Freddy Krueger VS Pennywise is a What-If? episode of Death Battle, featuring Freddy Krueger from the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street and Pennywise the Clown from the movie IT.
Description[]
Freddy Krueger VS Pennywise the Clown. Which notorious child killer will be victorious?
Interlude[]
Wiz: Fear, the emotion which many villains feed on.
Boomstick: And their targets? Children!
Wiz: Like Freddy Krueger, the killer of dreamers and creator of nightmares.
Boomstick: And Pennywise, the clown who knows what you're afraid of.
Wiz: I'm Wizard and he's Boomstick and it's our job to analyse their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Freddy Krueger[]
(Cue Nightmare on Elm Street Theme)
Wiz: Fredrick Charles "Freddy" Krueger was the notorious child killer living on Elm Street, known as the Springwood Slasher.
Boomstick: But before he became a killer, he had a reasonably grotesque childhood.
Wiz: Born in the September of 1942, he was the offspring of a nun who worked at an insane asylum. When Amanda Krueger was accidentally locked in a room with a hundred maniacs, they repeatedly raped and abused her. So much so that when the other staff members found her months later, she was barely alive and pregnant.
Boomstick: After his mother died during childbirth, Freddy was placed with Mr. Underwood, who was an abusive alcoholic. And if that wasn't bad enough, he got picked on at school for being the son of 100 maniacs, causing him to murder the school's hamster.
Wiz: It didn't get any better as he cut himself with a razor in his adult years regularly, taking pleasure inflicting pain on himself.
Boomstick: Then, he inevitably killed his abusive father with that same razor.
Wiz: To take revenge on all those who picked on him, he became the local child killer, torturing and slashing kids who he kidnapped.
Boomstick: Holy crap! Spiderman's just lucky he's not part of this neighborhood.
Wiz: He was eventually caught, but due to a technicality in court, he was released without charge.
Boomstick: So the parents decided, "Screw it" and set his house on fire with him still inside, but he wasn't dead for good.
Wiz: Fortunately for Freddy, he made a bargain with cabal of malevolent entities, known as the Dream Demons.
Boomstick: What those things? Look like what I have under my front porch.
Wiz: Allowing him to return and kill any child from Springwood in their sleep. Making him a Dream Master. Allowing him to Enter Dreams, influence them to a great extend, and make the persons greatest fear come true.
Boomstick: Even though he wasn't given another physical body, he could enter people's dreams and kill them, somehow killing them in real life as well.
Wiz: He is functionally immortal. And is unable to be killed within the Dream World.
Boomstick: In the dream world, he has shown many abilities, including high regeneration, which allows him to heal any injuries, even if one of his limbs is severed. Along with that, he can use telekinesis and shape-shifting.
Wiz: Limitless shape shifting, that is. Freddy is able to assume any form, in part or wholem without any weaknesses the form has within the bounds of the dream world. From seductive women, to turning his claws into heroin syringes...
Boomstick: ... To a goddamn TV set! Ha! You thought Comcast was bad!
Wiz: He is not just limited to shape shifting himself. He can also change the shapes and intents of objects and people within the Dreamscape. Making murder weapons out of anything he pleases, including making a Marionette out of blood, or even turning people into paper.
Boomstick: He can be invisible and intangible when he wants to be, Read and Control Minds, Possession, Manipulate Perception of Time in Dreams... Oh and he EATS SOULS!
Wiz: Yes, he is mainly powered and driven to kill because those he kills he absorbs their soul inside of him. Thus gaining their power.
Boomstick: But his most iconic weapon is his trademark claw glove, which is what he mainly uses to kill his targets. I have one of them at home.
Wiz: Wh-What do you use it for?
Boomstick: Mainly chopping carrots.
Wiz: Even though he's essentially the embodiment of fear in dreams, he is not without Weaknesses. For one, he can be pulled out of the dream world by a Strong enough will, making him mortal and causes him to lose the majority of his abilities, though he does retain his Strength, Durability, some minor powers, and his efficiency with his iconic clawed glove.
Boomstick: Along with that, he can withstand more damage than regular humans, but can die in the real world. But unlike several villains who use fear, Freddy does have something he's afraid of: fire!
Wiz: Though this is understandable as it was the instrument that was used in his demise. Freddy is also tied to Fear and Belief. Particularly Fear and Belief in Freddy Krueger. Without people fearing Freddy or nobody to believe in him anymore, he is unable to inhabit dreams. And his effect on people is directly tied to their fear of him.
Boomstick: He also has a lot of physical weaknesses. Holy Water, Crucifixes, and... Mirrors?
Wiz: Yes, Mirrors force Freddy to relive every torment he has inflicted on others. And over the years, that has been a lot. Freddy also has borrowed his powers from Dream Demons, and they can take them all back if they wish to. Including his immortality.
Boomstick: Either way you better lock your door and grab your crucifix. Because 1,2 Freddy's Coming for you.
(Scene of Freddy killing Jennifer)
Pennywise[]
Wiz: Since before the beginning of time there has existed a great evil, one in which can embody the greatest fears of men...
Boomstick: CLOWNS! I keep a shotgun nearby for those smiling bastards.
Wiz: Consumption. And you always keep a shotgun nearby, Boomstick. Anyway, the Nameless Evil only known as IT is an Outer God who exists outside the veils of time and space, in a Realm between the universes known as the Todash Darkness. It is the Primordial Enemy of Maturin, the benevolent Turtle who coughed up the entire Universe.
Boomstick: What, GOD is a Giant Turtle? Better be nicer to those snappers...
Wiz: No, God in the books is... Nevermind. IT existed for eternity outside the veil to Time and Space in an eternal battle between itself and Maturin, but for some inconceivable Reason, IT decided to leave the Macroverse, and come to Earth...
Boomstick: CRASHING DOWN LIKE A METEOR. Seriously, they need to make Metal Albums about that. From there it went into Hibernation until humans began to settle near IT in Derry, Maine.
Wiz: Well actually, Derry is an extension of IT. From then on it would arise every 27 years to terrorize the town. Usually awaken by an act of great violence, Like when a lumberjack when on an ax murder spree, or when the denizens of Derry gunned down the Bradley Gang.
Boomstick: After IT's awakenings, they were followed by great acts of violence, mainly devouring children. But sometimes they were as large as the explosion at the Iron Works factory killing over 100 people.
Wiz: But despite these catastrophes, the citizens of Derry never seems to remember the great violence of the town. And despite Derry's missing and murdered people rate being that of 6 times the national average, these strange happenings have never been reported by the media.
Boomstick: Well, that's pretty screwed up. "Oh, lots of kids are dying in a town? Nah, that's totally not important. We need to report on a new pop star!"
Wiz: Actually it's due to ITs control of the town. After each cycle people in the town of Derry tend to forget about the violence, and the adults of the town are prone to ignore violence even as it's occuring. In a process called the Forgetting, IT can force people to forget about any events or things it wishes. People will even forget about IT if they came face to face with IT. The Loser's club, the group of kids that fight against IT, forget all about their encounter with the shape shifting beast after their altercation.
Boomstick: What, they forgot about a Clown with sharp teeth and claws? Talk about a bad night of Drinking.
Wiz: Going by many names: Bob Grey, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Consumption, or simply IT; IT mainly prefers to hunt children, because of their boundless imagination. This allows for bottomless fear, which IT akins to "salting the meat." Because of this IT rarely likes to eat adults because of their more rigid minds, but IT still seems capable of controlling them.
Boomstick: IT also has a vast variety of abilities that aids in ITs hunt. IT can shapeshift into any form IT pleases, from people, to Werewolves, to GIANT BIRDS. But it prefers the deepest fears of its prey. In addition, IT can read the minds of anyone in ITs presence being able to find their real fear...
Wiz: IT is also capable of creating illusions, so it doesn't have to be present to cause fear in it's Victims. But the illusions of IT can only be perceived by people who believe in ITs existence. Only further creating fear by people not noticing the blood coming from your sink. IT also is shown to manipulate the laws of reality, such as pushing away small drains to make room for itself, or making a Statue of Paul Bunyan come to life to attack the children.
Boomstick: Did that really happen?
Wiz: Yes.
Boomstick: Awesome. IT can control the weather, kill plants by touching them, Teleport, Move things with ITs mind; Plus, he has some of the most crazy acrobatic skills I've ever seen.
Wiz: If nothing else works it can also assume ITs true form.
Boomstick: A giant spider?
Wiz: No. The Deadlights. The Deadlights are the truest Manifestation of IT. Upon looking at them, humans are known to go insane or even die staring at them. He can also pull people into the Deadlights bringing them face to face with ITs true form in all ITs glory. Being an Outer God IT is truly immortal, and ITs unclear if IT can ever really be killed.
Boomstick: So what's with the Spider.
Wiz: The Spider is the closest thing to ITs true form the humans can perceive. So it often takes this form as a last ditch effort. Despite all Ultimate Cosmic Power IT isn't without weaknesses. IT is bound by the reality that IT inhabits, and while IT may manipulate those rules, IT must follow the laws of the universe IT is in. For example, IT views itself as superior to humans, making IT underestimate them and can make mistakes or do illogical things as a result.
Boomstick: IT is also physically sensitive, meaning that the power of friendship can triumph over IT.
