Tommy Jarvis - Locking Up The Sun

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EliasVoorhees
October 29, 2007

Tommy Jarvis is notable for being one of the series' few recurring characters, and for being a significant rival to Jason Voorhees. He was portrayed as a child by Corey Feldman in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, and as an adult by John Shepherd in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning and Thom Mathews in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. In a possible upcoming remake of the original Friday the 13th film, mentionings of Tommy possibly appearing have been made.

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 Trish. In an attempt to trick Jason who is attacking Trish, Tommy shaves his head to make himself appear as Jason was when he himself was young. Distracted by Tommy's appearance, Jason is attacked by him with a machete and knocked to the floor, apparently dead. While embracing Trish, Tommy notices Jason beginning to stir and proceeds to go into a maniacal state, brutally attacking Jason with his machete while screaming "Die! Die! Die!", ignoring Trish's desperate protests for him to stop. The film ends with Tommy visiting Trish at a hospital an unspecified time after killing Jason and being hugged by her, while starring emotionlessly and blank-faced at the camera.

Tommy returns in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning as an adult, now living in a halfway house, having spent the last three years in a mental institution. When Roy Burns begins committing murders in the style of Jason Voorhees, Tommy's sanity begins to slip away again and he starts suffering hallucinations and nightmares of Jason. Tommy is later forced to kill Burns in self-defense, and this seems to push him over the edge; the final scene of the film has a hockey-masked Tommy preparing to stab the halfway houses director, Pam.

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.

Tommy Jarvis (as played by Thom Mathews) with Megan Garris.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. Although he nearly drowns in the process, Tommy succeeds in chaining Jason to the bottom of the lake by a large stone, encircled in fire, and having part of his face chewed by propeller blades. After regaining consciousness thanks to Megan performing CPR on him, he grimly notes that it's finally over, and Jason is at last home.

Originally there were plans to have Tommy replace Jason as the main villain of the Friday the 13th franchise, though these plans were halved, presumably due to the negative reaction towards Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

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goku5877 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide

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got to amit at lease he try to fight jason hand to hand right so he got guts go tommy and he is a martial artist incase yall didnt know

pittsburghfan7 (2 months ago) Show Hide

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Parts 4 5 and 6 are my favorites in the series. Tommy Rules!

caniplzwatch (5 months ago) Show Hide

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Tommy knows martial arts lol :D

Jontetrummis (5 months ago) Show Hide

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Tommy Jarvis hade a cameo in part 7

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Sparfregundo (6 months ago) Show Hide

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I think Tommy Jarvis should have been to Jason Voorhees what Nancy Thompson was to Freddy Krueger.

SLPIFan (5 months ago) Show Hide

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I like that idea. It would make sense.

caniplzwatch (5 months ago) Show Hide

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Too bad nancy died in the 3rd one... Tommy didn't die :D

8589brian (7 months ago) Show Hide

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one other thing Betsy Palmer is now 82 so playing a woman 30 years her junior would prove to be a bit of a problem.

horrormoviefan1000 (7 months ago) Show Hide

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well freddy's shape shifted pamela was old like that, the way she looked

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