History Main / PerversePuppet

* ''[[VideoGame/Frenzy1998 Frenzy!]]'' have a ToyTime level, "Splinter WOnderland" whose boss includes a giant puppet mecha dangling on strings.

* One episode of ''Manga/TheSlayers NEXT'' has the gang check out a tower supposedly occupied by a mad, misanthropic toymaker in order to search for a Claire Bible Manuscript, finding it full of animate and hostile dolls and puppets, all while being menaced by a creepy man in a jester's outfit carrying a strange doll. It turns out that the "man" is actually another puppet, being controlled by the real demon: [[spoiler: the doll that "he" appears to be carrying around]].

* In ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'', Ranka utilizes her RazorFloss to move around the mannequins she collects ([[BalefulPolymorph which once were human students]]), using them as shields. Larva hits one of them accidentally and it bleeds and screams silently, to Miyu's horror.

* The little girl's doll in the J-horror film ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (aka ''Rinne'').

* ''VideoGame/SpiritualAssassinTaromaru'' have a sentient Karakuri puppet as one of the many BossBonanza foes in the final stage. She's built into a wall and attacks either by lashing out with her limbs or using projectiles, but dealing damage will actually make her bleed. And when her body is destroyed, the Karakuri then [[LosingYourHeqad detaches her head]] to continue the fight.

* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' have an evil puppet called a "Marionette" as the second boss.

* The main character of ''VideoGame/{{Puppeteer}}'' and mostly everyone he meets are puppets in a stage play.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/TheNanny'' which featured special guest stars [[Series/LambChopsPlayAlong Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop]]. The episode depicted Lamb Chop as an entirely separate entity from Shari who bossed her around, apparently controlled their company ("Don't forget who owns fifty-two percent!"), and had a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior less-than-age-appropriate crush on Maxwell]]. It's taken UpToEleven when, at the end of the episode, Maxwell offers to have a private meeting with the pair. Fran and C.C. are promptly kicked out of the office...and a few seconds later, ''Shari'' is, too.

* Ash vs the Evil Dead gives us 'Ashy Slashy', a insane asylum therapy puppet who is not only perverse, but utterly insane and bloodthirsty as well- which is to be expected given the amount of demonic possession going around in the series.

* The Marionettes and the Fetishes from the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' are lesser demons that inhabit puppets to have bodies. The Marionettes inhabit human-made marionettes dressed in medieval-style clothing and fight with scythes, knives, darts, and sometimes even shotguns. The Fetishes inhabit demon-made dolls, breathe fire, and are much stronger than the Marionettes.

* In the story "The Sun" from ''Comic/TheWretch'', the title evil art object convinces a little girl to mount it on a Series/PowerRangersZeo action figure, turning it into a killer doll.

* One monster appearing in ''Game/GraveRobbersFromOuterSpace'' is "Killer Toys."

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has two examples of perverse puppets:

** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' has Mary, a human-sized talking doll that belonged to the late Saya Kujou. She has a habit of startling those who meet her for the first time, though fortunately she's on the protagonist's side. [[spoiler:Or not; she's actually the BigBad who feeds on the pain and despair of her victims.]]

* The origins of the Puppet King in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Switched" are unknown, but he harnessed ''incredibly'' potent sorcery, and planned to commit GrandTheftMe on ''all five'' of the heroes by sucking their souls out and trapping them in matching puppet figures, then [[DeaderThanDead obliterating said puppets]] to keep their bodies permanently. Why? They never actually figured that out. He [[NearVillainVictory nearly got away with it, too]], as he managed to possess Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg; the only reason he failed was Raven's desperately casting a spell just before the soul-sucking machine hit her and Starfire, which allowed the two girls to escape and save the others. Even better, while the Puppet King was one of the army of villains recruited into the Brotherhood of Evil in the penultimate storyline and was defeated along with the rest, he was not among the ones who was frozen, suggesting he might have escaped.

* The Smilin' Sam and Handsome Tom enemies from ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' are hostile marionettes.

* Billy and the other puppets from ''Film/DeadSilence''.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Spamton G. Spamton is a small [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Billy-esque]] fellow who's been driven to complete madness by...[[TheCorrupter someone.]] His EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him hop out of a dumpster, ranting about how [[RichesToRags his life's fallen apart]], then attack Kris in an attempt to force him into some sort of "deal" that involves stealing his SOUL. All of the items he sells in his shop are either [[JokeItem garbage]] or [[PoisonMushroom outright harmful.]] The puppet-ness gets amped up a lot once he gets his NEO body, which is basically a garishly-colored version of Mettaton NEO hung up by several wires. He appears to be an ''actual'' puppet to someone as well, heavily implied to be the same person who drove them to madness, as most references to "LOVE" or a "SOUL" are replaced with "[[[TongueTied Hyperlink Blocked.]]]", and he's blasted by one of his own attacks [[SayingTooMuch once he tries to ask Kris if he wants to be something more.]] He takes an outright malevolent stance in the Weird Route, where he [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste enables you to keep pushing Noelle to become a killer by selling you the ThornRing]], then seizes Queen's castle after Noelle freezes most of the inhabitants with [=SnowGrave=].

