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** Among Jade's toys are the Squiddles. They are plush, smiling, tentacled friends. It is implied that their creation was influenced by the Horrorterrors, DreamWalkers with an unconscious influence on humanity.

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** Among The Squiddles are among Jade's toys are the Squiddles.toys. They are plush, smiling, tentacled friends. It is implied that their creation was influenced inspired by the Horrorterrors, DreamWalkers with that exert an unconscious influence on humanity.humanity: the cute Squiddles are the [[TheTamingOfTheGrue softened]] avatars of EldritchAbomination[=s=]. It is easy to agree with [[YMMV fans who always]] found them creepy.
** Jade also enjoys the Manthro Chaps, dolls whose gimmick is FurryConfusion.
** The Duttle.
---> You made a DUTTLE! \\
The duttle is weirding you out a little. You believe you will keep your distance from the duttle.

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** The strip has [[DemonicDummy Lil' Cal]], who appears completely inanimate, if nightmarishly designed... as long as you're looking at him. When you're not looking, he moves around on his own. [[spoiler:Although it's actually Bro moving him. He's also cursed, is the ectobiological father of TheDragon, and contains the soul of the GreaterScopeVillain.]]
** [[spoiler: Squiddles]] further in. Some people found them unnerving to begin with, but [[spoiler:finding out they're a subconscious representation of the Horrorterrors]] really cuts it.

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** The strip has [[DemonicDummy Smuppets, made and owned by Bro. They are not objectively ugly or disturbing, but Dave [[EnmityWithAnObject treats them that way]]. Bro uses them to make "video content" for his websites -- in other words, [[RuleThirtyFour niche pornography]] for people with a puppet {{Fetish}}. In light of this, Dave's revulsion is understandable.
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Lil' Cal]], who appears completely inanimate, if nightmarishly designed... as long as you're looking at him. When you're not looking, Cal, a DemonicDummy, is also owned by Bro. His [[CreepyDoll creepy]], [[NonStandardCharacterDesign jarring]], [[ThousandYardStare glass-eyed stare]] is bad enough. What's worse is that he moves seems to move around on when Dave turns his own. [[spoiler:Although it's actually Bro moving him. He's also cursed, is back.
** Among Jade's toys are
the ectobiological father of TheDragon, and contains Squiddles. They are plush, smiling, tentacled friends. It is implied that their creation was influenced by the soul of the GreaterScopeVillain.]]
** [[spoiler: Squiddles]] further in. Some people found them unnerving to begin with, but [[spoiler:finding out they're a subconscious representation of the Horrorterrors]] really cuts it.
Horrorterrors, DreamWalkers with an unconscious influence on humanity.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' as Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends" some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.

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* In Disney's ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' as Dr. Facilier is being dragged away by his "friends" some of them take the form of voodoo and rag dolls.
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* Inverted by ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in a cut-for-time ParodyCommercial for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWBNCnU_PK0 "My Little Step Children" dolls.]] The dolls are rather gothic-looking, but otherwise harmless and in fact [[TheWoobie sympathetic]]. The creepy part comes from the fact that they're marketed to kids who want to play WickedStepmother and abuse their "children" in campy, melodramatic fashion.
-->"The first time I bought Lisa a doll, she said she felt no real connection to it, like there was a sheet of glass between her and the doll. With My Little Step Children, she no longer feels forced to change that."
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** The short story included with the first adventure in the ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Strange Aeons]]'' adventure path features soulbound dolls constructed by a dollmaker who had become a cultist of [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]] (now driven half-mad with guilt for what he's done). The narrator, who owned one such doll as a child, has a flashback to a repressed memory where it drove her to dismember a stray cat with a butcher's cleaver.
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* ''Film/AntMan''. The bunny doll that Scott gives to his daughter for her birthday looks like it came straight from Creator/MontyPython. [[NightmareFetishist She loves it.]]

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* ''Film/AntMan''.''Film/AntMan1''. The bunny doll that Scott gives to his daughter for her birthday looks like it came straight from Creator/MontyPython. [[NightmareFetishist She loves it.]]

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* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' mentions an old doll from the 1830s that leaks black liquid from its eyes as a potential superhero weakness.

