History Characters / ChildsPlayChucky

* CharacterAgedWithTheActor: While Chucky originally died at 30, [[spoiler:his ghost in Season 3 is roughly as old as Brad Dourif in real life.]]

** In ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' episode 2, Chucky mentions having a queer kid that's gender-fluid (Glen/Glenda) to protagonist Jake. Jake asks if Chucky is okay with that and he responds "I'm not a monster, Jake...".

* {{Narcissist}}: Chucky thinks highly of himself. In the first season, he planned on sending around 70 clones of himself to become the most infamous serial killer in American history. While he was dying in season 3, he decides to bomb everyone so he would once more be seen as the worst killer in history by netting around 8 million victims. He is so self-absorbed, when he meets Damballa, Damballa takes his form since the one person Chucky ever revered was himself.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Flips out on Tyler for calling him "Charles" too many times.

** In ''Seed'' even he is disturbed by how utterly Batshit ''INSANE'' [[spoiler: Glen's split personality Glenda is]] and gets offended when Tiffany blames him for having created Glenda. Glenda's preference for fire over old-fashioned stabbing also kind of horrifies Chucky, though this could stem from Chucky's fireplace injury in the first movie and Tiffany getting thrown into a ''working'' oven in the fourth.
** In ''Cult of Chucky'', [[spoiler: he knocks out Dr. Foley and considers Foley to be worse than him for hypnotizing Nica and sexually assaulting her while she's disorientated. When Chucky possesses Nica, the first thing he does is kill Foley by staving his head in with the very shoes he gave Nica before trying to molest her.]]

** '''[[{{Sadist}} Sadism]]''': [[spoiler: Before ''Seed of Chucky'', Chucky was desperate to transfer his soul into a human body because the doll was only meant to be a placeholder until he could find Andy Barclay, the first person who saw Chucky's secret. However, Chucky gets a thrill from killing and he specifically enjoys toying with his prey before killing them. In ''Child's Play 2'', this is what causes his soul to be permanently bound to the doll, he couldn't resist toying with Andy and killing people of non-importance rather than just capturing Andy and transferring his soul at the first opportunity. When Chucky drops the theatrics in ''Curse of Chucky'', he effortlessly kills Nica's family, has her arrested, and is able to possess Alice. Showing how truly dangerous he can be when he stops playing with his prey.]]
** '''Complacency''': [[spoiler: From ''Bride of Chucky'', he's no longer afraid of death and has grown complacent with being resurrected or finding other ways of either transferring his soul or splitting it, not considering if Tiffany, his main accomplice and wife, might betray him. This is what fuels his confidence in season 2 of the TV series, he believes that he'll keep throwing himself at the protagonists until he succeeds in his quest for revenge. Not caring that he could die permanently the next time he's killed or if there is a greater cost for splitting his soul with voodoo magic.]]

* HatedByAll: As both Chucky and Charles Lee Ray, a majority of people have many different reasons to despise him due to the horrific legacy he left behind (as Charles Lee Ray) and the innumerable lives he's taken and ruined as a murderous doll. Other than Tiffany, the only people who are known to have regard for Chucky are truly disturbed individuals such as [[AxCrazy Glenda]], [[NunTooHoly Sister Ruth]], or [[spoiler:[[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Mixter]]]]. Even with Tiffany, her love for her husband often is pushed to its limits: by the time of the TV series, Tiffany wanted to figure out a way to keep Nica around whilst simultaneously seeing less of Chucky in Nica's body.

* ItsAllAboutMe: If you're not Charles Lee Ray/Chucky, he doesn't properly care about you - at best. Though there are remote signs that something can get in his 'cool book'. [[spoiler:Tiffany]] even [[LampshadeHanging calls him out on this]] in episode 8 of ''Chucky''.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While he kills rather indiscriminately if they are in his way of his goal, he seems to take extreme pleasure in [[AssholeVictim killing those who have it coming]] more than those who do not.

* FalseFriend: He pretends to be buds with Andy, Tyler, Alice, and Jake.

-->'''Chucky:''' I '''always''' come back!

-->'''Chucky:''' ''I always come back!''

* InvincibleVillain: Usually averted fairly hard, but played straight from ''Curse'' onward, [[spoiler: where he successfully transfers his soul into two human bodies (Alice and later Nica) and gets away scot-free with all of his murders, presumably pinning the blame on Andy once more. You might call him invisible due to his skills at hiding, even in plain sight, as a doll.]]

%%SuperTrope states JerkWithAHeartOfJerk is a SubTrope of {{Jerkass}}.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: While not a trademark per se, Tiffany said that Swedish meatballs are his favorite in ''Bride'' though Chucky's never been seen eating something in other movies.

** He also becomes easier to kill later on. For instance, in the original, not even being shot several times, set on fire and decapitation was enough to kill him. It was only after that he was shot directly through the heart that he finally stopped. In ''Bride'', he is done in after a few gunshots. In ''Seed'', he is killed by having his limbs and head chopped off (all of which failed to him in the original).

* {{Expy}}: Chucky's characterization is lifted straight from the murderous doll Talky Tina in the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll "Living Doll"]].

** [[spoiler:He finally does win in ''Film/{{Cult|Of Chucky}}'', succeeding in possessing Nica's body, locking up Andy in that asylum to take the fall for all the crimes he committed inside the mental hospital, then run out and reunite with Tiffany.]]