Lonkitt said:
Wait this thread won't even get added?
Why is this still being debated then?
Because nobody has anything else to do, and because there isn't a reason not to.
Also because debates shouldn't live and die based on whether or not a match will be added to a page.
Anyway, Max has power? Sure. Freddy has more versatility, can read Max's mind (which the kid has no defense against), and is likely to be able to put the fear in him on general principles. Max isn't fearless, or even outstandingly courageous by protagonist standards, and Freddy has at this point been putting fear in people for longer than Max has even known his own dream world existed.
Furthermore, while Max does have more power by technicality, he's clearly never brought the full extent of that power to bear at
any point in the film, and is repeatedly inconvenienced by things much less dangerous than Freddy on numerous occasions. Hell, the one reality warper he fought did very few notably dangerous things with his powers during their fight and was matching him with moves that didn't even come close to multi-solar or universal levels of power.
Meanwhile Freddy frequently does things like turning his enemies into cockroaches, pinning his enemies to wall and ceilings, restraining them with hooks ripping directly into their flesh, turning them into paper, transmuting the very ground or floor they're standing on, et cetera, and is also capable of regenerating. Both of which mean a lot when his opponent so obviously isn't going to hit him with anything that would do severe damage to him, and probably doesn't even know how to wield the full extent of his power.
So...Yeah. Welcome to my world, Max.