It's interesting how there's this culturally agreed-upon image of the Slasher Killer who wears a hockey mask and carries a chainsaw

who you see in a lot of parodies

Homer Simpson - Chainsaw & Hockey Mask

like this

and it's interesting because that's a fusion of two completely different slasher villains

Jason had a hockey mask but fought with a machete

Leatherface fought with a chainsaw but wore a human face as a mask

the most fascinating part of it to me is that it's two different slasher iconographies that manage to be visually recognizable and very generic at the same time, and I'm not sure what other slashers have traits or tools like that

Ghostface is probably the closest, but that's only in the sense that the mask was a preexisting thing separate from the invention of the killer - the mask itself is firmly culturally associated with the movies now

Freddy Kreuger has the finger knives

but they're very specific

exactly

and then most slashers stick to knives, which tip over into too generic

Any idiot can get a knife

I guess the big takeaways is that the character design of Jason and Leatherface is brilliantly done

I'd actually argue a third one, from outside of America

the Sadako Haircut

yeah, that's become the big one for coding Scary Female Character