Wiz: Well, that's actually due to the Ritual of Chüd. A special mental battle that can be engaged with IT. Powerful positive feelings seem to damage IT. Not only that, but whatever IT morphs into has to obey the laws of that object, this also has the drawback of sharing the weaknesses of the form. So if IT transforms into a Werewolf, IT is weak to Silver.
Boomstick: And during ITs 27 year power naps, IT is vulnerable to attack, and could be killed in ITs physical form.
Wiz: And while IT has incredible regeneration abilities, IT can be physically harmed, and possibly even be killed.
Boomstick: This is one clown that you better be scared of, or else...
(Scene of IT in the Storm Drain: "YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!" bearing IT's teeth.)
Pre-Fight[]
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, let's finish the debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
Fight[]
It's the night before Pennywise's awakening and his chance to terrorize the town once again. Suddenly, Pennywise dreams of an old, abandoned infirmary. Looking around the new environment, someone shouts from above.
???: Welcome to my world.
Pennywise looks up and sees Freddy on a higher floor, before laughing hysterically and provoking him.
Pennywise: Haha, haha! Your world? This is nothing compared to mine!
Freddy: Really? Then you shall know true fear soon enough.
Freddy jumps down onto the arena-like platform Pennywise is on.
FIGHT!
Freddy begins the fight by stretching his clawed hand towards Pennywise, who barely dodges the attack and gets grazed on the face. Freddy then rushes towards Pennywise and they engage in hand-to-hand combat. Just as Pennywise was going to attack Freddy when he was open, he is suddenly launched towards the wall. After hitting the wall, Freddy uses his telekinesis to launch Pennywise into seven more walls before dropping him. Pennywise, unfazed by the onslaught, gets up, transforms into a werewolf and begins his assault on Freddy. Meanwhile, Freddy grows another set of claws on his left arm. Pennywise and Freddy then slash at each other with their claws, but Pennywise manages to tear off one of Freddy's arms.
Freddy: ARRGH!
Pennywise then shakes the hand.
Pennywise: *while shaking the hand* Pleased to meet you! Sorry, I need a HAND.
Freddy smirks as the hand grips onto Pennywise, clawing into the hand.
Freddy: Quit Clowning around.
The handshakes violently, like a cartoon as Pennywise's bones begin to crack, the hand then flings Pennywise into the wall. Camera pans out to show Freddy already attached to the Hand again.
Freddy: HAHAHA! You're in my world, Clown.
Pennywise: *Transforms into winged leeches* We'll see about that!
The leeches Pennywise turned into all fly towards Freddy, who shreds them like ribbons. Pennywise then makes it rain, surrounding the arena with water, and transforms into a shark. He then attempts to charge and eat Freddy, who grabs the shark's jaws and tosses the shark on its side, before attempting to impale it. However, Pennywise turns into a swarm of piranhas, causing Freddy to impale a small group of the piranhas as they escape through the grate. Then, Pennywise turns back into a clown, teleports behind Freddy and bites him in the neck, ripping out some of the flesh around it. However, Freddy regenerates the lost skin and goes to stab Pennywise, but Pennywise does a back flip to avoid it.
Freddy: Why won't you die!?
Pennywise ignores Freddy and kicks him down, pinning Freddy to the floor. He then grabs Freddy and holds him high, strangling him. Freddy sees this as his opportunity to strike and stabs Pennywise's right arm, causing him to drop Freddy. Enraged by this, Pennywise turns invisible and summons lots of balloons, obscuring Freddy's sight. Meanwhile, Pennywise regenerates his lost arm. He then creates illusions of himself, making them attack Freddy with quick and rapid succession. After Freddy takes a few hits, he gets angry and calls fire, useing it to destroy the balloons as well as the illusions. Pennywise then removes his invisibility and starts the finale of the fight.
Pennywise and Freddy: Now, it's time for you to die!
Saying it simultaneously, the two combatants begin their final assault, with Pennywise turning into the giant spider and Freddy turning into the super-villain form of himself. Pennywise starts by firing webs at Freddy, who dodges them and gets in close. Pennywise tries to step on Freddy with one of his legs, to which Freddy replies by grabbing his leg and ripping it out of the spider. Startled, Pennywise loses his balance and collapses on the floor, transforming back into his original form.
Pennywise: How is this possible?
Freddy: Because I'm your worst nightmare come true.
Pennywise growls, then rushes at Freddy and knocks him to the ground, but as he hit the floor, Freddy summoned 2 pairs of arms from a nearby wall and bound Pennywise. The clown, now struggling to break free, is met face-to-face with Freddy.
Freddy: Lights out!
In one swift movement, Freddy slashes at the clowns throat and green blood spews out, with Pennywise's head falling and rolling on the ground. Freddy tips his hat and begins to walk away. But a voice from above.
Pennywise: EXCUSE ME! DO YOU HAVE PRINCE ALBERT IN A CAN?
Freddy turns, and to his horror, there is Pennywise, strattling the railing in the floor above.
Pennywise: YOU DO!? WELL YA BETTER LET EM OUT! HUH HA HUH HA HUH HA! *rattles a noise-maker.*
Freddy: How is this possible!?
Pennywise: Nice world you have here *Pennywise gets off the railing, his eyes glowing orange.* So much less... limiting.
Balloons appear around Freddy, swelling and popping with the smell of Kerosene. Freddy stares as the walls retreat behind Pennywise revealing only the void, and giant eyes filling the vision open behind a Pennywise, glowing a sickly Orange. The kerosene lights on fire, surrounding Freddy. Freddy begins to Panic.
Pennywise: I am older than you can imagine. I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I'm your worst dream come true. *Freddy tries to run from the fire, slowly catching on fire. The fire parts as Pennywise walks through it, his eyes glowing orange* I am everything you are afraid of.
Pennywise grabs Freddy, and pulls him into the Deadlights.
Freddy awakes in a spaceless void, surrounded by Writhing Orange light. His eyes set on a dead turtle floating in the midst of nothingness. Then two giant eyes open in front of him.
Pennywise: Welcome to the Deadlights. *His voice fills the entire area, but the voice comes from within Freddy's head..*
Freddy: Where am I!?
Pennywise: Outside the physical realm, in the space between worlds. This is my true form. The Deadlights. I rule this shapeless place of soul energy.
Freddy tries to coprehend the shapeless shapes, his mind fracturing. He screams out as the Deadlights surround him.
Pennywise: I will drive you crazy, I will torment you. Then I will kill you.
Freddy stops screaming, and smiles.
Freddy: Did you say: "Soul Energy?"
If a look of shock can be said to have had on a shapeless void, IT contorts and screams in horror as IT draws into Freddy's mouth and everything goes black.
The planet earth. A small speck on the endless eternity. Shining as a blue marble in the blackest black. A claw begins to enwrap the Earth, and two eyes, each the size of the Earth itself open, both consumed with writhing orange lights. A silhouette of a Fedora focuses into view above the eyes.
Freddy: Now begins a new nightmare.
K.O!
Freddy Cackles while gripping the earth in his claw.
Post-Fight Analysis[]
Boomstick: That's not good...
Wiz: It's clear by invading in the Dream Realm Freddy had the initial advantage. His mastery over the Dream Realm gave him God Like Powers.
Boomstick: But, despite the ability to read minds, Freddy has never been able to read the mind of God-Like entities. Otherwise he would have figured out the fears of the Dream Demons and released his control from them.
Wiz: And while IT is shown in the books to be capable of Fear, there is no way for Freddy to know what Fears to exploit. So his power in IT's dreams where limited.
Boomstick: But IT's powers were not.
Wiz: Because, as explained before, IT's powers are initially limited by the Universe he inhabits, and the dream world is by definition not limited by the logic of the real world. So IT was able to tap more into IT's cosmic power, and survive things that might otherwise kill IT.
Boomstick: And because IT could read Freddy's mind, because it's essentially human, it could find out Freddy's worst fear and turn that against him.
Wiz: This and ITs ability to make people in Derry forget about Freddy, would have been enough to defeat Freddy for good. But the biggest factor was a flaw with IT. IT constantly underestimates IT's opponents, and prefers to play with IT's food before killing them.
Boomstick: Freddy could have fought back with his immense mental abilities, but because he was such a depraved guy, he didn't possess the Hippy Groove Waves that the Ritual of Chüd requires.
Wiz: And IT, being able to read Freddy's mind, decided enough was enough and just pulled him out of the Dream World, and into the Dead Lights, this sealed his fate. The Deadlights are essentially a Mystical Soul-Like Energy.
Boomstick: And remember the Freddy can EAT SOULS!
Wiz: Upon eating those souls, Freddy would've gained the souls powers, which in this case is ultimate.
Boomstick: Yeah, should we be worried about that.
Wiz: Oh, it will be fine.
Boomstick: Oh well, Looks like this clown's had his last laugh.
Wiz: The winner is Freddy Krueger.
| “ | Wes Craven and Stephen King's scariest monsters come to duel in this horrifying Halloween DEATH BATTLE! | „ |
| ~ Tagline |
Freddy Krueger VS Pennywise is a Death Battle written by Dimentio, featuring Freddy Krueger from the horror film franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street against Pennywise from the horror novel IT in a battle of child murderers who weaponize fear to kill their victims.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Freddy Krueger, the dream-haunting Springwood slasher.
Boomstick: And Pennywise, the sewer-dwelling feeder of fear!
