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1	[[WMG: Freddy has split personalities]]
2	* [[FridgeBrilliance Think about it!]] He was born to a Nun mother and conceived from a psychotic father! A recipe for a spilt personality! And with the [[JerkAssWoobie kind of life he led,]] the violent personality started taking over. And soon it had all but consumed him! But the nice personality sometimes shines through like the time in the 6th one where he was telling his daughter how much he loved her and her mother/his wife. But his violent side takes over soon! So he ''isn't'' a monster, just the personality is!
3	** It might also explain why he's less menacing and more goofy as the films go on: the suppressed personality is trying to fight back.
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5	[[WMG:There are no dream demons.]]
6	* While still alive, Freddy himself suffered from the psychotic delusion that demons were telling him to kill the town's children. When the Springwood parents came to kill him, a dream-power that had been latent during his lifetime moved his spirit into the dream world when his burning body passed out from the pain and smoke inhalation. As he hadn't yet learned to manipulate dreams consciously, Freddy's psychosis took control of the dreamscape and manifested the "demons" he'd previously been hallucinating.
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8	[[WMG: Freddy’s burns changing were actually a sign of his power level]]
9	* In the original film, he’s not that powerful and hasn’t really gotten any souls yet, so his burns here are more realistic. In the second film there still bad but slightly less, because he had more power. 3-4 have roughly the same state because Freddy’s at roughly the same level of strength in these two. 5 has worse burns and Freddy looks older, because he’s very weak. In 6 when he’s at his most powerful, Freddy’s burns are less pronounced and is looking very close to his human form, because he’s at his most powerful here.
10	** Or the "less bad" burns that cover his face and body in the middle and last films aren't burns at all, but layer upon layer of trapped souls fused with his scars. The more victims he claims, the more these layers cover and hide his original burns; if he gets his ass kicked badly enough for some of them to escape, the outer layers disappear and he's left looking worse without them.
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12	[[WMG: This series exists in ComicBook/TheSandman universe]]
13	* Specifically, during the period in time (most of the 20th century) when The Dream of the Endless is trapped in a bubble. Without Dream in control of the Land Of Dream, Freddy is able to move, in a limited way, between the dream world and the real world.
14	* A Lucid Dreamer would be able to kill people using Freddy, without any direction.
15	* Think about it! If you were able to control your dreams, you would be able to control Freddy and who he kills. Is someone doing this already? Is it Creator/WesCraven?
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17	[[WMG: Freddy's [[VillainDecay villain decay]] over the course of the series was an unintended side effect of absorbing the souls of teenagers into himself]]
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19	[[WMG: The series shows the mass suicide of Springwood's teen population.]]
20	* The entire series shows the nightmares the teenagers of Springwood are having in reaction to their guilt over their parents killing a man. Freddy did exist in the real world as a human and the Springwood Slasher, but never came back as a dream demon after his death and was truly dead the whole time. His appearance in the teens' dreams is just another manifestation of their stress and guilt, which they believe will kill them due to how vivid the dreams are. Ultimately, each teen [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] both to end the guilt and their resulting nightmares. This is made even worse by the fact that the adults don't notice or seem to care about their childrens' distress, and refuse to give most of them professional mental help.
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22	[[WMG: Freddy becoming more [[LargeHam hammy]] was actually a deliberate tactic.]]
23	* In the first movie, Freddy’s serious and menacing, as he hunts down the kids of the parents who burned him. However, by the time of ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors Dream Warriors]]'', he’s growing a little bored and tired, recognizing that [[AndThenWhat he’s very close to finally finishing his goals and will soon die because he’s fulfilled his contract with the Dream Demons]]. So in an effort to liven things up a bit, he makes his kills more creative to amuse himself, along with screwing with the kids he kills. By the 4th movie, when Kristen passes her powers to Alice, Freddy gets caught with them, allowing him to kill all of her friends. He’s ecstatic over this and has fun with his kills because he’s found a loophole and can kill as he pleases, resulting in the more wacky deaths. After Alice defeats him, but he comes back through Jacob, Freddy gets more serious because he knows he has to be cautious, resulting in more serious deaths while also keeping a few wacky ones. This comes to its head in ''[[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare Freddy’s Dead]]'', where he’s killed all the kids in Springwood and can go after the whole world, so he has fun with the crazy deaths he makes up until he dies.
