History Film / ChildsPlay

* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a universe filled with [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath), supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]] and protagonists who are [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film and a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous HorribleHollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).

* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a universe filled with [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath), supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]] and protagonists who are[[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film and a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous Hollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).

** The series's universe is also filled with characters who starts out as friends of the protagonists, but then can [[{{TookALevelInJerkass take a level in jerkass}}]] once turning on the {{The Hero}}es after viewing the protagonists as {{Broken Pedestal}}s after Chucky frames the leads for his crimes, [[spoiler:then become {{Asshole Victim}}s after stooping that low]].

->''[[TagLine You'll wish it was only make-believe.]]''[[note]]Even though it kinda is. Just sayin'.[[/note]]

* HopeSpot: Maggie believes that there's nothing in the kitchen. Then she's [[OhCrap!startled]] by Chucky.

* HopeSpot: Maggie believes that there's nothing in the kitchen. Then she's [[OhCrap! startled]] by Chucky.

->''[[TagLine You'll wish it was only make-believe.]]''

->''"You'll wish it was only make-believe."''

* AndIMustScream: It's implied in the ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover that Chucky is stuck in a state similar to this whenever his body is destroyed.

* FriendsRentControl: Karen is a single mom with a crappy job at a department store, and explicitly strapped for cash. Her Chicago apartment is frigging huge.

* ''Film/ChildsPlay'' (1988)

* HollywoodVoodoo: A constant of all the films as this is the foundation for the story's mythology of Chucky gets his soul in a doll in the first place, but this first film emphasizes it harder than any of the sequels. We are shown the apartments of both Chucky's mentor and Chucky himself as Charles Lee Ray (both are stocked to the gills with HollywoodVoodoo iconography), Chucky's chant is notably longer and more pronounced than in the later films, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen there was even going to be an artifact originally that enabled Chucky to conduct his soul transfer]]. This "Heart of Damballa" was cut from all known releases, but [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/chuckychildsplay/images/6/6b/Simonsen.jpg a few stills]] [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/evil/images/2/27/Heart_of_Damballa.jpg exist]].

* VillainBall: Despite being logically running out of time before he turns completely human, Chucky sure wastes a lot of time killing random people ForTheEvulz in ''Child's Play 2'' and ''3'' instead of going straight to Andy [[spoiler:(and Tyler in 3)]] to transfer his soul. You would expect him to hurry and keep a low profile until he gets his new body, especially considering where revealing himself led him in the first movie, but apparently, he doesn't learn from his mistakes.
* VillainDecay: Chucky. More and more after each film. He was pretty scary and played seriously when he first appeared. Then, he became more PlayedForLaughs and less scary as the series went on.

* ElectrifiedBathtub: This was originally going to be the babysitter's death, but the special effect would have been too expensive. This is instead used in Bride Of Chucky.

* HollywoodVoodoo: This is how Chucky gets his soul in a doll in the first place.

* TooDumbToLive: The voodoo priest who taught Chucky everything he knows about the dark arts. To make it even worse, he keeps a VoodooDoll of ''himself'' around.

* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a universe filled with [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath), supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]] and protagonists who are [[TheWoobie The Woobies]] and [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film and a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous Hollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).

* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a universe filled with [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath), supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, [[TheScrappy The Scrappys]] or have [[{{TookALevelInJerkass}} taken a level in jerkass]] and protagonists who are [[TheWoobie The Woobies]] and [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film and a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous Hollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).

* CrapsackWorld: The apparent setting of the films, as it's a universe filled with [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] (who [[AssholeVictim most deserved]] Chucky's wrath), supporting characters who are mostly either TooDumbToLive, NotSoAboveItAll, {{Hate Sink}}s, [[TheScrappy The Scrappys]] or have TookALevelInJerkass and protagonists who are [[TheWoobie The Woobies]] and [[HeroWithBadPublicity Heroes With Bad Publicity]] who all happen to the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] in comparison to the supporting cast. It also has a bleak depiction of Chicago, Illinois or at least mid-America, ranging from Chicago being littered with vagrants who are rapists at night and has a rundown mental hospital for criminally insane children run by a BitchInSheepsClothing DrJerk in the first film to a toy company run by a heartless CorruptCorporateExecutive in the second and third films to a military school run by {{The Neidermeyer}}s in the third film to the life on the road filled with thieving couples and {{Dirty Cop}}s in the fourth film and a DysfunctionalFamily filled with a married couple who are {{Jerkass}}es in [[YourCheatingHeart different]] [[TookALevelInJerkass degrees]] and a TooDumbToLive [[BuryYourGays lesbian]] babysitter with the paraplegic woman to be the OnlySaneWoman in the family and more {{Dirty Cop}}s in the sixth film. However, it's PlayedForLaughs in the fifth film when depicting the glamorous Hollywood filled with LargeHam [[NewMediaAreEvil paparazzi]] (or as [[EvenEvilHasStandards Chucky points it out, "Paparazzi scumbag!"]]).
** The second film depicts Chicago to be a CrapsaccharineWorld, that despite the bright (if somewhat eerie) look of the film, it's actually still an unkind city that not even Andy is safe from other then Chucky (the aforementioned toy company run by cold-hearted {{corrupt corporate executive}}s including one SmugSnake [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]], an elementary school where its implied {{sadist teacher}}s are authorized to inflict [[WouldHurtAChild physical and emotional child abuse]] on their students, and foster parents who, [[NotSoAboveItAll despite their appearances to be seemingly ideal-looking and what model families should look like]], [[SupernaturalProofFather naturally disbelieve that a killer doll is on the loose out to get a child]] and can be vindictively judgmental if a child is a HeroWithBadPublicity and can easily deduce kids can be murderers ranging from an ObstructiveBureaucrat {{Jerkass}} foster father to a mother who starts out as caring and kind towards the child, [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes but]] [[NotSoAboveItAll th]][[BitchInSheepsClothing en]] TookALevelInJerkass towards the kid [[spoiler: after seeing her husband dead and irrationally jumped to a conclusion that the child killed him somehow]] just because of his [[HeroWithBadPublicity prior reputation]]). Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into a ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.
** The series's universe is also filled with characters who starts out as friends of the protagonists, but then can TookALevelInJerkass once turning on the {{The Hero}}es after viewing the protagonists as {{Broken Pedestal}}s after Chucky frames the leads for his crimes, [[spoiler:then become {{Asshole Victim}}s after stooping that low]].

