History Main / LonelyDollGirl

A [[IJustWantToHaveFriends friendless]] [[AlwaysFemale female]] character who, to ease her loneliness, spends her time making or collecting dolls. Seeing her kneeling or sitting surrounded by her dolls, with a sad look on her face, adds to her {{Woobie}} factor.

* Gaja Perron from ''Lady Doll'' is rich and pampered, but has experienced rejection all her life due to a noticeable facial deformity, and she understandably assumes the worst of people on principle; as a result she only talks to and "listens" to her dolls, ragdoll Betty most especially, and believes them to be her only true friends. This belief is only exacerbated when her mother, the only person Gaja truly cares about, seemingly succumbs to her illness (in reality dealt the killing blow by her husband, who had been covertly poisoning her for years), prompting Gaja to turn away from people for good. Gaja grows up to be a famous, respected but reclusive dollmaker with no shortage of prospective suitors, but years of only dolls for conversation partners have made her come off as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} somewhat loopy]] at best, [[AxeCrazy violently misanthropic]] at worst.

* Gaja Perron from ''Lady Doll'' is rich and pampered, but has experienced rejection all her life due to a noticeable facial deformity, and she understandably assumes the worst of people on principle; as a result she only talks to and "listens" to her dolls, ragdoll Betty most especially, and believes them to be her only true friends. This belief is only exacerbated when her mother, the only person who truly cared about her, seemingly succumbs to her illness (in reality dealt the killing blow by her husband, who had been covertly poisoning her for years), prompting Gaja to turn away from people for good. Gaja grows up to be a famous, respected but reclusive dollmaker with no shortage of prospective suitors, but years of only dolls for conversation partners have made her come off as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} somewhat loopy]] at best, [[AxeCrazy violently misanthropic]] at worst.

* Gaja Perron from ''Lady Doll'' is rich and pampered, but has experienced rejection all her life due to a noticeable facial deformity, and she understandably assumes the worst of people on principle; as a result she only talks to and "listens" to her dolls, ragdoll Betty most especially, and believes them to be her only true friends. This belief is only exacerbated when her mother, the only person who truly cared about her, seemingly succumbs to her illness (in reality dealt the killing blow by her husband, who had been covertly poisoning her for years), prompting Gaja to turn away from people for good. Gaja grows up to be a famed and respected dollmaker with no shortage of prospective suitors, but years of only dolls for conversation partners have made come off as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} somewhat loopy]] at best, [[AxeCrazy violently misanthropic]] at worst.

* Gaja Perron from ''Lady Doll'' is rich and pampered, but has experienced rejection all her life due to a noticeable facial deformity, and she understandably assumes the worst of people on principle; as a result she only talks to and "listens" to her dolls, ragdoll Betty most especially, and believes them to be her only true friends. This belief is only exacerbated when her mother, the only person who truly cared about her, seemingly succumbs to her illness (in reality dealt the killing blow by her husband, who had been covertly poisoning her for years), prompting Gaja to turn away from people for good. Gaja grows up to be a famed and respected dollmaker with no shortage of prospective suitors, but years of only dolls for conversation partners have made come off as [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} somewhat loopy]] at best, violently misanthropic at worst.

* Seven-year-old Tia Cade in ''Literature/TheShipWho Searched'' is subject to some major ParentalNeglect, left alone all day and sometimes for week on end. She knows that if she appears childish or "needy" in any way they'll either [[ParentalAbandonment withhold still more affection from her]] or the DepartmentOfChildDisservices will take her away from her [[DelusionsOfParentalLove totally good and happy life]]. So she presents herself as a CheerfulChild, even after [[ICantFeelMyLegs becoming paralyzed]], and only confesses her unhappiness or cries when alone with her stuffed bear.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Lilian was taken in by the Dusk clan of vampires at an young age, who forced her to act as a sexual bait for their victims. Otherwise they kept her isolated from the outside world, and the dolls they gave to her became her only friends once she realized she couldn't trust the Dusks.

* Sabrina was this in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime. She [[ToyTransmutation turned Misty and Brock into dolls]], just so she'd [[LivingDollCollector have some company]], and carried around a doll that represented an innocent, childlike, and playful part of her personality.

* Alice Margatroid is often [[{{Flanderization}} portrayed like this]] in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanworks. While in canon she tends to talk to her dolls occasionally, some fan works portray her as a social recluse who pretends her dolls are real people as a way of coping with her loneliness.

* A common interpretation of Alice Margatroid from ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', who is a MarionetteMaster. Though fanworks tend to [[{{Flanderization}} greatly exaggerate this]], it's worth noting that she does occasionally talk to her dolls even though they aren't sentient and she can only control them remotely.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', Nurse Bendy has a small group of teddy bears as a substitute family.

