What mental illness does Jason have?

This is what gave Jason his deformed head and compressed his brain which resulted in decreased intellectual abilities. He continues by explaining how Jason also suffers from Schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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Did Jason have a mental illness?

Jason was afflicted with severe facial deformities, Hydrocephalus, an abnormally large head, and mental disabilities. Raising Jason on her own, Pamela kept her son isolated from the community, not letting him attend school and educating him in their home on the outskirts of Crystal Lake.

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What condition does Jason have?

15. Jason has Hydrocephalus. Jason Voorhees was born with Hydrocephalus, which is a real condition that forms from an abnormally large accumulation of fluids in the skull. These fluids put pressure on the skull, and as a result, Jason had a large, disfigured head.

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What is the backstory of Jason?

His mother thought he drowned in Crystal Lake at age 11. 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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What is Jason Voorhees's full name?

Jason Voorhees (born June 13, 1946) is a serial killer and the main antagonist of the Friday the 13th franchise.

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What is Jason Voorhees's weakness?

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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How old was Jason Voorhees when he drowned?

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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Why was Jason drowned?

In 1957, Jason accompanies his mother, Pamela, to the camp where she works as a cook. The deformed, mentally disabled young boy is picked on by the other campers and tossed into the lake. Because he is not a strong swimmer, Jason drowns.

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Why did Jason kidnap the girl?

As Mike and Whitney explore the abandoned Crystal Lake camp, Jason begins to kill the rest of the group one-by-one. Jason also kills four of the friends, but instead of doing the same to Whitney he decides to kidnap her because she resembles his mother.

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Who was Jason scared of?

Jason was never afraid of anything except in Freddy vs. Jason. However, Jason drowned when he was a child, and Freddy was burned to death.

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Who is Jason obsessed with?

'The Good Place' producer Joe Mande on how Jacksonville Jaguars fandom became part of the show. One of the show's characters, Jason Mendoza, is obsessed with Blake Bortles and the Jags.

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Why are Jason's eyes red?

Personality and Appearance

(For example, after playing "Assasin's Creed", he ambushed Dan in a white hood, like the assasins in the game) Jason has bloodshot eyes because of red bull, energizing him, and YouTube ruining his eyes because of the computer screen.

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Why does Jason have no hair?

The original design called for Jason to have hair, but Savini and his crew opted to make him bald, so he would look like a "hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead", with a dome-shaped head.

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Why can't Jason talk?

Trauma. Jason was rendered mute after barely surviving his near drowning at the age of 11. He was slightly mentally challenged before then and the fact that he was abused by the other campers made it worse. As shown in flashbacks during Freddy vs.

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What is Michael Myers mental illness?

Michael has a disorder called catatonia. Michael Myers is sometimes disabled from moving whenever he either sits or stands. This makes sense because it explains why Michael walks after his victims rather than running. He exhibits stupor also which is an inherited disorder.

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What happens to Jason's face?

In the very end of Friday the 13th: Part III, Jason got an axe to the head that permanently changed his look. Naturally, there's some wear and tear on his mask that ruined the red triangles which once marked the mask.

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Why does Jason spare kids?

Unlike adults—particularly sexually active ones—Jason sees children as harmless and innocent and would be unwilling to kill those that can't protect themselves. This lingering aspect of Jason's humanity has remained throughout all the movies, even when he's in the presence of children who wish him harm.

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Why does Jason keep one girl alive?

The two were later found by Jason, Mike (as well as the rest of Whitney's friends) were killed. Noticing her resemblance to his mother, Jason decided to spare Whitney, but kept her locked up in his underground lair.

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What does Jason turn into?

In the book series "The Southern Vampire Mysteries", Jason is turned into a werepanther, and, as such, can shift at will from human form to panther. In the HBO series, this does not occur because the Panther, like werewolves and shapeshifters, is hereditary.

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Why did Michael Myers start killing?

Basically, Michael killed his sister Judith because of a curse that was placed on him. A weirdo doctor thought it would be chill to cast this curse, even though it results in death and chaos over a long course of time. Michael simply serves as a killing machine to keep the cult of thorn thriving.

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How is Jason alive if he drowned?

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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Do you ever see Jason's face?

When anyone thinks of Jason, the image of the iconic hockey mask instantly comes to mind. However, for the fans, the face behind the mask is always a highlight. 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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Why is Jason unkillable?

In one of the movies—Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives—Jason also became a zombie, so he is essentially immortal. There was a storyline in the franchise where a copycat killer was on the loose, imitating Jason by dressing like him and using a machete to kill his victims.

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Who can beat Jason Voorhees?

Michael Myers from Halloween

Jason possesses many of the same attributes that Michael has and yet, while Jason relishes in his gruesome acts, Michael relies on stalking his foes and taking his time. This kind of precision would help Michael take Jason down and claim victory.

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Why does Jason 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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