NOES & Dream Demons Analysis

EXACTLY!!! The kind of person he was in life definitely played a major role. The Dream Demons wanted someone that was the personification of pure evil and they found it with him. In fact, it could also be Freddy's existence and the way he came to be that plays a role as well. If you think about it, it's almost as if his entire existence was doomed from the start. He was the result of brutal rape and had an abusive childhood. Basically, it's like it was Freddy's fate to always be a monster.

Absolutely!!!! Yes, guys like Dracula, Michael Myers, Hannibal Lector, and even Jason Voorhees(and I'll talk about why I think Jason is no better than in another thread) are evil villains, but Freddy is in a class all by himself.

Call me crazy but on one hand, thanks to what was revealed about his past in Freddy's Dead and to a certain degree, Dream Warriors, I feel kind of sorry for him because it's like Fate was against him in many ways in terms of the way he was conceived and how his early life played out. He pretty much never knew what normalcy and positivity was like. It's like he never truly was a human being to begin with. He was human in terms of physicality. But not spiritually.

However, it still doesn't take away the fact that he's such an evil monster. Thanks to his conception and his damaging childhood, he lashed out at the most innocent of people, children. And it's like one other person had said. Whoever said this, and I'm paraphrasing, said that Freddy probably subconsciously hates children because they remind him of him never having a normal, happy childhood and never getting the chance to simply be a child. So, he does what he knows best which is to inflict pain and sadism onto them. And this is mainly for him to feel like he has power and control over them. In fact, that's really what being a predator and a murderer is all about. Power and control. Add along to the fact that he enjoys the pain and suffering of others says a lot. All he knows is pain. So, he wants everyone else to feel pain, no matter what kind of pain that may be. In this instance, he's possibly one of the most evil villains ever. Yet, the fact that he has a mostly sympathetic backstory makes him an interesting villain and probably one of the best villains ever as well.

Exactly! At the end of the day, he's still an extremely evil and sadistic villain who you can't really sympathize with, even though you can still kind of have sympathy for his early past. Ultimately, it doesn't take away the fact that he's such a monster.

But, and this is how I feel, even Jason has shown to be an evil villain. Sure, he's not as evil and not quite as sadistic as Freddy. And yes, he was a victim of circumstances and was never given a chance to have a normal life due to his physical deformity. However, he's absolutely no angel either. He kills indiscriminately and without care. Like Freddy, his tragic past don't take away the fact that he's a murderous monster. Nowhere near as big of a monster as Freddy, but still a monster.

You can say that again. Jason is a saint compared to Freddy, but he's STILL EVIL.

You said it.

Oh!!! ESPECIALLY Crypty!!!! Lol! I wouldn't want to run into him either!!! As you said, you just never know what he might do since he's so sly and treacherous. Even one of the filmmakers of TFTC had said that he's this strange little guy that can make you laugh but he can kill you. Yikes!