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** [[spoiler: Chucky kills Dr.Ardmore by putting an ECT helmet on him and shocking him until he dies. Why Ardmore doesn't just ''take the helmet off'' is a mystery, as it's not strapped on or anything.]]
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: At one point Karen goes to Chucky's apartment (from when he was human) and finds it to be like this. There are a bunch of disturbing murals painted on all the walls, depicting HumanSacrifice and the like, as well as big red letters reading "OH THANK YOU MIGHTY DAMBALLA FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH."
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* RoomFullOfCrazy: At one point Karen goes to Chucky's apartment (from when he was human) and finds it to be like this. There are a bunch of disturbing murals painted on all the walls, depicting HumanSacrifice and the like, as well as big red letters reading "OH THANK YOU MIGHTY DAMBALLA FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH."" Karen is rather freaked out by this, and when Mike (who followed her there) suddenly calls out her name, she loudly gasps.
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%%* DrJerk: Dr. Ardmore, despite appearing to be caring, is a {{Hypocrite}}. He possibly viewed Andy as a murder suspect than just a frightened child patient, given that the ramshackle mental hospital he runs looks like more of the kind that houses the criminally insane than mentally ill kids.
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%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Played with in the character of Chucky's mentor, who has the nickname "Dr. Death" but as it turns out is as moral a practitioner of HollywoodVoodoo as you could ever hope to find.
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%%* OhCrap:
%%** Eddie Caputo, twice. First when Chucky got shot, and when a police car is after them, forcing Eddie to flee.
%%** Karen, when she found batteries for the doll that's been talking and laughing without them for days (see WhamShot below).
%%** Chucky, when Dr. Death told him the doll he's possessing is turning human, which means he'll be stuck in the body when it completely turns human.
%%** Eddie Caputo, twice. First when Chucky got shot, and when a police car is after them, forcing Eddie to flee.
%%** Karen, when she found batteries for the doll that's been talking and laughing without them for days (see WhamShot below).
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%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Chucky more or less says this to [[spoiler:his former voodoo teacher Bishop after torturing him into revealing how to escape the doll's body. Though Chucky knew his teacher would turn on him.]]
%%* YouHaveToBelieveMe: The heroes play this on Chucky really being alive. Andy pulls this on his mother Karen, who then pulls this on Mike.
%%* YouWontFeelAThing: One of the mental institution's doctors says this to Andy as he's about to inject Andy with some sort of sedative through a sharp-looking syringe.
%%* YouHaveToBelieveMe: The heroes play this on Chucky really being alive. Andy pulls this on his mother Karen, who then pulls this on Mike.
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Creator/AlexVincentActor) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Creator/DinahManoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Creator/AlexVincentActor) ([[Creator/AlexVincentActor Alex Vincent]]) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Creator/DinahManoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Creator/AlexVincentActor) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 A remake]] directed by Lars Klevberg was released on June 21st, 2019--featuring Creator/MarkHamill as the voice of Chucky, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen and Gabriel Bateman as Andy.
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Creator/AlexVincentActor) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) (Creator/DinahManoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 A remake]] directed by Lars Klevberg was released on June 21st, 2019--featuring Creator/MarkHamill as the voice of Chucky, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen andGabriel Bateman Creator/GabrielBateman as Andy.
[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 A remake]] directed by Lars Klevberg was released on June 21st, 2019--featuring Creator/MarkHamill as the voice of Chucky, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen and
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
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For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) (Creator/AlexVincentActor) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
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** In this film, Ray being in the doll's body makes it start to become partially biological, to the point he can be killed by [[AttackOnTheHeart shooting him in the heart]]. In all the other films in the franchise, Chucky remains fully a doll that can [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattached all his parts]] and [[RasputinianDeath must be subject to massive amounts of damage and disfigurement to die]].
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** In this film, Ray being in the doll's body makes it start to become partially biological, to the point he can be killed by [[AttackOnTheHeart shooting him in the heart]]. In all the other films in the franchise, Chucky remains fully a doll that can [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattached reattach all his parts]] and [[RasputinianDeath must be subject to massive amounts of damage and disfigurement to die]].
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* StealthPun: Chucky is practices voodoo, and he's a doll. He's a voodoo doll.
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* StealthPun: Chucky is practices voodoo, and he's a doll. He's a voodoo doll.
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** The first film is considerably more serious than the sequels, and there's even an AttemptedRape partway in. ''2'' and ''3'' would add more humor into the mix, whereas ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' (the latter especially) were straight-up {{Horror Comed|y}}ies. Curiously, the most recent two (Curse and Cult of Chucky) have got darker again and more in line with the first film in turns of tone).
