| 1 | !!Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray |
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| 3 | [[caption-width-right:300: ''"Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend til' the end. Hidey ho. (Laughs)"'']] |
| 4 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him in his human form from Child's Play'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/creatures_charles_lee_ray_480x360.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him as a child from Chucky'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chucky_young_child.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 6 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here to see him as a teen from Chucky'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chucky_teen_3.jpg]][[/labelnote]] |
| 7 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BradDourif, David Kohlsmith (Child), Tyler Barish (14 Yrs), Creator/FionaDourif ([[CrossCastRole adult]] flashbacks in the TV series, [[spoiler:possessing Nica Pierce)]] |
| 8 | !!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/KaiTaschner (German; since ''Bride of Chucky'') |
| 9 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/ChildsPlay1988 Child’s Play]]'' | ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' | ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' | ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' | ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' | ''Film/CurseOfChucky'' | ''Film/CultOfChucky'' | ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' |
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| 11 | -> ''"Think about it, what's so great about being human anyway? You get sick, you get old, you can't get it up anymore. I'm not looking forward to that! As a doll, I'm fucking infamous! I'm one of the most notorious slashers in history! And I don't wanna give that up. I am Chucky, the killer doll! And I dig it!"'' |
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| 13 | The main antagonist of the franchise, as well as the most recurring character. Originally a human serial killer from Chicago known as "The Lakeshore Strangler" who practiced Voodoo, he was chased down by the cops one night that resulted in him being shot by Detective Mike Norris in a toy store. Wanting to escape death, Chucky proceeded to use a Voodoo spell to transfer his soul into a Good Guy Doll. Ever since, Chucky has continued to rack up a body count in his quest to find a human host suitable for him to transfer himself back into while also getting revenge on those he feels has wronged him. |
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| 18 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Turns his head 180 degrees several times throughout the franchise. |
| 19 | * AbusiveDad: It's actually zig-zagged, for while he's definitely not what some would call the best parent to Glen, [[HarmfulToMinors dragging the kid around to go on murder sprees, no doubt traumatizing him]], he treated Glen pretty well overall - until Glen was defending his mother Tiffany from him and Chucky was ready to fight. In the final scene of ''Seed'', it's implied he '''[[OffingTheOffspring might have killed]]''' him. |
| 20 | * AffablyEvil: On VERY rare occasions he can be this, besides (usually) more harmless cameos and behind-the-scenes appearances. For example, he seemed to enjoy his time playing video games with Caroline, even complimenting her skill. |
| 21 | * AndIMustScream: In the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover, it's implied that Chucky is stuck in this type of state whenever he dies. Played majorly in ''Cult of Chucky'' [[spoiler:where we see that the remains of the Stitched!Chucky's now-decapitated head is kept gagged in a safe and only brought out to be tortured every so often by his old nemesis, Andy Barclay.]] |
| 22 | * AndThisIsFor: |
| 23 | ** In a rare almost PetTheDog moment, Chucky states, despite being at severe odds with her otherwise, "this is for Nica" [[spoiler:before stomping Dr. Foley to death on the head graphically, after having successfully possessed Nica]]. |
| 24 | ** In Episode 3 of the ''Chucky'' series, he says "this is for Jake" (who at the time might have been a killer apprentice of his) after cornering Lexy in her room with the intent on murdering her. |
| 25 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: After killing [[spoiler:Sarah Pierce]] for calling the police on him and inadvertently [[spoiler:setting off his original death in the first film]], he opts to stay, stirring up trouble and ruining the lives of the rest of her family by killing most of them in a combination of anger and innate murderous desires, [[spoiler:framing her younger daughter Nica for the murders to land her in a mental hospital, and then apparently trying to possess her granddaughter Alice]]. ''Damn''. |
| 26 | * AnArmAndALeg: Loses at least one of limbs in all of the films, with the exception of ''Bride'' and ''Curse''. |
| 27 | * ArchEnemy: To Andy since he repeatedly harasses him and his family. [[spoiler:Cemented in ''Curse of Chucky'' when his next target, after Sarah and Nica, is Andy.]] |
| 28 | * AxCrazy: He ''really'' enjoys killing people and considers it to be a hobby. |
| 29 | * BadassAdorable: A rare slasher villain example, he's a chunky little baby-faced doll said to have the strength of a grown man (though a few scenes such as Andy's mom keeping him in a fireplace at the end of the first film show it's not quite that much) - and a whole lot of ferocity, being good with knives and many other weapons. This is played up in newer entries like ''Cult'' and the TV series, where doll bodies he uses do not have scars and look more conventionally cute and innocent. |
| 30 | * BadassBoast: "Don't fuck with the Chuck!" |
| 31 | * TheBadGuyWins: The main story of [[spoiler:''Curse of Chucky''. He successfully pins his crimes on Nica after killing her mother, getting his revenge on the person who put him away, then makes his way to her niece Alice. TheStinger subverts this with TheReveal he didn't get her body somehow, and instead he promptly gets a shotgun to the face from Andy.]] |
| 32 | ** [[spoiler:He finally does win in ''Film/{{Cult|Of Chucky}}'', succeeding in possessing Nica's body, locking up Andy in that asylum to take the fall for all the crimes he committed inside the mental hospital, then run out and reunite with Tiffany. It also turns out he ''did'' possess Alice, and she DiedOffscreen when a would-be victim fought back.]] |
| 33 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: You first see him in ''Film/{{Bride|Of Chucky}}'' drinking water from a fish bowl with the fish in it, leaving its fate off-screen. He kills Jake's cat in the first episode of the TV show in a way best left to the imagination for no particular reason aside from perhaps being annoyed by it. Just in case it wasn't clear he was evil enough. |
| 34 | * BecomeARealBoy: Used and eventually subverted in the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' series. The premise of the first film is a serial killer who uses voodoo to transport his soul into a children's doll. For most of the series, he's trying to find another body to jump into. However, in the fifth film, he discards the idea. He decides that as "Chucky" he's become an icon and that he never needs to worry about getting sick or old. |
| 35 | * BerserkButton: |
| 36 | ** ''Bride'': He gets fairly annoyed over hearing someone crying - let alone from Tiffany. |
| 37 | ** ''Seed'': He really ''hates'' paparazzi scumbags. |
| 38 | ** ''Cult'': He takes it very personal when someone's not scared of him. |
| 39 | * BlatantLies: He tends to do this a ''lot''. His own catchphrase is a testament to this. |
| 40 | -->'''Chucky (In his good guy doll voice):''' Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend til' the end. Hidey ho! Hahaha! |
| 41 | * BloodUpgrade: In ''Film/ChildsPlay2'', he starts taking his situation more seriously when he starts getting nosebleeds, as it means he's running out of time to BodySurf into Andy. |
| 42 | * BigBad: He's the primary villain in all of the movies. Granted, in ''Bride'' and ''Seed'', he's more of a VillainProtagonist. |
| 43 | * BigNo: Lets one out in his VillainousBreakdown in ''Child's Play 2'' upon realizing he had run out of time to transfer his soul into Andy's vessel. |
