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* The ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' spinoff Jessica's Big Little World has Small Uncle, Jessica's favorite toy.

* In ''Theatre/MaryPoppins'', the song "Playing the Game" involves Mary Poppins bringing the kids' toys to life. The toys aren't evil, but they do get very angry with their owners for playing rough with them.

* If ''Toy Story'' falls under this trope, so must ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3'''s "Toy Box" world, which is based on the gap between ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. It's even been said by [[http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/20016371.html the developers]] [[WordOfGod to be canon to the film series, which is a rarity for the game series!]]

* The [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Tails Doll]] is an example of this. While not particularly evil in canon (though he ''was'' created by [[BigBad Dr. Ivo Robotnik]]), TheInternet had [[{{Creepypasta}} other ideas]]...

* ''Series/TheTweenies'': In one episode, the protagonists imagine some living toys: Milo imagines an action figure and a talking toy plane, Jake imagines a clown doll, Bella imagines some performing toy mice, and Fizz imagines a singing fashion doll who doesn't want to be sold.

* Miskin in ''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}'' appears to be a living pink plush rabbit, but he's actually a robot. Somehow.
* General Jumbo from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' was a boy with an army of toy soldiers that he controlled with a wrist-mounted device. He also had a toy navy when he briefly became Admiral Jumbo in the 1970s. In one annual, one of his toy soldiers named Pike gained sentience and turned evil after being outfitted with a new form of AI.
* Dolmann, a quirky inventor, had a small robot doll for every occasion, though it was never very clear whether they legitimately possessed minds of their own or Dolmann was using his skills as a ventriloquist to pretend he had some company. Even so, they seemed to ''act'' of their own volition.
* The inhabitants of ''ComicBook/{{Dolltopia}}'' are all living toys who came to the titular city to live their own lives rather than what humans dictate for them.
* General Jumbo was parodied somewhat in ''Jack Staff'' with General Tubbs, an autistic boy who mobilized his toy army with his psychic powers; the control panel keyboard glove thing was just so he'd have something to do with his hands.

* Annabelle, of ''ComicBook/NightmaresAndFairyTales'', is sentient but unable to communicate with any of her owners (except for her current one, Gwen, and nobody knows why).
* ''Roy's Toys'' first appeared in the short-lived comic ''Nipper'' before a lengthy run in ''ComicBook/{{Buster}}''. Roy's parents were always on at him to slim down his huge toy collection, and he often came up with a reason to dispose of a toy. As soon as he left the room, however, the toys woke up and came up with a plan to persuade Roy to spare their comrade.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePowerOfShazam'', the incarnation of Mister Talky Tawny was a plush tiger belonging to Mary Batson, which was animated by a pooka to become her SpiritAdvisor.
* ''ComicBook/TheStuffOfLegend'' also has this as its premise, being about a group of toys fighting their way through a fantasy world (in which they become what they were toys of) in order to rescue their owner, who has been kidnapped by the Boogeyman.
* Toybox of ''ComicBook/TopTen'' has a boxful of animated toys which she can command, inherited from her father Colonel Lilliput, a pastiche of General Jumbo.

* Frigitta from ''Kero Kero Chime'' appears to be a living toy, despite denying it in her first appearance. Additionally, in her debut she's a villainess who turns people into toys which she can make follow her orders. After this, though, she's just a minor recurring StalkerWithACrush who's generally on the side of the heroes as much as her minor role allows.

** Moving on to ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Rua's deck used Morphatronics, which are more or less cute toy {{Transforming Mecha}}s.

* Annabelle, of ''Comic/NightmaresAndFairyTales'', is sentient but unable to communicate with any of her owners (except for her current one, Gwen, and nobody knows why).

* In ''Comicbook/ThePowerOfShazam'', the incarnation of Mister Talky Tawny was a plush tiger belonging to Mary Batson, which was animated by a pooka to become her SpiritAdvisor.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10716411/1/Heirlooms Heirlooms]]'', a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' takes that specific trope and runs with it to create an origin story of sorts for Master Hand and Crazy Hand.
* More like "display models" but the whole premise of the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' fanfic ''FanFic/HeroesOfTheDesk'' is that someone 3D-printed characters from the game, and they came to life ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' style (thus reaching "[[SlidingScaleOfLivingToys Real and Living to Everyone]]" on the scale).

* ''FanFic/ToyHammer'' applies the concept to the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' figures. Watch out for the CerebusSyndrome brought about by the [[spoiler: arrival of Chaos]].