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* BaitAndSwitch: At the beginning, it's Andy's birthday and he sees a box wrapped in Good Guys wrapping that he believes will be a Good Guys doll. To his disappointment his mother wrapped ''jeans'' in that box.
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* CordonBleughChef: Andy, as for he is only 6 years old. He tries to make his mother breakfast, but his idea of that is 2 slices of incredibly burnt ''black'' toast with half a whole stick of butter smeared on them plus an overflowing bowl of cereal in which he has no sense of measurement of when is there enough milk or cereal. Then he starts smothering the whole cereal with sugar.
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* CordonBleughChef: Andy, as for he is only 6 years old. He tries to make his mother breakfast, but his idea of that is 2 slices of incredibly burnt ''black'' toast with half a whole stick of butter smeared on them plus an overflowing bowl of cereal in which he has no sense of measurement of when is there enough milk or cereal. Then he starts smothering the whole cereal with sugar.
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* AssholeVictim:
** [[DirtyCoward Eddie Caputo]], who abandoned Charles to escape from a cop car Mike sent after him.
** [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]], who proves to be rather unpleasant with the way he treats Andy and suspects him of being a delusional EnfantTerrible who pushes the blame on a toy.
** [[DirtyCoward Eddie Caputo]], who abandoned Charles to escape from a cop car Mike sent after him.
** [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]], who proves to be rather unpleasant with the way he treats Andy and suspects him of being a delusional EnfantTerrible who pushes the blame on a toy.
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* AssholeVictim:
**AssholeVictim: [[DirtyCoward Eddie Caputo]], who abandoned Charles to escape from a cop car Mike sent after him.
** [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]], who proves to be rather unpleasant with the way he treats Andy and suspects him of being a delusional EnfantTerrible who pushes the blame on a toy.him.
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** [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]], who proves to be rather unpleasant with the way he treats Andy and suspects him of being a delusional EnfantTerrible who pushes the blame on a toy.
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** [[DrJerk Dr.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Maggie falls through the window of Andy's apartment after Chucky knocked her with a hammer, and comes crashing down [[CarCushion onto a car]].
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* PrecisionFStrike: When Karen is starting to believe Andy about Chucky.
--> '''Karen:''' "Say something, you little... bastard!"
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* PrecisionFStrike: PrecisionFStrike:
** Andy [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes innocently repeating something Chucky told him]], not understanding why it's so awful:
--->'''Karen:''' Chucky's been talking to you, too, hasn't he? What's he been saying?\\
'''Andy:''' All kinds of things. His real name is Charles Lee Ray, and he's been sent down from Heaven by Daddy to play with me.\\
'''Karen:''' He has, has he? Anything else?\\
'''Andy:''' Yes. [[spoiler:He said Aunt Maggie was a real bitch and got what she deserved.]]
** When Karen is starting to believe Andy aboutChucky.
-->Chucky (followed by an even stronger one; see WhamLine below):
---> '''Karen:'''"Say Say something, you little... bastard!"bastard!
** Andy [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes innocently repeating something Chucky told him]], not understanding why it's so awful:
--->'''Karen:''' Chucky's been talking to you, too, hasn't he? What's he been saying?\\
'''Andy:''' All kinds of things. His real name is Charles Lee Ray, and he's been sent down from Heaven by Daddy to play with me.\\
'''Karen:''' He has, has he? Anything else?\\
'''Andy:''' Yes. [[spoiler:He said Aunt Maggie was a real bitch and got what she deserved.]]
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Sure the protagonists defeat Chucky in the end, but who's going to believe them about a killer doll? This reality sets up the events in subsequent movies.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Mike saves Karen from being raped by the peddler and later pulls Chucky off of Andy just before he can complete the soul transfer chant.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqFxaYaEsZ4 VHS trailer]] which Chucky narrates and features the original peppy VillainSong that was cut from the actual film suggests this film would be a fun EvilIsCool[[invoked]] HorrorComedy that the sequels to this film and the overall franchise that follows, especially ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' and ''SeedOfChucky'', be later well-known for, rather than the straight serious horror film that it really is and intended to be from the start.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqFxaYaEsZ4 VHS trailer]] which Chucky narrates and features the original peppy VillainSong that was cut from the actual film suggests this film would be a fun EvilIsCool[[invoked]] HorrorComedy that the sequels to this film and the overall franchise that follows, especially ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' and ''SeedOfChucky'', ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', be later well-known for, rather than the straight serious horror film that it really is and intended to be from the start.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Dr. Ardmore is a DrJerk and considered an [[spoiler:AssholeVictim when he's killed by Chucky]], but actions shown on screen are not as malicious as one expects from any doctor character in media bordering on this trope, just neglectful, hypocritical and slightly inconsiderate of Andy, while claiming he only want to help him, making his character ambiguous.
