Nightmare on Elm Street Remake Again

No residual for the wicked... or the innocent.

I, two; Freddy's coming for y'all.
3, four; better lock your door.
Five, six; take hold of your crucifix.
Seven, eight; gonna stay upwardly late.
Nine, x; never sleep once again.

— The song of the serial

The Nightmare on Elm Street film franchise centers around Slasher Picture icon Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund in every picture except the 2010 reboot) and his exploits in killing the teenagers of Springwood in their dreams. The franchise features these films:

Installment overview:

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) — Directed and written by Wes Chicken. In the original film, Heather Langenkamp plays Nancy Thompson, an average teenage girl who has nightmares for several successive nights. Her friends (including Johnny Depp in his first acting office ever) end upwardly murdered, 1 by one, in their sleep — by the aforementioned man Nancy sees in her nightmares: a badly-burnt man who wears a reddish-and-dark-green striped sweater, wields a pocketknife-fingered glove, and calls himself Freddy Krueger. Nancy confronts her mother, who tells her that Krueger, a child murderer ^notation In the original script Freddy was explicitly stated to exist a child molester; that idea was scrapped due to a rash of allegations of sexual abuse in preschools during the 80s and early 90s. This side of Freddy was still hinted at in several of the original movies, merely it was only made canon in the 2010 reboot. known as "The Springwood Slasher", died every bit the issue of a vigilante murder by the parents of his victims after a botched police investigation let Freddy go free. Freddy wants revenge against his killers, and so he decides to kill the children of those parents in their dreams, where their parents tin can't protect them. Can Nancy stop Freddy once and for all? Well...since several sequels followed this 1, one can simply presume...
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) — Five years later on the original moving-picture show, Freddy — who wants to kill outside of the Dream World — plans to break into reality; to circumvent the Brought Downward to Normal upshot, he plans to possess Jesse Walsh, the teenage son of the latest family to movement into 1428 Elm Street. Franchise fans consider this either the best or the worst of the serial, due in function to the pic'south increased accent on Darker and Edgier, Body Horror and the excessive Homoerotic Subtext. Because none of the following sequels make reference to the events of this picture show, it would take several years before fans received confirmation that this movie is office of the official franchise catechism.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street iii: Dream Warriors (1987) — Wes Craven returns to the franchise (though only as writer) in this film, set a year after the last. Freddy begins to impale off kids in their dreams once again, with all the unusual deaths — which occur primarily on Elm Street — deemed suicides past the stumped authorities. The number of Elm Street teenagers somewhen dwindles down to a small scattering that the government whisk off to Westin Hills Sanitarium, where Nancy Thompson — now a recently graduated psychologist — works. Together with the skeptical Doctor Neil Gordon, Nancy sets out to help Elm Street's final teenagers, dubbed the "Dream Warriors" for their power to manifest special powers during their dreams, defeat Freddy once and for all. Fans usually regard this film as skillful, as this film started the trend of creative (and ironic) deaths and introduced Freddy's now-trademark dark sense of humour (including his penchant for Bond One Liners).
• A Nightmare on Elm Street iv: The Dream Master (1988) — After actualization to kill Freddy off for expert, the survivors of the concluding motion-picture show return to their normal lives, merely soon enough, the nightmares — and Freddy — return. Freddy manages to kill off the last Elm Street teenagers (and avenge his death), then sets his sights on the rest of Springwood's children. Only ane person who stands between Freddy and hundreds of new potential victims: Alice Johnson, a shy girl given special dream powers by Kristen Parker (the last Elm Street teenager) just before Freddy kills her. Flashier and more "MTV-esque" than the preceding films, The Dream Principal took what Dream Warriors introduced and rolled with it; some fans call back it rolled a bit too far, as this film marks the bespeak where Freddy became the wisecracking, death-dealing jester fans virtually often retrieve him as.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)— Later on his defeat in the previous film, Freddy finds a way to return to life: through the dreams of Alice'southward unborn baby son, Jacob. The dream demon intends to mold Jacob into the perfect little host trunk (or murder automobile; the flick leaves Freddy's exact plans for Jacob vague), and to do so, he kills off Alice's friends and feeds their souls to the developing package of joy. This film tried to combine the darkness of the early films with Freddy's new wisecracker persona, with mixed results in the opinion of the fans.
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) — A Serial Fauxnale vaguely ready "x years from now" (which is supposed to exist 2001) and originally was released in 3D, with the last act being the only 3D filmed function. The Terminal Nightmare has Freddy, who has now killed off damn near every non-developed in Springwood, contrive a complicated scheme to escape Springwood'southward borders and begin his reign of terror elsewhere. Since Freddy can only hitch a ride in the psyche of his ain flesh and blood, Freddy lures his long-lost daughter to Springwood as part of the plan to escape the dying town. The Last Nightmare explores Freddy'south own nighttime background while ratcheting the campiness of the last ii entries Up to Eleven. Virtually of the fans ordinarily regard this entry as mediocre due to the farcical treatment of Freddy's M Finale.
• Wes Craven'southward New Nightmare (1994) — As yous tin tell, Wes Craven returned to the franchise — this time, as writer and director for this meta picture. New Nightmare sets itself in our reality, where we remember of Freddy every bit goose egg more than than a fictional horror film icon. Later on Craven starts to develop ideas for a new installment in the terminated franchise, an ancient evil — imprisoned in the picture series since the first and released past Freddy'due south death in the sixth — decides information technology doesn't like the thought of getting trapped again; in one case information technology sets out to stop the product, it begins to target Heather Langenkamp (who the entity views every bit "Nancy", the only ane who can stop information technology) and her young son. The arguable precursor to Scream (1996) (also written and directed by Craven), New Nightmare received a degree of praise for its study of the nature of reality.
• Freddy vs. Jason (2003) — Stuck in Development Hell for years, the crossover between Freddy and young man horror legend Jason Voorhees finally reached the silver screen in 2003. Trapped in Hell since his terminal defeat (The Last Nightmare) and unable to return due to Springwood's censorship of his name and exploits, Freddy uses what little remains of his power to assume the guise of Pamela Voorhees and resurrect her son, Jason. Freddy sends Jason to Springwood to kill the "naughty children" there, and every bit the bodies pile up, panic spreads among Springwood's populace and fuels Freddy, who soon gains enough strength to commencement his reign of terror all over. When Jason refuses to cease killing, however, Freddy gets rather upset...
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (the 2010 reboot) — Jackie Earle Haley and Rooney Mara star as Freddy and Nancy in this remake of the original movie. It mostly follows the story of the start film, though not without some alterations (including an try to brand Freddy await like an innocent victim of a town of overzealous parents, more often than not to illustrate merely how monstrous he is).

