History Main / SecurityBlanket

* After being [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', [[Characters/AmphibiaAnneBoonchuy Anne Boonchuy's]] phone becomes one for her. Not because she's a PhoneaholicTeenager, but because her phone has all of her photos and videos from back home.

* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Moonfire Faire 2023 event, the NPC Lyonell suffers from PerformanceIssues whenever he acts without a helmet [[spoiler:because of an incident where he was knocked out by an attack while trying to protect a convoy and was blamed for it]] and, since it's hot at Costa del Sol, he can't wear a helmet that he can hide his face under. He's later given the costume of the Sunshine Savior that allows him to function without melting in the heat.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the title character figures out that the kidnapping of a young girl had to be an inside job because the kidnapper took the girl's security blanket (a plush bunny) as well.

* ''Literature/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 wondering 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.

** In a matter of speaking. [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] wearing Eda's letterman jacket serves as a shorthand for the viewer that she's going to go through some sort of horrible trauma in that episode. In fact, the only episode where she isn't shown wearing it in between her first recieving it in "Reaching Out" and her finally beginning to heal emotionally in "For the Future" is the BreatherEpisode "Them's the Breaks, Kid".

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein 's ''Literature/HaveSpaceSuitWillTravel'', Peewee admits she can't sleep at night without her doll Madame Pompadour, even as she admits, "I'm perfectly aware that it's just a doll; I've understood the pathetic fallacy for -- oh, years and years!"

* Literature/{{Franklin}}, the turtle in the books and TV series by the same, had a blue one. At one time, he took it everywhere with him, though eventually he only slept with it. Late in the series, in ''Back to School With Franklin'', he gave it to his little sister, Harriet, who later lent it to Beaver's little brother, Kit.

** Her little sister Kiki also has one in the form of a purple fruit that she calls "Squishy". When Ord accidentally squishes Squishy, Kiki, who is already in a foul temper for other reasons, gets hysterical. Ord, feeling bad, insists on getting a new Squishy for Kiki; while he and Max are doing so, Kiki makes do with Zak's head though she immediately releases him when she sees Ord carrying the new Squishy.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Ash's Krokorok loses its confidence when its CoolShades are taken away from it. Later in ''XY'', the gang encounters a Pangoro, rendered almost catatonic when Clemont's Chespin accidentally burns its [[OralFixation bamboo leaf]].

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2677886/1/Christmas-Ghosts Christmas Ghosts]]" ends with Bonnie Rockwaller (''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''), having experienced YetAnotherChristmasCarol, taking part in a toy drive for a local orphanage. While she didn't have time to pick up a new gift for her assigned orphan, Katherine, Bonnie instead gives the girl her old teddy bear, telling Katherine that she hopes Lucille will give her comfort the way the bear helped Bonnie feel better in the past (in the original future Bonnie witnessed, it was mentioned that Katherine killed herself by walking in front of a car two months after Christmas because nobody was ever there for her).

* After being [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', [[Characters/AmphibiaAnneBoonchuy Anne Boonchuy's]]phone becomes one for her. Not because she's a PhoneaholicTeenager, but because her phone has all of her photos and videos from back home.

** [[Characters/BobsBurgersLindaBelcher Linda Belcher]], surprisingly enough, has two: top on the list is her precious pink bunny ear hat, which she wears constantly, even to bed or while swimming. She becomes aggressive towards anyone who tries to tell her to take it off, and in "Ears-y Rider", she has a full-blown nervous breakdown when Logan steals it. Her other security blanket is her Kuchi Kopi night light, which she's so attached to that she swore never to forgive her family when they accidentally destroyed it. She gets over it after an episode-long fever dream convinces her that not forgiving them isn't healthy, and after seeing how sorry they are and that they (mostly Bob) bent over backwards to replace it.

* After being [[TrappedInAnotherWorld Trapped In]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', Anne's phone becomes one for her. Not because she's a PhoneaholicTeenager, but because her phone has all of her photos and videos from back home.

** Louise, surprisingly enough, has two: top on the list is her precious pink bunny ear hat, which she wears constantly, even to bed or while swimming. She becomes aggressive towards anyone who tries to tell her to take it off, and in "Ears-y Rider", she has a full-blown nervous breakdown when Logan steals it. Her other security blanket is her Kuchi Kopi night light, which she's so attached to that she swore never to forgive her family when they accidentally destroyed it. She gets over it after an episode-long fever dream convinces her that not forgiving them isn't healthy, and after seeing how sorry they are and that they (mostly Bob) bent over backwards to replace it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': King's crown works this way. When Luz finds it in the first episode, it turns out to be nothing more than a paper crown from [[BlandNameProduct Burger Queen]]. Eda explains that, if he thinks it makes him powerful, then it does.

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}}.

