History Main / LostToyGrievance

* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In one episode, Big Bird is upset when his stuffed teddy bear Radar goes missing, and he searches all over Sesame Street to find him. He finds Radar hiding in his mailbox near the end before his naptime, having remembered he put him there for a game of hide-and-seek the other day.
** In another episode, Big Bird hosts a nest sale and accidentally bumps Radar into the nest of toys he wants to give away, and Snuffy accidentally sells him to The Count. Radar is then given to a random monster who then gives him to Kaitlyn, who then returns him to Big Bird.

* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Exaggerated. Lincoln goes ''nuts'' on Lynn when she damages Bun-Bun, and when she does it the second time, he outright knocks her out.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39822909/chapters/99703251 Stay Alive]], Antonio's stuffed jaguar is stolen from him by the same man who kidnapped Mirabel. He did this to threaten her. When Antonio notices it's missing, he's very distraught. [[spoiler: He's reunited with the toy when Mirabel is rescued by Camilo and Antonio.]]

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or loss of innocence, SymbolicallyBrokenObject and ItsAllJunk. If a toy is destroyed deliberately as a KickTheDog moment, it may overlap with CrushTheKeepsake. The other side of this trope is TragicAbandonedToy, where the toy itself is sentient and sad about being separated from their owner.

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or loss of innocence, SymbolicallyBrokenObject and ItsAllJunk. If a toy is destroyed deliberately as a KickTheDog moment, it may overlap with CrushTheKeepsake. The other side of this trope is TragicAbandonedToy, where the toy itself is alive and sad about being separated from their owner.

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or loss of innocence, SymbolicallyBrokenObject and ItsAllJunk. If a toy is destroyed deliberately as a KickTheDog moment, it may overlap with CrushTheKeepsake. The other side of this trope is TragicAbandoned toy, where the toy itself is alive and sad about being separated from their owner.

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or loss of innocence, SymbolicallyBrokenObject and ItsAllJunk. If a toy is destroyed deliberately as a KickTheDog moment, it may overlap with CrushTheKeepsake.

A subtrope of MourningTheObject.

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or loss of innocence.

See also EmpathyDollShot, which is where a lost toy is found to symbolize the DeathOfAChild or LossOfInnocence.

We all love toys, don't we? You can cuddle up next to them, play games with them or even [[SecurityCling hold them for comfort.]]

They also get lost quite easily, making us rather upset.

Expect a character who's ProneToTears to react this way.

* Creator/MoWillems explores this trope in all three books of his ''Literature/KnuffleBunny'' series.
** In the original ''Knuffle Bunny'', little Trixie is a toddler who can't speak yet, which means the loss of the titular character--her beloved stuffed rabbit--is even more serious, because she can't communicate what's wrong. Her BumblingDad repeatedly misinterprets her cries and screams, but thankfully, [[WomenAreWiser her mother]] immediately sees the problem and sends her husband back to retrieve Knuffle Bunny.
** ''Knuffle Bunny, Too'' sees an older Trixie attending kindergarten for the first time, and meeting another girl who has a toy identical to her own Knuffle Bunny. The two children get along fine, but late that night, Trixie realizes that the bunny she's holding is not ''her'' toy--she accidentally picked up the other Knuffle Bunny by mistake--and immediately runs to tell her parents. Thankfully, the other girl's family is having the exact same problem across town, and the fathers meet for a midnight toy swap.
** ''Knuffle Bunny Free'' has Trixie as an eight-year-old girl traveling to meet her grandparents in Europe. She unfortunately leaves Knuffle Bunny behind on the plane; at this point, she doesn't even have to say what's wrong, as her parents immediately figure it out as soon as she walks into the room with a somber expression. Unlike the other books, though, Trixie is able to make peace with the loss of her toy as she imagines Knuffle Bunny traveling around the world on adventures. When the family boards the plane to return to America, they are surprised to find Knuffle Bunny in a seat compartment, making this seem like a case of SweetAndSourGrapes--only for Trixie to freely ''choose'' to give up the rabbit to a crying baby to make him feel better, a sign that she is growing up. The baby's grateful parents thank her by sending her letters, giving Trixie her first-ever pen pal.
* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker declares it “the worst day of [his] life” when he can’t find his toy car.

* "Old Friends," an episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', explores this trope in its B-plot. Blanche gives away an old teddy bear to a little girl named Daisy, only to discover that said bear was Fernando, {{Womanchild}} Rose's favorite toy (keep in mind that Rose is in her sixties). Daisy proves to be a SpoiledBrat who tries to force Blanche and Dorothy into buying her presents and giving her cash in exchange for Fernando's safe return. When the girls nervously explain what happened in the hope that Rose will be understanding, she instead demonstrates exactly why BewareTheNiceOnes is a trope: "Just cut the crap and ''get back'' '''''THE DAMN BEAR!'''''" The plot ends with Rose seemingly coming to terms with the loss of Fernando, and gently escorting Daisy to the door with the remark "Sometimes, life just isn't fair, kiddo"--only to snatch the teddy and hurl Daisy onto the porch.
** A minor RunningGag saw Dorothy (who, again, is in her sixties) frequently lamenting the loss of her childhood toys, including a doll named Mrs. Doolittle which her sister Gloria somehow broke ("She made it so she could never close her eyes again! Mrs. Doolittle looked like a morphine addict!"), a paper bird that Sophia promised would someday become a real pet if she was good (that is, until the paper one "died" when Sophia used it to start the pilot light), and even, in one case, a simple ''stick.''