* HateSink: Most of the {{Jerkass}}es in the series tend to fall into this, which is why these films has more {{Asshole Victim}}s then any other SlasherMovie franchise, even more then the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' films.

* InkSuitActor: Both Chucky's and Tiffany's doll forms are basically creepy miniature caricatures of their actors Brad Douif and Jennifer Tilly. Even Chucky's 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.

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[[caption-width-right:332:Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?]]

[=TikGames=] [[http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/12509/childs-play-videogame-series-announced announced]] a videogame series based on the property in which you play as Chucky in a ''literal'' murder simulator.

* BrokenPedestal: TheHero finds him or herself in this position when one or more of their confidents believed they committed the crimes that were in fact caused by Chucky. This however, causes the one who becomes disillusioned to TookALevelInJerkass or reveals him or herself to be negatively NotSoAboveItAll and becomes just another [[spoiler: AssholeVictim who is TooDumbToLive for Chucky to kill]].

** The second film depicts Chicago to be a CrapsaccharineWorld, that despite the bright (if somewhat eerie) look of the film, it's actually still an unkind city that not even Andy is safe from other then Chucky (the aforementioned toy company run by cold-hearted {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s including one SmugSnake [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on his wife]], an elementary school where it's implied {{Sadist Teacher}}s are authorized to inflict [[WouldHurtAChild physical and emotional child abuse]] on their students, and foster parents who, [[NotSoAboveItAll despite their appearances to be seemingly ideal-looking and what model families should look like]], [[SupernaturalProofFather naturally disbelieve that a killer doll is on the loose out to get a child]] and can be vindictively judgmental if a child is a HeroWithBadPublicity and can easily deduce kids can be murderers ranging from an ObstructiveBureaucrat {{Jerkass}} foster father to a mother who starts out as caring and kind towards the child, [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes but]] [[NotSoAboveItAll th]][[BitchInSheepsClothing en]] TookALevelInJerkass towards the kid [[spoiler: after seeing her husband dead and irrationally jumped to a conclusion that the child killed him somehow]] just because of his [[HeroWithBadPublicity prior reputation]]). Not to mentioned TooDumbToLive social workers and factory employees and a minor newspaper truck driver who [[JerkassHasAPoint understandably]] from an impartial viewpoint can be [[BerserkButton irked]] if getting run off the road for seemingly no reason (except to prevent a killer doll to transfer his soul to a child). Plus, in contrast to the [[DissonantSerenity seemingly and visually family-friendly]] [[NotSoAboveItAll environment]], anyone besides Chucky can be [[SirSwearsALot Sir Swears-a-Lots]] (or go into a ClusterFBomb or inflict a PrecisionFStrike towards somebody, like Kyle or the truck driver when confronting Kyle), though not as much as Chucky, who swears the most.

%%* CreepyDoll

* RasputinianDeath: In the first three films, Chucky takes an absurd amount of punishment. Getting set on fire, dismembered, melted, and ''cutting half of his face off'' only slowed him down temporarily.

%%* ScreamingWarrior: Chucky.

%%* SmugSnake: Chucky.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Andy doesn't return after the third ''Child's Play'' movie. The movie ends with him being brought in by the police for questioning. Same thing applies to Tyler as well. [[spoiler: ''Curse Of Chucky'' however, shows that Andy seems to be doing just fine.]]

%%* EightiesHair: Maggie Peterson.

%%* HonoraryUncle: Aunt Maggie

--> [[spoiler: '''Chucky:''']] YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU TO FUCK WITH ME!!!

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The Good Guy Doll being alive was supposed to be a twist... wouldn't you know? The original poster of the first film just showed a woman crashing through a window out of a building (the first murder victim of Chucky in the film) and giant evil eyes in the stormy sky.

** Jade and Jesse are this to David in the fourth film (though unlike most examples in the series, its revelation is more PlayedForLaughs in a BlackComedy manner due to the fourth film steering more towards the humorous route).

* CassandraTruth: No one ever believes Andy about Chucky. When they do, they usually die.

* InsaneTrollLogic: In the franchise's CrapsackWorld, it seems anyone can easily accept that any human being, whether its either impossibly a 6 to 8 year-old child or a wheelchair-bound woman, are capable to commit a murder, ''[[IdiotBall except]]'' a KillerDoll.

** The latest had the [[WheelchairWoobie wheelchair-bound Nica]].