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When a boy buys a doll that happened to harbor the soul of an infamous serial killer, this goes without saying.

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    Season 1 
Death By Misadventure
  • While deserved, Chucky kills Lucas by strategically turning the power off thus forcing him to go investigate. When he finds the doll, Chucky vomits the whiskey all over his bare feet and he gets electrocuted by a loose power cable. It even burns his eye.
  • That said, Lucas was very much accurately played as a scary and violent homophobic drunk, even threatening Jake's life over his homosexuality, and destroyed Jake's doll sculpture more or less out of insensate cruelty. A surprise from Devon Sawa's acting in contrast to his sympathetic roles.

Give Me Something Good to Eat

  • The episode starts with a flashback to Halloween 1965. A young Charles Lee Ray is examining his candy pile from trick or treating, and picks up an apple… only to notice something shiny poking out of it. It’s a razor blade. And despite quickly realizing this, Charles bites into it anyway, and smiles as blood pours out of his mouth. Talk about Troubling Unchildlike Behavior.
    • Later on Chucky gives an apple exactly like that to a hapless woman, who bites into it off screen. Next time we see her she is bleeding profusely from her mouth as she reports the "horrible red-haired child" to the cops.
  • Chucky escapes Jake's uncle's house unseen, and walks around town disguised only with a Hello Kitty masks. Being night time, it isn't difficult for him to trick people into thinking he is a small child out trick or treating. In reality he is a walking and talking doll posessed by the soul of a serial murder, and he is literally out for blood. The fact that he is so easily able to blend and even have a conversation with someone without them ever suspecting anything is pretty disturbing.
  • The fact that Chucky murdered Jake's father and tries to convince Jake that he has done him a favor by freeing him from Lucas' abuse, but then starts abusing Jake himself, even physically beating him. The fact that Jake goes from being abused by his father, to being abused by the posessed, murderous doll is both sad and terrifying.
  • Annie's death. As she checks on the dishwasher, Chucky sneaks up from behind and pushes her onto upright knife blades, causing her to be stabbed in the throat, and we can hear her choking on her blood before expiring. What arguably makes things worse is when Jake and Junior walk into the kitchen and it takes several minutes before either of them find her dead in the same room.
  • Chucky being left alone with Lexy’s sister.

I Like to Be Hugged

  • During Chucky's childhood flashbacks, there is a mention of a deranged killer on the news, and, later on, said killer invades his home and butchers his father. He and his mother hide upstairs in the closet leading to a near encounter with the killer. However, it is the ending that truly changes everything: upon being found by the killer, it is revealed that Chucky's first victim was his own mother. He cheerfully tells the killer that he was helping him and in turn, the killer gives Chucky a switchblade. Worse, it is implied that he was never caught.
  • Jake stalks who he at first believes to be Lexy. With a knife in hand, he tries to ambush his would-be victim, only for it to turn out to be his cousin, Junior.
  • While searching for Lexy, Chucky starts to stab who he assumes to be her only for it to turn out to be Oliver. Nevertheless, Chucky decides to finish the job anyway. Due to everyone wearing headphones at the party, no one hears the poor kid's screams for help. It becomes even more worse when the fire accidentally started in Lexy's room spreads down the stairs.
  • Chucky ambushes Lexy after deceiving her with a pair of tennis shoes and unwittingly causing the room to catch on fire. The way Chucky laughs maniacally as the fire rages behind him gives off the impression that he just emerged from the darkest pits of Hell itself.

Just Let Go

  • Chucky is revealed to have survived the fire, but the left side of his body has been melted.
  • The grief-stricken reaction of Oliver's parents upon learning that he's been murdered is so realistically heartbreaking to where it's almost chilling.
  • Chucky killing the police detective by throwing scalpel at his back, after which, he falls backwards, pushing it in even further that it severs his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed. He can only lie there helplessly as Chucky stabs his chest with used syringes. He not only bleeds from his ears and mouth, but also his fingernails.
  • While in an orphanage, Charles Lee Ray decides to play "Peter Pan" with a group of kids and leads them on a hike which ends with them discovering the corpse of the janitor. While most of the children understandably flee from the scene, one kid stays behind to poke the body. Said boy is later secretly given one of the janitor's dismembered hands as a gift by Charles. The ending reveals that the boy will grow up to be Eddie Caputo, Chucky's getaway driver from the first film.

Little Little Lies

  • Nica's situation. She briefly regains control of her body from Chucky to find that she's blacked out for two weeks, and is now in a strange place next to a dead body and with another wounded man tied to a chair and begging her not to kill him. It really sells just how horrifying the concept of Chucky possessing people is.
  • The episode ends with Chucky tossing the principal's severed head out on stage for the whole town to see, then pulling back the curtains to display her decapitated body.

