History Headscratchers / Chucky

** It's possible that she was just so relieved that the police were there to save her and put Charles away that she didn't feel the need to deny his accusations. Then again, rewatching the scene, it does seem like Sarah is trying to stall for time (though she could just be worried about what Charles might do to Barb).

* Is Tiffany being the one who called Mike Norris on Charles in 1988 a ContinuitySnarl? Didn't ''Film/CurseOfChucky'' establish that it was Nica's mother who called the police? I have rewatched the scene from ''Curse'', and if Tiffany is the one who called the police and not Nica's mother, she should've acted surprised or protest against Charles when he gets furious at her, instead she doesn't deny anything which makes this "reveal" a bit confusing.

* As [[https://screenrant.com/chucky-season-1-finale-dad-affair-junior-plot-hole/ other commentators have pointed out]], why did Junior have no obvious reaction to seeing that Tiffany (i.e., the woman he assumes his dad had an affair with in the previous episode, motivating him to murder his father) was affiliated with Chucky in the first season's finale? It was never established as a reason for his last-second HeelFaceTurn later on (which seemed more due to his lingering affection for Lexy), so it seems like it can only be explained as a fleeting case of TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget taken to arguably ridiculous extremes.

* As [[https://screenrant.com/chucky-season-1-finale-dad-affair-junior-plot-hole/ other commentators have pointed out]], why did Junior have no obvious reaction to seeing that Tiffany (i.e., the woman he assumes his dad had an affair with in the previous episode, motivating him to murder his father) was affiliated with Chucky in the first season's finale? It was never established as a motivation for his last-second HeelFaceTurn later on, so it seems like it can only be explained as a fleeting case of TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget taken to arguably ridiculous extremes.

* Relating to the above should we assume Chucky learned the split spell before, during or after his possession of Alice?

* If Tiffany truly resented Chucky at that point, why would she continue to carry out his plan of mass-distributing his HiveMind bodies?

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though. Even if he was aware of the rumors, maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment the surviving friends and family of Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human (and Jake would probably be unlikely to know Charles Lee Ray's past in much detail from any source other than Devon's podcast before doing a Google search about it himself).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though. Even if he was aware of the rumors, maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment the friends and family of Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human (and Jake would probably be unlikely to know Charles Lee Ray's past in much detail from any source other than Devon's podcast before doing a Google search about it himself).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though. Even if he was aware of the rumors, maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human (and Jake would probably be unlikely to know Charles Lee Ray's past in much detail from any source other than Devon's podcast before doing a Google search about it himself).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though. Even if he was aware of the rumors, maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human (and Jake would probably be unlikely to know Charles Lee Ray's past in much detail from any source other than Devon's podcast).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though. Maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human (and Jake would probably be unlikely to know Charles Lee Ray's past in much detail from any source other than Devon's podcast).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though (and maybe Devon in particular thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though (and maybe Devon thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might emotionally torment Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though (and maybe Devon thought it was unethical to sensationalize the case by bringing up what he regards as false stories that might hurt Charles Lee Ray's victims from when he was still human).

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed out of hand and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though.

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] is not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though.

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] are not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BellisariosMaxim probably applies here, though.

*** It seems that the rumors would at least get a cursory mention in any seriously-researched piece, even if they were dismissed and treated as apocryphal (in the same sense that, e.g., the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401]] are not usually mentioned without bringing up the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401#Reported_ghost_sightings rumors of hauntings on planes supposedly reusing parts from the downed jet]] in our world). BelisariosMaxim probably applies here, though.

*** Nica was shipped off to an asylum and probably forgotten about, with maybe a handful of people even aware she was alive, let alone her fate. The point is, this world is so heavily set in reality that the idea of a killer doll is preposterous (as seen in...every single one of the movies), with the decades of rumors immediately written off as bunk and quickly forgotten.

** The creators said its shortly after Cult. And even if rumors fade, that should be well known in the killer's hometown, especially being brought back into the public eye with Nica's case in 2013. And any podcast would do enough research to mention the rumors.

** The series has predominantly dropped the (physically) turning human element after the first film. Whereas Chucky used to slowly physically turn human over the course of the first movie, in subsequent films it is more of a time thing. The extent seems to vary as Chucky and Tiffany clearly have blood and human organs inside of them, but we have seen Chucky survive things that would kill a human like getting decapitated, and walk away. So it’s possible he just held the liquor in his stomach and projectile committed. Which some people can do in real life.

** Also, assuming the movies take place in the years they're released, the Good Guys line has been dead for 30 years. Even rumors fade with time.

** He very easily found stories of Chucky from the previous movies with a simple Google search. It's unlikely anything made about Charles Lee Ray in the past 30+ years wouldn't have at least mentioned the rumors as part of his legacy, even if dismissing them as false.

** Anything about Charles Lee Ray is probably only focusing on what he actually did in real life. Not rumors about a doll killing people that occurred after he died. The toy company covered up most of the story. So Chucky is considered an urban legend. And not a very well known one seeing as how even people never reference the killings when they encounter the doll. Jake may have heard of Charles Lee Ray, but probably doesn’t know him as “Chucky” since he was called the Lakeshore Strangler.

* How does Jake live in Charles Lee Ray's hometown, listen to true crime podcasts, and mention Charles Lee Ray in the opening narration, but not know of Chucky? Previous movies established the story was well known enough to negatively impact Good Guy sales after the first two movies, and was brought up as recently as Nica's case less than 10 years earlier. Even if he didn't believe it, he should have heard the rumors at some point.

** While those questions may get answered down the road, in the case of the pilot he might have just held the booze in his mouth until he...released it.

* How is Chucky able to drink seeing as he doesn´t seem to be turning human as he did in the original movies? How much of him is artificial (doll) and how much organic? Can he also eat?