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{{quote|''And there's a creepy doll

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** 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.

* Near from ''[[Death Note]]'' constantly plays with creepy toys and uses them to test his various theories.

** Misa Amane wears an [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style dress in one instance, {{spoiler|for when she was committing suicide after she thought Light died}}. Overall, the dress combined with her depressed facial expression and her dark make-up makes her look like a life-sized porcelain doll, to an eerie effect.

*** That scene mirrors an earlier scene where Misa, dressed the same and traveling through the same setting, sings ''a capella'' about her devotion and trust to Kira. Though the lyrics are optimistic, her tone, and doll-like dress, makes the scene still quite creepy.

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* ''[[Kämpfer]]'' has a line of stuffed animals that look like they committed [[Seppuku]] with their intestines sticking out, and two of their names translate to Suicide Tiger and Suicide Black Rabbit. These are FOR KIDS.

** And the girl who looks the most girly of the characters has an entire room of them. And the main character is expected to sleep in there.

* 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}}.

* 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.

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* One shows up in the first episode of ''[[Texhnolyze]]'' while Ichise has sex with a bizarre, bionically augmented woman.

* ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' features a supernatural doll named Mary who stalks the main character Satsuki throughout episode 11. At the end of the episode the Mary doll also commands other dolls to gang up on Satsuki and attempt to kill her all while singing a song about how they plan to do so.

* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has Will of the Abyss's [[Creepy Doll]] form, a rabbit in a dress with black, bleeding pits for eyes.

* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' has Will of the Abyss's Creepy Doll form, a rabbit in a dress with black, bleeding pits for eyes.

** The demonic doll that attacks Oz when he falls into the Abyss (anime only).

** The doll that Break keeps on his shoulder.

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* ''[[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''.}}

** 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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* 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]].

* J.R. Lowell's ''[[Daughter Of Darkness]]'' is about Willie, a super-intelligent little rich girl who collects ~~dolls -- not~~ the cute kind, ~~either -- from~~ all over the world. The maid refuses to clean Willie's room because she feels like the dolls are "watching" her. She's right.

* J.R. Lowell's ''[[Daughter Of Darkness]]'' is about Willie, a super-intelligent little rich girl who collects dolls—not the cute kind, either—from all over the world. The maid refuses to clean Willie's room because she feels like the dolls are "watching" her. She's right.

* There's a short story (the title of which escapes this troper at the moment) about a girl who goes to stay with her aunt for a vacation. While there, she finds her aunt's old china doll, which is described as being very beautiful, except for its orange-ish, creepy eyes. When she keeps the doll in her room at night, she sees the eyes are glowing and freaks out. {{spoiler|The doll becomes less creepy when we find out later why the eyes look the way they did - one of the doll's previous owners died in a fire and the doll, sitting on a mantleplace, had to watch. The orange coloring was the firey scene, replaying in her eyes. After the girl comforts the doll, the eyes turn to a normal grey color.}}

* Terry Berger's ''The Haunted Dollhouse'' may have the dollhouse's owner turning into one of these.

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** The episode "the tale of the crimson clown" had a young bratty boy learn a lesson when an [[Monster Clown|evil clown doll]] came to life and started to terrorize him.

* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' had a creepy doll called Molly Dolly chase her around her home on a Halloween episode.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Chinga" (written by [[Stephen King]]) had a [[Creepy Doll]] that drove people to inflict harm on themselves ("Let's have fun!").

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Chinga" (written by [[Stephen King]]) had a Creepy Doll that drove people to inflict harm on themselves ("Let's have fun!").

* ''[[Dark Shadows (TV series)|Dark Shadows]]'' featured an episode where two children are turned into dolls.

* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' explained the backstory of Pinocchio and Jimminy Cricket; his parents were turned into two creepy dolls now owned by Rumpelstiltskin.

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** There's another one in the video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Vf9HTgSEg In the Dark]".

* There's a few of these in the [[Pink]] video "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocCPDxKq1o Please Don't Leave Me]" starting at 2:22. Notice all the dolls in the audience and then the close up on them. Brr...

* The video to the song "Clown" by [[Korn]] has both [[Creepy Doll]]'s ''and'' [[Monster Clown]]'s. Not to mention a lot of insanity.

* The video to the song "Clown" by [[Korn]] has both Creepy Doll's ''and'' [[Monster Clown]]'s. Not to mention a lot of insanity.

