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* '''''Film/BrideOfChucky''''' (1998) -- After having been destroyed once and for all, Chucky's obsessed ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Creator/JenniferTilly) restores him back to life. Feeling insulted by her teasing of his doll form, Chucky does what he knows best -- he kills Tiffany and transfers her soul into the body of a female doll. This entry is notable for shifting the franchise into more [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedic territory]] than previously seen.
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* '''''Film/BrideOfChucky''''' (1998) -- After having been destroyed once and for all, Chucky's obsessed ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Creator/JenniferTilly) restores him back to life. Feeling insulted by her teasing of his doll form, Chucky does what he knows best -- he kills Tiffany and transfers her soul into the body of a female doll. This entry is notable for shifting the franchise into more [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror [[HorrorComedy comedic territory]] than previously seen.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The films make references (including in the words to the possession spell) to "Damballa". While he is a real Loa (basically a god) in the Voodoo religion, he isn't some GodOfEvil like the movies imply, but rather the main creator god. Indeed some historians belief he may even be loosely inspired by ''Moses''.
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** The are several lines of dialogue implying Hell exists in the film's universe (or at least that Chucky and Tiffany believe that it does). The voodoo religion doesn't have a Hell, instead, evil people are thought to be doomed to walk the Earth as bodyless spirits rather than go to the afterlife.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The films make references (including in the words to the possession spell) to "Damballa". While he is a real Loa (basically a god) in the Voodoo religion, he isn't some GodOfEvil like the movies imply, but rather the main creator god. Indeed some historians belief believe he may even be loosely inspired by ''Moses''.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film to ensure each installment has a HateSink. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'', [[BastardBoyfriend Shane]] and [[Gabe AllMenArePerverts]] in the remake and Chucky himself.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film to ensure each installment has a HateSink. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'', [[BastardBoyfriend Shane]] and [[Gabe AllMenArePerverts]] [[AllMenArePerverts Gabe]] in the remake and Chucky himself.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film to ensure each installment has a HateSink. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'', [[BastardBoyfriend Shane]] in the remake and Chucky himself.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film to ensure each installment has a HateSink. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'', [[BastardBoyfriend Shane]] and [[Gabe AllMenArePerverts]] in the remake and Chucky himself.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film to ensure each installment has a HateSink. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'' ''Cult'', [[BastardBoyfriend Shane]] in the remake and Chucky himself.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The films make references (including in the words to the possession spell) to "Damballa". While he is a real Loa (basically a god) in the Voodoo religion, he isn't some GodOfEvil like the movies imply, but rather the main creator god. Indeed some historians belief he may even be loosely inspired by ''Moses''
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The films make references (including in the words to the possession spell) to "Damballa". While he is a real Loa (basically a god) in the Voodoo religion, he isn't some GodOfEvil like the movies imply, but rather the main creator god. Indeed some historians belief he may even be loosely inspired by ''Moses''''Moses''.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: The Heart Of Damballah was actually intended to appear in the FIRST film of the franchise. A deleted scene with human Charles and John, The Voodoo Man was shot but didn't make the final cut. A major difference here however was the heart was not an amulet, but a staff or gem in the possession of the voodoo man.
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In 2018, it was announced that Creator/{{MGM}} was producing a {{reboot}} of the original film —without Don Mancini or Brad Dourif's involvement— as the studio still owns the original ''Child's Play'' title and concept, starring Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen Barclay, Gabriel Bateman as Andy, and Brian Tyree Henry as the detective investigating their case. In this iteration, the evil Good Guy Doll (who may or may not be called Chucky) will have {{AI}} elements.
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* '''''[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 Child's Play]]''''' (2019) -- Starring Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen Barclay, Gabriel Bateman as Andy, and Brian Tyree Henry as the detective investigating their case. In this iteration, the evil Good Guy Doll (who may or may not be called Chucky) will have {{AI}} elements.
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* '''''[[Film/ChildsPlay2019 Child's Play]]''''' (2019) -- Starring Creator/AubreyPlaza as Karen Barclay, Gabriel Bateman as Andy, and Brian Tyree Henry as the detective investigating their case. In this iteration, the evil Good Guy Doll (who may or may not be called Chucky) will have {{AI}} elements.
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** The are several lines of dialogue implying Hell exists in the film's universe (or at least that Chucky and Tiffany believe that it does). The voodoo religion doesn't have a Hell, instead, evil people are thought to be doomed to walk the Earth as bodyless spirits rather than go to the afterlife.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Chucky's whole possession spell chant. Its probably meant to sound like French or possibly Creole, however, it also has bits from other languages as well as some nonsense words [[https://childsplay.fandom.com/wiki/Damballa on this page (second post from the top) someone attempts a rough translation, although they admit a lot of it is just guesswork based on the context and tone he says it in.]]
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The ''Child's Play'' franchise is a series of [[VillainBasedFranchise villain-based]] {{slasher film}}s that consistently feature Chucky (Creator/BradDourif), a {{creepy doll}} who actually [[SoulJar contains the soul]] of a {{serial killer}}.
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The ''Child's Play'' franchise is a series of [[VillainBasedFranchise villain-based]] {{slasher film}}s that consistently feature Chucky (Creator/BradDourif), a {{creepy doll}} CreepyDoll who actually [[SoulJar contains the soul]] of a {{serial killer}}.SerialKiller.
