Why is Jason wearing a mask?

Ultimately, both renditions of Jason put on their hockey masks out of sheer convenience, but there may be more to this choice than meets the eye. Though it's never stated outright, he likely wore it to hide his face and avoid horrified looks from those that caught a glimpse of his true portrait.
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Why does Jason Voorhees wear a mask?

Jason was born with hydrocephalus and mental disabilities, and in order to hide his deformed face, he covered it all the time before adopting the hockey mask he's well-known for now.
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What does a Jason mask mean?

One day while performing a lighting check, the film's director Steve Miner called for Jason to show up in a mask. On a whim, a hockey goalie mask was chosen because the 3D supervisor Martin Jay Sadoff was a big hockey fan and happened to have a Detroit Red Wings goalie mask with him.
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When did Jason get his mask?

Friday the 13th: Part III

In Friday the 13th Part III: 3D, Jason finally got his signature mask! It's a classic hockey mask with three red triangles and black straps connected at the top and the sides. Jason didn't purchase the mask brand new, though — he stole it from Shelly.
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Why is Jason's face deformed?

Jason Voorhees' story starts with his deformed face. Voorhees has these severe deformities due to the fact that he was born with hydrocephalus and an abnormally large head, which, as you can imagine, was the bane of his existence growing up. And eventually, he was bullied, thrown in the lake and drowned.
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What is Jason Voorhees weakness?

His death is the golden chainsaw in Dead Meat's kill count for the 4th film. Freddy vs. Jason has established that Jason's weakness is water, since he died by drowning (although he was shown in water in some films).
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Why is Jason immortal?

Jason Vorhees isn't your run-of-the-mill biblical demon

In the movie, Jason's demonic soul keeps passing from person to person via a grotesque "hell baby" who takes over and destroys his host's body. The hosts don't last long because Jason needs to possess someone from his bloodline to once again become immortal.
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Why can't Jason Voorhees talk?

Some suggest it could be due to a mental illness, or his low IQ. Or maybe there is another reason as to why Jason Voorhees remains one of the silent killers. No matter his reason for quiet…he does a great job hacking and slashing and remains the horror movie killer with the highest body count.
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Do you ever see Jasons face?

Usually saved until the climactic final act, Jason's face is revealed and over the course of eleven movies, each unmasked Jason is unique to each film.
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How do you knock off Jason's mask?

Basically, you just need to smack him in his face, preferably with a Machete. There are various ways to stun him such as shooting him. So you might want to have one player stun him, and then have another player ready to go with a machete. A couple of shots should knock it off, but don't get too greedy.
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Whats the story of Jason?

Jason. He was an almost completely silent, undead and seemingly unstoppable killing machine. Jason was an iconic madman who haunts Camp Crystal Lake and the surrounding area, driven to slaughter anyone he encounters by a burning need to avenge the death of his beloved mother, Pamela Voorhees.
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What happens when Jason loses his mask?

You knock his mask off and do more damage to Jason if you have Tommy there and wear Jason's mom sweater you need to steal from his shack he can be drop to his knees and Tommy only can do this with a machete and Jason can get killed.
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Is Jason a zombie?

Jason Voorhees is a serial killer from the Friday the 13th series, after seemingly drowning to death at age 11, he later returned and later becomes an undead revenant zombie that is nearly indestructible.
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Is Jason Based on a true story?

Is Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees Based on a True Story? Friday the 13th creators denied taking inspiration from real-life events; however, a Finland massacre bears an eerie resemblance to the franchise.
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How did Jason survive drowning?

It was implied in some of the early sequels that Jason was only thought to have drowned. In reality, he survived, and lived in the woods until adulthood, when he witnessed the killing of his mother. Jason only became the immortal zombie that he's known as in part 6, when he was brought back to life by lightning.
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Why is Jason Voorhees scared of water?

For the majority of the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason had almost no weaknesses. However, later films chose to give him a crippling fear of water. This was due to the circumstances of his death when he drowned in Crystal Lake as a child.
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Who is stronger Jason or Michael?

Both serial killers are extremely strong and durable, capable of taking umpteen amounts of punishment. But while Myers is still a freak of nature, Jason can easily win this fight. Jason is physically stronger than Myers and can take more damage.
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Why is Michael Myers face deformed?

Even though many people believe that Michael Myers' face was deformed by his left eye, it was really supposed to have represented the injury that he had sustained when Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) stabbed him in the eye with the close hanger.
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Was Jason alive the whole time?

Part II is the first time it's revealed that Jason is in fact still alive. He's now a fully grown adult man living in a shack in the middle of the woods, yet the sequel doesn't go into detail about this sudden reversal.
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Does Jason Voorhees eat?

Jason survived and became a hermit, living in the woods and feeding off plants, bugs and animals. (Some claim he did drown but came back to life to avenge his mother's death). He grew to be a large, deformed and uneducated man who never said a word.
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Who can beat Jason?

Physically imposing and hideously evil, Pinhead would utilize every evil trick in the book, ripping into Jason with chains, siccing his fellow cenobites on him, and just tearing Jason Voorhees a new one before dragging him into his realm.
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Who won Freddy vs Jason?

Jason kills over 14 people in the first 45 minutes of the movie. This was the final film from either the Nightmare or Friday franchises that followed the original plot before the reboot films. Although the ending to the movie is ambiguous, director Ronny Yu insists that he felt it was clear that Jason was the victor.
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What is Freddy afraid of?

Despite the fact that he sometimes uses it to kill his victims, Freddy appears to be afraid of fire (as it was by fire that he died his mortal death). If fire is used against him in a dream, he can be pulled into the waking world.
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