History Headscratchers / ANightmareOnElmStreet

How is it the people in this film are able to stay asleep with Freddy haunting their dreams? I mean, there are several instances where the characters are spooked by something in their dream, and they wake up, so why isn't that the case with everything else?

*** [[AndIMustScream Freddy is trapped in the subconscious of the never-sleeping Jason Voorhees, who spends 400 years as a]] HumanPopsicle [[FinalDeath before eventually burning up completely in the atmosphere of Earth II.]]

* Because it was the parents' symbol that they used to identify Freddy. Remember, Nancy's mom retrieved the gloves after the burning, and kept them in her own boiler room. She shows them to Nancy as proof that they killed Freddy. She saw them as a symbol of comfort, and viewing the gloves seemed to reassure her that he was dead... Naturally, adopting the gloves as his weapon of choice would incite an extra level of fear.

** Freddy project himself into people's dreams, everything you (and the charecters) see is a projection from Freddy's mind or spirit or whaterver. He can re-manifest another hat if he wants. In different movies he manifests all sorts of clothing, objects and even modifies his own body.

** As mentioned above, Freddy's image is a projection. Whatever his real nature is it's probably spiritual and probably formless, he projects the image that he wants into the minds of his victims during dreams thus the exact form of this image may vary depending on his preferences and what can be more scary. Yes, he can't be taken to the real world and probably once in it he can't change his shape as he's then bind by physical laws, but while in dreamland he can't look however he wants and several movies show this.

* In the first one they are part of his gloves (like when he was alive), but in at least some of the sequels they seem to be his actual fingernails. Why is this the case? Furthermore, wouldn't having [[WolverineClaws]] as fingernails be really inconvenient for pretty much any activity ''other'' than killing people (i.e how could he write or type anything?)

** He is somewhat limited in the dream realm, mostly because it's a dream realm, people have found ways to stay out. Plus, his dream powers have explicit limitations, to the point fully half the films are about him trying to RulesLawyer his way around them. Being in the real world means he has the freedom to stalk and kill anyone he can physically find, like any other slashed villain.

* In a couple of movies (Revenge and Dream Child), Freddy attempts to return to the real world through possessing a body. Given the amount of power he possesses in the dream world, why would he want to leave?[[/folder]]

Obviously coming up with oneliners he can say when he kills someone, that and playing with the power glove

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* In a couple of movies (Revenge and Dream Child), Freddy attempts to return to the real world through possessing a body. Given the amount of power he possesses in the dream world, why would he want to leave?

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* Throughout the franchise, Freddy shows ''some'' martial arts prowess while in dreams, where he doesn't actually have to know how to do the move, since he's a reality warper. And for all the major installments, in the real world he can't even handle untrained teenage girls and gets severely hindered by homemade booby traps, as you'd expect since both before and after he died, he never killed anyone fighting back. So in Freddy vs Jason, how the fuck does he manage to not only endure blows from, but also defeat ''Jason Vorhees'', who becomes stronger after each ressurection, and was punching people's heads off two ressurections ago? Freddy jumps and flips and kick around like Jackie Chan, and keeps fighting after being thrown dozens of yards and losing his arm. Does this fall under the MST3KMantra, since the movie would be boring if the final fight was a CurbStompBattle in Jason's favor, or did he train with young Bruce Lee when he was alive and not murdering children, and just now remembered how to use his skills?

[[/folder]]Obviously coming up with bad puns he can say when he does kill someone and playing with the power glove

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In the fifth movie when we see Amanda Krueger get trapped inside the dungeon where all the 100 maniacs were kept, how did they survive if they have no food or water? Judging by Amanda Krueger’s speech in the fourth movie she was trapped there “during the holydays” (so, for several days, maybe a month) what the hell did the inmates and her ate and drank during that period? Notice they didn’t have beds either and you also need sleep to survive, but probably feeding is the most immediate plothole.
* When we're talking about the kinds of holidays that would be likely to even bring an Asylum down to a skeleton crew it's at most a four day weekend. Humans can go that long without water, they'll just be mighty unhappy about it.

** Because it makes him look scary. He wants to be ugly to scare the kids, and why won't him? The burned appearance isn't just a reminder of what happened; in case the kids want to tattle and speak up about the incident, the parents will not. Plus, it represents his empowerment to take revenge from beyond the grave for what said parents did. Furthermore, there's no in-universe indication that he feels shame or disgust about his appearance; if anything, he probably believes it bolsters and enhances his fearsome factor.

*** Wouldn't this be jossed? Freddy returned just minutes after his supposed 'defeat' in the first movie and kidnaps Nancy and all her friends. Also, you're forgetting about the entirety of Part 2 with that 'he had no power to manifest for many years' bit.

*** Wouldn't this be jossed? Freddy returned just minutes after his supposed 'defeat' in the first movie and kidnaps Nancy and all her friends.