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* '''''Film/ChildsPlay3''''' (1991) -- Now a teenager, Andy (Justin Whalin) has been sent to {{military school}} after it's decided he's unable to re-adapt to the world after Chucky. Guess who shows up to finish what he started.
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* '''''Film/ChildsPlay3''''' (1991) -- Now a teenager, Andy (Justin Whalin) has been sent to {{military school}} MilitarySchool after it's decided he's unable to re-adapt to the world after Chucky. Guess who shows up to finish what he started.
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* '''''Film/SeedOfChucky''''' (2004) -- Chucky and Tiffany (who were [[DeathIsCheap both destroyed in the previous film]]) meet their biological child Glen (Billy Boyd), who struggles to share the bloodthirsty ways of his parents. Jennifer Tilly also appears {{as herself}} ([[AdamWesting an exaggerated version, anyway]]), and is explained to have portrayed Tiffany in [[ShowWithinAShow the films based on Chucky's exploits]] in this universe.
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* '''''Film/SeedOfChucky''''' (2004) -- Chucky and Tiffany (who were [[DeathIsCheap both destroyed in the previous film]]) meet their biological child Glen (Billy Boyd), who struggles to share the bloodthirsty ways of his parents. Jennifer Tilly also appears {{as herself}} AsHerself ([[AdamWesting an exaggerated version, anyway]]), and is explained to have portrayed Tiffany in [[ShowWithinAShow the films based on Chucky's exploits]] in this universe.
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When ''Seed of Chucky'' forced the franchise into yet another rut, Mancini decided to [[CharacterRerailment bring Chucky back to his horror roots]] with a new era of [[DirectToVideo direct-to-video]] films:
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Chucky, of course, since who would ever suspect a Good Guy doll of being an infamous voodoo-practicing serial killer? Even Andy and Tyler, his first two intended [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], think he's a nice guy at first when he reveals to them that he's actually alive.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Chucky, of course, since who would ever suspect a Good Guy doll of being an infamous voodoo-practicing serial killer? Even Andy and Tyler, his first two intended [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], {{Soul Jar}}s, think he's a nice guy at first when he reveals to them that he's actually alive.
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment [[WorldOfJerkass unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this]]. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive lesbian babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} [[TookALevelInJerkass taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment [[WorldOfJerkass unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this]]. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive lesbian babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* KickTheDog: Chucky is evil all right, but this gets quite [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] throughout the series.
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* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The entire reason ''Curse of Chucky'' takes place]].
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* InsaneTrollLogic: In the franchise's CrapsackWorld, it seems anyone can easily accept that any human being, whether its either impossibly a 6 to 8 year-old child or a wheelchair-bound woman, is capable to commit a murder, ''[[IdiotBall except]]'' a KillerDoll.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: In the franchise's CrapsackWorld, it seems anyone can easily accept that any human being, whether its it's either impossibly a 6 to 8 year-old child or a wheelchair-bound woman, is capable to commit a murder, ''[[IdiotBall except]]'' a KillerDoll.
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* MonsterMisogyny: Charles Ree Ray certainly has a... ''way'' with women, as evidenced by his obsession with Sarah Pierce in ''Curse of Chucky'' (and by extension her daughter Nica) and his casual abuse of [[MadLove mad lover]] Tiffany. And those are the women he ''likes''. Notably, his very first onscreen victim is a woman he kills for being a "bitch", and when Karen Barclay forces him to reveal himself he immediately launches into a violent misogynistic tirade.
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* MonsterMisogyny: Charles Ree Lee Ray certainly has a... ''way'' with women, as evidenced by his obsession with Sarah Pierce in ''Curse of Chucky'' (and by extension her daughter Nica) and his casual abuse of [[MadLove mad lover]] Tiffany. And those are the women he ''likes''. Notably, his very first onscreen victim is a woman he kills for being a "bitch", and when Karen Barclay forces him to reveal himself he immediately launches into a violent misogynistic tirade.
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* PrettyInMink: A couple scenes with Jennifer Tilly (playing herself)
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** Glen in ''Seed''... although a really weird one. [[spoiler:Nica at the end of Curse of Chucky.]]
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* HateSink: Most of the {{Jerkass}}es in the series tend to fall into this, which is why these films has more {{Asshole Victim}}s than any other SlasherMovie franchise, even more than the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.
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* HateSink: Most of the {{Jerkass}}es in the series tend to fall into this, which is why these films has have more {{Asshole Victim}}s than any other SlasherMovie franchise, even more than the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.
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* {{Expy}}: The Good Guys toyline is a BlandNameProduct of the real life My Buddy toyline. [[A Comparison between the two toys https://www.pophorror.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/good-guy-doll-vs-mybuddy.jpg]]
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* MotiveDecay: Double subverted throughout the franchise. After transferring his soul into the Good Guy doll, Chucky spends the first half of the first film intent on killing all whom he blamed for his human death. Upon learning, even as a doll, he can still physically sustain injury, he spends the remainder of the film and all of the first four sequels trying to transfer his soul into a human body. Only at the end of the fifth film does he decide to remain a possessed doll, and the following movies have him going back to his original spree to avenge his human death.
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* WorldOfJerkass: With TheHero as an exception and besides Chucky, the entire universe is apparently inhabited with all kinds of unpleasant folk on different degrees, making Chucky's body count being filled with almost nothing, but {{Asshole Victim}}s.
