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'''''Wes Craven's New Nightmare''''' (1994)
[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|As you can tell]], Wes Craven returns to the franchise for the third time, writing and directing this meta picture; unlike the other films, this one is set in the real world, where Freddy is nothing more than a fictional horror icon. After Craven starts developing ideas for a new installment in the terminated franchise, [[Ultimate Evil|an ancient evil]], [[Sealed Evil in
'''''[[Freddy
Stuck in [[Development Hell]] for years, the crossover between Freddy and fellow horror legend [[Friday the 13th (
'''''A Nightmare on Elm Street''''' (2010)
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* [[Eighties Hair]]: Especially Nancy.
* [[3D Movie
* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: A large portion of Westin Hills, until it gets renovated sometime before ''Freddy vs. Jason''.
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Freddy's claws. The best example of this in action is Grady's death in ''Freddy's Revenge''. Freddy pins him to the door, then rakes his claws down Grady's torso and the door, slicing through both like hot butter.
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* [[Alien Geometries]]: Alice's last battle of ''Dream Master'' is set in an Escher-like dreamscape.
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Jesse's car ("the deadly dinosaur") from ''Freddy's Revenge''.
* [[All Just a Dream]] and [[Dying Dream]]: Done ''to [[A Worldwide Punomenon|death]]'' in ''[[
* [[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
{{quote| '''Kristen''': "We beat you before!"<br />
'''Freddy''': "And now you're all ALONE." }}
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Jesse Walsh (the actor who portrayed him is actually gay in real life).
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Freddy's victims are left in this state after he absorbs their souls. In the remake, Freddy intended to trap Nancy in this scenario, by keeping her awake for so long that, when she finally did fall asleep, she wouldn't wake up.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Coach Schneider in ''Freddy's Revenge''. And this trope is rare in the ''Nightmare'' movies (except ''[[
* [[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:
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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: The Remake:
{{quote| '''Freddy:''' "Did you know that after the heart stops beating, the brain keeps functioning for well over seven minutes? We got six more minutes to play..."}}
* [[Colon Cancer]]: The full name of the [[Recycled:
* [[Composite Character]]: Nancy Holbrook of the remake appears to be a combination of Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Adorned by Freddy during the beach scene in ''The Dream Master''.
* [[Credits Gag]]: In the metafictional ''New Nightmare'', Freddy Krueger is credited "[[Character
* [[Creepy Child]]: Young Freddy is shown to have been pretty creepy himself in various flashbacks, and he loves to populate his nightmares with pale, creepy children who represent his former victims.
** Jacob Johnson in ''The Dream Child''.
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** 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.
{{quote| ''You turned off David Letterman - now you must die!''}}
** [[Mortal Kombat 9
* [[Crusty Caretaker]]: Pre-death Freddy.
** [[Creator Cameo|Wes Craven cameos]] as a crusty caretaker in [[Scream (
*** Robert Englund himself has done the same, as an [[Actor Allusion]] on ''[[Bones]]''.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: In ''Freddy's Dead'', the victims Freddy goes after have significantly-harsher past histories (child abuse, incest and {{spoiler|being the daughter of a serial killer}}) than those from previous films.
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* [[Dead Unicorn Trope]]: In pop culture, Freddy is often referred to as "The guy with the long fingernails", despite the first film clearly pointing out that they're not fingernails, they're knives attached to a glove. Very rarely do other media notice that he only has them on one hand either.
** ''Freddy's Revenge'', ''Dream Warriors'', and ''New Nightmare'' don't help shoot down the misconception, since all three have scenes featuring Freddy sprouting blades directly from his fingers.
* [[Death
* [[Death
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Tina in the original film, her counterpart Kris in the remake (to those who haven't seen the original, anyway) and John in ''Freddy's Dead''.
* [[Dem Bones]]: When Neil and Nancy's dad try to give Freddy's remains a proper burial in ''Dream Warriors'', he possesses them briefly to kick their ass.
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* [[Fingore]]: Freddy performs this on himself to show off in the first film and ''Freddy's Dead''.
