History Main / WickedToymaker

* In ''Agar'', a French comic book series by Claude Moliterni (screenplay) and Robert Gigi (drawing), published in 1974-1975, the BigBad is the old, decrepit Toymaker, whose base is placed in a sort of dream dimension.

* Philip Le Marchand in ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' films starts out a harmless toymaker and winds up creating dimensional doors to perverted hell dimensions. He is, however, appalled by his actions and does attempt to undo them.

* Double Subverted in [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-dummys-dummy/list?title_no=103048&page=1 The Dummy's Dummy]]: Paris's creator was a friendly toymaker who could make magical LivingToys but his powers came with a JerkassGenie aspect to them, by the time he created Paris he learned to get around this by using ReversePsychology and trying to make evil toys on purpouse to create good ones.

** In a [[https://inducks.org/character.php?c1=date&c=Giocattolaio&view=4 cycle of Italian stories]] from the Seventies, the Young Woodchucks have to face a [[BigBad bad guy]] known as the Terrible Toymaker (in original "''[[https://inducks.org/character.php?c=Giocattolaio il Terribile Giocattolaio]]''"). Unsurprisingly, these are stories written for Mondadori's Mickey Mouse magazine by [[JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster Jerry Siegel]], one of the creators of Superman. The Terrible Toymaker comes from the dimension of Toyland (it: ''Giocattolandia''), where he was initially the assistant to the good Toymaker King (perhaps biblical reference to Lucifer?) For the sake of completeness, the pencil of the stories is by Guido Scala.

* In ''Agar'', a French comic book series by Claude Moliterni (screenplay) and Robert Gigi (drawing), published in 1974-1975, the BigBad is the old, decrepit Toymaker, whose base is placed in an imaginary dimension.

* The [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse comic]] ''"The Kid Gang"'' has Big Ben, the childlike head of a criminal organization that tricks children into its ranks. Big Ben's favored weapons are his lifelike dolls.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Subverted by the original Jack-in-the-box.He was a toy designer whose designs were used for crime... just not by him. They were sold on to criminal gangs by his corrupt superiors, and his primary motivation for becoming a masked crime fighter was keeping his designs away from criminals.

* ''Series/TheMagician'': In "The Illusion of the Deadly Playthings", someone is trying to kill a friend of Dominick's by detonating bombs and using marionettes and remote controlled toys. Tony's investigation brings him to a toy shop and he becomes the target of the mad man.

* ''Series/TheMagican'': In "The Illusion of the Deadly Playthings", someone is trying to kill a friend of Dominick's by detonating bombs and using marionettes and remote controlled toys. Tony's investigation brings him to a toy shop and he becomes the target of the mad man.

* The ''[[Literature/FearStreet Ghosts of Fear Street]]'' book ''Tale of the Blue Monkey'' has a legend about an evil toymaker that cursed the titular blue monkey. The child protagonist assume that their creepy neighbor is actually the toymaker, when in reality it is [[spoiler: their babysitter]].

* [[MeaningfulName Drossel]] from the ''Manga/BlackButler'' anime. In life he was the puppeteer for a rich family, but CameBackWrong into a creepy puppeteer determined to turn those who had contact with the Shard of Hope into dolls.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'', The Adversary, the mysterious EvilOverlord BigBad of the first arc turns out to be the kindly toymaker [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Gepetto]]. And he rules thanks to an army of animated wooden soldiers.
* An aversion in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen''. Robyn Slinger uses some fairly creepy toys as weapons/footsoldiers, but is far from wicked. Ditto with her father, as seen in ''The Forty Niners''.
* The Toymaker from the "Toys of Doom" strip that ran in ''ComicBook/{{Buster}}''. The Toymaker is a scientist who transformes toys into remote-controlled weapons of destruction. Ostracized by the rest of the scientific community, who think his ideas are inhuman, he vows revenge on humanity, and creates an army of killer toys in a remote Scottish castle. But his plans are stumbled on by Joe and Sandy Douglas, and in spite of initial skepticism, they manage to alert the suthorities to the plot. Thus begin several years of them battling against the Toymaker's evil plans.
* The [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse Mickey Mouse comic]] ''"The Kid Gang"'' has Big Ben, the childlike head of a criminal organization that tricks children into its ranks. Big Ben's favored weapons are his lifelike dolls.
* From the Creator/ImageComics title "Dart", we get Brockman, a cartoonishly villainous and mean-spirited toy company exec.
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Subverted by the original Jack-in-the-box.He was a toy designer whose designs were used for crime... just not by him. They were sold on to criminal gangs by his corrupt superiors, and his primary motivation for becoming a masked crime fighter was keeping his designs away from criminals.

* In the film ''Film/{{Attack of the Puppet People}}'', a friendly puppet/dollmaker is shown to secretly shrink people in order to store them in his lab. Every once in a while he pulls them out and makes them "play" for him.

* ''Film/{{Asylum}}'': In "Mannikins of Horror", Dr. Byron constructs toy robots with tiny human heads. He sends one of these robots to murder Dr. Rutherford.

* Inverted in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'': The toymaker is by no means evil, but he is not [[HappinessIsMandatory jovial and red faced, nor does he whistle as he works]], and that is a very serious crime indeed in Genua (think [=DisneyWorld=] turned UpToEleven).

