Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Difference between revisions

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[[File:momoko and her holiday bear.jpg|link=Wedding Peach|frame|Cute, cuddly, and looks great with her [["Happy Holidays" Dress|Christmas]] [[Sexy Santa Dress|dress]].]]

 

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== [[Advertising]] ==

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Nodoka from ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' keeps a stuffed penguin around as a [[Security Blanket]].

* Kaede Sakura from ''[[Kämpfer]]'' fits this trope, even if the stuffed animals she collects appear to have committed suicide. Her dedication to the brand goes well beyond just the stuffed animals, as she also has pajamas and other assorted goodies that bear the disturbing creatures.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' Izumi has lots of stuffed animals kept around her room. {{spoiler|Though it's not put in a prominent position, the stuffed animal that Hayate saved from a dog ten years ago is still kept around in its ragged condition. It's hinted that this is what reminds Izumi about her childhood promise.}}

** 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.

* 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]].}}

* 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.

* In ''[[Yotsuba&!]]'', Ena has not only her teddy bears but a couple other plushies in her room, and Fuka has a [[Azumanga Daioh|Chiyo-chichi]] as well. Since acquiring her first teddy bear, Yotsuba has been carrying Duralumin ''everywhere''.

* 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.

* In ''[[Freezing]]'', Satellizer may have issues, but she keeps a few plushies in her room.

* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' Yuno has a (realistic) teddy bear which she squeezes at one point.

* [[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.

* 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]]'' has a bedroom filled with self-made plushies, and in one particularly heartwarming moment she gives a whole set to Fuu as a parting gift.

* Itsuki from ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'' has a good-sized collection of stuffed animals; being the [[Heir to the Dojo]], she hides them away because it would conflict with the cool, boyish image she wants to project.

* 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.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Empowered]], despite being a superheroine, has Mellow Mr. Monkey, which keeps her bad dreams away. {{spoiler|She thinks, but it doesn't really work.}}

* 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.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* 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]] ==

* Gru blew up a carnival game to get one for his adopted daughter in ''[[Despicable Me]]''.

{{quote|'''[[Memetic Mutation|IT'S SO FLUFFY!]]'''}}

* When [[Batman Returns|Selina Kyle snaps and becomes Catwoman]], one of the things she does is putting her collection of childish plush toys down her garbage disposal.

** 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 ''[[Good Omens]]'', Madam Tracy kept teddy bears in her bedroom because she believed they "created an intimate, coquettish air."

** 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 ''[[NCIS]]'', [[The Lab Rat|Lab Rat]] [[Perky Goth|Abby Sciuto]] owns a stuffed hippopotamus named Bert...that farts when squeezed.

{{quote|''(Abby hugs Bert)''

* Parker from ''[[Leverage]]'' features this in her first flashback where she first becomes a thief when her stepfather takes away her stuffed bunny. It ends with his house blowing up as she hugs her bunny.

* 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]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Not even badass [[Dark Action Girl]]s who [[Professional Killer|make a business in]] [[Vigilante Man|gunning down the scum of society]] are immune. As revealed in the ''[[Anaksha Female Assassin]]'' Mini-Adventures, Anaksha absolutely ''adores'' stuffed chimps, and you can find one in every Mini-Adventure. It isn't necessary to finish the game, but it's sure nice for that [[100% Completion]].

* 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.

** 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.

 

* [[Lady of War|Saber]] from the ''[[Fate/stay night|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).

** 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.

 

* 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 ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' filler panel; it shows up in her arms in the main comic, too.

* Terezi of ''[[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.

* In ''[[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 ''[[Drowtales]]'' 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]] 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]] ==

 

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[[Category:Femininity Tropes]]

[[Category:Toy Tropes]]

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[[Category:Magical Girl Tropes]]