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* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' has the Mannikins of the Inanimae. The Inanimae are "wild fae" who represent elemental forces, and the Mannikins are Inanimae who have had their natural vessels shaped into humanoid form. Wooden mannequins are a classic, but statues or toys can also count.
* Similarly, ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has the Manikin Kith of the Elemental Seeming, representing people who were reshaped by [[TheFairFolk the Gentry]] to serve as statues, props, or idols. They retain a natural affinity for crafting as a result.
* Similarly, ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has the Manikin Kith of the Elemental Seeming, representing people who were reshaped by [[TheFairFolk the Gentry]] to serve as statues, props, or idols. They retain a natural affinity for crafting as a result.
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* Stephen Graham Jones's ''Night of the Mannequins'': a teenage boy and his friends attempt to play a prank with a mannequin they found in the woods, but instead "Manny" comes to life with a murderous desire for revenge for not playing with him anymore. [[spoiler: Or so the group thinks. It's left to MaybeMagicMaybeMundane whether Manny actually is alive or not, but in any case ''he'' doesn't kill anyone. The deeply unstable protagonist murders his friends ''himself'', after becoming convinced that a horrible truck accident that killed one of them was Manny's vengeance. He thinks that if he kills them it will be cleaner and avoid collateral damage.]]
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* Stephen Graham Jones's Creator/StephenGrahamJones's ''Night of the Mannequins'': a teenage boy and his friends attempt to play a prank with a mannequin they found in the woods, but instead "Manny" comes to life with a murderous desire for revenge for not playing with him anymore. [[spoiler: Or so the group thinks. It's left to MaybeMagicMaybeMundane whether Manny actually is alive or not, but in any case ''he'' doesn't kill anyone. The deeply unstable protagonist murders his friends ''himself'', after becoming convinced that a horrible truck accident that killed one of them was Manny's vengeance. He thinks that if he kills them it will be cleaner and avoid collateral damage.]]
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* "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!" (''Black Magic'' #13): Marcus Jagger fashions a dress for a female magician utilizing an old but unused tailor's dummy. Once the dress is picked up, the dummy is left in the corner where it gathers dust, gets oil spilled on it, and is rained on through the open window. Come winter and Marcus cranks up the heat from the radiator the dummy is slumped against, which ignites life into it. That night, the radiator fails and the dummy instinctively looks for another source of heat, for which it wraps itself tightly around the sleeping Marcus. He suffocates and the dummy dies too because it no longer has a heat source to maintain its fragile spark.
* In a reimagining of "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!", ComicBook/BrotherPowerTheGeek in Franchise/TheDCU is a living tailor's dummy that's also a supercivilian possessing immense strength and agility. He began existence as a normal tailor's dummy, of cloth held up by metal wires, that was left behind when the store closed down. Hippies made the abandoned store their home. One day, they are attacked by bikers and one hippie places his wet and bloody clothes on the dummy to prevent them from shrinking while drying. He also spills some oil on the dummy in the process. All of these ingredients allow a bolt of lightning to bring the dummy to life some time thereafter. His first act is to save the hippies from another attack, for which they name him Brother Power. "The Geek" is a title referring to his pseudo-humanity and he doesn't like to be called that. Brother Power is a proponent of the hippie philosophy (but not necessarily lifestyle) and doesn't actively seek out wrongs to right, but he also never walks away when someone needs help, even if helping comes with risks.
* In a reimagining of "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!", ComicBook/BrotherPowerTheGeek in Franchise/TheDCU is a living tailor's dummy that's also a supercivilian possessing immense strength and agility. He began existence as a normal tailor's dummy, of cloth held up by metal wires, that was left behind when the store closed down. Hippies made the abandoned store their home. One day, they are attacked by bikers and one hippie places his wet and bloody clothes on the dummy to prevent them from shrinking while drying. He also spills some oil on the dummy in the process. All of these ingredients allow a bolt of lightning to bring the dummy to life some time thereafter. His first act is to save the hippies from another attack, for which they name him Brother Power. "The Geek" is a title referring to his pseudo-humanity and he doesn't like to be called that. Brother Power is a proponent of the hippie philosophy (but not necessarily lifestyle) and doesn't actively seek out wrongs to right, but he also never walks away when someone needs help, even if helping comes with risks.
