Freddy Krueger

Frederick Charles Krueger, also known as Freddy Krueger and Fred Krueger, is the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series.
== Charactah Account ==
Born of a nun who was raped by a group of mental asylum patients, he became a child murderer as an adult, claiming many lives until the parents of Springwood got their revenge on him by burning him alive. He makes a deal with three demons to become a powerful ghost with the ability to manipulate dreams. In death, Freddy turns out to be an even worse nightmare than he ever was in life as he continues to hunt the now-teenage children of the lynch mob that killed him.
It is hinted in some of the films that some of his victims and their parents may have been from other parts of Springwood besides Elm Street. It is also hinted in some of the films that people other than parents of the victims and people not living on Elm Street participated in the burning of Freddy Krueger. Throughout the film series, many things are only vaguely hinted at.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook
* A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid
* A Nightmare on Elm Street: Special
* A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning
* Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Freddy vs Jason vs Ash (of Army of Darkness)
* Freddy vs Jason vs Ash (of Army of Darkness): The Nightmare Warriors
* Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
* Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare 3-D
* Freddy's Nightmares
* Fright
* Jason Goes to Hell the Final Friday
* New Line Cinemas Tales Of Horror
* Nightmares on Elm Street
* Sex in the Sinema
* Supernatural Law
=== Literature ===
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
=== Movies ===
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
* A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
* A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
* A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
* A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
* Freddy vs. Jason
* Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
* Wes Craven's New Nightmare
=== Video Games ===
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
* Bloody Rage
* Dead by Daylight
* Monster Breeder
* Mortal Kombat (2011)
* Mortal Kombat Mobile
* Terrordrome: Rise of the Boogeymen
== Trivia ==
* Freddy is the only antagonist to be shown in so many and in every single sequel in its franchise. (A Nightmare on Elm Street to Freddy vs. Jason)
* Robert Englund is the only actor to play Freddy in every Nightmare related movie and the television show, (excluding the 2010 reboot).
* David Warner was slated to play Freddy. Make-Up tests were done, but Warner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts and Robert Englund was cast as a replacement.
* Along with being a serial killer Wes Craven also wanted Freddy to be a child molester, but this being straight out stated was soon dropped. However, it was still strongly implied in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. It was, however, straight out stated in Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series and the 2010 reboot. Also, in the 2010 reboot, there are no references to him having killed anyone before being burned to death. This doesn't necessarily mean he didn't.
* His father is one of the unknowns residents in sanitarium.
* It's highly possible that he is based on SUNDS (or Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome), a disease that, coincidentally, also involves a nightmare that would kill the victim... Another coincidence is that both use fear (Freddy uses it for power and SUNDS uses it to kill). The only difference between the two is that Freddy actually murders the victims while SUNDS simply "scares them to death"...
* In 2003, Freddy Krueger was named the 40th greatest film villain on American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains.
* Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th greatest villain, the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th, and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" list. In 2010, Freddy won an award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.
* Wes Craven says his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep. Additionally, Craven's original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the "worst thing" he could think of. The decision was made to not straight out state this, though it is still implied, instead making him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production. Craven's inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970s pop song "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said, "When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, 'Yes, I'm still looking at you.' The man walked towards the apartment building's entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone."
* Freddy's back story is revealed gradually throughout the series. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the protagonists learn that Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger, was a nun who worked in Westin Hills mental hospital caring for the inmates. Freddy was conceived when she was accidentally locked inside over the Christmas holiday and gang-raped by a group of the inmates, thus making him "the bastard son of 100 maniacs". Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare depicts Freddy's traumatic childhood; he displayed sociopathic behavior at a young age and was often teased by classmates. He was adopted as a child by an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood, who teaches him how to torture animals and inflict pain on himself. Freddy eventually murders him, with no apparent consequences, and becomes a serial killer. The film also reveals that when Freddy reached adulthood, he married a woman named Loretta, with whom he fathered a daughter named Katherine. After the birth of his daughter, he tried to lead a normal life, but his murderous nature eventually overcame him, and he murdered 20 children on Elm Street between 1963 and 1966. He later murdered his wife after she discovered the evidence of his child killings, which Katherine witnessed. Freddy was arrested for the murder of his wife and the Elm Street children. In 1968, he was put on trial, but released on a technicality, leading to his death at the hands of the parents of his victims. In his dying moments, the Dream Demons came to him to offer him immortality in exchange for being their agent, which Freddy accepted. His daughter, Katherine, was later moved out of Springwood, adopted, and renamed Maggie Burroughs.
* In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient, and is given more stature and muscles. Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.
* The original script had Freddy's blades being fishing knives.
* Throughout the series, Freddy's potential victims often experience dreams of young children, implied to be some of his pre-death victims, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" with the lyrics changed to "One, Two, Freddy's coming for you", often as an omen to Freddy's presence or a precursor to his attacks.
* Freddy has killed 45 victims onscreen.
* Freddy was ranked #1 in FX's Horror magazine's Top 20 Horror Villains list in 2010.
* Numerous Halloween costumes have been made based on Freddy.
* He is often referred to as Fred Krueger, rather than Freddy Krueger.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street film series) at A Nightmare on Elm Street Wiki
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