The following are major fictional characters in the series of slasher films A Nightmare on Elm Street. A Alice JohnsonAlice Johnson is a fictional character who was portrayed by Lisa Wilcox in the 1988 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and the 1989 sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Alice was a quiet girl who escaped from her dysfunctional homelife with her alcoholic father in daydreams. Her older brother, Rick, didn't take their father's abuse so passively, and sometimes fought back. Whenever Alice dreamed, she'd remember an old nursery rhyme about "the Dream Master" that her mother had taught her. She kept a mirror completely covered with pictures because she didn't want to see herself as she really was. As time passed and Alice accepted herself, she removed the pictures. In The Dream Master, Alice was a friend of Kristen Parker's; who her brother Rick dated. After her friends Kincaid and Joey were killed, Alice was pulled into Kristen's fight with Freddy Krueger, who was plaguing the children of Elm Street. When Kristen was killed, she passed her power to Alice, but it went through Freddy first, taking a part of himself into Alice. She was too late to save Kristen in the real world, however, and she burned to death.In The Dream Child, Freddy used the dreams of Alice's unborn son, Jacob, to murder more people, including Daniel Jordan, the father of Alice's baby. Freddy planned to use Jacob to be reborn into the real world. However, Alice, with help from the spirits of Amanda Krueger and Jacob, defeated Freddy once more and trapped him inside Amanda Krueger. Alice later gave birth to Jacob and moved away from Springwood.Alice remains the only one of Freddy's enemies to survive two encounters with him in battle. Amanda KruegerAt age 18, Amanda Krueger decided to become a nun, choosing "Mary Helena" as her name in Christ. Her first assignment as a nun was to care for the inmates in Westin Hills hospital, including the infamous tower (where the most insane patients were locked up). Only a few days away from Christmas, Amanda was accidentally locked in the tower when the guards were in a hurry to go home to their families. She was left alone with the inmates for several days, and she was brutally raped and beaten many times during this ordeal. When she was finally found, she was barely alive — and pregnant. Nine months later, Amanda gave birth to Frederick Charles Krueger (aka Freddy Krueger). Shortly after, the infant was given over to the state and adopted by Mr. Underwood, an abusive alcoholic. Amanda Krueger followed her son's trial after he was arrested for the murders of several neighborhood children. Freddy was released on a technicality and Amanda was distraught, committing suicide shortly after she heard the news. Amanda's body was never found. The tower where she hung herself was sealed and that wing of the hospital closed. A head stone was placed in the Springwood cemetery for "Sister Mary Helena".Amanda Krueger would return twice, in spirit form, to help those that were fighting her son Freddy. Her first appearance was in Dream Warriors. Amanda appeared as an old nun going by her name Sister Mary Helena, trying to help doctor Neil Gordon save the last Elm Street children. At the end Neil found her grave site and learned Freddy's mother had been helping them. The second time was in The Dream Child. After his defeat in the The Dream Master, Freddy used Amanda to give birth to him again in the dream world. Upon his return, he remained afraid of his mother's power and tried to keep her sealed away. Alice Johnson, the heroine of the film, needed to find Amanda's resting place so that this power could be used in the fight. She didn't have enough time to search, so she had a friend try and find the body. The body was found and Amanda's spirit was freed just in time to help Alice defeat Freddy. After his defeat, Freddy was left in his infant form, which Amanda then absorbed back into her. Eventually he escaped, continuing his reign of terror in Freddy's Dead.In Marvel Comics' non-canonical A Nightmare on Elm Street comic series, Amanda appears in a flashback depicting her rape and impregnation by the inmates of Westin Hills. Additionally, Innovation Publishing's Nightmares on Elm Street miniseries mentions her, with the implication being made that Freddy has rid himself of her permanently. In Westwood Studios' A Nightmare on Elm Street computer game for the Commodore 64 and IBM Personal Computer, Amanda appears throughout the game, dispensing hints and health to the player. D Dream DemonsThe Dream Demons are a trio of powerful serpentine entities and characters from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Little of the Dream Demons origin is revealed, their apparent and only motive seemingly being to find and empower the most twisted and depraved humans. The Dream Demons first appear in the film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, which reveals they are the power source of Freddy Krueger. When Freddy is killed by the mob of vigilantes after escaping justice for the crimes he did, the Dream Demons appear before him and offer him a deal - become an agent of their's and be given vast amounts of power and become "forever". Freddy accepts the Dream Demon's offer and they fuse with him, giving him the ability to kill people in their dreams. Near the end of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Freddy is dragged out from the dream world by his daughter, Maggie Burroughs, who blows him apart with a pipe bomb, which causes the Dream Demons to eject from his remains. As Freddy wasn't killed in the dream