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They include <a href="/wiki/Toy" title="Toy">toys</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Doll" title="Doll">dolls</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ventriloquism" title="Ventriloquism">ventriloquist dummies</a>, that come to life and seek to kill or otherwise carry out violence. The killer toy subverts the associations of childhood with innocence and lack of agency while invoking the <a href="/wiki/Uncanny" title="Uncanny">uncanny</a> nature of a lifelike toy. Killer toy fiction often invokes ideas of companionship and the corruption of children, sometimes taking place in <a href="/wiki/Dysfunctional_family" title="Dysfunctional family">dysfunctional</a> or <a href="/wiki/Single_parent" title="Single parent">single parent</a> homes. They have historically been associated with <a href="/wiki/Occultism" class="mw-redirect" title="Occultism">occultism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spirit_possession" title="Spirit possession">spirit possession</a>, though <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> became more common in later works. </p><p>The killer toy most commonly appears in film, where it dates back to <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night" title="Dead of Night">Dead of Night</a></i> (1945) and expands on earlier films such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gabbo" title="The Great Gabbo">The Great Gabbo</a></i> (1929) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil-Doll" title="The Devil-Doll">The Devil-Doll</a></i> (1936). These early examples primarily featured ventriloquist dummies, with works featuring killer dolls developing in the 1960s through the 1980s. The genre of killer toy fiction was popularized by <i><a href="/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)" title="Child's Play (1988 film)">Child's Play</a></i> (1988) and its killer doll <a href="/wiki/Chucky_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chucky (character)">Chucky</a>, which has become widely recognized as a horror icon in popular culture. Killer toy fiction has remained prevalent in horror, and other popular killer doll franchises have been created since then, including <i><a href="/wiki/Puppet_Master_(film_series)" title="Puppet Master (film series)">Puppet Master</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/The_Conjuring_Universe" title="The Conjuring Universe"><i>The Conjuring</i></a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_works_featuring_killer_toys" title="List of works featuring killer toys">List of works featuring killer toys</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Precursors_and_ventriloquist_dummies">Precursors and ventriloquist dummies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Precursors and ventriloquist dummies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Great_Gabbo_(1929)_cropped_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man holds a ventriloquist dummy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg/200px-The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg/300px-The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg/400px-The_Great_Gabbo_%281929%29_cropped_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1403" data-file-height="1832" /></a><figcaption>Gabbo and his <a href="/wiki/Ventriloquism" title="Ventriloquism">ventriloquist dummy</a> Otto in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gabbo" title="The Great Gabbo">The Great Gabbo</a></i> (1929)</figcaption></figure> <p>Nineteenth-century precursors to the killer toy include "<a href="/wiki/The_Sandman_(short_story)" title="The Sandman (short story)">The Sandman</a>" (1816) by <a href="/wiki/E._T._A._Hoffmann" title="E. T. A. Hoffmann">E. T. A. Hoffmann</a><sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 199">: 199 </span></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio" title="The Adventures of Pinocchio">The Adventures of Pinocchio</a></i> (1883) by <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Collodi" title="Carlo Collodi">Carlo Collodi</a>, both of which experimented with the idea of a puppet's identity becoming more humanlike.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 203">: 203 </span></sup> Many American children's stories in the late 19th century emphasized <a href="/wiki/Doll" title="Doll">dolls</a>, sometimes marketing themselves as being written by the doll. These stories acknowledged the bond between children and dolls and the personification of dolls by children, both of which would be subverted by later killer-toy fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 206">: 206 </span></sup> </p><p>Ventriloquist dummies served as some of the earliest examples of unnatural toys in horror films,<sup id="cite_ref-:10_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> being established with "Otto" in the musical drama <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Gabbo" title="The Great Gabbo">The Great Gabbo</a></i> (1929).<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 55">: 55 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dummy was a convenient prop for early film, as it could largely be operated onscreen without any technical <a href="/wiki/Special_effect" title="Special effect">special effects</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night" title="Dead of Night">Dead of Night</a></i> (1945) is the first identified example of a killer dummy in film, establishing its dummy Hugo by building on the ideas in <i>The Great Gabbo</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 199">: 199 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 57">: 57 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:10_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The killer dummy became a stock character in horror over the following decades, with appearances in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dummy_Talks" title="The Dummy Talks">The Dummy Talks</a></i> (1943), <i><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents" title="Alfred Hitchcock Presents">Alfred Hitchcock Presents</a></i> (1957), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)">The Twilight Zone</a></i> (1962 and 1964), and <i><a href="/wiki/Magic_(1978_film)" title="Magic (1978 film)">Magic</a></i> (1978).