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Sliding Scale of Living Toys
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In fiction, especially works aimed at children or set in worlds with a tenuous grip on sanity, it's not uncommon for toys and other inanimate objects to be depicted as having minds of their own. They can think, they can muse, they can ponder, they can rail at their arbitrary existence or gush about how perfect their lives are, and sometimes they can get up, move around and do things that you wouldn't expect them to do... though only while no one's looking, in most cases. Sometimes they're like little people, only shaped like teddy bears or toasters; other times, they're prisoners of their plastic/fabric/metal bodies, totally incapable of doing anything but what their owner poses them to do. It doesn't matter if it's an action figure or a lawnmower or even an industrial washing machine: in a world of Living Toys, anything is fair game. Examples of levels 4, 5, 6 and sometimes 3 can exhibit a living toy version of Furry Reminder. A word of caution: if it's supposed to have a mind of its own via Artificial Intelligence or Applied Phlebotinum, it doesn't belong here. A Ridiculously Human Robot that can fit in your palm is still just a Ridiculously Human Robot, not a Living Toy. Sub-Trope of Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism. |
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The Steadfast Tin Soldier in the original fairy tale, is a toy soldier who is self-aware and experiences everything that happens to him as if he himself were directing it, even though every indication is that he cannot actually move. | |
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The residents of the Island of Misfit Toys from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and its spin-offs are these, at least to the North Pole community. | |
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Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy: Many of Witzy's friends are between this and "Seems so real and living". They all are clearly toys (Lulla has a music box key sticking out of her back, Boof has a heart on his belly, Patches has strange spots for a giraffe, and Ellie Funt looks patchwork), and yet they eat and need to sleep like they're alive. | |
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All of the toys in Raggedy Ann, both the books and the animated movie. In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, the toys seem to work like this, but it's hard to tell; one of the last shots of the movie shows the fantastical terrain the toys traveled over to be a mundane stretch of pavement with litter. |
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Chucky from Child's Play is this level (well, except for the "friend" part perhaps) for much of his movies, showing his real nature only to the boy and anyone he's in the middle of killing. | |
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The dinosaurs in Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs are sentient and their bucket leads to another dimension called Dino World, but only Harry himself, his friend Charley, and Nana know this. The others just think Harry is imagining his adventures. In addition, when a non-sentient toy is brought to Dino World, it will become sentient, yet the dinosaurs stay sentient and mobile even when not in Dino World. | |
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The toys in TinkerQuarry are alive, but fully aware that they are toys, and classify themselves into species based on what material they're made of. | |
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life has a teddy bear you can buy from a traveling merchant. Apparently it can blink and move when your character is not looking. | |
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Puppet Angel during the Angel episode "Smile Time" (though, of course, he was previously an animate being): "I'm made of felt, and my nose comes off." | |
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The lawn ornaments in Gnomeo & Juliet fall under this category, sometimes freezing into positions that would compromise The Masquerade when seen fighting. | |
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In Legend of Mana, you meet a junkyard of broken toys that were animated to fight in a great war. Now they're this. Legend of Mana has a pretty nasty backstory if you check your library, but this is front and center, and probably the most disturbing part of the game. | |
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Cirque Royale has the rag dolls of Yarn Kingdom. They were first created by giant Queen Purl and are able to move autonomously. They can live forever as long as their hearts aren't destroyed. | |
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In The Christmas Toy, all the toys can move by themselves, but if they get caught of place by their owners, they will be frozen forever. This is demonstrated when Ditz walks out the door and is caught by the mom, and when Mew is caught by the dad when heading back to the playroom. Luckily, they both come back to life with a song. Also its Alternate Continuity spinoff series, The Secret Life of Toys. |
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The Secret World of Benjamin Bear: In the world of this series, Teddy Bears are alive and capable of movement, but one of their golden rules is that they can never move in front of humans (except Miss Periwinkle). They have the ability to "go teddy" (render themselves immobile) to keep their secret from being exposed. | |
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The Ghost of Martel, after becoming 'real' from the Innocence. | |
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Skylanders are portrayed like this on Earth; the idea of the games is to use the toys on a "portal" to send them back home where they're fully living beings again. | |
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The household objects in Disney's Beauty and the Beast including some toy-like Christmas decorations. Played with, in that they are humans who were cursed into their form by the Enchantress with the same magic that made the Beast what he is. They naturally have no problem talking to other humans. | |
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Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes is either this, or a non-living toy that Calvin imagines as an anthropomorphic tiger. Even the creator is cagey about which he is. | |
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SCP Foundation has SCP-137, an entity that can possess toys and turn them into real, full sized versions of themselves. As you could expect from SCP Foundation, it's creepy. Imagine kid's beloved Teddy turning into real grizzly. | |
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Supernatural has an episode in which a girl wished for her teddy bear to come alive. Supernatural being what it is, the bear spent most of the subsequent episode drinking, watching porn and trying to commit suicide. | |
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The Commando Elite and the Gorgonites from Small Soldiers, which are sentient as a result of possessing advanced military-grade AI munitions and proceed to cause some very obvious havoc in the real world. | |
