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Everythings Better With Plushies is, according to the main description, about plushies existing as part of any product's merchandise. Already on the main page I noticed a lot of misuse of the trope, so I ran immediately to do a wick check and it turned out that:

  • 19/50 examples reflect the above mentioned description
  • 15/50 examples are about the in-universe existence of plush toys of the characters
  • 6/50 examples talk about characters who love plush toys and own many of them
  • 10/50 examples are stuff like ZCE, characters who are plush toys or just "plushies exist"

The main idea for me would be to make this trope about in-universe characters obsessed with plush toys and make a separate Trivia trope for plushies existing as The Merch.

Wick check:

Wick check for Everythings Better With Plushies.

Intended meaning: "Plushies were made as part of the merchandise for this product".

Total wicks: 50/50


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    Correct use (19/50) 
  • Animal Jam: Players can either win plush at claw machines or buy them at the Summer Carnivalnote , and then they can store plush in their den. Plush also exists as Real Life merchandise.
  • Trivia.Boohbah (under The Merch): Several Boohbah licensed toys, including plushies of the Boohbahs, exist.
  • Cookie Run: Several Cookies, mostly the earlier Cookies, have plushies available for purchase. Unfortunately, after the Cookie Run Mall ended service in 2017, only a few of those plushies are for sale in selected Korean online stores, such as this one.
  • Creatures: The limited edition of Creatures 2 came with real-world norn plushies, and players also came up with their own patterns. A prototype grendel doll was developed but never released.
  • Die Anstalt: The game was made to promote a real line of plush toys.
  • Granny: You can get your own Granny plush! Have a trailer promoting it!
  • Trivia.In The Night Garden (under The Merch): Several licensed toys were made for this show, including plush toys of the characters and playsets of the Ninky-Nonk and the Pinky-Ponk.
  • Left 4 Dead (under Lighter and Fluffier): Alexandria Neonakis' adorable cartoony designs for the Special Infected, which appear on the licensed Christmas cards, previous Valve Store site headers, and even spawned a series of plushies that make the various Infected's signature noises when squeezed. So far, they've released Boomer, Hunter, and Tank, although a prototype of a Jockey hat is floating around online somewhere. The only problem here is that Examples Are Not Recent
  • Left 4 Dead 2: Of the Tank, Hunter, and Boomer! Despite their hideous appearances in-game they make adorable plushies.
  • M78 Love and Peace: Years after the short's production, plushies based on the anime's art style were released as official merchandise.
  • Mighty No. 9: For those that backed at least the $175 USD tier, a large Mega-Xel plushie was included with the other eligible rewards.
  • Monster High: A few waves of them in G1, including the original ghouls, their pets, and other characters. Hoodude's doll also counts, as he's made in plush to reflect his voodoo-doll nature, even though they could have made him in the typical style.
  • Ni no Kuni (in the main description): The most notable feature of Dominion of the Dark Djinn was that the Wizard's Companion was an actual hardbound 392-page book that shipped with the game and was required to progress through the game. The localization and printing cost of the book is widely blamed for the lack of an international release of that version of the game. When White Witch was created, the book was included in digital format. However, a limited "Wizard's Edition" release of the title did include the book as part of a luxury collection, as well as a stuffed doll of Drippy.
  • 100% Orange Juice!: There are plushies of Suguri, Marie Poppo, Hime, QP, Sora, and Star Breaker, complete with their own cards and special accessory, all thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign by Fruitbat Factory and Orange_Juice in collaboration with the US-based Symbiote Studios. A second wave, consisting of Alte, Aru, Tomomo, Saki, Ceoreparque, and Marc, complete with their own cards and accessories, has since been made.
  • Origin Realms (under Mascot): It isn't difficult to associate 0R-Bit with Origin Realms. Besides using the server's acronyms, the character was made specifically for the server's tutorial, and its presence is seen in cosmetics, a furniture item and the in-game messages for players making a purchase from the online store. In fact, 0R-Bit is the first instance of the server having a real-life plushie.
  • Plants vs. Zombies: A set of plushies with voice chips in them have been released. They include the normal mook zombie, Squash, Peashooter, and Sunflower.
  • Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The characters have had numerous real-life plush toys made of them.
  • Poptropica: There are real-life Poptropica plushies of various NPCs out there if you want to buy them.
  • Tamagotchi: The Tamagotchis have had a variety of plushes made out of them. Considering the characters are purposefully made to be cute and cuddly, this makes sense.