Boosted merchandise:

Comic Books

• Freddy Krueger's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1989) — Black and white comic book released by Marvel. Contains the storyline Dreamstalker, thats only loosely continued to picture series. Cancelled later two issues.
• Nightmares on Elm Street (1991) — Half dozen issue serial past Innovation Publishing. Continues the story of Dream Warriors and Dream Child.
• Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) — An accommodation of Freddy'south Dead: The Final Nightmare. Tertiary effect was published also in 3-D format.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning (1992) — Unfinished sequel of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Only ii problems published.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Special (2005) — Published by Avatar Press, set in the same timeline as Freddy vs. Jason.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Paranoid (2005) — Three issues continuation of Special.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Fearbook (2005) — Stand up-solitary outcome continuation of Paranoid.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (2006) — Eight issues series released by Wild Storm. Contains the storylines Freddy'southward State of war, Demon of Sleep and Double Shift.
• New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror (2007) — Features two stories, The Texas Chainsaw Salesman and Copycat about a serial killer who is trying to pose as Freddy Krueger.
• Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (2008) — Half-dozen issues serial that serves equally a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason and crossover with Evil Dead.
  • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors (2009) — Six issues sequel to Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

Film

• Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010) — The definitive documentary documenting the production of the entire series. Iv hours long, it features many of the participants of the original films. Heather Langenkamp narrates.
• I Am Nancy (2011) — Heather Langenkamp took Wes Craven's New Nightmare to the next logical step and made a comedic documentary about herself and Nancy.

Literature

• The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams (1991)
• Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror
  • Freddy Krueger'southward Tales of Terror: Blind Appointment (1995)
  • Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror: Fatal Games (1995)
  • Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror: Virtual Terror (1995)
  • Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror: Twice Burned (1995)
  • Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror: Help Wanted (1995)
  • Freddy Krueger's Tales of Terror: Mortiferous Disguise (1995)
• Black Flame
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Suffer the Children (2005)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamspawn (2005)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protege (2005)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: Perchance to Dream (2006)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers (2006)

Live-Action Goggle box

• Freddy'due south Nightmares — A weekly horror series with Freddy as the host.

Pinball

• Freddy: A Nightmare on Elm Street — A pinball automobile made past Gottlieb in 1994. The player must duel Freddy and survive each dark for a calendar week, culminating in finishing Freddy once and for all. Meanwhile, the histrion can notice souls of people Freddy has killed and liberate them from him by collecting them.

