A Nightmare on Elm Street: Difference between revisions

 

 

''Nine, ten; never sleep again'' |'''The song of the series'''}}

 

* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: Alice can absorb the abilities of her fallen friends, leading to her becoming something of a martial arts-wielding [[Gadgeteer Genius]]. This also means she [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|instantly knows when someone's died]]. These abilities are suspiciously absent from the sequel "The Dream Master" though it is heavily implied that her unborn child's own supernatural powers have rendered her's useless.

* [[Alone with the Psycho]]: For the most part, Freddy specializes in battling people one-on-one in their dreams. Even when people have conjoined dreams, he tends to isolate the weakest person [[Analogy Backfire|like a]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlL2R4cQao lion with some zebras]. It was best presented in part 4...

'''Freddy''': "And now you're all ALONE." }}

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Jesse Walsh (the actor who portrayed him is actually gay in real life).

* [[Auto Cannibalism]]: The uncut version of the fifth movie reveals that the stuff Freddy is force feeding Greta is her own innards.

* [[Badass Boast]]: Freddy has had a couple including this little gem:

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Freddy is wearing one in ''New Nightmare''.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Nancy Thompson in the original film.

* [[Broad Strokes]]: ''Freddy's Revenge'' and how it relates to the rest of the series.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Freddy to a hapless victim in [[The Remake]]:

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The death of Glen in the original film.

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: Freddy Krueger, master of the bon mot.

* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: The red and green striped sweater, the fedora, and the knife-glove that make up Freddy's trademark attire (indeed, when Freddy wants to mess with a victim's mind, he'll usually appear as a seemingly innocent person who's nonetheless wearing his trademark colors). The knife-glove was an invention of Freddy's during his time as the Springwood Slasher.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The Remake:

* [[Colon Cancer]]: The full name of the [[Recycled: the Series]] is ''[[Freddy's Nightmares]]: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series''.

* [[Composite Character]]: Nancy Holbrook of the remake appears to be a combination of Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.

** ''[[Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash]]''

** Also, believe it or not, Freddy VS DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-56CNh5S7GU Nightmare On My Street]. Will Smith recorded the single as a gag, with Robert Englund providing dialogue. No, Freddy doesn't sing...but he does rap.

** [[Mortal Kombat 9|Freddy Versus the cast of Mortal Kombat]]. Which, if you have the Ps3 version, means Freddy Versus [[God of War (series)|Kratos]]. [[So Cool Its Awesome]] indeed.

* [[Crusty Caretaker]]: Pre-death Freddy.

** He tries it again in ''The Dream Child'', this time to ''an unborn child''.

** In the same film, he briefly possesses {{spoiler|Dan's corpse}} to taunt Alice.

* [[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]].

* [[Leather Man]]: Coach Schneider in ''Freddy's Revenge''.

* [[Lecherous Licking]]: Freddy wags his tongue out at Nancy in the first movie and does the same to Sheila in ''The Dream Master'' shortly before he kills her. There is also a scene in ''Suffer the Children'' that's quite...disturbing.

* [[Level Up]]: Freddy {{spoiler|get more powerful with each person he kills.}}

** Freddy, toying with Mark in part 5, plays dead before levelling up in the guise of Super Freddy!

* [[Now I Know What to Name Him]]: ''The Dream Child''

* [[Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep]]: In the fourth movie:

'''Alice Johnson''': Evil will see itself, and it shall die! }}

* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: Sister Mary Helena. {{spoiler|Justified because she really is a ghost.}}

* [[Smith Will Suffice]]: Happens in both the original and remake.

** Original:

'''Freddy:''' ''This'' (holds up claw glove)...is God! }}

** Remake:

'''Freddy Krueger''': No. Just me. }}

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: In the remake the end credits roll over "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by the Everly Brothers.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: Used many times throughout the series (and ''Freddy VS Jason''), mainly by Freddy.

** Combined with an [[Ironic Echo]] at the climax of the remake.

* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: [[Death by Sex|Tina]] sort of does this to Freddy Krueger right before she dies. The "Sort Of" is there because Freddy let it happen to make himself even scarier, and it doesn't take.

* [[Teleport Spam]]: A scene in ''The Dream Child'' has Freddy essentially "flickering" down a hallway.

* [[Welcome to The Real World]]: ''New Nightmare'' did this.

* [[Wham! Line]]: In ''Freddy's Dead''

'''Freddy''': Oh. Do you think ''I'm'' your daddy? Mm-mm! Wrong! }}

* [[Yandere]]: Played straight by Freddy himself in the remake towards Nancy. While he intends to kill all the children for {{spoiler|telling their parents he molested them}} he saves Nancy for [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|something worse]], because as her mother admitted, she's ''his favorite one of all''.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: If you're killed in a dream by Freddy, you die in reality. This applies no matter how outlandish or ridiculous the manner of death is in the dream, though Freddy does have control over which injuries carry over into reality (for instance, a boy changed into a gruesome living marionette merely seems to have jumped to his death in the real world, while Kincaid was stabbed, but is completely unscathed in the real world).

* [[Your Soul Is Mine]]: Freddy grows stronger with each soul he claims, making him a one-villain [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]].

 

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