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* There's one in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Asuka's]]'' [[Mind Rape]] sequence.
** The truly horrifying part is when the doll is ''hanging from the ceiling spinning on the end of a rope'' {{spoiler|along with Asuka's mother, who has just committed suicide}}.
*** Scarier still were some of the scenes that were left in the director's cut of that episode. "Do you love me? Do you ''really'' love me?" "BUT YOU'RE '''LYING'''"
*** After {{spoiler|piloting EVA 02, having half of her soul sucked out by it and going ''insane'' because of that}}, Asuka's mother Kyouko is seen holding the same doll in her arms and talking to it, believing it to be her daughter and refusing to acknowledge the real Asuka as her kid. Now you know where Asuka's hate of the "doll" word and concept comes.
** Asuka possesses one, and even plays with it at one point in 2.0. Also, according to many, it's by far the creepiest thing to come out of anything Evangelion-related ever.
* Boogie-Kun of ''[[Karin]]'' is a doll possessed by a serial killer that holds a knife in its hand. And later on Anju mentions that [http://www.onemanga.com/Karin/13/60/ she collects other creepy dolls] that all have interesting histories. She then asks Karin if she wants to hear about them but Karin quickly leaves in fear.
* Episodes 11 and 12 of the ''[[Black Butler]]'' anime. Full stop.
** The second opening of the second season has a scene where [[Dark Action Girl|Grell]] [[Transsexualism|Sutcliffe]] is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian, which she kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois... which she then proceeds to drive her chainsaw through
* ''[[Ghost Hunt]]'' has Minnie, a possessed doll.
* Near from ''[[Death Note]]'' constantly plays with [[Creepy Doll|creepy toys]] and uses them to test his various theories.
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* A creepy doll in traditional Japanese dress appears throughout ''[[Paprika]]''. {{spoiler|It starts out as a sort of dreamscape "avatar" of one character, but later takes on a life of its own.}}
* The episode "Shingo's Innocent Love! A Sorrowful French Doll" in ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is all about the Creepy Dolls.
** Also, more than one [[Monster of the Week]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8KbNHLUhw I.e., this sweet dream princess that is a youma under her cute face.]
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' had a Stand called ''Ebony Devil'', which was this.
* An episode of ''[[Tactics]]'' featured a doll-maker and a house full of creepy dolls.
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* The first season of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' had Friagne the Hunter, who, while he wasn't a doll himself, was way, ''way'' too attached to his [[Creepy Doll]] minion Marianne. The reason he's in town is so he can {{spoiler|dissolve the city to give her real life}}.
* Sorta the point for ''[[Hyde and Closer]]'' as dolls are used as curses to attack people. Even Hyde, the protagonist's doll, isn't exempt from this, heck it has a chainsaw sword in his zipper!
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' had an episode where Jaden and his crew face a creepy doll come to life.
** There's also the card Malice Doll of Demise, which serves as the figurehead for {{spoiler|Jinzo/Psycho Shocker}}'s deck. He even appears on the eyecatch.
*** And the "Rogue Doll" card.
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* ''[[Bleach]]'': In his released form, Szayel has the ability to create a small voodoo doll that has his enemy's likeness. Any damage done to the dolls' internal organs, accessed by taking the doll apart (which doesn't happen to the original) removing the organs and then crushing them, is done to the original, debilitating them from the inside. The doll's exterior has some effect on the victim as well, as seen when Ishida felt Szayel scratch and flick his doll's face. And Szayel later makes a voodoo doll of Mayuri who is pretty creepy himself... {{spoiler|but Mayuri is so [[Crazy Prepared]] that he manages to out gambit Szayel, as he had replaced his own organs with doll-like substitutes so Szayel's powers had no effect on him.}}
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Chachazero, who doubles as a sort of [[Greek Chorus|evil peanut gallery.]]
* In a ''[[Ranma ½
* Episode 9 of ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'' features a shop full of creepy dolls. And [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] Ashley always seems to be carrying one around with her and uses them to attack people.
* ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'': TV series/OAV- Matsukaze, a doll that [[Winter Royal Lady]] Reiha constantly carries around in her arms and seems to be there as a mouthpiece for Reiha's hate towards Miyu.
** Also, this is the shinma {{spoiler|Ranka}}'s true form in the OAV. {{spoiler|And she not only turns people into creepy dolls, but she does this to her love interest Kei. ''On Kei's own request'', since he wants to be with her forever.}}
*** At the beginning of that same OAV, Miyu in a schoolgirl disguise passes by a toy store and sees a very pretty but creepy traditional doll, and says "You're frozen in time too, hmmm". {{spoiler|That's foreshadowing of Miyu's true nature as a Shinma who's [[Older Than They Look|Older than she looks]], having been turned into a Shinma at age 13 ''and'' given eternal youth at the same time.}}
**** In the TV series episode 19 "Love of the Dolls" "Ningyōshi no Koi" (人形師の恋)- the episode revolves around a doll-maker, who falls in love with one of her creations...and how things get very creepy from there on in
** In the manga, there's another Shinma that pulls similar stuff on two of Miyu's school friends and a chubby [[Office Lady]]. {{spoiler|His first victims were an antique shop owner and his son Takumi, whom he revived after they died in a fire caused by Miyu when she gave a [[Mercy Kill]] to Takumi's Shinma mother; then, he erased the two's memories and used them as his pawns.}}
* Tsukiyo's doll Luna, from ''[[The World God Only Knows]]''.
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'''Doll #2''': "Over here."
'''Doll #3''': "The new offering is here." }}
* The gynoids in ''[[Ghost in The Shell (film)|Ghost in The Shell]]: Innocence'' are modelled after Hans Bellmar's [[Uncanny Valley]] doll-sculptures, and are every bit as creepy. There's also the hacker Kim who lives in a (possibly virtual) giant dollhouse, and has his cybernetic body made to resemble a life-sized balljoint doll, and is more than eager to [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshade]] his creepiness at every opportunity.
* ''[[Helen ESP]]'' has a school mannequin that falls in love with is maker, and because [[If I Can't Have You|she can't have him, decides to kill him]], all the while knowing [[Tragic Villain|just how wrong her actions are.]]
* {{spoiler|Mina}} from ''[[Hell Girl]]'', but we don't learn it for a while since {{spoiler|she's a [[Third Person Person]] who manages to fool Hajime and Tsugumi with her speech patterns.}}
** Invoked to great effect in an early episode. A [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] girl from an orphanage, Inori, is picked up by a dollmaker old woman named Kyogotsu, supposedly [[Arranged Marriage|to marry her son]]... {{spoiler|on the condition that she acts like a doll: she should only sit around, looking pretty and quiet, without even interacting with the family or her new husband. Naturally, poor Inori snaps after a while and, despite Hajime's warnings, she sends Mrs. Kyogotsu to Hell; fittingly, the upcoming scenes feature many of these dolls coming to life and attacking Mrs. Kyokotsu, then transforming ''her'' in a [[Creepy Doll]] before sending the old woman to Hell as Inori's revenge.}} Even the title of the episode lampshades it: {{spoiler|it's ''Hanayome Ningyo'', which means ''Bride Doll''.}}
* Anime film ''Unico in the Island of Magic'' by Osamu Tezuka, featured the main villain which embodies the creepy doll trope. {{spoiler|the evil Lord Kuruku plans to turn all living creatures, animals and people alike, into "Living Puppets" and he himself is a puppet who was mistreated by his owners and discarded. He washed up at the edge of the world - where all unwanted "junk" ends up eventually - and was brought to life, determined to take revenge on the human race.}}
* A major motif in ''[[Another]]''. There's a dark and deserted doll store in the series' [[Town with a Dark Secret]], where really really creepy ("laying in coffins, like corpses" creepy) are displayed, including one that looks eerily like [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|Misaki]], then there's the deal with her {{spoiler|doll eye under [[Eyepatch of Power|her bandage]]}}. Also, in the anime, occasional flashes of dismembered sad eyed dolls dripping with [[Uncanny Valley]]-ness. Brrr.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One of V's targets in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' has a huge doll collection. When V abducts the man, the punishment he devises for the ex-concentration camp official is to populate a mock concentration camp with the dolls, and send them all to the ovens. It successfully breaks the man's mind, and the effect on the reader of all those [[Uncanny Valley|dolls burning]] is none too pleasant either...
