History Main / CreepyDoll

** [[spoiler: Rei Asaka]] also keeps one, which is also one of the dolls seen in the OP, which is one of the two gifts that [[spoiler: Fukiko]] gave her some time ago (The other being [[spoiler: a gold bracelet]]). [[spoiler: That doll becomes Nanako's TragicKeepsake, however, though the circumstances vary: in the manga Rei gives it to Nanako before commiting suicide, in the anime Fukiko gives it to Nanako after Rei's fatal accident.]]

** Sorta invoked in an early episode. A YamatoNadeshiko girl from an orphanage, Inori, is picked up by a dollmaker old woman named Kyogotsu, supposedly [[ArrangedMarriage to marry her son]]... [[spoiler: on the condition that she acts like a doll: she should only sit around, looking pretty and quiet, without even interacting with the family or her new husband. Naturally, poor Inori snaps after a while and, despite Hajime's warnings, she sends Mrs. Kyogotsu to Hell; fittingly, the upcoming scenes feature many of these dolls coming to life and attacking Mrs. Kyokotsu, then transforming ''her'' in a CreepyDoll before sending the old woman to Hell as Inori's revenge.]] Even the title of the episode lampshades it: [[spoiler: it's ''Hanayome Ningyo'', which means ''Bride Doll''.]]

* The video to the song "Clown" by {{Korn}} has both CreepyDoll's ''and'' MonsterClown's. Not to mention a lot of insanity.

* {{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]].

* ''HauntingGround'' has a room full of it, and is, in fact, a puzzle. Doing this incorrectly will prompt spikes coming out of the dolls to give you a game over.

* Any of ''SaladFingers'' three finger puppets can be this. To elaborate, Hubert Cumberdale can become human-sized, gain red eyes, and scream for no apparent reason, as well as randomly turn into a black liquid that [[ItBurns burns]] at the touch. Marjory Stewart-Baxter jealously watches Salad Fingers have a picnic with a little girl through the window. Jeremy Fisher can also become human-sized, stores a weird green fluid in his plugged-up mouth, and can suddenly transform into [[MindScrew a second Salad Fingers]] [[ImAHumanitarian to get eaten alive]] [[NightmareFuel by the first.]]

* ''OniisamaE'': The room at Fukiko's summer house is full of creepy dolls and obsessively arranged items of memorabilia from the day she first met her crush Henmi, which she has since kept completely unchanged for six years and forbids anyone else to enter.
** [[spoiler: Rei]] also keeps one, which is also one of the dolls seen in the OP. [[spoiler: When Rei dies, Fukiko gives that doll to Nanako and becomes her TragicKeepsake.]]

* ''VampirePrincessMiyu'': TV series!Matsukaze.
** Also, this is the shinma [[spoiler: Ranka]]'s true form in the OAV. [[spoiler: And she not only turns people into creepy dolls, but she does this to her love interest Kei. ''On Kei's own request'', since he wants to be with her forever.]]

* Sorta invoked in an early HellGirl episode. A YamatoNadeshiko girl from an orphanage, Inori, is picked up by a dollmaker old woman named Kyogotsu, supposedly [[ArrangedMarriage to marry her son]]... [[spoiler: on the condition that she acts like a doll: she should only sit around, looking pretty and quiet, without even interacting with the family or her new husband. Naturally, poor Inori snaps after a while and sends Kyogotsu to Hell; fittingly, the upcoming scenes feature many of these dolls coming to life and attacking Mrs. Kyokotsu, then transforming ''her'' in a CreepyDoll before sending the old woman to Hell as Inori's revenge.]] Even the title of the episode lampshades it: [[spoiler: it's ''Hanayome Ningyo'', which means ''bride doll''.]]
** Some episodes nefore we find another example: [[spoiler: Mina]], but we don't learn it for a while since [[spoiler: she's a ThirdPersonPerson who manages to fool Hajime and Tsugumi with her speech patterns.]]
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** [[spoiler: Rei]] also keeps one, which is also one of the dolls seen in the OP.