* Hideko in ''Film/TheHandmaiden'' never left the mansion of her uncle for years, substituting friends with her doll that she had since childhood. In the extended version, the doll is implied to be a confidant. She's 25 according to WordOfGod and still carries it around. [[spoiler:This might or might not be part of the ruse, as she genuinely appears to carry it.]] Sook-Hee meanwhile jokingly remarks how ladies are nothing but big dolls to dress up for their maids.

* One is mentioned in the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''The Headless Ghost''. After SpoiledBrat Andrew Craw was murdered, his sister went insane and spent the rest of her life inside her room, doing nothing but playing with her dolls up until the day she died.

* ''TheKillingDoll'' by Ruth Rendell centres around [[MeaningfulName Dolly]], a disfigured girl who's too shy to go out and make friends. When her father gets remarried to a less-than-pleasant woman, Dolly feels like a stranger in her own home and starts making dolls. Including an effigy of her stepmother, which she uses as a VoodooDoll...

* A sheltered and developmentally stunted adult version appears in an episode of ''Series/InsideNo9''. The protagonist suspects [[spoiler:she's an abducted child whose "parents" have been hiding her away from prying eyes, but the last shot reveals she abducted the child in question when she was 10, and disguised its body as the doll she carries everywhere.]]

* Dollmaykrs from the {{VideoGame/Doom}} mod ''VideoGame/AngelicWaifus'' are friendless angels who are avoided by other angels due to their power. To compensate, these angels surround themselves with dolls who act as their friends and bodyguards.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One]]", Pinkie Pie thinks her friends have abandoned her, so she has a party without them. She gets a bunch of objects and animates them like puppets as she descends further into her SanitySlippage.

* In ''Anime/SakuraWarsTV'', Iris Chateaubriand was a little LonelyRichKid with massive PsychicPowers, locked away in her room by her parents. When Ayame Fujieda went to recruit her, she found the kid all alone in her room with only her plush dolls for company. Even now, Iris is [[ShrinkingViolet shy and withdrawn]] and often carries around her favorite teddy, Jean Paul, as her SecurityBlanket.

* Dollmaykrs from the {{VideoGame/Doom}} mod {{VideoGame/Angelic Waifus}} are friendless angels who are avoided by other angels due to their power. To compensate, these angels surround themselves with dolls who act as their friends and bodyguards.

* Due to having no friends at school, Maria Ushiromiya from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' is this, making her toys into [[ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Friends]]. Sakutaro, a stuffed lion that her mother Rosa gave her, was the most important one to her [[spoiler:though unfortunately, Rosa tears him apart during a massive argument. To make matters worse, Rosa's declaration that "SAKUTARO IS DEAD NOW" practically destroys Maria and convinces her he really is dead, operating on the logic that since Rosa created Sakutaro, Rosa is the only one who can revive him]].

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* "The Uncanny Valley" episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' gave us Samantha Malcolm, who was molested and abused by her father leading to a sad, lonely life. She used to have tea time with her favourite dolls before her father took them away from her, forcing her to kidnap women, drug them and dress them up as surrogates for the dolls at tea time. [[spoiler:She does eventually get the dolls back at the end.]]
* Creepy version in ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' episode "The Collection": Danielle, a lonely little girl, has a strangely lifelike collection of dolls. [[LivingDollCollector They're babysitters she turned into dolls because she didn't want them to leave.]]

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* [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] probably would be this ... except all of her dolls and stuffed animals ran away. One fell behind the rest and chose to jump in front of an oncoming truck rather than return to Meg's room.

* On ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', Nurse Bendy had a small group of teddy bears as a substitute family.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' RareMaleExample Cartman had a small collection of dolls to compensate for how [[TheFriendNobodyLikes even his close circle of friends don't like him all that much]] (because he's a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] {{Jerkass}}).
** A later season episode, ''1%'', does a dark examination of Cartman's toys. He uses his dolls to assure himself that he is "Awesome and kewl" after the kids at school express their anger at him, especially after they tell him to grow up. Then it looks as if someone is destroying his dolls as revenge for making the school fail the President's physical fitness exam because he's so out of shape. Cartman acts as though they're literally being murdered, holding a funeral for Clyde Frog and bursting into tears when Peter Panda is destroyed in a fire. It's then revealed [[spoiler:Cartman is the one destroying them, but doing so by pretending that his other doll, Polly Prissypants, is the one responsible. Because this is the only way he can "grow up," as his horrifically warped mind can't imagine any other way of getting rid of his toys. It all culminates in Cartman performing a MercyKill on Polly Prissypants, sobbing the entire time, while his friends and mother look on in shocked, disturbed confusion.]]

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