Line #36 Monster/ANightmareOnElmStreet


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13	[[caption-width-right:350:"His name is [[Characters/ANightmareOnElmStreetFreddyKrueger Freddy Krueger]]. [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors He was a child murderer before he died, and after he died...well, he became something worse]]."]]
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15	->''"My children. From the very beginning, it was the children who gave me my power. The Springwood Slasher, that's what they called me. My reign of terror was legendary. Dozens of children would fall by my blades. Then the parents of Springwood came for me. Taking justice into their own hands. When I was alive, I might have been a little naughty, but after they killed me, I became something much, much worse. The stuff nightmares are made of. The children still feared me and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams. And that's when the fun REALLY began. Until they figured out a way to forget about me. To erase me completely. Being dead wasn't a problem, but being ''forgotten'', now ''that's'' a BITCH. I can't come back if nobody remembers me. I can't come back if nobody's afraid. I had to search the bowels of Hell, but I found someone, someone who'll make 'em remember. He may get the blood, but I'll get the glory, and that fear is my ticket home."''
16	-->-- '''[[Characters/ANightmareOnElmStreetFreddyKrueger Freddy Krueger]]''', ''Film/FreddyVsJason''
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18	[[Characters/ANightmareOnElmStreetFreddyKrueger Freddy Krueger]] has been terrorizing the children of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Springwood]] since [[LongRunners 1984]]. Here are some of [[CompleteMonster his worst]] deeds, along with other characters who match him in vileness.
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26	* Original continuity:
27	** [[CardCarryingVillain Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger]] is the [[DreamWeaver dream]]-[[DreamWalker invading]] ghost of a [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]], who seeks to continue killing. In life, he kept missing children's pictures of his victims in a scrapbook and posed as an unassuming, caring father before his wife discovered the truth; he then murders his wife with no hesitation. When he got off on a technicality, the people of Springwood lynched Freddy, at which point he makes a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain with demonic forces]] to become, in his own words, "[[ResurrectedMurderer what nightmares are made of]]". He uses his newfound powers to find increasingly creative ways to torture and murder his dozens of victims for his own amusement by using their primal fears against them, all the while [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor cracking sick jokes]]; afterwards, he [[YourSoulIsMine harvests the souls of his victims]] and keeps them in a hellish state within his body to draw their power. By the time of ''[[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare The Final Nightmare]]'', Freddy's body count was in the hundreds, reducing Springwood to a child's graveyard and driving the adults into madness. He goes on to taunt a girl by appearing as her sexually abusive father, and even attempts to murder his own daughter Kathryn upon reuniting with her. Freddy makes it clear to Kathryn of his intent to continue his killing spree across the world until he runs out of victims, declaring "every town has an Elm Street." Freddy is one of the few SlasherMovie killers with a distinct and talkative personality, and has always simply been a sadistic monster who extends his victims' suffering for its own sake.
28	** ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]] is just as vile and revolting as he is in the main series. Seeking to [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare regain his powers]] and start a new killing spree, Freddy resurrects [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason Voorhees]] from [[Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday Hell]] and sics him onto Springwood to spread fear in his name. Growing annoyed that Jason is [[KillSteal killing those he wanted for himself]], Freddy makes an attempt to kill his pawn. It's later revealed he murdered Lori Campbell's mother, and attempts to rape Lori herself in her nightmare when she tries to help Jason.
29	** ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'': "[[AncientEvil The Entity]]" is an ancient, demonic being that has tormented mankind for centuries in many forms, its only goal being the brutal slaying of innocent people. Able to be trapped inside "stories" for a time, the Entity was once the [[WickedWitch Witch]] of ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', and in the present is the form of Freddy Krueger himself. Yearning to escape the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' story, the Entity reaches out and begins butchering people around Heather Langenkamp, from the crew of the films to Heather's beloved husband Chase. All the while [[MindRape mentally tormenting]] Heather and her 5-year-old son Dylan on a nightly basis with [[NightmareWeaver violent dreams]], the Entity [[ForcedToWatch forces Dylan to watch]] as it butchers his surrogate aunt Julie. The Entity plans to torturously kill both Heather and eat Dylan alive so it can finally enter reality and begin a full-fledged murder spree on humankind.
