History Main / LonelyDollGirl

See MarionetteMaster, BabyDollBaby, MummiesAtTheDinnerTable, and LivingDollCollector for when the Lonely Doll Girl takes it too far.

* Genderflipped in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} NEXT''. There's a legend about an abandoned tower where a handsome doll maker lived only in the company of the dolls he crafted and sold; after he fell in love obsessively with a GirlNextDoor named Anne, he made a DealWithTheDevil and [[LivingDollCollector transformed Anne]] into his personal CreepyDoll. Decades later, Lina and her group must enter the tower in search of [[MacGuffin the Bible of Clair]], fighting the demonized man and Anne the CreepyDoll in a series of contests and riddles. [[spoiler:In a subversion, the legend is actually a lie: the ''doll'' was the real demon, and the man that claimed to be the the dollmaker is a puppet controlled by said demon doll.]]
* ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'': Kagome and her teddy bear Percival.

Not always a child; in some cases she's an adult with a KitschCollection. Though if she is a child, she might have doll tea parties to make up for the fact that she has no real friends to invite. She might be in the PrincessPhase because she's a LonelyRichKid or imagining that she and the dolls just have to wait until her hero on his WhiteStallion would come to rescue her or she has a ChangelingFantasy of how her parents are actually royalty.

* Zigzagged with Mei Misaki in the horror novel ''Literature/{{Another}}'' and its manga and anime adaptation. Misaki is a mysterious member of class 3-3 who is apparently invisible to everyone except Kouichi Sakakibara, and due to her dollmaker mother's work she lives in a creepy doll store. [[spoiler:In reality, Mei has a fairly good relationship with her peers (the only one who straight-up dislikes her is [[TsunDere Izumi]]), but she was chosen to be the annual "One Who Does Not Exist" to prevent the deaths of her class mates from the curse. Plus the kids from ''other'' classes aren't affected by the curse, so she can talk to them freely.]]

* Juvia from ''Manga/FairyTail'' had no friends as a child because it would always rain when she was around. In a few rather woobifying scenes, she's shown making dolls. Justified as the dolls are TeruTeruBozu, which are supposed to stop rain.

** The spinnoff ''Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica'' had Mirai Wakaba, who's only friends growing up were her teddy bears.
* Another somewhat darker version, in the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime is lonely girl Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) who is supposed to be the ApocalypseMaiden [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who will destroy the world]]. In the original anime she is often seen [[SplitPersonalityTakeover being taken over by the Mistress 9 persona]] in [[RoomFullOfCrazy a dark room full of stuffed animals and dolls]] as her MadScientist father talks to her. At least once she would grab a stuffed animal and ''rip it apart'' while speaking.

* Genderflipped in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} NEXT''. There's a legend about an abandoned tower where a handsome doll maker lived only in the company of the dolls he crafted and sold; after he fell in love obsessively with a GirlNextDoor named Anne, he made a DealWithTheDevil and [[LivingDollCollector transfomed Anne]] into his personal CreepyDoll. Decades later, Lina and her group must enter the tower in search of [[MacGuffin the Bible of Clair]], fighting the demon-ized man and Anne the CreepyDoll in a series of contests and riddles. [[spoiler:In a subversion, the legend is actually a lie: the ''doll'' was the real demon, and the man that claimed to be the the dollmaker is a puppet controlled by said demon doll.]]

* Hideko in ''Film/TheHandmaiden'' never left the mansion of her uncle for years, substituting friends with her doll that she had since childhood. In the extended version, the doll is implied to be a confidant. She's 25 according to Word of God and still carries it around. [[spoiler:This might or might not be part of the ruse, as she genuinely appears to carry it.]] Sook-Hee meanwhile jokingly remarks how ladies are nothing but big dolls to dress up for their maids.

* Twelve-year-old Trudl Ehrenteil in Doris Orgel's ''A Certain Magic'' has traveled alone from her home in Austria to England to escape the Nazis. She left her dolls behind, wanting to reassure her mother that she was "grown-up". The daughter of her English foster family has a splendid doll, Felicity, which she pretends to be too old for. Trudl, feeling awkward and alien, covets Felicity and writes a beautiful story of bringing her to life and taking her on nighttime adventures. Years later, when Trudl's niece Jenny discovers the tale, she goes to nervewracking lengths to locate the English family and the doll.
* Willie Connolly in J.R. Lowell's thriller ''Daughter of Darkness'' could be assumed to be this as she is a ChildProdigy with an immense IQ and no friends her own age, and she does collect dolls, but uses them as poppets ("voodoo" dolls).
* ''Literature/FearStreet Sagas'' had one in the form of Lucy, although while she ''looks'' like a little girl, she's in fact a physically stunted 17 year old. She also owns multiple copies of the same doll, girls with black hair and dresses, and they're all named after her. She altered one doll into a boy she names after Tyler Fier, and she owns one with blonde hair and blue eyes, but the doll was damaged because "The others didn't like her." But ultimately, Lucy is sick of her dolls because she's tired of Tyler treating her like a child, and in a massive temper tantrum she destroys them all.

