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{{trope}}
{{cleanup|This trope is specifically stated to be [[Always Female]]. The male examples need to be moved.}}
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If you want to give a female character an air of youthful femininity, give her some stuffed animals that she keeps in her room or carries around. Dolls simply won't do, it has to be stuffed animals. Anything from Teddy Bears to [[
▲If you want to give a female character an air of youthful femininity, give her some stuffed animals that she keeps in her room or carries around. Dolls simply won't do, it has to be stuffed animals. Anything from Teddy Bears to [[Everythings Better With Plushies|Plushies]] will help make it clear that even if this character is a woman, she's young at heart.
Although that also means immature in a lot of cases. In fiction, it's often the most girlie or bratty female that still has them. In [[Real Life]] Japan, some women carry them around to try to remain [[Kawaiiko]] for fear of becoming a [[Christmas Cake]].
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Compare [[All Girls Like Ponies]], [[All Women Love Shoes]], [[Pink Means Feminine]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Advertising]] ==
* The [[media:Love's Baby Soft ad.jpg|"Love's Baby Soft" ad
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Kodomo
* The main character of any [[Magical Girl]] show is quite likely to have some in her room more than the other characters. If she has a [[Mentor Mascot]], that character will often be disguised as one.
** Cerberus of ''[[
* Rebecca of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a bear. ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** Note that from her second appearance onward, she's ditched her "cutesy little girl" image, so Teddy is nowhere to be seen. Téa even lampshades the change in the dub.
* Mayu Miyuki's dad bought into this idea in ''[[
* Before the [[Time Skip]], Darry from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is never seen without her stuffed rabbit.
* Sakaki of ''[[
* Despite being a serious [[Dark Action Girl]] who nearly kills the protagonists, Lorelei of the ''[[
** Every few times you beat her in ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue
* Nodoka from ''[[Saki (
* Kaede Sakura from ''[[
* As one of many break-the-ice gestures, [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Vita]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' received a bunny plushie from her master Hayate that she treasures quite a bit and whose likeness is emblazoned on her [[Nice Hat]]. Vivio, meanwhile, is rarely seen without a bunny plushie (save for her stint as a [[
* ''[[
** Chiharu is also shown to have a varied collection {{spoiler|before her house is set [http://img-a.onemanga.com/mangas/00000057/000330422/05.jpg ablaze] by her parents' attempt at their next job.}}
* In ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'', Triela collects stuffed bears. Plays with the trope because Triela is the most grown-up of the child cyborg assassins (into her teens). At first she is dismissive of them (since they show that her handler really doesn't understand that she's growing up). Later they become something of a touchstone for her.
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'''s Mitsukuni "Honey" Haninozuka is a rare male example. He never goes anywhere without his precious stuffed rabbit Usa-chan, despite the fact he's a high school senior. It adds to his [[Token
* Another male example is Dr. Ni Jianyi of ''[[Saiyuki|Saiyuki Reload]]'', who carries around a stuffed rabbit doll at all times {{spoiler|which is later revealed to be a [[Chekhov's Gun]].}}
* [[Depraved Homosexual|Grell Sutcliff]] of the ''[[Black Butler (
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]''{{'}}s Karasuma Himeka has a stuffed rabbit toy she usually carries around with her. Karin herself has some [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412185539/http://www.onemanga.com/Kamichama_Karin/25/11/ rather unnerving] stuffed
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', {{spoiler|Luna aka Shiori}} carried a plush rabbit as a little girl. Seen during {{spoiler|the flashback where Fate, her master, recruits her comrade Homura.}}
** Nodoka also has a stuffed rabbit thing that serves as her backpack.
* Kagome in ''[[Strawberry Panic
* In ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'', Ena has not only her teddy bears but a couple other plushies in her room, and Fuka has a [[Azumanga Daioh
* Usagi from ''[[Junjou Romantica]]'' is a rare adult male example. He collects stuffed bears, and is sometimes shown carrying a large bear called Suzuki around his house. Later we see he has a whole room dedicated to them.
* Asuka from ''[[Otomen]]'' is another male example, mainly because despite his being a caricature of the ideal young man to all but his closest friends ("all" would include his mom, and for good reason), he's secretly an "Otomen," a guy who adores cute things.
