History Characters / ANightmareOnElmStreet

[[folder:Freddy Krueger]]

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: He's both of these with Ron Grady. At least until [[spoiler:Freddy takes control of Jesse and kills Ron]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners / VitriolicBestBuds: He's both of these with Ron Grady. At least until [[spoiler:Freddy takes control of Jesse and kills Ron]].

->'''Played by:''' Marshall Bell

->'''Played by:''' Patricia Arquette (''Dream Warriors''), Creator/TuesdayKnight (''Dream Master'')

--> '''Played By:''' Priscilla Pointer

* MakeMeWannaShout: Joey's dream power, which contrasts with his muteness in the real world.

->'''Appears in:''' Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet

->'''Appears in:''' Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet

->'''Appears in:''' Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet

* TheHero: Jesse may be the second film's protagonist, but Lisa is the one who actually fights Freddy.

* MysticalWhiteHair: Nancy's appearance is recognizable for her gray streak in her hair.The character's hair was supposed to be entirely gray and white, and Wes Craven had a wig made but was ultimately unsatisfied; deciding for Nancy to have a streak of gray—which would remain in both Dream Warriors and New Nightmare.

* MysticalWhiteHair:

* KarmaHoudini: Lorenzo is the vilest character in the movie after Freddy himself, but Freddy has no reason to target him and there are no witnesses when he goes after Taryn, so he never gets any comeuppance.

->''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', which takes place in the "real world", has its own page [[Characters/WesCravensNewNightmare here]].
->''Film/FreddyVsJason'', a crossover with the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise, has its own page [[Characters/FreddyVsJason here]].

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: In ''Dream Warriors'', she's [[spoiler: fatally stabbed by Freddy, but she manages to get back up and stab Freddy in the gut with his own claws, holding on to him long enough for Neil to finish burying and consecrating Freddy's remains.]]

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!! Lt. Donald Thompson

* ThePowerOfLove: [[spoiler: How she beats Freddy and frees Jesse.]]

!! Kerry Hellman

* CursedWithAwesome: A subversion. Kristen has the power to pull people into her dreams, but she subconsciously blocked the power for years after her parents got divorced. Years later, she isn't sure if she still has it until she accidentally pulls Nancy into her dreams in ''Dream Warriors''. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Freddy turns her ability into BlessedWithSuck when he uses her to pull Alice into her dream. After he kills Kristen, the power gets sent to Alice, so Freddy uses her as his new conduit so he can go after the other teenagers of Springwood.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler: She's killed off before ''Dream Master'' is half over to set up Alice as Freddy's new enemy.]]

!! Joseph "Joey" Crusel

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!! Will Stanton
--> '''Played By:''' Ira Heiden

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!! Phillip Anderson

* DeathByIrony: He’s a sleepwalker who makes marionette puppets. [[spoiler:Freddy kills him by puppeteering his body via his own intestines as if he were sleepwalking and making him walk off the building.]]

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!! Jennifer Caulfield

--> '''Neil:''' [Sims] thinks it's nothing but sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll [that's causing the nightmares and suicides].
--> '''Max:''' Shit. That's what keeps people alive.

* AbusiveParents: Alice and her brother Rick had to deal with emotional abuse from their alcoholic father for years. [[spoiler: Following Rick's death their dad started going to Alcoholics Anonymous and by ''Dream Child'' has become a more loving and attentive father.]]

* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Alice is the only protagonist to survive two films straight.]]
* ArchEnemy: She becomes the most powerful of the Elm Street heroines as the [[GoodCounterpart Dream Master]] and the one whom Freddy legitimately loathes and fears the most. She's the only one whom [[spoiler: made it difficult for him to come back. Once she killed him in ''Dream Master'' he had to find another way to invade dreams as she was too powerful for him to overcome directly. He spends the majority of ''Dream Child'' taunting Alice through murdering her boyfriend and friends, but can't actually do anything to her because he could end up harming Jacob in the process.]] She is also the only one capable of really pushing his BerserkButton to the point of dropping his sick sense of humor and taking her seriously as an enemy.

* BlessedWithSuck: With [[spoiler: Kristen's dream power]], Krueger used Alice to pull people into her dreams so he could murder them.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: And the only one to survive two movies in a row.]]

