<P> Jason Voorhees first appears during a nightmare of the main character Alice (Adrienne King) in the original Friday the 13th film; he becomes the main antagonist of the series in its sequels . As well as the films, there have been books and comics that have either expanded the universe of Jason, or been based on a minor aspect of him . </P> <P> Jason made his first cinematic appearance in the original Friday the 13th on May 9, 1980 . In this film, Jason is portrayed in the memories of his mother, Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer), and as a hallucination of the film's protagonist, Alice (Adrienne King). Though the character makes no contemporary appearance onscreen, he propels the film's plot--Mrs. Voorhees, the cook at Camp Crystal Lake, seeks revenge for his death, which she blames on the camp counselors . Jason's second appearance was in the sequel, Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). Revealed to be alive, an adult Jason exacts revenge on Alice for decapitating his mother in the original film . Jason (Steven Dash and Warrington Gillette), returns to Crystal Lake, living there as a hermit and guarding it from all intruders . Five years later a group of teenagers arrive to set up a new camp, only to be murdered one by one by Jason, who wears a pillow case over his head to hide his face . Ginny (Amy Steel), the lone survivor, finds a cabin in the woods with a shrine built around the severed head of Mrs. Voorhees, and surrounded by mutilated corpses . Ginny fights back and slams a machete through Jason's shoulder . Jason is left for dead as Ginny is taken away in an ambulance . In Friday the 13th Part III (1982), Jason (Richard Brooker) escapes to a nearby lake resort, Higgins Haven, to rest from his wounds . At the same time, Chris Higgins (Dana Kimmell) returns to the property with some friends . An unmasked and reclusive Jason kills anyone who wanders into the barn where he is hiding . Taking a hockey mask from a victim to hide his face, he leaves the barn to kill the rest of the group . Chris fends off Jason by slamming an axe into his head, but the night's events drive her into hysteria as the police take her away . </P> <P> Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) continues the story, with a presumed - dead Jason (Ted White) found by the police and taken to the morgue . Jason awakens at the morgue and kills an attendant and a nurse, and makes his way back to Crystal Lake . A group of teens renting a house there fall victim to Jason's rampage . Jason then seeks out Trish (Kimberly Beck) and Tommy Jarvis (Corey Feldman) next door . While Trish distracts Jason, Tommy kills him . Friday the 13th: A New Beginning follows Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd), who was committed to a mental hospital after the events of The Final Chapter, and has grown up constantly afraid that Jason (Tom Morga) will return . Jason's body was supposedly cremated after Tommy killed him . Roy Burns (Dick Wieand) uses Jason's persona to become a copycat killer at the halfway home to which Tommy was moved . Jason appears in the film only through Tommy's dreams and hallucinations . In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986), Tommy (Thom Mathews), who has run away from a mental institution, visits Jason's grave and learns that Jason's body was never actually cremated, but buried in a cemetery near Crystal Lake . While attempting to destroy his body, Tommy inadvertently resurrects Jason (C.J. Graham) via a piece of cemetery fence that acts as a lightning rod . Now possessing superhuman abilities, Jason returns to Crystal Lake, now renamed Forest Green, and begins his killing spree anew . Tommy eventually lures Jason back to the lake where he drowned as a child and chains him to a boulder on the lake floor, but almost dies in the process . Tommy's friend, Megan Garris, finishes Jason off by cutting his face with a boat propeller . </P> <P> Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) begins an undisclosed amount of time after Jason Lives . Jason (Kane Hodder) is freed from his chains by the telekinetic Tina Shepard (Lar Park Lincoln), who was attempting to resurrect her father . Jason begins killing those who occupy Crystal Lake, and after a battle with Tina, is dragged back to the bottom of the lake by an apparition of Tina's father . Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) sees Jason return from the grave, brought back to life via an underwater electrical cable . He follows a group of students on their senior class trip to Manhattan, boarding the Lazarus to wreak havoc . Upon reaching Manhattan, Jason kills all the survivors but Rennie (Jensen Daggett) and Sean (Scott Reeves); he chases them into the sewers, where he is submerged in toxic waste and dies . Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) marked the second time Jason was officially killed according to studio canon . Through an unexplained resurrection, he returns to Crystal Lake, where he is hunted by the FBI . The FBI sets up a sting to kill Jason, which proves successful . Through mystical possession, however, Jason survives by passing his demon - infested heart from one being to the next . Though Jason does not physically appear throughout most of the film, it is learned he has a half - sister and a niece, and that he needs them to retrieve and reinhabit his body . After resurrecting it, Jason is stabbed by his niece Jessica Kimble (Kari Keegan) and dragged into Hell . </P>

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