10 Essential Parts Of Movie Franchises (That Weren’t Introduced Until The Sequel)
7. Jasons Hockey Mask - Friday The 13th Part III
The Iconic Element: Freddy has his clawed glove and striped sweater, Michael Myers has his inside-out William Shatner mask (seriously) and Norman Bates has his wig; if you're going to become a memorable slasher villain you need to have some And that's why Jason Voorhees, despite his films being notably less distinct and his backstory much less engaging, remains the most pervasive icon in all of the sub-genre; who isn't picturing that hockey mask in their minds right now? When It Was Actually Introduced: Thanks to Scream, everyone's aware Jason isn't actually the murderer in the first Friday The 13th - it's actually his mother, with her presumed-dead child only killing in a last minute twist. But that wasn't the only central part of the franchise that wasn't present from the start. Yup, even when Jason was promoted to big-bad of the series, he didn't immediately have that mask. In fact, he just wore a bag on his head for the entirety of Friday The 13th Part II (it's not quite as naff as it sounds). It was only in Friday The 13th Part III that he finally got the iconic mask, and even then he acquired it in a pretty flippant way; the filmmakers probably didn't fully realise what they'd just created.
