Jason explodes, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

In the opening scene of this sequel—which was obviously far from the “final Friday”—the FBI captures Jason at Crystal Lake and promptly blows him to smithereens. BOOM! Of course that doesn’t stop him from stretching the limits of everything supernatural we’ve ever learned about him, and he spends most of the movie sending his murderous spirit into unsuspecting vessels to do his bidding—a strategy that actually yields several juicy kills. And don’t worry, he returns in one piece before the movie ends… only to die again and get dragged to hell by someone he’d face again in 2003.