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No it doesn't. Straight continuity through all six movies.


* BroadStrokes: Child's Play 1 - 3 did in fact happen, but the series chronology gets blurry when [[spoiler:Tiffany]] appears.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Ian and eventually the police and courtroom judge believed the wheelchair-bound and mostly physically incapable Nica is responsible for the killings, even Father Frank's and her own mother Sarah's deaths due to the weapons contributing to their murders appearing as evidence for the trial, and Alice's kidnapping.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as Jill and Officer Stanton]].

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[BigSisterBully especially]] [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as Jill and Officer Stanton]].


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* BigSisterBully: Barb is revealed to be this towards Nica due to resenting her for her special privileges as a result of her being paraplegic from the waist down.


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* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:Barb]] is a having an affair with [[spoiler:Jill]] and is very selfish and manipulative.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Barb is selfish and manipulative.
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* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to sale her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly cafe employee as she expected something more high-class then that.

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* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to sale sell her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly cafe employee as she expected something more high-class then than that.



* NewMediaAreEvil: Barb runs a print media business that she said is dead, resorting her to find other means of gathering money.

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* NewMediaAreEvil: Barb runs a print media business that she said is dead, resorting to her to find other means of gathering money.



* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich, however, it's implied she's the most wealthier of the Pierce family through her print media business until it went bankrupt. See GoldDigger above.

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* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich, however, it's implied she's the most wealthier wealthiest of the Pierce family through her print media business until it went bankrupt. See GoldDigger above.
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I don\'t remember them to be Dirty Coward and Dirty Cop, to be honest. If you want to restore it, please add the trope with proper explanation. For Barb and Ian, however, it\'s pretty much well-known they\'re jerks.


* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as [[DirtyCoward Jill]] and [[DirtyCop Officer Stanton]]]].

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as [[DirtyCoward Jill]] Jill and [[DirtyCop Officer Stanton]]]].Stanton]].
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* ParentalNeglect: As much as we can see, Barb doesn't seem to be a good mother for her daughter.
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* Broad Strokes: Child's Play 1 - 3 did in fact happen, but the series chronology gets blurry when [[spoiler:Tiffany]] appears.

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* Broad Strokes: BroadStrokes: Child's Play 1 - 3 did in fact happen, but the series chronology gets blurry when [[spoiler:Tiffany]] appears.

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* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her but it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably
possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her but it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably
presumably possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her but it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her but it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably presumably
possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]]]
* Broad Strokes: Child's Play 1 - 3 did in fact happen, but the series chronology gets blurry when [[spoiler:Tiffany]] appears.
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* IdiotBall: Ian accuses Nica of [[spoiler: killing Barb and Jill and hiding Alice away.]] Kind of hard getting the drop on people if you're in a wheelchair.
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* IdiotBall: Ian accuses Nica of [[spoiler: killing Barb and Jill and hiding Alice away.]] Kind of hard getting the drop on people if you're in a wheelchair.

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Straight Gay strictly applies to gay men who act masculine. The proper trope here is Lipstick Lesbian.


* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Jill]] is lesbian[[note]]or bisexual, but we couldn't know that much since she only had an on-screen relationship with a woman[[/note]]. But nobody in the movie [[spoiler:(except Ian, eventually)]] seems to know that.



* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Jill]] is lesbian[[note]]or bisexual, but we couldn't know that much since she only had an on-screen relationship with a woman[[/note]]. But nobody in the movie [[spoiler:(except Ian, eventually)]] seems to know that.

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* NewMediaAreEvil: Barb runs a print media business that she said is dead, resorting her to find other means of gathering money.



* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich. See GoldDigger above.

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* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich.rich, however, it's implied she's the most wealthier of the Pierce family through her print media business until it went bankrupt. See GoldDigger above.
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* OhCrap: Chucky gets a genuine shit-your-pants one [[spoiler:during TheStinger]].

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* OhCrap: Chucky gets a genuine shit-your-pants one [[spoiler:during [[spoiler:when he finds himself staring down the barrel of Andy's shotgun during TheStinger]].
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* HowWeGotHere: A flashback reveals that it was [[spoiler: Charles Lee Ray killing Nica's father and stabbing her mother in the stomach, resulting in her being born paraplegic, that led to him being chased by police at the beginning of the first film]].

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* HowWeGotHere: A flashback reveals that it was [[spoiler: Charles Lee Ray killing Nica's father and stabbing her mother in the stomach, resulting in her being born paraplegic, that led to him being chased by police and taking refuge in the toy store at the beginning of the first film]].
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* HowWeGotHere: A flashback reveals that it was [[spoiler: Charles Lee Ray killing Nica's father and stabbing her mother in the stomach, resulting in her being born paraplegic, that led to him being chased by police at the beginning of the first film]].
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The sixth film in the [[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play series]], released directly to video.

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The sixth film in the ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play]]'' [[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play series]], released directly to video.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more of a straight horror movie than the previous two movies, which were flat-out comedies.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more of a straight horror movie than the previous two movies, which were flat-out basically comedies.

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The sixth film, entitled ''Curse of Chucky'', is a Direct-to-DVD sequel, with Don Mancini having directed it.

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The sixth film in the [[Film/ChildsPlay Child's Play series]], released directly to video.

Twenty-five years after the events of the first
film, entitled ''Curse Chucky appears on the doorstep of Chucky'', is Nica, a Direct-to-DVD sequel, young paraplegic woman. Of course, everyone around her soon starts dying, and Nica discovers she may have a past connection with Don Mancini having directed it.
Chucky.


