Ahead of the relaunch ofMultiVersusand its first real season, Player First Games confirmedJason Voorhees fromFriday the 13thwould be joining as one of the new playable characters alongside the Joker. While there’s plenty of enthusiasm for his inclusion, one thing Jason’s fans can’t seem to agree on is his design, which is noticeably… chunky.
Jason has been portrayed by multiple actors throughout the variousFriday the 13thmovies, and has always been this large, looming figure, typically depicted as being over six feet tall. He’s still distinctly recognizable inMultiVersus, but he’s now cartoonishly top heavy, with hands bigger than his head. His design was actually leaked byTwitter user Fumo Leaksprior to the official reveal, and while there’s no proper gameplay footage of him yet, his brief appearance in the cinematic season one trailer wound up corroborating the leak.
BREAKING:FIRST IMAGE OF JASON VOORHEES IN MULTIVERSUS#multiversus#riseofmultiversuspic.twitter.com/whh4rKO9hu
Looking through reactions on Twitter,a few people have compared Jason’s designto that ofa large stuffed teddy bear with a tiny head. Plenty of others initiallywrote off the original leak as fakebecause ofhow ridiculous they felt the design looked, while some have decried that he’s “not Jason” and “looks stupid.”
However, there are just as many that arein love with how cartoonishly big Jason is, or at leastjust find it very funnyand not worth getting mad over. Some of my favorite comments include one describing him as being “built like a fridge” and one that questionsif Jason ate the Camp Crystal laketo get that big. Thefrequent comparisons to the Kingpin fromSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verseare hilarious too.
Personally, I do think theMultiVersusdesign is a bit over-the-top, though I get the logic behind it. Jason’s a big guy, and the team clearly wanted to emphasize that, but it probably could’ve been done without radically enlarging his proportions. Regardless, getting an icon like Jason into the game could get more people to check outMultiVersuswhen it launches on May 28.