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive lesbian babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment [[WorldOfJerkass unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this.this]]. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive lesbian babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] lesbian babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Most of the supporting characters beside TheHero have nothing to due with the main plots of the films except to act as either TooDumbToLive and/or AssholeVictim cannon fodder for Chucky's body count or as oblivious bystanders frustratingly flabbergasted at what's going on due to them disbelieving the existence of Chucky. See FlatEarthAtheist above for more information.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'' and Chucky himself.
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The ''Child's Play'' franchise is a series of [[VillainBasedFranchise villain-based]] {{slasher film}}s that consistently feature Chucky (Creator/BradDourif), a {{creepy doll}} who actually [[SoulJar contains the soul]] of a {{serial killer}}.
Don Mancini, creator of the Chucky character, has written every installment to date, and he made his directorial debut in the franchise with 2013's ''Curse of Chucky''.
The original trilogy, which began in 1988, includes:
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay''''' (1988) -- Single mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) manages to procure a "Good Guy" doll (named Chucky) for her young son Andy (Alex Vincent) from a sketchy peddler, but she doesn't realize there's something ''very'' wrong him. Turns out the doll is possessed by a supposedly dead serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, and he's looking to transfer into Andy's body.
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay2''''' (1990) -- Shortly after the events of the original film, Andy Barclay is put into the foster care system when his mother --majorly rattled from their ordeal with Chucky-- is deemed unfit to raise him. When a [[BackFromTheDead revived]] Chucky manages to track him down, Andy is forced to put an end to his bloody dealings once again.
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay3''''' (1991) -- Now a teenager, Andy (Justin Whalin) has been sent to {{military school}} after it's decided he's unable to re-adapt to the world after Chucky. Guess who shows up to finish what he started.
Due to unfavorable reaction of the third film, a fourth installment was put in {{development hell}} until 1998, which saw the release of a new film with a ''wildly'' [[GenreShift different tone]] and [[VillainBasedFranchise a clear emphasis on the Chucky character]]:
* '''''Film/BrideOfChucky''''' (1998) -- After having been destroyed once and for all, Chucky's obsessed ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Creator/JenniferTilly) restores him back to life. Feeling insulted by her teasing of his doll form, Chucky does what he knows best -- he kills Tiffany and transfers her soul into the body of a female doll. This entry is notable for shifting the franchise into more [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedic territory]] than previously seen.
* '''''Film/SeedOfChucky''''' (2004) -- Chucky and Tiffany (who were [[DeathIsCheap both destroyed in the previous film]]) meet their biological child Glen (Billy Boyd), who struggles to share the bloodthirsty ways of his parents. Jennifer Tilly also appears {{as herself}} ([[AdamWesting an exaggerated version, anyway]]), and is explained to have portrayed Tiffany in [[ShowWithinAShow the films based on Chucky's exploits]] in this universe.
When ''Seed of Chucky'' forced the franchise into yet another rut, Mancini decided to [[CharacterRerailment bring Chucky back to his horror roots]] with a new era of [[DirectToVideo direct-to-video]] films:
* '''''Film/CurseOfChucky''''' (2013) -- Paraplegic Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif, the real-life daughter of Chucky himself) receives an ''unexpected'' package in the mail, and it's up to her to figure out why it arrived -- before it's too late. Alex Vincent, who originated the role of Andy Barclay in the first two films, returns as the character in a [[TheStinger post-credits scene]].
* '''''Film/CultOfChucky''''' (2017) -- Institutionalized after the events of the previous film, Nica thinks she's free of Chucky's terror... until he sneaks into the facility to resume his bloody business.
Not to be confused with [[UsefulNotes/ChildsPlay the charity]] or [[Series/ChildsPlay the Bill Cullen game show]].
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!! The ''Child's Play'' franchise contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: When Mrs. Barclay thinks her son might be a killer and later when she finds out there's a serial killer after him who aims to steal his body. And then when she tells the story of what happened, she is put into psychiatric care and her son is thrown into the Foster system.
* AdultsAreUseless: Most of them can't accept the reality that a killer doll is on the loose. Probably because it's the last thing they'd suspect.
* AshFace: When Chucky gets burnt.
* AndIMustScream: It's implied in the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover that Chucky is stuck in this type of state whenever he is killed.
* AxCrazy: Charles Lee Ray, the actual murderer and by extension, Chucky in all films.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Chucky's plots to transfer his soul into another body and get rid of his enemies always ended in colossal failure until he finally wised up in Curse of Chucky, where he manages to off everyone and successfully pin everything on Nica Pierce. Then he comes back in the sequel and not only offs everyone at the mental institution she's in, but he manages to transfer his soul into her and (using a voodoo spell he got off the internet) can now split his and Tiffany's souls into as many vessels as they want. Oh, and his arch-nemesis Andy Barclay is now locked up in the facility as well.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: While Chucky [[SubvertedTrope put himself in the doll to begin with and is especially dangerous in that form]] (as he can hide pretty much anywhere and almost no one is suspicious of a toy) he laments being stuck in "this goddamned body" and spends most of the series trying to BodySurf into a human. And in ''Bride of Chucky,'' Tiffany tickles him and locks him in a playpen. Ultimately subverted altogether when Chucky realizes that he's more infamous as a doll than he ever was as a human.
* BigBad: Chucky.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Chucky, of course, since who would ever suspect a Good Guy doll of being an infamous voodoo-practicing serial killer? Even Andy and Tyler, his first two intended [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], think he's a nice guy at first when he reveals to them that he's actually alive.