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* DarkerAndEdgier: Much more of a straight horror movie than the previous two movies, which were flat-out comedies.
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* RedHerring: The interaction between Ian and Jill implies they will have an affair in the movie, [[AssholeVictim so we won't feel sorry for their deaths]]. Jill does have an affair, but with [[spoiler:Barb]], instead.

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* RedHerring: The interaction between Ian and Jill implies they will have an affair in the movie, [[AssholeVictim so we won't feel sorry for their deaths]]. Jill does have an affair, but with [[spoiler:Barb]], instead.instead, but we still don't feel sorry for Ian, [[spoiler: after he TookALevelInJerkass by viewing Nica as a BrokenPedestal once thinking she's the killer and then tying her to her wheelchair to invoke the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique treatment on her to squeeze out his daughter Alice's location]].
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* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to see her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly cafe employee as she expected something more high-class then that.

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* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to see sale her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly cafe employee as she expected something more high-class then that.
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* GoldDigger: Barb, despite not married to someone who's rich, she does want to see her mother's house strictly for money and disliked Ian's middle-class job as a lowly cafe employee as she expected something more high-class then that.


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* RichBitch: Barb, despite not actually being rich. See GoldDigger above.
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* DangerTakesABackseat: That police officer should check his car's backseat so he could have known a psychotic killer woman was in there.
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* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlitThroat from her sharpened finger nails.

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* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlitThroat SlashedThroat from her sharpened finger nails.

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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Barb]] is married, but she also has an affair with a girl, [[spoiler:Jill]].



* ChildrenAreInnocent: Alice is completely oblivious that Chucky is a killer doll and by the end of the movie, she is convinced that it was Nica who killed her parents and Jill.



* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Tiffany]] kills a police officer with a SlitThroat from her sharpened finger nails.



* JumpScare: [[spoiler:Just before the credits, no less, Alice's grandmother getting up with a plastic bag over her head, screaming.]]



* RedHerring: The interaction between Ian and Jill implies they will have an affair in the movie, [[AssholeVictim so we won't feel sorry for their deaths]]. Jill does have an affair, but with [[spoiler:Barb]], instead.
* StraightGay: [[spoiler:Jill]] is lesbian[[note]]or bisexual, but we couldn't know that much since she only had an on-screen relationship with a woman[[/note]]. But nobody in the movie [[spoiler:(except Ian, eventually)]] seems to know that.




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* YourCheatingHeart: Barb is cheating on her husband with [[spoiler:Jill]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[JerkAss Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as [[DirtyCoward Jill]] and [[DirtyCop Officer Stanton]].

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* AssholeVictim: [[JerkAss [[spoiler: [[{{Jerkass}} Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as [[DirtyCoward Jill]] and [[DirtyCop Officer Stanton]].Stanton]]]].
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* VillainDecay: Inverted. There's not much humour involving Chucky, the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also a lot 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 [[Spoiler: Chucky having personal history with the family in question]].

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* VillainDecay: Inverted. There's not much humour involving Chucky, the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also a lot 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 [[Spoiler: Chucky [[spoiler:Chucky having personal history with the family in question]].
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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Nica, who ends up getting locked up for Chucky's murders but still finds satisfaction in that she survived his reign of terror.]]

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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Nica, who ends up getting locked up for Chucky's the murders but committed by Chucky. However, she still finds satisfaction in that she survived his surviving Chucky's reign of terror.]]
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* FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Nica, who ends up getting locked up for Chucky's murders but still finds satisfaction in that she survived his reign of terror.]]
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The sixth film, entitled ''Curse of Chucky'', is a Direct-to-DVD sequel, with Don Mancini having directed it.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* AnAxeToGrind: It features axe-murdering.
* AssholeVictim: [[JerkAss Barb]] and [[TookALevelInJerkass Ian]] who both border on this, especially [[YourCheatingHeart Barb]], as well as [[DirtyCoward Jill]] and [[DirtyCop Officer Stanton]].
* BittersweetEnding: At the end [[spoiler: Nica is declared criminally insane as no one believed her, Chucky is alive and comes back after Alice to possess her but it doesn't seem to work as six months later Chucky is sent to Andy Barclay by Tiffany, to presumably possess him, only for Andy to blow Chucky's head off with a shotgun.]]
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The FlashBack, with the odd SplashOfColor.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: It takes a ''very'' long time for anything to happen.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Andy Barclay of all characters as revealed.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Barb]] loses her eye.
--> [[spoiler: '''Chucky:''' You have your mother's eyes... And they were always too FUCKING CLOSE TOGETHER! (Proceeds to stab her in the eye).]]
%%* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[spoiler:Barb and Jill.]]
* HumanMail: [[spoiler:Tiffany mails Chucky to Andy again]].
* ImperiledInPregnancy: A pre-doll transformation Charles Lee Ray is seen stabbing a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances.
* JawBreaker: [[spoiler:Ian dies by getting his jaw hacked off with an axe.]]
* OhCrap: Chucky gets a genuine shit-your-pants one [[spoiler:during TheStinger]].
* PreMortemOneLiner:
--> [[spoiler: '''Andy''']]: "Play with this."
* TheStinger: There's a post-credits scene in which [[spoiler:Chucky is mailed to Andy...only to be greeted with a shotgun pointed at his head when he emerges from his box.]]
* WhamShot: Chucky[[spoiler:'s rubber mask beginning to fall apart, revealing his still patched-up face]].
%%* TooDumbToLive: Alice, Jill and Ian certainly qualify.
* VillainDecay: Inverted. There's not much humour involving Chucky, the deaths are simplistic, brutal, and pragmatic. Chucky himself is also a lot 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 [[Spoiler: Chucky having personal history with the family in question]].

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