Line #120 Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors


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3	->''"Sleep.''\
4	''Those little slices of Death.''\
5	''How I loathe them."''
6	-->-- '''Creator/EdgarAllanPoe'''
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8	''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' is the third film in the ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' series, released in 1987.
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10	Freddy is still plaguing the dreams of the teens of Springwood. Their condition is thought to be psychological, and several of them have been placed in a psychiatric hospital. Nancy Thompson, the FinalGirl of the [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 first film]], joins the hospital staff, planning to help the kids to realize powers within their dreams and become the Dream Warriors to defeat Freddy.
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12	Following the mixed reception of ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge Freddy's Revenge]]'', New Line managed to convince Wes Craven back to write a sequel that makes no mention of the events of the second film and brings back the protagonist of the original feature, Nancy Thompson. The film added more [[BlackComedy dark humor]] into the ''Elm Street'' formula by having Freddy make jokes and one-liners about his victims' plights, an aspect that would carry over into the subsequent sequels. It also establishes the pattern of Freddy tailor-making nightmares to play off each victim's unique fears and self-doubts.
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14	!!This film provides examples of:
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16	* AbandonedHospital: The abandoned Westin Hills facility.
17	* ActorAllusion: Freddy's bones knock Neil into his supposed grave and starts shoveling dirt on him. This references Neil's actor Creator/CraigWasson being buried alive in ''Film/BodyDouble''.
18	* AllTherapistsAreMuggles:
19	** Subverted with Dr. Neil Gordon. He's one of the therapists trying to help the Freddy-plagued kids and while skeptical at first, he is willing to admit the possibility that they and Nancy are faced with a supernatural threat.
20	** Played straight with Dr. Elizabeth Simms. She, unfortunately, assumes they're delusional and has one of them sedated: the ''worst'' possible outcome of this trope, under the circumstances.
21	* AndIMustScream:
22	** When Freddy explains he's been absorbing his victims' souls, he pulls off his shirt to demonstrate their tortured faces on his torso.
23	** Joey, when he's [[spoiler: suspended over a hellish, burning cavern, tied by four tongues to his bed frame]] and can't scream for help.
24	* ArbitrarySkepticism: As unbelievable as a ghostly SerialKiller murdering teens in their sleep is, Dr. Elizabeth Simms assumes that their nightmares are all just "manifestations of guilt" and completely dismisses the fact that they are all having nightmares of the same menacing figure. The fact that she continuously denies such things even as the bodies pile up is even more damning.
25	* BadassNormal: Nancy, as she is the only character without a dream power, yet still is the most competent "dream warrior".
26	* BigNo: Joey gets his voice back by shouting this at the sight of the other protagonists being snatched away by the Mirror-Freddys.
27	* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Perhaps surprisingly for a 1980's slasher flick, completely averted. ''Both'' black characters survive the entire film, and one of them never even finds out the truth about Freddy.]]
28	* BodyHorror: When Freddy threatens [[spoiler:Taryn]] with syringes full of heroin, [[spoiler:her]] old injection scars turn into greedy, sucking orifices, clamoring for their fix.
29	* BondOneLiner: Freddy delivers one as he kills [[spoiler:Taryn]] via a heroin overdose.
30	-->'''Freddy:''' What a rush.
31	* BuryYourDisabled: [[spoiler:Despite having magic as his dream power, the wheelchair-bound Will doesn't fare any better against Freddy.]]
32	* CatapultNightmare: [[spoiler:Freddy ''himself'' at the end of the "Dream Warriors" music video.]]
33	* TheCameo: Zsa Zsa Gabor appears in a television interview with Creator/DickCavett watched by Jennifer.
34	* CelebrityCasualty: Freddy Krueger kills Creator/ZsaZsaGabor while she is appearing on Dick Cavett's talk show.
35	* ChainedToABed: Freddy poses as HospitalHottie to lure Joey into an empty room where he ties him to the bed. [[{{Squick}} With giant human tongues]].
36	* CigaretteBurns: While watching TV late at night past the mandatory bedtime at Westin Hills Asylum, Jennifer puts out a cigarette on her hand in an effort to stay awake so Freddy can't come after her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she's already asleep when she does it and Freddy still kills her.]]