* ThePowerOfFriendship: The power she gains from her friends gives her the strength to face Krueger on her own, [[spoiler: but it's also that their power gave her the strength to find her ''own'' strength, which is what ultimately stops him and frees his enslaved souls in ''Dream Master''.]]

* TakeUpMySword: From [[spoiler: Kristen]].

--> '''Dan:''' And as adults, we must now prepare for our new life outside this wonderful environment known as Springwood High. So let's blow this pop stand!

* TransformationHorror: Debbie's transformation into a cockroach.

-->'''Racine''': Greta, you're being offered the opportunity of a lifetime. I think you should show a little gratitude?
-->'''Greta''' (in a very "what the fuck is wrong with you" voice): One of my friends ''died'' yesterday, mother. Do you mind if I take a few hours off to remember him?

-->'''Greta''': What is that?
-->'''Mark''': My undying love, have some.

!! Nancy Holbrook

!! Quentin Smith

!! Dr. Gwen Holbrook

!! Alan Smith

* DeathBySex: Downplayed. Right before his CruelAndUnusualDeath, he casually mentions to his mother that he plans on watching ''Miss Nude America'' that night.

* DeathBySex: She has the dubious honor of being Freddy’s first victim in the series. Freddy invades her dream immediately after she has sex with Rod.

* MagicalGirlWarrior: Barring the lack of a TransformationSequence and the aesthetics of the genre, she's about as close as you can get to this in a Western horror movie, and an example of what happens when you make one the FinalGirl. It's a decidedly darker take, since her dream powers at first only serve to make everyone around her bigger targets for Freddy, and AllYourPowersCombined comes from her absorbing her friends' powers as Freddy kills them. Otherwise, it has the typical tropes: shy and insecure teenage girl receives magical powers one day (from Kristen, the previous FinalGirl) and, over the course of the movie, overcomes her insecurities and matures into her role as the titular Dream Master, freeing the children's souls from Freddy while getting the hot guy and reconciling with her abusive father.

* TeamMom: To the Dream Warriors.

%% * Action Girl: Gradually became this by the end of ''Dream Master''.

%% * Genre Savvy: In her second appearance, after having survived Freddy once.
%% * Good Counterpart: Freddy's, once she becomes the Dream Master.

* ActionGirl: Gradually became this by the end of ''Dream Master''.

* GenreSavvy: In her second appearance, after having survived Freddy once.
* GoodCounterpart: Freddy's, once she becomes the Dream Master.

* CryCute: The tears Greta sheds over Dan's death are both tender, genuine, and almost stoic without being overblown or hysterical.

* IRejectYourReality: She sinks further and further into alcohol-fueled denial over the course of the movie. While Marge's earlier reaction to Nancy's mention of her nightmares seemed reasonable at first, her response to Nancy's session at the dream clinic are desperate stubbornness. Even when it's clear there's no way Nancy could've made those slash marks on her arm herself, nor could she truly explain how her daughter ''pulled out a hat that supposedly belonged to a man who's been dead for years'', Marge would rather try to convince Nancy she's a sick girl and it's all a fantasy.

* BalefulPolymorph: Freddy turns Debbie into a giant, helpless cockroach, puts her inside a roach hotel and then crushes her.

* BalefulPolymorph: Freddy turns him into a two-dimensional drawing before slicing him to bits.

* KnifeNut: Taryn's dream power is being "beautiful and bad", which means that she [[DualWielding dual-wields]] two switchblades.

* WrongGenreSavvy: After doing some research in what remains of Springwood, he concludes that not only did Freddy have a child who no-one knew about, but that he himself is that child. [[spoiler:He's right about the first part, but wrong about the second part; ''Maggie'' is Freddy's child]].

* AdultFear: [[spoiler:In ''Dream Warriors'' she finds Kristen's seemingly slit her wrists open. In ''Dream Master'' she puts sleeping pills in Kristen's drink, and hours later discovers her long-dead daughter's bed engulfed in flames.]]

* SkunkStripe: She gets one in the first movie, after pulling Freddy's hat out of the dream and it stays with her.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Krueger thrusts his gloved hand into his back and pushes it through his body, making it erupt from the chest.