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The Fear of Human Immortality and What Follows It

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The Fear of Human Immortality and What Follows It

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Immortality; the ability to live forever, eternal life. As human civilization advances, we reach further into the sky, in attempt, to mimic the powers that were not originally bestowed upon us or meant for us. This relentless pursuit of advancement consistently reaps the unsettling question: what comes next? Personally, I fear the next monumental innovation could be the creation of human immortality. While, on paper, immortality, eternal life, may seem like a blessing, I believe it to be a curse.

The image above depicts what I believe to be the grim truth of Human Immortality. This creature, once human, was gifted eternal life and is now suffering the consequences, as a monster. This lonely void-like husk of a human, stripped of all humanity, including its emotion, sensory, cognition, and even its original physical makeup. After millenniums of endlessly roaming the Earth, devoid of any and all purpose, the creature awaits its demise that will never come.

What terrifies humans the most about this creature is its void-like and unknown state of existence. Humans naturally fear the unknown and what comes next, thus this monster, with its eternal and unfathomable existence, horrifies all who encounter it.

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The Chimera was a monster from Greek mythology. It was a female monster part lion, goat, snake, and dragon. It was not only the Chimera's appearance that frightened people but the way she terrorized and destroyed. With two monster parents Typhoeus and Echidna it is no wonder the Chimera was so horrifying. The Chimera was from Lycia where it devastated the land with its fire breath. The Greek hero Bellerophon the son of the sea god Posiedon. Bellerophon is tasked by King Iobates of Lycia to kill the Chimera that is ruining his city. Bellerophon with the help of his flying horse Pegasus flew above Chimera shooting arrows into its back weakening her until finally Bellerophon attached lead to his spear and flew close to the Chimera and stabbed it in the throat. The lead melted suffocating the Chimera until it was dead. It is speculated by modern historians that the Chimera was a metaphor for all the volcanos in Lycia.

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Dinosaurs were incredible creatures that ruled the Earth for millions of years, during the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. When I was a kid, I loved watching Jurassic Park and wondered what the world would be like if dinosaurs were still around today. With how quickly technology is advancing, I imagined that someday someone might find a way to bring them back.

But thinking about it more, I realized that dinosaurs could be more like monsters in our modern world. Picture huge, powerful creatures roaming through our cities. Their primal instincts and sheer power could wreak havoc on our world. A cityscape where colossal predators roam freely, their monstrous forms disrupting daily life and posing grave dangers to human safety. They could be dangerous, causing chaos and endangering people. Our world might not be ready for such giant, unpredictable animals. While it's exciting to think about, it's also important to consider how these ancient creatures could pose serious risks if they were ever brought back.

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Medusa who was once a beautiful woman that fell from the graces of all the gods in Olympus. Her story is a tragic one being assaulted by Poseiden in Athenas temple where she seeked refuge only later to be punished by all the god for something that was out of her control. And for that she was turned into a vile creature that could turn people into stone just by looking at her. As a young girl reading about this made me realize that some people don't care to get to know the other side of a story because Medusa was not a bad person she did nothing wrong she was just accused of something that was out of her control and she had no power to stop it. So not all monsters are bad they are just misunderstood by people who don't want to know the truth.

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A werewolf is a human that transforms into a monster/creature willingly or by a curse at night on a full moon and then turns back into a human during the day. Werewolves are often mythical creatures seen in TV shows like Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, etc. These creatures eat people and animals at night and turn into what you can call savages. Myths of werewolves fall back to prehistoric times in ancient Greece and Rome. People often believed in werewolves to be caused my magic or herbs. Although werewolves are seen as vicious, dangerous, and ruthless, they are loyal and respect those that they trust. I have always been fascinated by the concepts of werewolves from watching TV shows that represented them but I never thought to learn more about the mythical creatures until now.

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The "Existence" of Extraterrestrial Beings

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The "Existence" of Extraterrestrial Beings

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E.T. isn't necessarily portrayed as a monster within the film but rather a gentle alien who befriends a boy named Elliot and seeks his help to return home; to others watching from the comforts of their home or the cinema, this film is truly terrifying. When I watched this film for the first time at a very young age I wasn't just extremely scared but I was definitely scarred, and this image of this "monster" was implemented into my brain. In addition, my grandma thought it would be a great idea to purchase me a stuffed version of this creature and put it in my closet facing my bed. I laid awake most nights terrified at the thought that extraterrestrial beings could just show up on this earth we call home.

Extraterrestrial life, or colloquially aliens, is life which doesn't originate from earth and no extraterrestrial life has yet been conclusively detected, but this doesn't mean there is nothing out there within the depths of space. Various speculations about this topic have been shared and so called "sightings" of extraterrestrial beings have been photographed and videotaped. There is no true conclusion about this topic but it's still hard to believe with all of the technological advancements and resources we have that we haven't reached a point in which we can positively say if extraterrestrial life is real or not.

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Sirens are dangerous creatures that are half bird and half women that uses their beautiful singing voice to lure sailors to their death. In Greek mythology, Sirens are said to have the head of a beautiful woman with the body of a bird. Some stories describe Sirens more as mermaids with both fish and woman features. Siren were originally claimed to be friends of the goddess Persephone, who failed to protect her from being abducted by Hades. As punishment, they were turned into monster in other words Sirens. Siren use their captivating voice in the middle of the ocean to lure sailors to their death, most definitely eating the sailors. Sirens are very dangerous creatures that uses their beautiful features for their own benefit showing no mercy.