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* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' ''Blog/HowToHero'' mentions an old doll from the 1830s that leaks black liquid from its eyes as a potential superhero weakness.
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* Toys/MyFriendCayla became this not necessarily because of any horror stigma (though the MachineMonotone voice is a little unsettling), but due to concerns regarding the digital assistant technology used, as its cloud-based nature and the fact that the doll's Bluetooth stack is insecure (!) made it a subject of criticism from cybersecurity firms and watchdog groups.
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* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler: Except that the movie is actually a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, there's nothing supernatural about Brahms whatsoever - because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]

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* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler: Except that the movie is actually a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, subversion, and there's nothing supernatural about Brahms the doll whatsoever - because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]



* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') features one of the creepiest damn ones you may ever see. Parodied in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhOhergl8GM fake French commercial]] under the brand of "Dolls Klaus Barbie". In that time, Klaus Barbie was a former Nazi judged for crimes against humanity.

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* ''Film/{{Reincarnation}}'' (a.k.a. ''Rinne'') features one of the creepiest damn ones you may ever see. Parodied in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhOhergl8GM fake French commercial]] under the brand of "Dolls Klaus Barbie". In At that time, Klaus Barbie was a former Nazi judged being tried for crimes against humanity.



* How about Casey? Newt's doll in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is the hollow plastic head that probably used to belong to a baby doll. The girl comforted it when she was nervous.
* The film version of ''Film/RedDragon'' has this, with the dolls of the murdered children. The UncannyValley effect of their eyes actually helps TheProfiler figure out part of the SerialKiller's fantasy.

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* How about Casey? Borderline example in Casey, Newt's doll in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' is the ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. It's just a hollow plastic head that head, which probably used to belong to a baby doll. The girl comforted it when she was nervous.
nervous to try to reassure herself.
* The film version of ''Film/RedDragon'' has this, with focuses on a SerialKiller who murders families in their beds. While at one particular crime scene, the camera would often dwell on the creepy old antique dolls of the a murdered children. child. The UncannyValley effect of their the dolls' eyes actually helps TheProfiler the hero to [[TheProfiler figure out part of the SerialKiller's fantasy.killer's motivating fantasy]].



* There is also the creepiest doll in cinema history in James Wan's other film, ''Film/TheConjuring.'' It is also possessed by a demon.
* In the 1951 version of ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys - including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel.

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* There is also the creepiest doll in cinema history in ** That same film's director, James Wan's other film, ''Film/TheConjuring.'' It is also Wan, would go on to make ''Film/TheConjuring'', featuring an especially scary doll, who ''is'' possessed by a demon.
* In the 1951 version of ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys - toys, including a laughing-man doll that's pure nightmare fuel.fuel - although Tim seems to find it charming.



* The granddaddy of them all, the British film ''Film/DeadOfNight''. Creator/MichaelRedgrave is a ventriloquist who is having a nervous breakdown and thinks his dummy is going to abandon him for another performer. He even attempts murder to keep him. [[spoiler: In another man's psychotic breakdown the doll gets up and attempts to strangle him.]] This movie was the direct inspiration for ''Devil Doll'', ''Magic'' and the Twilight Zone episode with Cliff Robertson.

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* The granddaddy of them all, the British film ''Film/DeadOfNight''. Creator/MichaelRedgrave is a ventriloquist who is having a nervous breakdown and thinks his dummy is going to abandon him for another performer. He even attempts murder to keep him. [[spoiler: In another man's psychotic breakdown the doll gets up and attempts to strangle him.]] This movie was the direct inspiration for ''Devil Doll'', ''Magic'' and the Twilight Zone ''Twilight Zone'' episode with Cliff Robertson.



* One of Gahan Wilson's cartoons was so creeping that it was used as the cover and the title of a collection of his works. It's an attic with all the broken toys - rocking horses with broken legs and teddy bear without an eye or an arm. And the teddy bear is telling the others - "Someday when he's old and weak, he'll get nostalgic and come up here to see us. Then we'll get him."

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* One of Gahan Wilson's cartoons was so creeping that it cartoons, which was used as the cover and the title of a collection of his works. It's works, shows an attic with all the broken toys - rocking horses with broken legs and teddy bear without an eye or an arm. And the teddy bear is telling the others - "Someday when he's old and weak, he'll get nostalgic and come up here to see us. Then we'll get him."
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* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler: Except that there's nothing supernatural about Brahms whatsoever - because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]

