History Film / ChildsPlay3

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Real life garbage trucks don't have a grinder inside them.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Aside from the school's head and one other adult, Kent seems to be run almost entirely by its officer cadets. This is a case of ShownTheirWork, as many real life military academies are run the same way (though with more adults around, obviously).
* ActionizedSequel: Due to being set at a military school, it has MoreDakka (most of which is provided by the military school's armory that Chucky uses in his advantage in his murder spree) and gunfights then the last film.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sullivan]], [[JerkJock Shelton]] and [[PsychoForHire Sergeant Botnick.]] Downplayed for [[DeanBitterman Cochran]], aside from being apathetic to Andy's dilemma (as he views him as a "troublemaker") and being somewhat neglectful to Shelton's bullying, he is not as unlikeable as former three listed victims.]]
* BadassBandolier: Chucky wears one at one point, [[LaughablyEvil apparently]] [[EvilIsCool purely]] for the RuleOfCool to fit with the military-theme of this movie.

* BittersweetEnding: At the end, [[spoiler:Chucky is killed... again, but Andy taken in for questioning with the police and would likely be sent to prison afterwards. Fortunately, in ''Film/CurseOfChucky'', it is revealed that his name was cleared and he returned to military school and graduated.]]
* BloodlessCarnage: For a series known for its over the top violence, [[spoiler:Whitehurst's death by JumpingOnAGrenade]] is surprisingly not that gory.

* ForegoneConclusion: For some reason Sullivan allows a lower-tier employee to make a presentation trying to persuade him not to put the Good Guy doll back on the market, even though he's already gotten the factories back up and running days before the meeting even takes place. The novelization even calls it a foregone conclusion directly in the narration.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Tyler is charmed by Chucky initially, just like Andy before him. Chucky decides to steal Tyler's body instead this time, since he is younger and more naive than Andy and thus an easier target.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After surviving the beginning of the last film, [[spoiler:Sullivan]] [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome finally]] [[AssholeVictim gets his]] in the beginning of this film.

* TheNeidermeyer: The Cadet Lt. Colonel Shelton, to a point he's an almost uncanny {{Expy}} of its TropeNamer from another Creator/{{Universal}} film (other then this film) ''Film/AnimalHouse''.

* NextSundayAD: Since the story picks up eight years after 1990's ''Film/ChildsPlay2'', it does technically make it take place in the year 1998 (thus making the release date of ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' match up seamlessly as it takes place roughly a month after the events of ''Child's Play 3'').

* YourHeadASplode: This is how Chucky dies in the novelization. Instead of being tossed into a fan, Andy shoots him in in the head at point blank range. Repeatedly.

* ForegoneConclusion: For some reason Sullivan allows a lower-tier employee to make a presentation trying to persuade him not to put the Good Guy doll back on the market, even though he's already gotten the factories back up and running days before the meeting even takes place. The novelization even calls it a foregone conclusion directly in the narration.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstite: After his previous assistant was Chucky's first victim in the last movie, Sullivian's new one looks like he could be his twin.

* CreativeClosingCredits: Of the opening credits variety. The film's TitleSequence is close-up, reversed footage of Chucky melting, making it appear as if he's PullingHimseslfTogether before the plastic dries and he screams.

* BigBadWannabe: Quite a few, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sullivan]], [[TheBully Shelton]] and [[PsychoForHire the barber Botnick]], due to a case of WrongGenreSavvy as they think they're a BigBad in a movie that its genre reflects on any of their beings (Sullivan thinks he's a BigBad of a corporate espionage film, while Shelton thinks he's the BigBad of a teen drama or even ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' [[RecycledInSpace with teens]]) then a KillerDoll SlasherMovie that this film is really.

The third film of the ''[[Franchise/ChildsPlay]]'' series.

The third film of the [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Child's Play series.]]

* ContinuityNod: Andy's framed photo of himself and his mother from the first film that he's had since the previous film.
* CowardlyLion: Whitehurst knows Chucky is alive but refuses to help or back up Andy out of sheer terror. That is, until he grows a pair and makes a HeroicSacrifice at the end.

* NextSundayAD: Since the story picks up eight years after 1990's ''Film/ChildsPlay2'', it does technically make it take place in the year 1998 (thus making the release date of 1998's ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' match up seamlessly as it takes place roughly a month after the events of ''3'').

* FromASingleCell: If we take the film's opening sequence at face value, then Chucky's rebirth was the result of a few drops of blood from his previous body falling into a vat of plastic used to make the next batch of Good Guy dolls.

* TooDumbToLive: Tyler, big time. Along with the garbageman and carnival security guard who tries to comfort Tyler.

* ThisMeansWar: Chucky says this word for word after [[SillyReasonForWar having lipstick smeared around his mouth]] by human girls.
* TookALevelInBadass: Andy was already learning how to take care of himself in the second film, but this one sees him grow into full-blown hero territory.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his introductory scene, Sergeant Botnick tells Andy that the military haircut was invented by the ancient Romans so that the enemy wouldn't be able to grab hold of your hair and slit your throat, and he eerily mimics the gesture of slitting Andy's throat with his razor. [[SlashedThroat Guess what Chucky is going to do to him later]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his introductory scene, Sergeant Botnick tells Andy that the military haircut was invented by the ancient Romans so that the enemy wouldn't be able to grab hold of your hair and slit your throat, and he eerily mimicks the gesture of slitting Andy's throat with his razor. [[SlashedThroat Guess what Chucky is going to do to him later]]

** As far as ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' is concerned, the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' franchise exist in this universe as Matthew Walker, who played Major Ellis had before appeared in ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'', while Creator/BradDourif, the voice of Chucky, would later appear in Music/RobZombie's [[Film/Halloween2007 remake]] and its [[Film/HalloweenII2009 sequel]].

* NoOSHACompliance: The amusement park at the end has a giant, uncovered fan and a giant Grim Reaper that swings a real blade capable of chopping off half of Chucky's face. Also, the fan being uncovered is a bit of a ChekhovsGun.