All you can hope for is to survive.' Since Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, filmmakers have given Jason superhuman strength, regenerative powers, and near invulnerability. Cunningham said, '.he doesn't have any personality. When discussing Jason psychologically, Sean S. Exceptions to this include flashbacks of Jason as a child, and a brief scene in Jason Takes Manhattan where the character cries out 'Mommy, please don't let me drown!' in a child's voice before being submerged in toxic waste, and in Jason Goes To Hell where his spirit possesses other individuals. Jason is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series. Since Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer. In his original appearance, Jason was scripted as a mentally disabled young boy.