<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 57">: 57 </span></sup> The relationship between the ventriloquist and the dummy influenced later killer toy characters, even as they moved away from strictly psychological elements toward the supernatural.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 55">: 55 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Killer_dolls_in_the_mid-20th_century">Killer dolls in the mid-20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Killer dolls in the mid-20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil-Doll" title="The Devil-Doll">The Devil-Doll</a></i> (1936) developed a predecessor to the killer doll, featuring shrunken humans controlled <a href="/wiki/Psychokinesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychokinesis">psychokinetically</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 56">: 56 </span></sup> <i>The Twilight Zone</i> introduced Talky Tina, one of the first on-screen killer dolls, in the episode "<a href="/wiki/Living_Doll_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Living Doll (The Twilight Zone)">Living Doll</a>" (1963). This use of the killer doll was contrasted with the idea of a <a href="/wiki/Dysfunctional_family" title="Dysfunctional family">dysfunctional family</a>, with the narrator describing the doll as the child's "guardian".<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This portrayal was inspired by the advent of talking dolls like <a href="/wiki/Chatty_Cathy" title="Chatty Cathy">Chatty Cathy</a> in the 1960s, which allowed for increased characterization and uncanniness of killer toys.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1960s, the trend of ugly and "monstrous" toys began, with toy manufacturers such as <a href="/wiki/Aurora_Plastics_Corporation" title="Aurora Plastics Corporation">Aurora Plastics Corporation</a> expanding from traditional dolls and toys that complied with conceptions of morality at the time. These toys included <a href="/wiki/Merchandising" title="Merchandising">merchandising</a> based on popular <a href="/wiki/Monster_movie" title="Monster movie">monster movies</a> as well as other "unattractive" toys such as toy insects. By the 1970s, this trend became associated with <a href="/wiki/Counterculture" title="Counterculture">counterculture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teenage_rebellion" title="Teenage rebellion">teenage rebellion</a>, incorporating imagery that would go on to be associated with horror fiction and <a href="/wiki/Goth_subculture" title="Goth subculture">goth subculture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 212–213">: 212–213 </span></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film)" title="Poltergeist (1982 film)"><i>Poltergeist</i></a> (1982) portrayed a killer toy with an <a href="/wiki/Evil_clown" title="Evil clown">evil clown</a> toy that was possessed while in a supernatural realm. The film demonstrated the clown's agency by having it move while <a href="/wiki/Offscreen" title="Offscreen">offscreen</a> before having the child establish his own agency by killing the clown toy in self-defense.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 68">: 68 </span></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Dolls_(1987_film)" title="Dolls (1987 film)">Dolls</a></i> (1987) introduced the concept of explicitly creating horror through the imagery of childhood manifested by dolls.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 136">: 136 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Child's_Play_and_contemporary_killer_toys"><span id="Child.27s_Play_and_contemporary_killer_toys"></span><i>Child's Play</i> and contemporary killer toys</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Child's Play and contemporary killer toys"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goosebumps,_Jack_Black,_SDCC_2014_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg/220px-Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg/330px-Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg/440px-Goosebumps%2C_Jack_Black%2C_SDCC_2014_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4228" data-file-height="2818" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Jack_Black" title="Jack Black">Jack Black</a> with <a href="/wiki/Slappy_the_Dummy" title="Slappy the Dummy">Slappy the Dummy</a>, the main antagonist of <i><a href="/wiki/Goosebumps" title="Goosebumps">Goosebumps</a></i>, at <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Comic_Con" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego Comic Con">San Diego Comic Con</a> in 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>The development of <a href="/wiki/Animatronics" title="Animatronics">animatronics</a> allowed for more sophisticated killer toy characters beginning in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film <i><a href="/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)" title="Child's Play (1988 film)">Child's Play</a></i> (1988) popularized killer toy films and established its killer doll, <a href="/wiki/Chucky_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chucky (character)">Chucky</a>, as a defining example of the killer doll in popular culture.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 134">: 134 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 34">: 34 </span></sup> This incarnation of the killer doll incorporated many of the ideas that defined such characters, including the subversion of childhood innocence, the share of agency between the toy and a child, and the emergence of the <a href="/wiki/Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> into the living world. The film was distinct in the source of its killer toy; rather than an undefined demonic presence, the character of Chucky is created in the physical world from a previously established character.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 71">: 71 </span></sup> <i>Child's Play</i> defined the genre, inspiring numerous successors and other similar films.