* "Scarface," the leering, knife-scored dummy that is an alter ego/tormentor of ''[[Batman]]'' villain [[Batman/Characters/Rogues Gallery|The Ventriloquist]]. He's particularly horrifying in scenes where he isn't being operated and his mouth's not moving, but the psychotic Ventriloquist ''still imagines that the puppet is talking to him''! An especially effective scene occurred in the animated "origin" episode "Read My Lips," where Batman - who is of course one of the smartest and most rational men on the planet - ''had to convince himself that the doll wasn't really alive''.
* It is revealed in her ongoing series that [[Zatanna]] has a deep-seated and crippling phobia towards puppets. Not voodoo dolls or wax effigies, those she can handle with no problem and occasionally uses herself, but normal, garden variety ''puppets''. It all stems from an unpleasant experience in her childhood, but even now, as a grown woman and powerful superhero, her unease is nearly paralyzing. When she tried to guest-star on an episode of ''[[Sesame Street]]'', reasoning that helping educate and entertain children was worth any sort of personal discomfort, she did not even make it through her scene before she vomited into an on-set trash can. She is currently in therapy to help her deal with this issue, [[Averted Trope|averting]] [[There Are No Therapists]].
* In an issue of the revamped CREEPY comics there was a story called The Doll Lady. Needless to say, it was creepy.
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== Film ==
* In Disney's ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' as Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends" some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.
* ''[[9|Nine]]'' has The Seamstress. It's basically a giant snake with a porcelain doll's head that {{spoiler|grafts the corpse of 2 onto her tail and uses it to hypnotize 8 into submission, before sewing him inside her body and dragging 7 away and boasts numerous appendages just designed for slashing up the skins of the stitchpunks; thus rendering them immobilized.}}
* ''Tourist Trap'': The mannequins.
* The Zuni Fetish Doll from ''[[Trilogy of Terror]]''.
* The razor-toothed killer dolls from the movie ''[[Barbarella]]''.
* The Clown Doll from ''[[Poltergeist (film)|Poltergeist]]''.
* ''[[Dario Argento|Profondo Rosso]]'': the walking ''deformed'' doll.
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** Parodied in that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwWwfoXDgTI fake French commercial] under the brand of "Dolls Klaus Barbie." In that time, Klaus Barbie was a former Nazi judged for crimes against humanity.
* The opening of ''[[Titanic]]'' features a group of divers exploring the Titanic wreck. A few shots pan across some of the destroyed trinkets and other such former valuables scattered across the ocean floor. One shot reveals an eerie white face that resembles a child and for a moment you think it's a child's detached head, but it turns out to just be a lone face separated from a doll.
** Based on a [[Real Life]] story. Bob Ballard on his first visit to the wreck by manned submersible encountered a disembodied doll's head just like the one in the Cameron film. The sub's crew of three hardened explorers freaked the hell out at this discovery.
* The abandoned baby doll in Johanna's bassinet from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. It's decayed with age and probably smoke damage/mildew, and is damn scary. (This scene also serves as an [[Empathy Doll Shot]] for Johanna's current plight.)
* Subverted in ''[[Pinnochio]]'', a B-slasher film. {{spoiler|The kid had a split personality which she projected onto her doll}}.
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* [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] often decorates his victims' dreams with mutilated dollies, and is occasionally seen holding one by its legs or hair. A symbolic nod to his past killings of young children, which we never actually see on-screen.