Tabletop Games

• A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Game (1987)
• A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Freddy Game (1989)
• Freddy vs. Jason Forest of Fear Game (2010)

Video Games

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES) — A platformer developed by Rare and published past LJN Toys.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (PC) — A Topdown View action game for computers.
• Mortal Kombat ix — Otherwise unrelated to the franchise, Freddy (Every bit depicted by Jackie Earl Haley) is a guest downloadable fighter, having 2 clawed gloves instead of one.
• Dead past Daylight — Like Mortal Kombat nine, Dead by Daylight also included Jackie Earl Haley's Freddy as a Invitee Killer forth with Kyle Gallner's character from the 2010 remake, Quentin Smith, as a new survivor and the Badham Preschool (too from the 2010 remake) as a new map.

A Nightmare On Elm Street is the Trope Namer for:

• Never Sleep Once again: It'southward how Freddy kills his victims.

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The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in general contains examples of the following tropes:

• Abandoned Hospital: A large portion of Westin Hills, until information technology gets renovated former earlier Freddy vs. Jason.
• Absurdly Sharp Bract: Peculiarly in dreamscapes, Freddy's blades are as sharp equally he wants them to exist, cutting flesh and bone with impossible ease. In Freddy'southward Revenge, he slices directly through both a teenager's torso and the door that was backside him.
• Achilles' Heel: Freddy is an all-powerful Reality Warper... but just in dreams. In the real world, he is as vulnerable to damage as any normal person, although he's nevertheless pretty resilient. The protagonists in the serial use this to their reward several times. In the original movie, Freddy uses it right back at Nancy, since her return to the real world where she tin defeat him turns out to yet be a dream.
• Activeness Girl: Most of the Final Girls become ane.
• Developed Fear: The very premise of the franchise is a nightmare to whatsoever parent — the possibility of your own child existence horribly assaulted and murdered past a psychopath in a manner that yous accept absolutely no way of protecting them from. And worse, this psychopath is supposed to be expressionless, because you and other parents took the law into your own hands after his string of child murders went unpunished due to a technicality.
• Adults Are Useless: Yous'd recall that by the fourth film, the adults and parents of Springwood would realize that something was awry well-nigh all these deaths but instead remain oblivious at all-time, or downright hostile jerks at worst. Ronee Blakely, the actress who played Nancy'south mother, has said they "verge on beingness villains". It'southward not until Freddy vs. Jason that they finally accept that Freddy is non just an urban legend. And even still, it took Freddy killing every child and teenager in town before they finally stopped conveying the Idiot Ball, even if information technology did result in leaving Springwood in an most totalitarian land.
• And I Must Scream: Freddy's victims are left in this country afterward he absorbs their souls.
• Asshole Victim: Motorcoach Schneider in Freddy'south Revenge, who'southward implied to be a rapist. And this trope is rare in the Nightmare movies, except Freddy vs. Jason, which is function Friday the 13th, which is the verbal opposite and follows this trope all the time. Even Freddy's foster father, Mr. Underwood, counts.
• Bounder Bastard: Freddy isn't called "the bastard son of a 100 maniacs" for nothing. He was conceived when dozens of insane inmates in a mental asylum raped his mother Amanda, a nun who was working in that location. Freddy was a child murderer in real life, and became a spectral nightmare killer afterward his death.
• Bedlam House: Westin Hills, originally.
