Chucky has taken many forms throughout the long-running Child's Play series, and here's each version explained. The infamous killer doll has had quite a journey from his origins in the 1988 slasher that started it all. More than three decades later, Chucky has taken center stage in six sequels, one reboot, and an upcoming television SYFY TV series.
In the original Child's Play, a notorious serial killer named Charles Lee Ray (horror icon Brad Dourif) is mortally wounded during a chase with the police. With his life ebbing away, Ray (known by the nickname "Chucky") uses voodoo magic to transplant his soul into a children's toy called a Good Guy doll. This incident forever changes Ray's destiny and transforms him from a mere mortal into the knife-wielding, foul-mouthed killer doll audiences have come to both fear and love.
Over the course of eight films, Chucky has gone through several physical changes and transformations. The doll has been burned, melted, rebuilt, and copied, and his changing appearance has been caused by everything from bodily repairs to soul transplants. However, no matter what changes he goes through, Chucky always manages to come back, proving that no one can keep a Good Guy down for long. Here's a breakdown of every form Chucky has taken in the Child's Play movies so far.
The Good Guy doll which Charles Lee Ray placed his soul in Child's Play is the classic incarnation that started it all. This version of the pint-sized slasher is the basis for all future versions and sports Chucky's recognizable cherubic face, wild red hair, striped shirt, and blue overalls. Chucky is gifted to young Andy Barclay, and after revealing his true nature to the child, Chucky seeks to place his soul in Andy's body. Of course, he fails in his mission and ends up burned and chopped into pieces.
In Child's Play 2, the charred remains of the original doll are cleaned, restored, and rebuilt. Since the parts still contain the soul of Chucky, the killer is able to come back to life and once again seek out Andy. This new version of the old Chucky doll is noticeably more sinister looking than its predecessor and has even wilder hair and an angrier look. The rebuilt version of Chucky ends up being melted in liquid plastic and destroyed for good.
Following the events of Child's Play 2, the Good Guy factory resumes operation and removes the destroyed, and still bloody, remains of Chucky's body. Unfortunately, a few drops of Chucky's possessed blood drip into a vat of plastic in the factory, allowing a new Good Guy doll to be manufactured with Chucky's soul once again trapped inside. This new version goes on a hunt for the now-teenage Andy, but Chucky ends up getting sliced into several large chunks by a giant fan in the finale.
In 1998, Chucky was resurrected once again in the horror-comedy Bride of Chucky. After a daring heist, Chucky's girlfriend from his pre-doll days, Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), manages to steal the diced remains of the doll containing her lover's soul. She then carefully sews his body back together, resulting in this incarnation's famous facial scars. Using voodoo magic, Tiffany brings Chucky back to life, but shortly thereafter finds herself trapped in a female doll too. The two then embark on a murder spree as they search for an amulet they hope will let them enter new human bodies. Unfortunately for them, Chucky is blown to bits with a revolver and Tiffany expires shortly after giving birth to her and Chucky's child.
Perhaps the most peculiar incarnation of Chucky was introduced in 2004's Seed of Chucky. In this entry, Chucky's scarred "patchwork" version is recreated as a movie prop for an in-universe movie being made to cash in on the real-world Chucky legend. Using the amulet from Bride of Chucky, the killer doll's child Glen/Glenda resurrects the souls of Chucky and Tiffany into the bodies of the film props. By the end of the sequel, Chucky has been "killed" once again, but his dismembered body is shown, unsurprisingly, to still house his soul.
This incarnation of Chucky wouldn't stay dismembered for long and returned nine years later for 2013's Curse of Chucky. While it's never explained how the second patchwork body from Seed of Chucky came to be repaired, it's revealed the seemingly unscarred Chucky has in fact covered his facial stitches with rubber appliances. This gives the doll a wider, softer face with fewer freckles than previous versions. The malevolent Chucky seeks to terrorize the decedents of a family from his past, including a young woman named Nica (Fiona Dourif), who eventually gets the blame for his crimes in the sequel.
In Curse of Chucky's twist ending, this version of the killer doll succeeds in mailing himself to the home of longtime nemesis, Andy Barclay. However, Andy is ready for him and blows a hole clean through his head with a shotgun. Andy then recovers the still-living head of the maimed Chucky, chains it up, and tortures it throughout the next film: 2017's Cult of Chucky.
The decapitated head of the Patchwork 2.0 Chucky isn't the only incarnation to appear in 2017's Cult of Chucky either. During the story, Chucky reveals he has managed to use voodoo to copy his soul into multiple dolls, creating a small army of Chucky clones living in multiple Good Guys. One version appears to be a normal doll, while another is missing an arm. The most visually distinctive of these copies is a Chucky with short hair, helping it stand out from its long-haired counterparts.
In Cult of Chucky's surprise ending, the murderous doll is finally able to accomplish his longstanding mission of transplanting his soul into a human host. The human in question ends up being Nica, the returning heroine from Curse of Chucky. After fighting to defeat the killer doll, Nica ultimately fails and becomes a vessel for the soul of Charles Lee Ray. The film ends with her and Tiffany, who herself acquired a human form in Seed of Chucky, driving off to cause mayhem together. The two performers are set to reappear in the new Chucky television series.
In the 2019 remake of Child's Play, Chucky is completely reimagined from the ground up. The reboot abandons any supernatural elements, instead envisioning Chucky as a rogue artificial intelligence. There is no soul inhabiting the doll, with the toy now acting as a smart device that grows to learn and lash out against the people it perceives to be a threat to its owner. The design of the doll was also drastically altered; now a "Buddi" doll instead of a Good Guy, this Chucky appears with a thicker face, bigger eyes, and different clothing. Like in Cult of Chucky, it's implied that multiple Buddi dolls could be defective and have the potential to go on a rampage in any potential Child's Play sequels.
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