Chucky (Child's Play)
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| Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Relationships: | Tiffany Ray (wife and love interest) Glen Tilly (son) Glenda Tilly (daughter) |
| Enemies: | Andy Barclay Detective Michael "Mike" Norris Karen Barclay Aunt Margaret "Maggie" Peterson John Dr. Ardmore Edward "Eddie" Caputo The Peddler Thomas "Jack" Santos |
| Voiced By: | Brad Dourif |
Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray (also known as "The Lakeshore Strangler") is the main antagonist in Child's Play, Child's Play 2, Child's Play 3, Bride of Chucky, and Seed of Chucky. He is voiced by Brad Dourif.
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[edit] Child's Play (1988)
While being chased by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), serial killer and voodoist Charles Lee "Chucky" Ray ("The Lakeshore Strangler") (Brad Dourif), is shot and mortally wounded. Before dying, ray takes cover inside a toy store, finding boxes of "Good Guy dolls" (fictonal dolls), and uses a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul into one of them. The store is then struck by lightning, and it burns to the ground. Chucky is found by a homeless man, and sold to Karen Barclay, who gives him to her son Andy as a birthday gift.
While Karen is working late, andy's Aunt Maggie agrees to baby-sit. When she has Andy go to bed, which keeps Chucky from watching a news story about Edward "Eddie" Caputo (his former acomplace who had left him stranded on foot the night he was killed), he causes her to fall out a window to her death.
The next day, apparently upon Chucky's request, Andy visits the house of Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntoli). As Andy pees outside, Chucky is revealed as being alive. He sneaks into Eddie's house and blows out the pilot light on the stove and turns up the gas; Eddie, in panicked self-defense, fires his gun and the house explodes, killing him.
Andy is questioned by police about his presence at the explosion; he blames the doll, and is placed in a psychiatric ward for a few days. Karen believes that Chucky is the culprit after finding that there were no batteries in his back. Karen tells Chucky to talk to her, or else she is going to throw him in the fire. Chucky then comes alive in her hands, bites her, and runs out of the apartment.
Karen contacts Mike, who is now investigating Aunt Maggie's death. Although he initially doubts her story, he becomes a firm believer after he is attacked by Chucky in his car, and survives only by shooting Chucky with his gun.
Chucky later meets with John (a.k.a. "Dr. Death"), his voodoo instructor from years past, and asks why his gunshot wound bled. John, under torture through a voodoo doll, informs him that his body is slowly conforming to that of a human's, and that he will soon be trapped in the body if he doesn't transfer his soul into the body of the first person that he revealed himself to (which is Andy). Chucky murders John and leaves to find Andy. Mike and Karen find John before he dies, learning that Andy is in danger and that the only way to stop Chucky is to destroy his heart.
Andy escapes from the psychiatric unit as Chucky brutally kills the head doctor. Mike and Karen rush back to the apartment hoping that Andy is there. Chucky reaches the apartment and knocks Andy unconscious with a baseball bat to possess him. After a prolonged struggle, Chucky is thrown into the fireplace where Andy drops a match, setting Chucky on fire. Thinking that Chucky is dead, Andy and Karen go to help the injured Mike. The heavily burned Chucky attacks again, finally stopping when Mike shoots him through the heart as John instructed.
[edit] Child's Play 2 (1990)
Two years later, Andy is in a children's crisis center and his mother (unseen) is under psychiatric observation, for supporting Andy's story. Bad publicity about Play Pals Inc (the company of the good guy doll franchise) is all over the newspapers regarding chucky. The company has the original doll reconstructed for analysis, and a worker is electrocuted at the completion of that process (due to it still holding Charles' A.K.A Chucky's soul).
A couple with no children of their own who have often fostered children, Joanne and Phil Simpson (Jenny Agutter and Gerrit Graham), agree to foster Andy until his mother is able to look after him again. Andy meets an older girl, Kyle (Christine Elise), who is also living with Phil and Joanne.
Mattson, a Play Pals executive, takes the rebuilt Chucky doll off the factory grounds under orders of play pal's president mr Sullivan. Chucky manages to call the crisis center, and learns Andy's whereabouts; he forces Mattson to drive there, then kills him. Breaking into the house, Chucky finds another Good Guy doll and takes its place, burying "Tommy" in the yard. Andy finds Chucky in the living room, and is relieved to discover he has batteries.
