Freddy Krueger

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
film & TV series (1984-)

Freddy Krueger is an undead serial killer who can attack his victims supernaturally from within their own dreams when they are asleep. Freddy is commonly identified by his burnt disfigured face, red and green striped sweater, brown fedora hat, and trademark metal-clawed leather glove. His full name is Frederick Charles Krueger.

Freddy Krueger's origin begins with a tragic incident involving his mother in the early 1940s. During a Christmas holiday, a young nun named Sister Mary Helena (a.k.a Amanda Krueger) was accidentally trapped inside one ward of the Westin Hills psychiatric hospital. Known as "The Tower", this ward was used to house the very worst of the criminally insane. Over the course of several days, Amanda was repeatedly brutalized by The Tower's one hundred inmates. She was eventually discovered, close to death, when the ward was re-opened at the conclusion of the holidays. As a result of the repeated rapes she had endured she was also now pregnant. Frederick Charles Krueger was born months later after a breech birth and was given up for adoption. Krueger was later placed with an abusive alcoholic named Mr. Underwood who abused him physically and emotionally. As a child, Freddy exhibited sociopathic behavior, which included killing small animals. Socially, he was often ridiculed by his peers. In his late teens, Freddy practiced self-mutilation; learning the "secret of pain", he murdered Underwood.

In adulthood, Krueger would go on to marry Loretta, with whom he would have his daughter Kathryn Krueger. The Krueger family resided in Freddy's childhood home at 1428 Elm Street. Kathryn was still a child when children from the neighborhood went missing and were later found dead. Soon after, Loretta learned that in the basement of the house, Freddy had a secret room where he kept devices of torture, newspaper clippings of his crimes, and different versions of his clawed glove. Promising that "she won't tell" she was strangled by Freddy in front of Kathryn, "for snooping in daddy's special work". Krueger worked at the local power plant, and it was there where he had taken and murdered twenty missing neighborhood children; killing them in the plant's boiler room. The police were unable to solve the cases and newspapers dubbed the mysterious killer the "Springwood Slasher".

In 1966, Freddy was arrested for the murders of the missing children. Young Kathryn was put into foster care and was later adopted. Due to the search warrant not being signed correctly, all evidence was considered inadmissible, and Krueger was released in 1968. Amanda Krueger, who had followed Freddy's trial, heard of his release and hanged herself in the tower where she was raped. The neighborhood parents of the children Freddy had murdered found him in his boiler room later that night and threw Molotov cocktails in the building, trapping Freddy within. Just moments before his death, Freddy was approached by three dream demons. These demons search the mortal world for the most evil soul and, in turn, give that person the power to turn dreams into reality. Freddy accepted their offer to "be forever" as the flames consumed him. Afterward, Freddy's remains were taken to Penny Brothers Auto Salvage and locked in the trunk of an old red Cadillac. Presumably to help erase Krueger's existence, young Kathryn was taken away from Springwood and her records were sealed.

SUMMARY

ARCH RIVAL :	The children of the adults who burned him alive.
STRENGTHS :	As long as his victims were dreaming, Krueger could inhabit and control their dreams, corrupting them as he saw fit. Any physical harm done to the person in their dream world would carry over into the real world, allowing him to easily commit multiple murders. Krueger often toyed with his victims by changing his form and surroundings, usually resembling the place where he brought his child victims - the boiler room. He also has the power to manipulate or possess any object or part of the dream environment not kept exclusively on the person of his victim at all times after initial creation. His powers were increase depending on how many knew and feared his existence as well as how many souls were in his current possession. At the height of his powers, he could cause severe damage in the real world. This included possession of humans, his corpse, objects or animals or even literally pulling a victim from the waking world into the dream world. In a person's own dream, Krueger could also look into their minds and use their deepest fears and personality against them, at times taking the image of those he'd previously slain to help lure emotionally upset friends/relatives to their demise.
WEAKNESSES :	If one of Freddy's victims wakes up while they're touching him in the dream world, he can be carried into the real world where he is still superhumanly strong and durable, but can be wounded.
WEAPONS :	He can change things and objects to suit him in peoples dreams.
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