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“ | One, two, Freddy's coming for you Three, four, better lock your door Five, six, grab your crucifix Seven, eight, better stay awake Nine, ten, never sleep again |
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~ Freddy's haunting nursery rhyme, |
“ | Come to Freddy. | „ |
~ Freddy as he chases Nancy. |
“ | 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 out 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. | „ |
~ Freddy gleefully recounting his crimes across the series in the opening of Freddy vs. Jason. |
Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger is the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and the 2003 crossover film Freddy vs. Jason.
He was originally a human serial killer who targeted the children in the neighborhood of Springwood, Ohio. After being burned alive by the parents of his victims, Freddy was given supernatural abilities by a trio of demons. Now, a powerful demon himself, Freddy, returned to the neighborhood to get revenge on the parents who burned him by killing their children.
He was portrayed by Robert Englund, who also played his counterpart in Wes Craven's New Nightmare.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- As a revenant, he kills his victims in their dreams in severely brutal ways (many relating to their worst fears) and would often taunt their loved ones about how he killed them before taking them as his next victim.
- He would absorb his victims' souls into his chest for energy, leaving them in an agonizing state.
- Although he became more comical in later sequels, none of his comedic moments detract from his crimes, and most of them just show how sadistic and monstrous he actually is.
- He subverts his tragic backstory of having been an orphaned boy who was abused by his adoptive father and taunted by children for being a rape child by killing all his former classmates' children. And all in all, he's not affected by his past anymore when he became an adult.
- In general, his presence is heralded by a disturbing atmosphere that is meant to show his psychopathy. His villainy isn't just taken seriously by the narrative but it shows how debased he is as a person and how he has no moral standards to speak of.
Background[]
- As a child, he smashed one of his school hamsters to death with a hammer.
- He murdered at least twenty children, mostly by mutilating them with his clawed glove in his boiler room and spreading their corpses around the town, earning him the name "The Springwood Slasher."
- He killed his own wife in front of his daughter when she found out he was the Springwood Slasher, despite her promising she wouldn't tell.
- He made a deal with the Dream Demons to continue his reign of terror in the Dream World upon being burned alive.
- He caused his birth mother, Amanda Krueger, to commit suicide when she found out about his murders.
A Nightmare on Elm Street[]
- He invades the dreams of Nancy Thompson, Tina Gray, Rod Lane, and Glen Lantz and proceeds to psychologically torment and traumatize them.
- He slashes Tina across the chest with his clawed glove, which did the same amount of damage to her in the real world, and throws her around the room, which kills her.
- He frames Rod Lane for the killing of Tina, which leads to him getting arrested. Or rather, he just doesn't do anything to stop this, which can be just as bad.
- He hung Rod to death with the sheets of his bed, making it look like he had committed suicide.
- He pulles Glen into his bed, regurgitating a large amount of blood that splattered on the ceiling.
- He sadistically calls and tells Nancy in her dream, "I'm your boyfriend now," and even tries to mockingly kiss her.
- He kills Nancy's mother, Marge Thompson, by burning her to death with fire.
- Nancy manages to seemingly defeat him by simply not being afraid anymore. However, it's revealed Freddy was simply pretending to be defeated and letting her think this was all a dream and everyone was alive. But this itself is revealed to be a dream, and he traps her and her friends in Glenn's car.
Freddy's Revenge[]
- He gradually takes possession of Jesse Walsh and forces him to kill his coach, his friend, and a few of his classmates at a party. He very nearly succeeds in making him kill his sister and love interest. While the coach may have deserved it for his treatment of Jesse, Freddy did not kill him out of justice in any way.
- He kills half a dozen teenagers at Lisa's house during a party.
- He reveals himself to be alive by the end of the film and impales Kerry through the chest, then makes the school bus drive off of the road.
- He succeeds in killing Jesse, his girlfriend, and their classmates on the school bus.
Dream Warriors[]
- He successfully kills every child of the parents who burned him alive, except the Dream Warriors.
- He kills Phillip Anderson and Jennifer Caulfield, and makes their deaths look like suicides.
- He captures Joey Crusel during the group hypnosis and hangs him above a pit of fire, which puts him in a coma in the real world.
- He manages to kill Taryn and Will and take control of Donald Thompson and Neil Gordon, impaling Donald with a spike.
- He tries to drop and release Joey to his death in the fiery pit until he is saved by some of the Dream Warriors.
- He successfully kills Nancy by pretending to be her father, and he nearly kills Kristen before disappearing due to holy water and a crucifix.
The Dream Master[]
- After resurrecting himself during a dream, he overpowers and stabs Kincaid to death and drowns Joey in his waterbed after tricking him into seeing a naked woman.
