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| “ | First hangover feels like you're gonna split in two, but you'll live. | „ |
| ~ Jason Carver to Lucas Sinclair, indirectly foreshadowing his own death. |
| “ | A club! A club! A harmless club, that’s what they want you to think! But it’s a lie! A lie designed to conceal the truth! And now this cult is protecting its leader, Eddie! Hiding him; allowing him to continue his rampage! Last night I became overwhelmed with this feeling of— of hopelessness. Then I remembered Romans 12:21; "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” And God knows there’s good in this town! So much good! It's in this room! It's in this room, right here, right now! So I came here today, humbly, to ask for your help. To join me in this fight! Let us cast out this evil and save Hawkins, together! | „ |
| ~ Jason's delusional speech to the townspeople. |
Jason Carver is the secondary antagonist of Season 4 of Stranger Things, and a major character in the novel, Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line.
He is a rich athlete who dated Chrissy Cunningham, the most popular girl in school. However, his perfect world begins to unravel as a new evil threatened Hawkins. Upon Chrissy and Patrick's deaths, Carver led a witch hunt against Eddie Munson due to his ties to Dungeons & Dragons. This led to his friendship with Lucas Sinclair to end. Even worse, he was also driven to insanity of hurting or killing anyone who was friends with Eddie, even those who tried to protect him. His hunger for revenge, caused him to turn against his former teammate and friend, Lucas Sinclair that he'd take on in a battle to the death.
He was portrayed by Mason Dye, who also played Garrett in Teen Wolf.
Personality[]
Jason is a prideful, preppy and popular young man with a sense of patriotism for his town and school. Unlike many popular students in the show (like Billy, Angela, Tommy H., Carol and Troy Walsh) he doesn't bully people "beneath" him and acts on what he thinks is right, never once taking any sadistic pleasure in his actions or doing cruel things for the sake of it. While he disliked Eddie, he never went to the extent of harassing him for no reason and he only responded after Eddie antagonized him first for no reason. He genuinely respects his friends and especially girlfriend. Contrasting Troy or Billy, he lacks racial prejudice and is shown to be accepting towards Lucas, welcoming him into his friend group at first and showing concern for him at his hangover. He is capable of motivating speeches, using the tragedies of Hawkins to incite people for a game.
Although believing himself to be a good person, he is not as good of a boyfriend as he thinks he is, being unable to see that Chrissy was struggling with anxiety and depression. He is completely unable to accept this fact (as well as Chrissy using drugs), viewing her as perfect. It is likely their relationship only formed since they are the two popular kids.
After Chrissy's death, he becomes determined to avenge her. This determination, however, quickly turns into short-sighted rage. He fully believes Eddie is responsible for her death due to incriminating evidence. He stubbornly believes Eddie to be part of a Satanic cult and is unable to accept any other answer. He is fully willing to travel around and beat anyone affiliated with Eddie or D&D. However, Jason’s motivation was also partially done out of a desire to stop future murders, believing Eddie would kill again.
After witnessing his friend, Patrick's death, he becomes horrified and heartbroken, carrying Patrick’s corpse back to shore in grief, even more mentally unstable. He covertly threatens Nancy with a gun, knowing her brother is affiliated with D&D. When he sees what he thinks is Max getting possessed as part of a Satanic cult, he is determined to save her and kill Lucas. Even after hearing the truth from Lucas, he is completely unable to accept this fact, showing how far off the edge he’s fallen due to his grief and lack of sleep. As a result of him refusing to accept he was wrong about his beliefs, Jason sought to kill Lucas which led Jason to his death and Hawkins nearly destroyed because of his actions.
History[]
Jason first appears when he walks into the high school gymnasium with his basketball team and greets all the high school kids. He proclaims his love for Chrissy and then gives a speech honoring all the people who died in previous seasons, though the truth about them is twisted, which displeases Mike and his friends. Then, he makes his match and wins the victory with great joy thanks to Lucas. In the evening, with his friends, Jason and his group decide to go celebrate the victory of the match and drink in an old barrack. During the night, his girlfriend Chrissy is killed by an evil entity, Vecna.
The next day, Jason is questioned by police officers Powell and Callahan while his friends wait outside the house. When Powell mentions Eddie, Jason refutes that Chrissy would have spoken with him and Powell remains silent. Realizing that Eddie probably killed his girlfriend, Jason comes out of the shack and screams in the forest, devastated.
Later on, Jason and his teammates (including Lucas) attempt to find and catch Eddie by assaulting Gareth, a Hellfire Club member and threatening to break his fingers. One of his targets is Dustin, Jason and his team going to Dustin's house to find and (presumably) assault him, luckily, Dustin aren't home at the time, Lucas then took this opportunity sneaks into Dustin's room to use his radio in the room to communicate with Dustin. However, Jason caught Lucas sneaking into the room, Lucas avoided by telling that he was looking for evidence and gives Jason and his team the fake hideout. Then Jason and his team are heading to abandoned house where Lucas lied to Jason that this place is Eddie's hideout, Lucas secretly escape from the house and Jason finally realized that he was fooled.
After returning from abandoned house, he found out that Lucas was former Hellfire Club member, enraged by the fact, he and his team thinks Lucas is actually the mole all along (which is not true). After attending Chrissy’s funeral, he shows his friends Lucas was a member of Hellfire. A freshman informs him about Reefer Rick’s house and Jason accepts his evidence.
Jason and his team locate Eddie's real hideout and finally find Eddie, Eddie tried to escape in a boat while Jason and his teammate Patrick swim after him, but at the moment, Vecna kills Patrick in front of Jason and Eddie. Horrified by the incident he saw, he blamed Eddie on his friend's death, thinking that Eddie sold his soul to Satan to have supernatural power and used it to kill Patrick and escape.