* In a few episodes of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', we see Minako's room, and it's covered with stuffed animals.
* In ''[[Freezing]]'', Satellizer may have issues, but she keeps a few plushies in her room.
* In ''[[
* [[Creepy Child|Anju]] from ''[[Karin]]'' adorns her whole room with various stuffed dolls running the gambit of many various forms
* [[Mad Bomber|Minnie May Hopkins]] from ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' has a lot of stuffed animals and sometimes carries them around in public. She's 17 at the start of the manga, but looks and sometimes acts as if she was eight or nine.
* In ''[[Madoka Magica]]'', Kaname Madoka's room is filled with stuffed animals.
* [[Gender
* At the end of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', Heero gives Relena a teddy bear for her birthday. Rather than being an expression of girliness, however, there's a deeper symbolic meaning behind it: {{spoiler|as shown in flashbacks, Heero accidentally blew up a building on a botched mission, including a young girl who befriended him earlier that same day, leaving behind nothing but a teddy bear. Thus, the bear he gives Relena can be seen as his attempting to redeem his mistake by protecting her the way he couldn't the little girl.}}
* Chihiro from ''[[Tamayura
** Chihiro also gives some small plushies to use as phone straps to Fuu's friends when she visits Fuu in Takehara.
* Never is Aoi from ''[[Working
* ''[[The Idolmaster (
* Itsuki from ''[[
* Hitsugi Kirigaya from ''[[Akuma no Riddle]]'' carries a pink teddy bear everywhere she goes. {{spoiler|There's a poison dart gun hidden inside of it.}}
* Scary Goth girl Akira in ''[[K-On!]] College'' has a grand total of one stuffed rabbit in her college dorm room. This is immediately noticed, and commented on, by Yui.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Monica of ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' is always carrying her plush bunny ([[Improbable Weapon User|which is her]] [[Weapon of Choice]] against <s>villains</s> [[Hair
* In ''Hate'', Buddy goes on a [[Blind Date]] with a lonely career woman who micromanages every aspect of their date and insists on having her way in all things. When they go back to her apartment, one of the first things Buddy notices is her large stuffed animal collection.
* [[
* Rick Sheridan's girlfriend Alyssa Conover has a number of dolls and stuffed animals in her apartment. [[Sleepwalker]] is confused by them, and wonders if they're religious objects that she worships.
* Invoked early in ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2947801/1/Girl-s-School Girl's School]'' by Miko2, a ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic. In it, [[Gender Bender|Ranma]] is persuaded by his mother to finish high school as a girl, and to learn what it means to be a girl. In the first couple days Ranma explicitly chooses to buy a couple of teddy bears "because that's what girls like, right?" Of course, Ranma being Ranma, one is a teddy bear in a martial arts gi, and the other is an accessory to an elaborate [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|gothloli]] outfit that Ranma forces herself to buy and wear as a kind of "desensitization" training for wearing (more normal) girls' clothing. (Let's not even get into the "Dojo Barbie" she managed to find somewhere...)
== [[Film]] ==
* Sarah of ''[[
* One of the ''[[
* Mandy in ''Animal House'', including one choked and punched by her boyfriend Greg.
* Gru blew up a carnival game to get one for his adopted daughter in ''[[Despicable Me]]''.
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* Audrey from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (film)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'' has a stuffed puppy dog.
* When [[Batman Returns
** A similar scene occurred in [[Black Swan]].
* The director of ''[[Mean Girls]]'' declared it a low point of his career, asking the actress playing Regina's nine-year-old sister to move closer to her teddy bear before flashing.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* Glenda in the ''[[
** Also Agnes Nitt, who, according to Perdita, has two full shelves of these.
* The titular character of Mike Resnick's ''Soothsayer'' trilogy carries a stuffed animal as a tragic reminder of the only person who ever loved her and the one act of human kindness she ever received.
* In ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* In ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', [[The Lab Rat|Lab Rat]] [[Perky Goth|Abby Sciuto]] owns a stuffed hippopotamus named Bert...that farts when squeezed.