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The creature is deemed "monstrous" primarily due to its grotesque, human-like appearance combined with its immense size. This hybrid being, a fusion of the movie’s antagonists and a human, evokes deep fear in people. Its monstrous nature is underscored not just by its terrifying looks and colossal stature, but also by its relentless drive to kill everything in its path. The combination of its horrifying appearance, enormous scale, and lethal intent makes it a figure of dread and repulsion.

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Hobby

Killing other lifeforms.

Consuming the black goo.

Goals

Ingest more of the black goo from its mother Kay to sustain itself (briefly succeeded).

Kill Rain and Andy (failed).

Crimes

Matricide

Mutilation
Cannibalism
Attempted murder
Stalking

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I'm just happy this baby will get to see the sun.

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~ Kay talking about her unborn child before its eventual mutation.

The Offspring is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Rook) of the 2024 sci-fi horror film Alien: Romulus, the ninth installment in the Alien film franchise.

It was a human fetus that got severely mutated due to its mother Kay injecting herself with the black goo whilst pregnant. Ultimately leading to the Offspring being born, which began growing in an unbelievably fast rate, all to chase and kill the leftover scavengers of the Corbelan IV.

It was portrayed by Robert Bobroczkyi.

The Offspring is a hybrid between a human fetus and the black goo pathogen, Z-01 (a recreated version of the original black goo alien pathogen Chemical A0-3959X.91 - 15 based on the residual substance within the Nostromo Drone), which created the Xenomorphs. The Offspring therefore has clear Human/Xenomorph features, resembling a tall, pale-skinned, humanoid man, but with clear biomechanical Xenomorph-like qualities.

The Offspring's back appears to have underdeveloped back spikes, looking more like craters that constantly discrete black goo out of them. On the front, it had what appeared to be fleshy slits in its lower abdomen and groin area. But the creature does have its own fully developed inner jaw, which it uses to suckle from its mother, but also to kill its enemies.

Despite its clear Alien appearance, the Offspring stands out by being one of the few Xenomorphs (along with the Newborn) to have human facial expressions, as its entire facial region appears to be very much human-like, apart from its eyes that have a clear black complexion. However, many of the "human" features that the Offspring has resembled that of the Engineers, as they both are pale bald humanoids with black eyes, which may be due to humanity being spawned from Engineer genetic material.

Despite its short lifespan, it seemed to achieve a sense of sentience after shedding its birth chrysalis. While its attack on android Andy and fatal feeding on its "mother" Kay may be instinctual, it later displayed clear malicious intent.

When pursuing Rain, it would aggressively snarl and hiss at her, which was animalistic, but when it got close to killing her, it displayed a sadistic smirk, thus indicating a sadistic choice to kill, unlike the typical impersonal, if brutal, attack patterns of Xenomorphs born through Facehugger impregnation.

After Rain vented the cargo hold, its final attacks on her displayed evidence of rage, from its scowling expression, and failure to adhere to Xenomorph survival instincts by attacking her, even though it could have simply climbed the cable back to the ship.

Kay was abducted by a Xenomorph and cocooned in the hive within the Romulus half of the space station, however, since it wounded her, she was left unimpregnated by a Facehugger due to her not being an ideal host. During their attempt to find an escape from the station and a swarm of Facehuggers, Kay's brother, Tyler, heard her pained groans, thus he, Rain, and a reluctant android Andy follow the noise to its source.

Tyler pried Kay from the hive wall, with her blood loss necessitating her to lean on the others; the four headed towards the elevator. However, Andy gets knocked down, triggering one of the android's seizure-like malfunctions, and Tyler blocks a Xenomorph tail from reaching Rain and Kay, which impaled him instead; the Xenomorph carried Tyler up into the fleshy cavern that the creatures made above, and he is ripped to pieces by several other Xenos. Rain dragged Kay into the elevator, closing it before the creatures could reach them.

Deciding to return to aid her android-adopted brother, Rain halted the elevator. She handed Kay a case of vials of the pathogen reverse-engineered by the station's dead scientists and crippled science officer, android Rook; Rain told her to continue to the Corbelan IV, and assured her that Rain herself will find a way to escape, too.

While Rain and Andy dispatch the Xenomorph infestation, Kay's fear for the survival of her future child compelled her to take one of the pathogen vials and inject herself with the mutagenic fluid. Rain and Andy make it to the ship with Kay, and they escape the Remus-Romulus before it is obliterated in the ice ring of colony planet Jackson's Star. Rain helped Kay into a cryo-chamber, telling her that when she thawed, she could get medical treatment. Rain connected Andy to the ship's mainframe, so he wouldn't suffer the experience of time alone during the trip.

Before Rain could enter cryo-sleep herself, Kay's chamber was setting off an alarm and deactivating due to an unknown instability; Rain slid out of the chamber, discovering Kay jerking in pain, with her few-week pregnancy absorbing the injected pathogen to engorge her abdomen to become larger than a 9 month pregnancy. Blood gushed from Kay's womb, as she screamed in agony; she painfully pushed out a chrysalis. Kay begs Rain to get rid of it, thus Rain has to struggle to break the freakishly thick umbilical cord, which also hurts Kay, but it is severed. The ship's alarm breaks Andy from his connection to the mainframe.

Rain carried the chrysalis towards the cargo hold, but she froze when it split slightly to reveal a human baby, but with pallid white skin and black markings; the shell overflowed with acid, which burned Rain's arms, making her drop it. The pod melted through the walkway and fell below deck in the cargo hold. Rain rushed to retrieve a cryo-thrower pack, and then went down to locate the pod. Andy arrived in the cryo-chamber hold, and helped Kay out of her chamber, leaving her to weakly lean against the wall.