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* VoodooDoll: Chucky uses one to torture [[spoiler:John Bishop]], first by breaking its limbs, and then once he has the information he wants, killing [[spoiler:Bishop]] by shoving a knife in its chest.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?'']]
->''You'll wish it was only make-believe.''
The first film of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' franchise.
For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 A remake]] directed by Lars Klevberg was released on June 21st, 2019--featuring Creator/MarkHamill as the voice of Chucky, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen and Gabriel Bateman as Andy.
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!! Give me the tropes, I BEG OF YOU!!:
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Eddie Caputo]], [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]] and Chucky himself at the end.]]
* AttackOnTheHeart: John reveals that Chucky can only be killed by attacking his heart, as that part of him is "almost human". [[spoiler:While it ''does'' put him down at the end of this film, later sequels prove that John was ''perhaps'' a bit too optimistic in saying that would be enough to kill Chucky permanently.]]
%%* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:The homeless guy who sold Chucky to Karen attempts it on her when she encounters him again, but Mike saves her.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: At the beginning, it's Andy's birthday and he sees a box wrapped in Good Guys wrapping that he believes will be a Good Guys doll. To his disappointment his mother wrapped ''jeans'' in that box.
%%* BatterUp: Chucky before knocking Andy out with one and attempting a transfer on him near the end.
* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler:Chucky is dead and Andy is saved, but nobody besides Mike, Jack, and the Barclays are going to believe a doll committed the murders, and it's implied that Andy will never be the same.]]
** The sequels make this [[spoiler:a straight up DownerEnding; neither of the cops choose to tell the truth about what happened, Karen's insistence that it was the doll got her committed, and Andy is put into foster care. And to add death blow to injury, Chucky was resurrected and eventually gained a new human body anyways, rendering everything AllForNothing.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Andy, while sitting in juvy, panics when he sees Chucky coming for him and breaks down into TearsOfFear upon Dr. Ardmore fending off his pleas to let him out. Luckily, Andy isn't TooDumbToLive and uses a ploy out of his pillow and blankets to fool Chucky then steal the keys from him to make his escape.
%%* CarCushion: In [[spoiler: Maggie]]'s case.
* ClusterFBomb: After [[spoiler:Karen threatens to throw Chucky in the fire if he didn't talk, he yells "YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME!"]]
* CordonBleughChef: Andy, as for he is only 6 years old. He tries to make his mother breakfast, but his idea of that is 2 slices of incredibly burnt ''black'' toast with half a whole stick of butter smeared on them plus an overflowing bowl of cereal in which he has no sense of measurement of when is there enough milk or cereal. Then he starts smothering the whole cereal with sugar.
%%* DeceptiveDisciple: Chucky learned voodoo from John Bishop, who becomes furious when he sees what Chucky has done, calling him "an abomination that has to be stopped". Pity the mentor turns out to be TooDumbToLive...
* DirtyCoward: Eddie Caputo leaves Charles Lee Ray behind for dead [[NoHonorAmongThieves to save his own skin when he himself was being chased by the cops]]. [[spoiler:This winds up biting him back (and costing him his life) when Chucky was created and took his revenge for this act of traitorous cowardice on his former partner-in-crime.]]
* DisappearedDad: Andy's father is absent with very little clues to his fate, though it is mentioned at one point that his wife Karen is a widow. As Karen works a crappy retail job, the giant apartment she and Andy live in was almost certainly his, though we never learn the whys or hows in the final film (the apartment's contents offer a few clues, though). A deleted scene involving Andy showing Chucky a picture of his father reveals he was killed in a car crash.
%%* DrJerk: Dr. Ardmore, despite appearing to be caring, is a {{Hypocrite}}. He possibly viewed Andy as a murder suspect than just a frightened child patient, given that the ramshackle mental hospital he runs looks like more of the kind that houses the criminally insane than mentally ill kids.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The first film is considerably more serious than the sequels, and there's even an AttemptedRape partway in. ''2'' and ''3'' would add more humor into the mix, where as ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' (the latter especially) were straight-up {{Horror Comed|y}}ies. Curiously, the most recent two (Curse and Cult of Chucky) have got darker again and more in line with the first film in turns of tone).
** In this film, Ray being in the doll's body makes it start to become partially biological, to the point he can be killed by [[AttackOnTheHeart shooting him in the heart]]. In all the other films in the franchise, Chucky remains fully a doll that can [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattached all his parts]] and [[RasputinianDeath must be subject to massive amounts of damage and disfigurement to die]].
** The violence and kills (at least until towards the end) have less of an emphasis on gore, while the sequels would progressively embrace them with open arms.