* BloodierAndGorier: Each successive installment just gets messier.
* BodyHorror: What happens to Chucky over the course of the first few films to a degree. He becomes 'more human' the longer he's in the doll, which ultimately makes him this twisted fusion of flesh, blood, plastic, and wires. Kind of light, except it also makes him still feel pain, but unable to die (or so it seems) from more normal biological things like blood loss and shock.
* BodySurf: Chucky's goal for much of the series is to transfer his soul into a human body.
* BrokenPedestal: TheHero finds him or herself in this position when one or more of their confidents believed they committed the crimes that were in fact caused by Chucky. This however, causes the one who becomes disillusioned to TookALevelInJerkass or reveals him or herself to be negatively NotSoAboveItAll and becomes just another AssholeVictim who is TooDumbToLive for Chucky to kill.
** Andy is this to Joanne in the second film.
** Jade and Jesse are this to David in the fourth film (though unlike most mean-spirited examples in the series, its revelation is more PlayedForLaughs in a BlackComedy manner due to the fourth film steering more towards the humorous route as well as David's actor's [[LargeHam over-the-top]] approach on how his character becomes disillusioned).
** Nica is this to Ian in the sixth film.
* CassandraTruth: No one ever believes Andy or any other protagonist about Chucky. When they do, they usually die.
** After the first film, Karen Barclay was locked away in an asylum because she insisted the killer doll story was true even when the police didn't back it up.
* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
** The second film depicts Chicago to be a CrapsaccharineWorld, that despite the bright (if somewhat eerie) look of the film, it's actually still an unkind city that not even Andy is safe from other than Chucky (the aforementioned toy company run by cold-hearted {{corrupt corporate executive}}s including one SmugSnake [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]], an elementary school where it's implied {{sadist teacher}}s are authorized to inflict [[WouldHurtAChild physical and emotional child abuse]] on their students, and foster parents who, [[NotSoAboveItAll despite their appearances to be seemingly ideal-looking and what model families should look like]], [[SupernaturalProofFather naturally disbelieve that a killer doll is on the loose out to get a child]] and can be vindictively judgmental if a child is a HeroWithBadPublicity and can easily deduce kids can be murderers ranging from an ObstructiveBureaucrat {{Jerkass}} foster father to a mother who starts out as caring and kind towards the child, [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes but]] [[NotSoAboveItAll th]][[BitchInSheepsClothing en]] TookALevelInJerkass towards the kid [[spoiler: after seeing her husband dead and irrationally jumped to a conclusion that the child killed him somehow]] just because of his [[HeroWithBadPublicity prior reputation]]). Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into a ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the AngryBlackMan truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.
** The series's universe is also filled with characters who starts out as friends of the protagonists, but then can [[TookALevelInJerkass take a level in jerkass]] once turning on the {{The Hero}}es after viewing the protagonists as {{Broken Pedestal}}s after Chucky frames the leads for his crimes, [[spoiler:then become {{Asshole Victim}}s after stooping that low]].
* {{Determinator}}: Chucky to the T. Even missing a hand, having his face sliced off, or worse, nothing stops the Chuck from killing or stalking his prey. It's even more impressive, considering he lacks the 'feel no pain' a lot of his slasher peers have.
* DevilInPlainSight: Nobody noticing Chucky is semi-justified by the fact that nobody seems to think too much of a doll sitting there. Only semi because people rarely question why a doll would be where they find him.
* EvilRedhead: Chucky - at least as a doll.
* ExorcistHead: Chucky does this to mess with Damien Baylock in ''Bride''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Chucky has pretty moments. As does Tiffany.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Despite the preceding events in past films, Chucky and the existence of {{Killer Doll}}s are still ruled out to be not real, making this universe an outright TooDumbToLive CrapsackWorld that is stubbornly unprepared for and vulnerable to any tiny terror.
* HateSink: Most of the {{Jerkass}}es in the series tend to fall into this, which is why these films has more {{Asshole Victim}}s than any other SlasherMovie franchise, even more than the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.
* HauntedTechnology: Chucky and Tiffany.
* InappropriateSpeakAndSpell: Chucky the doll (a battery-powered, talking [[{{Irony}} "Good Guy"]] doll) is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. One can only imagine the inappropriate things he was saying to Andy, but onscreen we see and hear him [[ClusterFBomb going berserk]] when Andy's mom threatens to throw him into the fireplace if he didn't talk (thereby proving her suspicion that the doll was sentient).
* InkSuitActor: Both Chucky's and Tiffany's doll forms are basically creepy miniature caricatures of their actors Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly. Even Chucky's hairdo, both before and after his stitched-up appearance, resembles Dourif's actual real-life haircuts unlike Charles Lee Ray's long hair when he was human. Also, initially, when Tiffany has her soul transferred into the bridal doll for the first time, she was a brunette, much like Tilly's real-life hair color, before she dyed it blond along with changing the rest of her appearance to resemble a doll version of her human form.
* InsaneTrollLogic: In the franchise's CrapsackWorld, it seems anyone can easily accept that any human being, whether its either impossibly a 6 to 8 year-old child or a wheelchair-bound woman, is capable to commit a murder, ''[[IdiotBall except]]'' a KillerDoll.
* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: Used sometimes when Chucky moves around.
* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'' and Chucky himself.
* KarmicDeath: Chucky in all films.
* KickTheDog: Chucky is evil all right, but this gets quite [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] throughout the series.