▲{{quote| ''(Abby hugs Bert)''<br />
* In ''[[That
▲'''Tony''': ''(to Ziva)'' [[Don't Ask|Don't ask]]. }}
▲* In ''[[That 70s Show (TV)|That 70s Show]]'', Jackie has a collection of stuffed animals. Her favorite is an unicorn that she calls "Fluffycakes".
* ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' had Shirley's Boo Boo Kitty.
* ''[[
* A thirty-something-year-old school teacher in ''[[Hoarders]]'' appears to have an obsession with stuffed animals; I'm not talking about a few shelves of Beanie Babies, I'm talking about ''every plush toy she's ever owned '''on top''' of shelves of Beanie Babies'', in addition to her and her mother's [[Crazy Cat Lady|half-dozen cats]].
* Diane Chambers had a whole bedroom full of them in ''[[
* Luna in ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' is a stuffed cat when inactive.
* Syd from ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' owns a stuffed elephant named "Peanut" that she's had since she was five and still sleeps with him.
* Liz Powell from ''[[
* Parker from ''[[
* Claire Bennet from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' collects teddy bears and her collection is visibly displayed in her room. Her father brings her new ones from his various "business trips" (actually missions tracking down specials) that she believes he goes on. When she goes off to college, she brings a teddy bear with her.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Champions]]'' Organization Book 3, ''The Blood and Dr. McQuark''. One of the [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ashley gets herself a teddy bear at the end of [[Trace Memory]] and has the most ''adorable'' picture of her hugging it during the end credits. She still has it in the sequel.
* Prairie of [[
* Iris of ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' has a bear named "Jean-Pierre".
* ''[[
** Further, when {{spoiler|she debarks for the RG ([[Kick the Dog|or so she thinks]])}}, she tells Neku that she'll have Mr. Mew with her, because {{spoiler|she was borrowing her best friend Eri's image for the Game, and he wouldn't be able to identify her otherwise}}.
* Young Deimos Bededora in [[Arc the Lad: Twilight of
* In [[Dead Rising 2]] Chuck can bring back giant stuffed animals for his daughter.
* Lulu carries one in ''[[
* Not even badass [[Dark Action Girl
* A dark example is the Arbalest from ''[[Darkest Dungeon]]''. In her comic backstory, she clutches a teddy bear in fright as a lynch mob approaches her house; her father takes it from her and gives her a crossbow before telling her to run, a grim way to illustrate how she had to assume an adult role too early. Later in ''The Crimson Court'' DLC, the Childhood Treasure trinket is obviously the same toy; equipping it to the Arbalest lowers [[Sanity Meter| her Stress]] and increases the efficiency of healing magic cast on her.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' examples:
** Lorelei in ''[[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]''. After you beat her and the rest of the Elite Four, you can access the island where she lives. Her house is full of Pokémon dolls. She will buy a new doll each time you defeat the Elite Four 25 times, a maximum of 14 dolls.
** There's also Copycat Girl, who appears in many Pokémon games, living in Saffron City. (She inspired the anime character Duplica.) Her room is always full of stuffed Pokémon toys (although one of them proves to be a real Pokémon if the player looks at it closely; either a Doduo, Dudrio, or Banette, depending on the game). In the original games and in [[Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen|Fire Red and Leaf Green]] she gives the player the TM Mimic if you give her a Clefairy doll. In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'', she asks the player to find her Clefairy doll in Vermillion City (presumably the same one) and if he does, she gives him a ticket to ride the Magnet Train that travels between Kanto and Johto.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* [[Lady of War|Saber]] from the ''[[Fate/stay
▲== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* Maria Ushiromiya in ''[[Umineko: When They Cry|Umineko no
▲* [[Lady of War|Saber]] from the ''[[Fate Stay Night (Visual Novel)|Fate Stay Night]]'' visual novel gets a stuffed lion from Fujimura-sensei early on in the Fate path. Later, during day fourteen, Shirou takes Saber on a date, where they go visit "the biggest stuffed animal store in town", a place where "no men are allowed" (or at least, that's an unspoken rule according to Shirou).
