Jason Voorhees on the forehead and cheeks. Age them down a bit, break them up." In the end, Stoddard crafted six versions of the mask, each with varying degrees of wear. In his original appearance, Jason was scripted as a mentally disabled young boy. Since "Friday the 13th", Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer. Jason is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series. Exceptions to this include flashbacks of Jason as a child, and a brief scene in "Jason Takes Manhattan" where the character cries out "Mommy, please don't let me drown!" in
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Voorhees actually exists, have begun making plans to trap him and "send him straight to Hell." Freddy Krueger's clawed hand coming out of the ground and taking Jason's mask was a reference to the future crossover "Freddy vs. Jason" between the two, which had been in development hell since 1987. It was finally finished in 2003, a year after this film's sequel. The film features the appearances of the skull dagger and Necronomicon from "Evil Dead II". Jason, Freddy, and Ash Williams would later meet in the comic book series "Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash" (a story adapted by writer