

Episode 30: Kayono a young girl who was manipulated by her Digimon "partners" WaruMonzaemon and ExTyrannomon into allowing ExTyrannomon to turn everyone they came across into dolls with his Black Matter attack, including Kayono's parents.Sora put it best: "What kind of sicko turns people into keychains?" Piedmon does a variation in Digimon Adventure by turning people into keychains.but using them like puppets anyway.Also, in the manga, Undertaker who creates the Bizarre Dolls with human corpses.Ash/Angela possibly qualifies as well, since Drocell was a living doll himself that s/he created, and he only acted on his/her orders. He turns human girls into dolls, killing them in the process, and then controls their actions as metal dolls through music. Drocell from the anime version is one.Nothing to do with actual dolls that come to life and the people that collect them. See also The Collector, Living Museum Exhibit and Socially Unacceptable Collection. Expect to see this often in the Psychopathic Manchild. See also Demonic Possession, Wax Museum Morgue. Contrast Puppeteer Parasite, who are parasites that possess people. See also Showing Off the New Body and Necromantic. It's worth mentioning that sometimes the living doll turns out to not be quite so under their control after all and is basically playing along, maybe because they like the game, or in order to stage an escape.Ī creepier form of the Marionette Master. They may be trying to enforce some kind of inner illusion or fantasy, in which case pointing it out to be fake (and dispelling the control over the dolls) can break them out of it and either make them see reason, possibly even releasing the dolls. For a deranged enough collector, Interrogation by Vandalism usually works when applied to the dolls, though it may backfire if said dolls are capable of self defense. It's also possible the collector was a completely normal person once upon a time, and has simply fallen to the Power Perversion Potential of their abilities by treating people less like people and more like, well, dolls.

The Hive Queen may do this to her drones. A Necromancer might dress up their zombies as maids and butlers, and even lovingly comb their (remaining) hair, preferring their company to that of the living. Someone with powerful enough Hypnotic Eyes or Mind Control techniques can eventually program people to be anything from empty automatons to actually believing they're the collector's long lost dead little sister. If he or she can make People Puppets, then the still conscious puppets will be forced to do things against their will. If the collector has actual supernatural powers, this gets a lot creepier. If they resist or the collector doesn't have the means to control or imprison them, well, corpses complain a lot less. There are a lot of variations here the people may be kidnapped strangers, crushes, or family, and are dressed up and forced to act out roles in an inescapable "Dream House". He or she will collect people, dead or alive, as if they were dolls and use them in macabre mimicry of their maddened imagination. And dolls? They just don't cut it anymore.Įnter the Living Doll Collector. However, there are some adults who had a less than ideal childhood, breaking their minds to such an extent that only a fantasy where they have complete control can make sense. God.Įven after growing up takes that delight away, many adults still enjoy keeping or adding to such a collection as a kitschy hobby. At some point in life, everyone has had a doll - pardon, "action figure" - collection in their possession that they admired and played with, creating fanciful stories and battles, pretending to be someone else.