* Subverted in ''Summer School'', where the male lead is seen slicing the head off a Raggedy Andy doll. This could've been creepy, had he not immediately offered the cloth head to his dog, whose favorite doll-head chew toy has been misplaced.
* The titular carnival attraction in ''[[The Funhouse]]'' is filled with them.
* ''[[Maniac (film)|Maniac]]'''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, {{spoiler|he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces}}.
* In ''Film/Amusement'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pilBYGK-0 there is a scene where] a babysitter goes to bed in a room filled with creepy clown dolls. She is so disturbed that she complains on the phone to the parents of the kids she's watching, especially about one freaky life-sized clown doll sitting in a chair. {{spoiler|The parents reply that there is no "big" doll. It turns out it's a killer in disguise, which the kids have for some reason let into the house because he said he wanted to play.}}
* In the miniseries for ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', police officer Ruth has an entire collection of creepy dolls in her office. {{spoiler|After she finds out what's going on with the town, the aliens make the dolls come "alive" and attack her, to prevent her from phoning for help. The scarecrow doll is especially scary.}}
* The ventriloquist's dummy in the 1978 film, ''Magic''.
* ''[[Dead Silence]]'' is a good example of how creepy a doll can really be even when NOT possessed by evil spirits hell-bent on ripping out your tongue and making you into part of its collection.
* In the 1951 version of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys - including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel.
* ''[[The Woman in Black (film)|The Woman in Black]]'' just ''loves'' this trope. Everywhere you look in the spooky ole house, there's a doll on a shelf with a truly hideous face. Even the 'normal' kids at the start of the film are playing with some creepy dolls.
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* In the [[Stephen King]] story ''The Sun Dog'', a character thinks that a toy (not exactly a doll, but a stuffed panda, that talks) that her niece has is very creepy, and imagines that one day, it will say stuff like: "I think tonight after you're asleep, I'll strangle you to death" or "I have a knife".
** He also wrote ''The Monkey'', about a doll-like toy whose clanging on its cymbals signals someone's death. [[Fridge Horror|Even if you]] [[Clingy MacGuffin|throw it away]].
* ''[[The Ragwitch]]'' takes this trope and absolutely ''runs'' with it. The titular Creepy Ragdoll is basically an [[Evil Overlord]] that takes over the body of the protagonist's sister, turning her into a half-human, half-cloth ''thing'' and [[And I Must Scream|forcing her to watch helplessly from inside]] as the Ragwitch resumes Her interrupted reign of terror.
* In Elizabeth A. Lynn's ''The Silver Horse'', a world of animate toys includes broken dolls who are very, ''very'' bitter about the wrongs committed upon them by careless children.
* The action figure in the short story [http://whisperingspirits.dragynspice.com/2009flashissue.pdf "Good Friends and Good Family" (scroll down)] by Desmond Warzel isn't particularly creepy at first, but [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' had [[The Twilight Zone/Recap/S5
** "Talky Tina" was inspired by a real toy, "Chatty Cathy," a doll produced by Mattel beginning in 1959. [[June Foray]], who provided the recorded voice Mattel used for Chatty Cathy, also provided CBS with the voice for Talky Tina.
** This was parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" with a killer talking Krusty doll. However, unlike Tina, someone had accidentally set it to "evil" instead of "good."
** Also parodied in the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "Little Talky Tabitha".
** Ironically in the case of Talky Tina, the creepy doll is more of the good guy of the story, especially considering what a [[Jerkass Victim]] the guy she torments was to his wife and stepdaughter. At the end of the episode, Rod's closing statement says that while dolls can't really move or talk, children do pretend that they're friends and defenders.
** There was also a creepy ventriloquist's dummy in the episode, "The Dummy" (which was arguably an inspiration for the 1978 [[Anthony Hopkins]] film, ''Magic''.)
