Freddy Krueger vs. Michael Myers: 5 Reasons Freddy Would Win (5 Reasons Michael Might)

Firstly, we have Freddy Krueger. He’s the “Springwood Slasher” who comes to his victims while they sleep and terrorizes them in their nightmares, dressed in a hat and a red and black turtleneck sweater with cutting blades fitted on a glove. Burns covered his body as a permanent reminder of the damage he has caused to the families of his casualties. He is enough to scare anyone in the night.

Michael Myers (or “The Shape” as he was credited in the original Halloween movie in 1978), covers his face with an old dirty William Shatner Halloween mask and carries a giant butcher’s knife as his weapon of choice. He is enough to frighten anyone that crosses his path.

But what would happen if these two megastars of horror cinema met? Who would have the advantage? Who would be the last monster standing? Here are 5 reasons Freddy would win and 5 reasons Michael might:

10 Freddy: Has The Iconic Glove Of Blades

Jason V0orhees has his machete and Michael Myers has his long sharp kitchen knife as his weapon of choice, but one of the most iconic weapons in horror films is the glove. No, not the sparkling glove that was worn by the late “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, but the crafted hand leather glove with four switchblades — no blades on the thumb. The glove that has caused more bodily damage than any other glove worn by any boxing champion at any time.

Myers has one knife. Freddy’s got eight. This is a case of simple mathematics.

9 Michael Myers: Has Super Strength

Michael Myers seems to have the strength of ten men. He has survived the harshness of being set on fire as well as being shot numerous times. He may fall, but he always finds a way to get up. At six feet seven inches tall, Michael can pick-up a man his size with one arm and mount him to a door with a butcher’s knife with no effort at all.

As seen in Halloween 2, where he picks up a nurse off her feet with a scalping knife and holds her dangling body with one arm until her white nursing shoes fall off as his sister Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) watches in terror. The comparison here almost isn’t worth marking. If it came to fisticuffs, Michael would snap Freddy in half.

8 Freddy: Is Smarter Than Michael

Does intelligence really matter in this epic match-up of two of the most notorious killers of horror yesteryear? Certainly, it does. Freddy Krueger will out-wit Michael Meyers, brains over brawn. He is a cunning manipulator and antagonist, playing on Michael’s emotions and luring him into a world of confusion. Exposing Michael’s vulnerability would be inevitable.

It may take a lot of “slicing and dicing” to hurt Myers, but eventually, the homicidal maniac will fall, at least until the next installment of the celebrated franchise.

7 Michael Meyers: Freddy’s Weakness Is Fire

Where it seems that Michael has no weakness, Freddy’s is fire. Nicknamed the “The Springwood Slasher” for killing the children of Elm street, the parents of the children got their vengeance by burning him to death in a gasoline explosion in the boiler room where Freddy killed their children.

Yes, fire is a deterrent for anyone including Michael Myers, but he sees it similar to a fly that he must swat because it is aggravating him. He has no fear that it is going to kill him, just an inconvenience he must overcome to continue his rampage of violence. But for Freddy, it’d may as well be kryptonite.

6 Freddy: Kills On Any Day, Regardless Of The Occasion

It does not have to be a full moon, someone’s wedding or birthday, Freddy kills any and every day. He is not tied to the anniversary of his first kill on Halloween. Freddy will not wait to seek revenge that sparks an emotional connection of something that is tied to his childhood like Myers.

Dressed in a clown costume, Michael killed his oldest sister on Halloween night and that led to him being committed to a mental institution under the care of Dr. Samuel Loomis. After 17 years, dawning a faded Captain Kirk mask painted in white and a butcher knife, he comes back to Haddonfield to pick up where he left off.

5 Michael Myers: Is The Embodiment Of Pure Evil

No, he is not something that has been brought back to life, and he’s not a zombie with supernatural abilities like his horror doppelganger of the Friday the 13th series. Although at times it seems that way, the simple explanation is that he is just evil. There is no taunting, no madman genius formula, Michael kills because he enjoys it.

Like the doctor that treated him for 15 years in the Smith’s Grove Warren County Sanitarium, Dr. Loomis stated, “I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale emotionless face, and the blackest eyes; the devil’s eyes.” He is the embodiment of pure evil.

4 Freddy: Can Prey On Michael’s Emotions

Although Michael Myers is a killer of epic proportions, he has the tendency to get emotional. As seen In Halloween 5, when his niece, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) calls him uncle, he takes off his mask and sheds a tear. This is something that Freddy would relish and play to his advantage. Michael’s emotions seem to distract him, making him hesitant at times, staring at his soon to be victims with his head slightly tilted as if he is in a state of confusion. This may prove to be a fatal flaw against the likes of Freddy.

3 Michael Myers: Never Sleeps

Michael seems to never sleep, and this is a big problem for a deranged serial killer who kills while his victims are in a suspension of consciousness. There would be no dream state in which Freddy can catch him. Yes, Michael has been in a coma, but not really a dream state.  But then again when someone is in a coma, they appear to be unconscious, not responding to touch, sound, or pain. But the brain does not seem to be in the normal sleep-wakefulness cycle, thus not dreaming.

Here, a clear advantage goes to Michael.

2 Freddy: Is Invincible In The Dreamworld

It is very hard, almost impossible to kill Freddy Krueger in the dream world. He has to be pulled into the real world to endure lasting harm. Freddy can manipulate anything in this dream state. He can become anything or anyone and use a person’s strengths against them.

Therefore, in the dream world, Freddy will become more powerful than Michael. Michael’s fate might compare to Johnny Depp’s character’s death in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street where he gets swallowed by his bed, then it erupts like a volcano, a continuous fountain of blood.

1 Michael Meyers: Has No Fear

Freddy cannot kill you unless you give him the fear to do so. As he so famously quoted, he “is the stuff that nightmares are made of. The children feared me, and their fear gave me the power to invade their dreams, and that’s when the fun really began.”

Michael Myers has no fear. He does have an emotional connection with his sister Laurie and her daughter, but that is not fear. His connection with his killing is a passion, a need for his existence. But to be afraid, Myers does not understand the concept of fear, therefore Freddy’s journey to defeat this phenom would be strenuous and futile.

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