• Big Bad: Freddy Krueger.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Freddy Krueger'southward blade-fingered glove started out this fashion, when he was still live and his glove was merely a homemade murder weapon. In dreams, it evolves into more than of a built-in weapon, which alternately appears on his hand whole when he sheds a disguise, or sends its blades springing out from his (or a puppet'due south, or a possessed boy's, etc) fingertips. In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, a scene is filmed in which Freddy amputates his hand and replaces it with a razor-tipped robotic version, but this chemical element doesn't seem to have carried over into the character'south subsequent appearances. Meet likewise Wolverine Claws.
• The Board Game: One of the many, many pieces of merchandise these movies gave nascence to.
• Broad Strokes: Freddy's Revenge and how information technology relates to the residue of the series. Its events are seemingly ignored in productions that followed - but elements introduced in that, such as Freddy retaining possession as a power and the Springwood Slasher nickname, appeared in the balance of the franchise, andDream Warriors even follows the timeline fix by information technology (Freddy's Revenge is five years subsequently the original,Dream Warriors is 6). Scenes from it are also used in the montages featured inFreddy's Dead andFreddy vs. Jason.
• Trunk Horror: Very common in the serial, both to Freddy himself (frequently for his ain amusement) and his victims.
• Bond One-Liner: Freddy Krueger, master of the bon mot.
• Burn the Undead: Post-expiry Freddy Krueger has been assail fire as a way to dispose of him more than than once. Whether he stays dead is another matter, merely information technology's definitely karmic given that this is the fashion he died in the offset place.
• Caffeine Failure: One of the later movies had a character actually eating coffee grinds in an attempt to stay awake and avert Freddy. It did not work, at all. Many characters through the franchise use a variety of stimulants to attempt and stay awake; they all neglect eventually. Truth in Television and central to Freddy'south unique brand of horror: the human trunk can merely be pushed so far before it must sleep, no matter what chemicals are dumped into it.
• Character Development: In the cases of Freddy, Nancy, Kristen, Alice, and Alice'southward father.
• Child by Rape: Freddy himself.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Inverted: the people of Springwood go on Freddy at bay by non thinking or speaking of him...well, at least not until Freddy VS Jason, anyway...
• Clothes Make the Legend: The red and green striped sweater, the fedora, and the pocketknife-glove that make up Freddy's trademark attire (indeed, when Freddy wants to mess with a victim's listen, he'll usually appear as a seemingly innocent person who'south notwithstanding wearing his trademark colors). The knife-glove was an invention of Freddy'south during his time as the Springwood Slasher.
• Color Dissimilarity: Freddy Krueger wears a red and green striped sweater every bit part of his signature outfit. Word Of God explained that this particular colour combination was chosen because Chicken read in an article that information technology's the one that the human middle has the most difficulty processing, thus calculation to Freddy'south unsettling appearance.
• Creepy Child: Young Freddy is shown to accept been pretty creepy himself in various flashbacks, and he loves to populate his nightmares with pale, creepy children who represent his old victims.
• Creepy Children Singing: The girls singing the "One, two, Freddy'due south coming for you" vocal while skipping rope.
• Crossover:
  • Freddy vs. Jason, in which Freddy meets Jason Voorhees from Fri the 13th.
  • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, in which Ash from Evil Dead is added to the mix.
  • Too, believe information technology or not, Freddy Vs DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince in "Nightmare on My Street." The duo recorded it for the motion-picture show, with Robert Englund providing dialogue (no, Freddy doesn't sing... only he does rap). It was rejected from the soundtrack, but they released it anyway, resulting in a lawsuit from New Line Movie theatre that forced them to destroy the master tapes of the song'due south music video. Or then everyone thought...

