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Originally Posted by Leo656
Only if you accept "Jason Goes To Hell" as canon, which most don't.
For one thing, it was made by an entirely different studio, entirely different people, and for legal reasons pretty much nothing from the original series could be carried over, therefore they had to come up with a completely new backstory for Jason, and his family tree, all of which is pretty hard to reconcile with the events of earlier films. The whole movie is just one revelation after another of stuff that's completely, "Wait, what? Since when?"
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"Jason Goes to Hell" actually explains more than you'd think.
Basically Jason drowns as a kid... and then presumably gets inhabited at the bottom of the lake by whatever that demon heart slug symbiote thing is. This resurrects him and now we have basically a retarded kid with brain damage driven by a symbiote. "*mumble mumble* Something something, love mother... counselors evil... kids bad *mumble mumble*" Eventually he's "killed" in part 4 but this just makes the symbiote go dormant. In 6, the symbiote gets supercharged with electricity. And so on, and so forth.
Back on point, the slug symbiote explains Jason's changing appearances between movies (could be hopping bodies, and if he's in one for two long it begins to morph into his facial deformities). It explains how he gets his fingers back between FvJ and Jason X. It would explain how he suddenly seems so much more agile in F13 (2009) if we were to take that movie as a sequel.
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Originally Posted by IndigoErth
If Jason's first film was in 1980, then come on, he'd be at least, what, 60s now? Surely it can't be the same guy forever!  
edit: Oh, I guess he had an actual birth date of June 13, 1946? Yeah, if they made a new movie now, no 75-year-old man is going to pull that off or look like that. lol He'd be going after people and having to stop frequently to catch his breath. Senior Michael is helped by already moving at an old guy's pace anyhow with just short busts of increased energy. |
Someone that's a host to a demon/symbiote slug entity doling out Venom levels of strength could pull that off. Which is what Jason has.
Mentally, over the years I've looked at the demon slug thing as a mix between a Trill symbiont and the Venom symbiote. Jason's "mind" lives in the slug thing, but the slug thing also imbues the host with superpowers and basically immortality.