Wiz: We’re all afraid of something. It doesn’t matter how brave you think you are, phobias are permanently ingrained into our minds.
Boomstick: Would be a reeeaaalll shame if some creepy crawlies were gonna exploit fear for their own messed up purposes, wouldn’t it? Oh wait, that’s exactly what these two freaks do!
Wiz: For this battle, both monsters will be fully composited, meaning that Pennywise will get stuff like the 90s miniseries…and the movies…and I guess the other Stephen King novels where it’s applicable?
Boomstick: Yeah, he doesn’t have much other stuff to go over.
Wiz: As for Krueger, he’ll be getting any tie-in novels and comics, his TV show, Freddy’s Nightmares, any video game appearances, or any other miscellaneous media.
Boomstick: The only real exceptions are Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, cuz it’s arguable if that entity even is Freddy, and the 2010 reboot, because let’s be honest, nobody wants us to discuss that. He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick!
Wiz: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win…a Death Battle.
Your Greatest Nightmare, Freddy Krueger![]
Wiz: Things were never truly right in the small town of Springwood, Ohio. Although on the surface it seemed like a normal everyday town, the children there were constantly tormented by something.
Boomstick: And whatever this thing was wasn’t something that could’ve been really dealt with. It wasn’t something as simple as say, some bully being a prick on the playground.
Wiz: You see, the tormentor was hiding in the one place where anybody should be safe. While they were deep in rest. In their dreams. Surprisingly, the kids described a recurring element.
Boomstick: A dude lurking in their head with a sick fedora, even more sick blade claw, less sick striped sweater, and a face like burnt cheese on a pizza pie? Could only be the work of one Freddy Krueger!
Wiz: Indubitably. Krueger wasn’t always a tormentor of everything that breathed and was under 20, though. Buckle up, his story is really messed up. Even from birth!
- Background:
- Name: Frederick “Freddy” Charles Krueger
- Alias: The Dream Demon, the Springwood Slasher
- Occupations: Serial killer, haunter of dreams, sung an album that one time
- Age: At least 26 (age of death)
- Got into Ready Player One, Mortal Kombat, and Dead by Daylight
- Played by Robert Englund (based)
- Has too many quotable lines to just put one
Boomstick: Y’see, Freddy’s mother, Amanda, used to work at a mental asylum, until she got trapped with a hundred of the mental patients and they…raped her.
Wiz: Shortly after, Amanda was found, barely alive, and Freddy was born. Naturally, he was sent from foster home to foster home, eventually ending up in the care of one “Mr. Underwood”.
Boomstick: And of course, since this is the backstory of a horror movie villain, this guy was a huge abusive prick! Ol’ Fred getting bullied at school didn’t help things out either.
Wiz: This led to Freddy doing things like killing small animals for fun, cutting himself, and killing his foster dad.
Boomstick: Hey, you gotta give him props, though! He turned his life around! He moved to Springwood, got a job at a power plant, got himself a wife, and even a kid. Looks like he got past his trauma. Good for him!
Wiz: It would seem that way, but things were a lot worse than what anyone could’ve thought. Just underneath both Freddy’s domestic exterior and the power plant was a dark secret. Freddy was a child murderer, through and through.
Boomstick: He killed a bunch of kids, all of which were the kids of those bastards who bullied him when he was young. It was all displayed in his personal man cave, a boiler room in the power plant, dedicated to articles of his own murders.
Wiz: He then killed his wife, and was going to kill his daughter, but she went to the police and got him put on trial.
Boomstick: Instead of getting thrown in the slammer like he should’ve, Freddy got away scot-free! This was ‘cuz a warrant was signed in the wrong place, despite the proof being, y’know, right there.
Wiz: Despite the general incompetence of Springwood’s law enforcement, the parents of the children he murdered weren’t as willing to forget. They tracked Freddy down to his boiler room, covered his lair in gasoline, and set the thing ablaze with Freddy inside, leaving him to burn to death.
Boomstick: And he would’ve, if not for a little demonic intervention, from none other than the Dream Demons! Some weird little clay-looking slug thingies. These creatures gave Krueger an offer.
Wiz: He could continue to live on in dreams and use their powers, if he promised to kill the kids who managed to escape his spree. Obviously, he accepted, becoming the Dream Demon. With a title like that and demons living inside him, Freddy is one nightmare you don’t want to have.
- Abilities and Weapons:
- Dream Manipulation
- Reality Warping
- Possession
- Pyrokinesis
- Telepathy
- Immortality
- Clawed Glove
- Necronomicon Ex-Mortis
Boomstick: Indu…indubabble…ack, whatever you said earlier! Krueger’s main shtick is that once he gets into your head, he invades your dreams, turns them into your personal nightmares, and kills you. See, the dreams in this universe work by the old notion of “if you die in the dream, you die in real life.”
Wiz: Generally, Freddy’s dreams have been shown to follow a few rules. Whatever damage he does to you while in the dream applies to real life, including fatal damage. He’s able to keep you in said dream by throwing you into a coma of sorts, although escaping is possible by hurting yourself in the dream.
Boomstick: He can even mess with the real world! He’s used sheets to form a noose and hang someone, made a dude sleepwalk and jump off a building, and can possess you to make himself basically just appear in reality! But he doesn’t need to use the real world if he wants to mess with you.
Wiz: With the powers granted to him by the Dream Demons, Freddy can control dreams in basically any way he chooses, no matter how reality-defying it is. By reading minds, he can exploit any fears his victims have and use them to his advantage to make them afraid of him.
Boomstick: That doesn’t mean all of his powers are just related to using people’s fears against them, though. Ironically, despite dying to it, fire is one of his biggest MOs. Melting stuff, teleporting through a bunch of flames, causing stuff to combust, or just letting it spread around as he taunts people!
Wiz: Telekinesis is one of his favorites too. Throwing people around, sending a house into space, controlling cars and wires, the whole shebang! He can also generally transform the stuff around him. Like turning the environment into a boiler room, making a wall malleable enough for him to warp through, turning sand on a beach into a sinkhole, or just making his victims relive traumatic events.
Boomstick: He can make victims go through new traumatic events, too! He turned a girl into a cockroach, made Jason fuckin’ Voorhees into a literal shivering little twerp, and turned a comic book lover into a paper cut-out before cutting him to shreds as Super Freddy!
Wiz: Super Freddy sucks.
Boomstick: You suck, Wiz. And swallow.
Wiz: Aren’t you the one who put in this script “he’s playing with power?”
Boomstick: Hey, don’t blame me for something the Fred-meister himself said.
Wiz: If Freddy told you to do drugs, would you?
Boomstick: I’ll have you know Freddy hates drugs.
Wiz: Uh-huh. Is that why he made a girl overdose by turning his hands into needles?
Boomstick: Oh yeah, I completely forgot about his claw glove! It’s a glove he uses to kill kids, and his signature weapon. He can slash people to pieces with it, turn it into a Power Glove and control a kid to kill him, create a big arm with the glove on it, or wield two of the gloves to beat the hell out of Scorpion and Sub-Zero!
Wiz: You just…completely missed my poin-
Boomstick: And how could we forget his transformations? He can turn giant, stretch his arms out, disguise himself as a bunch of people, kill people as a TV, shark, motorcycle, sink, or turn into a giant worm! He’s even turned into a caterpillar smoking a hookah!
Wiz: Doesn’t like drugs, huh?
Boomstick: Alright, I may have gotten misinformed on that one.
Wiz: But he can summon entirely new things to mess with people, too. Spikes, electric traps, furnaces, daggers, toxic gas, anything you can think of. He even has a few minions. Mobs of people, ghosts, giant versions of his glove, spiders, bats, and rats. Huh, you would think he’d be a bit more creative with his choice of an army.
Boomstick: He doesn’t need an army, Wiz! He can just duplicate himself if he needs to gang up on someone. Or turn into the moon!
Wiz: He did what-
Boomstick: Yeah.
Wiz: I’m not even surprised at this point. As for the other stuff he can control, there’s blood, water, wind, temperature to freeze or burn people, explosions, acid, and time…I guess? He seems to be able to throw people in a time loop for as long as he wants, as shown by when he threw a few victims into an ironic hell for all of eternity.
Boomstick: As for the rest of his frankly batshit insane abilities, he can fly, go into and send others into stuff like drawings, create portals, turn invisible, teleport, go through stuff, mimic voices, use someone’s veins to control them like a puppet, and whatever other messed up stuff you hopefully haven’t had a dream about!
Wiz: But as described earlier, there are ways he can affect the real world. For example, he can reanimate his skeleton to beat the snot out of you, possess someone to come to life, with a few of his abilities intact, or, if you have a strong enough will, can be pulled into the real world. Albeit, he won’t have any of his dream powers.
Boomstick: That was the case, until he got his hands on the Book of the Dead, the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis from Ash Williams! He was able to straight-up fuse with that bad boy, which basically let him use his dream powers in real life.
Wiz: The Necronomicon’s well-known for being able to resurrect the dead, open portals through time, control minds, and seal beings away in its pages for eternity.
Boomstick: He doesn’t need that to kick ass, though! He’s fought people who realized they can do whatever they want in dreams with ease, thrown hands with both Jason and Ash at the same time, he was in Mortal fucking Kombat, Wiz, how is he so strong, anyways?
