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Frederick Charles Krueger, or simply Fred or Freddy, is a fictional character from the Nightmare on Elm Street
series of horror films. He is portayed by actor Robert Englund in every film. He is a reincarnated serial killer and child molester who can attack new victims supernaturally from within their own dreams.

Freddy's most well known attributes include his clawed glove, his red and green sweater, and an eerie chant that sometimes accompanies his appearance: "One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. Nine, ten, never sleep again…".

History

Childhood

During the Christmas holiday in the early 1940s, a young nun named Sister Mary Helena (Amanda Krueger) was accidentally locked in the wing for the criminally insane at "Westin Hills" psychiatric hospital. For days, she was raped and tortured numerous times by the one hundred patients confined there. Days later, she was found, barely clinging to life, and now pregnant. Nine months later, after a breech birth, Frederick Charles Krueger was born. Amanda decided to raise the child herself, while continuing to work as a nun. As Freddy grew up, he began to exhibit disturbed behavior, including killing and maiming small animals. At school, meanwhile, he was savagely taunted by the other children, who would often ridicule him by chanting "son of a hundred maniacs."

Teenage years

After attacking his mother Amanda, 11-year-old Freddy was removed from her custody and placed with an old, abusive, drunk named Mr. Underwood (portrayed by Alice Cooper in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
) — who severely beat Freddy on a daily basis. As time went by, Freddy began enjoying the beatings and associated pain with pleasure. Into his teens, Freddy developed a taste for self mutilation. After a particularly brutal beating from Mr. Underwood, Freddy exacted revenge by setting the house ablaze while the man slept. As the house went up in flames, Freddy simply walked away, never bothering to see if the man survived. Freddy briefly returned to his mother, but was again removed from her care after he beat and raped her.

At age seventeen, Freddy took a bagger's job at a local supermarket. In the trash, he found a beat-up old fedora that he began wearing religiously. Meanwhile, a senior at Springwood High, Freddy worked up the nerve to ask the popular Denise Charlotte to the prom. Shocked that he would dare ask her…Denise accepted his invitation, with the intention of standing him up. As Freddy arrived to her house on prom night, Denise refused to come to the door — and instead sat up in her bedroom laughing at his humiliation with her best friend, Cindy. Freddy would not forget this.

Adulthood

Not a full year after graduating from Springwood High, Freddy returned to the school — this time working as a janitor, while both the faculty and underclassmen often snickered. It was at this time that he met a frumpy, weak-willed and insecure young waitress named Loretta Johnson, whom he started dating, and eventually married. Freddy began leading a double life — playing husband to Loretta, while simultaneously maltreating and raping prostitutes on the side. After Loretta gave birth to their daughter, Katherine, Freddy briefly reformed himself. Taking a job at a local Power Plant, he committed no atrocities at this time.

"The Springwood Slasher"

While working at the plant, Freddy one day dozed off and was awaken by the sound of three 8-year-old boys who'd wandered in, and began laughing at him. An enraged Freddy screams profanities at, and chases after, them. As they ran away, he managed to get ahold of one by the arm. Freddy then grabbed a broken beer bottle and jabbed it into the child's abdomen — killing him instantly. The other two boys briefly stopped running, and looked on with horror at what happened to their friend. Freddy saw the look of terror in their faces and found he enjoys it. Exhilarated by the fear of the children, Freddy sees this as his calling.

After discovering that the boy he killed lived on Elm Street, Freddy took a trip to the sunny, suburban neighborhood — with happy families and green lawns — and is disgusted. Wanting to corrupt the serenity, he started stalking the children who live on the street. His next victim is a seven year old girl, whose mother had been late picking her up from school. Freddy approached the girl, telling her that he was her "Uncle Freddy." The naive child trusted his seeming sincerity and went off with him. Days later, the authorities discovered her body in an abandoned field.

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