Friday the 13th (film)/Awesome

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  • The slowmotion decapitation in the first film.
  • The triple decapitation in the sixth film.
  • The entire psychic battle in Part VII. Jason REALLY takes some beatings.
  • Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan: when Jason is on a rooftop and a high school boxer is trying to fight him, Jason takes a few punches and finally retaliates. He punches the student in the face, and the student's head is knocked clean off his shoulders. It then rolls off the roof and into a dumpster on the ground, followed immediately by the dumpster lid slamming itself shut.
    • But before that, Jason kills two drug dealing thugs who wanted to have fun with Rennie after drugging her only to have Jason come in and kill them both, brutally. It just goes to show you how merciless Jason is when he sees you going to kill one of his own prey.
  • As corny as it might be, this troper always thought the scene in Jason Goes To Hell when the diner staff all open fire on Jason was pretty ballsy. Granted, they all died, but you've got to give credit to Vicki in particular for not only using a shotgun, but later sacrificing herself so the protagonists can get away.
    • Are we forgetting the opening when, after pursuing what he thinks is just another stupid teenager, Jason gets shot to pieces, and blown up with an Air Strike? Of course there wouldn't be a film if it worked, but it's so easy to imagine Jason's jaw dropping throughout the whole thing.
  • Kay-M handing Jason's ass to him in Jason X.
    • Brodski is stabbed while his squad tries to take out Jason. Instead of dying, he crawls, while dying of blood loss across the ship to help Kay-M finish Jason off. And then, pulls off two Big Damn Heroes moments in a row and then literally rides Jason's burning body to through the atmosphere of New Earth, giving him what is quite arguable Jason's canon death. DAMN!
    • Is this troper the only troper to think that Jason Voorhees gets his CMoA in Jason X when he chops someone's arm off WHILST CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN?
  • Kinda meta, but seeing SAM WINCHESTER fight against JASON VOORHEES and able to defeat Jason and live in the remake is all kinds of awesome.
    • Jason Ninja-Dropping from the roof, and spearing the cop in the head.
    • Nolan's death. Jason is an excellent archer.
  • The entire confrontation between Jason and the Jarvis family in Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter is a crowner on its own with many awesome moments:
    • For starters, Rob and Trish exploring the cabin next door and seeing if anyone survived. When Trish sees signs that Jason is still in the house, she and Rob try to get out of there. Jason gets the drop on Rob and starts hacking him to death with a garden tool. Despite being cornered and hacked to death, Rob tells Trish to run, prompting her to go back and make sure Tommy is safe.
    • Trish and Tommy working together to nail down the house before Jason arrives. Jason tops it off by chucking Rob's body through a window and busting in another window to grab Tommy, prompting Trish to go nuts and attack Jason with a hammer. When he doesn't let Tommy go, Trish jams the claw end of the hammer into his neck, forcing him to let Tommy go. Jason, now enraged, busts through the nailed down door like it was nothing and almost hits Trish and Tommy with a well-timed hammer throw.
    • Trish and Tommy hold up in his room with the door barricaded by one of the shelves. Jason breaks through with an axe and Trish busts a TV over his head, electrocuting him. In a surprising twist they know he's Not Quite Dead, but have little time to escape. So Trish deliberately sneaks out loudly to wake Jason and prompt him to chase her out of the house, hoping it would give Tommy time to leave and run for help.
    • The chase itself is very tense. Newer fans whom have probably been introduced to Jason through the later series, would be shocked to see that for a big guy, Jason can run fast. However what makes it cooler, was Trish is determined to keep running to distract him. All of it culminating in her jumping out the high cabin window. It seems like she's dead at first, even Jason of all people looking down to see if she is. However she gets up, with a broken shoulder and shuffles back home.
    • The final confrontation is probably one of the best moments of the movie as well as the franchise as a whole. Trish comes home and finds out Tommy didn't leave. Throughout the whole chase scene and confrontation, Tommy was instead shaving his head bald in an effort to look like Jason's younger self. Jason shows up, thinking he's got the drop on Trish, who instead turns around and swings Rob's machete at him, turning it into a huge game between them. Trish swings relentlessly at Jason, while Jason in turn tries to grab the machete from her. Trish ends up scoring two hits -- one on his hand and the other on his chest. This enrages Jason and prompts him to strangle her. Tommy comes down, which distracts Jason, who thinks he's looking at his younger self, prompting him to reach out for him. Trish takes the opportunity to try to strike Jason in the head, but the swing gets too shallow and knocks his mask off instead, revealing his face. Trish is too frozen in fear of it to do anything but scream. Tommy however jumps down, grabs the machete and drives it into the side of Jason's skull. Jason falls and the machete is pushed further into his head. Things seem over at first, but when Tommy notices Jason's fingers move, he freaks out, pushes his sister out of the way and hacks Jason up. True, the last part cost him his sanity, but up until Part VI, he did what no one else could do in the previous two movies: he killed Jason Voorhees and put him down for good.
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