45 Facts About Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series.

Freddy Krueger goes on to murder his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well.

However, whenever Freddy Krueger is pulled back into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.

Freddy Krueger is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather, right hand glove.

In 2010, Freddy Krueger was nominated for the award for Best Villain at the Scream Awards.

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Freddy Krueger is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant was not signed in the right place.

Freddy Krueger is hunted down by a mob made up of the town's vengeful parents and cornered in the boiler room.

Freddy Krueger is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson, but the last scene reveals that he has survived.

Freddy Krueger goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the film's sequels, including Jesse Walsh, Kristen Parker, Alice Johnson, and Lori Campbell .

When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Freddy Krueger was regarded as "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs" due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father.

However, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, it is implied that Freddy Krueger had identified which one of them was his birth father and hates his mother for rejecting him.

Freddy Krueger tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child.

Freddy Krueger has a daughter, Katherine, who seeks to end her father's horrific legacy once and for all, killing him at the end of the movie.

Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy Krueger throughout the film series and its television spin-off, took the role as a fictional version of himself in New Nightmare; it is implied that Englund was stalked by his character, who is an ancient demonic entity that took on the form of Wes Craven's creation and has come to life from the film franchise's fictitious world.

Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy is darker and more evil than as portrayed by him in the films; he struggles to keep his sanity intact from Krueger's torments and goes into hiding with his family.

Freddy Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made, eliminating the films' crew members, including Langenkamp's husband, Chase Porter, after stealing a prototype bladed glove from him, and causes nightmares and makes threatening phone calls to producer Robert Shaye.

Freddy Krueger sees Langenkamp as his primary foe because her character Nancy Thompson was the first to defeat him.

Langenkamp, with help from her son Dylan, succeeds in defeating the entity and apparently destroys him; however, Freddy Krueger's creator reveals that it is again imprisoned in the fictitious world, indicated by the character's later appearances in films and other medias.

In 2003, Freddy Krueger battled fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th film series in the theatrical release Freddy Krueger vs Jason, a film which officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and subsequently sent them to Hell.

Freddy Krueger's power comes from his prey's memories and emotions upon remembering the abuse they suffered at his hands.

In "No More, Mr Nice Guy", though Freddy Krueger's case seems open and shut, a mistrial is declared based on the arresting officer, Lt.

The episode reveals that Freddy Krueger used an ice cream van to lure children close enough so that he could kidnap and kill them.

Freddy Krueger gets his revenge when Blocker is put under anesthesia at the dentist's office, and Freddy Krueger shows up and kills him.

Season two's "It's My Party And You'll Die If I Want You To" featured Freddy Krueger attacking a high school prom date who stood him up 20 years earlier.

Freddy Krueger gets his revenge with his desire being fulfilled in the process.

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Wes Craven said his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep.

Freddy Krueger must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face.

In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy Krueger is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient and is given more stature and muscles.

Freddy Krueger's guilt is confirmed once the grown survivors find the room where Krueger molested them.

Freddy Krueger wears a striped red-and-green sweater, a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers, and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue collar background.

Freddy Krueger's skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off.

Freddy Krueger's blood is occasionally a dark, oily color, or greenish in hue when he is in the Dreamworld.

In New Nightmare, Freddy Krueger's appearance is updated considerably, giving him a green fedora that matches his sweater stripes, skin-tight leather pants, knee-high black boots, a turtleneck version of his trademark sweater, a blue-black trench coat, and a fifth claw on his glove, which has a far more organic appearance, resembling the exposed muscle tissue of an actual hand.

Freddy Krueger has fewer burns on his face, though these are more severe, with his muscle tissue exposed in numerous places.

Freddy Krueger's glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside of a toolshed.

At Six Flags St Louis' Fright Fest event, Freddy Krueger was the main character for the event's first year in 1988.

Freddy Krueger reappeared in his own haunted house, Freddy's Nightmare: The Haunted House on Elm Street, for the following two years.

Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 and again with Jason during Halloween Horror Nights 25 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood.

In 2016, Freddy Krueger returned to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood.

Freddy Krueger made different appearances in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green.

Freddy Krueger ultimately was stopped by Maggie plugging his bagpipe spider form, causing him to uncontrollably inflate and detonate within the dream world, though it is implied in the ending this resulted in him being restored to life in reality, albeit significantly less threatening.

Freddy Krueger appeared as a downloadable playable character for Mortal Kombat, with Robert Englund reprising his role.

Freddy Krueger has become the second non-Mortal Kombat character to appear in the game.

In October 2017, the Jackie Earle Haley incarnation of Freddy Krueger was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight, alongside Quentin Smith.

Freddy Krueger is among the avatars seen on the PVP location Planet Doom where he is shot by Aech.

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