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Marionette Motion
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This is when a robot, Clockwork Creature, golem, undead, mind-controlled or other human-sized and -shaped entity moves as if it were a puppet on a string. In the process, it defies the laws of anatomy and gravity by bending in unnatural ways and floating... all without strings. Alternately, it might move like a broken animatronic robot, as if its insides had less articulation than a 3-inch G.I. Joe figure. Usually used for horror stories because it is just (un)naturally creepy. To accentuate the eerie motion, camera tricks like jitters, Slow Motion and speeding up may be used. Ghostly Glide may also be used to suggest invisible strings suspending the figure in question. Sometimes combined with Demonic Head Shake. Compare Limp and Livid. Contrast Zombie Gait, which while similar is actually more fluid. For the art of rag dolling, see contortionist. |
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This is briefly encountered in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess during the portion where you must navigate the Lost woods. The Skull Kid unleashes groups of actual man-sized marionettes on you which move in this way to attack you. | |
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Marceline's father, from Adventure Time. | |
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Appropriately enough, the Marionettes in Devil May Cry move this way, and they even still have strings on their limbs. | |
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Some of the more humanoid-shaped Nobodies in Kingdom Hearts II move this way. | |
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Ultron does this in Avengers: Age of Ultron when he uses the body of a robot of the Iron Legion that was heavily damaged earlier in the film. Also counts as Rule of Symbolism as Ultron sees the Avengers as "puppets tangled in strings". | |
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Angel: Illyria when she first takes control of her new body. | |
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In Pandemonium, the sequel to Fragment, the isolated subterranean ecosystem's most frightening ambush predator is the "ghost octopus": a creature that drops onto its prey from tunnel ceilings. It wraps itself across the victim's back, grapples their appendages with tentacles that manipulate the individual joints, then severs the brain stem to turn the carcass into a pliable "steed". As humans' bipedal gait is difficult for them to replicate, ghost octopus-ridden human corpses move like this trope or on all fours. | |
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RWBY has the Knuckleavee, a horse-like creature with a humanoid torso attached to its back. | |
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In the prequel Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, he looks forward to fighting especially Bishōnen Gold Saint Pisces Albafica because he'd make a good puppet. | |
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Princess Tutu: The title character moves like this while in Drosselmeyer's world. One episode features the Doll's Waltz, a real ballet routine meant to look like this. |
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The War Against the Chtorr. During A Rage For Revenge, McCarthy gets suicidally stoned and wanders into a Chtorran nest where he has a weird dream in which Ted (a male former Love Interest who joined the Telepathy Corp) helps him back to his vehicle where he'll be safe. When McCarthy looks at the camera footage the next day to find out what happened, all he sees is himself doing a Silly Walk like someone else is controlling his body. McCarthy just puts this down to the drugs and doesn't consider the possibility that he's been secretly implanted by the Telepathy Corp. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Bloody Mary", the titular character moves this way when she leaves her mirror. | |
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Marionette Soldiers in Elden Ring are terrifying on first sight, attacking you by rapid-firing their bows with both pairs of hands or swinging all four of them with swords like a walking blender. | |
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PandoraHearts: This is how people under Duldee's control move. They even clatter like actual puppets. | |
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In Inuyasha, the victims of Yura of the Hair. | |
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In the Lucha Underground promo where Catrina taunted Fenix about the imminent return of Mil Muertes, the Disciples of Death also made their debut- three skull-masked figures perched above Fenix on top of the lockers, moving in this eerie, jerky manner. It produced the distinct impression that not only might these guys not be your average luchadors, they may not even be human! | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: When Kuroto Dan uses Dangerous Zombie gashat to transform into Kamen Rider Genm, he jerks and convulses his body like a zombie. It becomes his default when he is low on SAN points. | |
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Some of the vampires in From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter so this in a sped up fashion to showcase their inhuman nature. | |
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The lurching of the ghost people in Fallout: New Vegas would qualify. They lurch about as described due to their flesh being fused to their heavily stiffened hazmat suits. | |
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In the finale of There Will Be Brawl, The Butchers, Lucas and Ness, animate and voice the stuffed corpse of Peach to taunt Luigi for his failure to save her. | |
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The various nurses in the Silent Hill franchise (and quite a few monsters besides, for that matter). | |
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Thunderbirds. The Hood uses his Psychic Powers to control Brains as a People Puppet, and in a Mythology Gag on the original Supermarionation characters he walks around like this trope. | |
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On Avatar: The Last Airbender and its Sequel Series, The Legend of Korra, this affects anyone under the influence of blood bending. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Used for Black Comedy when a hostage exchange goes wrong in "The Magnificent Ferengi". The bungling Ferengi accidentally kill their prisoner, implant him with controlling devices and trying walking him towards the Vorta, who seems to think he's been tortured horribly by the evil Federation. "What have they done to you?" | |
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Possessed Humans act like this in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, coupled with Glowing Eyes of Doom and Ghostly Glide. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball, the Robinsons and their son Rocky are 3D puppets animated as if they were actual Muppets. | |
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In The Little Rascals episode "The Zero Hero", the Cocoa Spudsnote representing the sponsor of Darla's favorite TV show dance as if they were marionettes (though no strings are visible). | |
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In Gamer, the Big Bad leads himself and several mind-controlled mooks in a marionette dance to mock Gerard Butler's character for his lack of autonomy. | |
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Bram Stoker's Dracula Two of the Brides do this briefly after Dracula catches them with Harker. Backing away in a weird jerky motion while growling inhumanly. Likewise Lucy does this after she's turned into a vampire and confronted with a cross. Backing into her coffin in an unnatural movement. |
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The dead astronauts in Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead". Likewise in "Oxygen". | |
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Among other tricks such as choreography, in the film adaptation of Silent Hill the eerie, jittery movements of the nurses were done by the actresses walking backward. The footage was later reversed. | |
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Criminal Minds: In "The Lesson", an UnSub makes marionettes out of living human beings. | |
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The music video for *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye" featured the boys being manipulated like marionettes by the young woman with whom they are presumably breaking up. The resulting marionette motion is incorporated into their dancing. | |
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Ultraman Z: Victims staggering around in a marionette-like pattern is the first signs of possession by the Puppeteer Parasite villain, Celebro. | |
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LazyTown: An unconscious Sportacus's movements become this when under the control of the Remote-Controller 6000, which functions similarly to that of puppet strings. | |
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In The remake of House on Haunted Hill (1999), undercranking accompanied by deliberately slow movements resulted in a jerky style for the ghosts (particularly Vannacutt). | |
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Linguini on Ratatouille, because he is literally being moved like a marionette. A rat riding inside his chef's hat controls him by tugging on his hair. | |
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Mr. Clipboard from Food Fight! moves like this to such a ridiculous degree that JonTron refused to comment on it during his review out of fear that he might have a disability. | |
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Saint Seiya: In the Hades chapter, the specter Minos Gryphon can turn his enemies into People Puppets. The sadist enjoys twisting them and breaking them to "put on a show", at one point turning this power on Gemini Kanon. In the prequel Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, he looks forward to fighting especially Bishōnen Gold Saint Pisces Albafica because he'd make a good puppet. |
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