Rain found the pod in the cargo, however, it was empty; yet she was able to follow hands and foot prints that gradually grew bigger. Unfortunately, the Offspring had already double-backed to where Andy and Kay were; the Offspring had grown to be a monstrous humanoid-Xenomorph hybrid, which effortlessly swatted away Andy, leaving him too damaged to stand again. Kay recoiled in terror as the Offspring approached her; it seemed to examine her with curiosity, but she meekly tried to push it away. The Offspring's tongue protruded, which seemed human, but it extended and the tip opened like a Xenomorph's nested mouth.

When Rain had returned to Kay, she was already dead, as the Offspring appeared to be feeding on her. Rain tried to fire her weapon, but it malfunctioned, and she dropped it in frustration, however, this shot out cryo on the pipes, which burst them to cause a reaction of subzero gas flooding the room. Rain fled, with the Offspring following, and it seemed only slightly inconvenienced by the cryo fog.

Rain was able to don a spacesuit, and connected it to a cable in the cargo hold, in preparation to dump the creature into space. Before she can reach the opposing levers, the Offspring blocks her path. Rain kicked the chrysalis, covering the floor with acid, which ate through it, until breaching the exterior hull. Rain was sucked out into space, but stayed connected to the ship via the cable.

Rain began to climb the cable, as sand flew around her; however, the Offspring emerged from the sand, clinging on to her; its nested mouth latched on to the visor of her helmet, and caused small cracks. While the Offspring's flesh was being shredded by the sandfall, it remained on the attack. Rain was able to move the cable to pull the final levers, which released the cargo hold from the ship; she was safe through the gap, but the cargo crushed the Offspring, forcing it into the ice ring to be torn apart and exploded, avenging Kay's death.

Rain made it back on the ship, and put Andy in a secure chamber to prevent him from suffering further damage. Rain made a log akin to Ripley's, noting the tragedy that she was the sole human to survive, as she herself went into cryo-sleep, while the destination she programmed into the auto-pilot hopefully taking her to a far better future.

The Offspring is the chronologically first, but second appearing Xenomorph/human hybrid in the series, with the first being the Newborn, however, the two contrast one another by the fact that:

The Offspring is much more human looking compared to the Newborn, presumably because the Offspring was already in development as a human fetus from the beginning, with the Xenomorph genes being added later in its development when its genetic makeup was already set.

The Offspring appears to be the first creature born from black goo with genitals.

The Newborn appeared to have a true instinctual connection to Ripley 8, seeing her as its mother. The Offspring, however, is much more hostile towards its mother, only being concerned with absorbing the black goo from her.

The Newborn showed fear and sorrow upon facing its death, whereas the Offspring showed blind fury.

In Prometheus, Elizabeth Shaw was also impregnated via the womb-like Kay, but she had it removed by a C-section, and it became a giant Facehugger-like tentacled creature called Trilobite, rather than the final creature. Shaw's case, however, was attributed to her being sterile instead of fertile and/or having a growing fetus like Kay.

Fede Alvarez, during an interview about the presence of Ian Holm, took the opportunity to talk about the design of the Offspring, saying that, just like the Xenomorphs, the Engineers would come from the same black pathogen

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✓ The Offspring is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Rook) of the 2024 sci-fi horror film Alien: Romulus, the ninth installment in the Alien film franchise. It was a human fetus that got severely mutated due to its mother Kay injecting herself with the black goo whilst pregnant.

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Mary Shelley's novel Victor Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist engaged in an unconventional scientific experiment that results in the creation of the monster Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of Frankenstein, rejects his own creation because the monster that he created was not what he expected. Following Frankenstein's rejection by Victor, the monster started planning to take revenge, including harming Henry, Elizabeth, and people around Victor who were important to him. He killed Henry by strangling him in order to cause severe emotional suffering on Victor as revenge for him turning down the monster's request for a female companion because the monster feels lonely and he wants to feel like he belongs. But when the monster's desire for the female companion gets rejected, the monster wishes for Victor to feel the same sense of isolation and hopelessness that he feels from being shunned and abandoned by society and everyone he meets because of his hideous appearance.

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What makes the creature/creatures in this photo so monstrous? I think what makes this seem so monstrous is how non-human it is. It is a reptile with 3 separate heads! I believe that the scary appeal from this creature comes from the fact that it is not typically normal on an animal to have more than 1 head. This monster is considered a monster in its' story because of how dangerous and life threatening the monster poses as. Humans tend to fear life threatening things, and this is why they would probably prefer to ignore them rather than seek them.

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In the movie, Monsters inc. Sully is a big blue monster covered in purple spots that is known for his gentle and friendly demeanor. However, in the movie his job is to be a "scarer"- to scare kids in order to harvest their screams and fuel the monster world. Despite him being huge and intimidating with a loud roar, the movie reveals that he is protective and caring for those around him. I think this monster being scary stems from the idea that he looks drastically different than people so it creates fear.

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Often, we think of monsters as physical entities, but is it their physical appearance that makes them a monster, or is it what they represent? I see monsters as an over-exaggeration of a negative emotion or piece of our identities. They're desires/ideas/beliefs that we all may have a little piece of, but monsters' sole identity represents one or many of these things. Jabba the Hutt is a fictional monster that portrays greed and vengeance. We have decided that greed and vengeance might look like a big, ugly worm, but his hideous physical appearance is not what makes him a monster.

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The Gloom Hands from the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom are a terrifying monster. This monster is a cluster of red hands with eyes on the palms of each hand. When they chase after you suspenseful music starts playing and the screen has a red hue to capture the creature's vibe. What makes this monster more scary is that they basically suck the energy and health out of you. In the game when link (the protagonist) comes within radius of these creatures they immediate try to attack him. If the gloom hands catch him they start taking away the hearts (lifes) of link. I would consider this as a monster due to it being scary looking and being not friendly.