| 44 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Of course, since who would ever suspect a Good Guy doll of being an infamous Voodoo-practicing SerialKiller? Even Andy and Tyler, his first two intended [[SoulJar Soul Jars]], think he's a nice guy at first when he reveals to them that he's actually alive. [[note]] (Though both Andy and Tyler were less than 10 years old when they first met Chucky, so it's not that they could have known any better) [[/note]] |
| 45 | * BlessedWithSuck: His doll body - which wasn't alive to begin with - makes him almost immortal as well as more maneuverable to kill bigger targets. The downside? Besides being obviously way smaller and easy to overpower if one puts one's mind to it, he can still feel ''pain'' in this form. And he goes through a ''lot.'' |
| 46 | * BodyHorror: He becomes more human the longer he's in the doll, which ultimately makes him a twisted fusion of flesh, blood, plastic, and wires. Kind of light, except it also makes him still feel pain, but unable to die (or so it seems) from more normal biological things like blood loss and shock. |
| 47 | * BondageIsBad: Chucky, who's a vile and brutal serial killer, is hinted to have an affinity for BDSM. In ''Seed of Chucky'', during preparation for a soul transfer, Chucky attacks Jennifer Tilly and binds and gags her with sadistic glee. When he asks her if the ropes he's used to bind her are too tight, she responds in the affirmative, to which he counters, "Ain't no such thing." |
| 48 | * BrooklynRage: He talks in what vaguely sounds like a Bronx accent. And he has a very nasty temper to put it incredibly mildly. |
| 49 | * TheBully: Being a {{jerkass}} psycho serial killer, Chucky is not above bullying such as towards Glen in ''Seed'' when he, perhaps not able to help himself, joked Glen's parents must be hiding from his ugliness - guess who the parents were. |
| 50 | %%* BullyHunter: |
| 51 | * TheCameo: Briefly appears in Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/{{Ready Player One|2018}}'' as a GodzillaThreshold. |
| 52 | * CardCarryingVillain: He flat-out admits to being bad in ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' and clearly takes great pride in being a killer doll. Also see the above quote. |
| 53 | * CelebrityParadox: The show ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' exists in the films' universe, which Tiffany was watching on her television set at the time of her human death before switching to ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' in ''Bride''. Chucky's actor Creator/BradDourif has made a guest appearance in an episode of the show. As far as ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' is concerned, the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise might exist in this universe as Creator/BradDourif had appeared in Music/RobZombie's [[Film/Halloween2007 remake]] and its [[Film/HalloweenII2009 sequel]]. Also, if Colonel Chucky's "[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan!]]" ShoutOut in the show's second season is any indication, the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise also might exist in this universe too as Dourif also appeared in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Also, if Devon's line is to be believed in the penultimate second season episode,''Film/TheExorcist'' franchise may also exist in this universe as Dourif had appeared in ''Film/TheExorcistIII'' (theatrically released around the same year as the second film). |
| 54 | * CharacterAgedWithTheActor: While Chucky originally died at 30, [[spoiler:his ghost in Season 3 of the TV show is roughly as old as Brad Dourif in real life.]] |
| 55 | * CharacterDevelopment: |
| 56 | ** He spends most of ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' needlessly angering Tiffany, but in ''Curse'' and ''Cult'' it appears he learned from his mistakes and amended his ways to [[EarnYourHappyEnding stabilize his marriage to Tiffany]] even if he is still a psycho serial killer. However, it doesn't last long since he's gone back to his horribly abusive ways in the TV series (that continues after ''Cult'') verbally abusing Tiffany at every once in a while, making her secretly plot to free herself from this toxic marriage. |
| 57 | ** For the first four movies and some of the fifth, he really hated being trapped in a doll's body. In the ensuing sequels he's gotten used to staying in it and decides being a killer doll makes him more infamous than as a human serial killer. |
| 58 | ** At the start of ''Bride'', Chucky had no interest in marrying Tiffany at all. But as the movie progressed and he spent more time with Tiff, he does gain a genuine enough love for her. |
| 59 | ** In ''Seed'' he was against the thought of Glen being Genderfluid, by the time of the [[Series/{{Chucky}} series]] he's come around and seems accepting of it. [[BlatantLies That is if he wasn't just lying to get Jake on his side]]. |
| 60 | * TheChewToy: Chucky takes an astounding amount of punishment in most movies, going through immense agony and being beaten around a ton. More than enough people will say he deserves every single second of it. |
| 61 | * ChildHater: He explicitly says "I hate kids" during the finale of ''Film/ChildsPlay2''. They tend to get on his nerves. He does seem to hold a soft spot for his son Glen though, even respectfully submitting to Glen screaming at him and Tiff to stop fighting already in ''Seed''. |
| 62 | * CountryMatters: After cornering Lexy in Episode 3 of the ''Chucky'' series, Chucky calls her a bleeped-out name. According to Website/IMDb, the insult is "cunt bag". |
| 63 | * TheCorrupter: |
| 64 | ** In ''Seed'', he clearly wanted his innocent son Glen to become a killer like himself. |
| 65 | ** In ''Chucky'', he is intent on turning Jake into a serial killer, and at one point tried to talk little Caroline Cross into murdering her big sister, Lexy. |
| 66 | *** In the same series, he does succeed at corrupting [[spoiler: Junior]] from a verbally abusive kid into a killer, thus ensuring that his EvilPlan could begin. |
| 67 | * CoveredInScars: His face from ''Bride'' onwards. Though he does get a repaired, new doll [[spoiler:(or three)]] with no facial scars in ''Cult''. |
| 68 | * CreepyBlueEyes: Yeah, there's no denying that. Whether he's playing friendly or hacking and slashing away, his eyes are enough to give you the creeps. |
| 69 | ** Not to mention the most notable trademark of Chucky's actor, Creator/BradDourif, is his icy blue eyes. |
| 70 | * CreepyDoll: One of the most iconic examples of this. |
| 71 | * CreepyHighPitchedVoice: His voice is squeaky, raspy and very creepy. He also has a shrilling EvilLaugh. |
| 72 | * CrosscastRole: Of sorts. [[spoiler:While he is controlling Nica's body, he's played by her actress, Fiona Dourif]]. |
| 73 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: From him being burnt and then shot in the heart in the original film, to him being covered in molten plastic and experiencing a YourHeadAsplode in the sequel, to him being shredded by a fan in the third, to him getting dismembered and then decapitated by Glenn in Seed, to him (or at least one of the three Chucky dolls) getting his head repeatedly stomped on by Andy in Cult, to nearly all of his deaths in the TV Show (getting shot to death by Andy and Kyle, getting his head shot by Kyle, getting decapitated with a nail file and incinerated in an explosion, and especially him getting strangled by Jake so hard [[EyeScream his EYES FALL OUT]]), Chucky’s deaths are nearly always gruesome. |
| 74 | * {{Cyborg}}: Kind of. He starts off possessing a fully mechanical doll until it gets to the point where blood, muscles and bone are being incorporated with the wires and metal skeleton of the doll body come the third film's climax. For ''Bride'' and ''Seed'', it seems he's completely organic outside of the plastic exterior. |
| 75 | * DeadpanSnarker: He isn't above getting snarky, especially (but not exclusively) in ''Seed''. |
| 76 | -->'''Tiffany:''' ...[[ItMakesSenseInContext killing is an "us thing"]]! |
| 77 | -->'''Charles:''' Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, Tiff. |
| 78 | * {{Determinator}}: To the T. Even missing a hand, having his face sliced off, or worse, nothing but stops the Chuck from moving to kill or stalking his prey. [[VillainousValour It's even more impressive]], considering he lacks the FeelNoPain a lot of his slasher peers (if only seemingly) have. |
| 79 | * DevilInPlainSight: Nobody noticing Chucky is semi-justified by the fact that nobody seems to think too much of a doll sitting there. Only semi because people rarely question why a doll would be where they find him. |