* ''[[Psych]]'' had two creepy dolls in the episode "Tuesday the 17th"
** The first doll was a paper mache' pinata of Rick Astley created by Shawn when he was a kid
** The second was an exact replica of the ''Robert the Haunted Doll'' that was carried around by one of the characters.
** One could also argue that the two wrestling dolls Shawn and Gus played with in "Let's Get Hairy" were creepy
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== Music ==
* As you can see at the top of the page, [[Jonathan Coulton]] has a song about this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgfklKnOg4w very trope]. In fact it's the [[Trope Namer]].
* Laura Branigan's song "Self Control" begins and ends with a shot of a rather creepy doll.
* The video to the song "Technologic" by [[Daft Punk]].
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** The MTV special editions for ''Issues'' had one of these.
* The video to the song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1ANLb4QPY He's My Thing]" by Babes in Toyland, as well as some of the cover art for their albums.
* [[Rasputina]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnseq38bhM "Gingerbread Coffin"]. Kids find an old doll and say a black mass around her. [[Blatant Lies|Despite the subject matter, neither the music nor the lyrics are at all eerie.]]
* The Dresden Dolls have a song called "Coin Operated Boy" while not wholly about a doll, the boy is a life size puppet of sorts that ran by dropping a quarter into it's pay slot...
* the video for Velvet Eden's "..And schism".
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* ''[[Betrayal at House on the Hill]]'' has an event called "Creepy Puppet".
** The description: "You see one of those dolls that gives you the willies. It jumps at you with a tiny spear."
* [[Pathfinder]] has [[Our Homunculi Are Different|Soulbound Dolls]], crafted from a fragment of a creature's soul--either [[Soul Jar|donated]], or [[I'm Having Soul Pains|taken forcefully]]. In theory, they're [[Empty Shell|Empty Shells]], but in practice they [[Cloning Blues|retain some of the donor's personality]], and it's not predictable ''which'' [[Came Back Wrong|personality traits will appear]]. On top of that, they're the only construct that's [[Weak-Willed|vulnerable to mind-affecting effects]], so even if they start out okay, they could still become [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] later.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Alma carries a doll around with her in ''[[F.E.A.R.|First Encounter Assault Recon]]''. The effect is not really all that childish.
** Especially since she's covered in blood up to her ankles and typically surrounded by hellfire.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|Majora's Mask]]'', there's a little girl in Ikana Valley whose father lives in the wardrobe in the basement because he's slowly turning into a Gibdo. Later on, if you look inside his wardrobe it's revealed that he had a mummified little doll resting in the corner.
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* The Brawl Doll, a boss from ''[[Wario World]]''.
* ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' cannot help but place them in every title.
** The first game had a room filled with long haired, creepy dolls with a little ghost girl wanting to 'play' with you.
** ''Fatal Frame 2'' took that to the next level with the Dollmaker and the lifesized doll of his dead daughter, who was promptly possessed by an evil spirit and convinced her sister to murder her father. Now the pair of them wander around as shuffling ghosts, while the father controls his dolls and convinces them to kill you.
** ''Fatal Frame 3''. The attacking handmaiden ghosts who look like little geisha dolls that will ''kill you'' with their ''hammers'' and ghostly tricks each have their own room. Their choice of decoration? Dolls. A whole ton of them. Skewered on the walls. Looking at a doll in the mansion through your camera, as you slowly walk towards it, will look up at you. A doll in Miku's room hair will grow throughout the game.
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* ''[[Silent Hill]]'' seems to LOVE these:
** ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' features the Mannequin, a monster made out of two shiny plasticine womens' lower torsos stacked on top of one another. {{spoiler|Possibly symbolizes the main character's objectification of women.}}
** ''[[Silent Hill Origins]]'' features [[William Shakespeare|Ariel]], appearing as a doll that can either break your neck in the air... or run around on its hands to kill you.
