plot explanation - Why does Tommy wear a hockey mask in the end of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning? - Movies & TV

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In the movie href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_A_New_Beginning" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Roy is the one who is
pretending to be Jason Voorhees and is the killer of the movie. But in the last scene of
movie why is Tommy seen with a knife and wearing a hockey mask? What is the significance
of this scene? Is it connected to its sequel or is there any other
explanation?

I also read the whole story of
sequel rel="nofollow noreferrer">Friday the 13th Part VI:Jason Lives on Wikipedia
but nothing strikes my mind.

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Actually,
more is explained in the previous film, href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_The_Final_Chapter"
rel="noreferrer">Friday the 13th part IV: The Final
Chapter. Tommy Jarvis has a hobby of creating and customizing masks
even before he meets Jason Voorhees. The first time that we actually see Tommy, he is
wearing a mask of his own
creation:

TOMMY'S
MOTHER: That's a nice mask. You're getting terrific at making

those.

TOMMY: Thanks. I just customized
it.

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The plan was to show how
Tommy loved masks and how Tommy would be the next "Jason" picking up where Jason left
off:
From an rel="noreferrer">interview with Director Joseph
Zito:

I wanted to
make it so that Tommy could be Jason. I wanted to make it
so that Tommy could
be the link into the future even if he's not
Jason. I wanted to open the door
to other movies, but there wasn't a
strong interest by the studio to make
other movies, however I did

leave it open just in
case.

So...filmmakers
were trying to move the franchise in a different direction with the ending of Part IV
and V attempting to make Tommy Jarvis the href="http://fridaythe13th.wikia.com/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_A_New_Beginning"
rel="noreferrer">killer.

The previous film in the series bore the subtitle The Final Chapter

and the producers of this installment intended to take the franchise
in a new
direction, but fan outrage over the infamous twist ending led
to a more
traditional approach with Jason
Lives.

The
ending of part IV: The Final Chapter left fans thinking that Tommy
might be the new Jason. Filmmakers would do this again with the
ending of Part V: A New Beginning leading fans to believe that
Tommy would be the next killer and that killing Roy the ambulance driver threw him over
the edge and he finally snapped and put the hockey mask on to become Jason. However,
fans were extremely upset that Jason Voorhees was gone and did not want Tommy or any
other "copycat" killer.

Tommy returns in Part VI
and inadvertently raises Jason from the dead.