| 80 | * DemonicPossession: He intended to put his soul in Andy's body, granting him an escape from his situation, but was thwarted over and over. [[spoiler:In ''Cult'', he finally succeeds at this, possessing Nica's body.]] |
| 81 | * DirtyCoward: Beneath Chucky's grandiosity and petty [[{{Sadist}} sadism]], he's motivated by self-preservation and he's known to play with his prey when he's sure they are at his mercy and unable to fight back. If in danger, he quickly begs for his life or runs away. When he is close to death, [[TakingYouWithMe he does try to go out fighting]] or at least make sure [[MutualKill he and his target kill each other at the same time]]. It's worth noting that all of his victims were mainly unarmed civilians and kids/teens. When he's against someone who can actually fight back and isn't afraid of him, he quickly relies on cheap shots and catching them off-guard. Chucky quickly runs away when he realizes he's in actual danger of being killed and only engages in a fair fight when he believes he has the upper hand. |
| 82 | ** When he is backed into a corner by Detective Mike Norris, he uses a voodoo ritual to save himself by transferring his soul into a Good Guy Doll. When he tries to get revenge on Mike later in the movie, he quickly runs away once he realizes he's starting to become human again. |
| 83 | ** When Andy and his mother toss him in a fireplace, he quickly starts begging Andy to spare him by reminding Andy that they are "friends to the end". |
| 84 | ** In ''Child's Play 2'', he's afraid of having his soul bound to a doll and tries to transfer his soul into Andy's, despite it being his own fault for choosing to torment Andy instead of outright capturing him. |
| 85 | ** Since ''Bride of Chucky'', Chucky has gotten complacent with the fact that he always comes back to life, only starting to nut up and fight his targets one-on-one without any pretenses of fleeing because he believes he can just rely on someone else to revive him or one of his many clones will just take his place. |
| 86 | ** In season 2, he escapes in the final episode by switching bodies with Dr. Mixter to save his own skin. |
| 87 | ** [[spoiler:When interacting with Damballa in the Spirit Realm in season 3 after his final Good Guy doll body dies, his initial bravado, disrespect, and impudence towards the voodoo god goes out the window once Damballa decides to send him permanently to Hell, leading him to instantly grovel on his knees and beg for one more chance to prove himself]]. |
| 88 | * TheDividual: The Cult of Chucky, who are revealed to be a group of all the Good Guy dolls that Chucky has taken possession of, are near-identical and work as one to complete Chucky's goals, but individually they display somewhat distinctively different personalities and tend to argue quite a bit. |
| 89 | * DoesNotLikeGuns: Downplayed. He's not averse to using firearms (having been in a gunfight against Detective Mike Norris when he was a human which led to his first death, later threatening Tiffany with one when in control of Nica's body), but a history of constantly meeting his end at the barrel of a gun has made him slightly wary of them. He outright calls them his AchillesHeel in a conversation with Junior, while most of his kills are done with knives. |
| 90 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: He hates pancakes. |
| 91 | * DomesticAbuser: Tiffany adores him, but it becomes pretty clear enough of her recollections are from rose-colored glasses very swiftly. Chucky almost immediately makes a careless comment he thought she'd let herself go and laughs in her face when she reveals she thought a proposal was coming. |
| 92 | * DoNotCallMePaul: He flips out when people call him "Charles" too many times. |
| 93 | * EnfantTerrible: The ''Chucky'' series reveals he was a purely evil monster since childhood. Despite living an ideal childhood with loving parents, he still had fantasies of petty murder, and went as far as to [[spoiler:[[{{Matricide}} kill his own mother for kicks]]]] and become a serial killer [[ForTheEvulz just because he wanted to]]. |
| 94 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first words as a doll (in his regular voice, not the Good Guy doll's voice) really establish his foul-mouthed and generally unpleasant attitude. |
| 95 | -->'''Chucky:''' You stupid '''bitch''', YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME! |
| 96 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. Chucky is capable of superficial care for others, but like a true sociopath, he's not really capable of seeing them as ''people'' beyond what they can do for him. Glen/Glenda is mostly there as an extension of him to mold into a new killer and while he seems to care for Tiffany, he's ''twice'' heartlessly murdered her without blinking when she's become a problem for him. |
| 97 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:Wholly subverted in ''Chucky''. It seemingly sets up he genuinely loved his mother and became a vengeful killer after she and his father were killed... only for it to be revealed she was his ''[[{{Matricide}} first victim]]'']]. |
| 98 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 99 | ** In ''Seed'' even he is disturbed by how utterly Batshit ''INSANE'' [[spoiler:Glen's split personality Glenda is]] and gets offended when Tiffany blames him for having created Glenda. Glenda's preference for fire over old-fashioned stabbing also kind of horrifies Chucky, though this could stem from Chucky's fireplace injury in the first movie and Tiffany getting thrown into a ''working'' oven in the fourth. |
| 100 | ** In ''Cult of Chucky'', [[spoiler:he knocks out Dr. Foley and considers Foley to be worse than him for hypnotizing Nica and sexually assaulting her while she's disorientated. When Chucky possesses Nica, the first thing he does is kill Foley by staving his head in with the very shoes he gave Nica before trying to molest her.]] |
| 101 | ---> ''Chucky'': "And they call ''me'' sick? [...] I just... Can't with this guy! I don't know whether to kill him or take notes!" |
| 102 | ** In ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' episode 2, Chucky mentions having a queer kid that's gender-fluid (Glen/Glenda) to protagonist Jake. Jake asks if Chucky is okay with that and he responds "I'm not a monster, Jake...". [[SubvertedTrope Only he was manipulating Jake into killing for him.]] |
| 103 | * EvilIsHammy: And he gets hammier and hammier with each installment, at least until things get serious again in the sixth as an exception. |
| 104 | * EvilLaugh: Has a distinctive, bombastic one. |
| 105 | * EvilMakesYouUgly: In the original trilogy, Chucky's face slowly changes from child-like to looking exactly like Charles Lee Ray the longer he stays in the doll's body. |
| 106 | * EvilOldFolks: He is pushing 60s by ''Curse'', but is still almost-utterly evil. |
| 107 | * EvilRedhead: As a doll, he has red hair, though the "Evil" part is a given. |
| 108 | * EvilSorcerer: His use of [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo magic]] to repeatedly [[BackFromTheDead cheat death]] and [[GrandTheftMe steal other people's bodies]] makes him one of these. He also tortures and kills his [[WitchDoctor voodoo teacher]] by injuring a {{voodoo doll}} of him. |
| 109 | * EvilSoundsRaspy: He has a gruff voice and is the franchise's most malicious character (save maybe his daughter, Glenda). |
| 110 | * EvilWearsBlack: In his human form, he had pretty dark clothes on. He wears a robe in episode 8 of ''Chucky'' with both [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]]. |
| 111 | * {{Expy}}: Chucky's characterization is lifted straight from the murderous doll Talky Tina in the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Twilight Zone]]'' episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E6LivingDoll "Living Doll"]]. |
| 112 | * EyesAreUnbreakable: At the end of the first movie, Chucky is [[ManOnFire burnt to a crisp]] and reduced to a [[BodyHorror charred, blackened, doll-shaped monster]]... with the sole exception of his not-so-InnocentBlueEyes. |
| 113 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Originally, but he gradually grew uglier-looking as his evil became more obvious. Then brought back in ''Chucky'' where he looks more cute, but is just as vicious and cruel as always. |
| 114 | * FacialHorror: His scarred face in ''Bride'', ''Seed'', and ''Curse''. |
| 115 | * FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: In ''Bride of Chucky'', just before Jade guns him down: |
| 116 | -->'''Chucky:''' Go ahead and shoot! I'll be back! '''[[JokerImmunity I ALWAYS COME BACK!]]''' |
