So a meme floating around showing John Cena vs Jason Vorhees, ala Freddy Vs Jason, but minus the cool back then, horribly retro now, El Niño song.

So It got me to thinking, who wins? Well, unlike Freddy and Jason that have non niche, well, as non niche as horror can be, fanbases; John only has WWE to make him a non jobber. Sans this being a WWE presents, just being a walking invisible joke isn’t enough, spoiler alert, it wasn’t for Freddy either. This movie came down to Friday the 13th fanboys making Jason “win” because he was a sympathetic serial killer/mass murder. That’s the part on which this essay hinges. Would you survive a horror movie would be as simple as do you like Freddy or Jason?

I personally am a Freddy guy. Yeah he killed kids and the remake made him a child molester, but he’s a formidable foe. You may not like his background, but objectively, he has powers. Jason biggest power is necromancy bringing him back from the dead. Freddy basically can never die, he is no longer mortal or even reanimated biological matter. So if you pick Freddy, you’re objective and got a good head on your shoulders, you’re probably going to survive the movie.

If you pick Jason, based on sympathy, you’re easily swayed by emotion, not very logical and you’re probably going to die in a horror movie because you fell for the classic blunder of many a real killers victims did, which is they hooked you with a false story to get your guard down and you fell for it, now you dead. I’m not sure how much merit this would truly hold in the real world, but 20 years after the movie came out, it is still an interesting question, who wins, Freddy or Jason?