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]].]]

== [[Advertising]] ==

* The [[media:Love's Baby Soft ad.jpg|"Love's Baby Soft" ad]] which once adorned both the [[Fille Fatale]] and [[Sick and Wrong]] trope pages at [[TV Tropes]] before the Fork.

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

* [[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]] ==

** 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]] ==

* ''[[Champions]]'' Organization Book 3, ''The Blood and Dr. McQuark''. One of the [[NPC]]s is a young woman who has a large collection of stuffed animals.

== [[Video Games]] ==

** 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).

* 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.

* 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.

* [[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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