In 2010, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards. Wizard magazine rated Freddy the 14th-greatest villain of all time the British television channel Sky2 listed him 8th, and the American Film Institute ranked him 40th on its ' AFI's 100 Years.100 Heroes & Villains' list. In 2010, a reboot of the original Nightmare on Elm Street film, starring Jackie Earle Haley, was released. In 2003, Krueger appeared alongside fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. The character quickly became a pop culture icon going on to appear in toy lines, comic books, books, sneakers, costumes, and video games since his debut.

The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears. Englund has stated that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off Freddy's Nightmares. Over the course of the film series, Freddy has battled several reoccurring survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson. This glove was the product of Krueger's own imagination, having welded the blades himself before using it to murder many of his victims, both in the real and dream worlds. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed, brown leather, right hand glove. However, whenever Freddy is pulled back into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and seemingly invulnerable.

Krueger goes on to murder his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well.

He was created by Wes Craven and made his debut in Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the malevolent spirit of a child killer who had been burned to death by his victims' parents after evading prison.

Michael Bailey Smith (Super-Freddy) (1989)įreddy Krueger ( / ˈ k r uː ɡ ər/) is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series.

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