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Pinocchio, after becoming real, is a little boy who was once a puppet. | |
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Monster of the Month Club: The monsters are supposedly just stuffed animals, but thanks to stellar alignments, they come to life at times. Icicle, Sweetie Pie and Owl are the only ones (as of book 3) to be alive when they arrived, the others were stuffed toys at first and came to life later. | |
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The toys in the world of Dolltopia are tired of humans using them without consent. They can move freely around animals, though, as they have a cat who helps them out with their missions by giving them rides. | |
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Talky Tina from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Living Doll". She verbally threatens people, though no one sees her move on her own. | |
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All the toy figures in The Indian in the Cupboard series become fully human/real (but still miniature) when the magic key is used on the item containing them (a cupboard, a chest, and a car). | |
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The book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is narrated by a China doll, Edward Tulane, as he describes the different owners he encounters (and the persons they assign him) after being lost by his original owner. | |
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Ted has a boy who wished his teddy bear come alive, and when it did, it set up the premise of the movie. | |
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In the Xanth series, Omni Glot Grundy Golem was originally just a golem, made from clay and other odds and ends. The Demon Xanth grants his wish to become alive, which isn't examined in detail, but he's implied to basically be a tiny human from then on. | |
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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue portrays Winnie the Pooh this way. He talks to Corey and moves around, but everyone except for Corey, Smoke, and the other cartoon characters see him as Corey's plushie. | |
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The toys in The Noddy Shop, who can only be understood by Truman and Noah. Johnny Crawfish is an exception, as he is an actual living animal. | |
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In Arthur, toys are sentient and can move on their own, however the only other characters they talk to are pets and babies, and they pretend not to be sentient in front of everyone else. | |
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Christmas In Tattertown: This was Debbie's Little Miss Muffet doll before a mysterious book sucked them into the realm of Tattertown, where discarded items gain the ability to move and speak. Muffet is overjoyed to have this happen to her, since before landing in Tattertown, she had been immobile but still sentient. She had spent her days being stuffed by Debbie into new outfits and being made to sit at tea parties, helpless to protest or run away. As Miles, the saxophone who narrates the story, explains... | |
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After drinking the appropriate potion, Imaginary Friends from The Sims 3 migrate into this. They become more-or-less ordinary human Sims that everyone can see and interact with, but they can switch over to doll form at will (for no particular benefit beyond storytelling.) | |
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The Sandersons' toys in Chibi-Robo! are all alive, having been brought to life by aliens. | |
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The eponymous dolls from Rozen Maiden. Jun is even a little shocked when he sees Shinku's and Hinaichigo's joints for the first time, despite being aware that they are dolls, because he's gotten so used to them behaving like normal girls. | |
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The robot Barney Estragon in Alien in a Small Town is eventually revealed to have started life as a rich kid's toy, who was eventually abandoned and left to fend for himself. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac has a couple of these. First of all is Shmee, though in JTHM, he is just a toy. However, in the spinoff series Squee, Squee has a dream in which Shmee is alive and talks to Squee, saying that he is his "trauma-sponge" that works to free Squee of all his fears. And he does a, well, okay job... Native only to the original JTHM series, not any spinoffs, are the two Doughboys, Mr. Fuck/Mr. Eff and Psycho-Doughboy/D-boy. At first, you assume they only appear to speak due to Johnny's extreme imagination, but they actually have different personalities and goals. Mr. Fuck (ironically not the one with the word "fuck" written on him) wants Johnny to kill and use his victims' blood to keep the monster behind the wall at bay, thus giving the Doughboys more of the monster's power and sentience. Psycho-Doughboy instead wants Johnny dead so that he will stop giving them power and thus, both will die and stay inanimate. For a while, they become living beings and can move about, even after Johnny's death, but this doesn't last. |
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Geno, from Super Mario RPG, a laser-blasting doll animated by a higher being from the Star Road after its destruction to assist in the recovery of the Star Pieces. | |
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Bob, a ventriloquist dummy, from Soap is a subversion to this, he is strictly an inanimate object but he talks so often and so life-like that often characters think he is real and he's more popular than the character who uses him. | |
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In an episode of Bewitched, Clara turns a plush elephant into a real (albeit pink, spotted) one. | |
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Banette is a Pokémon which, according to its various Pokédex entries, was once a normal stuffed toy, driven to life by a powerful grudge against the person who disowned it. It is said that treating it with enough care will satisfy its grudge and revert it back to its original form. Other than that, the games don't really give much indication that Banette is a toy. | |
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There was an early 80's children's show called Today's Special that starred a mannequin that came to life as long as he wore his magic hat and didn't leave the store. | |
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Toy Story, except for that one scene in Sid's yard, when they deliberately break their rules in order to teach the sadistic kid a lesson. | |
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In The LEGO Movie, the minifigures can initially only move when controlled by the humans. Subverted though, as Emmett does learn to move to some extent in "reality". | |
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The titular character from Barney & Friends, when brought to life by the kids' imaginations. | |