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* "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!" (''Black Magic'' #13): Marcus Jagger fashions a dress for a female magician utilizing an "ComicBook/ARagABoneAndAHankOfHair1952": An old but unused tailor's dummy. Once the dress is picked up, the dummy is left taken out of storage for short use and then dumped in the corner where of its owner's apartment. Near the window, it gathers all kinds of substances: dust, gets oil spilled on it, mud, rain, soot, rust, and is rained on through the open window. Come winter and Marcus cranks up the heat from the radiator the dummy is slumped against, which ignites oil. The summer sun brews life into it. That night, the radiator fails and the dummy this concoction, but it's a life easily extinguished without warmth. In winter, it instinctively looks goes looking for another a source of heat, for which it heat when the apartment's radiator stops working and wraps itself tightly around its owner's body, which is the sleeping Marcus. only warm thing in the room. He suffocates and the dummy dies too thereafter because it no longer has a heat source to maintain its fragile spark.
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*In a reimagining of "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!", ComicBook/BrotherPowerTheGeek in Franchise/TheDCU ''ComicBook/BrotherPowerTheGeek'': Brother Power is a living tailor's dummy that's also a supercivilian possessing immense strength and agility. He began existence as a normal tailor's dummy, of cloth held up by metal wires, that was left behind when the store closed down. Hippies made the abandoned store their home. One day, they are attacked by bikers and one hippie places his wet and bloody clothes on the dummy to prevent them from shrinking while drying. He also spills some oil on the dummy in the process. All of these ingredients allow a bolt of lightning to bring the dummy to life some time thereafter. His first act is to save the hippies from another attack, for which they name him Brother Power. "The Geek" is a title referring to his pseudo-humanity and he doesn't like to be called that. Brother Power is a proponent of the hippie philosophy (but not necessarily lifestyle) and doesn't actively seek out wrongs to right, but he also never walks away when someone needs help, even if helping comes with risks.
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* ''Film/EllisInFreedomland'': The clothing department’s mannequins come to life in Ellis’s dream. Their only contribution to the plot is three female mannequins acting as training customers for Ellis to practice sales techniques on, but they do provide loads and loads of pointless {{Padding}}!
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* The ''Black Magic'' #13 story "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!" tells of Marcus Jagger, a middle-aged tailor who regrets never having gotten married. He gets an order to make a dress for a female magician and dusts off his previously unused tailor's dummy for it. Once the dress is picked up, the dummy is left in the corner where it gathers dust, gets oil spilled on it, and is rained on through the open window. Come winter and Marcus cranks up the heat from the radiator the dummy is slumped against, which ignites life into it. That night, the radiator fails and the dummy instinctively looks for another source of heat, for which it wraps itself tightly around the sleeping Marcus. He suffocates and the dummy dies too because it no longer has a heat source to maintain its fragile spark.
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* The ''Black Magic'' #13 story "A Rag - A Bone and a Hank of Hair!" tells of (''Black Magic'' #13): Marcus Jagger, a middle-aged tailor who regrets never having gotten married. He gets an order to make Jagger fashions a dress for a female magician and dusts off his previously utilizing an old but unused tailor's dummy for it.dummy. Once the dress is picked up, the dummy is left in the corner where it gathers dust, gets oil spilled on it, and is rained on through the open window. Come winter and Marcus cranks up the heat from the radiator the dummy is slumped against, which ignites life into it. That night, the radiator fails and the dummy instinctively looks for another source of heat, for which it wraps itself tightly around the sleeping Marcus. He suffocates and the dummy dies too because it no longer has a heat source to maintain its fragile spark.
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* In "Dugan and the Dummy", published in ''Journey into Mystery'' #18, Dugan is a Trimble's Department Store worker known for his aggression towards male mannequins and his obsession with a female one he calls Isabella. One day, he starts a fight with a male mannequin in full view of a crowd outside the store window, and in front of that very same crowd is stabbed by the mannequin. The police dismisses the witness statements as nonsense, but they have no explanation as to why Dugan's corpse itself is a mannequin.