30	* [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 2010 reboot]]: [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]] is as monstrous as always. A sadistic pedophile, [[SerialRapist Freddy]] used to be a preschool gardener who would take the children to his underground cave, where he would rape them and take photos of them, his favorite being Nancy. When the parents of the kids find out and murder him, Freddy [[BackFromTheDead returns from the dead]] years later in order to kill the kids for snitching on him. In their dreams, Freddy gives the teens a head start so that he can enjoy their screaming and fear before he brutally murders them, all the while making snide comments at them. He then hangs the bodies up in his [[TrophyRoom boiler room]] as [[CreepySouvenir trophies]]. Setting his sights on Nancy once again, Freddy saves her for last, so that, once her brain goes into a coma via sleep deprivation, he can keep her as his sex toy forever. Despite getting killed again, Freddy immediately returns, killing Nancy's mother.
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35	* ''ComicBook/NightmaresOnElmStreet'': [[SerialKiller Freddy Krueger]] returns once again in this {{Interquel}} to continue his never-ending killing spree. Gleefully haunting the dreams of Springwood for over twenty tears and setting his eyes on Nancy Thompson's old roommate, Cybil, Freddy brutally murders her friend and husband, revealing his intentions to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mask the latter's death as a tragic accident]] that would subsequently "[[NeverSuicide drive Cybil to commit suicide]]". Planning on using the young Jacob's psychic powers as a bridge to "have a hot time in the old town tonight", Freddy tries to manipulate him with the memories of his father, one of his many victims. Committing a series of murders by proxy to claim more souls with the help of his unstable girlfriend, Devonne, Freddy orders her to kill Jacob's mother and anyone with her, leading to Devonne shooting up Mercy Hospital before Freddy eventually [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betrays his lover and leaves her to die]].
36	* Creator/AvatarPress [[ComicBook/ANightmareOnElmStreetAvatar comics]], by Brian Pulido, Creator/JuanJoseRyp, et al.: [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]], as usual, is a perverted, wise-cracking mass murderer who [[DreamWalker haunts the dreams]] of Springwood's youth after the events of ''Film/FreddyVsJason''. Lynched in life for murdering "a child or a hundred", Freddy now jumps into the dreams of any teenagers he can so that he may torture and butcher them in the real world. Destroying the town's supply of dream-suppressing Hypnocil to leave the entire population defenseless, Freddy murders multiple characters and even their parents [[CruelAndUnusualDeath in gory ways]], and gleefully [[AndIMustScream dooms their souls to eternal torment]] as his puppets.
37	* ''ComicBook/NewLineCinemasTalesOfHorror'''s "Copycat":
38	** [[NightmareWeaver Freddy Krueger]] remains a SoulEating demon. Twenty-five years after the Springwood massacre, Freddy continues haunting the dreams of residents until Otis Emerson [[{{Blackmail}} threatens Freddy]] into making Otis his accomplice. Using Otis to murder a young exorcist, Freddy has another teen delete the threatening computer files Otis has, allowing Freddy to safely [[StopWorshippingMe kill Otis]] before [[UngratefulBastard torturing the teen to death]] for fun.
39	** [[FatBastard Otis Emerson]] himself was an [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal-dissecting]] sociopathic [[EnfantTerrible child]] who [[MonsterFangirl fell in love with murder after Freddy's killing spree]]. Over the next 25 years, Otis [[SerialKiller kills countless people]] and when he finally meets Freddy intends to work as the demon's underling to spread fear and death across the world.
40	* ''ComicBook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh'': [[SerialKiller Freddy Krueger]] is the same [[WouldHurtAChild sadistic child-murdering monster]] he is in the films, and more. Following the events of [[Film/FreddyVsJason the film]], Freddy continues his spree of evil by once again manipulating [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason Voorhees]] into finding the ''[[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon Ex-Mortis]]'' to grant him reality-warping powers before sending the [[Franchise/EvilDead Deadites]] against Jason when he turns against him. He takes things further in ''The Nightmare Warriors'', where upon his return, Freddy takes control of the Deadite army, placing Jason as general. At Freddy's behest, Jason and the Deadites leave death and destruction throughout Washington, where Freddy takes control of the White House where he reveals his plan for "No Child Left Alive" and the carnage he plans on spreading across the world. Revealing himself to be in an [[ParentalIncest incestuous relationship with his daughter Kathryn]], possibly due to brainwashing, when she fights with Jason, Freddy admits he plans to kill her when they are finished. Freddy possesses Stephanie to seduce and abduct Jacob, before encouraging Stephanie to kill as a Voorhees. Upon Jason's death, Freddy absorbs his soul as well before boasting himself as a "[[AGodAmI Dream God]]". Now desiring power and domination in addition to his bloodlust, Freddy takes his evil from the films to a more grandiose level.