Wiz: Souls, Boomstick. Souls are his main source of his strength. When he kills someone, he can absorb their soul and make himself stronger, or he can just suck it out of you if he wants to get stronger quickly.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, don’t expect to be able to get rid of him either. I don’t know what those Dream Demons gave him, but he just won’t die! Bring him into the real world and kill him, he comes back. Skeleton gets blessed? Doesn’t matter to him! Some little kid turns him into a weird baby and he gets turned back into a fetus in his mother’s womb?
Wiz: …What?
Boomstick: Yeah, these movies are weird.
Pop-up: Freddy’s regeneration has also made him hard to put down. Regenerating his arms, from his skeleton, and even from other people’s blood.
Wiz: Well, either way, his immortality is tied to a few different things. People remembering him, the fear of his victims, the souls he gathers, and the concept of hatred itself.
Boomstick: Excuse me?!
Wiz: Yep. But let’s get into what he can really do.
Boomstick: Sweet!
- Feats:
- Killed all the children in Springwood
- Launched a house into space
- Created a small planet of junk
- Had a rocket that’s said to destroy Earth
- Turned into a mountain and the moon
- Fought Jason Voorhees, Ash Williams, the US military, Nahuaque
- Will see you in your dreams, bitch!
Wiz: Krueger’s been able to fight a lot of foes over the years. Jason Voorhees, someone who he matched in the real world, is comparable to Uber Jason. That iteration has done stuff like thrown trees at people, which comes out at 16.7 million joules. Jason himself got rammed through a steel wall by his Uber counterpart, clocking in at 107 kilograms, has outran gunfire, and tanked a boiler being dropped on him, worth a surprising 10.9 million joules.
Boomstick: Let’s not sell Freddy himself short, though. He’s sent a house into space! Doesn’t sound impressive at first, until you see that it’s worth 287 megatons and 4 million frickin’ meters per second! He created a small planet o’ junk, which is worth, uh…
Boomstick: Small-ass planet. Oh yeah, he also tanked being blasted by…a tank, and straight-up became both a mountain and, mentioned earlier the moon!
Wiz: He’s fought off the entire U.S. military with the Necronomicon, which led to him straight up ruling the States. There was also when he had a rocket that was said to be able to destroy Earth, although he ultimately never ended up using it. Perhaps the most powerful of his abilities, though, is his complete and utter control of the Dream World.
Boomstick: Elaborate.
Wiz: The Dream World is complete with planets, stars, and has been stated to be a parallel universe of sorts, which is how Freddy’s able to make all of these shenanigans happen. Since he has complete control over it, it means he can control an entire universe.
Pop-Up: It’s been stated that falling asleep allows your souls to go through the Dream World through either a positive or negative gate. Naturally, Freddy is the guardian of the negative one.
Boomstick: …That’s not good, is it?
(Suddenly, scraping on a wall is heard.)
Freddy Krueger: You tell me.
Wiz and Boomstick: HOLY SHI-
(Technical difficulties, please stand by!)
Wiz: Never sleeping again, never sleeping again…
Boomstick: I wanna think about my ex-wife even less now. And that was already in the negatives.
Wiz: A-Anyways, this control has allowed him to best even those with similar powers to him. Whether it be him killing all of the Dream Warriors, killing the first victim who managed to kill him, Nancy Thompson, or Nahuaque, an Aztec Dream Demon specifically meant to kill people like Krueger.
Boomstick: Can we talk about his weaknesses now?
Wiz: I think that’s a great idea.
Boomstick: Oh, hell yeah. Although Freddy might want to believe he’s unbeatable, that is far, faaaar from the case. If you don’t fear him, it won’t kill him outright, but it definitely weakens him!
Wiz: Staying awake will also keep him off your tail, although that depends on how long you can prevent that from happening, especially since he has a few ways to make you sleep. Blessing his remains, if you can track them down, also keeps him at bay for awhile, but beware of his skeleton.
Boomstick: It’ll beat the hell out of you!
Wiz: His most consistently worthwhile weakness to exploit is being forgotten. When the entire town of Springwood completely covered him up and forgot about him, he wasn’t even able to kill some random guy dreaming. That’s when he brought in Jason to kill for him, then stuff went down, they ended up fighting, and you already know what happened.
Boomstick: His power also mainly relies on stuff that’s completely separate to him, like the Dream Demons and Necronomicon, both of which have massively backfired on him before, mostly thanks to his massive ego. If you can exploit that, he’s toast.
Wiz: What’s screwed him over the most, though, is his massive ego. He likes to believe that he’ll never be defeated, even though it’s been demonstrated that’s far, far, from the case.
Boomstick: Even still, you better hope you never see him in your dreams, or else you’re in for a nightmare. Bitch.
(Freddy unsheathes his claws, holding his victim, Kincaid, by the shirt. He stabs him in the gut.
Kincaid: I’ll see you in hell.
Freddy: Tell ‘em Freddy sent ya!
He drives his claws deeper, killing Kincaid, before chuckling.
Freddy: One down, two to go.)
Pennywise Wants You to Float![]
Wiz: It was a stormy night in October of 1957, in the little town of Derry, Maine. Little Georgie Denbrough went out to play in the rain.
Boomstick: His big bro Bill was too sick to go outside with him, but to compensate, he gave him a paper boat! Great brothering, dude.
Wiz: He had the flu!
Boomstick: Doesn’t kill your creativity.
Wiz: I don’t-
Boomstick: Anyways, the S.S. Georgie set sail! It went down a stream and straight down into a sewer grate.
Wiz: Naturally, Georgie was upset, so he looked into the sewer and tried to find it. He saw the boat, but in the hands of…something.
Pennywise: Hiya, Georgie!
Boomstick: Yeah. Meet Pennywise, the dancing clown! He told lil’ Georgie about popcorn and cotton candy and balloons. For some reason, he really wanted him to know they floated.
Wiz: Then Georgie tried to get his boat. And what the young kid saw that day would’ve shattered his mind for life if it didn’t end right there and then.
Boomstick: The thing that was lurking in Derry’s sewers wasn’t just some weird clown, IT was something much more.
- Background:
- Name: IT
- Alias: Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the Deadlights
- Occupation: Eater of worlds
- Age: Verrrrry old
- Portrayed by Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgard (based)
- Maine represent WOOOO
- Inspired a killer clown pandemic in 2016
Wiz: To be exact, IT was…uh…
Boomstick: What’s wrong, Wiz?
Wiz: The notes say it was an alien, but also came from an alternate dimension, and something about a turtle? I can’t make heads or tails of any of it!
Boomstick: Lemme see that.
(Boomstick mutters as he reads through the notes.)
Wiz: Well?
Boomstick: This is easy to understand! Long before the creation of even our own universe, a cosmic force created two entities. One of which was Maturin, a big ol’ cosmic turtle who puked out our universe one day and usually hid in his shell to avoid conflict. The other was IT.
Wiz: Wait-
Boomstick: However, there’s an infinite number of universes besides ours! These universes are all tied together by the Dark Tower, which is kinda like a hub world for all of them, having a door to enter all of them at any point in time. IT and Maturin existed in the Macroverse, which is kinda a separate thing altogether and also kinda isn’t.
Wiz: Okay, you’re going waaaay too fast. How do the actual origins of IT fit into this?
Boomstick: IT crashed onto the Earth a long time ago as a giant meteorite in an avatar of its true form, the Deadlights, which are still in the Macroverse. Now, IT was kind of a cosmic predator. Think of it like the regular at a bunch of restaurants at the same time. However, IT saw the potential for fear and imagination in humanity. Naturally, humans became the thing’s favorite prey, like the regular customer deciding to stay at McDonald’s for the rest of eternity.
Wiz: …
(Boomstick lightly smacks Wiz’s notes.)
Boomstick: Y’see, Wiz? Simple.
Wiz: I don’t…how the fuck did you…
Boomstick: Seems you’re stunned by my genius. Happens to everyone, don’t worry. How about you handle the rest of the origins?
Wiz: Right, right. After crash landing in what would later become the town of Derry, Maine, IT awoke every 27 years to kill and eat people, and sleep for 27 more. IT mainly targeted children, since they’re easier to scare, and as IT says, “fear salts the meat”.
Boomstick: Ew.
Wiz: And of course, it mainly took the form of Pennywise to kill kids, since kids loved clowns.
Boomstick: They did until he hit the scene! Seriously, I’m convinced this guy evoked the fear of clowns into so many people.
Wiz: But clowns aren’t the only form Pennywise can take.
- Abilities and Weapons:
- Shapeshifting
- Teleportation
- Illusions
- Reality Warping
- Balloons
- Telepathy
- Weather Manipulation
- The Deadlights
Boomstick: Y’see, Pennywise is a shapeshifter. He takes the form of your worst fear and kills you! The only limits are that he has to follow the rules of whatever he transforms into.
Wiz: For example, he’s turned into a giant bird reminiscent of resident kaiju Rodan mixed with a crow to mess with a kid named Mike, or a zombie version of Georgie to mess with Bill.
Boomstick: …Geez, he’s kind of a dick, isn’t he?
Wiz: You’re not entirely off. The main reason he messes with people like this is to, as said earlier, induce as much fear as possible so that they taste better once he eats them.
Boomstick: So, it’s like putting sauce on your food to make it taste better?
Wiz: I guess that’s a…questionably valid way to put it, yes.