- Sky Pearce

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The Green Goblin is one of Spider-Man’s most notorious villains. Norman Osborn, who becomes the Green Goblin, undergoes a transformation after using a serum that boosts his strength and intelligence but also drives him mad. Dressed in a flashy green suit, he uses high-tech gadgets like a glider and pumpkin-shaped bombs to cause chaos. His rivalry against Spider-Man is deeply personal, often targeting those close to him, which adds a layer of intensity to their conflicts. I love the Green Goblin because he’s such a compelling character in the Spider-Man movie, which makes him stand out as one of my favorite monsters.

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Freddy Krueger is a dream demon from A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He essentially is the spirit of a child killer who was killed by his parents. Freddy can enter the dream world of children (specifically teenagers) who live on Elm Street. The people that he haunts die in the real world as well. People fear Freddy because of his appearance, having a burnt, leathery face and knife hands. His inability to be killed in the dream world is another reason he is feared. The only way to potentially slow him down is by standing up to him in the human world showing no fear but most don't make it to do so.

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Freddy Krueger () is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well. In the dream world, he is a powerful force and almost completely invulnerable. However, whenever Freddy is pulled into the real world, he has normal human vulnerabilities and can be destroyed.

The character was created by Wes Craven and was consistently portrayed by Robert Englund in the original film series as well as in the television spin-off. In the 2010 franchise reboot, Freddy Krueger was portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley. In 2011, Freddy appeared as a playable character in the video game Mortal Kombat and in 2017 as a playable character in Dead by Daylight. Over the course of the series, Freddy has battled numerous survivors including Nancy Thompson and Alice Johnson.

The original film introduced his backstory as the Springwood Slasher, a serial killer of children who had been burned to death by his victims' parents after evading prison. This alias would be used in other films and media throughout the franchise, such as Freddy vs. Jason and the Nightmares on Elm Street comics.

Freddy attacks his victims from within their dreams. He is commonly identified by his burned, disfigured face, dirty red-and-green-striped sweater and brown fedora, and trademark metal-clawed brown leather glove only on his right hand. This glove was the product of Krueger's own imagination, the blades having been welded by himself. Robert Englund has said many times that he feels the character represents neglect, particularly that suffered by children. The character also more broadly represents subconscious fears.

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, Freddy was nominated for the award for Best Villain (formerly Most Vile Villain) at the Scream Awards.

In A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy is introduced as a child killer from the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio, who kills his victims with a bladed leather glove he crafted in a boiler room where he used to take his victims. He is captured, but is set free on a technicality when it is discovered that the search warrant wasn't signed in the right place. He is hunted down by a mob made up of the town's vengeful parents and cornered in a boiler room. The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire by throwing Molotov cocktails, burning him alive. While his body dies, his spirit lives on within the dreams of a group of teenagers and pre-adolescents living on Elm Street, whom he preys on by entering their dreams and killing them, fueled by the town's memories and fear of him. He is apparently destroyed at the end of the film by protagonist Nancy Thompson ( Heather Langenkamp), but the last scene reveals that he has survived. He goes on to antagonize the teenage protagonists of the film's sequels, including Jesse Walsh ( Mark Patton), Kristen Parker ( Patricia Arquette), Alice Johnson ( Lisa Wilcox), and Lori Campbell ( Monica Keena).

In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, more of Freddy's backstory is revealed by the mysterious nun who repeatedly appears to Dr. Neil Gordon ( Craig Wasson). Freddy's mother, Amanda Krueger ( Nan Martin), was a nurse at the asylum featured in the film. At the time she worked there, a largely abandoned, run-down wing of the asylum was used to lock up entire hordes of the most insane criminals all at once. When Amanda was young, she was accidentally locked into the room with the criminals over a holiday weekend. They managed to keep her hidden for days, raping her repeatedly. When she was finally discovered, she was barely alive and pregnant, with the result that Krueger was regarded as "the son of a hundred homicidal maniacs" due to it being impossible to determine which of the rapists was his biological father. However, in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, it is implied that Freddy had identified which one of them was his birth father (also portrayed by Englund in a dream sequence), and hates his mother for rejecting him. Later, in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, it is revealed that he was adopted by an alcoholic named Mr. Underwood ( Alice Cooper) who abused him throughout his childhood until Freddy finally murdered him as a teenager. Freddy tortures animals and engages in self-mutilation, and becomes a serial killer by murdering the children of people who had bullied him when he was a child. Prior to his murder, he is married to a woman named Loretta (Lindsey Fields), whom he eventually murders. He also has a daughter, Katherine ( Lisa Zane), who seeks to end her father's horrific legacy once and for all, killing him at the end of the movie.

