Camp Crystal Lake by Way of the Mushroom Kingdom

In case there’s ever any wonder if a Super Mario game ever made a reference to the Friday the 13th movies, I present a minor enemy from Super Mario Land 2: J Son, an ambulatory hockey mask with a dagger stabbed into it.

via spriter’s resource, ripped by aj nitro

“J Son.” Get it?

Because what are your Nintendo-produced, hop-and-bop video games without a riff on an undead serial killer with a nasty Oedipus complex?

Super Mario obscurity, previously:

• Obscurio: The most famously unfamous Mario characters
• Stephen King meets Super Mario
• How Nintendo wants you to kill God
• Three-dimensional death in a two-dimensional world
• How Super Mario Land 2’s “Star Maze” music got an extra life

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