Freddy Krueger

Vital Stats

Name

Freddy Krueger

Age

39 (Part 1)

44 (Part 2)
45 (Part 3)
46 (Part 4)
47 (Part 5)
57 (Part 6)
61 (Freddy vs Jason)

Hair

Brown (Formerly)

None

Occupation

Dream Demon
Serial killer
Power plant technician (former)

Family

Amanda Krueger (mother)
Mr. Underwood (adoptive father)
Loretta Krueger (ex-wife)
Maggie Burroughs (daughter)

First Seen

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) KILL COUNT

Last Seen

Freddy vs Jason vs Ash: The Nightmare Warriors (2009) KILL COUNT

Cause of Death

Burned alive by multiple parents (Human)
Blown up by pipe bomb
Arm ripped off by Jason Voorhees, decapitated by Lori Campbell
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Final Final Nightmare (Shot by Ash)

Status

Deceased

Time of Death

Nationality

American

Freddy Krueger is the main antagonist of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, along with Freddy vs. Jason and the Freddy vs Jason vs Ash dulology. He has appeared in every movie in the franchise, and has made several out-of-movie appearances in TV and games.

Biography

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The original film, a child murderer named Freddy Krueger begins killing the teens of Springwood, Ohio in their nightmares with his motives being they are the descendants of the parents who burned him alive when he avoided prison due to a technicality. Nancy defeats Freddy in the real world by turning her back on him and weakening him by no longer being afraid.

Freddy's Revenge

In this film, Freddy possesses a teenager named Jesse Walsh in order to kill in the real world, the only time in the franchise this happens outside of flashbacks. Freddy is killed when Jesse is able to fight back and regain control of his body due to Lisa's love for him.

Dream Warriors

Freddy begins attacking more of the Elm Street descendants at Westin Hills where Nancy Thompson comes in as a specialist. The teens (Kincaid, Kristen, Taryn, Will and Joey) all possess dream powers that help them fight back against Freddy. The film establishes more of Freddy's backstory, notably being the bastard son of 100 maniacs when a nun named Amanda Krueger is raped at the asylum. Nancy is killed when Freddy manipulates her by posing as her dead father and Freddy is killed when Dr. Gordon lays Freddy's remains to rest.

The Dream Master

Freddy is resurrected and kills the last three remaining Elm Street descendants of the parents who burned him alive (Joey, Kincaid and Kristen) but when Kristen's dream pulling powers are absorbed into both Freddy and Alice, Freddy is able to resume his killing spree with a new generation of Elm Street children. Freddy is killed when Alice uses the "Dream Master" rhyme to cause the souls within Freddy to rip him apart from the inside.

The Dream Child

Freddy begins using the dreams of Alice's unborn child, Jacob, to commit more murders while also feeding Jacob souls to make him just like Freddy. Freddy is killed when he is reduced back into his infant state by Jacob and absorbed back into Amanda's body.

Freddy's Dead

All the teens in Springwood are dead minus an amnesiac named John Doe, who Freddy uses to find his daughter (Maggie Burroughs). More of Freddy's backstory is established in this film from his childhood, teen years, his deal with the Dream Demons for immortality as well as the murder of his wife in front of Maggie when she finds his murder weapons. Freddy is killed when Maggie pulls him into the real world and blows him to pieces with a pipe bomb.

New Nightmare

The Freddy in this film is an ancient, evil entity rather than the Freddy we know and love since the film has no continuity with the previous six films. The entity takes the form of Freddy after the Nightmare on Elm Street series has concluded and attempts to merge the fantasy world with reality.

Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy summons Jason to begin a killing spree in Springwood so that he can get credit for the murders because he is weakened now that nobody fears him anymore. However, when Freddy gets his strength back, Jason is still killing victims which pisses off Freddy when Jason kills Gibb just as Freddy was about to kill her in the dream world. The slashers eventually duke it out at Camp Crystal Lake where Freddy is decapitated by the final girl, Lori after Freddy is mortally wounded by Jason with his own severed glove arm.

Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash

Set on December 2008, 5 years after the events of the film Freddy vs. Jason and 16 years after the end of Army of Darkness, Will Rollins and Lori Campbell (the former protagonists from Freddy vs Jason) returning to Crystal Lake to put closure to their experience, but Jason kills them a short while after and takes their decomposed corpses to his shack in the woods nearby. There, Jason enters a trance, and Freddy and Jason's "mother" Pamela appear to him. Freddy Krueger is now trapped, powerless inside the mind of Jason Voorhees, where he learns of the Necronomicon hidden in the old Voorhees home, with the power to resurrect him. He and Jason's mother (false Pamela Voorhees) convince Jason that if he gets the Necronomicon, Jason will become "a real boy". Meanwhile, Ash Williams is called to the new Crystal Lake S-Mart to give his retail expertise to its team of teenage slacker employees. While there, he interprets a nearby Jason murder as work of the Deadites. Later, he follows a group of teens to the Voorhees house where he finds the Necronomicon before Jason appears, killing the teens.

At the S-Mart, Ash and the employees begin to make a plan to deal with Jason; however, he ends up killing mostly everyone in the store and escaping with the evil book. Freddy uses the Necronomicon to restore himself to full power and increase Jason's intelligence. Later when Ash and the survivors sleep at Carolyn's house, they are confronted by Freddy in their dreams. Ash and his motley crew of S-Mart employees confront Freddy and Jason at the Voorhees home where Freddy has already unleashed the full power of the Necronomicon, giving him reality-altering abilities. With his new intelligence, Jason turn against Freddy, attempting to steal the Necronomicon and use it's powers for himself.

In a final confrontation between the three horror movie icons, Freddy resurrects all of Jason's previous victims from the Friday the 13th films as Deadites to attack him and Ash, and turns the Voorhees home into the Elm Street house. Ultimately, Ash defeats both villains with help from his coworkers, and uses the Necronomicon to open a portal, banishing Freddy to the Deadite world while Jason and the Necronomicon itself are isolated underneath a frozen Crystal Lake.

Victims

Note: For the victims of the Freddy Krueger Entity and the Remake Freddy, please check their respective pages here (Freddy Krueger Entity and Freddy Krueger (Remake)).