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* ''Film/TheBoy'' prominently features one of these in Brahms, an effigy of a nine-year-old boy who died years ago. [[spoiler: Except that the movie is actually a {{Deconstruction}} of the trope, there's nothing supernatural about Brahms whatsoever - because the real Brahms didn't die at all, and is in fact now a grown PsychopathicManchild making the doll move when no one is watching.]]
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* In Betty Ren Wright's ''The Dollhouse Murders,'' the dolls themselves aren't exactly creepy, but their actions are: every night, they reenact the murder of the main character's grandparents, arranging themselves in the same rooms and positions in which the bodies were found. Even creepier, the main character discovers this when she wakes in the night to hear the dolls ''sobbing in terror.''
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* ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', the [[UndeadChild ghost of the little girl]] is carrying a porcelain doll. When the protagonist find the doll in the attic it is even creepier close up, with a maze of cracks running through its face. The flickering light causes its eyes to appear completely black.
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* In "The Lonely Doll" books by Dare Wright the doll is not so creepy but her situation is. She comes to live with two teddy bears and apparently there is a lot of disapproval and spankings.

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* In "The Lonely Doll" Literature/TheLonelyDoll books by Dare Wright Wright, the doll is not herself isn't so creepy creepy, but her situation is. She comes to live with two teddy bears and The doll starts off apparently there is abandoned in a highrise penthouse, and when she finally gets company, there's a lot of disapproval and spankings.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Shippening", one of the items that the police find while raiding the Awesome Store is a singing doll that [[DemonicPossession possesses]] an officer when its string is pulled.
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* One episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had a murder in a doll hospital. They ended up finding an important piece of evidence: A recording in a doll. To try and figure out how to activate it, the take off the dolls head, with all the wires hanging out of it, like veins and intestines. Then they turn it on and it says in a semi-demonic voice ''"I'm Susie Secret."''

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* One episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had a murder in a doll hospital. They ended up finding an important piece of evidence: A a recording in a doll. To try and figure out how to activate it, the they take off the dolls doll's head, with all the wires hanging out of it, like veins and intestines. Then they turn it on and it says in a semi-demonic voice ''"I'm Susie Secret.''"My Name is Sophie."''

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* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them. [[/folder]]

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* At one point in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'', you discover an old abandoned inn that has an attic room filled with broken sex dolls. They’re harmless until you loot the nearby treasure chest, at which point they start giggling and attack. If you [[NonStandardGameOver lose the battle]], then Catie is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed]] into one of them.
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* ''Spirit Hunter'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' has Mary, a human-sized talking doll that belonged to the late Saya Kujou. She has a habit of startling those who meet her for the first time, though fortunately she's on the protagonist's side. [[spoiler:Or not; she's actually the BigBad who feeds on the pain and despair of her victims.]]
** ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
*** Akira realises that BigBad Kakuya is a doll due to her ethereal appearance and her tendency to speak without moving her mouth, which just highlights her LackOfEmpathy and general inhumanness.
*** A chilling trio appear in the Screaming Author case. When Akira returns there the second night, he finds life-sized dolls wearing masks and posed like humans. Each of them represent the tortured victims of the house owner, and Akira must figure out how to pacify them so that they can move on and he can retrieve their masks. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:Yakumo turned the girls into dolls in order to offer them up to Kakuya, appeasing her for another ten years]].
*** One of the toys collected in the Demon Tsukuyomi case is a girlish doll with a chilling, high-pitched laugh.
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* ''Film/{{Maniac}}'''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, [[spoiler:he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces]].

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* ''Film/{{Maniac}}'''s ''Film/Maniac1980''s Frank Zito keeps various mannequins in his apartment as odd trophies that wear the clothes and scalps of his female victims. In the ending, [[spoiler:he has a hallucination where they come to life and rip him into pieces]].

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* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is containing [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-707 SCP-707]], [[RussianReversal a matryoshka doll that disassembles you.]]

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* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is containing contains a number of anomalous dolls:
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[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-693 SCP-693]] is a set of string dolls that can "attune" themselves to a human and start imitating their movements and speech. However, the dolls will eventually begin tormenting their "owner" (the person who did the attuning) by misrepresenting the actions of whoever they are attuned to.
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net/scp-707 SCP-707]], SCP-707]] is [[RussianReversal a matryoshka doll that disassembles you.]]you]].
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* The HauntedHouse you explore in ''VideoGame/{{Pacify}}'' has plenty of these lying around. Sometimes, they'll [[LivingToy come to life]].

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* ''Manga/BlackButler'': The second opening of the second season has a scene where [[DarkActionGirl Grell]] [[Transgender Sutcliffe]] is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian, which she kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois... which she then proceeds to drive her chainsaw through.