- He invades Kristen's nightmare and takes her back to his home.
- He manipulates and goads Kristen into summoning one of her friends into the dream so that his "fun" can begin anew.
- When she summons Alice into her dream, Freddy throws Kristen into his furnace.
- He sets Kristen's bedroom on fire and leaves her corpse in it.
- Upon having exacted his revenge by killing all of the Elm Street children, rather than be content with his revenge, Freddy chooses to do everything he can to reach out and find more people to sadistically kill.
- He traps Alice in her desk chair and forcibly kisses Sheila Kopecky, sucking all of the air and life out of her lungs through her mouth after taunting her, then making it look like she has an asthma attack in class.
- He invisibly attacks Rick Johnson in a martial arts dojo and kills him with his levitating bladed glove.
- When Kristen gave her dream power to Alice, Freddy used her to get to more victims that weren't from Elm Street by making her pull them into the dream world and then killing them.
- He stalks Debbie, transmutes her into a cockroach, and crushes her to death in a roach motel. All the worse, as he probably knew of her phobia of bugs.
- He makes Alice injure Dan by making her collide with a tree in reality and then ramming into it.
- He nearly kills Alice in the dream world until Alice uses a nursery rhyme against him called "The Dream Master".
The Dream Child[]
- He takes the form of Dan's bike and forcibly glues him onto it with electricity while painfully turning him into a machine hybrid that speeds faster and faster and eventually, and intentionally, crashes right into traffic.
- He uses Dan's dead body to taunt Alice with "let's make babies", which makes her faint.
- He gruesomely forces Greta to eat her own organ and has her envision her mother and guests laughing and mocking her.
- It's revealed that he was using Jacob to attack Alice's friends and feed him his victims to make him like himself.
- He mocks Mark about Greta's death. When Mark uses his Dream powers to become a superhero and shoot Freddy a whole bunch of times, unfortunately, Freddy was only toying with him by pretending to be dead and turns into "Super Freddy," who's immune to the bullets, much to poor Mark's growing horror. In the end, he forcibly turns Mark into a comic character, and he sadistically laughs as he rips him into many pieces.
Freddy's Dead[]
- By the year 1999, Freddy has killed nearly every child in Springwood and drives all of the adults mad for doing so,
- The population of Springwood, according to a billboard, is at least 15,000, meaning that in Freddy's Dead, his kill count could be hundreds to thousands, giving him one of the highest kill counts of any horror movie slasher.
- He tries to take possession of his daughter so he can use her as a vessel to kill children all around the world.
- He tormented Carlos and Tracy by taking the form of their abusive parents, despite being a victim of parental abuse himself.
- Freddy almost removes the line between reality and dreams, effectively taking control of both the Dream World and the Real World.
Freddy vs. Jason[]
- He resurrects Jason Voorhees to make him kill the people of Springwood so they would remember Freddy and he could come back to life to murder as much as he wants again. But Jason didn't know when to stop and eventually kills a victim Freddy wanted to claim as his own, Freddy became enraged even though it was his fault for not clarifying what the plan was.
- Now seeing Jason as a loose end, he tries to kill Jason in his dreams, but even in the dream world, Jason just won't stay down. Eventually he realizes Jason is afraid of something—water. Freddy, upon realizing this, floods it all around him, digs into Jason's consciousness, and makes him relive the day he drowned. Freddy is using this as his chance to finally kill Jason for good.
- He tries to rape Lori Campbell and reveals he was the one who killed her mother, whom he referred to as a "whore."
- He forced a young Jason underwater during Lori’s dream while she was attempting to pull him out of the water.
- He tries to kill Lori and Will with Jason's machete. Fortunately, Jason unintentionally saved them by impaling Freddy with his own claw arm allowing Lori to use Jason's machete to decapitate Freddy (although he didn't die as his head winked at the end of the movie).
Trivia[]
- Freddy Krueger is the current icon of the Mature template in the Pure Evil Wiki.
- An unused ending for Freddy's Dead would have shown the Dream Demons approaching an abused child and encouraging him to act out violently, revealing that they do not just empower evil people; they also groom them to become evil, with it being implied that they did so with Freddy. If this had been kept in, he wouldn’t qualify as Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Freddy Krueger on the Villains Wiki.
- Freddy Krueger on the Ultimate Evil Wiki.
- Freddy Krueger on the Horror Wiki.
- Freddy Krueger on the Ready Player One Wiki.
- Freddy Krueger on the Mortal Kombat Wiki.
- Freddy Krueger on the Wikipedia.
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