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The stuffed animals from Winnie the Pooh, because many viewers tend to forget that they are stuffed animals and sometimes treat them as if they are just as real as actual living animals like Rabbit and Owl. The Book of Pooh is the exception; Pooh and the other animals fall more under Toy Masquerade, and for whatever reason, only Christopher Robin knows that they're alive, and they can't let his mom know. | |
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The tools from Handy Manny freely talk to humans and they jump into their toolbox on their own. Dusty can even pass out (when she met a celebrity) and get sick (in "Manny's Sick Day") while "Phillipe's Hiccups" is just about what you'd expect. | |
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The Velveteen Rabbit, after becoming real, is biologically a rabbit but was once a toy. | |
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The impetuous EmÃlia and the knowledgeable Visconde de Sabugosa ("Viscount of Corncob" in Portuguese) from SÃtio do Picapau Amarelo are, respectively, a ragdoll and a doll made out of a corncob who became alive and are some of the main characters of the franchise. They are treated as fellow residents by everyone at the farm and are quite talkative (especially EmÃlia), but Visconde is still the size of a corncob and always gets sent to dangerous adventures first (much to his lament) because, in case he gets badly hurt, he can be repaired back at the farm. This is downplayed in the TV adaptations, in which after getting life, they are portrayed by live-action actors and thus resemble more humans, apart from their costuming and make-up. | |
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Ted, a teddy bear animated by the soul of a World War II airman in the Tales From The Wyrd Museum books, will only speak to the protagonist, Neil, or his little brother Josh (the latter he communicates with solely to manipulate Neil into helping him). | |
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In Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, the toys seem to work like this, but it's hard to tell; one of the last shots of the movie shows the fantastical terrain the toys traveled over to be a mundane stretch of pavement with litter. | |
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A lot of the exhibits in Night at the Museum that don't fit the previous category. For instance, many of the taxidermied animals look just like live animals (the monkey even pees on the protagonist in one scene) and the caveman mannequins look just like humans. | |
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On a similar note, the Fantasista Dolls; living avatars of trading cards that happily interact with human society. | |
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The toys in the Russell Hoban book The Mouse and His Child and the film based on it. | |
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Emmet (and presumably all the other minifigures) in The LEGO Movie, though he's only barely capable of independent motion once in the real world. In the sequel, Emmet, Rex, and Lucy are all able to move in the real world, albeit in a choppy motion not unlike stop-motion. | |
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This is the basis for the Doll Code in The Doll People. If a human sees them move, or thinks they've seen them move, the doll becomes immobile for 24 hours. | |
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Emily from Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry is expected to be psychic to some capacity, since the doll is only an outer shell for the Mimic, a device built for pilot-machine interface. Still, from her introduction on, she's shown to have mental capabilities outside the range of a regular Mimic, and she shares the senses and identity of the little alien girl, also named Emily. It's stated later on, when you learn their backstory, that "Sara didn't link with that Mimic — it linked with her. | |
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Special Agent Oso, more or less. The theme song refers to him as "the U.N.I.Q.U.E. stuffed bear" and occasionally when someone shouts his name upon meeting him, he replies "In the plush!" Other than that, though, it really isn't played up much that he's a toy, such that it's very easy to forget. | |
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This is implied to be the case for all toys and stuffed animals in Nameless - The One Thing You Must Recall - and is central to much of the pathos and horror surrounding the backstory. | |
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The Brave Little Toaster. The cast mostly consists of appliances and household devices, but there's been at least one toy character in the trilogy. Though one cover for the DVD shows the main five Characters and the younger Master skipping down a yellow road surrounded by twinkling stars and another one even showed Toaster high-fiving the Master! |
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In Marvel's Micronauts comic, it was always established that when the title characters ventured from the Microverse to Earth, they and their equipment would emerge tiny, about the size of toys, and their equipment might even be mistaken for such. In their crossover with the X-Men, though, a very confused Cannonball insists his little sister actually owns toys that look just like them, implying the existence of Micronauts toys in the Marvel Universe (it's treated as a joke, of course). | |
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Likewise, the characters in Tickety Toc are just figures inside a clock. And yet they live their lives like any normal human kid. | |
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The titular toy dog in Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien is sentient all the time, but can only move after midnight. | |
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The characters in Super Smash Bros. are portrayed this way, being trophies come to life and looking exactly like the regular game characters, with no figurine- or doll-like characteristics within their own universe aside from coming to life from trophies and turning back into trophies when killed. This can be seen in the intro and Giga Bowser's introduction in Melee, and moreso various scenes in The Subspace Emissary (which depicts "dead" trophies more akin to stone statues than figurines). The various bits of Canon Welding reinforce their being on this end of the scale; while they are dreamt up from collectible dolls/trophies in the imaginary Smash Bros. universe, some characters are the same as their fully living canon selves (such as Pit), and some can be summoned in other universes where they are indistinguishable from ordinary humans (like with Marth). | |
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In Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, the doll "Hitty" (short for Mehitabel) tells of her adventures with several owners, all of whom retain her shift with her nickname embroidered on it and her coral necklace. | |
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