* In the comic "Halloween Scene", published in ''Scary Tales'' #7, a woman is locked in a store with a werewolf. As the werewolf corners the woman in the window display, she falls over, alerting two watchmen. As it turns out, the woman and the werewolf are both mannequins and part of a Halloween display. For the entirety of Halloween night, they've been enacting the same scenario over and over with no memory or knowledge of what they truly are. Each time it ends with the woman mannequin falling over and starts with the watchmen restoring the display. And, [[AndIMustScream horrible as it is for the woman mannequin]], there's still a few more hours until tomorrow.
* Published in ''Mystic'' #2 is "The Black Dungeon", which starts with the kind-hearted Helga taking in the malformed Otto, forever earning his loyalty. When she's being pushed into marrying a cruel tailor, Otto tries to kill him to save her, but is murdered himself. The tailor marries Helga and immediately starts the abuse. Helga's only happiness comes from one of her husband's old tailor's dummies, which looks remarkably like Otto. Then the abuse escalates into a murder attempt and Otto's spirit possesses the tailor's dummy to save Helga. Helga happily spends the rest of her life with the dummy as companion, knowing it watches over her.
* "The Wax People!", published in ''Strange Tales'' #93, is upfront about toying with the reader's expectations. While the mannequins surely are alive, this is because the events take place on Xaccus and not Earth. Xaccus's population are the wax people and some have a job as mannequins.
* In the comic "Halloween Scene", published in ''Scary Tales'' #7, a woman is locked in a store with a werewolf. As the werewolf corners the woman in the window display, she falls over, alerting two watchmen. As it turns out, the woman and the werewolf are both mannequins and part of a Halloween display. For the entirety of Halloween night, they've been enacting the same scenario over and over with no memory or knowledge of what they truly are. Each time it ends with the woman mannequin falling over and starts with the watchmen restoring the display. And, [[AndIMustScream horrible as it is for the woman mannequin]], there's still a few more hours until tomorrow.
* Published in ''Mystic'' #2 is "The Black Dungeon", which starts with the kind-hearted Helga taking in the malformed Otto, forever earning his loyalty. When she's being pushed into marrying a cruel tailor, Otto tries to kill him to save her, but is murdered himself. The tailor marries Helga and immediately starts the abuse. Helga's only happiness comes from one of her husband's old tailor's dummies, which looks remarkably like Otto. Then the abuse escalates into a murder attempt and Otto's spirit possesses the tailor's dummy to save Helga. Helga happily spends the rest of her life with the dummy as companion, knowing it watches over her.
* "The Wax People!", published in ''Strange Tales'' #93, is upfront about toying with the reader's expectations. While the mannequins surely are alive, this is because the events take place on Xaccus and not Earth. Xaccus's population are the wax people and some have a job as mannequins.
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* In "Dugan and the Dummy", published in ''Journey Dummy" (''Journey into Mystery'' #18, #18): Dugan is a Trimble's Department Store worker known for his aggression towards male mannequins and his obsession with a female one he calls Isabella. One day, he starts a fight with a male mannequin in full view of a crowd outside the store window, and in front of that very same crowd is stabbed by the mannequin. The police dismisses the witness statements as nonsense, but they have no explanation as to why Dugan's corpse itself is a mannequin.
*In the comic "Halloween Scene", published in ''Scary Scene" (''Scary Tales'' #7, a #7): A woman is locked in a store with a werewolf. As When the werewolf corners the woman in the window display, she falls over, alerting two watchmen. As it turns out, the woman and the werewolf are both mannequins and part of a Halloween display. For the entirety of Halloween night, they've been enacting the same scenario over and over with no memory or knowledge of what they truly are. Each time it ends with the woman mannequin falling over and starts with the watchmen restoring the display. And, [[AndIMustScream horrible as it is for the woman mannequin]], there's still a few more hours display and will so until tomorrow.
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*Published in ''Mystic'' #2 is "The Black Dungeon", which starts with the Dungeon" (''Mystic'' #2): The kind-hearted Helga taking takes in the malformed Otto, forever earning his loyalty. When she's being pushed into marrying a cruel tailor, Otto tries to kill him to save her, but is murdered himself. The tailor marries trying to save Helga and immediately starts the abuse. from her abusive groom, after which Helga's only happiness comes from one of her husband's old tailor's dummies, which looks remarkably like Otto. Then the The abuse escalates into a murder attempt and Otto's spirit possesses the tailor's dummy to save Helga. Helga happily spends the rest of her life with the dummy as companion, knowing it watches over her.
