Garfield is an orange, fuzzy tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant (later revealed in the television special Garfield: His 9 Lives to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant) who immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna and pizza.
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Nancy's mother, Marge, explains that Freddy Krueger was the Springwood Slasher, a serial killer who took kids to a boiler room and slashed them up. Krueger had killed 20 kids before he was eventually caught but not convicted because the justice system is messed up.
Over the course of the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films, all we really learn about Freddy is that he was a blue collar worker who killed his young victims in a boiler room, and that his signature knife-glove was a homemade murder weapon.