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': Spamton G. Spamton of is a small [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Billy-esque]] fellow who's been driven to complete madness by...[[TheCorrupter someone.]] His EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him hop out of a dumpster, ranting about how [[RichesToRags his life's fallen apart]], then attack Kris in an attempt to force him into some sort of "deal" that involves stealing his SOUL. All of the items he sells in his shop are either [[JokeItem garbage]] or [[PoisonMushroom outright harmful.]] The puppet-ness gets amped up a lot once he gets his NEO body, which is basically a garishly-colored version of Mettaton NEO hung up by several wires. He appears to be an ''actual'' puppet to someone as well, heavily implied to be the same person who drove them to madness, as most references to "LOVE" or a "SOUL" are replaced with "[[[TongueTied Hyperlink Blocked.]]]", and he's blasted by one of his own attacks [[SayingTooMuch once he tries to ask Kris if he wants to be something more.]] He takes an outright malevolent stance in the Weird Route, where he [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste enables you to keep pushing Noelle to become a killer by selling you the ThornRing]], then seizes Queen's castle after Noelle freezes most of the inhabitants with [=SnowGrave=].

* Spamton G. Spamton of ''VideoGame/Deltarune'' is a small [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Billy-esque]] fellow who's been driven to complete madness by...[[TheCorrupter someone.]] His EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him hop out of a dumpster, ranting about how [[RichesToRags his life's fallen apart]], then attack Kris in an attempt to force him into some sort of "deal" that involves stealing his SOUL. All of the items he sells in his shop are either [[JokeItem garbage]] or [[PoisonMushroom outright harmful.]] The puppet-ness gets amped up a lot once he gets his NEO body, which is basically a garishly-colored version of Mettaton NEO hung up by several wires. He appears to be an ''actual'' puppet to someone as well, heavily implied to be the same person who drove them to madness, as most references to "LOVE" or a "SOUL" are replaced with "[[[TongueTied Hyperlink Blocked.]]]", and he's blasted by one of his own attacks [[SayingTooMuch once he tries to ask Kris if he wants to be something more.]] He takes an outright malevolent stance in the Weird Route, where he [[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste enables you to keep pushing Noelle to become a killer by selling you the ThornRing]], then seizes Queen's castle after Noelle freezes most of the inhabitants with [=SnowGrave=].

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* In ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'', Ranka utilizes her RazorFloss to move around the mannequins she collects ([[BalefulPolymorph which once were human students]]), using them as shields. Larva hits one of them accidentally and it bleeds and screams silently, to Miyu's horror.
* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'': A Rozen Maiden is a female, ball-jointed doll created by the dollmaker and alchemist Rozen to replace his dead daughter Alice. The Rozen Maidens are brought to life with a Rosa Mystica and, as none live up to Alice, are made to fight each other for their Rosa Mysticae in order to become the perfect girl.
* Pucchan from ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil'' is a possessed puppet with supernatural powers.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Thunder Soldier is a toy soldier who attacks with lethal force. He targets only those who had conquered his homeland of Dressrosa as the country's VigilanteMan. Inside of Thunder Soldier is the soul of [[spoiler:Kyros, a former street thug the king personally raised and trained and thus feels incredible gratitute for the king and his country.]]
* Hinano of ''Anime/TroubleChocolate'' is a tree spirit who possesses the body of a wooden puppet after a magic spell goes awry. She gets romantically involved with Cacao, the one who did the spell.
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* Somewhere in the Japan of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', there exists an inn famous for its haunted doll. After Ranma breaks it accidentally and reassembles it, its spirit possesses Akane, [[FreakyFriday switching places with her]] so that Ranma's fiance is turned into [[AndIMustScream a living, silent doll]]. Meanwhile, the original spirit plots to kill Ranma using her body.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Chachamaru Zero, a.k.a. Chachazero, who at least has a decently strong sense of free will above mere "puppet". That scale of free will just happens to be on the line between grimly humorous and psychotic. Fortunately, she's not able to move under her own power unless there's a great deal of magic in the air or she's getting supplied by Eva. Interestingly enough, there are real toy versions of her in the magic world, as seen during Setsuna and Konoka's most definitely not a date.

