Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger is a male film villain who features in A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Biography

Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger (/ˈkruːɡər/) was a male human born as the son of Amanda Krueger who was a nun that worked at Hathaway House that was an asylum for the criminally insane. During her time there, she was accidentally locked in a room with one hundred of the in-mates who attacked and raped her repeatedly. She was found to had barely survived the experience but was pregnant as a result of the incident. On September 1942, she gave birth to a son who was Frederick Charles Krueger who was placed in the care of a man named Mr. Underwood who was an abusive alcoholic. During his childhood, he was known to had killed the class hamster with the other kids at his elementary school being aware of his parentage and often bullied him as a result. When he was a teenager, he would cut himself with a shaving razor and experienced pleasure as a result where he came to use the same blade to murder Mr. Underwood who he killed as revenge for all the times he had abused him.

Later in his life, he became a murderer in Springwood notorious for killing children where the media labelled him the Springwood Slasher. He came to be apprehended but was later released due to a technicality. The parents of the children tracked him down and found him in the boiler room where he took his victims. The parents poured gas into the room and set him on fire, which caused his melted-like facial features.

Freddy invaded the nightmares of Tina Gray, Nancy Thompson, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz. Tina became his first post-death victim when he slashed her across the chest with his clawed glove, which did the same amount of damage to her in the physical world and throwing and dragging her around the room, killing her. Rod Lane was accused of killing Tina and was arrested. Freddy hung him with the sheets on his bed in his cell, making it appear as though he hung himself. Freddy kept stalking Nancy, who devised a plan with her boyfriend Glen Lantz to capture him. That night, however, Glen fell asleep and Freddy pulled him into the bed and shot him upward in a fountain of blood. Nancy managed to pull him into the real world and set him on fire, but he killed Nancy's mother, Marge Thompson, by burning her to death. Nancy confronted Freddy a final time and turned her back on him, draining him of all his powers and destroying him. In the end, he appears to trap Nancy in a dream world where she is trapped in a red and green striped car with Tina, Glen, and Rod, driving away.

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was the infamous serial killer known as the Springwood Slasher.

Powers and abilities

Freddy Krueger was originally an ordinary human being with no special inherent abilities. By adulthood, he was in a position where he was capable of murdering people in secret. After his death, accounts claimed that three Dream Demons offered Krueger the chance to continue after his physical death, with the ability enter his victims' dreams and kill them in the Dream World, which would thus cause their death in the physical world and absorb their souls afterward.

As long as his victims were dreaming, Krueger could inhabit and control their dreams, twisting them to his own ends. He is also capable of entering a victim's mind via state of intoxication, whether the victim is drunk or stoned. Any physical harm done to a person in this dream world would carry over into the real world

Within the dreams, children often spoke a nursery rhyme that warned of Krueger with this being:

"One, two, Freddy's coming for you.

Three, four, better lock your door.

Five, six, grab your crucifix.

Seven, eight, gonna stay up late.

Nine, ten, never sleep again."

Following his death, Krueger came to reside within the Dream World.

Notes

• Freddy Krueger was created by Wes Craven where he was originally portrayed by actor Robert Englund with him featuring in the setting of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
• According to Robert Englund, Freddy's look was based on Klaus Kinski's portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy's poise and gait on the "Cagney stance" originated by actor James Cagney.

Alternate Versions

• In the reboot, Freddy Krueger was the Groundskeeper at Badham Preschool. A pedophile and child molester, he had a more personal connection with Nancy Holbrook, as she was his favorite, and he molested her and the other preschoolers. Freddy initially appeared to have been wrongly accused and seemingly looked like a friendly gardener around the children. Eventually, the parents, after they heard about the abuse from their children and observed slashes on their skin and clothes that were consistent with his trademark glove, chased Freddy down to a building, in which Freddy locked himself in. One of the parents threw in a container of gasoline with a burning rag. It is implied that he did this to force Freddy to come out, not to intentionally burn him to death. However, Freddy did end up burning him to death. The parents did that to spare their children the trauma of having to testify against him in open court. Having been burned to death, Freddy somehow returned as a vengeful spirit who killed off the teenage children in their dreams one by one as payback against the parents for killing him and/or as payback against them for reporting his actions to their parents. During the climax, Nancy pulled Freddy into the physical world and apparently killed him by severing his gloved-hand and slashed his throat with a broken paper cutter blade. However, Freddy was shown to still be alive and he killed Nancy's mother, Gwen Holbrook, from the mirror reflection.

In other media

Films

• In Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy Krueger appeared in the setting of the live-action film crossover where he was once again portrayed by actor Robert Englund. After his defeat by Maggie, Freddy came to be trapped in Hell whilst the people of Springwood sought to revitalize their town. Figuring out how Krueger operated, the authorities and town officials covered up any and all traces of his prior existence, which included blacking out obituaries and quarantining anyone who had ever dreamed about, or had any knowledge of Krueger. Other countermeasures included giving Hypnocil, a drug that prevents people from dreaming, to the children moved to Westin Hills. As a result, Springwood returned to obscurity and subsequently repopulated with no ill effects.

Video games

• In Mortal Kombat X, Freddy Krueger was introduced as a playable character in DLC for the fighting video game. When Freddy Krueger encountered Shao Kahn when he was attempting to steal souls. Freddy and Shao Kahn fought each other, but Shao Kahn was too strong for him. Freddy ended up getting pulled out of the Dream Realm, turning him mortal, and thus defeated by Shao Kahn. Not wanting to surrender to his injuries, Freddy is determined to kill Shao Kahn by any means necessary, and return to the Dream Realm with his immortality, thus continuing his sadistic reign of terror. He finds himself teaming up with Raiden's forces despite their contrasting goals. However, as shown below, Nightwolf is well-aware of his true nature.

Appearances

• A Nightmare on Elm Street:

External Links

• Nightmare on Elm Street Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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