* KillerRabbit: Many people find it hard to take Chucky seriously because he's a two-foot-tall doll. [[GenreBlindness Big mistake.]]
* LeftForDead: Chucky is left for dead in all the movies.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Most of the supporting characters beside TheHero have nothing to due with the main plots of the films except to act as either TooDumbToLive and/or AssholeVictim cannon fodder for Chucky's body count or as oblivious bystanders frustratingly flabbergasted at what's going on due to them disbelieving the existence of Chucky. See FlatEarthAtheist above for more information.
* LoserProtagonist: A common staple for TheHero of the films due to them being a HeroWithBadPublicity that no one believes Chucky is on the loose and out to get them and find themselves framed by Chucky as well, which also shows much a CrapsackWorld the films' universe is by being so unforgiving, dreadful, grim and unpleasant towards them:
** The first three films had Andy Barclay.
** The fourth had Jesse and Jade.
** The latest had the wheelchair-bound Nica.
* MamaBear: Andy's mother at first, then Kyle in the second film.
* MonsterMisogyny: Charles Ree Ray certainly has a... ''way'' with women, as evidenced by his obsession with Sarah Pierce in ''Curse of Chucky'' (and by extension her daughter Nica) and his casual abuse of [[MadLove mad lover]] Tiffany. And those are the women he ''likes''. Notably, his very first onscreen victim is a woman he kills for being a "bitch", and when Karen Barclay forces him to reveal himself he immediately launches into a violent misogynistic tirade.
* NoOSHACompliance: Lending further credence to the inherently CrapsackWorld nature of this film series, OSHA in the Chuckyverse for all intents and purpose ''does not exist''. The second film features a climax in a hilariously unsafe factory, while the third film's climax takes place in a carnival that is so hilariously unsafe that it qualifies for AmusementParkOfDoom status.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Chucky is this, to put it altogether too mildly.
* OffWithHisHead: However, he does get killed when he's decapitated by [[spoiler:Glen]].
* PerversePuppet: Chucky is almost the poster child to this trope.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Chucky is about the size of a toddler, and capable of taking down fully-grown adults.
* PrettyInMink: A couple scenes with Jennifer Tilly (playing herself)
* ParentalAbandonment: Post-''Child's Play'', Andy's mother is absent from his life due to being taken in for "psychological evaluation."
* RasputinianDeath: In the first three films, Chucky takes an absurd amount of punishment. Getting set on fire, dismembered, melted, and ''having half of his face cut off'' only slowed him down temporarily.
* RecoverySequence: In the opening sequences to ''2'', ''3'', and ''Bride of Chucky'', Chucky is shown being reconstructed.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The entire reason Curse of Chucky takes place]].
** Also, a big part of Chucky's motivation in the original ''Child's Play'':
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The series turned to self-parody from ''Bride of Chucky'' onward.
** ''Curse of Chucky'' attempts to take the series back to its roots: whether it succeeds or not is a matter of opinion.
* SirSwearsALot: Chucky has quite the filthy mouth.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The series start out as fairly straight horror, but by the time of ''Bride'' it's become a splatter comedy.
* StayingAlive: To the point that Chucky provides the page quote.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Andy at the end of every movie he's featured in.
** Glen in ''Seed''... although a really weird one. [[spoiler:Nica at the end of Curse of Chucky.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''Curse of Chucky'' Andy points a gun at Chucky before he even manages to get out of the box he was shipped in.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Chucky and Tiffany.
* VillainBall: Despite being logically running out of time before he turns completely human, Chucky sure wastes a lot of time killing random people ForTheEvulz in ''Child's Play 2'' and ''3'' instead of going straight to Andy [[spoiler:(and Tyler in 3)]] to transfer his soul. You would expect him to hurry and keep a low profile until he gets his new body, especially considering where revealing himself led him in the first movie, but apparently [[StupidEvil he doesn't learn from his mistakes]].
* VillainDecay: Chucky. More and more after each film. He was pretty scary and played seriously when he first appeared. Then, he became more PlayedForLaughs and less scary as the series went on. ''Curse'' is largely successful in reversing this trend.
** ''Cult'' however (while indeed much darker than the series has been lately) still seems to put the films back en route to the comedy genre, even going so far as to have Chucky make a pop culture reference to the cancellation of the TV series ''Hannibal'', while its balance between BlackComedy and dark horror brings the second film's tone in mind.
* VillainExclusivityClause: Chucky in every installment, to the point that the latter movies start using his name in the title.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy doesn't return after the third ''Child's Play'' movie. The movie ends with him being brought in by the police for questioning. Same thing applies to Tyler as well. [[spoiler:''Curse of Chucky'' however, shows that Andy seems to be doing just fine.]]
** Nor has the Good Guy Dolls company ever been mentioned, even though they're back in business. However, some dialogue from ''Bride'' implies they've been shut down again, this time for good.
** Ian's nanny cam, and the footage it shot in ''Curse''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Chucky most definitely would, if swapping souls doesn't work.
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The ''Child's Play'' franchise is a series of [[VillainBasedFranchise villain-based]] {{slasher film}}s that consistently feature Chucky (Creator/BradDourif), a {{creepy doll}} who actually [[SoulJar contains the soul]] of a {{serial killer}}.
Don Mancini, creator of the Chucky character, has written every installment to date, and he made his directorial debut in the franchise with 2013's ''Curse of Chucky''.
