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* Subverted (oddly enough) in the [[Adrien Brody]] movie [[Dummy]]. From the description (a socially stunted young man is obsessed with ventriloquism and attempts to woo a beautiful woman using his dummy) you would think it was a horror film- it's actually a romantic comedy.

* The [[Puppet Master]] series.

* Fletcher in the German-produced film ''[[Making Contact (Film)|Making Contact]]'' (released as ''Joey'' in its native Germany)), who looks like the love child of Charlie McCarthy and a deranged chimpanzee and wears a [[High Class Glass|monocle]]. Among other things, the little nightmare puppet can shoot lightning out of his eyes, psychically control other toys and open portals to what appears to be limbo. And he tends to just growl like an angry dog in lieu of speaking (although he does [[Silent Bob|have a few lines]]).

* Fletcher in the German-produced film ''[[Making Contact (Film)|Making Contact]]'' (released as ''Joey'' in its native Germany)), who looks like the love child of Charlie McCarthy and a deranged chimpanzee and wears a [[High-Class Glass|monocle]]. Among other things, the little nightmare puppet can shoot lightning out of his eyes, psychically control other toys and open portals to what appears to be limbo. And he tends to just growl like an angry dog in lieu of speaking (although he does [[Silent Bob|have a few lines]]).

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* A really strange example is the ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode 'Dummy', in which a man claims to have been killed by a crash test dummy. As it turns out {{spoiler|it was a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] disguised as a dummy.}}

* ''[[The Middleman]]'' episode "The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation" has Little Vladdie, ''Vlad the Impaler's favorite ventriloquist dummy''. Add in {{spoiler|a dummy for Vlad's vampire bride, an ''entire dummy convention'', and, briefly, two dummies for the Middleman and Lacey}} and that's a whole lot of dummies. Fortunately, only Little Vladdie ({{spoiler|and his bride}}) is evil.

* Mister Sin from the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' story ''the Talons of Weng-Chiang'', {{spoiler|actually a [[Killer Robot]] from the fifty-first century.}}

* Mister Sin from the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''the Talons of Weng-Chiang'', {{spoiler|actually a [[Killer Robot]] from the fifty-first century.}}

** The dolls from "Night Terrors", which turn you into [[Body Horror|one of them]].

** And just two episodes later, the cackling ventriloquist's dummies in "The God Complex".

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** Subverted in another episode. The puppeteer's puppet Coco does look pretty creepy, being a [[Monster Clown|clown and all]], and the puppeteer honestly believes that Coco is real in a [[Batman|Scarface]] sense. {{spoiler|He turns out to be the kind of sorta ''good guy'' that kills the ''real'' villains (the puppeteer's wife and her lover) after they cause the puppeteer to suffer a fatal heart attack. It's also implied that Coco is being possessed by the dead puppeteer himself since his new face in the end looks just like the puppeteer.}}

* On an episode of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', Alan took up ventriloquism. The dummy kept suggesting that they kill Charlie.

* As Oscar of ''[[Friday the ~~13 th~~ The Series]]'' said, "Murder is easy. It's comedy that's difficult."

* As Oscar of ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' said, "Murder is easy. It's comedy that's difficult."

* In ''Love Soup'', Alice had a weird dream in which she sees a friend of hers as a ventriloquist. When she goes to see him after the show, it turns out he is being controlled by the dummy. It gets very weird when {{spoiler|she sleeps with the dummy, and afterwards she goes to the lifeless body of her friend and manipulates him into kissing her.}}

* If you were to believe the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] from ''[[Victorious]]'' that Robbie's puppet Rex does this, then yes. Except Rex isn't demonic - he's more of a comedic example. Or a mild [[Fridge Horror]] example.

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* 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 a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Childs Play]]'' above, the [[Player Character]]'s assistant decides to name your first Wracky Charles.

** In a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Childs Play]]'' above, the [[Player Character]]'s assistant decides to name your first Wracky Charles.

* In ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Video Game)|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.}}

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