37	* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: With no other leads to go on, the police assume Freddy's murders are a wave of teen suicides. This includes kids apparently shoving their heads into wall-mounted TV sets (and it's an even bigger stretch if you count the deaths from the first movie).
38	* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover has: Taryn with white EightiesHair rather than the black spiked mohawk and what looks to be daggers rather than switchblades; a male character wielding a metal mace although no such weapon appears in the film; a girl in the who middle seems to be a combination of Nancy and Kristen, with Kristen's long hair but Nancy's skunk stripe that goes down the middle of the hair; and Kincaid carrying a black billy club/baton even though he has no weapons. (It is of course possible this artwork was based on an earlier version of the script wherein the characters and/or their weapons and powers were different.)
39	* CurbStompCushion: While the heroes' lucid dreaming gives them superpowers, Freddy is still a RealityWarper by comparison. While their powers slow him down, they can't overpower him and are either killed or survive with sheer luck and determination.
40	* DeadlyHug: Freddy kills [[spoiler:Nancy]] by [[spoiler:appearing before her as her father, so that he can get her close enough to kill her]].
41	* DecapitationPresentation: Freddy does it in one of Kristen's nightmares, decapitating her mother and presenting the head to Kristen...so it can bitch at Kristen for ruining her date.
42	* DemBones: When Nancy's dad and Neil try to give Freddy's remains a proper burial, he possesses them briefly to kick their asses.
43	* {{Determinator}}: Nancy herself, obviously, but also Neil who, despite getting beaten up and then [[ShovelStrike knocked out with a shovel]] by [[DemBones Freddy's skeleton]], manages to wake up, get the bones into the grave, and give him the Last Rites to put an end to him. Badass.
44	* DoppelgangerAttack: Freddy does this by dragging all but one of the protagonists through a set of mirrors.
45	* DownInTheDumps: Freddy's remains are hidden in a junkyard. Late in the film, Neil drags Donald there to give them a proper burial.
46	* DrowningMySorrows: We meet Donald doing this in a bar called [[ShoutOut Little Nemo's]]. He's also ditched his police lieutenant uniform for a security guard outfit, so it's likely he's fallen on hard times since the first movie.
47	* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Despite being fatally stabbed by Freddy, [[spoiler: Nancy]] manages to save Kristen by ramming Freddy's own claw into himself and holds onto him long enough for Neil to finish off Freddy's remains in the real world.
48	* EatenAlive: In one of Kristen's nightmares, Freddy transforms himself into a giant snake creature and tries to eat her from the feet up. He lets her go when Nancy comes to the rescue.
49	* {{Epigraph}}: The film opens with a quote from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.
50	-->Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe them.
51	* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The closing scene shows one of the windows in the replica of the 1428 Elm Street house lighting up. A miniaturized version of the sound of Freddy's blades screeching against metal can be heard from within before the credits start.]]
52	* EyeScream: Neil mentions a former Westin Hills patient who cut his own eyelids out.
53	** In the first "in-hospital" nightmare, Nancy stabs dream-Freddy-worm in the eye with a shard of broken glass.
54	* FanService: Joey's private meeting with Marcie, which turns out to be a trap by Freddy.
55	** Quickly turns into FanDisservice with the tongue business.
56	* FighterMageThief: Fittingly for a movie that has the teenagers role play badass versions of themselves in the dream world, with one of them being a D&D enthusiast. Will, said D&D fan, is obviously the Mage, with Kincaid and his SuperStrength being the Fighter and Taryn the knife user being the Thief.
57	* FinalGirl: Kristen Parker, though Kincaid and Joey survive as well.
58	* GhostReunionEnding: Subverted. After apparently defeating Freddy, the ghost of [[spoiler:Nancy's father]] appears to her. It's really Freddy in disguise, using it to give her a DeadlyHug.
59	* GroinAttack:
60	** When Don gets clawed by Freddy's skeleton, it at first looks like he was stabbed in the stomach, but when the skeleton lifts him up, it reveals he got it in the balls.
61	** When Neil tries to sedate Kristen when she first arrives at Westin Hills, she kicks him right in the crotch to get him to back off.
62	* HauntedTechnology: Freddy kills Jennifer by possessing a television set and jamming her head through the screen.
