10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Jason Voorhees

“He wasn’t a very good swimmer,” Mrs Voorhees tells a terror-stricken Alice, as she explains the tragedy that caused her to begin her vendetta.

Since Jason’s drowning-but-not-drowning, his mastery over the waves seems to have improved greatly; he can be seen in Part IV attacking from underneath a dinghy, so it’s safe to say he’s willing to submerge himself in Crystal Lake, despite his near-death experience, and move about underwater with ease.

In Friday the 13th: The Game, players can take Jason into the waters, where he can dart around at rapid speeds and catch swimmers like the shark from Jaws. He’s practically an aquatic mammal.

A major change was made in Freddy vs Jason, in which Freddy Krueger torments Jason with… water? At the sight of water, Jason will now crumble into a mess, reduced to that bullied boy desperately splashing about in Crystal Lake, trying to stay afloat.

This could have made sense, that Jason had developed a fear of water due to his childhood trauma, had it been established in previous films. The problem is it hadn’t. It seems to have been introduced by screenwriters Damian Shannon and Mark Swift as a way for the Springwood Slasher to have an edge on his opponent, as if they weren’t evenly matched already.