MultiVersus Jason Voorhees looking into camera
Screenshot via MultiVersus YouTube

MultiVersus fans are split on Jason’s ridiculously chunky design

He's always been a big guy, but this is too much.

Ahead of the relaunch of MultiVersus and its first real season, Player First Games confirmed Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th would 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.

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Jason has been portrayed by multiple actors throughout the various Friday the 13th movies, and has always been this large, looming figure, typically depicted as being over six feet tall. He’s still distinctly recognizable in MultiVersus, but he’s now cartoonishly top heavy, with hands bigger than his head. His design was actually leaked by prior 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.

Looking through reactions on Twitter, to that of . Plenty of others initially because of , while some have decried that he’s “” and “.”

However, there are just as many that are , or at least and not worth getting mad over. Some of my favorite comments include one describing him as being “” and one that questions to get that big. The are hilarious too.

Personally, I do think the MultiVersus design 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 out MultiVersus when it launches on May 28.


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