    You turned off David Letterman - now you must die!

  • Freddy versus the cast of Mortal Kombat in Mortal Kombat 9. Which, if you have the PS3 version, means Freddy versus Kratos. Cool vs. Crawly indeed.
  • In the Fan Film Freddy Vs Ghostbusters, Freddy is pitted against the Ghostbusters. The ghostbusters defeat Freddy, just Freddy wins in one of the alternate endings they shot, and does a Victory Dance.
• Crusty Caretaker: Pre-death Freddy.
  • Wes Craven appears as a crusty caretaker in Scream (1996), directly parodying Freddy.
  • Robert Englund himself has done the same, as an Actor Allusion on Basic.
• Dark Globe: Freddy's dream worlds often accept the form of abandoned, decaying versions of everyday life.
• Dead Unicorn Trope: In pop culture, Freddy is often referred to equally "The guy with the long fingernails", despite the first movie clearly pointing out that they're not fingernails, they're knives attached to a glove. Very rarely do other media find that he only has them on one mitt either. Freddy's Revenge, Dream Warriors, and New Nightmare don't help shoot down the misconception, since all three take scenes featuring Freddy sprouting blades directly from his fingers.
• Death past Irony: A specialty of Freddy'due south.
• Demon of Human Origin: Freddy Krueger'due south backstory involves being burnt by a lynch mob and, later dying, striking a bargain with 3 dream demons to return as an undead nightmare-controlling monster, apparently and so he could eventually impale the whole world.
• Diminishing Villain Threat: Freddy got less and less scary/menacing in the sequels, resorting to outright gimmicky and comical methods of doing in his victims in the later on movies. (New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason are generally regarded as exceptions.)
• Distressed Dude: The Concluding Girl'southward boyfriend tends to be this.
• Dream Intro: A regular occurrence. EVERY one of the films starts with the main character having a nightmare virtually Freddy before waking upward in a Catapult Nightmare right when he's nigh to kill them (because otherwise, it would patently be a pretty brusk movie). The but balmy exception is in the third 1, and that's only because the protagonist is awake for a few minutes before falling asleep. And in Freddy vs. Jason it's considering the moving-picture show opens with Freddy himself recapping his origins.
• Dream Land: This is particularly seen in the later films, where the children discover they can utilize hypnosis to enter the dream globe together and give themselves superpowers.
• Dream Weaver / Dream Walker: These tropes are what Freddy Krueger's powers ultimately boil down to, as he can enter dreams at will and alter them to his choosing.
• Dream Inside a Dream: Freddy loves screwing with people this manner.
• Driven to Suicide: Freddy'south mother, subsequently hearing virtually her son's release.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: Freddy Krueger is constantly making bad jokes. A lot of the fourth dimension, it keeps Freddy from being also scary, but other times, information technology just makes him even more than terrifying. When Freddy Krueger turns you into a roach and makes a bad issues-related pun, what are you going to do nearly it? Tell him he'due south non funny?
  • Upwards to Eleven in the reboot, where his bad puns are always related to terrifying yet mundane topics and things.
• Evil Makes You Monstrous: Freddy Krueger somehow managed to go an undead dream-habitation human monster merely by beingness really nasty to kids. Freddy's Dead reveals that he was given his powers upon dying by several nightmare demons.
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Freddy Krueger. It's partially justified since he was burned to expiry, but the bargain with the dream demons probably contributed to his ugly, disfigured look too.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In the first several films, Freddy spoke with a very deep, sinister vocalization (in the start film for instance, he sounds near demonic). It became less deep in later films equally Freddy became more comedic in general.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Helped by the fact that Robert Englund had a raspy voice to brainstorm with.
• Expanded Universe: Diverse novelizations and original novels, comics, a idiot box serial, a short stories drove, and ii video games.
• Extra Parent Conception: Freddy is called the bastard son of a hundred maniacs, bold that isn't hyperbole. In Nightmare five i of the maniacs is shown to look exactly like pre-death Freddy, hinting that this is in fact his biological begetter.
• Fantastic Drug: Hypnocil, the dream suppressant used in Dream Warriors and Freddy Vs Jason. The latter film suggests that prolonged utilise can put people into a coma, only Nancy took it for years between films 1 and 3 without evident side effects.
• Faux Affably Evil: Freddy. He's good at making a sardonic joke every now and so, but he'southward scary, at least partially because of it. This is more apparent in the sequels — in the first flick, he doesn't talk much.
• Flanderization: Freddy himself. Part of the appeal of the character for the outset couple of films was that unlike a lot of slasher motion picture killers, Freddy talked and would brand the occasional wisecrack to his victims as he kills them. Sadly, as the sequels progressed, the writers would make Freddy a literal wisecracking machine, with lame puns and other jokey dialogue. At the sixth motion picture, he was completely comical and only his killing characters and his scary-donkey look kept him from beingness dismissible as a joke. New Nightmare and Freddy vs. Jason reversed this reject, though Freddy vs. Jason notwithstanding features callbacks to past i-liners, such every bit referring to an African American daughter he kills every bit "Dark Meat" and playing pinball with Jason. According to interviews earlier its release, Freddy Vs Jason'south portrayal was intended every bit a sort of Adaptation Distillation. Using the wise-cracking nature of the later movies, but taking it to levels that they summed upwardly as "A ill dog".