The original trilogy, which began in 1988, includes:
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay''''' (1988) -- Single mother Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks) manages to procure a "Good Guy" doll (named Chucky) for her young son Andy (Alex Vincent) from a sketchy peddler, but she doesn't realize there's something ''very'' wrong him. Turns out the doll is possessed by a supposedly dead serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, and he's looking to transfer into Andy's body.
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay2''''' (1990) -- Shortly after the events of the original film, Andy Barclay is put into the foster care system when his mother --majorly rattled from their ordeal with Chucky-- is deemed unfit to raise him. When a [[BackFromTheDead revived]] Chucky manages to track him down, Andy is forced to put an end to his bloody dealings once again.
* '''''Film/ChildsPlay3''''' (1991) -- Now a teenager, Andy (Justin Whalin) has been sent to {{military school}} after it's decided he's unable to re-adapt to the world after Chucky. Guess who shows up to finish what he started.
Due to unfavorable reaction of the third film, a fourth installment was put in {{development hell}} until 1998, which saw the release of a new film with a ''wildly'' [[GenreShift different tone]] and [[VillainBasedFranchise a clear emphasis on the Chucky character]]:
* '''''Film/BrideOfChucky''''' (1998) -- After having been destroyed once and for all, Chucky's obsessed ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Creator/JenniferTilly) restores him back to life. Feeling insulted by her teasing of his doll form, Chucky does what he knows best -- he kills Tiffany and transfers her soul into the body of a female doll. This entry is notable for shifting the franchise into more [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror comedic territory]] than previously seen.
* '''''Film/SeedOfChucky''''' (2004) -- Chucky and Tiffany (who were [[DeathIsCheap both destroyed in the previous film]]) meet their biological child Glen (Billy Boyd), who struggles to share the bloodthirsty ways of his parents. Jennifer Tilly also appears {{as herself}} ([[AdamWesting an exaggerated version, anyway]]), and is explained to have portrayed Tiffany in [[ShowWithinAShow the films based on Chucky's exploits]] in this universe.
When ''Seed of Chucky'' forced the franchise into yet another rut, Mancini decided to [[CharacterRerailment bring Chucky back to his horror roots]] with a new era of [[DirectToVideo direct-to-video]] films:
* '''''Film/CurseOfChucky''''' (2013) -- Paraplegic Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif, the real-life daughter of Chucky himself) receives an ''unexpected'' package in the mail, and it's up to her to figure out why it arrived -- before it's too late. Alex Vincent, who originated the role of Andy Barclay in the first two films, returns as the character in a [[TheStinger post-credits scene]].
* '''''Film/CultOfChucky''''' (2017) -- Institutionalized after the events of the previous film, Nica thinks she's free of Chucky's terror... until he sneaks into the facility to resume his bloody business.
Not to be confused with [[UsefulNotes/ChildsPlay the charity]] or [[Series/ChildsPlay the Bill Cullen game show]].
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!! The ''Child's Play'' franchise contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdultFear: When Mrs. Barclay thinks her son might be a killer and later when she finds out there's a serial killer after him who aims to steal his body. And then when she tells the story of what happened, she is put into psychiatric care and her son is thrown into the Foster system.
* AdultsAreUseless: Most of them can't accept the reality that a killer doll is on the loose. Probably because it's the last thing they'd suspect.
* AshFace: When Chucky gets burnt.
* AndIMustScream: It's implied in the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover that Chucky is stuck in this type of state whenever he is killed.
* AxCrazy: Charles Lee Ray, the actual murderer and by extension, Chucky in all films.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Chucky's plots to transfer his soul into another body and get rid of his enemies always ended in colossal failure until he finally wised up in Curse of Chucky, where he manages to off everyone and successfully pin everything on Nica Pierce. Then he comes back in the sequel and not only offs everyone at the mental institution she's in, but he manages to transfer his soul into her and (using a voodoo spell he got off the internet) can now split his and Tiffany's souls into as many vessels as they want. Oh, and his arch-nemesis Andy Barclay is now locked up in the facility as well.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: While Chucky [[SubvertedTrope put himself in the doll to begin with and is especially dangerous in that form]] (as he can hide pretty much anywhere and almost no one is suspicious of a toy) he laments being stuck in "this goddamned body" and spends most of the series trying to BodySurf into a human. And in ''Bride of Chucky,'' Tiffany tickles him and locks him in a playpen. Ultimately subverted altogether when Chucky realizes that he's more infamous as a doll than he ever was as a human.
* BigBad: Chucky.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Chucky, of course, since who would ever suspect a Good Guy doll of being an infamous voodoo-practicing serial killer? Even Andy and Tyler, his first two intended [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], think he's a nice guy at first when he reveals to them that he's actually alive.
* BloodierAndGorier: Each successive installment just gets messier.
* BodyHorror: What happens to Chucky over the course of the first few films to a degree. He becomes 'more human' the longer he's in the doll, which ultimately makes him this twisted fusion of flesh, blood, plastic, and wires. Kind of light, except it also makes him still feel pain, but unable to die (or so it seems) from more normal biological things like blood loss and shock.
* BodySurf: Chucky's goal for much of the series is to transfer his soul into a human body.
* BrokenPedestal: TheHero finds him or herself in this position when one or more of their confidents believed they committed the crimes that were in fact caused by Chucky. This however, causes the one who becomes disillusioned to TookALevelInJerkass or reveals him or herself to be negatively NotSoAboveItAll and becomes just another AssholeVictim who is TooDumbToLive for Chucky to kill.
