Krusty is gonna git ya!
A Sub-trope of
Demonic Dummy.
Dolls, marionettes and puppets that are either possessed by a bigger evil like demons or ghosts or alive with a murderous streak, mindlessly attacking anything in sight.
They usually appear as the
Big Bad's basic cannon fodder army or just lesser enemies that just get into the heroes' path and are dispatched without much effort.
Examples:
- The Marionettes from the first Devil May Cry. They are string puppets controlled by lesser demons that wield scythes, knives, darts, and sometimes even shotguns.
- Later in the game, you encounter the Fetishes, which are basically fire-breathing voodoo dolls on steroids.
- Final Fantasy IV has Calco, Brina/Brena and their "fused" form Calcobrena. Controlled by Golbez, the dolls attacked Cecil and Co. when they tried to retrieve the Earth Crystal. They even have their own musical theme called "Dancing Doll Calcobrena".
- Silent Hill 2 has the Mannequin, a living sewing dummy and a very common nuisance throught the game. Silent Hill Origins has Ariel, a distorted little puppet found in the Artaurd Theater. Ariel hangs upside down from the ceiling and tries to kill Travis by breaking his neck.
- In an episode of Darkwing Duck called "The Haunting of Mr. Banana Brain", the evil spirit Paddywhack possesses Quackerjack's doll, Mr. Banana Brain. As he causes trouble alongside the demented toymaker, he grows, feeding from the negative emotions around himself.
- "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," a classic episode of Doctor Who had an awesomely evil puppet controlled by Magnus Greel.
- The Wracky species from Monster Rancher 2. This Troper's personal favorite breed of Wracky can be summed up perfectly by its name: Satan Claus.
- Super Mario RPG features two perverse puppets as regular enemies: Remo Con in Booster's Tower and Puppox in Smithy's Factory.
- The first boss of SRPG Shining Force is a Marionette left by Wicked Witch Mishaela in the Circus at Rindo. Not only that, but the other monsters you face in said big top also include mannequins, spell-casting puppets and knife-wielding clowns.
- Elsie and Frances in Metal Gear Acid are a pair of bantering puppets who manage to hijack a plane. They're being controlled by Lena.
- Ridley Sheldon in the Toei Yu-Gi-Oh anime is a puppet master. He has life-size dolls set up outside his house to resemble a large party, and impersonates the (female) school nurse with a puppet. Of course, his deck is also based on dolls.
- Four words: Krusty the Killing Doll.
- Also on The Simpsons, the fictional movie The Redeadening featured one of these.
- Reynardine from Gunnerkrigg Court is a body-snatching demon who spends most of the story trapped in stuffed wolf doll.
- The Smilin' Sam and Handsome Tom enemies from Earthbound.
- In the webcomic Sparkling Geeration Valkyrie Yuuki, the norse god Loki walks the earth in the body of a small plush cat. I Am Not Making This Up.
- Somewhere in Ranma 1/2's Japan, there exists an inn famous for its haunted doll. After Ranma breaks it accidentally and reassembles it, its spirit possesses Akane, switching places with her so that Ranma's fiancée is turned into a living, silent doll. Meanwhile, the original spirit plots to kill Ranma using her body.
- Killer doll enemies in Zombies Ate My Neighbors that throw hatches at you. Sometimes when you kill them you have to fight their burning remains, which are faster.
