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Maggie Burroughs
Maggie Burroughs
Maggie Burroughs
Aliases: Kathryn Krueger
Franchise: Nightmare on Elm Street
Notability: Main character
Type: Psychiatrist
Gender: Female
Location: Central City, Ohio
Springwood, Ohio
Associations: Recovery House Youth Shelter
Known relatives: Freddy Krueger
Loretta Krueger
Amanda Krueger
Edward Underwood
Freddy Krueger's father
Status: Deceased [1]
Born: 1961 [2]
Introduction: Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Final: Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors #5
Actor: Lisa Zane
Cassandra Rachel Friel

Maggie Burroughs is a fictional counselor and a central character featured in the Nightmare on Elm Street multimedia franchise. She was the main protagonist in the 1991 film sequel Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, where she was played by actress Lisa Zane. Actress Cassandra Rachel Friel played young Maggie in flashback scenes.

Biography[]

Nightmare Wiki[]

Kathryn Krueger was the daughter of Frederick Krueger and Loretta Krueger. She was still a little girl when children from the neighborhood of Springwood, Ohio went missing and were found dead. Soon after Loretta learned that down in the basement of the house, Freddy had a secret room where he kept many different tools of torture, newspaper clippings, versions of his famous glove, and more. Promising that "she won't tell," she was strangled to death by Freddy in front of a six-year old Kathryn for "snooping in daddy's special work." In 1966, Freddy was arrested for the murders of the missing children and Kathryn was put into foster care and was later adopted by the Burroughs family. Her records were subsequently sealed and she was moved away from Springwood.

After a decade of slaughtering all the children of Springwood in their dreams, there were no children left. The remaining adults were kept in a mass psychosis after their children had been murdered. When there was no one left to kill, Freddy sought to leave Springwood — hoping to continue his murder spree in another town, full of more children. Only one person could arrange for this— his long-lost daughter, Kathryn. He used what was left of his supernatural powers to find his daughter, who was now an adult named Maggie Burroughs who was working as a counselor to troubled teens in another city. Since her mother's death, Maggie was raised by adoptive parents and had suppressed the horrible memories of her early childhood.

After two cops brought John Doe to the shelter, Maggie questioned him and discovered a newspaper clipping with the headline "Krueger Woman Still Missing." She took him back to Springwood to find answers about his past. Before John Doe died by Freddy's hands, he revealed to Maggie that Freddy didn't have a son. Later, Maggie had a dream of her past about her family, in which she met Freddy, who revealed to her that she was his daughter. After she woke up, she went home and discovered her adoption certificate. Freddy attempted to sway her to help him do his bidding. She proved that a thirst for murder was not hereditary, and schemed with Doc to destroy Krueger once and for all. After pulling him out of her dream, a small scuffle between father and daughter occurred, which resulted in Maggie shoving a pipe bomb into Krueger's chest, before running away. After she killed him and released the Dream Demons that had given him his power, Krueger was sent back to Hell. Afterwards, she smiled and replied to Doc and Tracy, "Freddy's dead." [3]

Notes & Trivia[]

  • Per the comic book timeline, Maggie Burroughs was five-years-old when her father claimed his first victim, Alice Neely, who was two years older than Maggie at the time of her death. [4]

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  1. Maggie's living status indicated here is reflective of expanded licensed material, which may not necessarily be considered part of official New Line Cinema canon.
  2. The year of birth is approximated based on the notion that Maggie is 30-years-old at the time of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, which operates on the assumption that the events of the film take place in the same year in which it was released.
  3. A Nightmare on Elm Street Wiki; Katherine Krueger/Maggie Burroughs; Biography: Early Life; The Beginning; Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
  4. A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning 1

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