After the incident, he become religious fanatical and blame Dungeons & Dragons that it was the source of Satan's power and told every adult in Hawkins to find and catch Eddie Munson and every members of Hellfire Club to the punishment for the crimes (which none of them commit). After inciting a lynch mob, he and his friends begin to supply weapons like guns and knives. Jason purchases a 357-magnum revolver and practices with it, and later encounters Nancy Wheeler at the gun store. He becomes suspicious of Nancy following the encounter, believing she and her friends are connected with Eddie in some way as her brother, Mike, is friends with Eddie. He wonders where he's at, but Nancy tells him to back off.
Later on, Jason is informed of suspicious activity happening at the Creel house. He then goes there with Andy to investigate. Entering the home, he finds Lucas with Max, who is going into a state to help her friends defeat Vecna. Jason holds Lucas at gunpoint, believing that he placed Max in her trance and is about to sacrifice her. Lucas proceeds to explain the situation but Jason who has lost every aspect of his sanity, does not believe him and when learning Chrissy was getting drugs from Eddie, he angrily accuses him of lying, believing his girlfriend would only ask him for help rather than Eddie. Seeing how irrational Jason has become, Lucas manages knock the gun off his hands and gets the upper hand in their fight, knocking Jason unconscious, but Carver accidentally destroyed Max's headphones, leaving Sinclair without a way to save Max from being crippled by Vecna. Following Mayfield's brief death, Vecna's plans go into motion as the gates open, with the first vine going through the Creel house. As the vines move through, Jason awakes from his encounter, but is bisected from the fire-like radiation that the vines emit. Despite their differences in the end, Lucas was still saddened by Jason’s death. The townspeople were seen writing his bible quotes on the church, showing how he continued to motivate people even in death.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Mr. & Mrs. Carver (parents)
Friends/Allies[]
- Chrissy Cunningham (girlfriend; deceased)
- Andy (best friend)
- Chance
- Patrick McKinney (deceased)
- Josh
- Unnamed teammates
- Lucas Sinclair (formerly)
Enemies[]
- Eddie Munson (archenemy; deceased)
- Lucas Sinclair (arch-rival)
- Mike Wheeler
- Dustin Henderson
- Erica Sinclair
- Gareth
- Jeff
- Freak 1
- Max Mayfield (who he tried to save, but indirectly got her killed by Vecna and fighting Lucas)
- Vecna
Quotes[]
| “ | How do you expect to stop the devil if you don't believe he's real? | „ |
| ~ Jason Carver. |
| “ | Jason: Last night… last night I saw things; things I can’t explain. Things… the police don’t wanna believe. And things that I don’t wanna believe myself, but I know what I saw! I know! And I’ve come to accept an awful truth. These murders are ritualistic sacrifices! We’ve all heard about how satanic cults are spreading through are country, like some— some disease. And Eddie Munson is the leader of one of these cults! A cult that operates right here in Hawkins! The mall fire. All those unexplained deaths over the years. Some people, they— they say our town is cursed, they just don’t know why. Now— now we do! Now we know! They call themselves Hellfire! Erica: That’s bulls**t! The Hellfire isn’t a cult, it’s a club for nerds! Jason: A club! A club! A harmless club, that’s what they want you to think! But it’s a lie! A lie designed to conceal the truth! And now this cult is protecting its leader, Eddie! Hiding him; allowing him to continue his rampage! Last night I became overwhelmed with this feeling of— of hopelessness. Then I remembered Romans 12:21; "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” And God knows there’s good in this town! So much good! It's in this room! It's in this room, right here, right now! So I came here today, humbly, to ask for your help. To join me in this fight! Let us cast out this evil and save Hawkins, together! |
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| ~ Jason's delusional speech to the townspeople. |
| “ | What the hell have you done? Is this what you did to Chrissy? Hi, hi can you hear me? Hear me? | „ |
| ~ Jason concerned for Max’s well-being. |
| “ | You expect me to believe that? | „ |
| ~ Jason in denial when Lucas reveals the truth to him. |
| “ | See that's how I know you're lying. If Chrissy was scared, if Chrissy needed help. SHE WOULD'VE COME TO ME! NOT EDDIE! NOT THAT FREAK! NEVER! | „ |
| ~ Jason refuses to believe Lucas’s explanation of the events. |
| “ | You have five seconds to wake her. Four. Three. | „ |
| ~ Jason's last actual words before Lucas is forced to attack him. |
Trivia[]
- When discussing Jason, the Duffers admitted they found him interesting compared to Billy Hargrove and Troy Walsh, in that instead of him being a typical bully, he was a person who would’ve “lived a good life if not for the death of his girlfriend” and while self-righteous and always having some level of violence hidden in him, never would’ve “unlocked it” and turned villainous if it weren’t for his girlfriends tragic murder.
- Mason Dye claims that if Eddie wasn’t around as Patrick died, Jason would have believed Eddie’s innocence. He also says Jason knew his theory didn't sound rational, but his mind was simply trying to make sense of the impossible scenario he saw.
- Grace Van Dien and Mason Dye, when asked about their relationship, both showed mutual agreement that Jason and Chrissy genuinely cared about each other and were high school sweethearts. However, to some extent, Jason loved an “incomplete” version of Chrissy.
- Caleb McLaughlin had defended Jason, especially when comparing him to Billy. He said he feels as though Jason was just "misunderstood" and a "good person in a tough situation", saying he felt Jason genuinely took Lucas under his wing and was showing him the ropes, not holding any racial prejudice towards him, unlike Billy.
External Links[]
- Jason Carver on the Stranger Things Wiki
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