world, the Dream Demons are evidently unable to revive him, as they are implicated as having done after his "deaths" in previous films. The Dream Demons do not appear in Freddy vs. Jason, though Freddy still retains his dream powers; albeit weakened from his defeat in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. Andy Mangels' script for the third issue of the cancelled comic series A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning by Innovation Publishing offers more insight into the origin of the Dream Demons, revealing that when early creatures began to dream the energy of those dreams gathered together and created the Dream World and it's inhabitants - Good Dreams, Nightmares and the Dream Demons, who left the Dream World for Earth, seeking to cause havoc there. The script also introduces their Hell-bound and repulsive queen and reveals that the Dream Demons' serpentine forms are not their true forms and that their real bodies are a "hideous amalgamation of human, insect, fish and alien". Wildstorm's A Nightmare on Elm Street series of comics features a different type of Dream Demon unrelated to the one's empowering Freddy, one of Aztec origin that a group of teenage outcasts attempt to summon and have destroy Freddy. Donald ThompsonDonald Thompson (1932-1987) is a fictional character who appears in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). He was portrayed by John Saxon. Donald Thompson was born in 1932 and probably married Marge Thompson in the late 1950s. He joined the police force. In 1966 his daughter was born (Nancy Thompson). In 1968 he saw how child-killer Freddy Krueger was announced not guilty and participated in killing him (without a trial). In the early 1970s he got divorced with his wife Marge and Nancy Thompson stayed with her mother. By 1981 Donald became lieutenant.At that time Tina Grey, his daughter's friend, was murdered. He arrested Rod Lane as he was the primary suspect. Soon, however, Lane apparently committed suicide. However, his daughter kept on telling him that it was Freddy Krueger who was responsible and that he lived in the dreams of the teenagers. After the death of Nancy's boyfriend Glen Lantz Donald Thompson arrived to his house just in front of his daughter's and former wife's house. His daughter phoned him and told him to help her to catch Freddy. When Donald Thompson saw smoke coming out Nancy's house he rushed inside. As the police and Donald Thompson went upstairs, they saw a burning Freddy Krueger trying to strangle Marge Thompson. Donald Thompson tried to save her but it was too late and she burned to death. Soon afterwards his daughter ended up in a psychiatric clinic.After his daughter's release in 1982 Donald Thompson didn't talk much to her. He started to drink heavily and could hardly do his police duty. In 1987 he heard about a series of deaths in the clinic in Springwood his daughter worked in. Nancy Thompson and Dr. Neil Gordon came to Donald Thompson to ask him where Krueger was buried. At first Donald didn't tell anything and Nancy rushed to the clinic. However, Dr. Neil Gordon persuaded him to take him to the burial site. Once arrived in a junkyard the couple dug up the remains of Freddy Krueger. Suddenly the skeleton got up and attacked Dr. Neil Gordon. Donald Thompson tried to attack the skeleton of Krueger but was impaled on metallic tube. He then died as the tube went right through his heart. Shortly after the death of Kristen Parker, we briefly see his grave beside his daughter's, Kincaid's, and Kristen's in a cemetery.In the Nightmares on Elm Street comic miniseries by Innovation Publishing, set between the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Donald appears; the series reveals that ever since his death, Donald has been trapped in Freddy's realm, constantly tortured by him and unable ascend to the afterlife. When Freddy inacts a complex scheme to break through to the real world, he forces Donald into working for him, promising to allow him to die completely in exchange for killing Nancy.Encountering Nancy when she enters Freddy's world, Donald, on the verge of tears and begging for forgiveness for all he's done and what he is going to do, shoots her in the head. Donald's attempt at killing Nancy fails, due to her having become a being similar to Freddy; despite his attack on her, Nancy forgives Donald and finally ends his suffering by using her power to free him of Freddy's hold and allow him to ascend, after he leads her to Freddy's central lair. G Glen LantzGlen Lantz (1967-1984?) is a fictional character from the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of films. He was portrayed by Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Street in what was Johnny Depp's acting debut. Johnny Depp also appeared in the sixth Freddy film, although his role was much smaller. Glen Lantz is a student at Springwood High who is going out with Nancy Thompson. Both Nancy and her friend Tina have been having weird dreams about a creepy man with knives for fingers. Glen does not seem to be affected by these dreams because he knows that they aren't real and people tend to dream of something better later on. After Nancy comes to the realisation that Freddy Krueger only exists in dreams, she asks Glen to stay awake and act as a guard, so that if she starts acting strange, Glen can wake her up in time to save her. However, during one such encounter with Freddy, Glen falls asleep. Luckily for Nancy, she awakens from her nightmare. But she is mad at Glen for not following her instructions. One night, Nancy is locked inside her house by her drunken mother, who also placed bars on the window