| 117 | * FalseFriend: He pretends to be buds with Andy, Tyler, Alice. He does try to be a genuine friend to Jake, only turning against him once he refuses to be a killer. |
| 118 | * FatalFlaw: Complacency and [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. |
| 119 | ** '''[[{{Sadist}} Sadism]]''': [[spoiler Before ''Seed of Chucky'', Chucky was desperate to transfer his soul into a human body because the doll was only meant to be a placeholder until he could find Andy Barclay, the first person who saw Chucky's secret. However, Chucky gets a thrill from killing and he specifically enjoys toying with his prey before killing them. In ''Child's Play 2'', this is what causes his soul to be permanently bound to the doll, he couldn't resist toying with Andy and killing people of non-importance rather than just capturing Andy and transferring his soul at the first opportunity. When Chucky drops the theatrics in ''Curse of Chucky'', he effortlessly kills Nica's family, has her arrested, and is able to possess Alice. Showing how truly dangerous he can be when he stops playing with his prey.]] |
| 120 | ** '''Complacency''': [[spoiler:From ''Bride of Chucky'', he's no longer afraid of death and has grown complacent with being resurrected or finding other ways of either transferring his soul or splitting it, not considering if Tiffany, his main accomplice and wife, might betray him. This is what fuels his confidence in season 2 of the TV series, he believes that he'll keep throwing himself at the protagonists until he succeeds in his quest for revenge. Not caring that he could die permanently the next time he's killed or if there is a greater cost for splitting his soul with voodoo magic.]] |
| 121 | * FameThroughInfamy: The ''Chucky'' series reveals his goal to be this. [[spoiler: He ultimate plan is to ship 72 clones of himself across America so he can murder as many people as possible and be remembered forever in infamy, while all of his victims are forgotten and only remembered as part of his body count.]] |
| 122 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Chucky has his moments, what with the LaughablyEvil LargeHam nature of his character. This is also justified in the case with children he tries to possess, since he plays a FalseFriend role to earn their trust before trying to take over their body. In the first film, he greets his voodoo mentor like they're friends before killing him to eliminate him. Unlike Tiffany however, he has close to zero redeeming qualities. |
| 123 | * FieryRedhead: His red hair as a doll fits his short temper. |
| 124 | * {{Flanderization}}: While he always was a psychotic mental monster, Chucky was actually slightly more [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatic]] in the first movie, where he kept his doll cover as long as possible and only attacked people he had a vendetta against (Eddie and Norris), who pissed him off (Maggie) or witnesses (Dr Death and the psychiatrist), usually in ways allowing him to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident or frame Andy for it. In the sequels, he gradually took a habit of [[StupidEvil risking his cover by pointlessly at least attempting to kill random bystanders in frequently over-the-top ways]]. Eventually fixed in ''Curse''. |
| 125 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Chucky (at least states) he doesn't believe in {{God}}. Weird, considering his soul swapping ability is possible via invoking a voodoo deity named Damballa, and the fact that voodoo magical practices are all about asking the Loa (gods/spirits) to do favors. He even considered it blasphemous of Jake to overpower the strength of Damballa when Jake pushed him off. Though it's possible his disbelief refers specifically to the Judeo-Christian God. |
| 126 | * ForTheEvulz: The ''Chucky'' series reveals that this is his entire motivation for murdering people. Unlike a fair number of serial killers, who often have tragic pasts, Chucky lived an idyllic childhood with loving parents and friends, but was simply a child psychopath with a sick fascination for violence and [[spoiler:killed his own mother just because he wanted to]]. |
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| 130 | * GigglingVillain: He loves doing his iconic, high-pitched giggle. |
| 131 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: His reaction to finding an erotic magazine featuring two women is to respond "Oooh! Lesbos!" |
| 132 | * GrandTheftMe: His ultimate goal is to possess a human being to presumably continue his killing spree. |
| 133 | * GuestFighter: Joins the killer roster in ''[[VideoGame/DeadByDaylight Dead by Daylight]]'' as "The Good Guy". The game maintains his small stature, and has a ghostly apparition of his human form handle the lifting and hooking of survivors. |
| 134 | * GunmanWithThreeNames: His full name is Charles Lee Ray. |
| 135 | * HairTriggerTemper: He really has a violent and explosive temper. You definitely do ''not'' want to set him off. |
| 136 | * HappilyMarried: He and Tiff briefly form a very stable and happy marriage. It doesn't last due to Chucky being… Chucky, though. |
| 137 | * HasAType: Chucky seems to have a thing for blondes: showing attraction to Delilah, Sarah, and Tiffany. [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, Tiffany is actually a natural [[EvilRedhead redhead]] who dyed her hair blonde because he insisted it.]] |
| 138 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: Chucky only really sees people as potential victims for him to kill or exploit, he doesn't care about their sexual identity or their race. In the TV Series, he tries to convince Jake to kill people because some victims deserve it and it's kill or be killed. |
| 139 | * HatedByAll: As both Chucky and Charles Lee Ray, a majority of people have many different reasons to despise him due to the horrific legacy he left behind (as Charles Lee Ray) and the innumerable lives he's taken and ruined as a murderous doll. Other than Tiffany, the only people who are known to have regard for Chucky are truly disturbed individuals such as [[NunTooHoly Sister Ruth]], [[spoiler:[[PsychoPsychologist Dr. Mixter]]]], or [[spoiler:[[EnfantTerrible Caroline]]]]. Even with Tiffany, her love for her husband often is pushed to its limits: by the time of the TV series, Tiffany wanted to figure out a way to keep Nica around whilst simultaneously seeing less of Chucky in Nica's body. |
| 140 | * HateSink: To be more despicable other than being a KillerDoll, he is also a jerk. While this was invoked in the original trilogy, he then falls under LoveToHate in the later films ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' due to his popularity. |
| 141 | * HeManWomanHater: He has a tendency to insult his female victims, at least those who irritate him by evading his killer attempts on them. You should hear what he calls Karen Barclay when he comes alive in her hands. Though he eventually does [[SubvertedTrope settle down with Tiffany]]. |
| 142 | -->''(After being thrown out of the car Kyle was driving)''\ |
| 143 | '''Chucky:''' Ya GODDAMN WOMEN DRIVERS! |
| 144 | * HiddenDepths: Episode 2 of the ''Chucky'' series reveals that Chucky is surprisingly good at playing video games. Not bad for a guy born in the '50s. |
| 145 | * HiveMind: ''Cult of Chucky'' reveals he developed his DemonicPossession chant into a new power to duplicate his mind into more than one bodies. |
| 146 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Child's Play 2'' and in the first season of ''Chucky'', Charles is often defeated by his own sadism because he can't resist savoring his kill and taunting his prey while they are at his mercy. He's permanently bound to the doll because he couldn't keep his bloodlust in check or resist tormenting Andy. In the first season of ''Chucky'', he was overwhelmed by Jake because the little bastard kept gloating about they'll be reduced to a statistic once his master plan starts. |
| 147 | * HollywoodAtheist: Zig-zagged in ''Curse of Chucky'', where he states that there is no God. Which is a bit strange as he's quite literally living proof Voodoo is real and invokes the Loa Damballa for his rituals. |
| 148 | -->'''Alice:''' He [Chucky] says there is no god. He said life's a bitch and then you die bleeding like a stuck pig. |
| 149 | -->'''Chucky:''' (''to Barb'') As you know… (''pulls off the fake skin covering his eye scar'') There is NO God! |
| 150 | * HollywoodVoodoo: How he transfers his soul. |