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* ''Manga/BlackButler'': The second opening of the second season has a scene where [[DarkActionGirl Grell]] [[Transgender [[{{Transgender}} Sutcliffe]] is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian, which she kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois... which she then proceeds to drive her chainsaw through.



* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' used to have these brief skits where the jukebox had puppets that would play music. Let's just say the puppets were...horrifying and leave it at that.



* ''WesternAnimation/ShiningTimeStation'' used to have these brief skits where the jukebox had puppets that would play music. Let's just say the puppets were...horrifying and leave it at that.



* TruthinTelevision moment about these things, it turns out according to one [[http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html?ref=hp "study"]] we perceive what is alive and what is inanimate by the look of the face and eyes more then anything else, so now we know the human truth. Dolls are just freaky soulless things!

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* TruthinTelevision TruthInTelevision moment about these things, it turns out according to one [[http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/12/dead-or-alive-the-eyes-hold-the-.html?ref=hp "study"]] we perceive what is alive and what is inanimate by the look of the face and eyes more then anything else, so now we know the human truth. Dolls are just freaky soulless things!
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* ''VideoGame/{{Witchkin}}'': One of the titular characters is an eyeless, hairless doll in a tattered dress.
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* In ''Film/DeadBirds'', Clyde finds a ragdoll with stitching that makes it look like the eyes and mouth have been sewn shut. [[spoiler:This turns out to be {{Foreshadowing}} as Clyde is eventually strung up as a ScaryScarecrow with his eyes and mouth stitched shut]].
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* ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' has an event called "Creepy Puppet".
** The description: "You see one of those dolls that gives you the willies. It jumps at you with a tiny spear."
* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} has [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Soulbound Dolls]], crafted from a fragment of a creature's soul--either [[SoulJar donated]], or [[ImHavingSoulPains taken forcefully]]. In theory, they're {{Empty Shell}}s, but in practice they [[CloningBlues retain some of the donor's personality]], and it's not predictable ''which'' [[CameBackWrong personality traits will appear]]. On top of that, they're the only construct that's [[WeakWilled vulnerable to mind-affecting effects]], so even if they start out okay, they could still become BrainwashedAndCrazy later.

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* ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' has an event called "Creepy Puppet".
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Puppet". The description: "You see one of those dolls that gives you the willies. It jumps at you with a tiny spear."
** The Legacy version has a Porcelain Doll omen that counts as a ghost on the doll owner's turn and the chapter that introduces that omen has two possible creepy doll-themed haunts: either the traitor is summoning an army of singing dolls to kill everyone else or the traitor wants to feed a hungry doll the blood of others until it grows big enough to burrow underneath the house.
* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent Soulbound Dolls]], crafted from a fragment of a creature's soul--either [[SoulJar donated]], or [[ImHavingSoulPains taken forcefully]]. In theory, they're {{Empty Shell}}s, but in practice they [[CloningBlues retain some of the donor's personality]], and it's not predictable ''which'' [[CameBackWrong personality traits will appear]]. On top of that, they're the only construct that's [[WeakWilled vulnerable to mind-affecting effects]], so even if they start out okay, they could still become BrainwashedAndCrazy later.
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* ''VideoGame/DeadRealm'': This is one of the ghosts you can play as in the game.

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* The Tails Doll from ''VideoGame/SonicR'' made an appearance in Archie's Sonic series, being guarded by Cream the Rabbit. The issue prior to the Megaman crossover, Team Freedom discovered its true identity as a Badnik and moved to attack it - only for it to transform into an EldritchAbomination. The fight was cut off just after its transformation by the Genesis Wave that started the Megaman crossover, and since the reboot at the end of that arc, [[AbortedArc hasn't been revisited.]]

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* The Tails Doll from ''VideoGame/SonicR'' made an appearance in Archie's Sonic series, ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', being guarded by Cream the Rabbit. The issue prior to the Megaman crossover, Team Freedom discovered its true identity as a Badnik and moved to attack it - only for it to transform into an EldritchAbomination. The fight was cut off just after its transformation by the Genesis Wave that started the Megaman crossover, and since the reboot at the end of that arc, [[AbortedArc hasn't been revisited.]]
* ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac is constantly tormented by two vaguely human-shaped dolls called the Doughboys, which may or may not be alive. [[spoiler: They're eventually confirmed to be extensions of the [[EldritchAbomination thing in Johnny's wall]], working to [[TheCorruption drive him even crazier and/or render him suicidal]] for the sake of releasing it.
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