• For the Evulz: Freddy doesn't have any motive for killing people beyond the fact that he finds information technology entertaining. However, the sixth moving picture suggests that his abusive foster male parent, along with several mean orphans, and the fact that his own female parent abandoned him at birth, had a hand in making him such a sadist, although his Child by Rape (of a nun, by 100 dissimilar psychopaths) origin implies that at to the lowest degree some of information technology was Villainous Lineage even beforehand. The remake tries to change this and brand his character slightly more of a monster than his original incarnation, adding to the fact is Freddy isn't given a big backstory in the remake.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Dissimilar subsequent films, the gloves for the starting time two movies were almost carbon copies in terms of design. In posters for the second picture, information technology's obvious that the blade on the index finger is broken near the "fingertip" and soldered back together, but if you suspension the beginning film at but the right spots, such every bit the reveal of the finished glove in the building sequence or the bathtub scene, yous can see that this was actually a feature of the start film'southward glove that carried over to the 2d pic.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Freddy Kreuger was originally a perfectly human being person, with no extra-normal abilities. Post-death, he became a borderline Reality Warper.
• Ghastly Ghost: One of the more famous examples of this trope is the franchise's main antagonist, Freddy Krueger, a burnt-skinned ghost who invades people's dreams to kill them in their sleep in a terrifying manner. He was a Serial Killer of children in life, and continues to spread fear and expiry as a spirit.
• Ghostly Goals: Freddy started out avenging his own expiry, simply after he succeeded, he decided to stick around and continue killing (he was, after all, a sadistic series killer fifty-fifty before he died; fifty-fifty with his revenge complete, he probably saw no existent reason to stop killing).
• A God Am I: Freddy has traits of this, especially in the dream world when he is a literal nightmare god.
• Gods Need Prayer Desperately: Freddy draws ability from the fear of his victims. The more than they fear him, the stronger he gets. Conversely, the less they fearfulness him, the less he's capable of affecting them.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • The dream demons, who gave Freddy his powers. They do make an appearance by mode of flashback in Freddy'southward Expressionless, but they are never directly involved in the plot.
  • Freddy himself fills this part in nearly of the television serial.
• Happy Ending Override: Equally a Villain-Based Franchise, it'south a given that Freddy volition render to menace the heroes again in a new entry, which makes the protagonist's efforts in previous entries largely worthless. However, the meanest example is without a dubiousness the Series Fauxnale Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, which is gear up later a ten-year Fourth dimension Skip after Alice's last run into with him. Past now Freddy has literally slaughtered every living child in Springwood and turned it into a Ghost Boondocks populated only be a few residents who have been driven to insanity by their grief, while planning to employ the final surviving teenager to spread his influence to the rest of the world.
• Healing Factor: One of Freddy'southward many powers in dreams.
• Holy Burns Evil: The jump rope vocal most Freddy Krueger implies Freddy can be affected by crucifixes ("Five, 6, catch your crucifix"), but no ane actively tries to apply them to repel him, though they exercise seem to make him nervous. In one movie, holy h2o and a crucifix were used to kill him off at the end, nonetheless. Justified as his power comes from a trio of Dream Demons, and considering he feeds off of fright, having organized religion he can't injure y'all if you lot take one would probably protect y'all from him.
• Hope Spot: Freddy loves these. The i at the end of the original motion picture is probably the most well-known. He lets Nancy believe that she actually defeated him and that her mother and friends are notwithstanding alive, and ii minutes later he reveals it was just a brutal illusion.
• Hurricane of Puns: In the latter films, Freddy often fabricated cheesy puns before killing his victims.
• Ironic Nursery Tune: The quoted nursery rhyme, a spring-rope vocal for the children of Elm Street that often puts in a creepy appearance in the dream earth as the prelude to Freddy'southward arrival.
• Jerkass: The majority of the parents throughout the movies are apathetic or simply downright calumniating towards their children, which is ironic because the reason Freddy was killed in the start place was considering the parents were trying to protect their kids from him. Their abusive tendencies vary, from Marge Thompson and Dennis Jordan'south alcoholism, Elaine Paker's neglect, Racine Gibson being a domineering Stage Mom, to the most extreme instance being Tracy's sexually abusive begetter whom she is implied to have killed in cocky-defense. Even Freddy himself dealt with jerkasses before his conversion into a series killer. Examples include other orphans, and the alcoholic Mr. Underwood.
• Carnal Licking: At that place's a scene in Suffer the Children that'south quite...agonizing.

