History Main / VoodooDoll

* The young Maharajah in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' uses one to cripple Indy as he's busy fighting with a GiantMook, requiring Short Round to step in and save Indy from certain head-squishing death. Yes, yes; [[CultureChopSuey the Thuggee cult didn't use voodoo dolls]] in real life, preferring to strangle their victims with scarves, but it should be obvious by now that ''Indiana Jones'' [[MST3KMantra isn't a documentary anyway]].

* The ''ComicBook/{{Animaniacs}}'' comic had a ''Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' story where the Brain trying to make one of everyone on Earth as a TakeOverTheWorld plan. To do that, he disguised them as a line of [[Toys/BeanieBabies bean-stuffed toys]] (albeit since beans turned out to be expensive, the fillings were fish eggs).

* The ''Comicbook/{{Animaniacs}}'' comic had a ''Westernanimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' story where the Brain trying to make one of everyone on Earth as a TakeOverTheWorld plan. To do that, he disguised them as a line of [[Toys/BeanieBabies bean-stuffed toys]] (albeit since beans turned out to be expensive, the fillings were fish eggs).

* Wu Mo from ''Film/LegendaryWeaponsOfChina'' ends up falling under a voodoo doll's control halfway through the film, where his movements are limited to those performed by the doll representing him. Hilariously enough, Wu Mo is somehow able to fight off a whole bunch of mooks by having his voodoo doll mimicking fighting moves. And then more hilarity ensues when three of Wu's incompetent sidekicks get their hands on the doll and start passing around themselves, which translates in Wu Mo hopping, skipping, and sumersaulting himself all over the place in a ridiculous mamnner. The doll's spell is broken when Wu, being maniipulated by the doll, crashes into his partners and sends all of them, doll included, into a creek, where the spell is dispelled by water.

* Little Willie Connolly uses poppets to cause sickness and pain in J.R. Lowell's 1972 thriller ''Daughter of Darkness''. At one point she uses a photograph. While she refers to "African voodoo" when she goes to the library, she is enough of an anthropologist to understand that what she's doing isn't ''voudun''.

** The villain of ''Literature/StormFront'' used live rabbits in his thaumaturgic death spells. When he scooped the rabbit's heart out with a spoon, the target's chest would explode.

%%** There's a similar advert to the one above only it's a beer advertisement. Notably, it doesn't work as intended as it affects everyone who is drinking the beer instead of the cheater. (This example refers to another, is improperly indented and does not effectively describe how IT fits the trope. Please do not restore without addressing all of these issues)

* ''Anime/{{Kasumin}}'': In Episode 18, a wara ningyō befriends Prince Dragon. It's a match made in hell because the wara ningyō is sad that no one uses it to place curses anymore and Prince Dragon is sad that no one wants to play [[ParlorGames word games]] with him anymore. Prince Dragon, of course, gets the doll to cast a bunch of humiliating but harmless spells. Yet while the wara ningyō is not a bad weirdling, being used for evil rubs off on its demeanor and it turns on Prince Dragon when he refuses to place harmful curses. Much of the Mistin household gets cursed so that whoever loses at a word game gets turned to stone, but Misty turns the curse on the wara ningyō by insisting it plays too. It loses and becomes stone, but the curse isn't lifted until Prince Dragon's tears of remorse spill on the doll. Misty, aware the doll isn't evil, curses it with the desire and power to spread luck, giving it a new purpose in life.

* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Banette is inspired by these dolls.

* In the first ''Film/ChildsPlay'' movie, Chucky uses a voodoo doll to torture his former mentor into telling him how he can become human again.

%%* Happens in a Capital One commercial, involving former SNL actor David Spade. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* In a 2003 commercial for Progressive, a lady visits a website called Voodoo.com. She places a picture of a man on a voodoo doll on her computer's screen. She names it "My cheating boyfriend". She burns the doll's legs and stabs a needle in the crotch area of the doll. This causes her boyfriend to feel pain, who is with another woman at the same time.

* Little Willie Connolly uses poppets to cause sickness and pain in J.R. Lowell's 1972 thriller ''Daughter of Darkness''. At one point she uses a photograph. While she refers to "African voodoo" when she goes to the library, she is enough of an anthropologist to understand that what she's doing isn't ''voudun''.

* One ColdOpen for ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' featured Evil the Cat using one of these on Jim. 'Aw, sympathetic magic sucks!' Then he found out it worked both ways...

** There's a similar advert to the one above only it's a beer advertisement. Notably, it doesn't work as intended as it affects everyone who is drinking the beer instead of the cheater.

* Happens in a Capital One commercial, involving former SNL actor David Spade.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' subverts this trope in the episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE65TheWorryMen The Worry Men]]". The titular dolls supposedly give good dreams and take worries away when put under the owner's pillow while they sleep.[[note]]TruthInTelevision; Guatemalan worry dolls can be found in many places, or you can make your own.[[/note]] One of Bruce Wayne's wealthy friends buys some of these "worry men" dolls on a trip to Central America, and distributes them among Gotham City's when she returns home. However, the worry men are actually infused with the Mad Hatter's mind control technology, which he uses to manipulate the wealthy Gothamites into robbing themselves. Batman wrecks the plan and captures the Mad Hatter, and as Bruce Wayne pays to fly the legitimate HollywoodVoodoo practitioner who the Hatter forced to help him back to Central America. The worry men's magic turns out to be RealAfterAll when the practitioner gives Batman a worry man that helps him sleep... and also gave the Mad Hatter a different type of worry man that gives him nightmares.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' subverted this trope in the episode "The Worry Men", a mystical doll that supposedly gives you good dreams and takes your worries away when you put it under your pillow while you sleep.[[note]]TruthInTelevision, Guatemalan worry dolls can be found in many places or you can make your own.[[/note]] One of Bruce Wayne's wealthy friends buys some of these "worry men" dolls on a trip to Central America, and distributes them among Gotham City's when she returns home. However, the worry men are actually infused with the Mad Hatter's mind control technology, which he uses to manipulate the wealthy Gothamites into robbing themselves. Batman wrecks the plan and captures the Mad Hatter, and as Bruce Wayne pays to fly the legitimate HollywoodVoodoo practitioner who the Hatter forced to help him back to Central America. The worry men's magic turns out to be RealAfterAll when the practitioner gives Batman a worry man that helps him sleep...and also gave the Mad Hatter a different type of worry man that gives him nightmares.