Boomstick: Well, he’s turned into a bunch of pop culture icons! Like Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, the shark from Jaws, and a giant Paul Bunyon statue!
Wiz: Pennywise isn’t relegated to only becoming one entity at a time, either. He’s turned into piranhas, winged leeches, and a bunch of zombie versions of the children he’s killed.
Boomstick: Oh yeah, this guy loves identity fraud. He can mimic his victim’s voices, turn into exact replicas of his victims, zombie versions of his victims, or just a headless kid from an event he had no part in for once.
Wiz: He can also transform certain parts of his body while still in the clown form, like growing the claws of a werewolf on his hand, turning into arms similar to that of a praying mantis, and sprouting tendril-like appendages from his back. But at this point, we’re just listing forms he can take.
Boomstick: Yeah! He’s got a bunch of other neat stuff he can do, like some mind-based powers. Pennywise likes to mess with kids’ perception of reality to scare them, basically creating pocket dimensions of past memories that he’s reality-warped to be completely wrong.
Wiz: It’s not like he needs to use a whole other dimension to make people perceive different things, either. The entire town of Derry seems to be under the spell of IT, meaning he can outright be invisible to adults. If Pennywise just splattered the walls with blood and the kids see it, you can bet that the adults won’t notice a thing that went wrong.
Boomstick: He can also move things with his mind, teleport around, make people sick, and make things appear out of nowhere. Hey, you’re a clown, not a magician!
Wiz: Oh, don’t worry about that. Pennywise has a ton of balloons he can use to stun people with how loud they are, hold enough to float in the air, or splatter blood all over the place.
Boomstick: But draining the fear outta his victims would be impossible if he couldn’t read their minds, which he can do. Making impossible layouts from the stuff around him, making himself appear in a photo album, or just making two people see entirely different forms, he’s got no limit to how he can fuck with your mind!
Pop-Up: These ‘illusions’ do indeed have an effect on reality, like when Pennywise turned into a leper and killed flowers by touching them, the effects stayed long after he had disappeared.
Wiz: Weather is also under ITs influence, too, like the several times the Loser’s Club confronted Pennywise, the weather suddenly changed to a thunderstorm.
Boomstick: Losers’ Club? Who names your little gang something like that?
Wiz: Bill did, apparently. And these Losers would prove to be the biggest thorn in Pennywise’s side. After he tried hunting them all down individually, seven of Pennywise’s would-be victims teamed up and promptly defeated him, forcing him to go into an early sleep.
Boomstick: That managed to induce the slightest hint of fear in IT, and he wasn’t happy about it. Naturally, he decided to get a little bit of help by controlling the token psychotic Stephen King bully, Henry Bowers, into hunting down the Losers.
Wiz: Mind control is but another power in Pennywise’s repertoire, making citizens of Derry actively ignore anything going on, creating violence within the town, or worst of all, making children trust him so he can kill them.
Boomstick: But all of this is nothin’ compared to Pennywise’s ace in the hole, the Deadlights.
Wiz: The Deadlights are something that us mere humans cannot comprehend, so if we get a glimpse of them, there’s no telling the effects it could have. They can become insane, suicidal, or at worst, have their spirits thrown into the Macroverse.
Boomstick: If you try and pick a psychic fight with IT, you’re not winning, plain and simple. Cuz if you do, you might just get your soul absorbed!
Wiz: However, it’s worth noting that the Deadlights aren’t something Pennywise can’t summon willy-nilly. For him to use them, he has to actively catch you in them, whether it’s through his eyes, mouth, or the closest thing he has to a true form.
Boomstick: True form? Ain’t the Deadlights already his true form?
Wiz: No, his true form to us. Since we can’t comprehend the Deadlights, we have an equivalent for our human minds that would be the closest equivalent.
Boomstick: Lay it on me!
Wiz: A giant pregnant spider.
Boomstick: …what.
Wiz: Yeeeaaahhh…
Boomstick: I don’t like the implications here.
Wiz: Well, let’s move on from those implications!
Boomstick: Good idea!
- Feats:
- Has a kill count in the thousands
- Arrived on Earth as a meteor
- IT’s death caused an earthquake
- Created a large enough storm to cause a flood
- Is as fast as an express train
- The Deadlights are above the Dark Tower
- PENNYWISE LIVES
Wiz: Pennywise, IT, whatever, has been around for billions, if not trillions, of years, and as such racked up quite the kill count. Although there’s no real confirmed number, it can be assumed to be in the thousands, based on the many tragic events IT caused.
Boomstick: Like a storm in 1931! That thing was big enough to cause two dozen deaths and flood all of Derry.
Wiz: Pennywise survived quite a bit of punishment, too. Getting a spear through the head, half of his face melted off, or the first beating it received from the Loser’s Club.
Boomstick: Hell, his arrival to Earth caused a fuss! Crashing in as a meteorite created a big crater in the ground, which would later become Derry.
Wiz: Basing the size of Derry off of its inspiration, Bangor, and factoring in the destruction of a hill, the meteor strike comes in at around 7 thousand gigatons of TNT!
Boomstick: IT survived that?! I mean, I guess it makes sense. When IT died, it caused an earthquake comparable to the most severe one in history!
Wiz: If we put that on the Richter scale, meant to measure the severity of earthquakes, it would clock in at around 500 megatons of TNT.
Boomstick: But that’s completely dwarfed by those damn Deadlights again! Taking things back to the Dark Tower for a minute, that thing is above stuff like the concept of size, contains infinite universes, and has fuckin’ metaphysical beams holding it up!
Wiz: And Maturin, an entity IT should be equal to, is able to carry the entire thing on its back.
Boomstick: What a trooper!
Wiz: Unfortunately for the Losers, Maturin choked on a galaxy and passed 27 years later, when Pennywise woke up once again, and they were all adults.
Boomstick: Stan, a member, killed himself upon hearing of IT’s reawakening, and things were riding high on them to kill IT once and for all.
Wiz: And luckily for them, Pennywise has quite a few exploitable weaknesses. People with a child-like imagination and belief that they can kill him severely weaken him, as emotions like those are the exact opposite of what he feeds on.
Boomstick: Speaking of which, if you ain’t afraid of the clown around town, he’s not gonna completely die, but he will definitely be weakened. Other cosmic forces can weaken him too, like Maturin and The Shining. Yes, it’s exactly the one you’re thinking of.
Wiz: Finally, the main thing that can do IT in is the Ritual of Chud. With your imagination, belief, unity, and optimism, you can perform a ritual that can completely snuff out the Deadlights and kill IT for good.
Boomstick: Which is exactly what the Losers did! Despite Mike getting incapacitated by Henry and Eddie dying, they managed to power through, killing IT once and for all…if you believe that.
Wiz: What?
Boomstick: Wiz! Have you not read King’s other novels?! Somebody senses an aura in Derry’s sewers in Insomnia, he’s literally lurking down there in the TommyKnockers, and a memorial gets vandalized to say “Pennywise Lives” in Dreamcatcher!
Wiz: Well, Boomstick, there is another possibility. As the Losers battled Pennywise, Ben stomped through a bunch of eggs he laid in the spider form, with him hearing somewhere they could lay thousands of them. So, if Pennywise is suddenly back despite clearly dying, and Ben says he only thinks he got all of them, what do you think happened?
Boomstick: …dear god, there might be multiple clowns.
Wiz: Wow, that is…terrifying.
(A balloon is heard popping behind the two of them, followed by laughter.)
Boomstick: NOPE, NOPE, FUCK THAT!
(Boomstick is heard shuffling out of the recording room and making a break for it.)
Wiz: Oh geez, um, no matter what you believe, if you find yourself in Derry, Maine, you should learn to face your fears quickly, else you become prey to the top of the food chain! BOOMSTICK, GET THE HELL BACK HERE!
(Wiz is heard running after him.)
Pennywise: Fear.
He then sinks into the well.)
DEATH BATTLE![]
(Wiz and Boomstick walk back into the studio.)
Wiz: Alright, are you good now?
Boomstick: Yep!
Wiz: Cool, cool. Anyways, the combatants are set, and we’ve run the data through all possibilities!
Boomstick: IT’S TIME FOR A DEATH BAAAATTTTLLLEEEE!
Water dripped down from the murky ceilings of the sewers below Derry, Maine. It was the only noise that rang out for a bit, until the waters began sloshing. A young child looked behind themselves, currently being pursued by some sort of hidden figure. They continued running, rounding a corner and going out of sight.
“Awww, what’s the matter? Don’t you wanna see your old pal, Pennywise?”
The titular clown held a bundle of balloons, walking towards where his would-be victim ran off to. “There’s cotton candy, and popcorn, and all sorts of surprises back at my circus. I’ll even teach you how to float!” Pennywise continued trying to sweeten the deal so he could lure his prey out, only for him to hear a sharp scraping sound. Curious, the dancing clown followed the noise.
IT watched as a man, with a fedora, striped sweater, and clawed glove dragged the claws across the sewer wall, creating sparks. The burnt man looked back, seeing the clown staring at him.
“You must be the guest I’ve been expecting.” Freddy Krueger said, fully turning around to face his adversary. “I’ve gotta say, bitch, you’ve got some guts to think you can sleep for thirty goddamn years and not expect me!”