* "The WaxPeople!", published in ''Strange People!" (''Strange Tales'' #93, is upfront about toying with the reader's expectations. While the mannequins surely are alive, this is because the events take place on Xaccus and not Earth. #93): The planet Xaccus's population are the wax people and some have a job are employed as mannequins.
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* A thief gets locked in at Gracy's Department Store in "The Hide-Out" in ''Suspense'' #14. He is puzzled to find a party going on at the furniture department, but he's welcomed with open arms by the people there. They give him a stamp so that the watchman will ignore him and he gets to pick a suit of his choosing on the sixth floor. He's having a great time until at dawn the party dissolves and he freezes near the windows, having become a mannequin just like his new friends.
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* A thief gets locked in at Gracy's Department Store in "The Hide-Out" in ''Suspense'' #14. He (''Suspense'' #14): A thief is puzzled to find a party going on at the furniture department, department inside Gracy's Department Store, but he's welcomed with open arms by the people there. They he lets himself be welcomed. The partygoers give him a stamp so that the watchman will ignore him and he gets to pick a suit of his choosing on the sixth floor. He's having a great time until at dawn the party dissolves and he freezes near the windows, having become a mannequin just like his new friends.
* "Who's the Dummy?" (''Mysterious Adventures'' #25): The painted wooden manikins in Stacey's Department Store awaken after closing to live the good life. One night, a store employee named Laura works late and discovers the manikins. They capture her and while the elders decide her fate, Laura befriends Paul, the manikin in charge of guarding her. The elders' verdict, eventually, is that Laura needs to die to protect their secret. Paul helps Laura escape, sacrificing himself in the process. She tearfully retrieves his twisted and broken body the next day to the confusion of the onlookers.
* "Who's the Dummy?" (''Mysterious Adventures'' #25): The painted wooden manikins in Stacey's Department Store awaken after closing to live the good life. One night, a store employee named Laura works late and discovers the manikins. They capture her and while the elders decide her fate, Laura befriends Paul, the manikin in charge of guarding her. The elders' verdict, eventually, is that Laura needs to die to protect their secret. Paul helps Laura escape, sacrificing himself in the process. She tearfully retrieves his twisted and broken body the next day to the confusion of the onlookers.
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* The minor ComicBook/{{Batman}} villain Manikin whose actually a deformed supermodel wearing a suit of PoweredArmor that makes her look like a chrome mannequin.
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* The story of issue 11 of ''ComicBook/IceCreamMan'' takes place in a RealityTV dimension inhabited by living faceless mannequins, dog people, [[DemBones living skeletons]], and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]]. Victim du jour Will Parson got banished there by Rick to compete in a dating show otherwise populated exclusively by mannequins. He loses the first round of ''Mannequin House'' when Stiffanie doesn't give him a rose on account of him having facial detail. Will is taken away for "improvement", which entails the removal of his face, but he escapes. In order, he ends up on the sets of ''Family Autopsy'', which has mannequins in the audience, ''Chop'd'', where one other contestant is a mannequin, ''America's Got Intestines'', uniquely without mannequins, and ''Wealthy Family of Zombies''. The zombies' cook is a mannequin and he feeds Will to them for brunch.
* In "When Darkness Falls!!", published in ''Journey into Mystery'' #69, a man is the only that notices the subtle movements of the wax mannequins of a men's clothing department. He chooses to remain after hours to investigate. As soon as he's alone, the mannequins move in to attack him, but he reveals himself to be one of them and berates them for their carelessness that could endanger all of them.
* Nathan Dolly from ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' managed to transfer his essence into two mannequins and used them to commit several crimes.
* There's a pulp comic called "Mannequin of Murder" (''Witches Tales'' #17) in which a guy invents a serum to freeze people into mannequins. This is intended as a form of AndIMustScream torture, but they eventually come back to zombie-esque life and kill their creator. Then they go back to posing, get shipped all over America, and start going on killing sprees after dark.
