Follow TV Tropes

Following

History PlayingWith / CreepyDoll

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** Bertha, an adorable {{Animesque}} doll that invokes the feeling of looking at a kitten, absolute delight. Also, if she's alive she's heroic.

to:

** Bertha, an is adorable {{Animesque}} doll that invokes the feeling of looking at a kitten, absolute delight. Also, if she's alive she's heroic.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Everybody likes portraying dolls like this little beauty here like they're disasters waiting to happen, or at least look the part."

to:

* '''Lampshaded''': "Everybody likes portraying "Why does everybody treat dolls like this little beauty here antique like they're disasters waiting to happen, or at least look the part."happen?"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added: 152

Changed: 19

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


** Bertha, an adorable Animesque doll that invokes the feeling of looking at a kitten, absolute delight. Also, if she's alive she's heroic.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is terrified when her scary porcelain doll Bertha comes to life and grabs a pair of scissors... only to watch Bertha defend her from a masked burglar who tries to break into her room.

to:

** Bertha, an adorable Animesque {{Animesque}} doll that invokes the feeling of looking at a kitten, absolute delight. Also, if she's alive she's heroic.
* '''Subverted''': Alice is terrified when her scary porcelain doll Bertha comes to life and grabs a pair of scissors... only to watch [[CreepyGood Bertha defend her from a masked burglar who tries to break into her room.]]


Added DiffLines:

* '''Lampshaded''': "Everybody likes portraying dolls like this little beauty here like they're disasters waiting to happen, or at least look the part."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Parodied''': Bertha is a doll with a comically monstrous face who's treated as UglyCute at best or treated like she's an EldrichAbomination at worst even though she's a completely normal doll otherwise. Or if she's alive, she's a SpoiledBrat in personality.

to:

* '''Parodied''': Bertha is a doll with a comically monstrous face who's treated as UglyCute at best or treated like she's an EldrichAbomination EldritchAbomination at worst even though she's a completely normal doll otherwise. Or And if she's alive, she's very much like a SpoiledBrat in personality.SpoiledBrat.

Added: 623

Changed: 102

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Inverted''': Bertha, an animate doll, is terrified of the serial-killing EnfantTerrible Alice she's been given to.

to:

* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
**
Bertha, an animate doll, is terrified of the serial-killing EnfantTerrible Alice she's been given to.to.
** Bertha, an adorable Animesque doll that invokes the feeling of looking at a kitten, absolute delight. Also, if she's alive she's heroic.


Added DiffLines:

* '''Parodied''': Bertha is a doll with a comically monstrous face who's treated as UglyCute at best or treated like she's an EldrichAbomination at worst even though she's a completely normal doll otherwise. Or if she's alive, she's a SpoiledBrat in personality.
* '''Discussed''': "That doll is freaking our daughter out! We should donate it to a museum and pray it isn't alive."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Downplayed''': Bertha is a Victorian doll that was neglected on a shelf for a long time, causing the paint to wear off which makes her look creepy. Alice doesn't like playing with her and hides her in the closet so she doesn't get scared.

to:

* '''Downplayed''': Bertha is a Victorian doll that was neglected on a shelf for a long time, causing the paint to wear off off, which makes her look creepy. Alice doesn't like playing with her and hides her in the closet so she doesn't get scared.



* '''Double Subverted''': After brutally murdering the burglar, Bertha turns to Alice and says in a little girl's voice, "If you tell anyone about this you'll end up like him."

to:

* '''Double Subverted''': After brutally murdering the burglar, Bertha turns to Alice and says in a little girl's voice, "If you tell anyone about this this, you'll end up like him."

Added: 27

Changed: 1

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* '''Subverted''': Alice is terrified when her scary porcelain doll Bertha comes to life and grabs a pair of scissors...only to watch Bertha defend her from a masked burglar who tries to break into her room.
* '''Double Subverted''': After brutally murdering the burglar, Bertha turns to Alice and says in a little girl's voice, "If you tell anyone about this you'll end up like him."

to:

* '''Subverted''': Alice is terrified when her scary porcelain doll Bertha comes to life and grabs a pair of scissors... only to watch Bertha defend her from a masked burglar who tries to break into her room.
* '''Double Subverted''': After brutally murdering the burglar, Bertha turns to Alice and says in a little girl's voice, "If you tell anyone about this you'll end up like him.""
----
Back to CreepyDoll.
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

'''Basic Trope''': A child's doll is scary or villainous.

*'''Straight''': Alice's new doll, Bertha, is a creepy-looking antique Victorian porcelain doll that in the middle of the night, gets up and wanders around the house singing ''"Lizzie Borden took an axe..."''
*'''Exaggerated''': Bertha's porcelain face is painted with a BrownNote pattern that makes anyone who looks at it go raving mad. She roams the neighborhood on dark nights massacring the children in their beds with a pair of dull, rusty nails.
*'''Downplayed''': Bertha is a Victorian doll that was neglected on a shelf for a long time, causing the paint to wear off which makes her look creepy. Alice doesn't like playing with her and hides her in the closet so she doesn't get scared.
*'''Justified''':
** Alice's BigBrotherBully tells her scary stories about evil dolls to make her scared of Bertha.
** Bertha is possessed by the vengeful spirit of her previous owner, a murdered Victorian girl.
*'''Inverted''': Bertha, an animate doll, is terrified of the serial-killing EnfantTerrible Alice she's been given to.
*'''Subverted''': Alice is terrified when her scary porcelain doll Bertha comes to life and grabs a pair of scissors...only to watch Bertha defend her from a masked burglar who tries to break into her room.
*'''Double Subverted''': After brutally murdering the burglar, Bertha turns to Alice and says in a little girl's voice, "If you tell anyone about this you'll end up like him."

Top