** ''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]],'' however, cranks it up to Eleven with [[Boss Battle|Scarlet]]. A giant, elongated mannequin with porcelain armor that, when blown off, reveals that there's inexplicably ''flesh and muscle'' beneath it. Add this to the fact that it came out of a pool of {{spoiler|Doc Finch's blood}} and the [[One-Woman Wail]] creating [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]... it is EASILY the most frightening monster in the entire game. {{spoiler|Finding out WHAT and WHY Scarlett is doesn't help. [[I Knew It!|Not that you]] ''[[I Knew It!|probably]]'' [[I Knew It!|hadn't figured it out by now anyway...]]}}
** ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'' also contains a slightly more traditional [[Creepy Doll]] in the form of the dolls Stanley leaves behind for Heather in the hospital. It's interesting to note that the protagonist originally thinks of the doll as another child's, and is disgusted when she finds out it's supposed to be for her. {{spoiler|On his last journal entry, the doll is torn to pieces. Creepy...}}
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** In the sequel, ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', you interact with dozens of creepy animatronic mannequins.
* ''[[Onimusha]]'' has Ayame, a demonic, [[Ax Crazy]] Genma-doll which will randomly appear in the castle and will try to slash you to pieces with her gigantic claws. Also fiendish puppets and dolls will appear hidden in some chests in ''Onimusha 3''. They'll leave behind the object they're guarding when defeated.
* A creepy doll whose eyes move is part of the antique shop's decor in ''[[The Lost Crown]]: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure''. Not exactly a doll, but this game also features {{spoiler|a spooky, headless dressmaker's dummy that inexplicably appears in the bathroom each night, looking like an intruder in the dark}}.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' has the thoroughly creepy Psycho Mantis and Sorrow dolls as unlockable weapons.
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has the Misfit Doll accessory. Basically a normal doll with black hair, white skin, and hollow eye sockets. Adds Spooky damage (which is apparently generated by frightening the opponent) to attacks. Also has the Evil Teddy Bear and Cymbal Playing Monkey familiar and Killer Rag Doll and Creepy Marionette off-hands.
** You can get a creepy clockwork monkey as a combat item. The item description is in the quotes page.
* There's a [[Vendor Trash|junk item]] in ''[[Forum Warz]]'', the Haunted Doll, but it doesn't really do anything... At least, nobody's ''seen'' it do anything.
** You can also wind up stuck with a Burnt Doll by pissing off a certain NPC.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' had a few moments with creepy dolls:
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** And there was also the ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' prototype, which featured Leon going through a castle owned by Umbrella (at least we assume) that is... weirdly enough haunted with hook-wielding ghost demonic dolls and tentacles in a black mist. It was as if he made a wrong turn at Raccoon City and went to [[Silent Hill]]. (Damn it would have been scary.)
* ''[[Haunting Ground]]'' has a room full of it, and is, in fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of the dolls to give you a game over.
* ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' has some of these in the Sunken Ship dungeon. They aren't exactly creepy on their own right, but combined with the surroundings, occasional chest-monsters and the sound world that at first makes them seem like they're laughing at you, we can't really blame you if you feel like Power Slashing them, just to be sure.
* One made to look like the game's protagonist spooks the player out near the beginning of ''[[Rule of Rose]]''. It makes an appearance later on, but its plot-significance is small.
** The Rose Princess also appears to be one. {{spoiler|It turns out that was just a stand-in for when the real one was ill.}}
* Torned out and dirty dolls in ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', which you can do a spinning attack on for restorative items. They're even creepier than an eyeless Dumbo ride.
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* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', [[Creepy Child]] Rebecca has a teddy bear that speaks in a demonic voice, worships Satan, and makes death threats to the other characters.
* ''[[Chad Vader]]'' has Baby Cookie who seems to be trying to the creepiest of creepy dolls. She wears nothing but booties and a zorro mask while making her chosen minion play, dance and kill.
* Any of ''[[
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has [[Demonic Dummy|Lil' Cal]], who appears completely inanimate, if nightmarishly designed... as long as you're looking at him. When you're not looking, he moves around on his own. He's also the ectobiological father of [[The Dragon]], and the ectobiological grandfather of the [[Bigger Bad]]. Its implied they inherited their [[Complete Monster|disposition]] from Cal, although for obvious reasons we can't tell for sure.
