The Timeline?

[Darknight]

Okay, so I'm new to this forum but have been a fan of the franchise since I was a kid--Mostly the original films--And was only RECENTLY introduced to the fact there was a much more extensive catalog of content to comb through for the complete Nightmare experience (various novels, comic runs, Freddy's Nightmares, the whole schebang).

I wanted to get a full timeline of the events that played out in the Nightmare Timeline, but I ran into two...issues, I guess? First, the final story in the timeline. The Fansite claims it's Tales of Horror, but it doesn't have any actual reference to a hard timeline to use. The most you get is the end of the comic where the cops say the clippings go back 25 Years, but it doesn't specify the year within the comic, nor does it give any real clue to it. Additionally, Otis says "I was hoping you'd remember me, 25 years ago?" But he doesn't give the current year or the year he is referring to in that.

Or which spree.

For instance, if he meant Freddy when he was alive, then that would mean the story took place in the 80's, not the 2000's-2010's. If he meant Freddy when he had Dream Power from the Dream Demons, then you have a random range of years for him to reference. It's not very specific, so the NOES Fansite (that directly links to here) claiming this is the end confuses me. Could I get an explanation?

My next problem is, the Fansite claims Nightmare Warriors is an anomaly, and while yeah, the ending is pretty open-ended and doesn't have the consequences cleared up, we know exactly in the timeline it takes place (6 months after the first Freddy V Jason V Ash), it's implied Freddy will come back on the final page, (which, given how the first FvJvA takes place 5 years after FvJ, or 2008, that puts Nightmare Warriors at 2008/9, which means other stories we can lock down after that point in the timeline, like Dream Dealers, would prove he did return as implied by the comic), and the Ft13th Timeline treats this as the case as well, (with Jason's "death" in 2009 not preventing his next canonical appearance, Jason X, which has no explanation between those time periods on how he came back outside of the comic itself literally implying he would be back...because of course he would.)

Wouldn't the logical conclusion be that, (given how Wesley was sent back in time, changed the document, and yet the page prior is still indicated to have happened), that Freddy simply returned from temporal erasure?

It's not the craziest thing in the world he's come back from, given he has literally called himself the Concept of Hatred itself that will never die so long as humanity hates. Which would put Nightmare Warriors between FvJvA, would be the events that directly proceed Jason X (as the characters in Jason X state that Jason was caught in '08, which would be easy for the govenment to do if Jason was incap'd from recently being Freddy's battery), and are followed in the NOES timeline by the Avatar Comics.

Now, all of that said, I doubt I'm the FIRST to think of these things, so my question with all of this is simple: What have I missed? Why am I wrong? I know I have to be, but I just can't see it, and i'm confused as to how this whole thing shakes out.

[donna1205]

Okay, so I'm new to this forum but have been a fan of the franchise since I was a kid--Mostly the original films--And was only RECENTLY introduced to the fact there was a much more extensive catalog of content to comb through for the complete Nightmare experience (various novels, comic runs, Freddy's Nightmares, the whole schebang).
Sprunki
I wanted to get a full timeline of the events that played out in the Nightmare Timeline, but I ran into two...issues, I guess? First, the final story in the timeline. The Fansite claims it's Tales of Horror, but it doesn't have any actual reference to a hard timeline to use. The most you get is the end of the comic where the cops say the clippings go back 25 Years, but it doesn't specify the year within the comic, nor does it give any real clue to it. Additionally, Otis says "I was hoping you'd remember me, 25 years ago?" But he doesn't give the current year or the year he is referring to in that.

Or which spree.

For instance, if he meant Freddy when he was alive, then that would mean the story took place in the 80's, not the 2000's-2010's. If he meant Freddy when he had Dream Power from the Dream Demons, then you have a random range of years for him to reference. It's not very specific, so the NOES Fansite (that directly links to here) claiming this is the end confuses me. Could I get an explanation?

My next problem is, the Fansite claims Nightmare Warriors is an anomaly, and while yeah, the ending is pretty open-ended and doesn't have the consequences cleared up, we know exactly in the timeline it takes place (6 months after the first Freddy V Jason V Ash), it's implied Freddy will come back on the final page, (which, given how the first FvJvA takes place 5 years after FvJ, or 2008, that puts Nightmare Warriors at 2008/9, which means other stories we can lock down after that point in the timeline, like Dream Dealers, would prove he did return as implied by the comic), and the Ft13th Timeline treats this as the case as well, (with Jason's "death" in 2009 not preventing his next canonical appearance, Jason X, which has no explanation between those time periods on how he came back outside of the comic itself literally implying he would be back...because of course he would.)

Wouldn't the logical conclusion be that, (given how Wesley was sent back in time, changed the document, and yet the page prior is still indicated to have happened), that Freddy simply returned from temporal erasure?

It's not the craziest thing in the world he's come back from, given he has literally called himself the Concept of Hatred itself that will never die so long as humanity hates. Which would put Nightmare Warriors between FvJvA, would be the events that directly proceed Jason X (as the characters in Jason X state that Jason was caught in '08, which would be easy for the govenment to do if Jason was incap'd from recently being Freddy's battery), and are followed in the NOES timeline by the Avatar Comics.

Now, all of that said, I doubt I'm the FIRST to think of these things, so my question with all of this is simple: What have I missed? Why am I wrong? I know I have to be, but I just can't see it, and i'm confused as to how this whole thing shakes out.

The reason some fansites call Tales of Horror the "end" of the timeline is mostly because it's one of the last officially licensed Freddy stories published in comic form, not because the story itself explicitly nails down that position.