* ''TheKillingDoll'' by Ruth Rendell centres around [[MeaningfulName Dolly]], a disfigured girl who's too shy to go out and make friends. When her father gets remarried to a less-than-pleasant woman, Dolly feels like a stranger in her own home, and starts making dolls. Including an effigy of her stepmother, which she uses as a VoodooDoll...

* George Bluth. Sr., is a rare male version in Season 2 of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' as a result of being cooped up in an attic while he's a fugitive.
* "The Uncanny Valley" episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' gave us Samantha Malcolm, who was molested and abused by her father leading to a sad, lonely life. She used to have tea time with her favourite dolls before her father took them away from her, forcing her to kidnap women, drug them and dress them up as surrogates for the dolls at the tea time. [[spoiler:She does eventually get the dolls back at the end.]]

* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAPlojfgO0 music video]] to Music/MelanieMartinez's SanitySlippageSong "Pity Party" Cry Baby sends out invitations to her birthday party but [[OnePersonBirthdayParty no one comes]]. She ends up throwing a party with her stuffed animals but loses it and by the end everything is trashed and her toys ripped apart.

* Iris in the ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' games isn't quite as withdrawn as her anime counterpart, but she still grew up with only her plush dolls for company, and continues to carry around her teddy bear as a SecurityBlanket.

* ''VideoGame/VeryLittleNightmares'': PlayedForHorror. The [[BigBad main antagonist]] is a [[HumanoidAbomination monster with the appearance of a prettied-up little girl]] who lives alone in a OldDarkHouse. To keep her loneliness at bay, she collects life-size dolls made of [[WaxMuseumMorgue the skin of actual children her servants capture and kill]]. She seems to believe they are actually living children.

** The manga adaption of EP 8 reveals Rosa herself was one when she was little, since her siblings were much older than her and she spent most of her time on her family's island. She was particularly attached to a stuffed rabbit doll that served the same function Sakutaro did for Maria. And like Sakutaro [[spoiler:this rabbit doll was ripped to pieces, because the siblings thought Rosa was pathetic for clinging to it. When the adult Rosa remembered what happened to her doll, [[RememberedtooLate she automatically remembered what she did to Sakutaro]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and was horrified by her actions]]. In at least [[MustMakeAmends one way to atone for that]], Rosa plays with Maria and tells her, through the rabbit doll, that they can play with Sakutaro as a means to rescind her previous statement.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank's mother Tilly collects little glass statues figurines. Hank is annoyed by this until he realizes that her hobby was one of the few things keeping her sane during her marriage to [[JerkAss Hank's father Cotton]].
* In one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoons, there was a girl named Giselle, who had something wrong with her leg (polio?) and her doctor recommended that she get out and play with friends...which she doesn't have, because she can't keep up with other kids. So the doctor recommends that her mother buy her a doll. Meanwhile, Madeline and her classmates visit a doll factory, and the eponymous character gets packaged as a doll, and decides to keep up the charade when purchased for Giselle. Giselle is heartbroken when she learns the truth about her "doll," but the girls arrange a playdate/picnic for her, and she gets a new doll.

* One was featured in the "[[IronicNurseryTune Solomon Grundy]]" chapter of ''[[Manga/CountCain Godchild]]''; because of her [[IllGirl heart condition]], she lived alone with only the dolls she made for company until she took in an amnesiac young man, who she soon fell in love with. This being ''Godchild'', it ended badly for both of them.

* Another somewhat darker version, in the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime is lonely IllGirl Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn) who is supposed to be the ApocalypseMaiden [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who will destroy the world]]. In the original anime she is often seen [[SplitPersonalityTakeover being taken over by the Mistress 9 persona]] in [[RoomFullOfCrazy a dark room full of stuffed animals and dolls]] as her MadScientist father talks to her. At least once she would grab a stuffed animal and ''rip it apart'' while speaking.

* Alice Margatroid is often [[{{Flanderization}} portrayed like this]] in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanwork.

See MarionetteMaster, BabyDollBaby, and LivingDollCollector for when the Lonely Doll Girl takes it too far.

* [[http://catandgirl.com/?p=1464 This]] old episode of ''Webcomic/CatAndGirl'', as something of a continuation of [[http://catandgirl.com/?p=1462 the previous comic]].
* Happens in [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/280 this]] comic and the few proceeding it in Webcomic/{{Loserz}}, with a slight touch of craziness from isolation.

* Nomu from ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish''; her dolls are her children and everyone else is a [[HatesEveryoneEqually "worthless little worm"]] (though she does help the protagonists).

