Edward Underwood

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Evil-doer
Full Name	Edward Underwood
Alias	Mr. Underwood
Origin	Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Occupation	Pimp (in comics)
Powers / Skills	Belt mastery
Goals	Hurt his adoptive son Freddy Krueger (failed after his death).
Crimes	Domestic abuse Torture Harassment Pimping
Type of Villain	Sadistic Abuser

“	Freddy! Freddy! You ready for it boy? You've been a waste since the day I took you in. It's time to take your medicine.	„
	~ Underwood's first and only lines in the movie, also his last words before his death.

Edward Underwood is a minor antagonist in the 1991 slasher film Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth segment in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.

He was the abusive adoptive father of Freddy Krueger whom he presumably took in at a young age when the boy's biological mother gave him up for adoption.

He was portrayed by singer-songwriter Alice Cooper.

Personality

Despite not having much screen time, we see that Edward is an extremely sadistic and abusive man. He was often drunk and tortured his adopted son, Freddy, by hitting him with a leather belt.

Biography

Background

A severe alcoholic, Underwood abused Freddy both verbally and physically. His preferred method of beating the boy was apparently by whipping him with a leather belt.

Once he became a teenager, Freddy, fed up with his foster father's abuse, murdered the old man when he came home drunk one day, laughing off Underwood's blows before stabbing him in the eye with a straight razor.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

While seeing through her father's memories, Maggie sees the memory of her father in his teenage years killing his evil step dad.

Trivia

• He was based on a character who appeared in the chapter The Life And Death Of Freddy Krueger of the non-canon trilogy of novelizations saga written by Jeffrey Cooper.
• According to a comic, he worked as a pimp.