Tommy Jarvis
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| Tommy Jarvis | |
| Known aliases: | N/A |
| Location: | Crystal Lake |
| Known relatives: | Mrs. Jarvis (mother) Trish Jarvis (sister) |
| Year of birth: | 1972 |
| Year of death: | N/A |
| Signature weapon: | Machete |
| First appearance: | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter |
| Portrayed by: | Corey Feldman John Shepherd Thom Mathews |
Tommy Jarvis is a character in the Friday the 13th franchise.
Biography
In 1984, Tommy made his first appearance in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as a young boy with an affinity for making his own masks and make-up effects. When Jason Voorhees brings his blood bath to the Jarvis cabin, Tommy is forced to fight for his life along with his sister. In an attempt to trick Jason, Tommy shaves his head to make himself appear as Jason was when he himself was young. Ultimately, Tommy kills Jason, first with a fatal blow to the skull with a machete, then repeatedly hacking at Jason when the killer shows some signs of life.
This event has an effect on Tommy's mind where he is put in an institution three years later until he is a young man. He is then put in a halfway house, but unfortunately, at this time, a series of murders begin nearby with Jason Voorhees being tied to the killings.Tommy's mind continues to slip again, seeing images of Jason haunting him. Tommy manages to confront the hockey masked murderer, believing him to be another hallucination. But he is real and attacks Tommy, finally forcing him to take his life - only for it to turn out that the killer was a copycat called Roy Burns. But it's too late for Tommy, as the last wall of sanity has fallen with the ghost of Jason fading before his eyes. Keeping the killer's hockey mask, he puts it on and attempts to assume Jason's mantle, but he is apparently stopped and treated before things go too far.
Sometime later in 1989, a more stable Tommy, with a friend from the institution, is ready to confront his demons - or rather the demon that is Jason. Wanting to see Jason's decayed body himself, he also wants to make sure that Jason will never rise again and attempts to cremate him. But his memories of his encounter with Jason still linger heavily and he madly attacks the body with a metal pole when the coffin is opened. Before Tommy can cremate Jason, the pole winds up attracting bolts of lightning that reawaken Jason and gives him a more powerful lease on life; he can now survive even being shot at point-blank range with a shotgun, although he still feels the impact of the bullets.
Trying to make amends for his mistake, Tommy warns the sheriff who, being familiar with Jarvis, locks him up thinking he's had another psychotic break (although the fact that nobody in Crystal Lake wants to remember Jason may also be responsible for this action). The piles of bodies Jason racks up only convinces the sheriff that the killer is Tommy (despite the fact that his own daughter can vouch for Tommy being somewhere else at the time of two of the murders).
Time is running short as Jason makes his way to the renamed campgrounds. With a plan in mind, and aided by the sheriff's daughter Megan (ironically, a counselor at the newly-reopened Camp "Forest Green"), Tommy lures Jason into the very same lake from which the Voorhees legend started. Chained to the bottom of the lake by a large stone, encircled in fire, and having part of his face chewed by propeller blades.