After a hiatus following the release of The Final Nightmare, Krueger was brought back in Wes Craven's New Nightmare by Wes Craven, who had not worked on the film series since the third film, Dream Warriors. New Nightmare coincides with the approaching anniversary of the release of the first film. Robert Englund, who portrayed Krueger throughout the film series and its television spin-off, also took the role as a fictional version of himself in New Nightmare; it is implied that Englund was stalked by his character, who is an ancient demonic entity that took on the form of Wes Craven's creation, and has come to life from the film franchise's fictitious world. Having been in various manifestations throughout the ages due to the entity can be captured through storytelling, it is hinted that it was once in the form of the old witch from Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel when it was held prisoner in this allegory. Englund describes to his former co-star and friend Heather Langenkamp that this embodiment of Freddy is darker and more evil than as portrayed by him in the films; he struggles to keep his sanity intact from Krueger's torments and goes into hiding with his family. Krueger aims to stop another film of the franchise from being made, eliminating the films' crew members including Langenkamp's husband Chase Porter ( David Newsom) after stealing a prototype bladed glove from him, and causes nightmares and makes threatening phone calls to producer Robert Shaye. The entity also haunts Wes Craven's dreams, to the point that he sees future events related to Krueger's actions and then writes them down as a movie script. Krueger sees Langenkamp as his primary foe because her character Nancy Thompson was the first to defeat him. Krueger's attempts to cross over to reality cause a series of earthquakes throughout Los Angeles County, including the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Langenkamp, with help from her son Dylan ( Miko Hughes), succeeds in defeating the entity and apparently destroys him; however, Krueger's creator reveals that it is again imprisoned in the fictitious world, indicated by the character's later appearances in films and other medias.

In 2003, Freddy battled fellow horror icon Jason Voorhees ( Ken Kirzinger) from the Friday the 13th film series in the theatrical release Freddy vs. Jason, a film which officially resurrected both characters from their respective deaths and subsequently sent them to Hell. As the film begins, Krueger is frustrated at his current inability to kill as knowledge of him has been hidden on Elm Street, prompting him to manipulate Jason into killing in his place in the hope that the resulting fear will remind others of him so that he can resume his own murder spree. However, Freddy's plan proves too effective when Jason starts killing people before Freddy can do it, culminating in a group of teens learning the truth and drawing Freddy and Jason to Crystal Lake in the hope that they can draw Freddy into the real world so that Jason will kill him and remain "home". The ending of the film is left ambiguous as to whether or not Freddy is actually dead; despite being decapitated, when Jason emerges from Crystal Lake carrying his head the head looks back and winks at the viewers. A sequel featuring Ash Williams ( Bruce Campbell) from the franchise was planned, but never materialised onscreen. It was later turned into Dynamite Entertainment's comic book series Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.

In the 2010 remake of the original film, Freddy's backstory is that he was a groundskeeper at Badham Preschool who tortured and sexually abused the teenage protagonists of the film when they were children. When their parents found out, they trapped him in a boiler room at an industrial park and set it on fire with a Molotov cocktail made out of a gasoline canister, killing him. As a spirit, he takes his revenge on the teenagers by haunting their dreams; he is particularly obsessed with Nancy Holbrook ( Rooney Mara), who had been his "favorite" when she was a child. Krueger's power comes from his prey's memories and emotions upon remembering the abuse they suffered at his hands. His bladed glove is made out of discarded pieces of his gardening tools. Nancy destroys him at the end of the film by pulling his spirit into the physical world and cutting his throat; the final scene reveals that Freddy's spirit has survived, however.

Robert Englund continued his role as Krueger on October 9, 1988, in the television anthology series, Freddy's Nightmares. The show was hosted by Freddy, who did not take direct part in most of the episodes, but he did show up occasionally to influence the plot of particular episodes. Further, a consistent theme in each episode was characters having disturbing dreams. The series ran for 44 episodes over two seasons, ending on March 10, 1990. Although a bulk of the episodes did not feature Freddy taking a major role in the plot, the pilot episode, "No More, Mr. Nice Guy", depicts the events of his trial, and his subsequent death at the hands of the parents of Elm Street after his acquittal. In "No More, Mr. Nice Guy", though Freddy's case seems open and shut, a mistrial is declared based on the arresting officer, Lt. Tim Blocker (Ian Patrick Williams), not reading Krueger his Miranda rights, which is different from the original Nightmare that stated he was released because someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place. The episode also reveals that Krueger used an ice cream van to lure children close enough so that he could kidnap and kill them. After the town's parents burn Freddy to death he returns to haunt Blocker in his dreams. Freddy gets his revenge when Blocker is put under anesthesia at the dentist's office, and Freddy shows up and kills him. The episode "Sister's Keeper" was a "sequel" to this episode, even though it was the seventh episode of the series. The episode follows Krueger as he terrorizes Blocker's identical twin daughters and frames one sister for the other's murder. Season two's "It's My Party And You'll Die If I Want You To" featured Freddy attacking a high school prom date who stood him up 20 years earlier. He gets his revenge with his desire being fulfilled in the process.

Wes Craven said his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep. Additionally, Craven's original script characterized Freddy as a child molester, which Craven said was the "worst thing" he could think of. The decision was made to instead make him a child murderer in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production. Craven's inspirations for the character included a bully from his school during his youth, a disfigured homeless man who had frightened him when he was 11, and the 1970s pop song " Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright. In an interview, he said of the disfigured stranger, "When I looked down there was a man very much like Freddy walking along the sidewalk. He must have sensed that someone was looking at him and stopped and looked right into my face. He scared the living daylights out of me, so I jumped back into the shadows. I waited and waited to hear him walk away. Finally I thought he must have gone, so I stepped back to the window. The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, 'Yes, I'm still looking at you.' The man walked towards the apartment building's entrance. I ran through the apartment to our front door as he was walking into our building on the lower floor. I heard him starting up the stairs. My brother, who is ten years older than me, got a baseball bat and went out to the corridor but he was gone."

In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy is characterized as a symbol of something powerful and ancient, and is given more stature and muscles. Unlike the six movies before it, New Nightmare shows Freddy as closer to what Wes Craven originally intended, toning down his comedic side while strengthening the more menacing aspects of his character.

