A little bit of a cameo in today’s comic and don’t you tell me you don’t know who that is.
So here’s a delightfully devisive question for zombie lovers out there.
Is Jason Voorhees a zombie?
I say that he is. He was dead and then brought back to life by a lightning bolt. Sure that doesn’t make him a Romero type zombie, but I’d call that an energy zombie for sure.
Feel free to disagree, zombie purists, but they can’t all be Romero zombies. I likes variety.
No, I technically think that Jason Voorhees is a revenant, a form of undead that has come back to seek vengeance upon a specific person, group, or demographic. Jason’s choice of victims are teens who want to have sex in the deep woods. I mean all that a potential vic would have to do is rent a motel room.
I like your avatar.
Thanks, when I grow up, I want to be Chewbacca, riding a giant squirrel, and fighting Nazis, preferably zombie Nazis
You don’t even have to have seen the movies to know who Jason is. I think Romey is still screwed when he gets out on the ice, but I’m sure Jason’s advice probably helped his confidence a little.
It’s good that he made a friend. Poor Jason Voorhees. He always seems so lonely in those movies, maybe that’s one of the things driving him to kill.
I’m not sure what type he is.
Think about it…he was a kid when he died, but when he actually is killing people it’s after his mother is killed and he’s an adult. He wasn’t the killer in the first Friday the 13th, twas his mommy.
So…he grew up dead? I’m not really sure what to make of him. Did his mom perform some sort of ritual to bring him back to life and raise him in secret? If so wouldn’t he be the…umm…ritual type…which I can’t remember what we called it off the top of my head
Definitely not a Romero zombie. Sure I could go for the revenant explanation but i’ve always viewed him as a smart zombie… How many ways has he come back to life? There was the one with the psychic that raises him… what type of zombie would that be? Mystical?
Who knows, I remember him getting reanimated by a lightning bolt in the third movie. I’m not entirely sure but I think that was the first “Official” reanimation.
I think he’s just a very high functioning unstoppable zombie. Makes vampires look like sissies.
I knew Jason would turn up sooner or later.
I wonder what he’s doing so far from Camp Crystal Lake? And I prefer to think of him as an unkillable force of horror, much like many of the horror greats.
He’s away from Crystal Lake because he’s a goalie for a Canadian Hockey team of course. It’s so simple.
I like to think of him as simply the most powerful zombie that has ever been.
He’ll get back and find that it’s infested with teens. Poor guy, you’d think people would have got the message by now.
jason is a monster from hell he can`t be killed no matter what you do to him he is a demon from hell twisted and gifted by saten just for the pure purpose of killing a zombie no a killing machine in its true form yes
Looks like he came right from “practice!”
Really, Jason should be playing goal. Just saying.
(It’s the hockey purist in me.)
he is most definitely a zombie. The man has died, and been brought back to life one too many times to not be. for peep sakes, he’s even seen as rotting with maggots crawling out of him and shit like that. for example, friday the 13th part 7 a new blood. his mask gets crushed off, and its revealed he has a rotting skull head. in part 6 he is Revived by part of a broken iron fence and shown to have maggots crawling all over him. if none of that is zombie, a walking killer corps then I dunno what is.
Jason Voorhees is a ghost, period. He’s the ghost of a 9 year old boy. However, he is a ghost, that, with the strength and power of vengeance, created a physical form around his own drowned body with which to get vengeance for his mother’s death. The big guy in the hockey mask isn’t really Jason, but more Jason’s “vehicle”. Technically, that would make it a Flesh Golem (like Frankenstein’s monster), not a zombie. Hence the reason that electrical charges set it into motion again (and occasionally makes it dormant again).
So, not a zombie; sorry. But incidentally; in the 8th instalment, Jason, the ghost has second thoughts about murdering certain teenagers, and reaches out to one of them, trying, inefficiently, to warn him, since the Flesh Golem body was “hardwired” to kill teenagers at this point; no longer needing the ghost boy presence inside it to operate.
The 8th Instalment (Jason Takes Manhattan) is THE FINAL episode in the Jason series (to us purists), as the Flesh Golem body is finally and irrevocably destroyed by New York’s toxic waste, leaving just the body of a drowned little boy floating through New York’s sewer system. And with the ghost of Jason Voorhees no longer in the business of vengeance, there was no reason why a new “Jason” Flesh Golem body would be created. Therefore, every movie after #8 is NON-CANON.
This is what you get when you ask this question of a “Friday the 13th Obsesso-fanboy”
A ghost that’s possessing a body of some kind…. I’d still call that a possessing zombie, something very close to a Revenent perhaps. I like your theory though.
Jason Voorhees is a Magic type Zombie… and the reason he keeps coming back and cant be killed is simple…. in the very first movie his mother CURSED Crystal lake … simply put Jason is a curse you cant “kill” Jason until the curse is broken , hence why in 8 there was a big lightshow and Jason resumed the form of the child those survivors ” BROKE THE CURSE”
I like that argument, you could also consider him an energy zombie. It was a lightning bolt that brought him back in “Friday 13th part 3″
Regardless he’s a very high functioning zombie. Romero zombies go down if you bump their noggins slightly. Think about how much abuse Jason puts up with and still comes after you.
That’s one tough zombie.