  Freddy Krueger: "Come to Daddy, Peter... *starts licking Peter's face and rubbing information technology with his bleeding stump of a hand*

• Looks Like Orlok: Freddy Krueger'southward advent is somewhat based off of this. In fact, Robert Englund even one time stated that he based some of Freddy's movements on Orlok's.
• Brand Them Rot: Freddy does this to the main characters in the first story of The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams.
• Man on Burn: This is how Freddy Krueger died at the hands of the parents of Springwood.
• Manipulative Bastard: Freddy loves to distract and torture other people by appearing as their loved ones. Particularly in Freddy Vs. Jason, where he enters the dormant Jason'southward dreams and takes the form of Pamela Voorhees to revive Jason and become him to go wreak havoc in Springwood, all in an attempt to regain the power to kill over again.
• Motive Decay: Subverted; after slaughtering the children of the parents of Springwood responsible for killing him, the film franchise changes Freddy's motives to collecting souls to increase his powers, occasionally trying to find a way to transfer his powers into the real globe, and sometimes just killing for the sake of killing. By Freddy'south Dead, he becomes an Omnicidal Maniac, intending to impale the children in every town in the world he can spread to. This really makes sense, every bit he was a psychopath in life who delighted in killing children in the first place. It's a perfectly valid take that his Revenge motive was ever aught more than than an excuse.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: A running joke in the series is that Freddy's powers are pretty much limitless, as far as changing from moving-picture show to flick. It does brand sense notwithstanding. Since Freddy has finer become the rex of nightmares, his powers in the dreamscape would be virtually unlimited. On the rare occasions he manifests in the "real" world, he generally gets his ass kicked (most notably, at the cease of the kickoff film).
• Squeamish Hat: Freddy's fedora, of form.
• Virtually-Invulnerability: Freddy Krueger is a combination of Fighting a Shadow and in some movies The Proxy. He can be pulled out of the dream world, and then either made to disappear, or with opening an old-fashioned can of whoopass. Freddy'southward Dead states that every time he is killed, he will be resurrected by the dream demons who gave him his powers in the beginning identify.
• Nightmare Dreams: Freddy's modus operandi.
• Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Chalk-drawings of Freddy by dead children announced twice in the series (The Dream Master and Freddy'due south Dead: The Last Nightmare).
• Not Sequitur Environs: The Dream Worlds oft don't brand logical sense, easily segueing from one unconnected environment into another. A beach could be sitting on top of an Old, Night House, a police station transitions into a graveyard, or a shed could open into Freddy's hellish lair.
• Off on a Technicality: The police failed to get the search warrant for Freddy'south home properly signed off, which prompted the parents of Springwood to kill Freddy on their ain; this mistake was famous enough to be critiqued in the column "The Law Is An Ass". Averted in the remake, where the parents skipped the authorities and immediately went afterwards him.
• Omnicidal Bedlamite: Freddy Krueger started out as a Series Killer, but he became fifty-fifty worse over time. He was e'er a sadist, but at outset he pretended to want revenge for his death at the hands of a lynch mob until he simply dropped all pretense and continued killing when this goal was already completed. With nothing to end him, he eventually murders every child in Springwood and drives their distraught parents to utter madness. Subsequently the entire boondocks is destroyed, he just creates another "Elm Street" in a neighbouring city and admits that he intends to repeat this until literally everyone is dead.
• Our Liches Are Different: Freddy is technically a sort of "astral lich". He would definitely qualify as a powerful sorcerer, and his appearance only screams "undead". As well, killing him tends to involve some rather unusual methods, about frequently dragging him onto our airplane, and, even then, nobody has e'er managed to kill him permanently. An easier parallel is that Freddy is some sort of ghost or a demon (he is in service to nightmare demons later on all).
• Primal Fear: The whole idea behind this series was to make a film and boogeyman who is a compendium of all the primal fears that are known to be the subject of nightmares for people in every unmarried part of the earth (drowning, falling, beingness chased and finding yourself unable to run away, being eaten alive, being forced to lookout helplessly as a friend or loved 1 is victimized, etc.), and actually uses those nightmares to get to them. The only universal nightmare that seems left out is end-of-the-world dreams. That might be because, equally Freddy'due south tied to the dream world itself, its catastrophe is his key fearfulness.
• Pungeon Master: This is basically Freddy's trademark.
• Reality Warper: Freddy's a complete reality warper in the dream world, irresolute the setting, the laws of physics and his own nature at volition. He can as well subtly influence waking reality, and becomes better at it throughout the sequels.
• Red/Green Contrast: Wes Craven had read that blood-red and greenish are the two virtually difficult colors for the homo eye to see when placed correct side by side to each other, so he gave Freddy the iconic red-and-green stripped sweater to make his advent that much more cardinal disturbing.
• Resurrective Immortality: Freddy Krueger is killed several times by the heroes, but he returns each time. The dream demons who are the source of his powers promised him that he would indefinitely resurrect no matter what anyone does to him. He even boasts about it.

  Freddy: In dreams. I. Am. FOREVER! (from Freddy's Dead)