* Sorta invoked in an early HellGirl episode. A YamatoNadeshiko girl from an orphanage, Inori, is picked up by a dollmaker old woman named Kyogotsu, supposedly [[ArrangedMarriage to marry her son]]... [[spoiler: on the condition that she acts like one of these: she should only sit around, looking pretty and quiet, without even interacting with the family or her new husband. Naturally, poor Inori snaps after a while and sends Kyogotsu to Hell.]] Even the title of the episode lampshades it: [[spoiler: it's ''Hanayome Ningyo'', which means ''bride doll''.]]

** Speaking of dolls and dead children, the abandoned baby doll in Johanna's bassinet from ''SweeneyTodd''. It's decayed with age and probably smoke damage/mildew, and is damn scary. (This scene also serves as an EmpathyDollShot for Johanna's current plight.)

* Inverted in ''TheOrderOfTheStick'', where Goth undead-phile Tsukiko keeps a doll of Xykon (who ''is'' creepy) in her bedroom. The doll, in contrast to the actual Xykon, is a cuddly plush toy.

* [[{{Homestuck}} Hi, uh, Cal.]] [[ParanoiaFuel Didn't see you there.]]

* ''{{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]].

* Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer combined this trope with {{Lolicon}} for maximum creepiness. His dolls inspired the SilentHill2 Mannequins. See a Not-Safe-For-Work-Or-Sanity [[http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7426/292020la20poupee2020han.jpg photograph]].

* The gynoids in ''Film/GhostInTheShell: Innocence'' are modelled after Hans Bellmar's UncannyValley doll-sculptures, and are every bit as creepy. There's also the hacker Kim who lives in a (possibly virtual) giant dollhouse, and has his cybernetic body made to resemble a life-sized balljoint doll, and is more than eager to [[LampshadedTrope Lampshade]] his creepiness at every opportunity.

--> '''Doll #3''': "The new offering is here."

* One episode of ''CSINewYork'' had a murder in a doll hospital. They ended up finding an important peice 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."'' [[UnderStatement Disturbing.]]

* In the 1951 version of ''AChristmasCarol'', Tiny Tim is first seen gazing into a shop window with (authentic Victorian) mechanical toys - including a laughing man doll that's [[YourMileageMayVary pure NightmareFuel]].

* Deliberately invoked by Imezco with their [[www.livingdeaddolls.com ''Living Dead Dolls'']], and BeGoth's [[www.begoths.com ''Bleeding Edge'']] dolls-these are dolls that take the idea of Creepy Dolls and run with it. Living Dead Dolls come in coffin-shaped boxes and have dates of death, while the Bleeding Edge dolls are pierced and have odd eyes. Not surprisingly, both of these kinds of dolls are very popular with [[Goth Goths.]]
** On the Note Above [[LittleAppleDolls Little Apple Dolls]] fit this to a T. Sadly, they stopped making them. (Or not so sadly if [[NightmareFuel you have nightmares from them.]])

* BitmapWorld has a storyline that parodies the JonathanCoulton song, but then swerves off into EdgarAllanPoe territory. It begins [[http://bitmapworld.com/comic/issue296/ here]].

** The second opening of the second season has a scene where Grell is holding a creepy doll version of Sebastian which he kisses before placing it among doll versions of Ciel and Alois which he then proceeds to drive his chainsaw through.

It's got a pretty mouth\\
To swallow you whole''\\
-- JonathanCoulton, "[[TropeNamer Creepy Doll]]"

* ''DoctorWho'' has the Doll Children from "Night Terrors", who [[IronicNurseryRhyme sing nursery rhymes]], [[GigglingVillain laugh like children]] and [[spoiler:can turn you into one of them.]] They aren't as well-put-together as some of the examples here, either, which possibly makes it worse.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWL8WSAETY Very Creepy Doll Commercial From The 60's]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fObkkZf1pzY Extremely Creepy Doll Commercial]]

* The various dolls that the Other Mother makes in ''{{Coraline}}''. All of the Other people invoke this themselves, with their creepy button eyes.

* As mentioned before, the various dolls that the Other Mother makes in ''{{Coraline}}''.

* J.R. Lowell's ''Daughter of Darkness'' is about Willie, a super-intelligent little rich girl who collects dolls -- not the cute kind, either -- from all over the world. The maid refuses to clean Willie's room because she feels like the dolls are "watching" her. She's right.

* The young woman in Robert Holdstock's ''Lavondyss'' has a good reason for making her masks and figurines, but the old caretaker thinks he's on to her. "There's dolls you play with, and dolls you pray with..."