* A variation appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' called Yoodoo Dolls, which had all the same abilities as regular voodoo dolls with the addition of being able to make people talk.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' the episode "You Do Voodoo" was all about a shaman who made voodoo dolls that were affecting the town. Amusingly, the day was saved because Diana had recently given herself a makeover and thus the shaman based the doll on her new look. By reverting to her old look, the spell of the doll no longer affected her and she was able to free the others.
* Creator/{{Filmation}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "The Deadly Super-Doll". A supervillain named The Sorcerer is a master of the ancient arts of wizardry, occult ritual and BlackMagic. He creates a Superman doll from the magic clay of the ancient wizard Philbias and uses it to control the Man of Steel's body.

** In the episode, "Birthday Bash", [[HarmlessVillain The Amoeba Boys]] give the girls voodoo dolls of themselves for their birthday, but the girls are delighted by the present. Mojo Jojo then points out to them that they're not supposed to give the girls the dolls, they're supposed to keep the dolls and stick needles in them.
** Played straight in the episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future'', when Madame Argentina buys three voodoo dolls of the girls and uses them to torture them. The girls get back at her by buying a voodoo doll of her duck sidekick, Fred, and barbecuing it.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the gang search a hutch owned by a witch and find a bunch of voodoo dolls that look like them, made by the witch to scare them away. Scooby decides to see if they actually work by poking a pin into the butt of the Shaggy doll. Shaggy actually yelps in pain and holds his butt, thinking that he's "been voodooed," but it turns out he just backed up into a fork.

** Near the end of episode "The Joy Of Sect", Moe pokes a voodoo doll of Barney in the belly with a miniature beer bottle, which makes Barney crave a drink.
** In "Homer and Apu", when Homer falls sick with food poisoning, Dr. Hibbert suggests it was caused by either spoilt food or voodoo. Patty and Selma refute this, claiming "We've mostly been working the eyes" while taking out a voodoo doll of Homer with pins stuck in its eyes.
* A variant of this trope appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Denisa's Greedy Doll" when Gargamel puts Greedy's apron on Denisa's doll and casts a spell on it so that whatever happens to the doll wearing the apron also affects Greedy. The Smurfs turn the tables by having the doll wear fabric from Gargamel's robe.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E19Massacre "Massacre"]], Nightsister leader Mother Talzin uses one to torture Count Dooku from across the galaxy, in a rather nightmarish scene.

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle Super Chicken]]'' cartoon has him and his opponent The Fat Man fighting by hitting and twisting voodoo dolls of each other.
** A similar plot was used in ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel''.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'' had the chief of a rival tribe uses one of these on the chief of Pupanunu tribe in order to discredit him and stage a take over.

* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Loki constructs a voodoo doll of the chairman of Mooby's board of directors, and after a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech (to the entire board), smashes it. The chairman recoils in fear, but [[SubvertedTrope is unharmed]]. "Come on, I don't believe in voodoo," Loki says, as he walks out laughing. (He comes back in with a gun – "But I do believe in this." – and shoots almost everyone.)

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' - The Feastday Pranks DLC gives each party member two special gifts, one that puts their approval through the roof and one that reduces it by the same amount. Morrigan's gift is a voodoo doll of Alistair. Its effects include "Burning Sensation", "Two Left Feet", and "Strangely Stimulated".

* ''Videogame/SimonTheSorcerer'' uses a voodoo doll as part of a puzzle - Simon needs the help of an adventurer who's been paralyzed by a bad back, se he creates a voodoo doll of the adventurer and presents it to an acupuncturist in order to treat him from a distance.

* In an early Swan Eaters comic, Clover finds an old voodoo doll of Offal. This is used as a running gag- Clover practices command spells and accidentally makes Offal dance, then sleep because she messes up the stop command.

* Wu Mo from ''Film/LegendaryWeaponsOfChina'' ends up falling under a voodoo doll's control halfway through the film, where his movements are limited to those performed by the doll representing him. Hilariously enough, Wu Mo is somehow able to fight off a whole bunch of mooks by having his voodoo doll mimicking fighting moves. And then hilarity ensues when three of Wu's incompetent sidekicks get their hands on the doll and start passing around themselves, which translates in Wu Mo hopping, skipping, and sumersaulting himself all over the place in a ridiculous mamnner. The doll's spell is broken when Wu, being maniipulated by the doll, crashes into his partners and sends all of them, doll included, into a creek, where the spell is dispelled by water.

** In the episode, "Birthday Bash", [[HarmlessVillain The Amoeba Boys]] give the girls voodoo dolls of themselves for their birthday. Mojo Jojo then points out to them that they're not supposed to give the girls the dolls, they're supposed to keep the dolls and stick needles in them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', the bad guys have ones of most of the heroes, made of wax and bits of hair/cloth collected from the intended victims.