Two iconic slasher supervillains.
One fight to the death.
Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers are two of the most recognizable fictional murderers
in the history of cinema.
Both are masked, brutal killers Hello and welcome back to a special Halloween
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Friday the 13th was actually inspired by Halloween.
Friday the 13th was released 2 years after Halloween.
So if it weren’t for Michael, slasher movies wouldn’t even exist and neither would Jason
Voorhes.
In their later films, both Michael myers and Jason Voorhees appear to become immortal,
so let’s assume that this fight takes place before that happens for both of them.
So before we can decide who would win in a fight, I’m going to share what we know about
each of these ruthless killers.
Starting things off with Michael myers.
Michael myers was introduced during the release of Halloween in 1978.
Myers is a psychopath who wears a captain kirk mask that’s painted white.
He has no sense of empathy for other humans, and that began in childhood.
He killed his own sister when he was 6 years old, and was sent to an insane asylum to serve
out a life sentence.
Dr loomis believed myers is essentially the embodiment of all evil, because there is no
reason for his murderous nature.
Myers confessed to his grandmother that voices tell him to hate people.
He breaks out of the hospital on Halloween evening many years later.
Myers learned to fight by watching Bonanza during the time he spent in a psychiatric
hospital.
He is stealthy, strong and durable.
Michael’s weapon of choice is a kitchen knife.
He’s killed 107 people.
His height is 6’’1 and he weighs 205 pounds.
His only weakness?
Cats.
Michael hates dogs, and has killed more than a few.
in the first Halloween, he kills a german shepherd.
In Halloween 4, he kills a golden retriever, in Halloween 5, he kills a Doberman.
But in part 5, he spares a box of kittens.
Jason Voorhees was first introduced in the film Friday the 13th, in 1980.
Jason Voohees grew up normal, he had a loving mother and a pretty decent childhood.
But when he was a kid, he went swimming with a friend in a Crystal Lake at summer camp,
and word spread that ended up drowning.
His counsellors at camp did not try save him because they were too busy essentially having
an orgy.
Jasons Mother pam responds to the death of her son by slaughtering all the camp counsellors.
Meanwhile, Jason hadn’t actually died, he killed his only friend and witnesses his mother
killing all his counsellors.
He spends out the rest of his life in the woods, slowly going more and more insane while
he kills anyone who so happens to wander into the woods at Camp Crystal Lake.
He wears a hockey mask and wildly weilds around a machete, but he’s also pretty strong in
general.
Voorhes can also stay under water for long periods of time.
He’s a brutal killer, So far, Jason voorhees has killed around 145 people that we know
of.
He’s a lot bigger and stronger than Michael, he weighs 270 pounds, he’s 6 foot 8.
That being said, Voorhees has been known to be clumsy and unintelligent, definitely not
advantageous when he’s up against some serious competition.
There are a few differences between Michael Myers an Jason Voorhees, but the main one
is-- Michael was born a psychopath.
Jason went crazy due to a traumatic event.
Because Michael is a psychopath, he has little to no emotion.
This isn’t the case for Jason Voorhees.
Jason still has emotions, and he can still feel emotions like fear.
Which means that Jason is still more human than Michael.
Because he is more human, he is weaker.
Unlike Jason, Michael myers kills for the fun of it.
Jason kills out of fear and self defense.
Michael is also more skilled when it comes to fighting.
Jason grew up in the woods, and even though he has killed more people than Michael myers,
and he’s a lot bigger in general, he basically just swings his machete around wildly.
If he were up against someone who did know how to fight, that’s another story.
Being bigger doesn’t always mean that you’d beat someone else in a fight.
A fight between Michael and Jason would probably go something like this.
Michael myers would enter the camp crystal lake woods chasing after a victim.
He comes across Jason Voorhees, another masked killer.
Michael examines his adversary, approaching slowly and stealthily.
Jason then lunges at Michael, repeatedly while swinging around his machete.
But Michael is much more skilled at fighting than Jason.
Jason’s erratic behaviour is scary, but definitely not effective in a setting like
the woods.
Michael would probably dodge Jason’s advances and wait for Jason to make a foolish mistake,
like trip on a tree branch, before he quickly and expertly removed his head with his kitchen
knife.
There’s a pretty clear winner to me, and that’s Michael Myers.
Unless Jason Voorhees used a box of kittens as a shield, I don’t see him being a match
for Michael myers.
Lets be honest, Halloween is still the greatest slasher movie ever made.
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Did you not?
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