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* In ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'', the living dolls come to life when someone winds them up using a key.
* [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' needs to be wound up every so often. It feels very good [[Fantastic Arousal|to her]], so it often causes her embarrassment in the hands of an overenthusiastic winder.
* Ifurita in ''[[El
* [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Nano]], from ''[[Nichijou]]'', desperately wants hers removed so it won't be so blatantly obvious that she's... not exactly human. The [[Child Prodigy|Professor]] who built her thinks it's cute.
* In ''Tina the Wind Up Toy'', the titular character Tina and most of the toys that live on Wind Up island has to be wind up in order to function, and won't be able to move otherwise. There is one toy who doesn't have a key, though. (other than Tina's best friend)
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== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* ''[[Hellboy (
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Played for creepy in ''[[Varjak Paw]]'', when the cat hero finds a bunch of very, very creepy cats... that turn out to be wind-up toys.
* The children's book ''Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy'', about a boy who was converted into a clockwork [[Cyborg]] by an oddball surgeon after being run over by a lorry. There's a brief scene where he looks at his reflection in a shop window, noting that the folded-down key is a barely-noticeable lump under his jacket.
* In the ''[[
* For completeness, one should mention the clockwork mouse Mr Clicky, which the rats in ''[[Discworld
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Mario World (
** Bob-ombs also have them too.
* The first ''[[
* In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', robot Kremlings called Krobots have these, and the theme tune itself even has a music box type wind up effect at the start, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UUBgoiwZw here].
* ''[[
* The ''[[Mario
* ''[[Maple Story]]'': Various monsters in Ludibrium have them
* Lots and lots of these appear in the ''[[
* The Clockwork from ''[[City of Heroes]]'', which are created from scrap metal, but almost always have one of these on their backs. The winders are also a common low-level [[Item Crafting|salvage]] drop.
* The Keymasters in ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]''. Heather's mission is to collect all the keys to reveal the Dark Demon's castle.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Feed the Kitty]]'': Marc Anthony takes a key off a toy car and pretends to wind up Pussyfoot with it to fool his owner into thinking that the cat is a toy. He succeeds, and Pussyfoot then gets himself into the aforementioned toy car, minus key. Marc Anthony finds it cute, until Pussyfoot manages to get the toy car working and starts driving erratically, possibly [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|because of the aforementioned removal of the key]].
* Kilgore from ''[[My Life
* Mechanicles from Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' animated series is often seen winding up his [[Clock Punk]] [[Clockwork Creature|insect-like robots]]. He even has one dedicated to winding up all others, so he only has to wind up that one.
* In the [[Donald Duck]] cartoon ''Donald's Diary'', Don's nightmare of being a henpecked husband culminates in a key growing on his back, making him into a robot doing chores for Daisy.
* [[
* A common gag on Droopy cartoons is for his opponent to wind him up with a key to send him toddling away like a toy.
* In ''[[
* In a ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'' episode, Candy is able to tell Dave apart from [[Evil Knockoff|Mecha-Dave]] by pointing out the key on its back. Later, Mecha-Dave stops his battle with Dave to tell him to wind his key.
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