* ''WesternAnimation/HorridHenry'': Peter spends a good chunk of ''Horrid Henry And The Time Capsule'' crying over his toy bunny going missing after Henry had placed it in the time capsule.
* The episode of the ''Series/MrBean'' cartoon "Chocks Away" ends with Mr. Bean crying in bed when he thinks that Teddy was blown up when a remote control plane he bought caught fire and exploded. Thankfully it turns out that Teddy was ejected from the plane and he lands safely in Bean's fireplace.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Dog Bites Bear", Stewie's bear doll Rupert -- whom he has a very sexual fascination for -- gets torn apart by a drunk Brian, causing Stewie to hold Brian accountable for his actions until they scatter Rupert's ashes into the wind at the top of a mountain. [[StatusQuoIsGod All this is undone when Brian simply buys another identical bear doll and Stewie makes no attempt to doubt the new "Rupert".]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', the second dimension counterpart of [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] was motivated to become the successful tyrant of the second dimension Tri-State Area all because he lost a toy train when he was growing up. The prime Doofenshmirtz, who suffered one of the most extreme examples of a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood in Disney animation, is [[DisappointedByTheMotive completely and utterly flabbergasted]] that ''this'' is all it took for the other Doof to become such a ([[IneffectualSympatheticVillain comparatively]]) uber-competent villain. In the movie's climax, prime Doofenschmirtz manages to make his second dimension counterpart stand down and surrender by giving him his own version of the toy train, which he never lost. Then, in the tie-in episode ''Recap/PhineasAndFerbTalesFromTheResistance'', Charlene-2 frees Doof-2 from prison and tosses away his new toy train to make him evil again.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** Bubbles will often get very distraught if [[SecurityCling Octi]] goes missing. In "Octi-Gone" it goes from sadness to anger.
** Buttercup [[HairTriggerTemper of all characters]] goes through this in "Cover Up" when Blossom and Bubbles take away her blanket and ends up being reduced to a [[InelegantBlubbering sobbing mess.]]
* Happens multiple time for Angelica in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' every time Cynthia goes missing. At one point in "[[Recap/RugratsS2E20TheSevenVoyagesOfCynthiaMyFriendBarney The Seven Voyages of Cynthia]]", she even held a funeral when she believe she truly lost her forever. This attitude extends to her in ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp''. When Cynthia gets accidentally donated, Angelica is devastated.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. Burns uses goes to great lengths to recover his teddy bear, Bobo, who after decades of being lost in the Arctic, somehow found its way into a bag of ice at the Kwik-E-Mart and into Maggie's hands. He uses his wealth to turn the townsfolk against the Simpson family, who only realized what they were doing when Maggie was on the verge of tears. Mr. Burns backs off for now, but promises to get Bobo back again in the future.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Sean's Robotic Arm", Sean loses his prized Neil Armstrong figure in a narrow crevice, and is very upset about it since the toy is very important to him and has accompanied him in his many journeys. The rest of the episode is dedicated to the kids constructing a robotic arm to rescue the Neil figure.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Lost and Found", a small boy cries and screams after he loses his teddy fish at the Krusty Krab, forcing [=SpongeBob=] to go into the lost and found to find it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "Cash for Toys" has Cash Tankinson attack and destroy a toy robot he mistakes for being one of Cosmo Krank's toy minions. It isn't until he sees a child cry at seeing the destruction of his toy that Cash realizes his mistake.

* The ''Animation/CubixRobotsForEveryone'' episode "Klank" involves [[BigBad Dr. K]] coming across Klank who was the first robot he invented and the closest he had to a teddy bear. He ends up getting so distraught that he breaks down in tears when it's damaged beyond repair during a fight with the botties to the point where he doesn't care about the battle anymore and orders everybody to retreat.

They also get lost rather easily making us rather upset.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie's bear doll Rupert - whom he has a very sexual fascination for - gets torn apart by a drunk Brian, causing Stewie to hold Brian accountable for his actions until they scatter Rupert's ashes into the wind at the top of a mountain. [[StatusQuoIsGod All this is undone when Brian simply buys another identical bear doll and Stewie makes no attempt to doubt the new "Rupert".]]

* In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode, "Bowser Junior Loses Thomas!", Junior plays with his ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' toy and loses it behind the couch. When his friends, Joseph and Cody come over to play, Junior notices that Thomas has gone missing and goes into a deep depression when he can't find him. Chef Pee Pee searches for Thomas, and even tries to buy Junior a new one (the train he gets is a blue one, but it doesn't have a face). He eventually manages to find Thomas when he cleans behind the couch, and this makes Junior happy again... [[HereWeGoAgain at least until Junior notices that his dinosaur toy has also gone missing]].

* The ''Animation/CubixRobotsForEveryone'' episode "Klank" involves [[BigBad Dr. K]] coming across Klank who was the first robot he invented and the closest he had to a teddy bear and he ends up getting so distraught that he breaks down in tears when it's damaged beyond repair during a fight with the botties to the point where he doesn't care about the battle anymore and orders everybody to retreat.

* Creator/MoWillems explores this trope in all three books of his ''Knuffle Bunny'' series.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Poor Bubbles...]]