* One episode of ''Manga/TheSlayers NEXT'' has the gang check out a tower supposedly occupied by a mad, misanthropic toymaker in order to search for a Claire Bible Manuscript, finding it full of animate and hostile dolls and puppets, all while being menaced by a creepy man in a jester's outfit carrying a strange doll. It turns out that the "man" is actually another puppet, being controlled by the real demon: [[spoiler: the doll that "he" appears to be carrying around]].
* Lord Kuruku from ''Manga/{{Unico}} in the Island of Magic'' was originally an ordinary puppet that was mistreated and discarded by his owners, and was brought to life by [[ThePowerOfHate his hatred and desire for revenge]]. When Unico defeats him with ThePowerOfLove, he turns back into an ordinary puppet.

* The Dollies of ''Manga/DollyKillKill''

* Creator/JunjiIto drew a short called ''House of Puppets''. A trade puppeteer decides it's the ''puppets'' who decide what to do, and they control the puppeteer so they can do whatever they want. He then decides to take advantage of this with his magic puppet Jean-Pierre. It ends predictably horribly.

* ''Spike: Shadow Puppets'', an extension of the ''Smile Time'' episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* In the story "The Sun" from ''The Wretch'', the titular evil art object convinces a little girl to mount it on a Series/PowerRangersZeo action figure, turning it into a killer doll.

* The ''Film/PuppetMaster'' film series of course.
* The little girl's doll in the J-horror film ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (aka ''Rinne'').
* The Asian horror film ''Film/TheDollMaster''.

* The titular ''Black Devil Doll From Hell'' from the film by Chester Novell Turner (and its remake).
* Annabelle from ''Film/TheConjuring'' would be terrifying even as a CreepyDoll. Being the conduit for an evil spirit makes her a powerful and malevolent foe, although she isn't related to the main haunting in the story.

* Perchta the Cherub from ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' is one of Krampus' evil minions: an extremely creepy LivingToy in the form of a demonic looking cherub doll. Made even creepier by the fact that it appears to be molting.

* The African Zuni warrior doll in Creator/RichardMatheson's short story "Prey". Memorably adapted as part of the made-for-TV film ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'' with Karen Black in the '70s.

* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheWell'', ghosts are often bound into dolls to render them harmless until they can be exorcised. However, ''The Suffering'' opens with some amateurs who did the ritual improperly, resulting in it becoming a dangerous killer doll until Tark can finish the job.

* "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," a classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' story, had an evil puppet controlled by Magnus Greel.

* ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "The Doll". A British Army officer must deal with a murderous doll sent by an old enemy.
* A character in the miniseries version of ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' is killed when her doll collection animates and attacks her.
* The infamous episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime Smile Time]]" on ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/FamilyMatters,'' there was an evil puppet-Steve named Stevil who wanted to steal Urkel's soul. ''Next'' year, Stevil returned, with a new one based on Carl -- named [[IncrediblyLamePun Carlsbad]].
* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' had two: the china doll Vita and Oscar the ventriloquist's dummy (the latter animated by a silk boutonniere).

* The ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' META-4 universe (the default universe for 1E) had Gepetto, a psycho who could both animate puppets to make them murderous and use mind control to create PeoplePuppets (who exhibited little glowing strings hanging from midair, controlling their motions). He's a somewhat tragic case in that the event which led to his power breakthrough also burnt down the orphanage he ran. In his mind, he's just trying to bring the children back.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The setting gives us the Doll Golem, a small variety of {{Golem}} looking like a child's doll that can be used for guard duties or assassination.
** It also has "Carrionettes", which are malevolent self-aware marionette puppets that can use magical needles to trade bodies with living people. Their true purpose in existence is to swap bodies with some poor sucker, so they can enjoy being flesh and blood, and thusly they only associate with other monsters in return for the prospect of being given a victim to take for their own. The most dangerous of these is Maligno, the darklord of Odiere.

* The Death Puppets of ''TabletopGame/DuelMasters'' are an entire race of these, who feature in the [[Metaplot/YuGiOhHiddenArsenal Hidden Arsenal storyline]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Lil' Cal is a marionette that seems to move and fight on its own, and seems to have a will of its own. Cal lurks in Dave Strider's nightmares. [[spoiler: It turns out that Cal is a vessel that grows into Lord English, a terrifying demon and the BigBad of the series. Certain iterations of Cal literally [[SealedEvilInACan contain English's soul]] and have hypnotized people into acts of violence. ]] The subtle influence of [[spoiler: the bad version of]] Cal may have promoted Beta!Bro Strider's abusive tendencies.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'', Drakken's world conquest plot involves mass marketing tiny toy puppets called Diablos, who turn into gigantic killing robots. There's a hilariously bizarre scene at the end when they are stopped and revert to their (arguably) cute puppet selves where a young girl who had just been menaced by one grabs the puppet joyfully [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe as her mother looks on with disbelief]].

* In the "Treehouse Of Horror III" episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer buys a Krusty the Clown doll that turns out to be evil. And parodied, the reason its evil is because it's set on "Evil Mode" and not "Good Mode". They solve the problem by calling the company.