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[[File:Toy Story 2 0 1310.jpg|link=Toy Story|thumb|350px|[[Toy Story (franchise)
{{quote|''"If you go down to the woods today,
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''are gathered there together
''because today's the day
''the teddy bears have their picnic!"''
|'''Children's [[Nursery Rhyme]]'''}}
{{quote|'''[[The Hero|Woody]]:''' "''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|YOU! ARE! A!]] ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|TOYYYY!!]]'' You're not the real [[Captain Space, Defender of Earth!|Buzz Lightyear]], you... you're an ''action figure!'' You are ''a child's plaything!''''"
(beat)
'''Buzz:''' ''"You are a sad, strange little man--and you have my pity."''
|'''''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'''''}}
Behold! '''Living Toys'''! They can walk! They can talk! They can cook! They can take out the trash! [[Dinky Drivers|They can drive!]] In fact, they can do so much, they almost don't need you!
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* German game ''[[Pluesch Power Und Plunder]]'' is about living [[Everything's Better with Plushies|plushies]].
* The Mannekins from ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' are based around this, though it can be anything from a stuffed doll to a clockwork dancer and so on.
* The Madolche in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. This was hinted at when the archetype was introduced - close inspection on the limbs of the Madolche artworks (particularly the Beasts, including the horse that Madolche Chouxvalier rides) shows what appear to be sewing seams, implying they are all plushies or dolls. The Trap Card [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Madolche_Nights Madolche Nights] eventually confirmed this, where they are shown as toys in a child's bedroom at night. In fact, the Japanese name for that card translates to "Magical Dolls".
=== Theatre ===
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* The ''[[Touhou Project]]'' has Medicine Melancholy, who (ironically enough, considering her name) controls poison. She's one of the [[Creepy Child|creepier]] characters in the series, playfully talking about how wonderful poison is, how it paralyzes its victims, how they die a painful death...
* One of the stages in ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]] 2'' has the Ouendan helping a stuffed monkey and a toy soldier who were thrown away by accident get home.
* There's an area in ''[[Maple Story]]'' called Ludibrium that fits this trope to a T. It's a city built atop two towers that has a massive basement that includes a toy factory and a clock tower, the bottom of which might even be in another dimension. The monsters in either tower and in the factory are all toys, and within the clock tower there are two paths with different monsters. In general, the further you get from the town, the creepier the mobs get, something that is often true with ''Maple Story'' in general.
** The [[Meaningful Name|Warped Path of Time]] takes you through [[Monster Clown]]s, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Ghost Pirates (and Vikings)]], and finally a giant boss called the Gatekeeper.
** On the other side, the [[Theme Naming|Forgotten Path of Time]], there are teddy bears possessed by their own souls, animated clocks with [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]], teddy bears possessed by creepier ghosts, and ghosts chained to pocketwatches. And the boss of THAT side just happens to be [[Grim Reaper|Thanatos]].
** At the end of both paths is a great pavilion with an area only accessible by someone with a particular quest. This area has [[Alien
* ''[[Guardian's Crusade]]'' actually has Living Toys whom you can find and collect for use in battle. There's 70 of those bastards. [[100% Completion|Good luck.]]
* Namco's ''[[Toy Pop]]'': [[wikipedia:Toy Pop|PINO AND ACHA ARE GOING TO MAJYO'S CASTLE TO SAVE FRIEND]]
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* In ''[[Harvest Moon]]: A Wonderful Life'' and ''Another Wonderful Life'', your child's stuffed bear will occasionally come alive when no one else is in the room.
* ''[[Re-Volt]]'''s [[Excuse Plot]] has you racing animated radio control cars.
* Stuffed Hewie in ''[[Haunting Ground]]'', a stuffed animal version of [[Canine Companion|Hewie]] that you can unlock by beating the game on Hard Mode. Stuffed Hewie is not as strong as regular Hewie, but cannot be harmed by enemies.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
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=== Webcomics ===
* Wendy weasel from [https://web.archive.org/web/20080618135741/http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=416976 Cwen's Quest], who was given life to help a young Cwen escape from a library. Wendy can read, Cwen could not.
* [[Count Your Sheep|Adrian Ramos]]'s ''[[The Wisdom Of Moo]]'' revolves around this concept: one of the main human characters is a teenager who tries to be more "adult-like" and gets frequently harassed by her old toys, and another is a local toy doctor.
* ''Achewood'' features several living stuffed animals (although nowadays, the comic focuses more on the adventures of talking house cats).
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* In ''[[The Boy]]'', the viewers are led to believe that "Brahms" - a creepy doll that depicts a male child, which female protagonist has to take care of - is some sort of cursed or evil thing. {{spoiler|In truth, however, [[Subverted Trope| it is simply a creepy-looking doll]], and Brahams is, in fact, a fully human (though insane) adult living within the walls of the house, [[Scooby-Doo Hoax| and all of the apparent-supernatural acts were caused by him]].}}
** The sequel {{spoiler|played the Trope straight, but [[Box Office Bomb|the less said about that one the better]].}}
* The protagonist of ''[[Ted (film)|Ted]]'', a living teddy bear; "evil" might be pushing it a little, but he ''is'' a pervert with a foul mouth.
=== Literature ===
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* In the two part special of "The Haunting Hour"- "Really You", it's revealed that {{spoiler|all dolls are alive, and naturally good}} but it just so happens that this one is evil.
=== [[Music]] ===
* ''[[Jonathan Coulton|And there's a creepy doll...]]''
* In [[Doctor Steel]]'s music video for ''Childhood Don't a-Go-Go'', Dr. Steel breathes on a creepy toy and brings it to life; it subsequently brings all the other creepy toys to life.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
* In the ''[[Garfield]]'' strip [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/06/14 seen here], Garfield reads a bedtime story to Pooky about teddy bears coming to life and taking over the world. Garfield is creeped out and says, "This is a side of teddy bears I'd as soon not know."
=== Video Games ===
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* ''[[Nicktoons Unite!|Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots]]'' (and humongous robots based on Nicktoon protagonists)
* Tonbetty, Mira's advisor in ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]: [[My Life As a Darklord]]'' is a small talking Tonberry plush.
* In ''[[Battletoads]]'' (2020 version), the heroes first encounter their old enemy the Dark Queen being held prisoner in an abandoned amusement park; she is trying to build toys like this to help her escape, but thus far, all of them have turned out bratty, “all about the holidays”, and in some cases, [[Too Much Information|anatomically correct.]] Given the [[Enemy Mine]] plot, the "evil" part is Downplayed a little, as the first two are still helpful towards the heroes so long as she is.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
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* In ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' a doll is delivered to the house. Through the whole episode it says "Kill!", while holding a knife, sometimes with [[Dramatic Thunder]]. At one point, it brings home some severed fingers. Frylock, Shake, and Meatwad decide to destroy it just because it wouldn't shut up. Turns out that the doll is immortal, and Carl (who's missing some fingers) got another doll that just says "Die".
** An earlier episode, "Dumber Dolls", had Happy Time Harry, who rather than being homicidal was just depressed, cynical, and bad-tempered. His depression ''DID'' lead happier toy "Jiggle Billy" [[Break the Cutie|to attempt suicide]], however.
* In one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* An argument could exist for [[Ed Edd and Eddy|Plank.]] Yeah, most of the time he seems to be inanimate, but he seems to have it out for the Eds and capable of doing things, such as driving a bus and turning on a roller-coaster of horror while the Eds are aboard.
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