Throughout the series, Freddy's potential victims often experience dreams of young children, jumping rope and chanting a rhyme to the tune of " One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" with the lyrics changed to "One, Two, Freddy's coming for you", often as an omen to Freddy's presence or a precursor to his attacks.

In the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jackie Earle Haley portrayed Freddy Krueger. In the film, Krueger is depicted as a sadistic pedophile who worked as a gardener at a local preschool. Unlike in the original version of events, where he was a known child-killer who evaded conviction on a technicality, in this version of events there was actually ambiguity about Krueger's guilt or innocence apart from the testimony of his victims, until the now-grown survivors find the room where Krueger molested them while searching for evidence.

According to Robert Englund, Freddy's look was based on Klaus Kinski's portrayal of Count Dracula in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and some of the works of Lon Chaney, while he based Freddy's poise and gait on the "Cagney stance" originated by actor James Cagney. Freddy's characteristic of keeping his gloved arm lower than the other was incidental due to the knives being heavy to wear for Englund and forcing him to carry himself as such while playing the role. Freddy's physical appearance has stayed largely consistent throughout the film series, although small changes were made in subsequent films. He wears a striped red-and-green sweater (solid red sleeves in the original film), a dark brown fedora, his bladed glove, loose black trousers (brown in the original film), and worn work boots, in keeping with his blue collar background. His skin is scarred and burned as a result of being burned alive by the parents of Springwood, and he has no hair at all on his head as it presumably all burned off. In the original film, only Freddy's face was burned, while the scars have spread to the rest of his body from the second film onwards. His blood is occasionally a dark, oily color, or greenish in hue when he is in the Dreamworld. In the original film, Freddy remains in the shadows and under lower light much longer than he does in the later pictures. In the second film, there are some scenes where Freddy is shown without his bladed glove, and instead with the blades protruding from the tips of his fingers. As the films began to emphasize the comedic, wise-cracking aspect of the character, he began to don various costumes and take on other forms, such as dressing as a waiter or wearing a Superman-inspired version of his sweater with a cape ( The Dream Child), appearing as a video game sprite ( Freddy's Dead), a giant snake-like creature ( Dream Warriors), and a hookah-smoking caterpillar ( Freddy vs. Jason).

In New Nightmare, Freddy's appearance is updated considerably, giving him a green fedora that matched his sweater stripes, skin-tight leather pants, knee-high black boots, a turtleneck version of his trademark sweater, a black trench coat, and a fifth claw on his glove, which also has a far more organic appearance, resembling the exposed muscle tissue of an actual hand. Freddy also has fewer burns on his face, though these are more severe, with his muscle tissue exposed in numerous places. Compared to his other incarnations, these Freddy's injuries are more like those of an actual burn victim. For the 2010 remake, Freddy is returned to his iconic attire, but the burns on his face are intensified with further bleaching of the skin and exposed facial tissue on the left cheek, more reminiscent of actual third-degree burns than in the original series.

Wes Craven stated that part of the inspiration for Freddy's infamous bladed glove was from his cat, as he watched it claw the side of his couch one night.

In an interview he said, "Part of it was an objective goal to make the character memorable, since it seems that every character that has been successful has had some kind of unique weapon, whether it be a chain saw or a machete, etc. I was also looking for a primal fear which is embedded in the subconscious of people of all cultures. One of those is the fear of teeth being broken, which I used in my first film. Another is the claw of an animal, like a saber-toothed tiger reaching with its tremendous hooks. I transposed this into a human hand. The original script had the blades being fishing knives."

When Jim Doyle, the creator of Freddy's claw, asked Craven what he wanted, Craven responded, "It's kind of like really long fingernails, I want the glove to look like something that someone could make who has the skills of a boilermaker." Doyle explained, "Then we hunted around for knives. We picked out this bizarre-looking steak knife, we thought that this looked really cool, we thought it would look even cooler if we turned it over and used it upside down. We had to remove the back edge and put another edge on it, because we were actually using the knife upside down." Later Doyle had three duplicates of the glove made, two of which were used as stunt gloves in long shots.

For New Nightmare, Lou Carlucci, the effects coordinator, remodeled Freddy's glove for a more "organic look". He says, "I did the original glove on the first and we deliberately made that rough and primitive looking, like something that would be constructed in somebody's home workshop. Since this is supposed to be a new look for Freddy, Craven and everybody involved decided that the glove should be different. This hand has more muscle and bone texture to it, the blades are shinier and in one case, are retractable. Everything about this glove has a much cleaner look to it, it's more a natural part of his hand than a glove." The new glove has five claws.[citation needed ]

In the 2010 remake, the glove is redesigned as a metal gauntlet with four finger bars, but it is patterned after its original design. Owing to this iteration of the character's origin as a groundskeeper, from the outset it was a gardener's glove modified as an instrument of torture, and in film its blades was based on a garden fork.

Freddy's glove appeared in the 1987 horror-comedy Evil Dead II above the door on the inside of a toolshed. This was Sam Raimi's response to Wes Craven showing footage of The Evil Dead in A Nightmare on Elm Street, which in turn was a response to Raimi putting a poster of Craven's 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes in The Evil Dead.[citation needed ] The glove also appears in the 1998 horror-comedy Bride of Chucky in an evidence locker room that also contains the remains of the film's villain Chucky, the chainsaw of Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the masks of Michael Myers from and Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

At the end of the film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, the mask of the title character, Jason Voorhees, played by Kane Hodder, is dragged under the earth by Freddy's gloved hand. Freddy's gloved hand, in the ending, was played by Hodder.