* [[Doctor Steel]] makes several of these.
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* ''Robert the Haunted Doll'' is a doll on display at the Fort East Martello Museum. It is the former doll of painter and author Robert Eugene Otto. When he was a child, Otto was given the doll as a gift from a servant who, according legend, used black magic to curse it. Through the years, family members reported hearing Otto speaking to the doll, and hearing a strange, inhuman voice answering back. They also reported that the doll seemed, at times, to move. People who visit the doll where it currently resides sometimes claim the doll moves and that, if they want to photograph it, they need permission first otherwise their cameras don't work.
** Even worse is the fact that the doll's owner's wife (who hated the thing...like ''everyone else'') apparently starting haunting their old house. Robert's old room, to be exact. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7488WHcok&feature=related This Travel Channel clip] insinuates that [[And I Must Scream|she has no choice in the matter]]. Oh, also, Robert ages, apparently. His hair's gone white and he's got liver spots now...
** Related to Robert The Haunted Doll is ''Annabelle the Haunted Doll.'' Possibly even more terrifying than the former, this Raggedy Anne doll was first owned by a woman by the name of Donna, whose mother purchased the doll from a hobby store in the 1970s. She and her roommate were cool with having the doll at first... until freaky things started happening in their apartment, where the doll not only supposedly moved on its own, but also ''wrote messages.'' When a medium was consulted, she said that the doll was being inhabited by the harmless spirit of a girl named Annabelle who died on the property, and Donna and her roommate felt compassion for the spirit. However, Annabelle the Doll was not what she seemed as she reportedly violently attacked one of Donna friends. After two incidents, the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were consulted, and eventually came to the conclusion that the doll was being haunted not by the spirit of a little girl, but of a demon. The doll was eventually relocated to the Warren Occult Museum in Moodus, Connecticut, where it is reported that the doll still moves and growls at visitors on occasion from behind its glass case.
* One thing that can make dolls really creepy in real life is the fact that kids aren't gentle with toys. If you ever see a doll in a kid's playroom, stuffed uncomfortably in a toy box, or in the middle of a toy pile, often getting "crushed" under other, heavier-looking toys, and ''still having that smile,'' it becomes a quick way to convince anybody to clean that room.
* How about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqkNPcUMffU this commercial] for [[PlayStation 3]]?
* The ''Struts'' fashion doll line. Toy ''ponies'' with big come-hither eyes that can be dressed up Barbie-style. [http://www.amazon.com/Struts-Fantasy-Fashion-Runway-Sierra/dp/B0014UFCZI No, really.]
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY Doll Face] video features a doll face on a jack in the box type contraption that mimics images on the tv screen trying to find the perfect visage for itself. The worst part is the fact that the thing is apparently sentient, and it falls very ''very'' deep into the [[Uncanny Valley]] once it paints its face with makeup to give it such a healthy glow that it ''resembles a human face''.
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** Invoked by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXdSH2Co78 this USPS commercial].
* It's taken ''this'' long to mention [http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii163/Motherfuckernumber1/Hands_Resist_Him.jpg "The Hands Resist Him"] (more commonly known as the [http://www.castleofspirits.com/hauntedpainting.html "Haunted eBay Painting"])? This troper was 14 when she researched this painting, and she ''still'' feared supernatural retribution.
* [[Truth in Television]] moment about these things, it turns out according to one [http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html?ref=hp "study"] we perceive what is alive and what is inanimate by the look of the face and eyes more then anything else, so now we know the human truth..dolls are just freaky soulless things!
* Who the Hell in Japan came up with [http://nonstopkarate.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/for-all-your-woody-murders-the-rest-of-the-toy-story-cast-play-scenarios/ this horrifyingly creepy Woody toy]?!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2xEwEHbrE&feature=related "My Buddy, My Buddy...wherever I go, he goes..."]
** ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAlW9KQyXA shows the other dolls in the toyline.]
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