* [[Flanderization]]: Freddy himself. Part of the appeal of the character for the first couple of films was that unlike a lot of slasher film killers, Freddy talked and would make the occasional wisecrack to his victims as he kills them. Sadly, as the sequels progressed, the writers would make Freddy a literal wisecracking machine, with lame puns and other jokey dialogue. At the sixth film, he was completely comical and only his killing characters and his scary-ass look kept him from being dismissible as a joke. ''New Nightmare'' and ''Freddy vs. Jason'' reversed this decline, though ''Freddy vs. Jason'' still features callbacks to past one-liners, such as referring to an African American girl he kills as "Dark Meat" and playing pinball with Jason.
** According to interviews before it's release, ''[[
* [[Force Feeding]]: Greta's death in ''The Dream Child''.
* [[Forgotten First Meeting]]: This happened to the protagonist in the new remake.
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* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Freddy started out avenging his own death, but after he succeeded, he decided to stick around and continue killing (he was, after all, a sadistic serial killer even before he died; even with his revenge complete, he probably saw no real reason to stop killing).
* [[Ghost Town]]: By ''Freddy's Dead'', Springwood has become this, Freddy having killed everyone under the age of eighteen. The remaining adults are left insane, and presumably unable to leave town due to Freddy's influence.
* [[Grievous Harm
** Freddy gets himself impaled '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|with his own clawed arm]]''' in ''Freddy vs. Jason''.
** Also a scene in the original, where Freddy clubs Ron with Tina while in the midst of causing her to float around the room.
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** When Don gets clawed by the Freddy skeleton in ''Dream Warriors'' it at first looks like he was stabbed in the stomach, but when the skeleton lifts him up, it reveals he got it in the balls.
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Happens to Freeburg in Freddy vs. Jason
* "[[
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Freddy was a child killer in life, [[What Could Have Been|and he could've been worse.]] Wes Craven's original plan was to have Freddy be a ''molester'' as well, but he trashed the idea to avoid being accused of [[Ripped from the Headlines|exploiting a series of highly publicised child molestations in California that occurred while the film was in production]].
** The implication was fairly clear in the original films anyway and become extremely obvious in ''Freddy vs. Jason''.
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* [[Immortality]]: As Freddy himself put it - "[[Punctuated for Emphasis|I. AM. ETERNAL!]]"
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: The one time guns are used on Freddy (in ''The Dream Child'') they just knock him down. Seconds later, they become completely useless when Freddy upgrades to Super Freddy.
* [[Impaled
** In the remake, Jesse suffers this fate quite gruesomely, and is still alive long enough, as Freddy puts it, "to play..."
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Notably averted in ''Freddy's Dead''; out of all the stuff Maggie throws at Freddy, only a one knife and one shuriken actually connect.
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* [[Meganekko]]: For an [[Hot Mom|older]] example, Nancy's mother in the remake.
* [[Mind Rape]]: {{spoiler|Almost literal in the remake.}}
* [[Murder
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Kristen ''eats'' instant coffee grounds when she's trying to stay awake at the start of ''Dream Warriors''.
* [[Nails
** Happens again in the remake, though in a writing fashion.
* [[Neck Snap]]: Julie's death in ''New Nightmare''.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Although it's obvious in the remake that Freddy molested the kids, they never directly use the word 'molest'.
* [[Never Sleep Again]]: The [[Trope Namer]] and the way Freddy kills his victims.
* [[New House, New Problems]]: The Walsh family in the second film had just moved into their house when Freddy starts making his comeback.
* [[New Powers
** Makes a certain amount of sense. Since Freddy has effectively become the king of nightmares, his powers in the dreamscape would be virtually unlimited. On the rare occasions he manifests in the "real" world, he generally gets his ass kicked (most notably, at the end of the first film).
* [[Nice Hat]]: The fedora, of course.
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* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: Sister Mary Helena. {{spoiler|Justified because she really is a ghost.}}
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Doctor Simms in ''Dream Warriors''.
* [[Off
** Averted in the remake, where the parents skipped the authorities and immediately went after him.
* [[Off
* [[Oh Crap]]: In the 2010 remake, {{spoiler|Quentin has one of these when he falls asleep whilst he should be guarding Nancy.}}
** It's a reference to the original film, where Glenn does this to Nancy, but due to his non-belief in Freddy he doesn't realize his mistake.