* Matsuri of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is quite attached to his {{fundoshi}}--as in, his '''underwear'''.[[labelnote:*]]Presumably the style of undergarment, rather than an individual item.[[/labelnote]] Eventually, he tries to develop mental fortitude by wearing something else, and starts off too timid to speak in front on his class or go up to the school's roof. Upon realizing its importance, Matsuri begins thinking of his fundoshi as a CompanionCube [[MourningAnObject he bids a tearful farewell to]].

* ''Literature/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.

--> '''Merry:''' ''[[MadnessMantra My hat, my hat, where’s my hat…]]''

* Erio Towa, the {{Hikikomori}} main character of ''Literature/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' finds it difficult to interact with people without having herself wrapped securely in a futon. Even after getting over the worst of this she finds it soothing.

* In ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'', Kyrie claims he never lets his AnimalEaredHeadband out of sight. Of course, this is probably less to do with feeling personally attached to it and more that it keeps him from facing the brunt of the FantasticRacism of the land.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': Littlefoot, a young herbivorous Long-Neck (an apatosaurus) carries around a tree-star, large (to a young child) star-shape green leaf on his back for 2/3rds of the movie as a Security Blanket, CompanionFood and TragicKeepsake of his deceased mother who gave it to him shortly before dying to a T-Rex attack. This is especially notable because the whole movie takes place during a wide-spread drought/famine which sets the course of the plot of whole dinosaur herds migrating in search of the Green Valley, a rumored paradise of food and peace. Littlefoot briefly expresses anger toward the remorseful Petrie who attempts to bite into it, not knowing the immense sentimental value Littlefoot has for it. The leaf remains in largely great condition for the whole movie, in spite of it being worn on top of Littlefoot's back like a cloak as he travels across the land (including through an active volcano!) and used as a blanket by the whole protagonist group at one point... up until the climatic final encounter with the T-Rex where it gets stomped under its foot and torn to shreds in the process of Littlefoot and his companions panicking upon waking up and finding out they're in danger.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Andy's toys are shown to be this for Andy, especially Woody. He balks at the idea of his mother donating or selling them, but tries to cover it up by justifying that the toys are junk no one would want. He then resolves to take Woody with him to college and puts the rest of the toys in a garbage bag that he meant to put in the attic but accidentally gets put outside for trash pickup by Andy's mom instead. [[spoiler: He's heartbroken when he finds out that his mom threw his toys away. Later, when Andy is giving the toys away to Bonnie, he reflexively withholds Woody for a split second before relenting.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Wilfred the stuffed animal serves as one: Mei has had it for years, she sleeps with it, and she holds tight to it for comfort after her red panda form manifests. It's the one thing her parents let her keep [[spoiler:when they empty her bedroom of all her other belongings, so that they won't be damaged by her repeated, uncontrolled transformations]].

* In ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'', Maki has a pink teddy bear that provides comfort for her when ever she's in distress.
* Laura's backpack in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has shades of this. She carries it with her in almost every scene, and gets very clingy and protective of it when Logan tries to nose through it without permission.

* In ''Film/{{Ted}}'', Ted himself is a {{Deconstruction}} of what happens when the common wish of a child that his Security Blanket was really alive comes true. Even into adulthood John is reliant on Ted to the detriment of his relationship with Lori.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' and ''D.W.'' books, and the television series, Dora Winifred "D.W." Read had "blankie." One of the books and television stories centered around its being lost. One of the title cards in the televisions series depicts her wearing it as a superhero cape.

* [=McCall=] from ''Literature/FracturedStars'' has her brass charm bracelet, which her mom gave her when she was nine as a reward for not sucking her thumb anymore, and which she still wears everywhere. She calms herself by spinning it around her wrist to hear the clinking of the brass charms, and even chews on it once when she's particularly upset.

* Creator/KevinHenkes's picture book, ''Literature/{{Owen}}'', is about a [[ProtagonistTitle boy mouse named Owen]] who carries around a dirty, torn and raggedy yellow blanket that he's named "Fuzzy." His parents and neighbor, Mrs. Tweezers, all worry about him carrying it, especially since he's starting school soon. They first try to have him, on the neighbor's advice, give it up to the "blanket fairy," but Owen refuses to put it under his pillow. Then they try the "vinegar trick", where they put his favorite corner in vinegar to which Owen responds by picking a new favorite corner and rubbing the smelly corner in dirt until it no longer stinks. They finally try a hard line, only for Owen to break down and have a crying fit. In the end, his mother makes a part of the blanket into handkerchief that Owen carries with him, a solution that satisfies everyone.

* In ''Literature/TheRealBoy'', Oscar carves a small wooden cat he names Block. He carries her around and squeezes her to calm himself. At the end he gives her to a younger child, saying, "She's nice to have when things aren't safe."

* ''Literature/WickedGood'': As a little boy, Rory wouldn't go to day care without his dump truck, its wheels worn down from spinning.

** The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' writers mocked how much Spike needed his coat to boost his self esteem. When it gets exploded in "The Girl In Question", he gets upset and Angel points out he pulled it off a dead slayer.