That night, Chucky ties Andy to his bed and tries to swap bodies. Luckily, Kyle, Phil, and Joanne all come into the room. Despite Andy being tied up, nobody believes that Chucky is really alive. In order to calm Andy down, Phil throws Chucky into the basement. As Phil exits, Chucky gets up and realizes that he's bleeding, he is turning human again.
On Andy's first day of his new school, Chucky follows him, finds Andy's paper and he writes "F*** You B****. After the teacher discovers the obscene words she grabs Andy(who is putting away some toys in a little cabinet) and he discovers that Chucky is in there. Shocked he jumps back and the teacher grabs him and confronts him the she locks him in the room meanwhile she throws Chucky into a closet. Then she leaves the room to call his foster parents to tell them about the incident. Andy's curiosity gets the best of him and he looks through the peep hole of the closet door and he sees Chucky in there and Andy escapes the locked room(by getting out through the classroom window) before Chucky can get out of a closet. When the teacher returns, she thinks Andy is in the closet; Chucky kills her after she unlocks the door.
Back at the house, Andy tells Phil and Joanne that Chucky followed him to school. Phil takes Andy to the cellar door to show Chucky lying exactly where he was when he was thrown down there. That night, Andy takes an electric knife from the kitchen and goes down into the cellar intending to finish Chucky himself. Chucky attacks Andy, and kills Phil, who came down to investigate the noise. Joanne is distraught to find her husband dead and believes it is Andy who's murdered him.
Andy is taken back to the center. Kyle later finds Chucky and puts him in a trash bin outside the house. Soon after, she finds the Tommy doll buried in the yard, and then discovers Chucky is gone from the bin. Upstairs, Kyle finds Joanne dead, and then is attacked by Chucky, who forces her to drive him to the Crisis Center. Under Chucky’s threats, Kyle sets off the fire alarm of the Center to get everyone downstairs. Chucky kills the center's director and locks Kyle out of the room.
Chucky forces Andy into the back of a van, which Kyle chases. She gets the driver to stop, but Chucky escapes with Andy into the nearby Play Pals factory. Chucky performs his ritual, but it has been too long and he can't transfer out. Kyle helps Andy escape, with Chucky following. She manages to trap the doll by dropping a gate on his hand. To get out, Chucky tears his own hand off, then attaches his knife to it, and continues chasing them into the manufacturing floor. Ultimately, Andy coats Chucky with molten plastic and Kyle forces an air hose into his mouth. The air pressure builds up and explodes Chucky's head.
In a televised alternate ending it reveals that half of Chucky’s exploded head is in a vat of plastic goo, which in turn creates another doll head (after sinking into the plastic) which smiles an evil smile as the film ends.
[edit] Child's Play 3 (1991)
The toy factory is reopened and the workers create a new good guys doll from Chucky's remains due to it still being plastic, unfortunately Ray's soul still inhabited what was left of it and Chucky is revived. Play Pals Inc. re-releases its old "Good Guy" toy line, believing that their bad publicity have abated after so many years. sSullivan takes chucky into his office, where Chucky tortures him to death with dangerous toys before using a computer in the room to relocate Andy.
Andy (now played by Justin Whalin) has grown up into a good-looking 16-year-old, and has been sent to military school, having failed to cope in several foster homes. Colonel Cochran, head of the military school, unsympathetically agrees to let Andy in because he's had a rough life but tells him to grow up and forget the killer doll fantasies. Andy first has to have his hair cut by Sgt. Botnick.
A younger recruit, Ronald Tyler (played by Jeremy Sylvers) is asked to deliver a package to Andy's room, containing Chucky. Recognising him as a good guy doll, Tyler takes him to the cellar and opens it there. Chucky, with a sudden thought remembers that he has a new good guys body now and he doesn't need Andy, only Tyler whom he reveals his secret to. Outside a female soldier named Kristin De Silva (played by Perrey Reeves) quickly becomes Andy's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Chucky is about to possess Tyler whom he tricks into lying on the floor while Chucky places a hand on his forehead to transfer his soul into Tyler's body ("playing hide the soul"). Unfortunately for Chucky, he is interrupted by Colonel Cochran. The Colonel shows disapproval of Tyler playing with dolls and takes it away. As the Colonel is walking with Chucky across the soldier's training field, Andy is shocked to see Chucky. Colonel Cochran throws Chucky into a garbage van, Chucky kills the driver and escapes.
