List of A Nightmare on Elm Street characters
In the series Freddy Krueger has the ability to enter people's dreams and control them, taunting and murdering them with his glove (with four blades attached to the fingers, allowing him to slash and stab his victims).
She was replaced by Alice Johnson (Lisa Wilcox) as the protagonist of the fourth and fifth installments, who has special abilities in her dreams which allow her to fight Freddy's machinations.
[1] The series contained the first film appearances of Johnny Depp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Patricia Arquette (Dream Warriors), both of whom went on to successful, award-winning careers.
When Tina Gray is murdered, Don (a lieutenant in the Springwood police department) uses his daughter as bait to capture Rod Lane, the suspected killer.
[5][6] The comic Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning features Don initially attempting to stop the mob after Freddy, then joining them once the killer threatens Nancy.
After the death of her best friend Tina, Nancy suspects that the dreams are real; when she learns who Krueger was and realizes that he is seeking revenge against the people who killed him by murdering their children, she searches for ways to defeat him.
Like Tina, Nancy and Glen, Rod has nightmares but refuses to accept them as meaningful; he is also unaware that his and his friends' parents participated in the murder of Fred Krueger years earlier.
Although the storyline is muted, Robert Englund and writer David Chaskin admitted the subtext; the casting of openly-gay actor Mark Patton as Jesse was deliberate.
Jesse still wrestles with Freddy Krueger in his mind, and panics when Hollywood begins making the Nightmare on Elm Street films based on his and Nancy Thompson's journal entries.
Jesse also sees an apparition of Angela one night during a dream, in which she is wearing an old-fashioned white dress and playing jump rope, reciting Krueger's nursery rhyme.
[3] Amanda follows his trial for the murder of several children in Springwood, and supposedly hangs herself after his release; she actually bricks herself into a room in the tower of the hospital's abandoned psychiatric wing out of guilt, where she dies.
Jennifer Caulfield is a teenaged patient at Westin Hills Hospital who refuses to sleep after experiencing horrific dreams and self-harms to stay awake.
[3] In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Joey leaves Westin Hills and begins a normal life with Kristen and Kincaid; however, Freddy returns and kills him by drowning and stabbing him in his waterbed.
Although he follows orders, Max cares about his patients' well-being and pretends not to see Jennifer watching TV past her curfew after she begs to be allowed to stay awake.
Knowing that Alice was ultimately wrong, Dr. Gordon and Dr. Curtis return to Springwood, Ohio, and embark on a time travel mission to trick Krueger into eliminating his past self.
Story notes for the final issue (which was never written due to the comic company's bankruptcy) intended for Mrs. Kincaid to be killed by Freddy prior to his decision to start targeting the Elm Street children.
[3] Will Stanton, a fellow patient at Westin Hills Hospital and a fan of Dungeons & Dragons-style games, is paralyzed from the waist down after a suicide attempt to escape his nightmares.
[21] In Nightmares on Elm Street, a six-issue miniseries published by Innovation Comics, Alice returns to Springwood after her father's death and is forced to face Freddy after he tries to use the pre-pubescent Jacob to kill.
[22][23][24][25] In the anthology The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams (1991),[26] Alice appears in Philip Nutman's "Dead Highway, Lost Roads".
[28] "From Nancy to Alice, the women on Elm Street are tough, resourceful, powerful role models for teenagers, ones who mirror reality in their efforts to navigate high school and, indeed, life".
[21] In the 1991 anthology The Nightmares on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's Seven Sweetest Dreams,[26] Jacob (a young boy with heterochromia) is the protagonist in Philip Nutman's "Dead Highway, Lost Roads."
In Natasha Rhodes' novel, A Nightmare on Elm Street: Perchance to Dream (published by Black Flame), a now teenaged Jacob Johnson is a Westin Hills patient.
In his comic-book world Mark takes the form of the Phantom Prowler, his superhero creation; Freddy attacks him as Super-Freddy, turning him into paper and slicing him to pieces.
Alice sends Yvonne to now-abandoned Westin Hills Hospital to find Amanda Krueger's remains and free her spirit, allowing her to fight her son Freddy.
She is the main protagonist in the unfinished storyline, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning - Dark Genesis, an epilogue of Freddy's Dead and a prequel of the film series.
Before his mother's awareness of Freddy's attacks, Dylan's only defense against him Rex: his beloved stuffed tyrannosaurus, which comes alive in his dreams to protect him from nightmares and bogeymen.
After discussions with Englund and Wes Craven, Nancy learns that Freddy is an entity who has appeared in various forms through storytelling and is captive in the fictitious world of the Nightmare on Elm Street film series.
After the group goes to Crystal Lake and brings Freddy into the real world to fight Jason, Charlie is fatally wounded and expresses his feelings for Kia before he dies.
"[33] Jeff Katz, who worked on the original screenplay for Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, said that Lori and Will's deaths were a way to continue the long-running tradition of Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street survivors being killed off in subsequent films.
This is mirrored in an omitted scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, when Alice, Dan and Debbie ask their open-minded teacher Bryson for advice on stopping Freddy and he thinks they are paranoid.