** Andy is this to Joanne in the second film.
** Jade and Jesse are this to David in the fourth film (though unlike most mean-spirited examples in the series, its revelation is more PlayedForLaughs in a BlackComedy manner due to the fourth film steering more towards the humorous route as well as David's actor's [[LargeHam over-the-top]] approach on how his character becomes disillusioned).
** Nica is this to Ian in the sixth film.
* CassandraTruth: No one ever believes Andy or any other protagonist about Chucky. When they do, they usually die.
** After the first film, Karen Barclay was locked away in an asylum because she insisted the killer doll story was true even when the police didn't back it up.
* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a WretchedHive of a universe filled with multiple kinds of deplorable and despicable characters such as [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath) and supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]], while protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. The world these films depicts — almost every character except TheHero of each installment unilaterally selfish and motivated by their worst impulses — is definitely this. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film as well as a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film and a mental hospital filled with TooDumbToLive patients and orderlies run by another BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk (who is also really a perverted SmugSnake PsychoPsychologist who rapes a female paraplegic patient during their sessions) in the seventh film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
** The second film depicts Chicago to be a CrapsaccharineWorld, that despite the bright (if somewhat eerie) look of the film, it's actually still an unkind city that not even Andy is safe from other than Chucky (the aforementioned toy company run by cold-hearted {{corrupt corporate executive}}s including one SmugSnake [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]], an elementary school where it's implied {{sadist teacher}}s are authorized to inflict [[WouldHurtAChild physical and emotional child abuse]] on their students, and foster parents who, [[NotSoAboveItAll despite their appearances to be seemingly ideal-looking and what model families should look like]], [[SupernaturalProofFather naturally disbelieve that a killer doll is on the loose out to get a child]] and can be vindictively judgmental if a child is a HeroWithBadPublicity and can easily deduce kids can be murderers ranging from an ObstructiveBureaucrat {{Jerkass}} foster father to a mother who starts out as caring and kind towards the child, [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes but]] [[NotSoAboveItAll th]][[BitchInSheepsClothing en]] TookALevelInJerkass towards the kid [[spoiler: after seeing her husband dead and irrationally jumped to a conclusion that the child killed him somehow]] just because of his [[HeroWithBadPublicity prior reputation]]). Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into a ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the AngryBlackMan truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.
** The series's universe is also filled with characters who starts out as friends of the protagonists, but then can [[TookALevelInJerkass take a level in jerkass]] once turning on the {{The Hero}}es after viewing the protagonists as {{Broken Pedestal}}s after Chucky frames the leads for his crimes, [[spoiler:then become {{Asshole Victim}}s after stooping that low]].
* {{Determinator}}: Chucky to the T. Even missing a hand, having his face sliced off, or worse, nothing stops the Chuck from killing or stalking his prey. It's even more impressive, considering he lacks the 'feel no pain' a lot of his slasher peers have.
* DevilInPlainSight: Nobody noticing Chucky is semi-justified by the fact that nobody seems to think too much of a doll sitting there. Only semi because people rarely question why a doll would be where they find him.
* EvilRedhead: Chucky - at least as a doll.
* ExorcistHead: Chucky does this to mess with Damien Baylock in ''Bride''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Chucky has pretty moments. As does Tiffany.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Despite the preceding events in past films, Chucky and the existence of {{Killer Doll}}s are still ruled out to be not real, making this universe an outright TooDumbToLive CrapsackWorld that is stubbornly unprepared for and vulnerable to any tiny terror.
* HateSink: Most of the {{Jerkass}}es in the series tend to fall into this, which is why these films has more {{Asshole Victim}}s than any other SlasherMovie franchise, even more than the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.
* HauntedTechnology: Chucky and Tiffany.
* InappropriateSpeakAndSpell: Chucky the doll (a battery-powered, talking [[{{Irony}} "Good Guy"]] doll) is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. One can only imagine the inappropriate things he was saying to Andy, but onscreen we see and hear him [[ClusterFBomb going berserk]] when Andy's mom threatens to throw him into the fireplace if he didn't talk (thereby proving her suspicion that the doll was sentient).
* InkSuitActor: Both Chucky's and Tiffany's doll forms are basically creepy miniature caricatures of their actors Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly. Even Chucky's hairdo, both before and after his stitched-up appearance, resembles Dourif's actual real-life haircuts unlike Charles Lee Ray's long hair when he was human. Also, initially, when Tiffany has her soul transferred into the bridal doll for the first time, she was a brunette, much like Tilly's real-life hair color, before she dyed it blond along with changing the rest of her appearance to resemble a doll version of her human form.
* InsaneTrollLogic: In the franchise's CrapsackWorld, it seems anyone can easily accept that any human being, whether its either impossibly a 6 to 8 year-old child or a wheelchair-bound woman, is capable to commit a murder, ''[[IdiotBall except]]'' a KillerDoll.
* JawsFirstPersonPerspective: Used sometimes when Chucky moves around.
* {{Jerkass}}: At least one per film. Notable examples include [[TheNeidermeyer Lt. Col.]] [[TheBully Shelton]] in the third movie, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Phil]] and [[SadistTeacher Miss Kettlewell]] in the second, [[SmugSnake John Ritter's]] [[DirtyCop character]] in ''Bride'', Creator/JohnWaters' [[NewMediaAreEvil character]] (who is [[LoveToHate more]] PlayedForLaughs unlike the other examples) in ''Seed'', [[BigSisterBully Barb]] in ''Curse'', [[DrJerk Dr. Foley]] and [[AsianRudeness Claire]] in ''Cult'' and Chucky himself.