Pennywise simply stared at him for a bit. “Wa-hah! Oh, Freddy, you’re nothing more than a hand-delivered meal. But you just need seasoning.” Pennywise continued staring, a bit of drool dropping down from his mouth. “Well, if it’s some food you want, ya fuckin’ glutton, I’ll mash you into mystery meat!” Freddy retorted, chuckling afterwards. “You’ll die if you try…” Pennywise pulled the mass of balloons down. “Die if you try…”
“DIE IF YOU TRY!”
All of the balloons popped at once, disorienting Freddy enough for Pennywise to leap towards him. He began snapping at Krueger with his sharp teeth, trying to bite into him. Freddy retorted by kicking him back, before slashing at him with his clawed glove. “You’re gonna have to try harder than that!” Freddy proclaimed, before feeling his claws clash with another pair. Pennywise had turned his hand into that of a werewolf’s.
The two began slashing at each other, Freddy turning his other hand into another glove and Pennywise turning his other hand into a werewolf’s. Blood began to splash onto the sewer walls, the two gaining numerous scratches. As Freddy went to slash once more, his target had disappeared. The Springwood Slasher looked around a bit, before realizing Pennywise had crawled right above him. “Peek-a-boo.” Pennywise simply stated, before dropping onto Freddy.
He began tearing into his arm and completely tore it off. Krueger stumbled, clearly not expecting the attack. “That was my favorite arm!” Freddy shouted in false rage, before another one popped out of its socket. “Good thing I always keep spares!” Pennywise began tauntingly waving at Freddy with his severed arm, which Krueger responded to by moving said arm and sticking the claws on it into Pennywise’s eyes. IT yelled in pain, tossing the arm back at Freddy.
“Did you bite off more than you could chew, bitch?” Freddy taunted, clearly getting a kick from the trick he just pulled. “On the contrary. It was only missing tasty, tasty, beautiful fear...” Pennywise said, tendrils unveiling themselves from his back. All of them stabbed into Freddy, before tearing him completely in half. Said halves dropped to the wet sewer floor. As Pennywise almost began to think his victim was dead, the blood on the walls began taking a form.
Several Freddies popped from the blood smears, quickly surrounding the alien lifeform.
“Wow, he’s even uglier up close!”
“I heard this guy died from kids playing pretend.”
“What a fraud!”
“All we have to do is believe he’ll die if we hit him?”
“That’s sad.”
The group of Krueger clones immediately began beating up Pennywise, kicking and clawing at him. Eventually, he was down on the ground, looking like he was near death. “Ha! It couldn’t be easier if we tried!” One of the clones yelled, before going to stomp on Pennywise. The Freddy clone was almost immediately stabbed through the chest and slammed against the wall by one of Pennywise’s newly formed praying mantis arms. “Thinking your mortal ambitions of belief are worth anything to me? Oh, you’ve seen too many movies, Freddy.” Pennywise began tearing through all of the clones, leaving them in pieces and puddles of blood.
“Then it’s primetime you get taken off-air, bitch!” The real Freddy yelled, his halves forming back together. He quickly jumped back up, and with the swipe of his claws, a stream of fire was launched at Pennywise, setting him ablaze. The flaming Pennywise still tried to fight back, sending his tendrils to finish the job they started. This time, though, Freddy stretched his arm out and cut them all off with one slash, before yanking his arm back to the usual spot.
Pennywise was melted into a form most similar to a running wax, which quickly slunk into one of the puddles of blood. “What the hell is that thing doing-” Freddy was cut off by one of the blood puddles erupting and spraying blood all throughout the sewers. This was followed by the others doing the same, until the entirety of Derry’s barrens were flooded with blood. Freddy was forced to swim through the blood, trying to navigate his way throughout the place. A pair of yellow lights came into his view, quickly revealing themselves to be the eyes of a familiar-looking shark.
“Oh shit.”
Freddy quickly got his torso clamped down on, thrashed about in the river of blood, and slammed against the sewer walls. He was thrown away like garbage, about to be bitten again. The shark dived for the kill, only to get held back by an invisible force. An ugly giant worm with Freddy’s head had sunk its teeth into the shark’s tail. It pulled the shark back, and the two began to start biting at each other.
In the commotion, Pennywise hadn’t noticed that the blood started to turn…green. A murky sort of green that might be recognized as acid. Both the shark and worm were burned through quickly, along with the entire sewer system. It was replaced with something far more hot in temperature. A boiler room.
Pennywise got up, staring at this new environment. “Welcome…to your own personal hell! I’ll be taking the role of your devil this eternal evening!” Freddy said, sitting on top of a pipe. “You’re no devil. You’re just a mere child playing pretend. You think you can stack up to me, Krueger?” Pennywise asked, staring up at him. “Ha! You might be right, circus reject. I’m not a devil.” Freddy jumped down from his pipe.
“This…is God.”
Freddy went to slash Pennywise, only to pop a balloon. “Okay, this keep-away bullshit is getting real irritating quick.” Freddy grimaced in annoyance, only to hear a voice behind him.
“You killed them.”
Krueger turned around, faced with his daughter. She stared up at him, a demented smile on her face. “You killed them all, daddy.” Freddy looked in confusion, only for voices to chime in.
“You killed them all…”
“You piece of garbage.”
“He got off scot-free?!”
“Let’s take our revenge!”
“BURN HIM!”
Voices seemed to be coming from everywhere, yet nowhere at once, all of which being the adults of the children he killed. He looked down at himself. He was now simply Frederick Charles Krueger, the child murderer. His daughter had disappeared by now, a simple message in blood left behind. It read “make sure to say hi to your fans!” As he peered outside, he saw the chorus of voices. Adults and children standing like a wall blocking his escape, all of which he recognized. With one toss of a Molotov cocktail, the whole building he was in was set aflame, with him inside.
The fire closed in on him, almost seemingly targeting him. As it engulfed him, he began screaming in pure agony…before cackling maniacally. “HAHAHAHA! Nice parlor trick, bitch, but I’m the king of this shit!” Freddy said, before holding up his hand, causing the fire to fly into it. Krueger then blasted said fire, causing a shockwave that shattered the illusion IT had put him in.
Pennywise appeared before him, sarcastically clapping. “Well done, Freddy! I think you deserve a reward. Would you like to float?” Freddy sneered at Pennywise’s words. “Hard pass!” Krueger rejected the offer with flying colors, Pennywise simply smiling back at him. “Oh, I should’ve reworded myself. I wasn’t asking.” Pennywise began to slowly open his mouth, before Freddy made a finger gun and fired his claws into it, causing him to reel back.
“Now, round one of your eternal suffering. Let’s give the glutton a taste of his own medicine!” Freddy clapped his hands together, causing the pipes in the boiler room to burst open, an ungodly amount of rats emerging from them. Pennywise responded in kind, turning into a swarm of flying leeches to drain the rats of their blood. The two groups of animals had their own war, which ended in the rats being dead.
Not satisfied with the results, a swarm of bats picked off the leeches, eating them all. That was until the bats exploded, a swirling mass beginning to form. The lower half of the new form had spider legs, but the top half had Pennywise’s head and torso, with arms similar to the legs. “I tire of these games, Krueger.” IT stated, staring down at Freddy with a menacing grin. “Oh yeah? Are you gonna do something about it?” Freddy snarked back.
In response, Pennywise opened his mouth, an eerie orange glow coming out of it. The Deadlights were about to absorb Freddy. Instead, though, they reflected right back at Pennywise. Smirking, Freddy had put on a pair of sunglasses. “Ha! I’m already burnt enough, that was just a tan!” Krueger laughed, before growing to Pennywise’s size. “Oh, shut up already!” Pennywise roared, turning a hand into a tentacle and whipping Freddy around with it.
Freddy and Pennywise began brawling, wrecking the boiler room which now made its gigantic size apparent. At one point, Freddy stabbed Pennywise in the head with a torn-off pipe, which simply stuck in Pennywise’s head as he continued stabbing at the burnt slasher. Pennywise slammed Freddy around after wrapping his tentacle arm around his leg, causing steam to appear from every wrecked pipe possible. After one final slam, the environment changed once more, becoming evident after the steam faded. This time, they were in what appeared to be a city.
Naturally, the two began hitting each other with citizens, cars, and buildings, doing massive damage to each other, but not enough for either to go down. They slowly continued growing in size, reaching a point where they were the same height as the buildings. “Why won’t you just die?!” Freddy yelled, slamming Pennywise into several buildings with his telekinesis. “Ohohohoho! Is someone getting a little frustrated that they can’t kill me as easily as the little kiddies he kills on a daily basis?” The Dancing Clown taunted.
“You could say I’m pissed off!” Krueger shouted in rage, stabbing Pennywise through the chest with his claw. This caused a tar-like substance to pour onto Freddy’s hand, completely melting it. Pennywise laughed as Freddy continued yelling in anger, pulling what remained of his hand out of Pennywise. The spider-clown stabbed the kaiju-sized serial killer multiple times with his spider leg-like arms, boisterous laughter emanating all the while.
With one last stab, Freddy turned back to normal size, Pennywise shortly following. “Had…enough…yet?” Freddy tried to say, clearly exhausted from the beating he was taking. “I’m just getting started.” IT grabbed Freddy by the neck, before tossing him through a wooden door. Freddy walked through a cave-like passage, eventually nearing what appeared to be a stage.