• Revenge past Proxy: Freddy Krueger, a child killer who was executed vigilante-style past the parents of Elm Street, decides to get revenge on them through their nevertheless-living children through their dreams.
• Prophylactic Man: Stretching limbs are one of Freddy's many powers.
• Sequel Hook / The Cease... Or Is It?: Every film simply Freddy's Dead and New Nightmare.
• Sealed Good in a Tin can: With Freddy beingness the tin can. Everyone he kills in the dreamworld, their soul gets captivated into him, enhancing his forcefulness of power. Alice manages to complimentary them completely in Dream Master, as does Jacob in Dream Child, but Refrigerator Horror comes into play when you realize the possibility that all the other characters from the previous movies Freddy has killed... they've been stuck inside him ever since. This gets doubled when you think nearly everyone he killed prior to the commencement of Freddy'southward Expressionless. If he was strong enough to be able to warp reality and erase the retentivity of someone from the globe...
• Self-Mutilation Demonstration: Freddy does this a few times in the series, mostly just to horrify his victims. In the first moving picture, for instance, he says "Watch this!" to Tina earlier lopping off ii fingers, leering at her as dark-green "blood" sprays from the stumps. Later on, he answers Nancy's "What are you?" by cutting into his own chest, spilling green pus and worms instead of blood. In the 2d motion picture, he emphasizes his "You've got the trunk, I've got the brain" line past peeling back the pare on his own skull. In the sixth, he cuts off his fingers (again) while counting the ways people take tried and failed to put him down for expert.
• Serial Killer: Freddy Krueger, both in life (as the Springwood Slasher) and the afterlife. Made even worse considering he targets children, and later teens as they've grown up since his death.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Freddy possesses near-limitless shapeshifting abilities in the dream world, regularly using it to impersonate other people or even inanimate objects. While he can assume any form he desires, he prefers to appear equally his post-expiry burnt self, presumably to scare his victims. His "real" form, if any, are his skeletal remains.
• Sinister Scraping Sound: Freddy loves to scrape his blades across the pipes and walls of his banality room dreamscape, unnerving his victims with the screeching audio and sparks.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Freddy originally wanted vengeance upon the parents who killed him for killing their kids... by killing the rest of the kids of Springwood.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Information technology actually seems to exist a bit of a running gag that Mood Whiplash music plays over the credits of every installment.
• Staying Alive: Freddy Krueger, total terminate. They've come upwardly with a massive amount of ways to kill him off, like setting him on burn down (once more), digging upwardly and consecrating his bones, freeing all the captured souls from his body, sticking an explosive up his stomach, wiping out every memory of him... it doesn't affair, he always finds a style to resurrect himself.
• Take That!: Freddy is named after a groovy that tormented Wes Craven as a kid.
• This Is for Accent, Bowwow!: Freddy is a big fan of the B-discussion and loves to punctuate his sentences with information technology.
• Took a Level in Badass: Pretty much all the heroines, but especially Alice Johnson and Lori Campbell. Lampshaded in nearly every pic. Mark turns into his superhero creation, Rick shows master karate skills, Taryn dreams she's a punk biker chick...and none of this does anything to stop Freddy.
• Torture Cellar: The boiler room.
• Villain-Based Franchise: Freddy Krueger is the only character who recurs in all of the installments.
• Villain Exclusivity Clause: Freddy Krueger tries to kill horny teens in their dreams in all of the installments.
• Vocal Development: In the first film, Freddy's voice starts out closer to Robert Englund's natural speaking voice for a good chunk of it. Near halfway through it starts becoming deeper, and past the finish he regularly speaks in the trademark deep-throated growl he's known for talking in.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Freddy Krueger is a principal shapeshifter through his dream powers. His favorite utilise of this is to impersonate his victims' loved ones or other related people so he can scar them emotionally before killing them, like actualization as a teenager's murdered brother in Freddy vs. Jason or as a girl's sexually abusive begetter in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
• Was One time a Man: Freddy Krueger. Once a homo series killer, he turned into something resembling a nightmare ghost/demon subsequently his death.
• Weaker in the Real World: Freddy may be all-powerful and unstoppable in the Dream State, but if his victims manage to pull him into the real earth, he'southward reduced to his human self.
• Wolverine Claws: Freddy's primary weapon is a glove with blades attached to each finger. This is so iconic that for people who aren't superhero comic fans, this trope could have been named "Freddy Claws".
• Would Hurt a Child: Prior to Freddy Krueger'due south expiry past fire, he was a serial killer who targeted little kids. In fact, Freddy vs. Jason opened with him murdering a little girl in his boiler room. In that location's a Gory Discretion Shot as nosotros hear her scream, but much later the girl appears in Concluding Girl Lori's dreams with her optics gouged out.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: If you're killed in a dream past Freddy, you die in reality. This applies no matter how outlandish or ridiculous the mode of expiry is in the dream, though Freddy does take control over which injuries carry over into reality (for instance, a boy inverse into a gruesome living marionette merely seems to have jumped to his death in the real globe, while Kincaid was stabbed, but is completely unscathed in the real world).
• Your Soul is Mine!: Freddy grows stronger with each soul he claims, making him a one-villain Sorting Algorithm of Evil. This is best exemplified in Nightmare four, in which Freddy conjures a pizza filled with the faces of his previous victims. Remarking that he loves "soul food", he promptly devours 1 in front of Alice. It's her brother Rick.

  Freddy: You've got their power, I've got their souls. Come up on!

• Your Worst Nightmare: These movies are probably the best case of this trope, with hapless teenagers existence tormented and slaughtered by the dream-walking, One-Liner-spouting psycho-killer Freddy Krueger.

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This is a dream. He's backside you.

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