Cape Queer

  • Nica regaining control of her body doesn't improve her situation, as Tiffany has grown obsessed with her beyond being Chucky's host body. To wit, she knocks Nica out, carries her to Chucky's childhood home Bound and Gagged in the trunk of her car, and leaves her tied up in the house, screaming for help through her gag.
    • To test whether Chucky or Nica was in control, Tiffany stabbed her in the thigh, which Nica naturally doesn't feel and therefore doesn't notice until Tiffany points it out.

Double the Loss, Twice the Grieving

  • The title cards for each episode so far have been made of items relevant to the episodes, usually Chucky's weapon of the day. This time, however, its nothing but tombstones of every single person that has died at the hands of Chucky and his "wonderful" family as a reminder that while what he's done here so far is heinous, its roughly half of what he's accomplished through the years.
  • After getting into a huge argument with his father, Junior bludgeons him to death with the Chucky doll.
    • Even worse, as he's doing this we cut to the small army of Good Guy dolls that Chucky and Tiffany have collected, which suddenly start to come to life, indicating that the murder is itself fueling them. And worse than that, Devon is currently tied up in the basement with them, while another comes to life in Lexy's house and starts stalking towards her and Jake.

An Affair to Dismember

  • While doubling as a Moment of Awesome, the fact that Tiffany is responsible for the entire franchise. That one phone call to the police led to not only so many deaths (including her own in Bride), but multiple lives ruined by Chucky's actions as a doll, Andy's especially.
  • The massacre at the charity event: Lexi's mother returns with popcorn and offers some to her husband. Unbeknownst to her, he was already dead. His blood then drips into the popcorn bag as his wife takes hold of it. She only realizes something is wrong when she has a mouthful of blood-soaked popcorn.
  • While richly deserved, Jake opting to strangle Chucky to death rather than stab him, karmically ironic as he was called the Lakeshore Strangler when he was human. Chucky's eyes even burst out of their sockets with the ensuing pressure.
  • Not wanting to risk Chucky resurfacing and killing her, Tiffany cuts off Nica's limbs.

    Season 2 
Halloween II
  • Near the end of the episode, Chucky shows up with a homemade bomb...and Gary, Jake's foster brother. Devon tases Chucky before he can kill everyone, but when Gary gets distracted by the Wedding Belle doll, Chucky detonates the bomb.

Hail, Mary!

  • The muscular Chucky doll punching a huge gaping hole through Trevor's chest after he sneaks into Lexy's room.

Doll on Doll

  • Good news, Andy's alive! Bad news, he's being tortured by Bald Chucky, who is both revealed to be the mysterious Colonel and working with Dr. Mixter.
  • Jennifer Tilly hasn't had the luxury of being repressed in her mind and thus unaware of what Tiffany's been doing with her body. Instead, she's been trapped in a Tiffany doll and kept locked in a birdcage, forced to give Tiffany details about her life in order to keep up the façade.

He Is Risen, Indeed

  • Good Chucky throwing Nadine out of the top of the tower, laughing over how much he loves defenestration... just before he seems to come to reality and look in horror at what he's done. Good Chucky seems to be fighting his original personality for control, and it looks like said original personality is winning...
  • It is revealed Dr. Mixter was Charles Lee Ray's psychiatrist when he was a child, who took note of both his evil nature and his remaining innocence. The doctor reveals that she thought it'd be more interesting to corrupt him into a monster than treat him normally, which she obviously succeeded in. There's a chance the entire franchise and all the dozens of deaths and carnage across North America over the course of 40 years all happened because one random psychiatrist in New Jersey was feeling bored with her job.

Goin' to the Chapel

  • Jennifer Tilly's fate is not pretty. After being told she and Tiffany will swap bodies again, just so she can take the fall for Tiffany's crimes, she tries to escape, only to get run over by a semi.
  • The exorcism concludes with "Good" Chucky transferring into Father Bryce, who promptly explodes.

Chucky Actually

    Season 3 
Murder at 1600
  • Just the fact that this season's plot involves Chucky being in the White House. Whatever he's got planned, that's a horrifying thought. If he were to possess, say, the President, all bets are off.

Let the Right One In

  • Chucky not only slashes the throat of the president's secretary, Samantha, but does it so hard that he severs her spinal column, leaving her head dangling backwards and attached only by the skin on the back of her neck.

Dressed to Kill

  • Tiffany using a Voodoo Doll to make another inmate torture herself to death, cutting herself repeatedly before slamming her face into a pot of boiling water.
  • Chucky drops a chandelier on the partiers, crushing seven of them. In particular, we see the reporter get cut in half, while the Collins' nanny has her face cut off in graphic detail.

Death Becomes Her

  • Chucky kills President Collins by gouging his eyes out which shown in excruciating detail.
    • Worse, Chucky does this not just for the hell of it, but to gain access to the President's launch codes. Chucky now has fucking nukes.

There Will Be Blood

  • There definitely is. And a lot of it, too. Special mention goes to the moment where Chucky drowns Randall Jenkins and the Secret Service agent chasing after him in an elevator of blood.

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