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{{trope}}
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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 [[Everything's Better
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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== [[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]]'' 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 [[Distressed Damsel]]), especially now that one of them serves as her [[Transformation Trinket]].
* ''[[
** 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 Mini-Moe]] gimmick in the Host Club, but he does genuinely love the plushie. And don't you dare mock Honey or try to hurt his Usa-chan, or he will [[Kung Fu Kid|kick your ass]]. {{spoiler|In the manga, Hani's cousin and companion Mori has to fight and ''defeat'' him to make the guy promise he won't carry Usa-chan around when in university.}}
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'''s Karasuma Himeka has a stuffed rabbit toy she usually carries around with her. Karin herself has some [http://www.onemanga.com/Kamichama_Karin/25/11/ rather unnerving] stuffed.... ''things'' lurking at the back of her closet....
* 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- stuffed animals among them. All of them have some demonic spirit inhabiting them. She never goes anywhere without [[Creepy Doll|Boogie]], who acts as her familiar. Boogie himself contains the spirit of a psycho serial killer, and separating either one from each other is '''NOT''' a good idea.
* [[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.
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* [[Gender Inverted Trope]] ([[Dude Looks Like a Lady|we think]]) with [[Axis Powers Hetalia|China]].
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[The Idolmaster (
* Itsuki from ''[[
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== [[Film]] ==
* Sarah of ''[[
* One of the ''[[D.E.B.S.]]'' has a teddy bear to serve as a gun stand. She is often portrayed as [[The Ditz]].
* Mandy in ''Animal House'', including one choked and punched by her boyfriend Greg.
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{{quote| '''[[Memetic Mutation|IT'S SO FLUFFY!]]'''}}
* Audrey from ''[[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.
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== [[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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[
* ''[[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.
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== [[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|Dark Action Girls]] 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 [[Hundred-Percent Completion]].
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* [[Lady of War|Saber]] from the ''[[Fate/stay
* Maria Ushiromiya in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
** 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.
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* 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 ''[[
* 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 [[Everything's Squishier
* Jodie from ''[[Loserz]]'' still loves her teddy bear. [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/335 See here.]
* In ''[[
* Kharla'ggen of ''[[
* [[
** 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: The Animated Series
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