24	** Alternately, Freddy starts spouting one-liners, and harassing his targets for multiple nights running, because by the third film he's caught on that his own power is linked to how many people fear him. If he just murders his targets outright during their first encounter, they don't have time to spread the word about the scary guy in the ugly sweater they've been dreaming about, but if he freaks his prey out for a night or two ''before'' killing them, fear of him will propagate through the town's teen population. The hokey puns and snark are a way to make sure they don't just keep quiet about they were dreaming about, as victims who would be embarrassed to admit they were scared half to death by a nightmare will still gab about a nightmare with ''funny'' bits.
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26	[[WMG: Future comic-crossovers between Freddy and other characters could include...]]
27	* Freddy vs. Film/{{Beetlejuice}}: Beetlejuice's antics distract the people of Springwood from their fears to the degree that Freddy's source of power depletes, forcing them into a battle on the astral plane.
28	* Freddy vs. Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}
29	* Probably not going to happen, but I'd love to see it anyway: Freddy vs Pennywise. Two monsters who feed off of fear duke it out.
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31	[[WMG: Freddy never actually absorbed souls from those he killed.]]
32	* He only ''claimed'' this was the case to horrify his victims, and to obscure the truth that it's fear of him, felt by the living, that actually sustains and strengthens him. He used his shape-changing and dream-manipulation powers to fake the scenes of souls embedded in his torso and his own defeat in the fourth film, as well as the "soul pizza" gag, just to freak out his prey, while ensuring that the few dreamers who'd actually put up a serious fight (Nancy and Alice) never caught on that they could de-power him via the same cover-up tactics which Springwood's adults resort to prior to ''Freddy vs Jason''.
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34	[[WMG: A more unified timeline of events]]
35	* The timeline of A Nightmare on Elm Street can get pretty convoluted, and here's my personal theory that helps tie everything together. For clarity's sake, we'll also include Friday the 13th since Freddy vs. Jason exists and directly follows Freddy's Dead and Jason Goes To Hell. The remake is not canon but the 2015 fan film ''The Confession of Fred Kruger'' is.
36	** The Confession of Fred Kruger serves as a prequel to the first film, followed by Dream Warriors. The Dream Master and The Dream Child follow directly from there with Part 2 taking place between Part 5 and Part 6. Part 6 leads into Freddy vs. Jason.
37	*** Part of why Freddy acts the way he does in Part 2 is because he knows he's losing power and is trying to find a way into the real world and out of Springwood and the possession tactics are a way for him to get out. Jesse narrowly survives the ordeal and escapes Springwood for good.
38	*** Part 6 takes place about fifteen years after The Dream Child and ten years after Freddy's Revenge. Jacob is John Doe, which is why he's the key for Freddy's plan. Springwood is not quite the childless dystopia it appears in the movie, but a large chunk of the town is falling into disrepair with the grownups going insane in certain locations and the children who still live there are more or less confined to certain areas and either given Hypnocil or are kept in the dark.
39	*** Freddy's seemingly killed at the end of Part 6 and is sent to Hell. The Dream Demons still need him since his mission scope has changed. But he needs a proxy to regain his power. This is where Jason Voorhees comes into the picture
40	*** The first part of Jason Goes To Hell takes place close to the same time that the last act of Freddy's Dead takes place. Given Freddy's knowledge of Jason's latent powers, he observes the final showdown with Jason from the depths of Hell and greets Jason in Hell, leading into Freddy vs. Jason
41	*** During the events of Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy gains new powers but they can't help him against Jason. But after that movie ends, Freddy makes good use of that power. The newfound power? He can now hop into dimensions, leading directly into Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
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43	[[WMG: Freddy has a homosexual crush on Joey]]

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