* EnigmaticMinion: For all the fleshing out the sequels have done, we still know very little about Eddie Caputo. He is established as Chucky's accomplice, but serial killers rarely have accomplices, and Eddie seemed much more interested in wanton robbery than the murder that was Charles Lee Ray's forte. He could have just been a petty criminal that partnered with Charles out of convenience, but Chucky seemed to have a high level of trust in him, judging by how shocked and horrified he was when Eddie abandoned him.
%%* EvenEvilHasStandards: Eddie Caputo. See WouldntHurtAChild below.
%%* ExorcistHead: Chucky does this as he's being held Andy's mother after she realizes he's been working without batteries.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Implied to be the case with John Bishop (a voodoo priest who taught Chucky about voodoo, but wasn't a bad guy himself). When Chucky shows up as a doll, he demands Bishop help him, to which he replies that he won't, because:
--> [[YouMonster "You're an abomination. An outrage against nature! You've perverted everything I taught you, and used it for evil! And you have to be stopped!"]]
* FormulaWithATwist: A SlasherMovie based on the premise "What if the killer was a kid's doll?"
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely at the shelves of the toy store at the movie's beginning, you'll see a number of toys from TheEighties such as [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Ecto-1]], WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower and Barbie & the Rockers.
* FriendsRentControl: Karen is a single mom with a crappy job at a department store, and explicitly strapped for cash. Her apartment is in the [[http://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/January-2015/Snag-the-Only-Unit-For-Sale-at-the-Landmark-Brewster/ Brewster Apartments]], a historic Chicago residence that would have cost six figures for a unit even in 1988.
* GroinAttack:
** [[spoiler:Chucky repeatedly stabs through Mike's car seat, aiming for his crotch.]] Luckily, he misses.
** Mike knees [[spoiler:the peddler in the crotch when the latter attempts to rape Karen.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:Andy, despite being the film's innocent hero, ends up gets framed and incarcerated for Chucky's crimes. ]]
* HollywoodVoodoo: A constant of all the films as this is the foundation for the story's mythology of how Chucky gets his soul in a doll in the first place, but this first film emphasizes it harder than any of the sequels. We are shown the apartments of both Chucky's mentor and Chucky himself as Charles Lee Ray (both are stocked to the gills with HollywoodVoodoo iconography), Chucky's chant is notably longer and more pronounced than in the later films, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen there was even going to be an artifact originally that enabled Chucky to conduct his soul transfer]]. This "Heart of Damballa" was cut from all known releases, but [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/chuckychildsplay/images/6/6b/Simonsen.jpg a few stills]] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/evil/images/2/27/Heart_of_Damballa.jpg exist]]. Interestingly, the Heart of Damballa becomes a relevant plot point in ''[[Film/BrideOfChucky Bride]]'' and ''[[Film/SeedOfChucky Seed]]''.
* HopeSpot: Maggie believes that there's nothing in the kitchen. [[spoiler:Then she's [[DeerintheHeadlights startled]] by Chucky. ]]
%%* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Birthday.
* IncompletelyTrained: Chucky was trained enough in the voodoo arts to conduct a soul transfer, but not so well trained that he understood the fine print. In novelizations of the sequel films this is further highlighted, with Chucky lamenting at points that maybe he was a ''bit'' hasty in [[spoiler:killing his old mentor before getting all the information he could get out of him.]]
* KillItWithFire:
** [[spoiler:This is how Chucky kills Eddie Caputo with a touch of BatmanGambit. Sneaking into the kitchen of Eddie's hideout, Chucky blew out the stove's pilot light and cranked its gas to high. He then made noise to deliberately lure the TriggerHappy Eddie to the kitchen. Sure enough, Eddie impulsively kicked the kitchen door open and fired without looking, triggering the gas and blowing himself up along with his hideout/]]
** Attempted on [[spoiler:Chucky. While the fireplace's flames don't kill him, they ''do'' leave him a horrifically-burned mess.]]
%%* LivingMacGuffin: Andy becomes one to Chucky after the latter learns he can only transfer his soul into the former's body.
* MadnessMantra: By the end, [[spoiler:Chucky has been decapitated, burned and shot repeatedly, yet his one-armed body ''still'' attempts to choke a man to death, with Chucky screaming at it the whole time to "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!"]]
* ManBitesMan: Chucky has no problems with sinking his tiny doll pearly whites into [[spoiler:Karen Barclay's arm. She shows her wound to Detective Norris as proof that Chucky is real, but it still takes an attempt on his life by Chucky himself to convince him.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Doll on fire anyway. Chucky is set on fire and screams and runs around in agony until he slowly dies. Except it ''doesn't'' kill him.]]
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Played with in the character of Chucky's mentor, who has the nickname "Dr. Death" but as it turns out is as moral a practitioner of HollywoodVoodoo as you could ever hope to find.