* In "When Darkness Falls!!", published in ''Journey into Mystery'' #69, a man is the only that notices the subtle movements of the wax mannequins of a men's clothing department. He chooses to remain after hours to investigate. As soon as he's alone, the mannequins move in to attack him, but he reveals himself to be one of them and berates them for their carelessness that could endanger all of them.
* Nathan Dolly from ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' managed to transfer his essence into two mannequins and used them to commit several crimes.
* There's a pulp comic called "Mannequin of Murder" (''Witches Tales'' #17) in which a guy invents a serum to freeze people into mannequins. This is intended as a form of AndIMustScream torture, but they eventually come back to zombie-esque life and kill their creator. Then they go back to posing, get shipped all over America, and start going on killing sprees after dark.
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* The story of issue 11 of ''ComicBook/IceCreamMan'' takes place in a RealityTV dimension inhabited by living faceless mannequins, dog people, [[DemBones living skeletons]], and [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]]. #11: Victim du jour Will Parson got gets banished there to a RealityTV dimension by Rick to compete in a dating show otherwise populated exclusively by mannequins. He loses the first round of ''Mannequin House'' when Stiffanie doesn't give him a rose on account of him having facial detail. Will is taken away for "improvement", which entails the removal of his face, but he escapes. In order, he ends up on the sets of ''Family Autopsy'', which has mannequins in the audience, ''Chop'd'', where one other contestant is a mannequin, ''America's Got Intestines'', uniquely without mannequins, and ''Wealthy Family of Zombies''. The zombies' cook is a mannequin and he feeds Will to them for brunch.
*In "When Darkness Falls!!", published in ''Journey Falls!!" (''Journey into Mystery'' #69, a #69): A man is the only that notices the subtle movements of the wax mannequins of a men's clothing department. He chooses to remain after hours to investigate. As soon as he's alone, the mannequins move in to attack him, but he reveals himself to be one of them and berates them for their carelessness that could endanger all of them.
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* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'': Nathan Dollyfrom ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' managed to transfer transfers his essence into two mannequins and used them to commit several crimes.
*There's a pulp comic called "Mannequin of Murder" (''Witches Tales'' #17) in which a #17): A guy invents a serum to freeze people into mannequins. This is intended as a form of AndIMustScream torture, but they eventually come back to zombie-esque life and kill their creator. Then they go back to posing, get shipped all over America, and start going on killing sprees after dark.dark.
* "Showcase for Horror!" (''This Magazine is Haunted'' #6): Window display man Tod Tilstrom receives a grotesque and corpulent manikin he sets up and abuses for the customers' entertainment. It gets weird when the manikin starts showing up all over the department store without any admitting to moving it and both tears and blood can be discerned on it, though everyone by Tod believes in rational explanations. One evening past closing, he has to exit through the warehouse full of broken and abandoned manikins. They come after him, furious over his treatment of the qrotesque manikin, who himself awaits Tod at the exit. He swaps places with him, becoming human while Tod is forced into the existence of a manikin.
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* "Showcase for Horror!" (''This Magazine is Haunted'' #6): Window display man Tod Tilstrom receives a grotesque and corpulent manikin he sets up and abuses for the customers' entertainment. It gets weird when the manikin starts showing up all over the department store without any admitting to moving it and both tears and blood can be discerned on it, though everyone by Tod believes in rational explanations. One evening past closing, he has to exit through the warehouse full of broken and abandoned manikins. They come after him, furious over his treatment of the qrotesque manikin, who himself awaits Tod at the exit. He swaps places with him, becoming human while Tod is forced into the existence of a manikin.
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* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E34TheAfterHours The After Hours]]", the mannequins seem hostile at first, but it's revealed that the main character is a mannequin herself. She got to experience human life for one year and now she must return to her true state so that another mannequin can have her turn. [[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 The 1980s remake]] has close to the same plot, but the mannequins are much creepier and the transformation back into a mannequin is [[BodyHorror much more]] [[AndIMustScream painful-looking]].