| 151 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 152 | ** He furiously declares that "Tampering with the mail is a federal offense!" |
| 153 | ** His comments on Glen's ugliness ("He looks like he fell off the ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down.") also count, as his own stitched-up doll face isn't gonna be winning any beauty contests. |
| 154 | ** In ''Curse'', he complains "Women, can't live with 'em... Period!" completely discarding the fact that Tiffany helped bring him back to life after the events of the third movie. [[spoiler: And to make this even more hypocritical, Tiffany pops up in a surprise cameo at the end of ''Curse'' to reveal that she is helping Chucky exact revenge on all his past adversaries (in order) and possibly helped rebuild him after ''Seed'']]. |
| 155 | ** He seems disgusted with Dr. Foley's rape of Nica, a handicapped woman, in ''Cult''. This is despite the fact that he previously kidnapped Sarah Peirce and forced himself on her, tried to molest Jennifer Tilly in ''Seed'', and what's the first thing Chucky does when he takes possession of Nica's body? Play with her breasts, of course. |
| 156 | * IconicOutfit: His rainbow striped shirt and blue overalls, plus his wild red hair. |
| 157 | * ImmortalitySeeker: He wishes to stay immortal, being especially stoked to possess a child's body in the first three and sixth movies, as while in the fifth movie he laments that being a human means you'll get sick and old. |
| 158 | * ImplacableMan: The amount of punishment he has been seen withstanding before finally dying (and still returning somehow after that more determined than ever) is ''mesmerizing''. |
| 159 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Some of his weapons include a yo-yo string, a yardstick, jump rope, and a ''ball of twine''. |
| 160 | * InCharacterCommentaries: In the special features of ''Child's Play'', Chucky explains his methods and then-new state as a doll over some of his scenes in the film. |
| 161 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: Witnessing the way Tiffany murders Russ and Diane in ''Bride'' makes him propose to her. |
| 162 | * InkSuitActor: His doll form is basically a creepy miniature caricature of his actor Creator/BradDourif. Even his hairdo, both before and after his stitched-up appearance, resembles Dourif's actual real-life haircuts unlike Charles Lee Ray's long hair when he was human. Then in the third season of the television series when Chucky [[spoiler:undergoes RapidAging, Chucky in gray hair and wrinkles then begins to caricature-wise resemble Dourif in his current senior age]]. |
| 163 | * InvincibleVillain: Usually averted fairly hard, but played straight from ''Curse'' onward, [[spoiler: where he successfully transfers his soul into two human bodies (Alice and later Nica) and gets away scot-free with all of his murders, presumably pinning the blame on Andy once more. You might call him invisible due to his skills at hiding, even in plain sight, as a doll.]] But as he puts it into words: |
| 164 | -->'''Charles:''' I '''always''' come back! |
| 165 | * ItsAllAboutMe: If you're not Charles Lee Ray/Chucky, he doesn't properly care about you – at best. Though there are remote signs that something can get in his "cool book." [[spoiler:Tiffany]] even [[LampshadeHanging calls him out on this]] in episode 8 of the first season. |
| 166 | * JacobMarleyApparel: [[spoiler:His spirit form is clad in the same clothes he wore when his human self died in the first film, complete with the bloody bullet holes in his shirt he got from being shot by Mike Norris]]. |
| 167 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: He's a sadistic PsychopathicManchild, a serial killer with nothing resembling a FreudianExcuse, and an [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ill-tempered and foul-mouthed dude who's been a flat-out asshole to many people]]. Also, any time he's presented as having any shred of a redeeming quality, it is almost ''always'' subverted by his general cruel and manipulative nature. One of the most notable examples of this was him giving Tiffany a genuine-sounding apology for being a dick to her earlier, and later proposing to her as she had always wanted him to do. Then he continues to mistreat her [[spoiler:and later ''kills'' her]]. |
| 168 | * {{Joisey}}: In ''Bride of Chucky'', we learn that Charles Lee Ray's remains are buried in Hackensack. Chucky points this out in ''Seed'', when Glen asks if he and Tiffany are assassins from Japan. |
| 169 | -->'''Chucky:''' We're not from Japan. We're from Jersey. |
| 170 | * JokerImmunity: No matter how many times his doll body is sliced, burnt, or otherwise reduced to a gory mess, he always ends up brought back to life, usually thanks to someone rebuilding the doll. [[spoiler:By ''Curse of Chucky'', Andy expects him to come back and is waiting for him with a gun.]] |
| 171 | * KickTheDog: |
| 172 | ** In ''Child's Play 3'', one of Chucky's most mean-spirited kills involved him luring a garbage man to attempt to save him for a murdering. |
| 173 | ** In ''Bride of Chucky'', after he fatally stabs Tiffany, all she can do is solemnly repeat her mother's words about love setting her free. Chucky's response is to shove Tiffany to the ground while hatefully spitting "Get off my knife!" |
| 174 | * KillerRabbit: His appearance as an inert doll staring harmlessly into space is totally deceiving. By the time one learns the truth, it's often proven to be too late. |
| 175 | * LackOfEmpathy: Though he may have killed someone in Nica’s defense, he still never sheds tears for his victims or anybody in general. No compassion, no pity... nothing! |
| 176 | * LargeHam: "DON'T FUCK WITH THE CHUCK!" |
| 177 | * LateArrivalSpoiler: Cover art and most installments and advertisements [[BlatantLies do a great job]] at hiding why he's a WalkingSpoiler in the first movie. |
| 178 | * LaughablyEvil: Averted in the first film but increases as the series goes on, especially in ''Bride of Chucky'', ''Seed of Chucky'' and ''Cult of Chucky'', before being scaled back in ''Curse of Chucky''. Deliberately invoked by him in the television series on the school stage during the talent show and manages to make the audience laugh. |
| 179 | ** In cameos and commentary, he is *usually* not presented as trying to kill someone and typically reserves running his mouth for those who have annoyed him. |
| 180 | * LaughingMad: He loves bursting into non-stop cackling at the chaos and death around him. |
| 181 | * LightIsNotGood: As a Good Guy doll, Chucky appearance is that of a cuddly toddler wearing a colorful striped shirt and light blue overalls, but he's still a demonic PerversePuppet prone to twisting the doll's default expression into disturbing GameFace when he goes for a kill. He also sports a white mask in one episode of ''Chucky''. And saying he's "Not Good" is an understatement - he even says, "You got that right, kid - I'm '''bad'''.". |
| 182 | * LivingToy: Most of the time, his soul is inhabiting a Good Guy doll. |
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| 186 | * MadeOfIron: He can take a lot of punishment in a body that wasn't alive to begin with (although it becomes more human over time). And somehow, he manages to find a way back. He's REALLY resilient [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness however in the first movie]] as he was shown to survive even [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody dismemberment]], bullets and fire. Possibly justified as he may have self-trained himself to be this since childhood as far as the television series is concerned; as a child, he [[spoiler:[[SelfHarm deliberately]] bit into [[RazorApples an apple with a razor inside]], not caring of injuring himself to do so, a beginning to gaining this ability to be resilient enough to go through pain]]. |
| 187 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Sure, he's clearly in agony when he loses his limbs, gets set on fire, shot repeatedly, etc. However, it barely slows him down. In ''Child's Play 3'', he gets his entire left arm shot off while attempting his voodoo chant, and his reaction is to grunt a little bit and continue the voodoo chant in some desperation. |
| 188 | * ManBitesMan: He tends to bite his victims on the arm while struggling with them in the case that he isn't armed with any weapons. |
| 189 | * ManOnFire: Suffers this in the first movie, and gets his hands burnt in ''Cult'' while forced to stay inanimate to maintain his disguise that he's just a non-living Good Guy doll. |