    Refers to unofficial/fanmade plushies (0/50) 

    Plushies of the characters exist in-universe (15/50) 

    A character likes plush toys (6/50) 
  • Alice Mare: Chelsy fills her room with teddy bears.
  • Apex Legends: Nessie plushes reprise their Titanfall 2 role as an Easter Egg, appearing in certain out-of-the-way spots for players who know where to look for them. Here, they have a Justified reason for their placement too: Wattson left them lying around King's Canyon as a child, and carries at least one around with her most of the time.
  • Associated Student Bodies: Thomas, the chubby fox, is shown to have a love of plushies in several of the pornfolios.
  • Broken Age: Mom certainly thinks so; everything on the ship is a cute doll, or a cute living doll. Shay disagrees.
  • éX-Driver: Nina's workspace (and later revealed in Danger Zone, her apartment) has dozens of plushies. This is marked as a double trope with Girls Love Stuffed Animals
  • Life and Death: Why else would a valkyrie buy one.

    ZCE, "Plushies exist" and other misuses (10/50) 
  • DragonFable: The Plushie Cabinet, and also an entire War with Plushies as enemies during Frostval 2010.
  • Escape the Night: Blueberry (dog), Blanche (horse)…
    • In Episode 1, Jc was seen holding an elephant plushie in a shot if one pays attention.
    • Some of the townspeople have plushies too. Such as a tiger.
  • Friendship is Witchcraft: One of Rainbow Dash's lyrics in The Convention song.
    "Meet fanboys by the dozens, they'll shower me with plushies!"
  • A Goofy Movie (under The Cameo): Bambi and Mufasa appear as stuffed animals at Goofy's workplace.
  • JimmyHere: Jimmy has several, notable ones are Jake the Dog and Gunther.
  • Lost Ruins (under Cursed Item): Elanor the princess ghost's Best Friend and Cursed Scythe, the latter of which is the best weapon in the game (assuming you don't miss your swings).
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus (under Cultural Translation): A few sketches were redone by the German comedy duo of Harald Juhnke and Eddi Arent. The one sketch about the difficult book shop customernote  gets a justification tacked on: Because the salesman's mother owns the shop and has threatened him that she'll disinherit him and give the shop to his brother if he doesn't manage to sell at least one book — that's the explanation why he puts up with the customer neither being able to pay for the book nor to read it. And the famous "Dead Parrot" sketch becomes... brace yourself... upped to eleven (this was probably the intention) with the dead parrot replaced by a plush parrot. And at the end, when the customer points out that the "parrot" he bought is "just a toy", the salesman states philosophically "Aren't we all but God's toys, somehow?", turning around and revealing that he's a wind-up android.
  • The Noddy Shop: Bonita Flamingo is a stuffed carnival toy.
  • Potter Puppet Pals: Empty ZCE
  • Xolga and Mr. Toko (under Imaginary Friend): What Sam actually is. He is, in reality, just a doll Mr. Toko/Tom had in the hospital. However, thanks to the love Tom had for him, he actually had a soul and a heart like that of human. He even stopped the time for 9 whole years just to keep Tom alive when he was slowly dying of an illness, before Issac cured him. Sam himself "died" (in other words, got broken) and stayed in the abandoned hospital since forever before Tom finally comes back and says one last goodbye... Nice fully spoilered entry

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 1st 2023 at 1:25:52 PM

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#26: Dec 20th 2022 at 6:17:45 AM

Voted yes to the top suggestion that included disambiguation and moving examples that fitted other plushie related tropes. Also voted yes on another option, voted no on all others.

Anything just indicating a certain program produced plushies definitely should be in The Merch.

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#27: Dec 22nd 2022 at 10:45:04 PM

Just a heads up, since there are two holidays coming up soon, I'm not going to hook any new crowners until January 2, and any currently hooked crowners will not be called until then. In addition, consensus will not be called via posts until then.

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#28: Dec 23rd 2022 at 12:47:14 PM

[up]Three holidays coming up in the Commonwealth (including Boxing Day) anyways.

Kirby is awesome.
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#29: Jan 1st 2023 at 10:22:36 PM

Calling in favor of the following:

Note that while moving plush merchandise to The Merch was intended to complement split options (which didn't have consensus) and not disambiguating, this can still be done when sorting through things on the disambiguation page, as is usual for disambiguation pages.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 1st 2023 at 12:22:43 PM

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#30: Jan 1st 2023 at 11:10:37 PM

The page is disambiguated. Here are the wicks.

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#31: Jan 2nd 2023 at 3:39:15 AM

Got them, so locking up.

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19th Dec '22 10:29:21 PM

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Everythings Better With Plushies is, according to the main description, about plushies existing as part of any product's merchandise. However, it's frequently misused. What should be done with it?

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