* NoodleIncident:
** We never learn what led to Charles Lee Ray running from the cops and taking refuge in that toy store in the first movie. [[spoiler: Until ''Curse of Chucky'', that is. Also doubles as a ''very'' long example of HowWeGotHere.]]
** Also relating to the above, we never see where Chucky got his red-bladed knife [[spoiler:until we see him wielding it in the aforementioned flashbacks of ''Curse of Chucky''.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Chucky gets decapitated during the finale, but it doesn't kill him.]]
%%* OhCrap:
%%** Eddie Caputo, twice. First when Chucky got shot, and when a police car is after them, forcing Eddie to flee.
%%** Karen, when she found batteries for the doll that's been talking and laughing without them for days (see WhamShot below).
%%** Chucky, when Dr. Death told him the doll he's possessing is turning human, which means he'll be stuck in the body when it completely turns human.
* PrecisionFStrike: When Karen is starting to believe Andy about Chucky.
--> '''Karen:''' "Say something, you little... bastard!"
* PreMortemOneLiner:
--> '''Chucky:''' [[spoiler:Andy, no! We're friends to the end, remember?]]
--> '''Andy:''' [[spoiler:This is the end, friend!]]
* RasputinianDeath: In what would become a series trend, Chucky takes a truly ''insane'' level of damage before he finally goes down.
* SpoilerCover:
** The US VHS cover shows Chucky brandishing his knife.
** The UK VHS cover has an image on the back of [[spoiler:Chucky trapped in the fireplace screaming.]]
* StealthPun: Chucky is practices voodoo, and he's a doll. He's a voodoo doll.
* StuffBlowingUp:
** The toy store at the beginning of the movie explodes violently, courtesy of a lightning bolt generated by Charles' soul transfer chant.
* TooDumbToLive:
** [[spoiler:John Bishop aka Dr. Death, the voodoo priest who taught Chucky everything he knows about the dark arts, keeps a VoodooDoll of ''himself'' around. And he told Chucky where to find it. Chucky also points out it was unwise of him to tell him where it is.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Even after John tells him how to get out of the Good Guy doll's body before it's too late, Chucky [[spoiler:is all too happy to kill him afterwards.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CInaU8ebb8 theatrical trailer]] for the film spoils the fact that the doll is alive, most notably by cutting from Karen opening Chucky's battery compartment to her saying: "He came alive in my hand!"
* VillainousBreakdown:
%%** "Give me the boy and I'll let you live, do you hear me?! GIVE ME THE BOY!"
** As Charles Lee Ray, Chucky has a breakdown in the ''first few minutes'' of the film after being shot by Detective Norris and abandoned by Eddie Caputo. The shock and fear reduces the feared Lakeshore Strangler to InelegantBlubbering and hysterical threats. It's such a pathetic display that one is almost surprised when Ray goes on to carve out a fearsome presence for himself as Chucky.
* WhamLine: This shocked many audience members the first time, but it still counts as one in-universe:
--->'''Mrs. Barclay:''' [[spoiler:I said talk to me, dammit, or else I'm gonna throw you in the fire!]]
--->'''Chucky:''' [[spoiler:'''YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME!''']]
** In a similar vein, after Mrs. Barclay discovers that [[spoiler:Chucky has no batteries]]:
--->[[spoiler:'''Chucky''': ([[ExorcistHead head spins around]]) ''Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?'']]
* WhamShot:
** Andy's mom turning over Chucky to stop him from talking, [[spoiler:only to find out that the batteries enabling that are not in Chucky's Good Guy doll socket.]]
** [[spoiler:Preceding that, the moment Karen looks at the Good Guy doll box and the batteries which should have been in Chucky fall out.]]
%%* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: [[spoiler:Chucky keeps going as a one-armed, one-legged torso after he is burned.]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: While searching his house for an intruder, Eddie Caputo hears a voice outside, turns, readies his gun... and sees a six-year-old boy running around. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It takes him about five seconds to release his sigh of relief.]]
%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Chucky more or less says this to [[spoiler:his former voodoo teacher Bishop after torturing him into revealing how to escape the doll's body. Though Chucky knew his teacher would turn on him.]]
%%* YouHaveToBelieveMe: The heroes play this on Chucky really being alive. Andy pulls this on his mother Karen, who then pulls this on Mike.
%%* YouWontFeelAThing: One of the mental institution's doctors says this to Andy as he's about to inject Andy with some sort of sedative through a sharp-looking syringe.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?'']]
->''You'll wish it was only make-believe.''
The first film of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' franchise.
