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[[File:freddy-krueger-wih-chain.jpg|frame|The Bastard Son of 100 Maniacs, The Springwood Slasher, The Man of Your Dreams.]]
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''Five, six; grab a crucifix''
''Seven, eight; gonna stay up late''
''Nine, ten; never sleep again''
|'''The song of the series'''}}
{{quote|''If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.''|'''Tagline of the first movie'''}}
''[[A Nightmare
The films in the series are, in order:
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Directed by Wes Craven and starring Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, the film is considered by many to be a classic horror film. Due to the popularity of the original film, sequels were made. [[Sequelitis|Many sequels.]]
''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2021.
'''''A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge''''' (1985)
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* [[Eighties Hair]]: Especially Nancy.▼
* [[3D Movie]]: ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare''.
* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: A large portion of Westin Hills, until it gets renovated sometime before ''Freddy vs. Jason''.
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Freddy vowed revenge on the parents who burned him by killing their kids just because they killed him so he couldn't hurt them in the first place. Who are we kidding? Freddy would've done what he's done even if he wasn't set ablaze. The only thing that burning Freddy did was free him from his mortal existence so he could become a nightmare god. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Way to go, parents]].
** Also done in the remake, except this time, he goes after the kids [[The Stool Pigeon|because they were the ones who told their parents what he was doing]].
* [[Double Standard]]: In the remake, it is made very clear that all of the kids were molested by Freddy. "You're gonna pay for what you did to my son!" and other lines. But the film only shows Freddy taunting and flirting with the girls, and at no point did Quentin seem to blink at the realization of "hey, ''I'' was raped too!" But if you think about it, there is a reason for his attitude towards Quentin, compared to the others. Nancy was always Freddy's 'favoritie', so when he learned about Nancy and Quentin's feelings for each other, he got [[
** More than likely Freddy only raped the girls and that it was just assumed that he raped Quentin and other boys.
*** Pedophiles in [[Real Life]] sometimes exchange kiddie porn with one another in secret. Possibly Freddy took dirty pictures of the boys to trade for similar photos of girls.
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* [[Dream Within a Dream]]: Freddy loves screwing with people this way.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Freddy's mother, after hearing about her son's release.
▲* [[Eighties Hair]]: Especially Nancy.
* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: Played straight in the remake when {{spoiler|you find out all the victims went to the same preschool that Freddy worked at in life}}.
** Also justified. {{spoiler|Freddy only went after those particular kids ''because'' they went to school together.}}
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* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Nancy gets her [[Skunk Stripe]] when she brings Freddy's hat from the dream world.
* [[Losing Your Head]]: Mrs. Parker in Kristen's dream in ''Dream Warriors''.
* [[Lucid Dream]]: The whole movie series centers around this and Freddy Krueger, who can enter his victims' dreams and manipulate them.
** ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' centers around a psychiatrist's efforts to help a bunch of teens learning how to use their dreaming to fight him.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: ''Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' reveals that {{spoiler|Freddy had a daughter named Katherine, who thankfully looks nothing like him.}}
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: Joey in ''Dream Warriors''.
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* [[Nice Hat]]: The fedora, of course.
** Nancy has one at the funeral scene in ''Dream Warriors''.
* [[Nigh 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 [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|in a puff of logic]], blown up with a pipe bomb shoved into his stomach, or, if the [[Final Girl]] is a [http://www.khurak.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/monica-keena3.jpg hot little blonde from Brooklyn]{{Dead link}} who's [[Took a Level in Badass|taken a level in badass]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|decapitated with a fucking machete]].
* [[Nightmare Dreams]]: Freddy's modus operandi.
* [[No Time to Explain]]: Nancy has a dream that she's seeing {{spoiler|her friend Rod}} being killed in the jail cell he's in. She wakes up and gets Glen (Johnny Depp) to accompany her to the police station. They join up at Nancy's house and run to the police station. Nancy waits until they're entering the police station to tell Glen that she doesn't have any time to explain. What could they have been discussing the rest of the way there that was more important than the fact that {{spoiler|Rod Lane}} was being killed?
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** Its actually seems to be a bit of a running gag that [[Mood Whiplash]] music plays over the credits of every installment.
* [[Spin-Off]]: Freddy had his own TV show. Um...yay? ''New Nightmare'' could count as well, since it's set in a different continuity from the rest of the series.
** For that matter, the show had a [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912234951/http://nightmareonelmstreetmovie.com/1-900-909-fred 1-900 number] which taunted children to call... [[Schmuck Bait|if they dared]].
* [[Start of Darkness]]: The barrage of flashbacks at the end of ''Freddy's Dead'' serve this purpose.
* [[The Stoner]]: Spencer in ''Freddy's Dead'', Freeburg in ''Freddy VS Jason''.
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{{quote|'''John Doe''': I know why you let me go.
'''Freddy''': Oh. Do you think ''I'm'' your daddy? Mm-mm! Wrong!}}
* [[
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Spencer's response to Tracy's bitchiness in ''Freddy's Dead''.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Carlos in ''Freddy's Dead''.
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{{AFI's 100 Years 100 Heroes and Villains}}
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