Back in Andy's room, Chucky (who sneaked into his room while he was outside) swipes Andy's ankle with his knife. Andy staggers to the ground and looks up horrified to see Chucky once again. Chucky tells him he's got someone new and is here to kill and not possess Andy. With a look of horror, Andy realizes it's Tyler and fights Chucky. Shelton suddenly enters the room to find Andy slamming Chucky against the floor. Shelton rudely takes Chucky from him for his nephew's birthday, he escapes from his room the following night.
Tyler and Chucky end up in Colonel Cochran's wardrobe while playing hide and seek. De Silva and a friend also enter the Colonel's office as De Silva wants to find out more about Andy. The two girls discover Tyler and Chucky ruining another transferring attempt. Colonel Cochran enters his office after they leave and discovers Chucky, who kills him. The next day, the soldiers are in the canteen and have a moment of silence for Colonel Cochran. After breakfast, Whitehurst is getting his hair made shorter by Sgt. Botnick. Once Whitehurst has left, Botnick discovers Chucky and tries to shave him, but Chucky slits his throat with a razor in the chair. As Chucky is laughing, Whitehurst comes back to discover Botnick dead and Chucky turning to look at him. Whitehurst runs away with fright.
Shelton has later gathered all the soldiers together to tell them the planned war games will continue with half the soldiers on a red team and the others on a blue team. Chucky takes the red team's rifles, originally loaded with paint bullets and replaces them with live rounds.
It is later discovered in Andy's and Whitehurst's tent that a map has been stolen and Andy is gone. Tyler is also missing from his tent and Andy finds out from another young soldier he's gone with Chucky. Chucky tells Andy to play "Hide the Soul" but Tyler doesn't want to. After Chucky insults him, Tyler tells him off for his language. Tyler refers to Chucky as his real name (Charles) throughout the film, to his anger as he hates his real name and this time pulls out his knife and tells him to stop calling him that. Tyler finally realizes Chucky is bad after all and Andy was telling the truth. Tyler stabs Chucky in the chest and runs off to find Andy. He finally finds him and Chucky’s voice comes over Shelton's radio, telling Andy to bring Tyler to him or hill kill De Silva. Chucky pretends to be a fellow soldier and calls the red team on the radio to come to the abandoned jeep, where he is holding De Silva hostage. Shelton tells Andy to take Tyler to Chucky and he and the others will circle them. Tyler and Andy both express fear as they approach Chucky, but Andy stops Tyler going to him. Chucky pulls the tag from a grenade and threatens to throw it, so Tyler moves forwards. Chucky lets De Silva leave as Tyler takes her place. The blue team soon advances forward and take a couple shots at the jeep, and one which hit Chucky. In a few seconds, the red team appears, and fires a shot which hits Shelton in the chest. Chucky is thrilled and falls into a hysterical fit of laughter as the red team fires their live rounds at the blue team. The captain of the red team soon realizes the shots are live and tells the team to stop. Andy is once again, accused of Chucky’s evil deed and is blamed for Shelton's death, De Silva defends Andy. While Chucky is still in hysterics, Tyler makes a sneaky getaway and by the time Chucky has stopped laughing, Tyler has gone. He angrily throws the grenade at the arguing soldiers and chases after Tyler. Whitehurst seems to be the only one who sees the danger and bravely leaps on top of the grenade and sacrifices himself to save the others. Andy is shocked, and sees Chucky getting away and runs after him, De Silva follows him while her friend cries over Whitehurst's lifeless form.
Tyler has found the fun fair and tells a security guard Chucky’s after him. But horribly enough, in an aid to cheer Tyler up, the guard gives him a doll which is actually Chucky. Andy and De Silva also manage to find the fun fair, but also the security guard is dead, De Silva takes his gun for safety. Tyler is holding Chucky as Chucky is holding a gun at Tyler's chest (Chucky possibly killed that guard off-screen and nabbed his gun), he tells him to go into a haunted house. Andy and De Silva manage to find Tyler and Chucky, but Chucky shoots De Silva in the leg and Andy has to fight Chucky alone. As Chucky is chasing Tyler, a huge Grim Reaper statue swings its scythe, slicing off half of Chucky's face; this still doesn't stop him from hunting Tyler, and when Tyler is knocked out by the wing of a giant plastic figure, Chucky begins his chant. Andy climbs the fake skull mountain and sees a giant fan below it. He manages to shoot off one of Chucky’s arms, then his chest, and stops his chant. Chucky angrily puts his arms around Andy's neck. Tyler gives Andy a knife and he cuts off Chucky’s other hand causing him to fall into the giant fan, cutting him to pieces. Andy, presumably suspected for the murders caused by Chucky, was taken away by the police, while De Silva is taken to the nearby hospital, and a garbage collector is seen salvaging Chucky's remains.
