10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Jason Voorhees

While the goalie mask is certainly his definitive look, we’ve already established that Jason’s appearance in the original Friday was as a young boy in the lake, with his face out in the open.

So what’s just as surprising is that in the second film, with Jason elevated to the role of slasher villain, he still doesn’t have the mask! Instead, he wears a sack over his head, earning this incarnation the creative nickname ‘Baghead Jason’.

It wasn’t until the third film that Jason finally got hold of the mask that would come to define him. He took it from the character Shelly (Larry Zerner), a lonely guy who plays pranks on the rest of the group to try and make them notice him.

After Shelly terrifies his crush by leaping out of the lake while wearing the mask, Jason dispatches him and takes it for himself, finally appearing onscreen the way we all expect him to.

During the climax, final girl Chris (Dana Kimmell), lands an axe into Jason’s head, cracking the mask, a detail which remains throughout the rest of the series. While he’s had this look through most of the franchise, it took all of the original trilogy to form Jason into the character we know.