63	* HeadSmashesScreen: Jennifer is killed when her head is smashed into a wall-mounted television set -- ''by the television itself'' (as possessed by Freddy Krueger himself, of course).
64	--> '''Freddy:''' This is it, Jennifer, your big break in TV! Welcome to primetime, bitch!
65	* HeroicBSOD: Don is a broken-down drunk due to what happened in the first movie.
66	* HolyBurnsEvil: When Neil buries Freddy's skeleton, it's quite clear the blessing of the Last Rites is hurting him severely--[[spoiler:the holy water splashed on the skeleton causes holes to tear Freddy open so light can burst through them, and placing the crucifix on the skull causes a cross-shaped hole to appear on his forehead]].
67	* HopeSpot:
68	** When Freddy goes after Taryn, a short KnifeFight ensues where she actually seems to ''genuinely'' hurt him. She was beating him at his own game. [[spoiler:And then Freddy produces a load of syringes and pumps blue crap into her arms, killing her with an overdose.[[note]]Interesting sidenote: Taryn actress Jennifer Rubin apparently received letters from drug addicts who were inspired to kick their habits because they watched this scene.[[/note]]]]
69	** During the battle between Freddy and Will, Will uses his magic to destroy the wheelchair that Freddy was using to attack and Freddy gets a look of disbelief and possibly worry on his face, leading viewers to think that Freddy may be vulnerable to Will's magic. [[spoiler:Freddy is immune to Will's power and kills him quite quickly.]]
70	** Nancy joyously declares that "It's over!" after Joey [[spoiler: utilizes his dream power]] and is visited by her father in the dream to declare that he has to cross over and is sorry for what he did to her and tells her how much he loves her. [[spoiler: Turns out that her "father" is actually Freddy and Freddy then murders Nancy.]]
71	* HospitalHottie: Marcie in Joey's would-be erotic dream.
72	* HostageSituation: Freddy captures Joey and keeps him alive to goad Nancy into coming after him.
73	* IdiotBall: The reaction to the on-screen deaths rely on this. [[spoiler:Phillip "sleepwalked" his way out of a secured area]]? [[spoiler:Jennifer rammed her head into a TV mounted about six to eight inches higher than her actual height without a chair]]? Neil is the only one without any Freddy experience that views these acts as more than suicide. This is so he can take Nancy's advice and try unauthorized action that ultimately gets them both relieved of duty, kicking off the rest of the story.
74	* ImNotAfraidOfYou: This film suggests it's actually ''Freddy's'' belief that trumps this trope:
75	--> '''Freddy:''' "Sorry, kid. I don't ''believe'' in fairy tales.'' (kills [[spoiler:D&D geek]])
76	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Donald]] is impaled on the surrounding wreckage when he starts fighting with Freddy's skeleton.
77	* KarmaHoudini: Dr. Simms, despite technically being the one responsible for the kid's horrific deaths (sedating them so Freddy can kill them), gets absolutely no comeuppance whatsoever, which is unusual for a character like this in a horror movie. Her behavior, denying the bizarre nature of the kids' situation, even led some people into thinking she was in league with Freddy, but if she was, nothing was ever said.
78	* KickTheDog: Not only does Freddy [[spoiler:kill Donald]], but [[LieToTheBeholder he disguises himself as him]] in order to fool [[spoiler:Nancy]] into entering his DeadlyHug. What makes it particularly malicious is that he quite obviously knew how much he meant to her and was able to convincingly portray him, and that (his ability to take on the appearances of others aside) the idea of [[spoiler:Donald]]'s spirit appearing in the dream world before moving on is not as far-fetched as it appears at first glance, so that the viewer could be as fooled as she was until TheReveal.
79	* LenoDevice: Played with in Jennifer's death scene, when she dozes off watching TV. Chatting with his talk-show guest Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dick Cavett abruptly transforms into Freddy and attacks her. It's unclear if Jennifer dozed off mid-broadcast or if the interview itself was part of her dream.
80	* LosingYourHead: Freddy messes with Kristen by decapitating her mother, and [[DecapitationPresentation presenting]] her scolding head to her.
81	* MagiciansAreWizards: Will's "Wizard Master" outfit that he conjures up for his dream powers resembles a StageMagician outfit, though he calls himself a wizard and uses supernatural powers in the dream world.