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Killer doll films proliferated over the following years, including further <a href="/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(franchise)" title="Child's Play (franchise)"><i>Child's Play</i> films</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Puppet_Master_(film_series)" title="Puppet Master (film series)">Puppet Master</a></i> film series, <i><a href="/wiki/Dolly_Dearest" title="Dolly Dearest">Dolly Dearest</a></i> (1991), and <i><a href="/wiki/Pinocchio%27s_Revenge" title="Pinocchio's Revenge">Pinocchio's Revenge</a></i> (1996).<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Saw_(2004_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saw (2004 film)">Saw</a></i> (2004) modified the idea of the killer toy by portraying its ventriloquist dummy, <a href="/wiki/Billy_the_Puppet" title="Billy the Puppet">Billy the Puppet</a>, as a lifeless messenger used by <a href="/wiki/Jigsaw_(Saw_character)" title="Jigsaw (Saw character)">the film's antagonist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 2010s, the killer doll became a <a href="/wiki/Clich%C3%A9" title="Cliché">cliché</a> of horror stock characters.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 251">: 251 </span></sup> The killer doll Annabelle, allegedly based on <a href="/wiki/Annabelle_(doll)" title="Annabelle (doll)">a real haunted doll</a>, was prominent in the 2010s.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 199">: 199 </span></sup> The character was created for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Conjuring" title="The Conjuring">The Conjuring</a></i> (2013) before receiving a dedicated film series within <a href="/wiki/The_Conjuring_Universe" title="The Conjuring Universe">the <i>Conjuring</i> franchise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016, fiction anthologist <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Datlow" title="Ellen Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a> published <i>The Doll Collection</i> as the first book that specifically collected killer toy fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 199">: 199 </span></sup> </p><p>Beginning in the 2010s, killer toy fiction increasingly emphasized <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> over occultism as the cause of killer dolls.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(2019_film)" title="Child's Play (2019 film)"><i>Child's Play</i> remake</a> (2019) introduced Chucky as a product of technology rather than occultism.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/M3GAN" title="M3GAN">M3GAN</a></i> (2022) incorporated similar themes, inverting the tradition of making a doll look more humanlike by taking a human actress and making her look less humanlike.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Psychological_effects">Psychological effects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Psychological effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A chart lists increasingly realistic representations of humans that correlate with familiarity, where the familiarity dips shortly before reaching full realism and then rises against upon reaching full realism" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg/220px-Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg/330px-Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg/440px-Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Uncanny_valley" title="Uncanny valley">uncanny valley</a> represents the combination of human and inhuman qualities that produces discomfort in a viewer.</figcaption></figure> <p>Dolls represent objects that appear corpse-like or both alive and dead, creating a sense of the <a href="/wiki/Uncanny" title="Uncanny">uncanny</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 249">: 249 </span></sup> The uncanny nature of a killer toy creates a strong visual element, allowing for a prominent role in visual media such as film.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 251">: 251 </span></sup> Creators of killer toy films invoke the <a href="/wiki/Uncanny_valley" title="Uncanny valley">uncanny valley</a>, in which the toy looks realistic enough to be disconcerting without looking realistic enough to look natural.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The human mind naturally <a href="/wiki/Face_perception" title="Face perception">seeks out human faces</a> and is more inclined to interpret personality from an object with a recognizable face.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Killer toys in film can produce horror by invoking <a href="/wiki/Uncertainty" title="Uncertainty">uncertainty</a> before revealing the toy's nature with subtle changes or movements to create <a href="/wiki/Suspense" title="Suspense">suspense</a> when it is unclear whether the toy is acting autonomously.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>'s analysis of uncanniness in his essay "The Uncanny" (1919) has informed the phenomenon's role in horror,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 250">: 250 </span></sup> and it has regularly been used as a reference for the psychological effects that killer toys have on audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 199">: 199 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 134">: 134 </span></sup> Freud posited that children do not make the same "distinction between the animate and the inanimate", while adults have an aversion to this blurring of living and non-living due to a <a href="/wiki/Repression_(psychoanalysis)" title="Repression (psychoanalysis)">repression</a> of childlike ideas.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Killer toy fiction that features <a href="/wiki/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> can invoke an additional sense of horror not present in stories based on occultism. These stories reflect fears that are expressed in real-world discussions about artificial intelligence, providing a more plausible justification for the toy's behavior and creating a villain that could conceivably exist in the real world.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also invoke the uncanny in the toy's personality as well as its appearance, with artificial intelligence providing it with a nearly human demeanor.