For his birthday, 6-year-old Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) gets the "Good Guy" doll he saw advertised on TV. Little did Andy know that the doll, later to be known as Chucky, is actually a Main/SoulJar for the SerialKiller Charles Lee Ray (Creator/BradDourif). His babysitter Maggie Peterson (Dinah Manoff) is only the first of several people to die. His mother Karen (Creator/CatherineHicks) has to find what is going on in time to save her son from becoming Charles' next host.
[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 A remake]] directed by Lars Klevberg was released on June 21st, 2019--featuring Creator/MarkHamill as the voice of Chucky, Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen and Gabriel Bateman as Andy.
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!! Give me the tropes, I BEG OF YOU!!:
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:[[DirtyCoward Eddie Caputo]], [[DrJerk Dr. Ardmore]] and Chucky himself at the end.]]
* AttackOnTheHeart: John reveals that Chucky can only be killed by attacking his heart, as that part of him is "almost human". [[spoiler:While it ''does'' put him down at the end of this film, later sequels prove that John was ''perhaps'' a bit too optimistic in saying that would be enough to kill Chucky permanently.]]
%%* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:The homeless guy who sold Chucky to Karen attempts it on her when she encounters him again, but Mike saves her.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: At the beginning, it's Andy's birthday and he sees a box wrapped in Good Guys wrapping that he believes will be a Good Guys doll. To his disappointment his mother wrapped ''jeans'' in that box.
%%* BatterUp: Chucky before knocking Andy out with one and attempting a transfer on him near the end.
* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler:Chucky is dead and Andy is saved, but nobody besides Mike, Jack, and the Barclays are going to believe a doll committed the murders, and it's implied that Andy will never be the same.]]
** The sequels make this [[spoiler:a straight up DownerEnding; neither of the cops choose to tell the truth about what happened, Karen's insistence that it was the doll got her committed, and Andy is put into foster care. And to add death blow to injury, Chucky was resurrected and eventually gained a new human body anyways, rendering everything AllForNothing.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Andy, while sitting in juvy, panics when he sees Chucky coming for him and breaks down into TearsOfFear upon Dr. Ardmore fending off his pleas to let him out. Luckily, Andy isn't TooDumbToLive and uses a ploy out of his pillow and blankets to fool Chucky then steal the keys from him to make his escape.
%%* CarCushion: In [[spoiler: Maggie]]'s case.
* ClusterFBomb: After [[spoiler:Karen threatens to throw Chucky in the fire if he didn't talk, he yells "YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME!"]]
* CordonBleughChef: Andy, as for he is only 6 years old. He tries to make his mother breakfast, but his idea of that is 2 slices of incredibly burnt ''black'' toast with half a whole stick of butter smeared on them plus an overflowing bowl of cereal in which he has no sense of measurement of when is there enough milk or cereal. Then he starts smothering the whole cereal with sugar.
%%* DeceptiveDisciple: Chucky learned voodoo from John Bishop, who becomes furious when he sees what Chucky has done, calling him "an abomination that has to be stopped". Pity the mentor turns out to be TooDumbToLive...
* DirtyCoward: Eddie Caputo leaves Charles Lee Ray behind for dead [[NoHonorAmongThieves to save his own skin when he himself was being chased by the cops]]. [[spoiler:This winds up biting him back (and costing him his life) when Chucky was created and took his revenge for this act of traitorous cowardice on his former partner-in-crime.]]
* DisappearedDad: Andy's father is absent with very little clues to his fate, though it is mentioned at one point that his wife Karen is a widow. As Karen works a crappy retail job, the giant apartment she and Andy live in was almost certainly his, though we never learn the whys or hows in the final film (the apartment's contents offer a few clues, though). A deleted scene involving Andy showing Chucky a picture of his father reveals he was killed in a car crash.
%%* DrJerk: Dr. Ardmore, despite appearing to be caring, is a {{Hypocrite}}. He possibly viewed Andy as a murder suspect than just a frightened child patient, given that the ramshackle mental hospital he runs looks like more of the kind that houses the criminally insane than mentally ill kids.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The first film is considerably more serious than the sequels, and there's even an AttemptedRape partway in. ''2'' and ''3'' would add more humor into the mix, where as ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' (the latter especially) were straight-up {{Horror Comed|y}}ies. Curiously, the most recent two (Curse and Cult of Chucky) have got darker again and more in line with the first film in turns of tone).
** In this film, Ray being in the doll's body makes it start to become partially biological, to the point he can be killed by [[AttackOnTheHeart shooting him in the heart]]. In all the other films in the franchise, Chucky remains fully a doll that can [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattached all his parts]] and [[RasputinianDeath must be subject to massive amounts of damage and disfigurement to die]].
** The violence and kills (at least until towards the end) have less of an emphasis on gore, while the sequels would progressively embrace them with open arms.
