Demonic Dummy: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Tee hee! [[Third Person Person|Penny]] likes you. ...But Mr. Bear '''HATES YOU!'''"''|'''[[Creepy Child|Penny]]''', ''[[Advance Wars]]: Days of Ruin''}}

 

See also [[Creepy Doll]], [[Murderous Mannequin]], [[Perverse Puppet]] and [[Consulting Mister Puppet]].

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== Commercials ==

* One truly creepy "Twisted" ad for Slice featured a pathetic ventriloquist (among other things, he hit his dummy, a major no-no for ventriloquists). Suddenly, the audience starts booing him... and the camera turns around to reveal his entire audience consists of ventriloquist dummies, one of whom (who bears a notable resemblence to [[Goosebumps|Slappy]]) gets a close-up to intone, "Not funny."

 

 

* ''The Ventriloquist'', aka Arnold (not [[Resident Evil|Albert]]) Wesker is a ''[[Batman]]'' villain whose multiple personality disorder led him to carry around an aggressive mafia-esque dummy named Scarface—which became the dominant personality of the duo, abusing Wesker and ordering him around. This made Wesker a rather tragic villain, because his core personality is mild-mannered and doesn't like what Scarface is doing or the abuse Scarface heaps on him, but cannot seem to break with the idea that he and Scarface are separate individuals. In one instance, Wesker actually shoots Scarface while the dummy is still on his hand, then proceeds to not notice that his hand is bleeding.

** The second Ventriloquist was much the same, except we were told ''why'' she'd had a mental breakdown and taken over Wesker's schtick. [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Unless]], of course, Scarface really is the combined ghosts of all the murderers hanged on the gallows he was carved from.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', the Calcabrina, a set of magically possessed dolls that belonged to the dwarf princess Luca, were definitely working this vibe.

* The Wracky species in ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' is a wooden puppet/doll; not only does it have a creepy stare, but in its [[Idle Animation]], it likes to [[Knife Nut|start playing with enormous sharp knives]] [[Hammerspace|out of nowhere.]] One of its "secret" forms has the appropriate name of [[Bad Santa|Satan Claus.]]

* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]: The Devil's Playhouse'', the power of Psychic Ventriloquism is granted by a creepy-looking dummy known as Charlie Ho-Tep. {{spoiler|In "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls", he turns out to be alive ''and'' the mastermind between the army of Sam clones that have been turning the city upside-down in an effort to find the Toys of Power.}}

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** Much worse was the puppet Krusty tried to compete with Gabbo. Its jaw fell off, its skull caved in when he knocked on it...

* On a more humorous note, ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' featured The Human Ton and Handy, a barely sentient 2000 lbs. [[Giant Mook]] with a green hand puppet that appeared to have a mind of its own and bossed The Human Ton around. Not to mention that Handy was considerably smarter than his handler - and all of the other supervillains they teamed up with for that matter. Intriguingly enough, for all the verbal abuse Handy put him through, The Human Ton's immediate reaction to having Handy removed was to [[Big No|scream loudly]] and faint.

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' and ''[[The Batman]]'' have both used Arnold Wesker and Scarface (see entry in Comics section.) Since it's a doll and not a living creature, ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' used it for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] by killing it on screen.

** Methods include: tossing into a wood chipper, sliced in half by sawblades on a [[Conveyor Belt of Doom]], and in its last appearance Arnold finally guns it down with a machine gun before it falls into a high-speed fan.

 

== Real Life ==

** Adding to the Nightmare Fuel is a short rant by Peanut (apparently ad-libbed by Dunham) during a stage show. The jokes were derived from a supposed argument between puppet and puppeteer, but Peanut then calmly explains to the audience that Jeff really does hate him, and would like to kill him, but can't because "that would be a form of suicide."

** Career. He's referring to Dunham's career.

 

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