At Six Flags St. Louis' Fright Fest event (then known as Fright Nights), Krueger was the main character for the event's first year in 1988. He reappeared in his own haunted house, Freddy's Nightmare: The Haunted House on Elm Street, for the following two years. Freddy Krueger appeared alongside Jason Voorhees and Leatherface as minor icons during Halloween Horror Nights 17 and again with Jason during Halloween Horror Nights 25 at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. In 2016, Freddy Krueger returned to Halloween Horror Nights, along with Jason, in Hollywood.

Freddy Krueger made different appearances in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green. In the episode "That Hurts Me", Freddy appears as a housemate of "Horror Movie Big Brother", alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Pinhead and Ghostface.

Freddy's first video game appearance was in the 1989 NES game A Nightmare on Elm Street. The game was published by LJN Toys and developed by Rare. Freddy Krueger appeared as a downloadable playable character for Mortal Kombat (2011), with Robert Englund reprising his role. He has become the second non- Mortal Kombat character to appear in the game. The game depicts Krueger as a malevolent spirit inhabiting the Dream Realm who attacks Shao Kahn for "stealing" the souls of his potential victims. During the fight, he is pulled into the game's fictional depiction of the real world. The injured Krueger arms himself with two razor claws to continue to battle Kahn. Upon defeating him, Krueger is sent back to the Dream Realm by Nightwolf, where he continues to haunt the dreams of his human prey. In an interview with PlayStation.Blog, Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon cited the character's violent nature and iconic status as reasoning for the inclusion in the game, "Over the years, we've certainly had a number of conversations about guest characters. At one point, we had a conversation about having a group-imagine Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface from Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We never got a grip on how we would do it, whether they'd be DLC characters or what. We also wanted to introduce a character who was unexpected. This DLC thing opens the doors to realising these ideas." Krueger went on to become playable in the mobile edition of the game's sequel, Mortal Kombat X, alongside Jason from Friday the 13th.

In October 2017, Krueger was released as a downloadable playable character in the seventh chapter of the asymmetric survival horror game Dead by Daylight, alongside Quentin Smith. The events of the chapter are set immediately following Nancy Holbrook's escape from Krueger, after which he targets Quentin Smith as revenge for aiding her. Invading Smith's dreams, he forces him to go to the Badham Preschool, where the two are unwittingly taken to the universe of Dead by Daylight by an unseen force.

The character returned to television in an episode of The Goldbergs titled "Mister Knifey-Hands" with Englund reprising his role in a cameo. Freddy Krueger appears as an OASIS avatar in Ready Player One. He is among the avatars seen on the PVP location Planet Doom where he is shot by Aech.[citation needed ]

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Freddy Krueger () is a fictional character in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He first appeared in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) as the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well.

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The Wendigo is a creature from Algonquian folklore. I chose it because it provides a metaphor for aspects of human nature, particularly greed and moral decay. Described as a gaunt, skeletal being with an insatiable hunger, the Wendigo represents the extreme consequences of consuming human flesh, symbolizing the destructive power of unchecked desires. Its craving and transformation from human to monster through cannibalism reflect how excessive greed and selfishness can break down someone's humanity and lead to moral corruption. This mythical creature captures the essence of how extreme behaviors and ethical crimes can transform people into something monstrous, and highlights the dangers of allowing your desires to go unchecked.

In comparison, human nature can mirror the Wendigo's symbolism through the destructive potential of greed and isolation. It's endless hunger showcases moral failure and dehumanization, real greed and ethical compromises can lead to a loss of integrity and humanity. Moreover, the Wendigo's association with isolation and madness emphasizes the psychological impact of extreme stress and seclusion, which can drive people to irrational and harmful actions. This myth serves as a cautionary tale, revealing how human nature, when pushed to its limits by unchecked impulses and isolation, can devolve into a state of moral and psychological disintegration.

-Chelsea Burns

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Killer Croc, a prominent villain in the Batman universe, is characterized by his grotesque reptilian appearance and immense strength. Croc was born a human named Waylon Jones whose physical deformities and traumatic upbringing drive his criminal acts and deeply rooted anger. Killer Croc's character illustrates isolation and societal rejection, as his monstrous exterior mirrors his internal thoughts and isolation from the rest of the world. Croc often lives in the sewers to try and escape from the cruelty of humanity and run from his traumatic past. In the comics, Batman is the only human to call Croc by his real name Waylon displaying that Batman sees Croc for what he truly is a misguided figure. This complexity makes him a tragic figure who embodies the themes of alienation and the struggle between humanity and monstrosity, adding depth to his role as an antagonist.

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Cerberus was Hades' three-headed dog. As the Guardian of the Underworld, he ensured that no dead souls left and no living souls entered the realm. Standing with three heads and a serpents tail, this monster was terrifying, to say the least. Of the two heroes that were able to defeat him, one defeated him with his strength (Hercules) while the other defeated him by lulling him to sleep with a song (Orpheus).

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The character of Grendel from the story of Beowulf frightened many readers, including myself. This story was based on the Anglo-Saxon period. Grendel is a antagonist in the movie/book; a monster who shares the attributes of both a human and an animal and attacks people at night when everyone is asleep or places where there's music. No doubt AI did a wonderful job by presenting a creature like this on the big screen. Instead of Grendel being a hairy monster in the books, he was bare skinned in the movie which disgusted me. Grendel's claws could sweep up many at once which brought about a sense of danger warnings in everyone's (people in the Anglo- Saxon time) minds. The reason the monster does this is because he is jealous of humans who can spend their time in the day, where the light is present but he can only come out at night. He is miserable and therefore wishes all humans to be dead. While many look at Grendel as a powerful and savage character, I purely look at it with fear. If I was the individual who knew Grendel existed, there would be sleepless nights. I believe this monster wanted to control everyone's minds and he was successful doing that. His trauma had lead him to kill. he face of Grendel- his beard like face, his claws and his sharp teeth made me uneasy. The evil soul he became caused my sleepless nights when watching this movie and when reading the book. Humans would naturally be scared of a creature knowing they could be the next victims of death. He roamed around at night murdering people for 12 years. Imagine the horrific events people had to go through every night just knowing their passing was soon upon them. Grendel was so powerful that no one could anything to stop him. Beowulf, a character in the story, was driven to end this fright in people's minds. He showed courage like no one could and killed Grendel with his bare hands. Beowulf cut of Grendel's arm from his shoulder which made Grendel weak and finally died towards the end of the story.