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* [[Parental Neglect]]: Elaine Parker demonstrates this. She thinks that Kristen's "suicide attempt" in ''Dream Warriors'' is an attempt at getting attention, especially after Elaine took away her credit cards. In ''Dream Master'', she shrugs off Kristen's attitude to a lack of sleep, even though her daughter had just lost two close friends in one day, friends she only recently saw. Elaine's pretty much responsible for Kristen's death, since she put sleeping pills in Kristen's lemonade at dinner, leaving her easy prey for Freddy.
* [[The Power of Love]]: Pretty much what beats Freddy in ''Freddy's Revenge''.
* [[Power of Rock]]: In the end of [[
** {{spoiler|'''Freddy''': What a nightmare! Who WERE those guys!?}}
* [[Primal Fear]]
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* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Freddy plays this ''quite'' straight in the remake with Nancy. While {{spoiler|he abused the children sexually at school,}} he menaces Nancy nonstop with a perverted Yandere attitude that makes his antics in life seem tame. And when Quentin and Nancy grow feelings for each other, he grows pretty jealous.
* [[Reality Warper]]: Freddy's a consummate reality warper in the dream world, changing the setting, the laws of physics and his own nature at will. He can also subtly influence waking reality, and becomes better at it throughout the sequels.
* [[Recycled:
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: In ''Freddy's Revenge''.
* [[Rubber Man]]: Stretching limbs are one of many Freddy's powers.
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* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: Used effectively in the remake as, {{spoiler|while Jesse's technically flatlined after being killed by Freddy, Freddy informs him in his continuing dream that the brain can survive up to seven minutes after heart failure, and they've still got six minutes to play}}. The scene cuts back to reality, with only his offscreen screams implying what's happening next.
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Jesse in the second film.
* [[Sequel Hook]] / [[The End -
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Robert Englund and his wife's apparent course of action in ''New Nightmare''.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sealed Good in
* [[See You in Hell]]: Near the beginning of ''The Dream Master'', Freddy's return is marked by the killing of a survivor of the previous film, Kincaid. When he's fatally stabbed by Freddy's glove, Kincaid says "I'll see you in hell!" Freddy, with his characteristically dark humor, replies with "Tell 'em Freddy sent you!"
* [[Serial Killer]]: Freddy Krueger, both in life (as the Springwood Slasher) and the afterlife.
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* [[The Stoner]]: Spencer in ''Freddy's Dead'', Freeburg in ''Freddy VS Jason''.
** There is also a hint of this in the remake; Quintin always looks high, and knows waaaaay too much about prescription drugs for the average high school student.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: ''[[
* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: Subverted with Nancy and Don in ''Dream Warriors'' (they both die right at the end and both die [[Blatant Lies|finally]] killing Freddy, played straight with Kincaid, Joey and Kristen in ''The Dream Master'' and Dan ''The Dream Child''.
* [[Supernatural Proof Father]]: Donald Thompson and Ken Walsh.
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** Combined with an [[Ironic Echo]] at the climax of the remake.
{{quote| '''Nancy:''' Hurts, doesn't it? 'Cause you're in my world now, bitch!}}
* [[Tear Off Your Face]]: [[Death
* [[Teleport Spam]]: A scene in ''The Dream Child'' has Freddy essentially "flickering" down a hallway.
* [[This Was His True Form]]: When the entity is seemingly destroyed at the end of ''New Nightmare'' it goes from looking like Freddy to a stereotypical demon
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Multiple examples.
** Dylan in "New Nightmare". The sheer amount of danger he gets into in that film makes his continued survival frankly baffling to witness. He at one point tries to escape Freddy by ''climbing into a lit furnace''.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Pretty much all the heroines, but especially Alice Johnson and [[Freddy
** Lampshaded in nearly every film. Mark turns into his superhero creation, Rick shows master karate skills, Taryn dreams she's a punk biker chick...and none of this does anything to stop Freddy.
* [[Torture Cellar]]: The boiler room.
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