** 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.

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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.

* [[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]]s, 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.

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* ''[[Condemned]] 2'' features an abandoned factory full of creepy baby dolls that run at you and explode. You can also pick them up and throw them like grenades. Ethan even pulls a pin out when he does this.

* Calcobrina from ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''.

** To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple ~~[[Creepy Doll|~~individual Calcos and Brinas.]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTZuIcOew4 And you fight them listening to this.]

** To put this in perspective, Calcobrina is actually formed ''via multiple individual Calcos and Brinas.'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTZuIcOew4 And you fight them listening to this.]

{{quote|''"Yip-ho-ho!"''

''"Guess who?"''

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** ''[[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...}}

** ''[[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...}}

*** And there's the dolls in the Otherworld Hillside Center. One's in a wheelchair, while another- only a few feet away- is held by a humanoid...thing, suspended over a hole. [[Faux Symbolism|Symbolism?]]

** And of course, ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'' has Walter Sullivan's doll, which if picked up, haunts Henry's room permanently, making it impossible to get the best ending.

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* [[Wapsi Square|Tina's]] [[Bilingual Bonus|muñeca para el Dia de los Muertos]] looks outright hideous! Its true nature (assuming it is in fact more than a decoration for the Day of the Dead) has yet to be revealed, although given Tina's backstory, it is easy to [[Wapsi Square/WMG|develop some theories about this]].

* BitmapWorld has a storyline that parodies the [[Jonathan Coulton]] song, but then swerves off into [[Edgar Allan Poe]] territory. It begins [http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here].

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has Blair, a girl doll possessed by a male spirit. Rather stupid and very, very perverted one, at that. Though he's annoying rather than creepy and ends up as a [[Chew Toy]] ~~-- sometimes~~ literally.

* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' has Blair, a girl doll possessed by a male spirit. Rather stupid and very, very perverted one, at that. Though he's annoying rather than creepy and ends up as a [[Chew Toy]]—sometimes literally.

* In ''[[Video Game/Minion Comics|Minion Comics]]'' the protagonists have Tur-Tor - a stuffed turtle with drugged-out eyes that plays tapes of gangster rap songs about children committing domestic violence.

* ''[[Desert Bus for Hope]]'' had a creepy doll which was actually ''named'' [http://desertbus.org/2011/11/23/creepy-doll-art-contest/ Creepy Doll].

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kvenmWEhFE It's Baby Laugh'a'Lot!]

* [http://www.youtube.com/user/JeepersMedia This Youtube user] lampshades this trope to its fullest.

* Some ball-jointed doll owners embrace this to the fullest. Onegreyelephant's doll mods are something between art objects and [[Eldritch Abomination~~|Eldritch Abominations~~]]... and still more than a little cute.

* Some ball-jointed doll owners embrace this to the fullest. Onegreyelephant's doll mods are something between art objects and [[Eldritch Abomination]]s... and still more than a little cute.

* Any doll that has a function (most commonly crying) and being given to someone without being warned about it will cause distress and alarm in the unsuspecting recipient.

* Then there's that ghost story...Dolly one step, dolly two step, Dolly's gonna get you...Don't tell me you weren't scared of that as a kid!

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* The Island of the Dolls (“La Isla de la Munecas”) south of Mexico City. Featuring trees decorated with hundreds of mutilated dolls.

* [http://www.nightmare-fuel.com/saucy-doll-from-mattel/ Mattel's Saucy doll.] The website is appropriate. ''Look at that face''.

* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their ''[http://www.livingdeaddolls.com Living Dead Dolls]'', and BeGoth's ''[http://www.begoths.com Bleeding Edge]'' dolls-these are dolls that take the idea of Creepy Dolls and run with it. Living Dead Dolls come in coffin-shaped boxes and have dates of death, while the Bleeding Edge dolls are pierced and have odd eyes. Not surprisingly, both of these kinds of dolls are very popular with [[Goth~~|Goths~~]].

* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their ''[http://www.livingdeaddolls.com Living Dead Dolls]'', and BeGoth's ''[http://www.begoths.com Bleeding Edge]'' dolls-these are dolls that take the idea of Creepy Dolls and run with it. Living Dead Dolls come in coffin-shaped boxes and have dates of death, while the Bleeding Edge dolls are pierced and have odd eyes. Not surprisingly, both of these kinds of dolls are very popular with [[Goth]]s.