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* In ''Literature/TheSearchForDelicious'', the mermaid Ardis is TheAgeless but looks and acts like a young girl. Long ago, the dwarfs made her a doll made of linked stones with a fern for hair. Ardis loved the doll. One day she left it in the now-submerged house built over the spring that feeds the underground lake. Then a human man found the whistle Ardis had hung from a rock by the water's edge. The man blew the whistle, which caused the house's door to close, trapping the doll inside. Then he left. There is no other way of opening the door. Ardis has been grieving for her doll for 900 years. Every night she cries for hours. [[spoiler:After Gaylen realizes that his "GoodLuckCharm" is really her whistle, he gives it to her in exchange for destroying Hemlock's dam.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': In "Postman Pat's Finding Day", Katy Pottage is not pleased to receive a doll on her birthday, because she has lost her own doll, Sarah-Ann. [[spoiler: Pat finds her in Sam's mobile shop.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': In "Postman "[[Recap/PostmanPatS1E1 Postman Pat's Finding Day", Day]]", Katy Pottage is not pleased to receive a doll on her birthday, because she has lost her own doll, Sarah-Ann. [[spoiler: Pat finds her in Sam's mobile shop.]]
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-->'''Emily:''' Her stuffing needs changing today and I can't find her! Please, help!
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* ''VideoGame/FableI'': During the tutorial set during the Hero's childhood, he meets a young girl crying over her lost teddy bear. He can find the bear and either return it to her or give it to her BigBrotherBully; either way, the act makes enough of an impact for her to include it in her memoirs as an adult.
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->''"True evil is born through pain and loss. You see, when I was a small boy back in Gimmelshtump, I had a toy train... and one day I lost it."''
-->-- '''[[EvilerThanThou Doofenshmirtz-2]]''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension''

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* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'', the reason Dr. Doofenshmirtz's AlternateSelf turned evil is that he lost his beloved toy choo-choo train.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/RoaryTheRacingCar'' episode "Roary Loses a Friend", Roary cries because he lost his teddy bear.
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* One story arc in ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'' centered around the Boy's stuffed penguin going missing, with Goldie helping search for him and the news cats reporting on it. Pengo is eventually found wedged between the bed and the wall, and Goldie is rewarded for her help with a toy sheriff's badge.

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* One story arc in ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'' centered around the Boy's stuffed penguin going missing, with Goldie helping search for him and the news cats reporting on it. Pengo The penguin is eventually found wedged between the bed and the wall, and Goldie is rewarded for her help with a toy sheriff's badge.
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* One story arc in ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'' centered around the Boy's stuffed penguin going missing, with Goldie helping search for him and the news cats reporting on it. Pengo is eventually found wedged between the bed and the wall, and Goldie is rewarded for her help with a toy sheriff's badge.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "The Story of the Story Knife," Willow loses her beloved [[https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=222 story knife]], which is a Yup'ik girl's toy used to tell stories. Molly helps make a new one for her. Eventually, Willow finds her old knife, and gives it to Molly.
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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39822909/chapters/99703251 Stay Alive]], Antonio's stuffed jaguar is stolen from him by the same man who kidnapped Mirabel. He did this to threaten her. When Antonio notices it's missing, he's very distraught. [[spoiler: He's reunited with the toy when Mirabel is rescued by Camilo and Dolores.]]

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* In the WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' fanfic [[https://archiveofourown."[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39822909/chapters/99703251 Stay Alive]], Alive]]", Antonio's stuffed jaguar is stolen from him by the same man who kidnapped Mirabel. He did this to threaten her. When Antonio notices it's missing, he's very distraught. [[spoiler: He's reunited with the toy when Mirabel is rescued by Camilo and Dolores.]]



* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Agnes gets sad when Edith accidentally disintegrates her toy unicorn and demands Gru fix it. When he says it can't be fixed, she gets angry and [[BreathHoldingBrat holds her breath]] to demand a new one.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', Agnes gets sad when Edith accidentally disintegrates her toy unicorn and demands Gru fix it. When he says it can't be fixed, she gets angry and [[BreathHoldingBrat holds her breath]] to demand a new one.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "Snout and About," Zeke is in tears after losing his beloved stuffy, Snout. Luckily, his siblings are there to help find the toy.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' episode "Tiny's Tiny Doll", Tiny accidentally leaves her titular favourite toy at the ''Velociraptor''s' nest, and she can't sleep without it. The boys make her a new one, but fortunately Velma and Valerie arrange for a local pterosaur to return it to her.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. Burns uses goes to great lengths to recover his teddy bear, Bobo, who after decades of being lost in the Arctic, somehow found its way into a bag of ice at the Kwik-E-Mart and into Maggie's hands. He uses his wealth to turn the townsfolk against the Simpson family, who only realized what they were doing when Maggie was on the verge of tears. Mr. Burns backs off for now, but promises to get Bobo back again in the future.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Mr. Burns uses goes to great lengths to recover his teddy bear, Bobo, who after decades of being lost in the Arctic, somehow found its way into a bag of ice at the Kwik-E-Mart and into Maggie's hands. He uses his wealth to turn the townsfolk against the Simpson family, who only realized what they were doing when Maggie was on the verge of tears. Mr. Burns backs off for now, but promises to get Bobo back again in the future.

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* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_eb0vVo0k My Happiness]] by Powderfinger shows a kid losing his Slinky on the train. He is miserable until the Slinky finds its way to his suburb, where it is retrieved by his mother, who places it in his room while he sleeps.
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* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_eb0vVo0k My Happiness]] by Powderfinger shows a kid losing his Slinky on the train. He is miserable until the Slinky finds its way to his suburb, where it is retrieved by his mother, who places it in his room while he sleeps.
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* A strange shape-shifting entity raises all kinds of hell in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', until it is cornered and revealed to be an incredibly advanced device - whereupon a Sufficiently Advanced Alien appears and retrieves it, thanking the heroes for finding her child's favourite toy.

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* A strange shape-shifting entity raises all kinds of hell in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', until it is cornered and revealed to be an incredibly advanced device - whereupon a Sufficiently Advanced Alien appears and retrieves it, thanking the heroes for finding her child's favourite favorite toy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': In "Postman Pat's Finding Day", Katy Pottage is not pleased to receive a doll on her birthday, because she has lost her own doll, Sarah-Ann. [[spoiler: Pat finds her in Sam's mobile shop.]]
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* ''Series/MrBean'': A particularly cruel KickTheDog moment in "Mind the Baby, Mr. Bean". Mr Bean helps a young girl to climb on a merry-go-round horse, quietly stealing her teddy bear. The girl's reaction is not seen, only her distant cries of "My teddy!" can be heard as Mr. Bean cruelly mutilates the teddy, to use as an emergency nappy for the baby.
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* It's common for transport companies when contacted about lost toys and finding them, to post updates on social media of the toy having "adventures" to keep the child happy while they arrange to return the toy.
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