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Jason Voorhees, also known as Camp Counselor Jason is the titular main protagonist of the webcomic of the same name, written by Janie Lee.
He is an alternate version of the iconic slasher movie serial killer, where he was saved from drowning in Camp Crystal Lake by his future self, and instead of becoming a serial killer, became a camp counselor to ensure the safety of children in the camp. He occasionally crossovers with other alternate versions of horror movie characters, such as Carrie White and Michael Myers.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- Unlike the original version (who, while tragic, with redeeming qualities and moral agency issues, was a brutal and ruthless serial killer that murdered hundreds of people), this version of Jason is overall an incredibly kind and gentle counselor who tries his best to ensure the safety of the campers in his camp.
- He is the definition of a “gentle giant” a person who appears big and terrifying but is actually very friendly and affectionate towards everyone around him, especially children and animals, and never grew envious or hateful despite being bullied as a kid and being viewed as a deformed monster by society.
- We see Jason's pacifistic nature in 2 concept arts, 1 where we see him restraining his mother from seemingly trying to stab someone and another where he tries to talk his mother out of wanting to shoot someone with a shotgun. And unlike the football coach concept art, we both see Pamela's murderous nature and Jason's friendly nature in the actual comics.
- He never seemed angry when he encountered the old bullies that pushed him into the lake when he was a kid. As a matter of fact, he even saved one of them from an arrow. While it could be argued that he doesn't seem to remember them, this wasn't confirmed or not, and he still saved someone's life regardless.
- Given that he knows of his mother's murderous nature towards the teenagers of the camp, it is possible he intentionally foiled his mother's attempts at killing at least the first 2 Jason club teenager mothers. This is further supported by the fact that he appears out of nowhere and distracts the teenagers.
- While he did brutally kill 3 murderers, these were all completely accidental and he wasn't aware of the deaths of the first two. Even then, they completely deserved it.
- He was, however, shocked when seeing the corpse of the third murderer after accidentally causing him to trip and get impaled from a trap set up by his mother, once again showing his compassion.
- Jason is shown to be someone who cares about the environment, as shown by him picking up trash at the bottom of a lake.
- He defends Carrie White from her bullies and comforted her afterwards.
- When realizing that Carrie's mother locked her in a closet, he busted into the house and saved her after realizing how abusive she was.
- Jason's most admirable act was when Carrie was humiliated at the Prom, he bravely went towards her and comforted her, this broke her out of her angered state and caused her to use the water hoses to put out the fire. This makes Jason responsible for at least dozens of those student lives being saved since if he didn't comfort Carrie and encourage her to do the right thing, all of those high schoolers would have died.
- While we do see Jason participating in his mother's murder training such as when he stabbed a punching bag with his machete multiple times and he crushed the head of a watermelon that was made to look like a person, it was very likely he participated in that training to become stronger and to make his mother happy than out of any intentions of murdering anyone given we never see him do such acts intentionally.
- Despite how (albeit unintentionally) intimidating and frightening Michael Myers can act, he still allows acts friendly towards and even still tries to joke around with him.
- When he saw his childhood friend Jane Miles, he never really showed any anger when she elbows jabbed in the stomach and instead seemed genuinely worried when he saw her arm injury and after she was feeling insecure about failing her job to protect people, he decided to take her to see some of the bear cubs he befriended to cheer her up.
- While there is concept art of him and Michael as football coaches, with Jason covered in blood with the phrase "he kills in football" next to him, it's debatable how canon this is, and since Jason never intentionally does such things in the comics, it most likely isn't.
- He, along with Tommy Jarvis and Jane Miles, agreed to participate in Billy Loomis/Ghostface's low-budget slasher film that could potentially help him get a scholarship in Windsor College. Despite Billy being extremely rude and impatient and blaming everybody for wasting time with an unmentioned deadline coming, Jason insisted on helping him and felt closer to him when he found out that just like him, Billy wanted to make his own mother proud. Jason, Tommy and Jane did their best to help him finish the film for the remaining of the day and night, but most importantly, made a new friend.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- He evaded the private space and scared two camp counselors with a machete when they were trying to have sex, showing himself to be intrusive and strict. However, this prevention is minor as he likely just wanted to prevent casualties of the young campers (because it was the camp counselors having intercourse that caused him to almost drown since they weren't there to help) and they should've been doing their jobs to begin with. On top of that, we never see him injure the two camp counselors, so this doesn't make him lethal.
Trivia[]
- This is not only the only version of Jason to be Near Pure Good, but one of the few versions of him to be heroic at all.
- Jason's interactions with Billy Loomis and original character Jane Miles were written and illustrated by the artist Fairloke and were approved and encouraged by Janie Lee.