“Step right up, Mr. Krueger! Don’t miss the show of a lifetime! After tonight’s performance from Richie Tozier’s All-Dead Rock Show comes Derry’s favorite clown! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll live, you’ll die!” An announcer-esque voice spoke, a jack-in-the-box appearing on-stage. The Nightmare stood, wanting to see where this was going. The jack-in-the-box slowly played a rendition of “Pop Goes The Weasel”, before a spring with Pennywise’s head on it popped out.
“Ha! I’m not scared of one of your little acts, weirdo!” Krueger said, before feeling a hand on his shoulder.
“You will be.”
Freddy Krueger was spun around, revealing Pennywise standing right in front of him. He was quickly slammed to the ground several times, before getting thrown into a chair. “Now presenting an exhibition of Freddy Krueger’s greatest failures!” The announcer voice spoke again, several dioramas being wheeled on-stage by Pennywise of the many deaths Freddy has gone through over the years. Whether it was him getting burnt, decapitated, erased, everything was present. Krueger got up from his seat. “Oh, you call those failures?! Allow me to show you what you’ve been scared of!”
The floorboards of the stage broke open, revealing the Losers’ Club, with a ghastly appearance. All of them were armed with weapons, whether it was a bat, chains, or rebar, and began circling Pennywise. The slightest hint of fear almost entered the clown, which quickly left upon realizing that these were simple fakes. Richie ran at him with the bat, Pennywise grabbed it and tossed it away, before using the werewolf claws again. The zombie was sliced in half by the clown, leaving it dead on the floor.
Mike tried to strangle him with the chains, only to get flipped on his back and torn apart by charred arms coming from Pennywise’s mouth. “You’re not in control anymore, Krueger.” Pennywise simply stated, the rest of the zombified Losers’ Club getting turned to nothing but mere skeletons in the blink of an eye. “Your efforts are becoming fruitless. I am the eater of worlds, meat sack, and you’re nothing but another conquest!” Pennywise hopped down and ran towards Freddy.
The two began slashing at each other again, stabbing into each other and trying to just make the other die already. The two stabbed each other through the chest, looking at the other with faces of pure hatred. Pennywise grabbed Freddy’s claw arm and drove it deeper into his chest, the hole in it forming a set of teeth and biting his arm off. Freddy grabbed into a puddle of blood, before somehow strangling Pennywise with a web of it one-handed. Pennywise slammed into several walls, trying to get the Springwood Slasher away from his neck.
Eventually, Pennywise slammed into a wall hard enough that it crumbled, revealing three wooden doors behind it. Each was labeled as “Not Scary at All”, “Scary”, and “Very Scary”. Pennywise grabbed Freddy and tossed him at the Not Scary door, shattering it into pieces. “Oh great, what is it no-” Freddy’s question was cut off by the revving of a chainsaw, revealing that someone was hiding behind the door. A zombified man with a shotgun in one hand, and a chainsaw replacing an entire arm.
Ash Williams.
“What, you’ve come back for another round?” Krueger taunted, a chainsaw slash forcing him to jump back. The Very Scary door was suddenly punched through, quickly getting torn apart by the figure inside, a giant hulking figure with a hockey mask and machete.
“Ka, ka, ka…ma, ma, ma…”
Jason Voorhees.
Instantly recognizing each other, Jason lunged at Freddy, slashing at him several times. The two zombies began punching, kicking, shooting, and slashing Krueger, who was slowly getting more pressured by the constant attacking. Freddy got his chest stabbed through by Jason’s machete, which led to him getting shot in the head several times by Ash. As Williams went to finish the job with a decapitation by chainsaw, Freddy grabbed his makeshift arm, sawing through his hand. In a swift motion, Krueger had entirely torn off the chainsaw arm.
“Groovy.” Freddy quipped, veins coming out of the stump that was his arm and pulling the chainsaw into it, basically creating a new arm to use. The zombie Ash shot at Freddy several times, who deflected with the chainsaw. Jason tried stabbing Freddy, but he was able to roll out of the way, leading to Ash getting stabbed in the stomach. The mockery of Ash puked out a black substance, which was the last thing the zombie did before flopping onto the ground. For good measure, Freddy kicked the corpse at Jason, who sliced it in half.
The two began clashing blades, sparks flying as the two parried each other, neither being able to get a hit in on the other. Jason sliced through Freddy’s head, but that did nothing to stop Freddy from stabbing through Jason’s torso, slowly dragging the chainsaw up to slice Voorhees almost completely in half. The two corpses melted into the black substance, forming Pennywise once more.
“What’s your plan to try and scare me now, freakshow?” Freddy asked, fed up with Pennywise’s shenanigans. “Gonna turn into another monster, or bring someone up from my past, or are you gonna mix it up and-” Freddy’s raving was stopped when he realized something.
He couldn’t move.
“What- what the fuck is this?! What did you DO?!” Freddy thought, projecting straight into Pennywise’s mind. “For a lowly mortal, you’ve fought well, Freddy. You might be a force to reckon with by this world’s standards, but I am more than anything you can comprehend.”
“You’re all talk!”
“Then let me show you.”
Pennywise slowly opened his maw, revealing beyond the lines of sharp teeth, beyond the clown make-up, beyond even the planes of this universe, IT was something that Freddy couldn’t stack up to. The Deadlights were calling.
“You can finally meet everyone you’ve disappointed. Your mother, your stepfather, your wife, your daughter…” IT continued speaking. “NO! NO, NO, YOU CAN’T! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!” Freddy mentally cried out, slowly having his soul absorbed. “We all float down here.” IT said. Freddy’s soul and the Dream Demons were completely gone, no more than another mere part of the Deadlights. His body finally unfroze, slowly floating into the air.
“Looks like demons do float to heaven after all. Ohohohoho!” Pennywise said, staring at Freddy’s lifeless body. “And now it’s time to feast.” The clown pulled Freddy’s body down, biting into his body and ripping chunks out of it, devouring it piece by piece. Blood fell from his mouth as he continued his meal, eventually the entire thing was gone.
The only thing remaining was Freddy’s fedora, which Pennywise stomped on. “No more nightmares.” IT said, relieved that Freddy was dead.
Then he heard a voice.
“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…”
“Wha-what?!”
“Three, four, he busted down your door…”
“NO! THIS CAN’T BE REAL!” Pennywise scrambled, trying to find any remains of Freddy.
“Five, six, grab your stones and sticks…”
“YOU’RE DEAD! I KNOW YOU ARE!”
“Seven, eight, hide in your sewer grate…”
Pennywise gripped his head, trying to make the voices stop.
“But nine, ten…”
“STOP IT!”
“FREDDY’S BACK AGAIN!”
Freddy’s hat rumbled, spewing out a hunk of flesh, organs, bones, and clothes that quickly formed into Freddy, his clawed arm coming back with it.
“Did you miss me?”
Freddy cackled at Pennywise, who was completely done with all of his antics. “HOW?!” Pennywise roared, trying to tackle Krueger, who quickly disappeared and reappeared in a spew of flames. “I read the textbook!” Freddy answered, pulling out a book that appeared to be made of flesh. “The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis…” Pennywise growled, staring at the book. “You fuckin’ bet! The Book of the Dead! Making a few soul back-ups doesn’t harm anyone, right?”
The ground below them crumbled into nothing, revealing a pit of magma beneath the both of them. Krueger floated in the air like nothing had happened, but Pennywise began to fall, quickly shifting his form into a giant bird with balloons attached to the wings to escape. “Oh no you don’t, partner!” Freddy shouted with a southern drawl, quickly lassoing Pennywise in place with a vein. Tons of other fleshy veins popped out of the magma and impaled the bird, dragging it into the lava. Freddy continued cackling, not noticing a face form on the cave wall behind him.
The monstrous face clamped its teeth onto Freddy, impaling and crushing him at the same time. It continued “chewing”, which Freddy got sick of quickly, raising a hand into the air and causing the thing to stop. He then slammed his arm down, causing the entire cave to begin crumbling. “Ha! Let’s kick things up a notch!” Krueger flipped to a random page of the Necronomicon.
“Klattu!”
Light began shining from the book.
“Verata!”
Bolts of lightning began to rain down on the cave, causing it to crumble even more.
“NIKTO!”
One final lightning bolt completely caused a cave-in, Pennywise being crushed under the ensuing rubble. He was suddenly pulled out by his arm, seeing a twisted version of Derry in front of him. “ENOUGH!” IT shouted, transforming into the form closest to its true one, a giant spider. It began rampaging, trying to find Freddy, buildings crumbling because of its sheer size. A giant shadow loomed over IT, which was revealed to be a giant Freddy, holding a flyswatter.
“Ew.”
He slammed the swatter into IT multiple times, trying to crush the spider into paste. Freddy eventually felt pinschers go into his legs, which was the spider tearing them open. He yelled in surprise, before the blood from his legs completely enveloped and turned him into a red mist. IT looked on in surprise as the mist quickly formed into a giant tornado, slamming houses into the spider in an attempt to cause more damage.
The spider dissipated into a storm of its own, causing a gigantic flood to hit the tornado. The two forces clashed in a true spectacle, the entirety of the false Derry getting wrecked along the way. The red and blue natural disasters were both eventually stopped by a giant meteor crushing both of them, which Pennywise quickly crawled out of. “I know he isn’t dead yet…what else could that demon be planning…”
“How about you see for yourself?”
