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| “ | It has to get better. The way we treat each other. The way we look out for each other. It has to get better somehow. | „ |
| ~ Clay Jensen. |
Clayton "Clay" Jason Jensen is the main protagonist from the 2007 novel 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, as well as its Netflix adaptation.
He was portrayed by Dylan Minette, who also portrayed Kenny in Let Me In.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He took pictures of a naked Tyler Down and spread it to the school to spite him.
- He made a slit on Zach Dempsey's car.
- He comes to Bryce Walker's house and thinks about shooting him when he isn't bought to justice.
- He framed Monty de la Cruz for Bryce Walker's murder to hide the truth.
- He picked a fight with the jocks for wearing Monty de la Cruz's jersey.
- He vandalizes the school property multiple times, first spray-painting that Monty was framed.
- When he saw a passed-out girl in a college dorm bedroom, he almost let a hallucination of Bryce convince him to rape her. He refused, not because it was morally wrong but because her boyfriend was next door and he would get caught, then later told his counselor that seeing her got him hard.
- He smashes security cameras during the evening and he sends an email to his friends demanding them to spill the beans about Bryce's true murderer and the incrimination of Monty.
- On a camping trip, he presumably beats up Justin and incapacitates and ties up one of the jocks from his school, and when his friends gather in a cabin, he begins to terrorize them by scratching and knocking on the door with a knife, simulating a break-in scenario.
- He beat up the boyfriend of Officer Bolan's daughter.
- He crashed Zach Dempsey's car and left him there, leaving him injured and with thousands of dollars of damage.
- During the school shooter drill, he grabs a gun from an officer and aims it around the school to mock him.
- He breaks out of the psych ward holding him.
- He breaks Officer Bolan's police officer car during a riot.
- He threatens to use a gun at a police station with dozens of innocent people, only to be talked out of it by police officers.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- Despite slightly passing the baseline, he fails the heinous standard of the series to Bryce Walker who raped numerous girls and drove Hannah to suicide, Monty de la Cruz who anally raped Tyler with a mop and Tyler Down who planned to shoot up the school. Resources don’t help as Clay is a high school student much like the three aforementioned villains and while it’s true that Bryce is a wealthy figure, he’s not insanely rich and used pretty much nothing to commit serial rape and break Zach Dempsey’s knee.
- The fact that Clay has the potential to commit unique crimes but chooses not to also doesn’t make anything better.
- He is usually a heroic character who has done many noble deeds such as trying to bring Bryce to justice and redeeming many of the tape subjects. He then redeems himself at the end of the fourth season and goes back to being a hero.
- He cares for many people:
- He cared greatly for Hannah Baker and fell in love with her, wanting to avenge her suicide.
- He develops a friendship with Justin Foley after taking him into his house and letting him become his adoptive brother.
- He loves Tyler as a friend and wants to help him, even preventing him from shooting up the school then wanting to be there for him so he can get better.
- He is extremely tragic and a constant scapegoat as he is tormented regularly by hallucinations of Hannah and targeted by the jocks for wanting to investigate her case. He is also a depressed teenager with no social skills and is unable to have a proper relationship with Ani, who would rather date the rapist Bryce Walker than Clay himself. This becomes worse when he is subjected to immense guilt for having framed Monty for Bryce's murder and loses his mind which leads to him becoming a villain in the first place. Lastly, to put the final nail in the coffin, his adoptive brother Justin dies of aids.
External Links[]
- Clay Jensen on the Villains Wiki
- Clay Jensen on the Heroes Wiki
- Clay Jensen on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
- Clay Jensen on the 13 Reasons Why Wiki
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 Villainous Benchmarks
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