82	* MamaBear: Nancy, the ActionGirl survivor of the first movie, turns into this while fighting to protect the kids from Freddy.
83	* MedicateTheMedium: Turns out that sedating a person being stalked by Freddy is not conducive to their health.
84	* MenacingHandShot: Philip's death sequence starts when one of his puppets transforms into Freddy. The puppet's head morphs into Freddy's likeness, and then the shot focuses on its right hand remolding into a human-like hand from which blades extend from the fingertips.
85	* MirrorMonster: Near the end, Freddy Krueger leads the remaining kids to a room full of mirrors. They see him standing in the largest mirror, upon which he duplicates himself into every mirror in the room and drags them inside kicking and screaming. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Joey learns to use his powerful voice -- his own dream skill -- [[GlassShatteringSound to attack Freddy and free all his friends]].]]
86	* MustHaveCaffeine: Kristen ''eats'' instant coffee grounds when she's trying to stay awake at the start of the film and washes it down with caffeinated soda.
87	* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Seen in Joey's dream. Justified in that it's a teenage boy's sexual fantasy ...at least, until Freddy takes possession of the dream-nurse.
88	* NeckLift: Freddy does it to Kincaid when he tries to fight him.
89	* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Kristen constructs a model of Nancy's old house, now abandoned and creepy-looking, based on how it looks in her dreams. Once she's committed she draws the same house.
90	* NoodleIncident: The other teens' "suicide attempts" hint at some pretty harrowing nightmares.
91	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kristen is at Westin Hills because her mother thinks she tried to kill herself. Other patients have similar stories. Of course, their "attempts" are really wounds from Freddy's attacks.
92	* NunsAreSpooky: Sister Mary Helena. [[spoiler:Justified because she really is a ghost.]]
93	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Doctor Simms.
94	* OhCrap:
95	** Nancy is stunned to see that Kristen built a replica of 1428 Elm Street. She's even more surprised when she sees that Freddy is back.
96	** Kincaid's speechless reaction when Nancy starts describing Freddy.
97	* OrderliesAreCreeps:
98	** There's an orderly who tries to have sex with ex-junky Taryn by promising her drugs for it.
99	** Averted by Max, who's a friendly, lenient guy and genuinely wants to help the kids.
100	* ParentalNeglect: Elaine Parker demonstrates this. She thinks that Kristen's "suicide attempt" is an attempt at getting attention, especially after Elaine took away her credit cards.
101	* PeoplePuppets: Freddy Krueger does this literally to poor [[spoiler:Philip]] -- first animating one of his own carved puppets, then graphically stringing him along by his bloody tendons until he [[DrivenToSuicide forces him to leap from a high tower]].
102	* PerversePuppet: Freddy Krueger appears as one by manifesting himself through a marionette doll.
103	* PortalDoor: Nancy and the teenagers are ready to confront Freddy Krueger when a floating door appears in front of them. There's nothing behind it, but the door itself is a portal to Freddy's hell-like lair.
104	* PreExplosionGlow: [[spoiler:In the end, Freddy explodes in a swirling beam of light. Before he does, circles of light emanate from his skin. A cross of light even forms on his forehead.]]
105	* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:Jennifer]]'s death has the distinction of having Freddy deliver two of them in a row.
106	-->'''Freddy:''' This is it, [[spoiler:Jennifer]], your big break in TV! Welcome to prime time, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
107	* PrecisionFStrike:
108	-->'''Freddy:''' ''(to Zsa Zsa Gabor)'' Who gives a fuck ''what'' you think?!
109	--> '''Kincaid:''' ''Let's go kick the motherfucker's ass all over Dreamland.''
110	* ProperlyParanoid:
111	** During a group session, Phillip points out how unlikely it is that all of the patients had dreams about the same guy before they met each other.
112	** Neil initially believed the "attempted suicides" story, but after [[spoiler:Phillip and Jennifer]]'s deaths, he questions the plausibility of it all and listens to whatever Nancy has to say.
113	* PsychoKnifeNut: Taryn's dream power is being "beautiful and bad," which means that she carries [[DualWielding two switchblades]].
114	* RealityIsUnrealistic: The roasted pig that snarls at Kristin at the dream version of the Elm Street house looks like a plastic prop. The film's F/X budget was nearly tapped out when they shot the scene, so they roasted a ''real'' suckling pig and turned it into a puppet.