▲* Maria Ushiromiya in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' is a [[Creepy Child|dark]] take on this. If you're wondering why you haven't seen anything like this, it's because {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents|her mother Rosa]] tore up the stuffed lion she loved and [[Imaginary Friend|constantly talked to]], Sakutaro. With the loss of said lion, poor Maria started to get both angrier and creepier, as can be seen from the progressively-darker entries in her journal.}} This did not end well.
** However, in the same series there's a more light-hearted take on the trope: while Sakutaro does not appear as a stuffed animal to the Seven Sisters of Purgatory (rather, he has the appearance of a cute little boy with lion ears wearing an oversized shirt), they still adore him and always glomp him every chance they get.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
*
* Kotone of ''[[Tsunami Channel]]'' fame is quite the addict to collecting plushies, and her favorite is a fox-shaped one. Alex, who is a boy but love stuffed animals just the same.
* Grace gets a nice-sized squirrel plush in an ''[[
* Terezi of ''[[
** Several others form the backbone of her legal and forensic support team. Which doesn't rule out the suspicion that they squeazled their way onto said team to subvert the investigation from the inside.▼
** [[Strange Girl|Jade]] also has a sizable collection of [[
* Jodie from ''[[Loserz]]'' still loves her teddy bear. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213215605/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/335 See here.]▼
* In ''[[
* Kharla'ggen of ''[[
== [[Web
▲* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Molly, who is [[Younger Than They Look|younger than she looks,]] has a teddy bear named [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming|Callisto]] (named for a Greek nymph who got changed into a bear).
▲* Kotone of ''[[Tsunami Channel]]'' fame is quite the addict to collecting plushies, and her favorite is a fox-shaped one. Alex, who is a boy but love stuffed animals just the same.
* Misty (codename Superchick - she picked it herself) of the [[Whateley Universe]]. She's fourteen and away from home for the first time, and she has a collection of unicorns. Tennyo (Billie Wilson) has a stuffed cabbit, but it's [[Killer Rabbit|weaponized]].
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' v3, Alice Jones for most of the game carries around a plush rabbit, and is mentioned as having a collection of stuffed animals back home. Later on, she starts to hallucinate said rabbit talking to her, and eventually replaces it with {{spoiler|Guy Rapide's head}}.
* [[
▲* Grace gets a nice-sized squirrel plush in an ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' filler panel; it shows up in her arms in the main comic, too.
▲* Terezi of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' has many dragon plushies of various colors scattered around her treehive. In her introduction, she is shown pretending to be an [[Amoral Attorney]] prosecuting one of her plushies in a [[Kangaroo Court]], and hanging it from her tree. The camera zooms out to reveal at least a dozen other stuffed dragons who shared the same fate.
▲** Several others form the backbone of her legal and forensic support team. Which doesn't rule out the suspicion that they squeazled their way onto said team to subvert the investigation from the inside.
▲** [[Strange Girl|Jade]] also has a sizable collection of [[Everythings Squishier With Cephalopods|Squiddles]], soft octopus/squid plushies with magnets in them that make them tangle up when put together.
▲* Jodie from ''[[Loserz]]'' still loves her teddy bear. [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/335 See here.]
▲* In ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'', Helix is generally referred to as male, but still loves those [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01108.htm stuffed animals], which Florence has borrowed from time to time for herself.
▲* Kharla'ggen of ''[[Drow Tales]]'' has loved plushies for years, and they helped calm her down when she was at her most crazy. Unfortunately then [[It Got Worse|things got worse]] and along with the other plushies, Kharla started making dolls out of [[Living Doll Collector|living people]].
▲* [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] has a shedload of cuddly toys. She's not quite girly, but it shows she's not trying too hard to be adult.
** Nella still plays with her [[My Little Pony]] toys, and Elisa's ready to kill when her ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'' plushie is accidentally stabbed through with a dart.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': Numbuh Three collects Rainbow Monkey dolls. She is obsessed with them.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Jane and
* In ''[[
* Subverted on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Jimmy and Beezy find out that [[Enfant Terrible|Heloise]] has an entire collection of dolls, causing everyone to laugh at her. {{spoiler|Turns out they're [[Hollywood Voodoo]] dolls}}.
* In ''[[Batman:
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