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Today, sirens are often described as beautiful mermaids whose beauty and sexuality lure men to their deaths. However, ancient Greeks saw them in a different light. In Greek mythology, Sirens were half-woman, half-bird creatures that lured sailors to their deaths with songs. It was said that sirens lived on rocky islands in areas such as the western sea or the rocks of Scylla. They were said to be the daughters of the sea god Phorcys or the river god Ashelous. Similar to what is believed currently about sirens, they possess beautiful singing voices. The most popular song, "Siren's Song", is the song used to lure sailors in. The song consists of tempting lyrics that ironically only work on men. A siren's voice can also be used as a weapon, capable of shocking or outright killing anyone or anything that threatens them. They also have supernatural speed, which, as you can imagine would come in handy. Sirens also have weaknesses, for example, sirens are known as attention seekers. When Odysseus managed to survive their captivating song, and then threw themselves into the water surrounding their island, out of frustration.

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La Llorona is a myth about a vengeful ghost that haunts bodies of water. It is said that she mourns the death of her drowned children and if you hear her cries, misfortune will befall you. In other renditions of the myth, she wanders around and her cries lure men to their deaths. The origin of this story comes from a woman, who in a fit of rage, drowned her children when she discovered her husband was unfaithful.

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Slenderman is a fictional character that was created on an online forum. Created as part of a paranormal image editing contest, Slenderman is depicted as a tall, thin figure wearing a black suit and having a featureless face. He is often associated with unsettling themes of stalking, abduction, and psychological horror. The character has had a significant impact on popular culture, inspiring video games, movies, and even a dedicated following. However, Slenderman's influence also sparked real-life incidents, notably the tragic 2014 stabbing case in Wisconsin, where two girls attacked a classmate in an attempt to impress Slenderman, highlighting the complex relationship between fictional horror and reality.

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This is Edward Scissorhands where in his movie was seen as supernatural and scary, but as characters got to know him he was more timid and caring than they thought. On the outside, I would agree that he is scary, but on the inside, I don’t believe him to be scary at all. The more his character was portrayed the more the audience was able to understand him. I don’t think it’s how you look that makes you classified as “scary” but more how you act and behave that would make someone or something scary. For example, instead of Edward using his scissorhands for something bad, he used them to trim people’s hair and created sculptures out of bushes.

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Sandman is one of Spider-Mans most notable villains in the comics and movies. Sandman is one of my favorite movie villains of all time. In Spider-Man 3 we see Flint Marko become Sandman when he falls into a pit of sand and a turbine activates. Flint Marko is a criminal and steals to raise his sick daughter. Before he became Sandman one can say he was already a monster because of all the crimes he committed, but by the end, we realize his wrongdoings were all because of desperation. Flint believes what he is doing is okay because he is doing it for good reasons. "I didn't choose to be this. The only thing left of me now... is my daughter".

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Typhon is a creature straight out of humanity's worst nightmares. Imagine a giant with hundreds of snake heads, each breathing fire, and a lower body made entirely of writhing vipers. He's terrifying not just because of how he looks, but because he embodies raw, unstoppable chaos; immaculate power that the gods feared him. Typhon isn't just a monster because he's violent or powerful; he's monstrous because he's something we can't control or predict, like a force of nature that can break apart everything familiar. That's the real fear Typhon brings a reminder of what's beyond human strength and understanding.

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Fox Fire (New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree), Meisho Edo hakkei (One Hundred Views of Edo) series, Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858). Woodblock print.

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the mythical fox spirits of Japanese folklore, celebrated for their intelligence, enchantment, and almost ageless presence. These spirits embody both wisdom and playfulness, growing in power as they age. with each tail they gain marking a step closer to their full potential; A fully realized and nine-tailed kitsune. Known as a kyūbi no kitsune they are seen as nearly divine beings that are nigh on immortal. a being of indominable strength and unfathomable wisdom. Prolific and motivating in the fact they were once mortal beings that have evolved to deity like strength and wisdom.

In Japanese culture, kitsune are both feared and revered, appearing in stories, shrines, and artwork as reminders of the unknown forces around us. They embody the beauty of the unknown, and the allure of the supernatural.

Kitsune are creatures of two worlds, moving fluidly between the human and the spiritual. They possess the power to shape-shift, often appearing as beautiful women or wise elders.  they can conjure illusions and wield foxfire—kitsunebi—a ghostly flame that dances with supernatural power. This ability to shift shapes and cast spells lets kitsune blend into the mortal realm, sometimes guiding and protecting, at other times tricking and testing.

There are two main types of kitsune: zenko, the benevolent foxes who serve the Shinto deity Inari, often bringing blessings and guarding temples. And yako, the mischievous wild foxes who delight in pranks and clever deceptions. Regardless of their nature, kitsune are symbols of transformation, wisdom and longevity. beings who remind us that the lines between godly desire and reality, the human and the divine, are not insurmountable.