| 190 | * {{Matricide}}: [[spoiler:As revealed in the series ''Chucky'', his first victim was his own mother; he killed her just to help out a random murderer]]. |
| 191 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 192 | ** He's just as famous for his EvilLaugh as his killing behavior, as "chuckle" is another word for laugh. And "chuck" can be another word for decimate or cut. He even has actually thrown a few things used to kill or injure people. |
| 193 | ** Chucky's full name "Charles Lee Ray" is derived from the names of notorious killers [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald]], and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray James Earl Ray]]. |
| 194 | * MisanthropeSupreme: He's not great at making friends, and he has no problem making new enemies everyday. [[spoiler: Tiffany appears to be an exception but only when Chucky and her don't anger each-other too much]]. |
| 195 | * MonsterRoommate: In the TV series, he crashes in Jake's room to mentor him into becoming a killer. |
| 196 | * TheNapoleon: His huge ego, excitably violent tendencies and hammy, trash-talking personality do not line up with his doll-sized stature - but then again, it's part of what makes him famous. |
| 197 | * {{Narcissist}}: Chucky thinks highly of himself. In the first season, he planned on sending around 70 clones of himself to become the most infamous serial killer in American history. While he was dying in season 3, he decides to bomb everyone so he would once more be seen as the worst killer in history by netting around 8 billion victims. He is so self-absorbed, when he meets Damballa, Damballa takes his form since the one person Chucky ever revered was himself. |
| 198 | * NearVillainVictory: In ''every'' film until ''Cult'', he gets ''this close'' to coming out on top before getting foiled. |
| 199 | * NeverMyFault: Chucky will never, ever accept responsibility for anything. Nothing that ever goes wrong is his fault. Ever since the first film when he demands his teacher John help him, he puts his being in a doll's body on ''John'' as opposed to him for being a violent serial killer. |
| 200 | * NighInvulnerability: Chucky can move with human-like reflexes after ''being lit on fire''. It also turns out that not even having half of his limbs torn off along with his head can stop him from moving, and he can potentially [[ImmuneToBullets take enough bullets to endanger a person's life and still march forward]]... [[spoiler:at least until they '''finally''' shoot his heart, and even then, it's only temporary since its soul can just possess another doll.]] |
| 201 | * NightmareFetishist: A rather literal example. In ''Seed'', Chucky needs to [[spoiler: give a sperm sample.]] He passes up several traditional fuels for this such as fashion magazines and swimsuit catalogs and instead opts for ''Fangoria'' and its blood-soaked models. [[ShownTheirWork This sort of sexual deviancy is actually a common motive for real life serial killers.]] |
| 202 | * NonIndicativeName: If Devon is to believed, Chucky was called "The Lakeshore Strangler" when he was alive as a human despite not actually strangling any of his victims. |
| 203 | * NotAfraidToDie: As shown during the climax of ''Bride'', Chucky is not afraid to die, since he always come back. |
| 204 | * NotGoodWithRejection: At the end of ''Seed'', [[spoiler: Tiffany leaves him when he wants to stay as a doll notorious for murder. He goes ''berserk'' and kills her, which finally breaks Glen...]] |
| 205 | * OlderAndWiser: A villainous example. In ''Curse of Chucky'', which takes place twenty-five years since the first film, Chucky averts the StupidEvil trope and becomes a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] in terms of proper and tactical planning on getting to his target such as not wasting time killing a few bystanders or going into childish ScreamingWarrior [[VillainousBreakdown tantrums]] that only slows him down like back when he was younger, inexperienced in playing the doll role the first time after he transferred his soul into a shell and more repulsively impulsive. |
| 206 | * OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:When he gets his hands on the nuclear launch codes from the President, he attempts to start World War 3 by launching nukes at Russia, North Korea, and the [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers North Pole]]. He would have succeeded if the President's double didn't abort at the last second, though he did manage to get a nuke launched at the latter.]] |
| 207 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Even if you're a Chucky aficionado, you're probably not going to call him "Charles Lee Ray". All his friends, he's said, call him "Chucky". |
| 208 | * OutOfFocus: Despite his name being in the title, Chucky has a noticeably smaller role in ''Seed'' compared to any other film in the franchise, with said film focusing on Tiffany and Glen. |
| 209 | * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: |
| 210 | ** While he's a violent, cruel boyfriend towards Tiffany, he himself gets worked up if she is in danger at the hands of someone else as proven in ''Bride'' and ''Seed''. |
| 211 | ** In ''Cult'', he fights a bit with two of his clones over which one of them gets to kill adult Andy. |
| 212 | * OnlySaneMan: Or "Only Sane Doll". When it comes to killing, Chucky is anything but this {{trope}}. When it comes to everyday issues, like domestic disputes with Tiffany, he sees himself as this. |
| 213 | * PerversePuppet: He's almost the poster child to this trope, and definitely the most iconic representation of it in horror movies. |
| 214 | * PetTheDog: For all his faults in raising his son, he did give him a more respectful name in “Glen” rather than sticking with “Shitface.” You may consider his dislike of invasive paparazzi 'scumbags' this trope as well. It's very rare for him to *ever* leave potential victims alone. |
| 215 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: While Chucky prefers using the element of surprise against his victims, he can put up a direct fight with fully grown adults because despite being a toddler-sized doll, he is rumored to have the same strength he had as a human - people have sometimes overpowered him, but he's still a proficient killer with knives and many other weapons. |
| 216 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: |
| 217 | ** One of Chucky's most consistent character traits is that he [[HeManWomanHater hates women]]. He tosses the b-word in every appearance along with the f-bombs. His first words as a doll (in his regular adult voice, not in the cutesy Good Guy doll's voice) were "YOU STUPID BITCH! YOU FILTHY SLUT!" to Karen when she threatened to throw him into the fire. |
| 218 | ** When Glen expresses the possibility of being both genders, Chucky has a very homophobic reaction. Subverted when he was trying to possess Redman (and Tyler in the third movie), [[EqualOpportunityEvil and was seemingly thrilled at the thought of becoming a black man]]. However, he attempts to bond with [[{{Gayngst}} Jake]] in the TV series by making it seem like he accepts Glen for being gender-fluid. Jake doesn't buy his claims a single bit. |
| 219 | ** Despite attempting to appear politically correct in the ''Chucky'' series, the season one finale reveals it to all be an act when [[spoiler: one of the Chucky dolls reacts with disgust upon discovering that Nica!Chucky had been dipping their hands in both ponds. Later, he calls Devon a "twink" - slang for a young gay man – and his reaction to learning that Jake and Devon were a couple is a disgusted "[[RefugeInAudacity Oh, that is so gay!]]"]] |
| 220 | * PracticallyJoker: Like ComicBook/TheJoker, he's an AxCrazy LaughablyEvil LargeHam threat with JokerImmunity, loves to give out an EvilLaugh on a regular basis and in the TV show he tends to give StrawNihilist speeches while trying to [[TheCorrupter corrupt his victims]]. He even has his own Harley Quinn in the form of Tiffany (though unlike Harley, Tiffany is more of Chucky's equal than a minion). It's further helped by the fact Dourif was one of the considerations to play the Joker in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989''. |
| 221 | * PragmaticVillainy: He's proven good with hiding and using weapons to these effects. In the season 1 finale of the TV series, Chucky decides to set up an age limit preventing potential victims 5-6 or under from getting killed when he plotted to [[spoiler: massacre the charity event]] not much out of genuine standards but because babies "make good stooges". |