115	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
116	** Nancy gives the kids the benefit of the doubt because of her own experiences.
117	** Neil soon proves to be one when he believes Nancy and helps the kids to control their dreams to fight Freddy.
118	** Max also allows Jennifer to stay up past curfew when he sees how terrified she is, [[spoiler:though she still dies]]. He does interfere with Nancy's attempt to help Kristen, but it's clear he genuinely cares for the kids and thinks he's doing the right thing.
119	* ScaledUp: Freddy transforms into a worm-like creature and tries to eat Kristen during her second onscreen nightmare.
120	* SelfHarm:
121	** Jennifer burns herself with a cigarette to stay awake. [[spoiler: It isn't enough to save her.]] Kristen's parents also ''think'' this is what happened after one of her early nightmares...and [[MindScrew even she herself isn't sure at first]].
122	** Philip isn't allowed to have a knife to make his sculptures, for fear he might cut himself.
123	* SeriesContinuityError: Nancy's skunk stripe returns, but it's on the wrong side.
124	* ShapeshifterShowdown: An early version of the movie featured one of these between Freddy and Will.
125	* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Freddy Krueger uses his dream powers to turn himself into a beautiful nurse working at Westin Hills whom Joey was in love with to lure him away from the group. Things get ugly fast, and he ties Joey to the bed over a fiery chasm before turning back to his burned, dreamstalking self.
126	* ShapeshiftingSquick: One of the dream sequences has Joey being seduced by [[HospitalHottie a sexy nurse]], who turns into Freddy ''from the neck up'' at a key moment.
127	* ShoutOut:
128	** The bar Nancy's father hangs out is called ComicStrip/LittleNemo's.
129	** The scene where Joey starts snogging with the HospitalHottie, only for her to turn into Freddy and entwine the horny teenager in tongues, is nearly identical to a scene from ''Film/{{Ghoulies}}'' minus the SpecialEffectsFailure.
130	* ShovelStrike: Freddy's skeleton knocks Neil out with a shovel.
131	* TheShrink:
132	** Dr. Simms genuinely wants to help the Elm Street kids, but [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles her refusal to acknowledge the supernatural threat]] only puts them in worse danger.
133	** Dr. Neil Gordon is mostly an Awesome Shrink, but subverts it when he's willing to use drugs (Hypnocil) to aid his patients.
134	* StaircaseTumble: After Kristen makes a SuperWindowJump out of her bedroom, she finds herself falling down the staircase in the Elm Street house.
135	* StealthHiBye: Sister Mary Helena does it to Neil when he sees her for the first time by disappearing behind a crowd.
136	* StopMotion: Both the transformation of Philip's unfinished marionette into a miniature Freddy, and Freddy's reanimated skeleton.
137	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Subverted with [[spoiler:Nancy and Don]] as they both die right at the end and both die killing Freddy.
138	* SuperScream: Joey's dream power, which contrasts with his muteness in the real world.
139	* SuperStrength: In his dreams, Kincaid is a superstrong bruiser who can bend steel with his bare hands. Not strong enough for Freddy, however...
140	* SuperWheelchair: Villainous example: Freddy conjures up a rusty, spike-covered killer wheelchair to attack a paraplegic youth in his dream.
141	* SuperWindowJump: Kristen dives through the closed window of her bedroom to escape Freddy. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it is a dream and she has mad acrobatic skills in her dreams.
142	* TakeMyHand: Nancy does this to save Joey when he is about to fall into the fiery pit.
143	* TelevisionPortal: Freddy manifests himself on a television set to kill [[spoiler:Jennifer]].
144	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch:
145	** "Welcome to Prime Time, bitch!"
146	** "COME AND GET HIM BITCH"
147	* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Joey manages to overcome his muteness to scream the BigNo that shatters the mirrors and saves his friends.
148	* TimeSkip: At first, it appears to be this. This entry, which came out in 1987, takes place six years after the first, released in 1984. However, the first one actually takes place in 1981, because of the fourth and fifth films setting themselves in 1988 and 1989 respectively. This also means that the film does not contradict ''Freddy's Revenge'', which takes place five years after the first film.
