History Main / SecurityBlanket

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'': Iris, as a result of her being cut off from society by her parents due to her psychic powers, starts off withdrawn and scared of everyone (particularly in the [[Anime/SakuraWarsTV anime adaptation]]) and holds on to her teddy bear, Jean-Paul.

* Nodoka from ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' can't sleep without her [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins stuffed penguin, Etopen]]. She's also encouraged to hug it when she plays TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} with other people, just as she does online, with the hope of improving her skill.

Can overlap with GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals and SentimentalShabbiness. Compare LivingEmotionalCrutch and the CompanionCube. May be a NumberOneDime.

While blankets are perhaps most common, the Security Blanket can be any object. A toy, a pillow, some kind of trinket. Can also be a type of MagicFeather, giving its owner a bit of confidence where otherwise they would have none. It has also been used, from time to time, to provide cover for a {{Macguffin}}.

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* Dee Dee from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has a teddy bear named Foozeems. In "Down In The Dumps", when Dexter throws it away, Dee Dee has an AngstComa of sorts in which she acts like a zombie and repeats [[MadnessMantra "Foozeems, Foozeems, Foozeems"]] over and over, so Dexter has to go on a quest to retrieve it.

* Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup are revealed to have one each in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "Pet Feud." Eventually, in the episode "Cover Up", Buttercup was convinced to let it go and passed it to Professor Utonium.
** Also, Bubbles has her stuffed octopus called Octi, who sometimes gets the CompanionCube treatment, a fact taken advantage of by HIM in one episode.
** It's a little known fact that Buttercup has another security blanket, which is a stuffed crocodile that she snuggles with while she's asleep.
** In the comic book story "Bow Jest" (DC Comics, #20), this happened to Blossom when she loses her hairbow in a battle against Princess Morbucks. Buttercup yanks Blossom's chain by stealing it, and Mojo Jojo deduces that the bow must contain some intangible power since Blossom can't function without it. Of all people, it's [[TheDitz Bubbles]] who sets things right and lights a match under Blossom's butt about it.
--->'''Bubbles:''' It's just a stupid bow!! You're ''still'' a Powerpuff Girl whether you have it or not!!

* In ''Series/HoneyWest'', Honey's [[CoolPet ocelot]] Bruce has a baby blanket and attacks anyone who tries to take it away.

* Creator/ZooeyDeschanel has become known for [[ShesGotLegs almost always wearing tights]], though it's only been recently that [[WordOfGod she revealed in an interview that this is mainly because tights are her security blankets]].

* Linus and his blue blanket from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' are perhaps the most famous example, and also the TropeNamer as Wiki/TheOtherWiki credits the series for the term "security blanket." An early '60s set of strips showed Linus having a full on ''nervous breakdown'' in the time it took for the blanket to run through the washer and dryer. In a PetTheDog moment for her, Lucy rushes to get it to him before he completely collapses into catatonia. In a less kind moment, Lucy takes the blanket away from him and buries it in an undisclosed location. Linus spends around a week of strips going increasingly-less-quietly nuts and digging up everyone's lawns to try to find it. When Charlie Brown, trying to be helpful, offers to let him borrow a dishtowel, Linus responds "Would you offer a starving dog a rubber bone?" [[WordOfGod Charles Schulz]] claimed that Linus' blanket was inspired by blankets like this that his own children carried around, and claimed that he had ''no'' idea that he would end up coining the term "security blanket" as a result of it. Funnily enough, Linus eventually began quietly outgrowing it, and in the latter years of the comic the blanket rarely appeared.

[[WeAreNotAloneIndex As defined on]] Wiki/TheOtherWiki, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_blanket "A security blanket is any familiar object whose presence provides comfort or security to its owner, such as the literal blankets often favored by small children."]]

* ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'''s Merry Nightmare panics when she misplaces her NiceHat, as shown in the very first episode. When she’s reunited with it in that same episode, she explains that she’s just not comfortable without a hat on her head.

** So did Microsoft, using the term for [[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683755(v=vs.85).aspx security features]] in its Distributed Component Object Model.

* The 'Reassurance Bucket' from ''[[VideoGame/TheStanleyParable The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe]]'' acts somewhat like this for [[PlayerCharacter Stanley]] as well as a CompanionCube.

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Yoshino has her puppet Yoshinon, whom she sees as her ideal self, claiming that it's the only reason she can stay calm while avoiding the AST's attacks. Without it, she became much more easily frightened and prone to summoning Zadkiel. It was suggested that Yoshinon is [[SplitPersonality another personality]] Yoshino developed to cope with the AST's constant assaults without fighting back. This is further proven given her appearance in her Inverse Form: her hair becomes white, her eyes glow red, and she wears an eyepatch on her right eye; the impression leaves one wonder if "Yoshinon" takes over her body. This is made more obvious as Inverse Yoshino has a puppet that lacks all of Yoshinon's usual decorations (sans the dress) with its eyes being shut, like the shy girl Yoshino normally is.
** Kotori has this in the form of her ribbons. Her personality depends on which ribbons she's wearing: she acts like a perfectly normal girl her age when she's wearing white ribbons, but switches to a Dominatrix when she's wearing black ribbons, and she's rarely seen without either set on. In one case, to see if she was the real Kotori and not [[MasterOfDisguise Natsume in disguise,]] Shido removes her ribbons and she immediately becomes a [[{{Wangst}} wangsty]] mess in front of him.

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Yoshino has her puppet Yoshinon, whom she sees as her ideal self, claiming that it's the only reason she can stay calm while avoiding the AST's attacks. Without it, she became much more easily frightened and prone to summoning Zadkiel. It was suggested that Yoshinon is [[SplitPersonality another personality]] Yoshino developed to cope with the AST's constant assaults without fighting back. This is further proven given her appearance in her Inverse Form: her hair becomes white, her eyes glow red, and she wears an eyepatch on her right eye; the impression leaves one wonder if "Yoshinon" takes over her body. This is made more obvious as Inverse Yoshino has a puppet that lacks all of Yoshinon's usual decorations (sans the dress) with its eyes being shut, like a shy girl Yoshino normally is.
** Kotori has this in the form of her ribbons. Her personality depends on which ribbons she's wearing: she acts like a perfectly normal girl her age when she's wearing white ribbons, but switches to a Dominatrix when she's wearing black ribbons, and she's rarely seen without either set on. In one case, to see if she was the real Kotori and not [[MasterOfDisguise Natsume in disguise,]] he removes her ribbons and she immediately becomes a [[{{Wangst}} wangsty]] mess in front of him.