* EnigmaticMinion: For all the fleshing out the sequels have done, we still know very little about Eddie Caputo. He is established as Chucky's accomplice, but serial killers rarely have accomplices, and Eddie seemed much more interested in wanton robbery than the murder that was Charles Lee Ray's forte. He could have just been a petty criminal that partnered with Charles out of convenience, but Chucky seemed to have a high level of trust in him, judging by how shocked and horrified he was when Eddie abandoned him.
%%* EvenEvilHasStandards: Eddie Caputo. See WouldntHurtAChild below.
%%* ExorcistHead: Chucky does this as he's being held Andy's mother after she realizes he's been working without batteries.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Implied to be the case with John Bishop (a voodoo priest who taught Chucky about voodoo, but wasn't a bad guy himself). When Chucky shows up as a doll, he demands Bishop help him, to which he replies that he won't, because:
--> [[YouMonster "You're an abomination. An outrage against nature! You've perverted everything I taught you, and used it for evil! And you have to be stopped!"]]
* FormulaWithATwist: A SlasherMovie based on the premise "What if the killer was a kid's doll?"
* FreezeFrameBonus: If you look closely at the shelves of the toy store at the movie's beginning, you'll see a number of toys from TheEighties such as [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters Ecto-1]], WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower and Barbie & the Rockers.
* FriendsRentControl: Karen is a single mom with a crappy job at a department store, and explicitly strapped for cash. Her apartment is in the [[http://www.chicagomag.com/real-estate/January-2015/Snag-the-Only-Unit-For-Sale-at-the-Landmark-Brewster/ Brewster Apartments]], a historic Chicago residence that would have cost six figures for a unit even in 1988.
* GroinAttack:
** [[spoiler:Chucky repeatedly stabs through Mike's car seat, aiming for his crotch.]] Luckily, he misses.
** Mike knees [[spoiler:the peddler in the crotch when the latter attempts to rape Karen.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:Andy, despite being the film's innocent hero, ends up gets framed and incarcerated for Chucky's crimes. ]]
* HollywoodVoodoo: A constant of all the films as this is the foundation for the story's mythology of how Chucky gets his soul in a doll in the first place, but this first film emphasizes it harder than any of the sequels. We are shown the apartments of both Chucky's mentor and Chucky himself as Charles Lee Ray (both are stocked to the gills with HollywoodVoodoo iconography), Chucky's chant is notably longer and more pronounced than in the later films, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen there was even going to be an artifact originally that enabled Chucky to conduct his soul transfer]]. This "Heart of Damballa" was cut from all known releases, but [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/chuckychildsplay/images/6/6b/Simonsen.jpg a few stills]] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/evil/images/2/27/Heart_of_Damballa.jpg exist]]. Interestingly, the Heart of Damballa becomes a relevant plot point in ''[[Film/BrideOfChucky Bride]]'' and ''[[Film/SeedOfChucky Seed]]''.
* HopeSpot: Maggie believes that there's nothing in the kitchen. [[spoiler:Then she's [[DeerintheHeadlights startled]] by Chucky. ]]
%%* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Birthday.
* IncompletelyTrained: Chucky was trained enough in the voodoo arts to conduct a soul transfer, but not so well trained that he understood the fine print. In novelizations of the sequel films this is further highlighted, with Chucky lamenting at points that maybe he was a ''bit'' hasty in [[spoiler:killing his old mentor before getting all the information he could get out of him.]]
* KillItWithFire:
** [[spoiler:This is how Chucky kills Eddie Caputo with a touch of BatmanGambit. Sneaking into the kitchen of Eddie's hideout, Chucky blew out the stove's pilot light and cranked its gas to high. He then made noise to deliberately lure the TriggerHappy Eddie to the kitchen. Sure enough, Eddie impulsively kicked the kitchen door open and fired without looking, triggering the gas and blowing himself up along with his hideout/]]
** Attempted on [[spoiler:Chucky. While the fireplace's flames don't kill him, they ''do'' leave him a horrifically-burned mess.]]
%%* LivingMacGuffin: Andy becomes one to Chucky after the latter learns he can only transfer his soul into the former's body.
* MadnessMantra: By the end, [[spoiler:Chucky has been decapitated, burned and shot repeatedly, yet his one-armed body ''still'' attempts to choke a man to death, with Chucky screaming at it the whole time to "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!"]]
* ManBitesMan: Chucky has no problems with sinking his tiny doll pearly whites into [[spoiler:Karen Barclay's arm. She shows her wound to Detective Norris as proof that Chucky is real, but it still takes an attempt on his life by Chucky himself to convince him.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler:Doll on fire anyway. Chucky is set on fire and screams and runs around in agony until he slowly dies. Except it ''doesn't'' kill him.]]