| 222 | ** He also takes Jake's contempt in remarkably good stride for the first episodes of the series, when he would usually respond to any insult by killing the person. [[spoiler:Since he needs to corrupt a kid into murdering someone to complete his soul-splitting spell into multiple Good Guy dolls, he has to try his hardest not to react in a manner that could alienate potential candidates. He only starts trying to kill Jake once the boy proves incapable of being swayed, but continues that same tactic of endearing himself as a good guy to his other prospects like Junior and Caroline.]] |
| 223 | * PsychoKnifeNut: His preferred murder weapon is a knife, to the point Tiffany comments that one is practically glued to his hand. Of course, he's very creative when it comes to murdering his victims. |
| 224 | * PsychologicalProjection: He mocks Jake for taking too long to kill Lexy saying he has a case of completion anxiety. It's clear that this was his way of denying he has completion anxiety as well. |
| 225 | * PsychopathicManchild: How fitting that he decided to turn himself into an evil LivingToy designed to look like a little boy. |
| 226 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: In the first three films, Chucky is on a time limit to transfer his soul into a human body before it becomes bound to his doll body, which becomes more human-like the longer he's in it. |
| 227 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He’s disgusted by Dr. Foley raping Nica under hypnosis, even saying he doesn’t know if he should kill him or take notes. |
| 228 | ** His seeming repulsion is questionable, however, seeing as how he has something of an affinity for non-consent himself. In ''Seed'', he utterly enjoys attacking and binding and gagging Jennifer Tilly in preparation for a soul transfer, and attempts to molest her afterward. In ''Curse'', during a flashback, he [[StalkerWithACrush kidnaps and binds and gags]] Sarah, and in ''Cult'', after possessing Nica, the first thing he does is fondle her breasts. The series also reveals that both he and Tiffany get off on forcing other people to watch them have sex. |
| 229 | * RasputinianDeath: Most of his gruesome death scenes are quite over the top. In the first film alone, he's set on fire, decapitated, and shot repeatedly before dying from a punctured heart. In the second, he has a hand and his legs torn off, is covered in molten plastic before Kyle makes his head inflate until it explodes. In the third he has half his face and his hands torn off before being shredded in a giant fan. In ''Seed'' he gets his limbs hacked off one by one before being decapitated. |
| 230 | * RealMenWearPink: The 2021 series implies that he may be a male fan of Creator/{{Sanrio}} and Franchise/HelloKitty judging by being fully comfortable with wearing a Hello Kitty mask as he's "trick of treating" in the HalloweenEpisode "Give Me Something Good to Eat". |
| 231 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He sports a robe with red and [[EvilWearsBlack black]] in the season 1 finale of ''Chucky''. |
| 232 | * ResurrectedMurderer: Charles Lee Ray, the "Lakeshore Strangler", uses Voodoo to transfer his body into a Good Guy Doll at a toy store after being shot. The doll starts calling himself "Chucky". |
| 233 | * {{Revenge}}: He targets the friend who left him to die and the cop who actually did the deed, in the original film, until he learns more about his new condition as a doll and becomes preoccupied with trying to get out of it. [[spoiler:Five sequels later, however, having come to embrace his new life as an immortal killer doll, he turns his mind back to his list of people he wants revenge against.]] |
| 234 | * RevengeMyopia: He seems to hate Andy simply because Andy refused to become possessed by him or continue to be Chucky's scapegoat for his rampage of murders anymore. |
| 235 | * {{Sadist}}: He personally takes pleasure in killing potentially innocent people as his victims - sometimes for kicks, sometimes because they got on his nerves. From ''Cult'': |
| 236 | -->'''Chucky:''' You know, I love being me. And I love my job. Especially the look on my victim's face when they realize, in that final moment, that it's all really happening. A children's toy is actually beating them to [[Film/ChildsPlay2 death with a yardstick]]! Or setting them on fire. Eviscerating them. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer All actual examples]]. |
| 237 | * SatanicArchetype: Chucky is shown to have a lot in common with the fallen angel, not only in terms of being utterly {{sadist}}ic and vile, but also the fact that him having the body of an innocent looking doll mirrors Satan being an angel of light. |
| 238 | * ScreamingWarrior: He yells, more in the first four films or so, practically ''non-stop'' when attacking his victims. |
| 239 | * SerialKiller: A hedonistic one, as he mentions that killing "helps [him] relax". It may explain why he can't keep himself from killing other people instead of seeking out his single target in the first three films; he's so angered over his plight that murder takes the edge off of it for him. |
| 240 | * SirSwearsALot: His mouth is just as foul as his attitude. |
| 241 | * SlasherSmile: Often sports one when killing people. |
| 242 | * SmugSnake: He delights in toying with his victims, acting like he's untouchable. But when they get the better of him, he [[VillainousBreakdown totally loses it]]. |
| 243 | * SoProudOfYou: He first took pride in Glen when Glen first helped him murder a paparazzi stalker (though by accident) only for Glen to swear it was an accident and he vows he won't be a killer much to Chucky's disappointment, but then again when Glen is savagely chopping him apart. He cheerfully congratulates his son on being a killer at last. |
| 244 | * TheSocialDarwinist: "It's kill or be killed. Everybody's gotta choose." |
| 245 | * TheSociopath: He was an AxCrazy SerialKiller both before and after he became a doll, so he was most definitely a psychopath. |
| 246 | * StalkerWithACrush: On [[spoiler: Nica's mom. In the flashback, we see Charles kidnapping her for an unspecified period of time and bringing her flowers. He's even implied to have killed her husband in a case of MurderTheHypotenuse.]] |
| 247 | * StrawMisogynist: Chucky outright states he can't live with women - period - in ''Curse''. |
| 248 | * StupidEvil: Could possibly explain why he kills minor people when he should be focusing on his target. Especially apparent in ''Child's Play 2'', where he wastes time vandalizing Andy's homework and playing the part of the doll rather than taking Andy's soul. Averted in ''Curse of Chucky'', however. [[spoiler: He plays the doll role to the hilt, and successfully frames Nica for murdering her family as a result, then has Tiffany get him to her niece, nearly (if not for some offscreen event) getting her body. He also would have presumably easily knifed Andy to death had Andy not had a shotgun waiting.]] |
| 249 | * SuperStrength: A subversion. Chucky is perhaps insanely strong for being just a toy doll, but this is because he retains what seems to be about 65-70% the strength of his original, adult body. This, combined with his small stature allowing him to get the drop on people, is why he gets such a high body count. The ''Chucky'' series also addresses this with Chucky explaining that Damballa is giving him power. |
| 250 | * TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler:Chucky's win-loss record in the films is not good, usually provided people get suspicious enough. He fails in his goals in the first four films, and changes his mind in the fifth, getting brutally re-killed each time. In the sixth, however, he succeeds in his goal to destroy the movie's family and take a soul until the end credits, and in the seventh he finally achieves a new human body and escapes with Tiffany, leaving Andy in an asylum.]] |
| 251 | * TeensAreMonsters: As revealed in ''Chucky'', he's every bit as vile now as he was when he was a teenager. |
| 252 | * TeenyWeenie: |
| 253 | ** If Damien's teasing, and Tiffany's comments on Chucky not even being a man at all "where it counts" and how plastic is no substitute for a "nice hunk of wood" in ''Bride'' are any indication. |
| 254 | ** Discussed in episode 8 of ''Chucky'' when [[spoiler:Tiffany]] calls him out for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (among other things)]] having a small penis. |
| 255 | * TermsOfEndangerment: Chucky calls Andy "sport" a few times, even though he's clearly trying to transfer his soul in the kid. |
