keith and Troy, who were a group of bullies, who try to extort Jeff and Liu. To avenge getting beaten up, the trio attempt to attack Jeff at a party while threatening the guests with guns, despite the fact that Jeff's brother Liu went to Juvie for said fight.
- Hollywood Healing:
- Four days after having one of his wrists broken by Jeff, Randy is able to use his wrists just fine. Despite this, he still has a bruise on his nose from where Jeff punched him, which you think would have healed first.
- Despite Jeff being stabbed, and having the shit beaten out of him, his burns are the only things mentioned afterwards.
- How We Got Here: The story opens with a news report detailing one of Jeff's attempted killings, and states that he has been killing people for quite some time. The rest of the story details Jeff's Start of Darkness.
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner: The cops in this universe apparently operate like this, since they seemingly have the authority to sentence people on the spot with even the flimsiest of evidence.
- Karma Houdini: Jeff kills his whole family and go on to become a serial killer, with no qualms against murdering children. The story offers no indication that he will be brought to justice anytime soon.
- Kids Are Cruel: Randy, Keith, and Troy are all implied to be only twelve years old.
- Kill It with Fire: Presumably what Keith tried to do with Jeff, though it didn't actually work.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Jeff's first kills were a group of bullies who stole Liu's wallet and threatened both of them with a knife.
- Laughing Mad: Jeff lets one out when he sees his deformed face in the mirror.
- Lean and Mean: Keith, one of the bullies from the story, was implied to be very skinny.
- Made of Iron: In total, Jeff withstands being stabbed, being kicked in the face repeatedly, getting punched repeatedly, getting thrown through a glass door, having a glass bottle broken over his head, being set on fire, falling down a flight of stairs, burning off his own eyelids, and giving himself a Glasgow Smile. It's shocking that he can even walk, let alone become a serial killer.
- Man on Fire: Jeff after Keith sets him ablaze.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: After Jeff disfigures himself, his mother starts thinking about killing him almost immediately.
- My Nayme Is: Assuming that Liu isn't supposed to be adopted, or the use of a foreign name, and is just a really weird spelling of "Lou", or "Louie".
- Nightmare Face: The image that started it all is very hard to get out of your head, and can be quite a shocker. The picture it was based on (hit the link in the opening paragraph for a comparison) is not at all better.
- One-Hit Kill: Jeff kills Randy with a single punch to the chest.
- Police Are Useless: The police arrest Liu after he falsely confesses to attacking Randy and co, is immediately sent to juvenile hall for one year without a trial or any further investigation. The boy in prologue is saved because the police show up shockingly fast.
- Practically Joker: Jeff is pretty much just some green hair dye away from being a perfect carbon copy of the Clown Prince of Crime himself. He has a name starting with the letter "J", a chemically bleached face set into a permanent hideous smile, a tendency to kill people, an uncontrollable habit of bursting into insane laughter and a backstory that saw him go mad after having "one bad day ".
- Sanity Slippage: The origin story is about how Jeff became a psychotic killer.
- Self-Made Orphan: The night Jeff returns from the hospital, he kills both his parents.
- Sibling Murder: Jeff murders Liu after killing their parents.
- Stupid Evil:
- Despite lying to the police to get Liu arrested, Randy, Troy, and Keith have no problems attacking Jeff and trying to kill him at a birthday party with tons of witnesses. Even if Randy had won, he would have been arrested for murder. Randy even admits that he lied right in front of everyone. The three don't even have the sense to wear masks to hide their identities.
- Jeff can be considered this too, since he inflicted injuries upon himself that would severely cripple him, and eventually outright kill him.
- Taking You with Me: Keith presumably tries to do this with Jeff by tossing his lighter at the latter, who has been coated in vodka and bleach. Considering he vanishes from the story after this point, it’s unclear if he even dies from doing this or not.
- Teens Are Monsters:
- Randy, Troy, and Keith certainly qualify, mugging fellow students and being willing to murder Jeff themselves.
- Jeff himself in the end after he kills his family.
- Terrible Trio: Randy, Troy, and Keith, the three bullies that mugged and assaulted Jeff and his brother.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After killing his parents, Jeff, for some reason, decides to kill his brother, even though his brother took the blame for attacking Randy and company.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite being one of the three main antagonists, what happens to Troy is unclear. Unlike the other two bullies who explicitly die, he is never mentioned again after getting hit in the face with a towel rack, and falling to the floor.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The original tries to make Jeff out to be one of these. It doesn't work that well.
- Would Hurt a Child: The story opens with a report detailing Jeff's attempted murder of a child.