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45	* ''[[Script/Nightmare13FreddyMeetsJason Nightmare 13--Freddy Meets Jason]]'' ([[https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/nightmare13.html link]]): [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]], having been the one who drowned the young [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason Voorhees]], is the true commander of the Freddy {{Cult}}, a group of [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic punks]] who commit vast murder in his name. Using them to regain his powers, Freddy seeks to marry a young virgin in order to be properly reborn into the mortal world at full power, having his followers kidnap the young Lizzie [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe for him to marry]]. Killing off Meagan's friends in the meantime, Freddy, after his fight with the resurrected Jason, plans to use a TV satellite to beam himself anywhere in the world and continue his mass killing spree.
46	* ''[[Script/JasonVsFreddy Jason vs. Freddy]]'' ([[http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/jvsf_bm.txt link]]): [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]] returns after having been presumed dead. With the young Jason Voorhees serving as his first kill decades prior, the demonic Freddy later discovers a portal to the real world within the comatose Jason. Upon finding out that his presence in the real world grants him the power of [[YourMindMakesItReal Mass Narcosis]], Freddy uses it to [[SpreeKiller enact a massive killing spree]], using people's nightmares to violently murder them, from making a reporter think she's being raped by a {{prison riot}}, to making dozens of drivers believe they were caught in a massive car accident. Heading to the Springwood mall, Freddy has tons of teenagers and children killed in particularly gruesome ways, with hopes to [[VillainTeamUp team up with Jason]] to claim the entire world as their own.
47	* [[Script/FreddyVsJasonPeterBriggs Peter Briggs's screenplay]] ([[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/freddy_v_jason_briggs.html link]]): [[{{Satan}} Thanos]] is the ruler of the Underworld, the master of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, and the architect behind the two's massive killing sprees. Having made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with Freddy]] to keep him immortal should he grant him the souls of the innocent, Thanos also gets Freddy to [[TheCorrupter corrupt Jason]] into becoming a murderer to obtain more souls. With all the power he's achieved, Thanos decides to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the entire universe]] in order to create a new one [[InTheirOwnImage in his own image]], throwing away Freddy and Jason upon having no need for them anymore.
48	* [[Script/FreddyVsJasonJonathanAndGlenn Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger's screenplay]] ([[http://www.maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/freddyvsjason_berger12-98.html link]]): [[WouldHurtAChild Freddy Krueger]], originally a [[TeensAreMonsters teen]] counselor at Camp Crystal Lake, would force the young Jason Voorhees to play "The Nightmare Game" with him. Sadistically scaring Jason [[ForTheEvulz for kicks]], their game would eventually lead to Freddy drowning Jason, with Freddy later taking great pride in turning Jason into an undead, murderous, rage-filled monster with a high body count. Having also inspired murderers like Dominic Necros, Freddy tries to kill Jason for attempting to [[KillSteal steal his latest kill]].
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53	* ''Series/FreddysNightmares'': [[GreaterScopeVillain Freddy Krueger]] is once again portrayed as a sadistic monster. In life, he molested and murdered more than a dozen [[WouldHurtAChild children]], with victims as young as four and six. After his death, he returns as a demon to continue killing by murdering people in their dreams. Freddy murders his arresting officer, and proceeds to target his daughters, killing one and framing the other for her own sister's murder. In one episode, he tricks a sleepwalking man into [[PaterFamilicide killing his own wife and daughter]], while another suggests that he murdered nearly half of his former class from school, which had 300 students. Freddy also appeared in segments in which he would interact with people to torment them. In one instance, he offered a girl the ability to change the past so that [[HopeSpot she could prevent her mother's death]], but then revealed that now her father was dead instead, and promptly took away the ability. Evil as always, Freddy proved just as monstrous on the small screen as on [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet the big screen]].
54	* ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwu9fozKS3c Freddy vs. Jason]]": [[Characters/ANightmareOnElmStreetFreddyKrueger Freddy Krueger]] proves just as sadistic and vile as ever. A [[SerialKiller serial child killer]] in life, Freddy continued the [[WouldHurtAChild murder and torture of children]] far after his death, including eating one alive. Resurrecting [[Characters/FridayThe13thJasonVoorhees Jason Voorhees]] and tricking him into spreading as much death as possible, Freddy terrorizes both Crystal Lake and Elm Street, including [[EyeScream gouging the eyes from a young girl]]. When Jason becomes too unruly for Freddy to control, Freddy attempts to kill him and send him back to Hell, even succeeding in one of the attraction's endings.
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