* KarmicDeath: Chucky in all films.
* KickTheDog: Chucky is evil all right, but this gets quite [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] throughout the series.
* KillerRabbit: Many people find it hard to take Chucky seriously because he's a two-foot-tall doll. [[GenreBlindness Big mistake.]]
* LeftForDead: Chucky is left for dead in all the movies.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Most of the supporting characters beside TheHero have nothing to due with the main plots of the films except to act as either TooDumbToLive and/or AssholeVictim cannon fodder for Chucky's body count or as oblivious bystanders frustratingly flabbergasted at what's going on due to them disbelieving the existence of Chucky. See FlatEarthAtheist above for more information.
* LoserProtagonist: A common staple for TheHero of the films due to them being a HeroWithBadPublicity that no one believes Chucky is on the loose and out to get them and find themselves framed by Chucky as well, which also shows much a CrapsackWorld the films' universe is by being so unforgiving, dreadful, grim and unpleasant towards them:
** The first three films had Andy Barclay.
** The fourth had Jesse and Jade.
** The latest had the wheelchair-bound Nica.
* MamaBear: Andy's mother at first, then Kyle in the second film.
* MonsterMisogyny: Charles Ree Ray certainly has a... ''way'' with women, as evidenced by his obsession with Sarah Pierce in ''Curse of Chucky'' (and by extension her daughter Nica) and his casual abuse of [[MadLove mad lover]] Tiffany. And those are the women he ''likes''. Notably, his very first onscreen victim is a woman he kills for being a "bitch", and when Karen Barclay forces him to reveal himself he immediately launches into a violent misogynistic tirade.
* NoOSHACompliance: Lending further credence to the inherently CrapsackWorld nature of this film series, OSHA in the Chuckyverse for all intents and purpose ''does not exist''. The second film features a climax in a hilariously unsafe factory, while the third film's climax takes place in a carnival that is so hilariously unsafe that it qualifies for AmusementParkOfDoom status.
* NotGoodWithRejection: Chucky is this, to put it altogether too mildly.
* OffWithHisHead: However, he does get killed when he's decapitated by [[spoiler:Glen]].
* PerversePuppet: Chucky is almost the poster child to this trope.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Chucky is about the size of a toddler, and capable of taking down fully-grown adults.
* PrettyInMink: A couple scenes with Jennifer Tilly (playing herself)
* ParentalAbandonment: Post-''Child's Play'', Andy's mother is absent from his life due to being taken in for "psychological evaluation."
* RasputinianDeath: In the first three films, Chucky takes an absurd amount of punishment. Getting set on fire, dismembered, melted, and ''having half of his face cut off'' only slowed him down temporarily.
* RecoverySequence: In the opening sequences to ''2'', ''3'', and ''Bride of Chucky'', Chucky is shown being reconstructed.
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: The entire reason Curse of Chucky takes place]].
** Also, a big part of Chucky's motivation in the original ''Child's Play'':
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The series turned to self-parody from ''Bride of Chucky'' onward.
** ''Curse of Chucky'' attempts to take the series back to its roots: whether it succeeds or not is a matter of opinion.
* SirSwearsALot: Chucky has quite the filthy mouth.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The series start out as fairly straight horror, but by the time of ''Bride'' it's become a splatter comedy.
* StayingAlive: To the point that Chucky provides the page quote.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Andy at the end of every movie he's featured in.
** Glen in ''Seed''... although a really weird one. [[spoiler:Nica at the end of Curse of Chucky.]]
** [[spoiler:In ''Curse of Chucky'' Andy points a gun at Chucky before he even manages to get out of the box he was shipped in.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Chucky and Tiffany.
* VillainBall: Despite being logically running out of time before he turns completely human, Chucky sure wastes a lot of time killing random people ForTheEvulz in ''Child's Play 2'' and ''3'' instead of going straight to Andy [[spoiler:(and Tyler in 3)]] to transfer his soul. You would expect him to hurry and keep a low profile until he gets his new body, especially considering where revealing himself led him in the first movie, but apparently [[StupidEvil he doesn't learn from his mistakes]].
* VillainDecay: Chucky. More and more after each film. He was pretty scary and played seriously when he first appeared. Then, he became more PlayedForLaughs and less scary as the series went on. ''Curse'' is largely successful in reversing this trend.
** ''Cult'' however (while indeed much darker than the series has been lately) still seems to put the films back en route to the comedy genre, even going so far as to have Chucky make a pop culture reference to the cancellation of the TV series ''Hannibal'', while its balance between BlackComedy and dark horror brings the second film's tone in mind.
* VillainExclusivityClause: Chucky in every installment, to the point that the latter movies start using his name in the title.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy doesn't return after the third ''Child's Play'' movie. The movie ends with him being brought in by the police for questioning. Same thing applies to Tyler as well. [[spoiler:''Curse of Chucky'' however, shows that Andy seems to be doing just fine.]]
** Nor has the Good Guy Dolls company ever been mentioned, even though they're back in business. However, some dialogue from ''Bride'' implies they've been shut down again, this time for good.
** Ian's nanny cam, and the footage it shot in ''Curse''.
* WouldHurtAChild: Chucky most definitely would, if swapping souls doesn't work.
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