* In the ''Literature/StrangeMatter'' book ''Toy Trouble'', the creepy toymaker Mr. Kepler sells evil toys that come to life.
* The ''[[Literature/FearStreet Ghosts of Fear Street]]'' book ''Tale of the Blue Monkey'' has a legend about an evil toymaker that cursed the titular blue monkey. The child protagonist assume that their creepy neighbor is actually the toymaker, when in reality it is [[spoiler: their babysitter]].

* Gilbert Gottfried appeared in two episodes of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' as a nasty, wisecracking criminal genius named Nick Knack who used toys to commit crimes.
* ''Series/InspectorRex'' once featured an author whose story about a criminal toymaker was rejected by a publishing company, so he used toys to hunt down and destroy the editors who rejected his work, one by one. Much use was made of radio-guided vehicles/aircraft, with simple plunger-triggered bombs on board.

* On ''Series/OddSquad'', Evil Teddy is a villain who steals batteries and turns teddy bears into evil robots.

* In ''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'', Mr. Kiryu, the Dollmaker, makes a doll that looks like one of his twins, both little girls. It was life-sized, with long dark hair in its face. Oh, and it was possessed by a vengeful spirit that wanted to kill its sister. Granted, the poor man thought he was doing his little girl a solid. It just didn't turn out quite right.
* The Toymaker from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'' series was originally not this. He however was cursed and transformed into demonic version of himself. Having been transformed as such, he has created various twisted creations which range from monster puppets to a lethal carousel.

* Quackerjack from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' is a supervillain with this as his schtick. It stems from his previous career as the owner of a legitimate toy company Quackerjack Toys. But thanks to the video game industry, his company went out of business, driving him mad and seeking revenge.
* The Toymaker from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' is a villain who uses toys as his weapons and tools. They may or may not contain actual organs taking from people.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Combined with MadBomber in the episode "Beware The Gray Ghost" in which a toy collector uses remote control toys loaded with bombs to steal money to feed his obsession and buy more toys.
** The Toyman as featured in this universe (''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'') was probably one of the creepier incarnations, with a full head mask of a perpetually grinning little boy and a voice that sounded like Series/{{Mister Rogers|Neighborhood}} on crack.

* In ''The ComicBook/PlasticMan Comedy/Adventure Show'' episode "Toyman", a villain called Toyman ([[NamesTheSame unrelated to the Superman villain]]) is kidnapping famous people everywhere and is turning them into toys. Unfortunately for Plastic Man, he is the last person on Toyman's list to abduct.
* The 1966 Format Films ''WesternAnimation/TheLoneRanger1966'' animated series included malevolent boy genius Tiny Tom who used animated toy soldiers to commit crimes.
* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'': The villain of "Ultimate Collection", though AP is more worried about how the guy is using a scrapped Captain Atomic action figure that wears a tutu than anything else.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': In "The Gamesmaster", the eponymous Gamesmaster uses giant toy soldiers to stalk the Joes and COBRA, and toy planes to blast their aircraft out of the skies.

** SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker sometimes came across as this. His base in the cartoons seems to be some kind of abandoned hideous toy factory that still haunts some viewer's dreams.

* Ronald Turvey from the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsCuddlesome Cuddlesome]]''.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a fake mascot for a company. It's implied he has powers that he uses to create his products and hide his factory, but his abilities are not clear either. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to see them happy by selling them magical toys and candy for affordable prices, and puts warning labels in their packaging, hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a fake mascot for a company. It's implied he has powers that he uses to create his products and hide his factory, but his abilities are not clear either. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to see them happy by selling them magical toys and candy for low prices, and puts warning labels in their packaging, hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a fake mascot for a company. It's implied he has powers that he uses to create his products and hide his factory, but his abilities are not clear either. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to sell them magical toys and candy for low prices, and puts warning labels in their packaging, hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a fake mascot for a company. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to give them magical toys, and puts warning labels in their packaging, hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a fake mascot for a company. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to give them magical toys, and puts warning labels hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens. He is a mysterious figure that is often portrayed as similar to [[TheWonka Willy Wonka]], no one knows if he is a man, or a woman, or a family of multiple Doctors, or just a mascot for a company. His motivations are also mysterious, but he is mostly portrayed as an eccentric but nice guy that genuinely likes children and wants to give them magical toys, and puts warning labels hoping no one gets hurt from his creations.

* Dr. Wondertainment from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', purveyor of {{My Little Panzer}}s by the dozens.

* Inverted in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'': The toymaker is by no means evil, but he is not [[HappinessIsMandatory jovial and red faced, nor does he whistle as he works]], and that is a very serious crime indeed in Genua (think [=DisneyWorld=] turned UpToEleven).

* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, toymaker Guiseppe is not actually evil, but went insane after his Disney/{{Pinocchio}} {{Expy}} turned into a serial killer. He still makes toys, but they should most definitely be kept out of reach of children (and anyone else you don't want to die or be horribly cursed.)

* The 1966 Format Films ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' animated series included malevolent boy genius Tiny Tom who used animated toy soldiers to commit crimes.

* Quackerjack from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' is a supervillain with this as his schtick.