[edit] Bride of Chucky (1998)
It's a dark and stormy night, and Chucky's former human girlfriend and accomplice Tiffany Valentine (whom he worked with along with his other partner Eddie Caputo as the human serial killer Charles Lee Ray) has finally, after ten years, found the remains of her would-be fiancee. Tiffany as been reading newspapers and hearing stories about the events of the last three films and as been tracking Chucky down ever since. Tiffany bribes a cop into stealing Chucky's corpse and than murders him with a nail file.
Tiffany is a serial killer just like Chucky and Caputo and is the only one of the three still alive no one knows that Chucky had a second accomplice and she is not a fugitive.
Tiffany sews Chucky back together and summons Ray's soul from hell to reunite with his body. There's a problem, though. A communication error from the past as Ray was not planning to Mary Tiffany as she thought rather the ring she as was a share of the money that he and Eddie stole from their last victim a rich woman who Ray murdered the night he was killed. they fight and Chucky murders her before resurrecting her as a doll and they set out to find a magic amulet called "the heart of Damballa" necessary for the exchanging of souls (this is how Charles Lee Ray became Chucky as he was wearing it the night he was killed and used it to perform the chant from the first film without it he cannot perform it at all as a human and can only barely use it as a doll.) Two unwitting kids on the run find themselves in for a dangerous ride, from Canada to New Jersey where ray's body is Buried with the heart of Damballa, with blood never far in their wake.
[edit] Seed of Chucky (2004)
Six years after the events of Bride of Chucky, the offspring of Chucky and Tiffany, a gender-confused doll named "Shitface" (voiced by Billy Boyd), is being kept by the malicious 'ventriloquist' Psycho. He has grown up as an orphan in Great Britain. The doll is tormented by dreams of evil, and desperate to escape his predicament. Afraid and lonely, everything changes one night when he sees Chucky and Tiffany on TV - in a movie preview. He escapes, and goes to find them, believing them to be his parents.
The games begin when Shitface arrives in Hollywood, where the urban legend of Chucky and Tiffany is being made into a Hollywood movie. He unwittingly revives them ... and for Shitface, (or the newly dubbed "Glen" by Chucky or "Glenda" from Tiffany) what ensues is a shaming exploit of murder, revenge and survival.
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[edit] Chucky and Tiffany
Tiffany has proven her love for Chucky for years. She wore what she thought was an engagement ring from him ever since he was killed, and she even has a tattoo of a heart with a knife through it and Chucky’s name written above it. While Chucky laughed at the idea of him having sex with Tiffany, there is no doubt he has some sort of feelings for her. When the two of them were alone in the van while Jesse and Jade were getting married, Chucky apologizes to Tiffany "for everything". This could possibly include killing her and transferring her soul into a doll's body and laughing at the thought of marriage. Tiffany replies that she always wanted the two of them to spend more time together and see the world. After Tiffany kills the two newlyweds by throwing a champagne bottle into the ceiling mirror, Chucky is no doubt impressed. This was actually what made Chucky say “I love you!” and proposes to her in a romantic way that could only be connected to him. Chucky is down on one knee and holding the severed finger with the wedding ring still attached, and says he should have asked her to marry him a long time ago. Also in the Hackensack Cemetery when Jesse threatens to shoot Tiffany in the head when Chucky has Jade hostage, Jesse tells Chucky to let Jade go and he'll let Tiffany go, Chucky has no choice but to agree. When they are resurrected in Seed of Chucky, Chucky and Tiffany kill one of the Hollywood workers together with a piece of wire. Moments later, they are seen passionately kissing. It can be assumed that this is their own way of apologizing to each for the events Bride of Chucky when Chucky stabbed Tiffany and when Tiffany stabbed Chucky in the back. When Tiffany wants her and Chucky to stop murdering people, it seems that she has no control over herself, while Chucky seems indifferent to murder. Tiffany seems deeply upset when she kills Jennifer Tilly’s friend, Joan. Chucky does all he can to comfort her before realizing it was Glenda. Just as Chucky is performing the ritual to transfer his, Tiffany's and Glen's souls into their victims' bodies, there is a moment of shouting and frustration which angers Chucky. He firmly decides that he wants to remain a doll and that being human isn't so great. Chucky states that he already has everything he wants, "a beautiful wife" and a "multi-talented kid." Tiffany leaves him, taking Glen, causing Chucky become heartbroken and enraged. He tries to kill Tiffany, but fails. But later in the movie Chucky stabs Tiffany in the head with an ax.
