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Why is he not attacking the parents?


Why is Freddy not attacking the parents, they are still alive, those are the ones who killed him, burned him, not the children. Why almost only their children? Freddy's memory seems really burned down to ashes at that point:)))

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Why is Freddy not attacking the parents, they are still alive, those are the ones who killed him, burned him, not the children. Why almost only their children?


Did you see the movie? LOL I ask because it's explained in the movie by Nancy's Mom. Nancy's Mom tells Nancy that the warrant was signed in the wrong place and Freddy was released. All of the parents got together and tracked Freddy down in his boiler room where he took the children. Then all of the parents set fire to the boiler room and burned him alive.

To get revenge on the parents that killed him, Freddy started killing their kids. He did kill at least one parent - Nancy's Dad. When he was looking for Freddy's bones to bury them in the used car lot (or whatever that place was) in "Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors".

"Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" has nothing to do with the other movies in the series. (1,3,4,5,6) Freddy killed ALOT of kids in the second one. (And it's the only one I didn't like)

It might be weird, but I LOVE this movie and all of them that had Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. I know EVERYTHING about this movie series... I guess you could say I might be a little obsessed! :)

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The parents are already in enough pain right from the start because the children they had before were taken and they had to start all over again. They'd never quite get over that loss. Also, I imagine killing anyone would leave you with a sense of overwhelming guilt whether they deserved it or not. So they'd have to live with all the pain, remorse, anguish, etc., for all those years.

Then he'd come back from the dead two years later to take their new children once again. To me, that sounds like worse than death. You can tell how much he truly hated those people and how sick he really was.

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Organized crime syndactes (particularly drug cartels) are notorious for going after your family rather than the person who crossed them. The Aryan Brotherhood also does this. They couldn't find the actual person that they wanted to kill so they killed his elderly father just to make him grieve.

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The Simpsons parodied this very well and it explains it the best way, imho.

Willie: "You'll pay for this with your children's blood"

Cheif Wiggum: "Oh yeah? How are you going to get them? Skeleton power?"

Willie: "I'll strike where you cannot protect them, in their dreams!"

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He's a child murderer, and already has a thing for children. But killing little children would have been too extreme for a movie so it had to be teenagers. Besides, teens are all assholes and adults secretly enjoy watching them tortured and killed. :)

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Why is Freddy not attacking the parents, they are still alive, those are the ones who killed him, burned him, not the children. Why almost only their children? Freddy's memory seems really burned down to ashes at that point:)))

If I remember correctly freddy krueger was always a child killer in real life. He targets chidren so even when he was ressurected he was taking revenge via the methods he did in real life... Child Killing.

Freddy's not innocent nor following a moral path that dictates the parents should be the target as they are responsible for his death.

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Freddy was a pervert and child killer
They steered away from that sick crap in the sequals ... Like when they abandoned the Jason Vorhees attempted rape storyline from part two of the Fridays...Sex assault is a real crappy storyline and my guess is they dumped it to just go straight horror/slasher
Better for ticket sales/date nights...

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Silly to be replying so many months later, but Friday the 13th Part 3 had the Jason sexual assault scene. Not Part 2.

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Not silly at all
Thx for the correction, seems i was mistaken

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Freddy wanted the adults who kill him to suffer. And what better way to make them suffer than to kill their own children.

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