* Miranda Lotto from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' would collect broken dolls and fix them back when she lived in her hometown. Being a ButtMonkey who was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer seen as useless]], she hated to see things get abandoned. She certainly gives off a Lonely Doll Girl image [[http://www.mangareader.net/210-15115-1/dgray-man/chapter-24.html here.]]

* A sheltered and developmentally stunted adult version appears in an episode of ''Series/InsideNumberNine''. The protagonist suspects [[spoiler:she's an abducted child whose "parents" have been hiding her away from prying eyes, but the last shot reveals she abducted the child in question when she was 10, and disguised its body as the doll she carries everywhere.]]

* Donna Beneviento of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' is very quiet and reclusive, and her house is filled with shelves upon shelves of dolls. Most of these are handmade by her, with the exception of Angie, who was a gift from her deceased father.

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* [[DefrostingIceQueen Sabrina]] was this in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' anime. She turned Misty and Brock into dolls, just so she'd have some company, and carried around a doll that represented an innocent, childlike, and playful part of her personality.

[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lonely_doll_girl3.png]]]]

* Zigzagged with Mei Misaki in the horror novel ''{{Literature/Another}}'' and its manga and anime adaptation. Misaki is a mysterious member of class 3-3 who is apparently invisible to everyone except Kouichi Sakakibara, and due to her dollmaker mother's work she lives in a creepy doll store. [[spoiler:In reality, Mei has a fairly good relationship with her peers (the only one who straight-up dislikes her is [[TsunDere Izumi]]), but she was chosen to be the annual "One Who Does Not Exist" to prevent the deaths of her class mates from the curse. Plus the kids from ''other'' classes aren't affected by the curse, so she can talk to them freely.]]

* Alice Margatroid is often [[{{Flanderization}} portrayed like this]] in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanwork.

* A common interpretation of Alice Margatroid from ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'', who is a MarionetteMaster. Though fanworks tend to [[{{Flanderization}} greatly exaggerate this]], it's worth noting that she does occasionally talk to her dolls even though they aren't sentient and she can only control them remotely.

* Strongly hinted at in ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry''. [[spoiler:Being the child of the last two humans left alive on Earth after Third Impact, Aki Ikari doesn't really have anyone to talk to except her parents and her ragdoll Kiko.]] Mercifully averted after the events of the last chapter.

* ''VideoGame/VeryLittleNightmares'': PlayedForHorror. The [[BigBad main antagonist]] is a [[HumanoidAbomination monster with the appearance of a prettied-up little girl]] who lives alone in a BigSpookyHouse. To keep her loneliness at bay, she collects life-size dolls made of [[WaxMuseumMorgue the skin of actual children her servants capture and kill]]. She seems to believe they are actually living children.

* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo has one homemade doll named Scrump, whose appearance freaks out the other girls. Later she is seen making {{Voodoo Doll}}s of her friends and dipping them in pickle juice. ("My friends need to be punished.") Scrump may or may not be intended to be a "menehune" (Hawaiian [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]]).

* Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka from ''Manga/OniisamaE'', to a degree. We don't see her carrying dolls around 25/7, but the only "company" of sorts that she has in her apartment is her porcelain doll "Poupee-chan". [[spoiler:Which doubles as a TragicKeepsake as it's a gift from her abusive half-sister Fukiko, whom she's obsessively in love with.]]

* In the OP of the ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' TV series, there's a RareMaleExample: [[http://youtu.be/lnVKagzRP1U?t=53s A young boy]] is seen touching a porcelain doll's face, picking it up and hugging it to his chest like a SecurityBlanket, and see ''many'' other similar dolls are in the background. [[spoiler:Said boy is a pre-teen Dr. Muraki, and the dolls are a part of his mother's ''enormous'' collection.]]

Not to be confused with the ''[[Literature/TheLonelyDoll]]'' series of picture books by author Dare Wright, in which the doll ''herself'' is lonely.

Not to be confused with the ''Lonely Doll'' series of picture books by author Dare Wright, in which the doll ''herself'' is lonely.

* Zigzagged with Mei Misaki in the horror novel ''{{Literature/Another}}'' and it's manga and anime adaptation. Misaki is a mysterious member of class 3-3 who is apparently invisible to everyone except Kouichi Sakakibara, and due to her dollmaker mother's work she lives in a creepy doll store. [[spoiler:In reality, Mei has a fairly good relationship with her peers (the only one who straight-up dislikes her is [[TsunDere Izumi]]), but she was chosen to be the annual "One Who Does Not Exist" to prevent the deaths of her class mates from the curse. Plus the kids from ''other'' classes aren't affected by the curse, so she can talk to them freely.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]", Pinkie Pie thinks her friends have abandoned her, so she has a party without them. She gets a bunch of objects and animates them like puppets as she descends further into her SanitySlippage.