* In ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Radar slept with a teddy bear (likely to symbolize his childlike innocence) which he was always a little embarrassed about. However, in the episode where he left the cast (where his going-away party was cancelled due to an emergency rush of wounded shipped in and he had to leave without saying goodbye to anyone) he leaves it behind so they can remember him; Hawkeye and the others find it in the last scene.

* Linus and his blue blanket from ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' are perhaps the most famous example, and also the TropeNamer as Website/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.

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'': Klug is ''always'', without exception, seen carrying around an infamous spell-book called the "Record of Sealing", not to keep himself battle-ready, but simply because it makes him feel stronger than he actually is. The local librarian even [[{{Lampshading}} quotes this very trope at him]] when Klug refuses to bring the book back to the library. Given that the soul sealed inside the book has tricked, insulted and even ''possessed'' Klug before, his attachment to it is truly extraordinary.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'': The Zaruboggans are very possessive of their Gorkwa staves, as they are the only way they can safely consume voltant away from their homeworld of Bedun. One of their rites of passage has young Zaruboggans go on pilgrimages to claim their own Gorkwa, which are said not to be made by the Zaruboggans (who in turn claim that Golbogga left them on Bedun). When Arsenican has a child born on Mira (who is seemingly trapped there with the rest of them), the adults realize they may need to make some cultural adjustments to cope with their new home for the time being due to being deprived of the resources their homeworld provided in abundance (in the mean time, Orleron has to get by with a Gorkwa taken from another deceased Zaruboggan).

** Soon after that comic, Meela has a panic-reaction when she [[http://www.straysonline.com/2012/02/page-209 notices her missing bracelet.]] This time is PlayedForDrama because Meela thinks if she loses her bracelet she'll die, due to its previous owners dying soon after giving it to someone else.

* Steve of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'' has a lucky towel, which he calls Bub-bub. It has been in his family for generations and is covered in sweat and dirt, but he still carries it around with him everywhere and is absolutely devastated when Bub-bub is stolen. Steve is not only in High School, but also one of the toughest jocks you'll find there. Steve is not ashamed of Bub-bub in the least.

*** Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup are revealed to have one each in "Pet Feud." Eventually, Buttercup was convinced in "Cover Up" to let hers go when it became a problem for her, and passed it to Professor Utonium.

*** It's a little known fact that Buttercup has another security blanket of her own: a stuffed crocodile that she snuggles with while she's asleep.

* Somewhat related is how EMT's and other emergency services will give out blankets during traumatic events. Car accidents, building fires, mass casualty events, any horrible yet mundane event you can think of. While mostly to help regulate the patients temperature and to protect them from any more debris, the psychological benefits of being wrapped in a blanket is statistically significant. Plus it acts as a visual identifier for who's been seen to by the Emergency services on sight.

* Kevin Henkes's picture book, ''Literature/{{Owen}}'', is about a [[ProtagonistTitle boy mouse named Owen]] who carries around a dirty, torn and raggedy yellow blanket that he's named "Fuzzy." His parents and neighbor, Mrs. Tweezers, all worry about him carrying it, especially since he's starting school soon. They first try to have him, on the neighbor's advice, give it up to the "blanket fairy," but Owen refuses to put it under his pillow. Then they try the "vinegar trick", where they put his favorite corner in vinegar to which Owen responds by picking a new favorite corner and rubbing the smelly corner in dirt until it no longer stinks. They finally try a hard line, only for Owen to break down and have a crying fit. In the end, his mother makes a part of the blanket into handkerchief that Owen carries with him, a solution that satisfies everyone.

* The protagonist of ''LightNovel/FelineTherapy'', Izzy has anxiety about multiple aspects of their life, and their best coping mechanism is when their best friend Sasha drapes their jacket over them. This jacket is crucial to the story's climax, as a desire to return the gesture [[spoiler:restores Izzy's humanity]].

* ''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.

* A bit subtle, but Celty from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' seems to feel this way about her PDA; whenever she's ''really'' stressed she holds onto it really tight. Probably justified because it's the only way she can communicate [[LosingYourHead without her head]] (and possibly because Shinra [[ItWasAGift gave it to her]]).
* Erio Towa, the {{Hikikomori}} main character of ''LightNovel/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' finds it difficult to interact with people without having herself wrapped securely in a futon. Even after getting over the worst of this she finds it soothing.

* [[KiddieKid Miko]] from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is incapable of sleeping without her childhood blanket, even bringing it with her on school trips. Onodera is quick to point out that this isn't normal behavior for a teenager and that she should probably seek professional help. [[DesperatelyCravesAffection She also listens to "Hot Guys Encourage You" CDs]] to help her calm down in stressful situations.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': King's crown works this way. When Luz finds it in the first episode, it turns out to be nothing more than a paper crown from Burger Queen. Eda explains that, if he thinks it makes him powerful, then it does.

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