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* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E34TheAfterHours "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E34TheAfterHours The After Hours]]", the mannequins seem hostile at first, but it's revealed that the main character is a mannequin herself. She got to experience human life for one year and now she must return to her true state so that another mannequin can have her turn. [[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E4 The 1980s remake]] from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'' has close to the same plot, but the mannequins are much creepier and the transformation back into a mannequin is [[BodyHorror much more]] [[AndIMustScream painful-looking]].
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* "They Walk by Night" (''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion''): The mannequins at Lacey's Department Store come to life at night as vampires. Anyone who is still inside the store becomes their meal and joins their ranks, be that a locked-in customer or a vagrant looking for a roof for the night. Some time ago, a smalltime thief named Pete would've been their meal were it not for the fact that he struck a deal to provide them with a steady supply of victims if they'd let him go. Having some morals, Pete makes it a point to acquaint with rotten people only so that at least the victims deserve their fate. He's come to believe he's sort of doing society a favor.
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* "They Walk by Night" (''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion''): Mansion'' #10): The mannequins at Lacey's Department Store come to life at night as vampires. Anyone who is still inside the store becomes their meal and joins their ranks, be that a locked-in customer or a vagrant looking for a roof for the night. Some time ago, a smalltime thief named Pete would've been their meal were it not for the fact that he struck a deal to provide them with a steady supply of victims if they'd let him go. Having some morals, Pete makes it a point to acquaint with rotten people only so that at least the victims deserve their fate. He's come to believe he's sort of doing society a favor.favor.
* "Clearance Sale" (''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion'' #10): Two mannequins in a beach scene in the store window are in love and happily posed next to each other. The one disagreement they have with their position is that the male one has to hold up high a sign that reads "Clearance Sale" when he'd rather wrap his arm around his companion. And so they get into a fight with the store clerk, who continues to put them in the "Clearance Sale" position while they keep going back to the position they want. Things escalate when the store clerk threatens them with the incinerator, so they kill him.
* "Clearance Sale" (''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion'' #10): Two mannequins in a beach scene in the store window are in love and happily posed next to each other. The one disagreement they have with their position is that the male one has to hold up high a sign that reads "Clearance Sale" when he'd rather wrap his arm around his companion. And so they get into a fight with the store clerk, who continues to put them in the "Clearance Sale" position while they keep going back to the position they want. Things escalate when the store clerk threatens them with the incinerator, so they kill him.
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* The indie horror game, ''VideoGame/AngelsCove'', sees you as a private investigator hired to investigate a mansion on a deserted island, and you find out it's deserted save for containing plenty of mannequins. And then a storm strands you in the island, and predictably things goes horribly wrong after dusk. The mannequins coming to life and stalking you, for starters.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': In Poseidon's Plaza, there are Plastered Splicers. As their name suggests, they are covered in plaster, and they disguised themselves as [[MadArtist Sander Cohen's]] statues, often attacking in silence unlike other splicers. Unlike the creepy plaster statues, these bleed and give a dull thunk when hit.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': In Poseidon's Plaza, there are Plastered Splicers. As their name suggests, they are covered in plaster, and they disguised themselves as [[MadArtist Sander Cohen's]] statues, often attacking in silence unlike other splicers. Unlike the creepy plaster statues, these bleed and give a dull thunk when hit.
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* The indie horror game, ''VideoGame/AngelsCove'', game ''VideoGame/AngelsCove'' sees you as a private investigator hired to investigate a mansion on a deserted island, and you find out it's deserted save for containing plenty of mannequins. And then a storm strands you in the island, and predictably things goes horribly wrong after dusk. The mannequins coming to life and stalking you, for starters.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': In Poseidon's Plaza, there are Plastered Splicers. As their name suggests, they are covered in plaster, and they disguised themselves as [[MadArtist SanderCohen's]] Cohen]]'s statues, often attacking in silence unlike other splicers. Unlike the creepy plaster statues, these bleed and give a dull thunk when hit.
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* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'' -- In the mannequin shop, at the very beginning you can see the mannequins each with their Slenderman-like appearance. You turn and start walking. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've teleported out of the display case and have now formed a semi circle around the exit. You have no choice but to walk further. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've gotten even closer now. LIGHTNING FLASH. The closer you get to the hole, the more they push you backwards. Finally, once you reach the hole, if you look up you will see the mannequins in a ritual like stance in a circle around the hole. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse And they're never mentioned again]]. Also, there are crazy homeless mannequin impersonators on that level, who will actually attack you.