| 256 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Acts as one to Jake in the ''Chucky'' series, manipulating his eroding sanity in an attempt to goad the kid into murdering all who have wronged him. At one point, he even begins ''physically assaulting'' Jake. |
| 257 | ** [[spoiler: He later becomes this to Jake's cousin Junior with more successful results, managing to convince Junior to kill his own father.]] |
| 258 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: While not a trademark per se, Tiffany said that Swedish meatballs are his favorite in ''Bride'' though Chucky's never been seen eating something in other movies. When in the White House, he, through Henry, asks for some. |
| 259 | * {{Troll}}: He's been a total dick who loves messing with his victims before murdering them. |
| 260 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The TV series conveys Chucky as being pure evil ever since he was a kid. He idolized the [[SerialKiller Hackensack Slasher]], [[spoiler:[[{{Matricide}} killed his own mother]] to impress him, and [[SelfHarm takes a bite into an apple despite knowing]] a [[RazorApples sharp object was inside it]]]]. |
| 261 | * TwoFaced: In two instances throughout the franchise: |
| 262 | ** In ''Child's Play 3'' an animatronic Grim Reaper slices off a good chunk of the left side of his face. |
| 263 | ** In the ''Chucky'' TV show, Chucky gets the left side of his head burnt and molten after causing a fire. |
| 264 | * UngratefulBastard: He continually treats Tiffany like garbage - sometimes though sheer but not-so-bad disregard or if they reach a disagreement - despite her being the only reason he is still alive after ''Child's Play 3''. |
| 265 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: In ''Bride'' and ''Seed'' when the series steered towards a more HorrorComedy route. |
| 266 | * VanityProject: [[spoiler:His EvilPlan in the TV series is revealed to be this in the first season finale; splitting his soul into dozens of new Good Guy dolls and having them shipped across the country so they can enact their own killing sprees, all so he can go down in history as the murderer with the most kills to his name.]] |
| 267 | * VillainDecay: Starting with ''Child’s Play 2'', but to several extents in ''Bride'' and ''Seed''. ''Very'' inverted in ''Curse'' as there's not an ounce of comedy involving Chucky and the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also generally more angry, violent, and sadistic than he was in any of the past films. While this could be explained out-of-story as attempting to drop some of the humor introduced in the previous entries, it can be explained in-story as Chucky having personal history with the family in question. |
| 268 | ** He also becomes easier to kill later on. For instance, in the original, not even being shot several times, set on fire and [[LosingYourHead decapitation]] was enough to kill him. It was only after that he was shot directly through the heart that he finally stopped. In ''Bride'', he is done in after a few gunshots. In ''Seed'', he is killed by having his limbs and [[OffWithHisHead head]] chopped off (all of which failed to him in the original). |
| 269 | * VillainousBreakdown: ''Flips out'' several times, like towards the end of ''Child's Play 2'' when he realizes he can't transfer his soul into Andy and is therefore trapped in the Good Guy doll. He spends almost all of the final fight angrily screaming, determined to murder Andy and Kyle by any means necessary. He also hates being trapped, as seen in ''Bride of Chucky'' at the end. |
| 270 | * VillainsOutShopping: Due to his VillainProtagonist status in ''Bride'' and ''Seed'', we see more of Chucky's personal life of what he likes to do besides killing and they consist of rocking out to White Zombie, eating Tiffany's Swedish meatballs and cookies (let alone even having a girlfriend, having sex with her), masturbating to porn or watching ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. Tiffany has encouraged Chucky to give up killing and pursue other passions in ''Seed''. He plays a violent video game in the TV series. But all in all Chucky is addicted to killing and he can't find anything that'll dissuade him from killing permanently. |
| 271 | * VillainProtagonist: In ''Bride'' and ''Seed''. |
| 272 | %%* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As Chucky. |
| 273 | * VillainsWantMercy: He's not necessarily above begging for his life, all but pleading with Andy to spare him when he thinks he's screwed - once in a while. |
| 274 | * VillainousValour: A thoroughly unsympathetic case. Psychotic killer or not, Chucky is not the kind to know when to give up when hunting down his targets even if he was to endure an insane amount of physical punishment and dismemberment. Rather than making him a badass however, it instead highlights that Chucky is a destructive and sadistic monster that never stops trying to hurt or kill as many people as he can, and will only stop if someone manages to kill him. |
| 275 | * VocalDissonance: The gruff voice of a ''serial killer'' coming out of a doll made to look like a little boy. It goes the other way when he's killed at the end of the first film, switching back to the Good Guy doll's voice even as he's been reduced to a [[BodyHorror melting, blackened husk]]. |
| 276 | * VocalEvolution: As a result of Brad Dourif's aging, Chucky's voice has gotten much gruffer in ''Curse''. |
| 277 | * VoiceChangeling: In the first film, he speaks in the high-pitched voice of his Good Guy doll vessel to deceive people. Come TheReveal, and he drops this in favor of his [[VocalDissonance real voice]]. |
| 278 | * WalkingSpoiler: It is nigh-impossible to discuss him without revealing a PlotTwist in the first movie. Granted, it's also a LateArrivalSpoiler... |
| 279 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: In the TV series, he tells the openly homosexual Jake about Glen (though not by name), seemingly assuring Jake he has no issue with him being gay because he has "a queer kid". Jake doesn't buy it, given he's still an unhinged, sadistic SerialKiller. This was likely just a means to ingratiate himself to the boy and push him into becoming a killer himself. |
| 280 | * WasOnceAMan: He was a human criminal who transferred his soul out of his dying body and into a plastic doll as a desperate measure to avoid death. One of his main goals was, for over around a decade and a half, to steal another human body for himself, not wanting to spend the rest of his existence as a ridiculous-looking children's toy. |
| 281 | * WhiteMaskOfDoom: Inverted, for his face would hardly even be called "pale". Yes, he's the main villain of a horror series and in one episode of ''Chucky'' he sports a [[LightIsNotGood white]] mask...but it's a Franchise/HelloKitty mask. |
| 282 | * WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: The first movie proves that he can fight and possibly run even when dismembered. And the end of ''Seed'' brings this back - in control of a dismembered arm. |
| 283 | * WouldHitAGirl: Many of his victims tend to be female, and has even attacked Tiffany a few times. |
| 284 | * WouldHurtAChild: He's not too picky about who he murders, outright declaring [[ChildHater he hates kids]] in ''Child's Play 2''. |
| 285 | ** Aside from previously stabbing a '''pregnant woman''', he attempted to kill Andy in ''Child's Play 2'', who was a child at the time. He also threatened Tyler many times in ''Child's Play 3'' and possibly attempted to kill [[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring his child Glen]]]] in ''Seed of Chucky''. |
| 286 | ** The ''Chucky'' series shows he has zero qualms with harming younger teenagers; he murders [[spoiler:Oliver]] by stabbing him multiple times, attempts to kill [[spoiler:Jake]], and tries to do the same to Lexy. All are 14-year-olds. |
| 287 | ** In the non-canon ''Chucky'' comic mini-series by Devil's Due Publishing, the Chucky there kills Bobby, a little boy, after murdering the kid's mother. In another issue, he kills a little girl using a crossbow and hosts a tea party with her corpse for shits and giggles. |
| 288 | ** Though he tells the other dolls with his soul in the series to avoid going after people under the age of six-to-seven, because babies "make good stooges" and because they're "not savages". |
| 289 | ** In the first episode of season 2 after failing to get Jake and his friends together to kill them all with a makeshift bomb, he [[spoiler: kills Gary, Jake's foster brother, by detonating the bomb]]. |
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