[edit] Chucky and Glen
Chucky found it highly amusing when he first discovered Glen's former name, "Shitface". However, as soon as he notices he and Glen have the same "made in Japan" markings on their wrists, he can't believe Glen is actually his child, and faints. When Chucky and Tiffany can't agree on the gender of their child, Chucky believes he's a boy who hasn't had his growth spurt yet, even comforting him and he also gives him the name Glen. Chucky arranges a "boys' night out" for him and Glen. With Glen working the pedals and Chucky steering, the two hijack a car and Chucky encourages him to put his full weight on the pedal so he crashes into Britney Spear’s car when it promptly explodes. The photographer that took the pictures of Chucky, Jennifer Tilly and Redman is Chucky's next victim. Glen tries to stop him but the photographer is startled by Glen's appearance and hits a shelf where sculpture acid falls on him, burning him and quickly killing him. Chucky is thrilled by this and asks Glen to keep this their secret while he sets up a camera to take picture of them beside the dead photographer. When Tiffany discovers the photo, she is furious. But Chucky states that Glen is "the most promising killer" he's ever seen and Tiffany would have been proud of him. He also gets angry when Tiffany tells Glen she's proud of him for not wanting to be a killer. Chucky believes she's "poisoning our son's mind." When Chucky decides to remain a doll and says he has everything he wants, he calls Glen a "multi-talented kid" possibly accepting the fact he may have a daughter. This was shown when Glen and Chucky were fighting in the hospital and Chucky was hit in the chest with his axe, he first thought it was Glenda who attacked him but was in fact Glen. At the end of the film, when Glen has killed Chucky, he still has the photograph Chucky himself took five years later and is happily looking at it. While Chucky shows little desire to have a daughter, Glenda is vicious, possibly even more so than her father, and startles him when she was briefly shown killing Joan. Both Glen and Glenda have also inherited a darker shade of Chucky's hair color
[edit] Chucky and Glenda
Chucky shows little desire to have a daughter, but he gets one anyway. As a doll, Glenda briefly took over Glen's mind, and killed Jennifer Tilly's assistant, Joan. Even though Chucky wanted his child (Glen) to kill, he seemed quite scared of Glenda. When Jennifer delivered a human body for Glenda, she possessed it. Near the end of the film, Chucky says he saw Glenda killing him, but it was actually an enraged Glen. Glenda is possibly more twisted than her father is and has inherited his wild red hair. At the end of the film, Fulvia states that Glenda gave someone a bloody nose and took pictures, stealing money from her purse and calling the cat a "the c word" (cunt). Glenda currently lives in Hollywood as a human with her mother, Tiffany, and her brother, Glen.
[edit] Other appearances
The Playstation game Gex: Enter the Gecko features a Chucky-like killer doll enemy in the Scream TV levels.
There have been a number of comics based on the character. Most recently, Devil's Due Publishing have started an eponymous series which will include a HACK/Slash crossover.[1]
Chucky appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Plastic Buffet" voiced by Mark Hamill. He is featured in the skit where he takes on the soulless "Lettuce Head Kids"(a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids) which are then killed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Chucky made a cameo appearance via satellite during an episode of WCW Monday Nitro, promoting Bride of Chucky. His evil laugh can be heard during promos of the 1998 Halloween Havoc PPV.
On the special features of Seed of Chucky DVD, Chucky, Tiffany and Glen are on a sofa in their family home, they are watching a slideshow of their holiday to various places. Nearly all of these places have evidence of Chucky having killed someone. This annoys Tiffany and makes Glen feel ill. The show ends with a pizza delivery guy at the door and Chucky answering. He says he's left his wallet in the garage with his power tools and asks the guy to come there with him. The delivery guy stupidly enough follows Chucky and suffers badly at Chucky’s hands with a chainsaw.
The special features of the Seed of Chucky DVD also include Chucky and Tiffany being interviewed by the Fusion interviewer to promote the movie, and on the section "Conceiving the Seed of Chucky", Chucky, Tiffany, Glen, the cast and makers of the film are also interviewed.
Chucky will appear as one of the icons along with Jigsaw from the Saw films and The Wolfman for 2009's Halloween Horror Nights 19.
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