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Themes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Killer toys feature prominently in contemporary <a href="/wiki/Gothic_fiction" title="Gothic fiction">Gothic fiction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 196">: 196 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are most commonly established as a type of occultism or <a href="/wiki/Spirit_possession" title="Spirit possession">spirit possession</a> in which a toy is inhabited by a <a href="/wiki/Demon" title="Demon">demon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 66">: 66 </span></sup> The killer toy can be contrasted with stories in which friendly toys come to life, such as <i>The Adventures of Pinocchio</i> (1883)<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 202">: 202 </span></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Toy_Story" title="Toy Story">Toy Story</a></i> (1995),<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 59">: 59 </span></sup> as well as with <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> stories of <a href="/wiki/Android_(robot)" title="Android (robot)">androids</a> and <a href="/wiki/Automaton" title="Automaton">automatons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 203">: 203 </span></sup> In popular consciousness, killer toys may also be associated with other uncanny humanlike constructs, such as <a href="/wiki/Golem" title="Golem">golems</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mannequin" title="Mannequin">mannequins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scarecrow" title="Scarecrow">scarecrows</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Statue" title="Statue">statues</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 249">: 249 </span></sup> </p><p>Killer toys subvert the traditional association of childhood with innocence and dependence,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 59–60">: 59–60 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 56">: 56 </span></sup> to the point that the doll has become a shorthand for childhood in the horror genre.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 134">: 134 </span></sup> The image of the toy accentuates this theme, conflating the childish appearance of a doll with gratuitously violent and profane behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 38">: 38 </span></sup> The threat of a killer toy includes both the threat of physical harm and the loss of innocence.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 58">: 58 </span></sup> The climax of killer toy fiction often involves a child killing or destroying the killer toy, granting agency to the child and completing a "cycle" of violence that exists between the toy and the child.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 73">: 73 </span></sup> </p><p>Killer toys invoke parental fears that children may become corrupted or that a parent may accidentally provide them with a negative influence.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 56">: 56 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stories about killer toys often involve homes with a <a href="/wiki/Single_parent" title="Single parent">single parent</a> and an <a href="/wiki/Only_child" title="Only child">only child</a>, allowing for the killer toy to fulfill an emotional role for a lonely child.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In these cases, the child character may develop an attachment to the toy,<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 196">: 196 </span></sup> reminiscent of real-life <a href="/wiki/Psychological_projection" title="Psychological projection">projection</a> of children's identities onto dolls.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 207">: 207 </span></sup> The toy may also be dependent on the child to carry out its violence, creating a system of <a href="/wiki/Codependency" title="Codependency">codependency</a> and further blurring the individual identities of the child and the toy.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 196">: 196 </span></sup> </p><p>The killer toy may also be used as a criticism of adulthood and <a href="/wiki/Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumerism</a>, particularly in how these concepts interact with children.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 134">: 134 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 39">: 39 </span></sup> Under this interpretation, the toy can be seen as carrying out revenge on adults as a proxy of the child.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 39">: 39 </span></sup> Feminine portrayals of killer toys rarely differ from masculine portrayals, with the focus typically being on innocence and monstrosity rather than sexuality.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One practical consideration in killer toy films is the need to convince a viewer that the toy is a legitimate physical threat to its victims. Due to the small size of most toys, killer toys are often depicted as using creative or sudden attacks that do not provide an opportunity for self-defense.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Killer ventriloquist dummies invoke additional symbolic meanings by imbuing life into a toy that already appears to be living and serves as an extension of an already living person,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 69">: 69 </span></sup> and this connection between the puppeteer and the puppet can invoke the idea of an evil <a href="/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger" title="Doppelgänger">doppelgänger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 59">: 59 </span></sup> The puppeteer has been recognized as a symbol for the extension of an identity since ancient times,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 59">: 59 </span></sup> and the merging of identities between the puppeteer and the puppet has influenced the killer toy character beyond its use with ventriloquist dummies.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 55">: 55 </span></sup> Dummies also reinforce the elements of childhood found in killer toy fiction due to their small stature and the childlike behavior of sitting on the ventriloquist's lap.