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| “ | It hurts doesn’t it? That’s cause your in my world now bit*h! | „ |
| ~ Nancy before slashing Krueger’s throat |
Nancy Holbrook is the main protagonist of the 2010 remake of Wes Craven's cult classic 1984 slasher horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Her character is based on Nancy Thompson in 1984's original A Nightmare on Elm Street, but according to her appearance the film, she seems more similiar to Lori Campbell in Freddy vs. Jason.
She was portrayed by Academy Award-nominated actress Rooney Mara.
Personality[]
Actress Rooney Mara describes Nancy as being "the loneliest girl in the world." She's lonely, quiet and socially awkward, but strong.
When she first makes an appearance in the movie, she seems headstrong in her belief that she saw the same man that her friend Kris Fowles saw in her dreams.
However, when confronted on this by Jesse later in the film, she denies knowing what he's talking about. Nancy is an artist who paints in her bedroom.
Her life[]
Nancy works as a waitress at the Springwood Dinner and a student at Springwood High School. One night, she saw her friend Dean sleeping and woke him, telling him that he couldn't fall asleep in the diner.
Then, her friend Kris arrives. When Nancy leaves, Freddy kills Dean and Dean cuts his throat out right in front of Kris. At the funeral, Kris sees a photograph of her and Dean as kids. Kris' ex-boyfriend, Jesse was hostile with Nancy.
At home, Nancy begins to fall asleep while Freddy comes out of the wall to kill her. When she woke up, the wall was back to normal. Then, Kris dies by Freddy in her dreams.
Then, Nancy and her friend, Quentin begin to find out that they met at Preschool a long time ago. Then, Nancy's mother Gwen tells them the truth about Freddy Krueger.
Freddy was a gardener back then at the preschool who loved the children and the children loved him Freddy was accused of hurting their children.
Then, the parents of Springwood follow Freddy, kill Freddy with fire in the boiler room, and want their children to forget how they met Freddy. Then, Gwen tells Nancy that she is Freddy's favorite child.
After a confrontation with Quentin's father, they go to the pharmacy, so Quentin can refill his prescription.
Then, Nancy has been awake for a long time and has begun to shut down. Inside the pharmacy, she has a micro-nap where she's attacked by Freddy. Before Freddy attacks her, she rips his sweater off a little and realizes that she can pull things out of her dreams.
When she got hurt, Quentin rushed her to the hospital. After Nancy and Quentin left the hospital, they went to the preschool which closed down.
Then, they find Freddy's secret cave and find evidence that Freddy had hurt them and was killing them because they were telling the truth about Freddy.
When they find out the truth, Nancy goes to sleep to find and pull Freddy out while Quentin falls asleep and is almost fatally wounded by Freddy.
In the dreams, Freddy tortures Nancy and tells her that when she finally falls asleep, she'll never wake up again. Awakened by her screams, Quentin heard Nancy was in trouble and tried to wake her up, but Nancy couldn't.
So, he uses adrenaline to wake up Nancy. Then, Nancy pulls Freddy out of her dreams. Then, they battle Freddy with Nancy slitting Freddy's throat with the paper cutter blade.
Then, Nancy burns the preschool down and they're taken away by ambulance. The film ends with Nancy forgiving her mother for the trauma of the entire situation, but Freddy comes through the mirror and kills Nancy's mother, leaving her screaming as the film fades to black.
Powers & Skills[]
Powers[]
- Dream Power: In addition to being Freddy Kruegder's favorite kid in childhood, grants Nancy the power to be the only person who can enter the nightmares and pull out Krueger or objects of his into reality.
Abilities[]
- Improvised Weapon Proficiency: Nancy is proficient in improvising objects for weaponry against danger. Like wielding a syringe to stab the tip of a needle into the ear of Krueger before getting thrown backward, and grabbing a board as a shield against his razor blade hand, before grabbing the paper cutter blade to slice off the killer’s hand and fatally cutting his head clean off effortlessly. In a deleted alternate ending, she demonstrates proficiency enrage uses a baseball bat to repeatedly strike at the ghost in human form before hitting cans of gasoline onto him to be burned to death a second time.
- Strong-Willed: During the film, Holbrook displayed a great amount of courage and determination in the encounters with Freddy Krueger. Since her childhood, Nancy has always been a quiet outsider who still tried to stand out when she could and once having visions of Krueger she began to remember that he was connected with her past she came up with techniques to remain awake from him entering her dreams. After gathering enough clues alongside Quentin, the two embarked on driving to the old pre-school to confront the Killer entity by falling completely asleep knowing that she could remove part of his sweater into the real world then she could bring him out to it as well. In the dream world, she calls out to Freddy to come after her, which he does before entering a dream of her being in her house to hide from him in a closet until he has her pinned down to her bed as she was too deeply tired to awaken as it was his plan all along to trap her there which almost worked, however after being injected with adrenaline by her boyfriend to come back up to full strength she pulls Krueger out to bravely fight against the entity.
- Sketch Artist: Ever since she was 5 years old she was a good drawer, in her downtime she spends her evenings drawing sketch art with unique details in pencil drawings.
- Great Researcher: In the crisis of facing Krueger, she was even able to gather clues and facts in her visions of him and do research on how it connects to her memories. Nancy found out that her classmates were all together and knew that their parents were withholding about it after finding a photograph that had the names of all the other kids involved by looking them up online and the results of how each of them died in the nightmares. However, after one victim posted a video of speaking about how Freddy came after him to chase him into the pre-school’s basement she realized that was where she and Quentin had to go for answers and found them.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Final Destination 3 actress Amanda Crew auditioned for the role of Nancy.
- Nancy is based on Nancy Thompson in the original Nightmare film.
- Nancy bears character and story similarities with Lori Campbell in Freddy vs. Jason.
- Both having their mother killed by Freddy Krueger, Nancy's mother at the end of the film while Lori's mother has died prior to the event of her film.
- Both being the lonely, quiet girl at the beginning of the film and transforms into a stronger character after their encounters with Freddy.
- Both brought Freddy out from their nightmares prior to their final encounters.
- Both being harassed by Freddy before bringing him out from their nightmares.
- Both repeated Freddy's line before killing him by blades.
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Alice Johnson | Amanda Krueger | Lisa Webber | Donald Thompson | Dream Warriors | Nancy Thompson (remake) | Neil Gordon | Heather Porter | Quentin Smith | Jesse Walsh | Kristen Parker Others | ||