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* ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'' -- ''VideoGame/CondemnedCriminalOrigins'': In the mannequin shop, at the very beginning beginning, you can see the mannequins each with their Slenderman-like appearance. You turn and start walking. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've teleported out of the display case and have now formed a semi circle semi-circle around the exit. You have no choice but to walk further. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've gotten even closer now. LIGHTNING FLASH. The closer you get to the hole, the more they push you backwards. Finally, once you reach the hole, if you look up you will see the mannequins in a ritual like stance in a circle around the hole. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse And they're They're never mentioned again]]. Also, there are crazy homeless {{crazy homeless|People}} mannequin impersonators on that level, who will actually attack you.
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* There's two cases in ''The Evil Within'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'', there's the Mannequin Factory of Chapter 11. Its mannequins are the everyday variant on the easier two modes. On Nightmare or AKUMA mode, there's mannequins skateboarding on sawblades patrol the corridors. They don't show signs of liveliness other than that they will go Sebastian if he enters their field of view.
** In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'', there's a puzzle in Chapter 5 that requires a picture to be snapped of a mannequin in a specific setting. The mannequin goes from looking at a corner to looking straight at Sebastian during the flash. Nothing is said about why that happens.
* Seemingly invoked in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''. 1st Generation [[KillerRobot Synths]] look like {{Skelebot}}s, and 3rd Generation Synths can [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots pass for humans]], but 2nd Generation Synths are at an uncomfortable middle ground and appear as porcelain-white, expressionless, [[BarbieDollAnatomy genderless]] mannequins ([[RoboticReveal until they take battle damage]]). Coincidentally, the game is the first in the ''Fallout'' series to feature actual mannequins hanging around the ruins of Boston. And if you get both 2nd Gen Synths and mannequins in the same area...
** In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'', there's the Mannequin Factory of Chapter 11. Its mannequins are the everyday variant on the easier two modes. On Nightmare or AKUMA mode, there's mannequins skateboarding on sawblades patrol the corridors. They don't show signs of liveliness other than that they will go Sebastian if he enters their field of view.
** In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'', there's a puzzle in Chapter 5 that requires a picture to be snapped of a mannequin in a specific setting. The mannequin goes from looking at a corner to looking straight at Sebastian during the flash. Nothing is said about why that happens.
* Seemingly invoked in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''. 1st Generation [[KillerRobot Synths]] look like {{Skelebot}}s, and 3rd Generation Synths can [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots pass for humans]], but 2nd Generation Synths are at an uncomfortable middle ground and appear as porcelain-white, expressionless, [[BarbieDollAnatomy genderless]] mannequins ([[RoboticReveal until they take battle damage]]). Coincidentally, the game is the first in the ''Fallout'' series to feature actual mannequins hanging around the ruins of Boston. And if you get both 2nd Gen Synths and mannequins in the same area...
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* There's two cases in ''The Evil Within'':
**In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin'', there's the Mannequin Factory of Chapter 11. Its mannequins are the everyday variant on the easier two modes. On Nightmare or AKUMA mode, there's mannequins skateboarding on sawblades patrol the corridors. They don't show signs of liveliness other than that they will go Sebastian if he enters their field of view.
** * In ''VideoGame/TheEvilWithin2'', there's a puzzle in Chapter 5 that requires a picture to be snapped of a mannequin in a specific setting. The mannequin goes from looking at a corner to looking straight at Sebastian during the flash. Nothing is said about why that happens.
* Seemingly invoked in''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}''. ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. 1st Generation [[KillerRobot Synths]] look like {{Skelebot}}s, {{SkeleBot|9000}}s, and 3rd Generation Synths can [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots pass for humans]], but 2nd Generation Synths are at an uncomfortable middle ground and appear as porcelain-white, expressionless, [[BarbieDollAnatomy genderless]] mannequins ([[RoboticReveal until they take battle damage]]). Coincidentally, the game is the first in the ''Fallout'' ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series to feature actual mannequins hanging around the ruins of Boston. And if If you get both 2nd Gen Synths and mannequins in the same area...
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