35 Facts About Freddy Kruger

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

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

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Freddy Kruger 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Freddy Kruger's mother, Amanda Krueger, was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film.

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

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Freddy Kruger 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.

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Freddy Kruger 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.

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13.

Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy Kruger 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.

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

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15.

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

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16.

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

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

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18.

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

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19.

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

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20.

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

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21.

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

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22.

Freddy Kruger 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.

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Freddy Kruger'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.

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24.

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

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In New Nightmare, Freddy Kruger'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.

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26.

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

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27.

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

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

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Freddy Kruger 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.

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

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31.

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

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32.

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

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33.

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

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34.

Freddy Kruger Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One.

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35.

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

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