An inspiration for the Good Guys dolls was a line of talking dolls produced by Playmates Toys. The Corky doll was introduced in 1987, and Corky's voice actor Edan Gross was used as the Good Guy voice. In Cult of Chucky, it is shown that replica Good Guy dolls were being produced by Hot Topic.
Fascinatingly, Chucky also is a homage to a real-life story concerning an equally creepy doll from 1906. The doll is named Robert, and he had been gifted to a young boy from Key West, Florida, by the name of Robert Eugene Otto. Otto had a profound love for Robert and was said to have kept him right up to his death.
In the film, a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky (Brad Dourif) uses a voodoo ritual inside a toy store to transfer his soul into a Good Guy doll to escape from Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon).
In An Affair To Dismember, Kyle explains that, with the exception of Nica, Chucky can only split his soul into Good Guy dolls, which gives him a limited number of dolls to transfer his soul into.
My Buddy, a line of dolls aimed at boys in the 1980s, served as inspiration for the original Child's Play. M3GAN draws on the same real-life examples. The success of M3GAN and its story of a murderous children's plaything has brought inevitable comparisons to the Child's Play franchise.
While creator Don Mancini took inspiration from his childhood and horror stories that came before, the character of Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky, is completely fictional.
He tries to use Andy to transfer his soul into since Andy was the first person to whom Chucky revealed his secret, and thus the only person Chucky could transfer his soul to, in accordance with the voodoo spell.
The only way to get a real body again is to transfer his soul to the first person he revealed his true identity to. So, Chucky spends two movies trying to transfer his soul into young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) but fails. First Andy burns and dismembers him (with help; he's six after all).
Eight years after Chucky's second demise, the Play Pals company resumes manufacturing Good Guy dolls and re-opens the abandoned factory. A splash of blood from Chucky's corpse is inadvertently mixed in with the molten plastic being used to produce the dolls, reviving him in an updated body.
He only became evil due to his sadistic desire to hurt and kill others, shown when his father was killed by the Hackensack killer, and decided to become just like him because he was inspired by the killers actions.
The longer he inhabits the doll, the more that doll starts to take on human characteristics, meaning that he can be wounded like a regular person. His other downfall is his heart - not because he's secretly a softy, but because a bullet there can killed him.
Annabelle is an allegedly-haunted Raggedy Ann doll, housed in the now closed occult museum of the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Annabelle was moved there after supposed hauntings in 1970. A character based on the doll is one of the antagonists that appear in The Conjuring Universe.
At the end of the film, Andy, his mother Karen, and two police detectives, Mike Norris and Jackie Santos, try to fight off Chucky. After he's lit on fire and loses both an arm and a leg, Karen shoots him repeatedly, and he is even beheaded. It isn't until Norris shoots Chucky in the heart that he finally dies.
Charles Lee Ray was a character known as the Lakeshore Strangler who murdered 22 people before his death in the beginning of Child's Play. He is Chucky's original human form before he transferred his soul into a doll.
After her husband's funeral, she is kidnapped by Charles, but manages to call the police. Charles angered by her rejection, pulls out a knife and stabs her in the stomach before fleeing the oncoming police. Because she was pregnant with Nica, his actions cause her to be paraplegic.
Nica manages to break the restraints and attack Chucky but gets pushed over the balcony. Nica begs to know his motive, and Chucky reveals himself as a family friend who was secretly in love with Nica's mother Sarah. He says he killed Nica's father and kidnapped Sarah.
Chucky insists the child is a boy and should be called Glen, while Tiffany argues that they're a girl and should be named Glenda. When asked, the doll replies they don't know what they are. During the film, the doll switches between identifying as Glen and Glenda and changes their pronouns and presentation accordingly.
Six years after the events of Seed of Chucky, Tiffany's soul still possesses actress Jennifer Tilly's body. She does not appear on-screen until it is revealed that she was the one responsible for mailing Chucky out to Nica's home, facilitating his murder spree on the family he blames for his human death.
Violence & Scariness. Lots of wild death scenes, blood, and gore -- often played cartoonishly and accompanied by wisecracks from Chucky. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide.
In the original movie, Chucky becomes a sentient murderous doll after a voodoo ritual conducted by killer Charles Lee Ray, in which he transfers his consciousness into the body of a Good Guy doll. However, though Chucky seemingly gets defeated at the end of each movie, he always returns more viciously than ever.
What makes Chucky dolls expensive are the materials used in creating them and their market availability. The original packaging also adds to why they cost more expensive when compared to others.
Continuity. At the end of the first movie when Chucky is burnt, his left eye is there and his right is melted shut. But at the beginning of this movie, when they are cleaning him, his left eye is gone and his right eye is opened and there.
"Hi, I'm {name}, and I'm your friend 'till the end! Hidey-ho, ha-ha-ha!" ―Good Guy catchphrase. The Good Guy Dolls are an extremely popular doll in the Child's Play universe, aimed at young children.
