10 Movie Cliffhangers That Were Ignored In The Sequel

10. Tommy Jarvis Becomes The New Jason - Friday The 13th: A New Beginning

The fifth Friday the 13th film, A New Beginning, concluded with the frankly insane cliffhanger that one of the few people to both survive and defeat Jason Voorhees, Tommy Jarvis (John Shepherd), had seemingly become the new Jason.

After Tommy kills Jason copycat Roy Burns (Dick Wieand), the final scene sees him recovering in the hospital, and when Pam (Melanie Kinnaman) enters his room, he sneaks up on her with a knife while wearing Jason's iconic hockey mask.

The intent, clearly, was to have the real Jason stay dead and keep the franchise going with Tommy taking up his mantle, but the idea caused such a stink with audiences that the sequel under-performed at the box office, and so this thread was abandoned for the next movie.

Instead the sixth film, Jason Lives, totally forgot that cliffhanger and kicked off with Tommy (Thom Mathews) accidentally resurrecting Jason while attempting to kill him once and for all.

Surprisingly Tommy actually survives yet another encounter with Jason, and though this was the last time he was seen in any of the movies, canonically speaking he's still very much alive - and, er, definitely not a killer.