%%%* ''ThePlucker'' is a particularly gruesome example.

* In Brazilian book series [[Literature/SitioDoPicapauAmarelo Yellow Woodpecker Farm]], Emília is Narizinho's talkative and living ragdoll, who manages to speak after taking a pill from a magical underwater kingdom in the first book, becoming one of the main characters. Similarly, Visconde de Sabugosa is a housemade doll made from a corn cob who becomes the scholar and thinker of the farm after living in the house's library.

* Andy Pandy provides a truly strange example. Andy plays with his best friend Teddy, a living teddy bear, all the time. Yet Looby Loo, Andy's rag doll, is played with as a toy by the other two and only comes to life when they're away. Averted with the remake, however, where she's as active as the rest of them

* HAVE Online / Videogame/{{MicroVolts}} is a Korean Online Multiplayer THIRD-person-shooter (not even class-based) that uses anime figurines ''or'' those figure-posing... figures that artists use to assist in drawing positions as the characters.

* ''VideoGame/SophiesGuardian'': The PlayerCharacter is a [[GunsAkimbo dual gun-wielding]] Toys/TeddyBear, and the enemies are [[CreepyDoll Creepy Dolls]].

* VideoGame/TeamFortress2:

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' has Medicine Melancholy, who (ironically enough, considering her name) controls poison. She's one of the [[CreepyChild creepier]] characters in the series, playfully talking about how wonderful poison is, how it paralyzes its victims, how they die a painful death...
* The Japan-exclusive [[VideoGame/ToPoLo ToPoLo]], in which you are a bunch of knockoff-LEGO bricks taking on a sentient shape, and goes on adventures in your kid's playroom.

* Namco's ''Toy Pop'': [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Pop PINO AND ACHA ARE GOING TO MAJYO'S CASTLE TO SAVE FRIEND]]

%%* All the main characters from WebAnimation/CuteMarioBros.

* The online blog "[[https://hispersonal.wordpress.com ''hispersonaljoy'']] "

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2295 SCP-2295]] is a teddy bear that [[SuperDoc can make replacement organs and tissue out of fabric and successfully transplant them in any near human who needs them (i.e. it can sew new kidneys for someone who's own kidneys are failing).]] The cloth organs and tissue work perfectly, exactly the same as real ones would. [[TearJerker The only limit is that it can't do anything about brain tissue. It got very sad and scared when it couldn't figure out how to fix a patient's cerebral hemorrhage, resorting to giving the patient a candy bar and a hug while crying]].

* If ''Toy Story'' falls under this trope, so must ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3'''s "Toy Box" world, which is based on the gap between ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryTwo'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStoryThree''. It's even been said by [[http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/20016371.html the developers]] [[WordOfGod to be canon to the ''Toy Story'' franchise!]]

** ''Candyfloss'' - a doll who lives on a coconut shy at the fair is kidnapped by a vain, greedy little girl.
** ''Impunity Jane: The Story of a Pocket Doll'' - a boy steals a small doll from a friend and keeps her as he grows up.
** ''The Story of Holly and Ivy'' - a Christmas-themed doll named Holly wishes for a little girl to play with her while a lonely orphan called Ivy wishes for a doll to play with.
** ''Miss Happiness and Miss Flower'' - a story about two Japanese dolls and the house built for them.

* The titular prince in the world-famous Theater/Nutcracker ballet.

* Besides the titular character of ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', the nighttime battle that Marie witnesses involves her brother's toy soldiers joining the fray. Later, the nutcracker takes Marie to the doll kingdom to be their queen, after she promises to love him no matter how he looks.

One Oreo commercial from 2020 features carnival prizes of a donkey and an elephant sharing milk and cookies with a plush cat.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The twist ending of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E79FiveCharactersInSearchOfAnExit Five Characters in Search of an Exit]]" involves the characters finding out that they are toys.

** Talky Tina from "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]". You'd better be nice to her.[[note]]Parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode where Johnny's neighbor Little Suzy acquires an evil doll named "Little Talky Tabitha".[[/note]] Actually, seeing as Tina's victim Erich is [[AssholeVictim pretty rotten himself]] (being abusive to his stepdaughter all because ''he'' was sterile) she may be considered more of a KnightTemplar.

** Two episodes ("[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E98TheDummy The Dummy]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E148CaesarAndMe Caesar and Me]]") feature evil ventriloquist's dummies.

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