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 69">: 69 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Killer_toy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_fiction" title="Organ transplantation in fiction">Organ transplantation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penny_dreadful" title="Penny dreadful">Penny dreadful</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Postmodern_horror" title="Postmodern horror">Postmodern horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_horror" title="Psychological horror">Psychological</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Survival_horror" title="Survival horror">Survival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-horror" title="Techno-horror">Techno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_fiction" title="Weird fiction">Weird fiction</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_weird" title="New weird">New weird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_menace" title="Weird menace">Weird menace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weird_West" title="Weird West">Weird West</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie_apocalypse" title="Zombie apocalypse">Zombie apocalypse</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Monster" title="Monster">Monsters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demon" title="Demon">Demons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">Devils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghoul" title="Ghoul">Ghouls</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evil_clown" title="Evil clown">Evil clowns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrials_in_fiction" title="Extraterrestrials in fiction">Extraterrestrials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-breathing_monster" title="Fire-breathing monster">Fire-breathing monsters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chimera_(mythology)" title="Chimera (mythology)">Chimera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dragons</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gargoyle_(monster)" title="Gargoyle (monster)">Gargoyles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaiju" title="Kaiju">Kaiju</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Killer toy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mutants_in_fiction" title="Mutants in fiction">Mutants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogre" title="Ogre">Ogres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sea_monster" title="Sea monster">Sea monster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piranha" title="Piranha">Piranha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shapeshifting" title="Shapeshifting">Therianthropes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Werecat" title="Werecat">Werecats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werewolf" title="Werewolf">Werewolves</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Undead" title="Undead">Undead</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost" title="Ghost">Ghosts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mummy_(undead)" title="Mummy (undead)">Mummies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skeleton_(undead)" title="Skeleton (undead)">Skeletons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">Vampires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie" title="Zombie">Zombies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">Witches</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related genres</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">Black comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantastique" title="Fantastique">Fantastique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystery_fiction" title="Mystery fiction">Mystery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paranormal_fiction" title="Paranormal fiction">Paranormal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gods_and_demons_fiction" title="Gods and demons fiction">Shenmo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural_fiction" title="Supernatural fiction">Supernatural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thriller_(genre)" title="Thriller (genre)">Thriller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Tokusatsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_legends_and_myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban legends and myths">Urban legend</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Guignol" title="Grand Guignol">Grand Guignol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_horror_fiction_writers" title="List of horror fiction writers">Writers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_convention" title="Horror convention">Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_horror_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT themes in horror fiction">LGBT themes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_horror_television_series_with_LGBT_characters" title="List of horror television series with LGBT characters">characters</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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title="Video nasty">Video nasties</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Category:Horror_fiction" title="Category:Horror fiction">Category</a></b></li> <li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Symbol_portal_class.