"Welcome to my nightmare!"
―Freddy Krueger[src]

Frederick Charles "Freddy" Krueger was a child murderer who lived in the town of Springwood with his family in the past and is now (after being killed by his victim's parents in a fire) an undead demon that kills his victims in their dreams, thus causing their death in the physical world.

He was the main antagonist in the A Nightmare on Elm Street horror film series, a cameo antagonist in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, and one of the 2 main antagonists of the crossover film Freddy vs. Jason along with Jason, as well as it's comic book sequels Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash and Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors.

He is the rival of Jason Voorhees. In the earlier films, when Freddy kills his victims, he absorbs their souls into his body which gives him more power. When he is defeated in "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master", "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child", "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" and "Freddy vs. Jason", the souls are released from his body. The movies never speculate what happens to the released souls.


Early lifeEdit


Freddy, during his days as the Springwood Slasher.

His mother, Amanda Krueger was raped by several inmates at an insane asylum while working as a nun and was impregnated with Freddy. After he was born he was put up for adoption. Years later he would kill twenty children and be known as the "Springwood Slasher". He was eventually burned to death by his victim's parents who sought revenge for their children. Freddy came back but only in children's dreams, where he obtained immortality and unlimited powers. Throughout the years, he had been killed and resurrected by his enemies, usually by pulling him out of the dream world where he is vulnerable. Several years later, Springwood developed a drug that prevents dreaming, becoming forgotten and used Jason Voorhees to make the people remember him again. Jason goes to Lori Campbell's house (where Nancy and Jesse used to live) where Jason kills Trey. One of the police officers believes that Freddy did this. At the police station, Lori falls asleep and is stalked by Freddy, but finds he is not strong enough to kill her yet. When Freddy attempts the same with Blake in his dream, his claw goes right through him without harming him at all. When he woke up, he found his father's decapitated remains before Jason kills him as well. All the kids who made contact with Freddy were placed in Westin Hills where they are given Hypnocil to prevent them from dreaming. Among them are Mark Davis and Lori's boyfriend Will Rollins. Will saw Lori's dad (under Freddy's control. Will did not know it was him at the time) kill her mother. When Will sees the report on TV that someone was murdered in Lori's house, he decides to escape so he can see if she's all right. Then, Mark takes the keys from Max, a worker at the asylum, and they escape.

The Necronomicon Ex-MortisEdit

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Freddy as seen in Freddy vs. Jason (2003).


Freddy uses the Necronomicon to free himself from Jason's mind

After his decapitation in Freddy vs. Jason, in the non-canon events in the comics, Freddy barely lived on inside Jason's mind. Trapped in Jason's head for five years and capable of doing little more than altering Jason's perception of people and objects, Freddy, while skimming through some of Jason's thoughts, discovers faint memories of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. A short time after Jason kills Lori and Will, who had made a brief visit back to Crystal Lake, Freddy causes Jason to have a daydream. Appearing alongside a false Pamela Voorhees, Freddy instructs Jason to seek out the Necronomicon, claiming that the book can be used not only to restore his power and free him from Jason's mind, but can also fulfill Jason's greatest desire, to be a real boy.[3]



Freddy and Ash face off for the first time..




Freddy uses the Necronomicon to become nearly all-powerful.







The Nightmare WarriorsEdit




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Freddy fighting Jason.


In the end, Freddy gets stripped of his powers and returns into his human form before being blasted into the Necronomicon's vortex, ultimately ending Freddy once and for all. 


Evil and very sadistic, Freddy's upbringing by his abusive step-father made him what he is today as when he was in school, he killed the class hamster and eventually his step-father with a shaver. As shown when he kills his victims in their dreams he takes great pleasure in stalking them as well as using his dream powers to come up with many different ways to kill and torment his victims.



As seen in Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy is a skilled fighter, able to hit Jason several times. He even uses judo moves, this is revealed in one scene when he uses the 12-6 elbow move three times on Jason


  • It's prime time, bitch!
  • Aww. What's wrong, Lori? Missed your wake up call?
  • Oh, don't worry about me little errand boy. The only thing to fear is fear himself.
  • Now it's time to put this bad dog to sleep. For good!
  • Welcome to my nightmare!
  • Ahh, so you are afraid of something after all, huh?
  • Got your nose!






  2. Mrs. Campbell: Stabbed with knife glove.
  3. Mark Davis: Set on fire, then face slashed with knife glove.



  1. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
  2. Freddy vs. Jason
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
  4. 4.0 4.1 Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors

Freddy Krueger on other wikisEdit