149	* TookALevelInDumbass:
150	** While Nancy is one of the more competent characters in this movie, she very easily fell for Freddy posing as her Father [[spoiler: to kill her.]] Even though in the first movie she has seen him imitate her friends and loved ones before.
151	** Will and Taryn. Unlike Kincaid, Nancy, and Kristen, who opt to look for one another, these two decide to fight Freddy on their own. [[spoiler: They don't win.]] Will especially fails hard since he decided to rush Freddy even though he had him [[spoiler: somewhat]] at bay with his magic and had a ranged advantage.
152	* TruthInTelevision: An exaggerated example with the dream suppressing drug Hypnocil. There are drugs which are used to help suppress nightmares in PTSD sufferers. Alpha blockers have been in use for this purpose since the mid-70s.
153	* UnhandThemVillain: Happens when Nancy, Kristen and Kincaid discover Freddy has Joey suspended over a flaming pit.
154	* VasquezAlwaysDies: [[spoiler:Taryn]] is the more stereotypically "badass" female Dream Warrior, and dies because of it.
155	* VehicleVanish: The first time Dr Gordon sees Sister Mary Helena she vanishes when a group of people walk in front of her and block his view. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he learns she is a ghost.]]
156	* TheWallsAreClosingIn: ''All four'' walls start closing, and [[FromBadToWorse heating up]], during the "group" dream session.
157	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Elizabeth Simms and Donald Thompson. In the case of Simms, although she doesn't believe them about Freddy, as a doctor she genuinely cares about her patients and is worried about their mental health. In Donald's case, he's trying to protect his daughter from Krueger and bury the past even though it's clear that it's crippling him. When Neil accuses him of not caring about Nancy, he slaps his arms away from him (Neil slams him against a wall earlier) showing clearly that he does care.
158	* WhamLine: Nancy delivers one to Kincaid when she reveals she knows who is trying to kill them.
159	-->'''Kincaid''': Save it, lady. We're not in the mood.
160	-->'''Nancy''': He wears a dark brown hat.
161	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The movie makes no reference to the fate of Jesse and Lisa, the surviving protagonists of the second movie, and who had been attacked by Freddy in the final scene. In fact, this movie, as well as almost every sequel, makes no reference to ''Freddy's Revenge'' events. You can imagine that Nancy, who no longer lived in the old neighborhood, may never have heard of the events, but at the same time it's hard to believe that she hadn't paid attention to any news that might signal Krueger's return. It would take 18 years until finally a sequel, ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', mention the events of ''Freddy's Revenge'' and confirm them as part of the franchise canon (The end titles of ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' also features footage from ''Freddy's Revenge'').
162	* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: The heroes discover they can use dream powers. Kincaid gets SuperStrength, Taryn turns into a badass punk chick with two switchblades and the skill to use them, Will can turn into a wizard straight out of his TabletopGames, and Joey [[spoiler: gets something like a sonic scream]]. Kristen...can do gymnastics.
163	** Kristen's real dream power was always her ability to draw others into her own dreams; the gymnastics were a secondary power. It's still better than Nancy, who doesn't get ''any'' dream powers, even though the first movie established she was capable of setting up complex traps incredibly quickly in the dream world.
164	*** Dream powers are established as something that everyone has, it's simply the ability of "what you can do in your dreams". Kristen's ability to draw others into dreams (Dream Master) is an exclusive power to her that can only be passed on to others and so it isn't a "dream power". The dream power of gymnastics is still weaksauce.
165	* {{Wormsign}}: Shown before the Freddy-worm tries to eat Kristen.
166	* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: Not just [[spoiler: Nancy,]] but [[spoiler: Phillip]] as well. [[spoiler: He]] seems to be the OnlySaneMan and calmly points out the faults in the Doctor's beliefs in the cause of the deaths. As well as the fact that they all dreamed about Freddy. To top it off [[spoiler: Phillip]] is the first onscreen death of the movie.
167	* YouExclamation: Freddy's reaction when he sees that it was Nancy who stabbed him in the eye.
168	-->'''Freddy:''' You...!
169	* YouOweMe: Nancy tells her father this when she asks for his help finding Freddy's bones.
170	* YourSoulIsMine: For the first time, Freddy does this to his victims in order to make himself more powerful.

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