%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Played with in the character of Chucky's mentor, who has the nickname "Dr. Death" but as it turns out is as moral a practitioner of HollywoodVoodoo as you could ever hope to find.
* NoodleIncident:
** We never learn what led to Charles Lee Ray running from the cops and taking refuge in that toy store in the first movie. [[spoiler: Until ''Curse of Chucky'', that is. Also doubles as a ''very'' long example of HowWeGotHere.]]
** Also relating to the above, we never see where Chucky got his red-bladed knife [[spoiler:until we see him wielding it in the aforementioned flashbacks of ''Curse of Chucky''.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Chucky gets decapitated during the finale, but it doesn't kill him.]]
%%* OhCrap:
%%** Eddie Caputo, twice. First when Chucky got shot, and when a police car is after them, forcing Eddie to flee.
%%** Karen, when she found batteries for the doll that's been talking and laughing without them for days (see WhamShot below).
%%** Chucky, when Dr. Death told him the doll he's possessing is turning human, which means he'll be stuck in the body when it completely turns human.
* PrecisionFStrike: When Karen is starting to believe Andy about Chucky.
--> '''Karen:''' "Say something, you little... bastard!"
* PreMortemOneLiner:
--> '''Chucky:''' [[spoiler:Andy, no! We're friends to the end, remember?]]
--> '''Andy:''' [[spoiler:This is the end, friend!]]
* RasputinianDeath: In what would become a series trend, Chucky takes a truly ''insane'' level of damage before he finally goes down.
* SpoilerCover:
** The US VHS cover shows Chucky brandishing his knife.
** The UK VHS cover has an image on the back of [[spoiler:Chucky trapped in the fireplace screaming.]]
* StealthPun: Chucky is practices voodoo, and he's a doll. He's a voodoo doll.
* StuffBlowingUp:
** The toy store at the beginning of the movie explodes violently, courtesy of a lightning bolt generated by Charles' soul transfer chant.
* TooDumbToLive:
** [[spoiler:John Bishop aka Dr. Death, the voodoo priest who taught Chucky everything he knows about the dark arts, keeps a VoodooDoll of ''himself'' around. And he told Chucky where to find it. Chucky also points out it was unwise of him to tell him where it is.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Even after John tells him how to get out of the Good Guy doll's body before it's too late, Chucky [[spoiler:is all too happy to kill him afterwards.]]
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CInaU8ebb8 theatrical trailer]] for the film spoils the fact that the doll is alive, most notably by cutting from Karen opening Chucky's battery compartment to her saying: "He came alive in my hand!"
* VillainousBreakdown:
%%** "Give me the boy and I'll let you live, do you hear me?! GIVE ME THE BOY!"
** As Charles Lee Ray, Chucky has a breakdown in the ''first few minutes'' of the film after being shot by Detective Norris and abandoned by Eddie Caputo. The shock and fear reduces the feared Lakeshore Strangler to InelegantBlubbering and hysterical threats. It's such a pathetic display that one is almost surprised when Ray goes on to carve out a fearsome presence for himself as Chucky.
* WhamLine: This shocked many audience members the first time, but it still counts as one in-universe:
--->'''Mrs. Barclay:''' [[spoiler:I said talk to me, dammit, or else I'm gonna throw you in the fire!]]
--->'''Chucky:''' [[spoiler:'''YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME!''']]
** In a similar vein, after Mrs. Barclay discovers that [[spoiler:Chucky has no batteries]]:
--->[[spoiler:'''Chucky''': ([[ExorcistHead head spins around]]) ''Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?'']]
* WhamShot:
** Andy's mom turning over Chucky to stop him from talking, [[spoiler:only to find out that the batteries enabling that are not in Chucky's Good Guy doll socket.]]
** [[spoiler:Preceding that, the moment Karen looks at the Good Guy doll box and the batteries which should have been in Chucky fall out.]]
%%* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: [[spoiler:Chucky keeps going as a one-armed, one-legged torso after he is burned.]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: While searching his house for an intruder, Eddie Caputo hears a voice outside, turns, readies his gun... and sees a six-year-old boy running around. [[EvenEvilHasStandards It takes him about five seconds to release his sigh of relief.]]
%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Chucky more or less says this to [[spoiler:his former voodoo teacher Bishop after torturing him into revealing how to escape the doll's body. Though Chucky knew his teacher would turn on him.]]
%%* YouHaveToBelieveMe: The heroes play this on Chucky really being alive. Andy pulls this on his mother Karen, who then pulls this on Mike.
%%* YouWontFeelAThing: One of the mental institution's doctors says this to Andy as he's about to inject Andy with some sort of sedative through a sharp-looking syringe.
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