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Portal"><img alt="" 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;">Classic hero</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Action_hero" title="Action hero">Action hero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christ_figure" title="Christ figure">Christ figure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Chosen_One_(trope)" title="The Chosen One (trope)">Chosen One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everyman" title="Everyman">Everyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_hero" title="Folk hero">Folk hero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knight-errant" title="Knight-errant">Knight-errant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_hero" title="Legacy hero">Legacy hero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythological_king" title="Mythological king">Mythological king</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paladin" title="Paladin">Paladin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">Superhero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Youngest_son" title="Youngest son">Youngest son</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Antihero" title="Antihero">Antihero</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Byronic_hero" title="Byronic hero">Byronic hero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Man_alone" title="Man alone">Man alone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tragic_hero" title="Tragic hero">Tragic hero</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyberhero" title="Cyberhero">Cyberhero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_soldier" title="Super soldier">Super soldier</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Space_marine" title="Space marine">Space marine</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Rogue_literature" title="Rogue literature">Rogues</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Lovable_rogue" title="Lovable rogue">Lovable rogue</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gentleman_detective" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman detective">Gentleman detective</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_(hero)" title="Jack (hero)">Jack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trickster" title="Trickster">Trickster</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tricky_slave" title="Tricky slave">Tricky slave</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zanni" title="Zanni">Zanni</a> (servants, clowns: <a href="/wiki/Harlequin" title="Harlequin">Harlequin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brighella" title="Brighella">Brighella</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scapino" title="Scapino">Scapino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pulcinella" title="Pulcinella">Pulcinella</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pierrot" title="Pierrot">Pierrot</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Outlaw_(stock_character)" title="Outlaw (stock character)">Outlaw</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bad_boy_archetype" title="Bad boy archetype">Bad boy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gentleman_thief" title="Gentleman thief">Gentleman thief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pirates_in_popular_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Pirates in popular culture">Pirate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_pirate" title="Air pirate">Air pirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_pirate" title="Space pirate">Space pirate</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Good_cop/bad_cop" class="mw-redirect" title="Good cop/bad cop">Good cop/bad cop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rake_(stock_character)" title="Rake (stock character)">Rake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Villain" title="Villain">Villains</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Villain#Sympathetic_villain" title="Villain">Antivillains</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/False_hero" title="False hero">False hero</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;">The <a href="/wiki/Mole_(espionage)" title="Mole (espionage)">mole</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Double_agent" title="Double agent">Double agent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evil_twin" title="Evil twin">Evil twin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">Terrorist</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Darwinist">Social Darwinist</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dark_lord" title="Dark lord">Dark lord</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mad_scientist" title="Mad scientist">Mad scientist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supervillain" title="Supervillain">Supervillain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Monster" title="Monster">Monsters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bug-eyed_monster" title="Bug-eyed monster">Bug-eyed monster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evil_clown" title="Evil clown">Evil clown</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Killer toy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monster_girl" title="Monster girl">Monster girl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skeleton_(undead)" title="Skeleton (undead)">Skeleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slime_(monster)" title="Slime (monster)">Slime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_swamp_monsters" title="List of swamp monsters">Swamp monster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vampires_in_popular_culture" title="Vampires in popular culture">Vampires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zombie" title="Zombie">Zombie</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_zombies" title="Nazi zombies">Nazi zombies</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.4em;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alazon" title="Alazon">Alazon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archenemy" title="Archenemy">Archenemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_devil" title="Folk devil">Folk devil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_(character)" title="Igor (character)">Igor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masked_villain" title="Masked villain">Masked villain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miser" title="Miser">Miser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vecchio" title="Vecchio">Vecchio</a> (wealthy old men, <a href="/wiki/Pantalone" title="Pantalone">Pantalone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Il_Dottore" title="Il Dottore">Il Dottore</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Il_Capitano" title="Il Capitano">Il Capitano</a> (self styled captain, braggart)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" 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