Portals opened all around Pennywise, showing tons of other dimensions, strange creatures residing inside. A large animatronic rabbit, a tall humanoid clutching a metallic sphere, a triangular figure with a top hat and bowtie, a burnt man in a suit with a wine glass, a man with needles in his head, and an even taller faceless figure with a suit. Freddy emerged from one of the portals. “Can’t you see? I’ll have an entire multiverse to take over!” Freddy proclaimed, all of the portals shutting at once.
“You’re just a…a human! You couldn’t even dream of such an outcome!” Pennywise tried to say, plunging his hand into Krueger’s chest and crushing his heart. “Oh, that’s where you’re wrong. This is MY world, bitch! Any dream can come true! But right now, I’ll give you your worst nightmare.”
Freddy turned into the mist once more, flying so high he was in space. He surrounded the moon, causing a giant clawed arm to crawl out of a crater in it. Before Pennywise could process it, said arm had reached all the way down to Earth and impaled him through the stomach. Pennywise looked in shock, disbelief, and pure fear before he was pulled up into the depths of space. He stared at the moon in front of him, almost seeing Krueger’s demented grin staring back. “Careful, Alice. You might trip and fall.”
With that said, Pennywise was tossed back to Earth, crashing straight back into the set of doors he had used to surprise Freddy with earlier. The Not Scary at All and Very Scary doors had been busted down, leaving the single Scary one remaining. Several banging noises emanated from it, making Pennywise shuffle backwards in sheer fright.
“What’s the matter, Pennywise? Don’t you wanna see your friends?”
The creature’s eyes only widened as the door broke open, several arms popping through the holes and grabbing at the outside. With one final hit, the door fell off of its hinges, revealing hordes upon hordes of zombie children.
The ones Pennywise had killed.
Hundreds, if not thousands of the things ran into the room, beginning to tear at Pennywise. He screamed in utter agony, whatever organs he had inside being torn out and eaten in front of him, save for his heart. They then went for his limbs, biting and scratching and tearing them completely off, leaving IT as no more than a screaming head and torso with an exposed heart. The children all made way for Freddy, who walked through the crowd with a big smirk on his face.
The Springwood Slasher lifted the Dancing Clown into the air with a single arm, reveling in the fact he finally has his opponent completely afraid. “What’s that little gem?” Freddy tauntingly asked, poking at Pennywise’s heart with his razor-sharp glove. “No, no! Please, don’t do it!” Pennywise pleaded. “I-I can make your legacy last forever! I can bring back anyone you want! I can’t make you live forever but I can bring you back to your mortal form for two hundred years, with only a single touch! JUST DON’T KILL M-”
Freddy plunged his claws into Pennywise’s heart.
“Ha! Make all the offers you want! But I’m already immortal in legacy and in life, circus freak! So, I think it’s about time I make those Deadlights of yours live up to their name!”
Freddy pulled Pennywise’s heart out, before slicing it to pieces. He then slammed Pennywise’s head onto the ground, before repeatedly stomping on it. By the time he was done, Freddy’s shoe was completely stained with whatever odd biological substances were floating around in Pennywise’s body.
The scene suddenly rewound. Pennywise was getting torn apart once more. Freddy walked up, Pennywise pleaded, and Freddy killed him. Then it happened again. And again. And again.
Through a portal, Freddy was watching himself endlessly kill Pennywise, and cackled. He had just put IT through the worst thing he could think of for it. An endless and eternal cycle of fear, being killed by what IT saw as a lowly human. But just to make sure he wouldn’t have any future trouble, he was sitting on a pile of cracked spider eggs, the last one being crushed in his hand, green goop getting all over it.
“Sweet dreams, bitch.”
Results[]
Ending Screen A: Freddy eats popcorn as he watches Pennywise’s eternal demise by his hands.
Ending Screen B: Pennywise’s death is on-loop, seemingly for eternity.
Boomstick: Well, at least Derry’s kinda safe now. Still not sleeping tonight!
Wiz: This match was way more complicated than it seemed at first glance. Both combatants went in with a fair amount of advantages over the other, but ultimately, Freddy had what he needed to overcome Pennywise.
Boomstick: First off, the common belief that Pennywise can be killed through sheer belief is uh, kinda dumb. It took the Ritual of Chud for stuff like belief and a child-like imagination to kill Pennywise for good, and while Freddy definitely has an imagination, it ain’t child-like, that’s for damn sure!
Wiz: Another common misconception is how the Deadlights work. While yes, they are very powerful, none of that strength carries over to the avatars, like Pennywise. Because of this, they’d have very little effect on the fight itself unless Pennywise would be able to catch Freddy in the Deadlights.
Pop-Up: Freddy cannot actually resist the Deadlights, that was more or less for the purposes of making the fight cooler. Rule of cool is truly a spectacle.
Boomstick: Unfortunately for Pennywise, he wouldn’t be able to do that. Freddy had the stats by a wide margin, with Freddy’s universal scale completely dwarfing Pennywise’s island level arrival to Earth. That feat of chucking a house into space trumped Pennywise going as fast as an express train.
Wiz: The fastest express train in history we could find is the Gatimaan Express, which goes at 160 kilometers an hour. Certainly nothing to scoff at, but the house throwing got to 4 million meters a second, which is a 90 thousand times difference!
Boomstick: So, although the Deadlights were immeasurably stronger, Pennywise wouldn’t be able to catch Freddy for them to do anything, although he’d definitely be boned if he got caught in them.
Wiz: Pennywise had a few miscellaneous things over Freddy too, like having easier access to his mind, being far smarter, and overall experience in killing, since he’s existed for far longer than Freddy.
Boomstick: Meanwhile, Freddy had better experience in combat and a better arsenal that didn’t consist of just…balloons. As for their powers and weaknesses?
Wiz: Pennywise certainly had tricks up his sleeve, but his reality warping meant nothing in comparison to Freddy, who has shown both a wider variety of and better use of his powers and is in complete control of the Dream World.
Boomstick: Freddy had a laundry list of weaknesses, but Pennywise couldn’t really exploit any of ‘em. Staying awake and tracking down his remains would have Krueger on IT’s trail thanks to the Necronomicon, and Pennywise couldn’t really get rid of either the book or the Dream Demons.
Wiz: Pennywise’s mind controlling capabilities are also only shown to affect the Derry populace, meaning he couldn’t make everyone in Springwood forget about him or something like that. The only thing Pennywise could possibly exploit is Freddy’s ego, but even then, he’s been shown to tone it down when fighting a serious threat.
Boomstick: As for Pennywise, he was shown to be scared by the Losers’ Club beating his ass, so imagine what Freddy could do to him! It all came down to this. Pennywise is easier to scare than Freddy, which gives one of them endless fuel over the other.
Wiz: Even if you don’t believe that The Deadlights didn’t die at the end of IT, Freddy being able to seal people in a time loop ultimately means he has a way to stop Pennywise from coming back. Combine that with Freddy’s superior stats, abilities, and being able to exploit Pennywise’s fear, and he was the movie monster coming out on top.
Boomstick: Freddy wasn’t clowning around, because now nobody’ll come Tommy-knocking on Pennywise’s coffin!
Wiz: The winner is Freddy Krueger.
“You are all my children now.”
Comparison[]
Winner: Freddy Krueger
- + Held the stat trinity
- + Better abilities and weapons
- + Could exploit Pennywise's fear
- - Less smart and experienced
- - Had no counter to The Deadlights
Loser: Pennywise
- + Smarter and held more experience
- + The Deadlights would kill Freddy...
- - If he could actually catch him in them
- - Easier to scare
- - Less combat experience
Next Time[]
I'm gonna stop announcing the Next Times cuz I never stick to a schedule lol, you'll see it when you see it
Trivia[]
- The connections between Freddy Krueger and Pennywise are that they are both two beings from horror media that come from the 80s with otherworldly powers who feed off of fear to kill people, specifically children. The two of them have a sadistic sense of humor, usually ironically using someone's fear or interest against them to kill them. They're somewhat locked in a specific town (Springwood and Derry), but have no problem racking up kill counts in the thousands from it. Both were defeated several times by ragtag teams, although it's debatable if they'll truly ever die.
- This battle would be done in a mix of sprites and hand-drawn animation.
- This is Dimentio's first completed Halloween special.
- Wiz uttering that "Super Freddy sucks" is a reference to the Kill Count, a show on the YouTube channel Dead Meat hosted by James A. Janisse. In the Kill Count for A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, James says the line when Super Freddy appears, and said line has appeared numerous other times.
- Boomstick calling the planet of junk "a small-ass planet" is a reference to another VS show, Multiverse Match. In their episode on this very matchup, one of the hosts, Ducko, says this in reference to the feat.
- The several food analogies in Pennywise's analysis are a reference to the YouTube series Horror History, hosted by CZsWorld. In the episode on Pennywise, he makes several comparisons to food, mainly Taco Bell.
- The beings seen in the portals are all popular opponents for either Freddy Krueger or Pennywise, those being:
- William Afton
- The Tall Man
- Bill Cipher
- Calypso (Twisted Metal)
- Pinhead
- Slender Man
- Funnily enough, Freddy Krueger was originally going to fight Afton, and Pennywise was going to fight Bill. Both of these matchups got dropped for this one.
- This was a huuuuuge passion project from me and I hope y'all liked it let's hope this gets the Halloween special treatment next year