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Charles Lee “Chucky“ Ray is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the Kid’s Play slasher movie franchise. Chucky is portrayed as a vicious serial killer who, as he bleeds out from a gunshot wound, transfers his soul right into a “Good Man” doll and repeatedly tries to switch to a human physique. The character has grow to be one of the recognizable horror icons and has been referenced quite a few instances in well-liked tradition. In 1999, the Chucky character was nominated for the MTV Film Award for Greatest Villain for the movie Bride of Chucky. He was created by writer-director Don Mancini and is portrayed by Brad Dourif in each dwell motion and voice over.[5] For the 2019 remake of the identical title, Mark Hamill voiced Chucky, having beforehand voiced the Charles Lee Ray model of the character in an episode of Robotic Rooster.
Backstory
Occasions previous to Kid’s Play (1988)
Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray, the Lakeshore Strangler, in Kid’s Play (1988).
Charles Lee Ray was born on Could 1st, 1958, in Hackensack, New Jersey to Peter and Elizabeth Ray. In distinction to his claims that killing has been in his household for “generations”, so far as proven, Charles had a loving household rising up, however he suffered from a extreme case of sadistic persona dysfunction, which his mother and father have been unaware of. When Charles was seven years previous, after he returned residence from trick-or-treating throughout Halloween, he checked all his sweet till he determined to select up an apple that he obtained and seen a razor blade caught inside it. He bites into it regardless, he smiled after the razor blade lower into his mouth inflicting it to bleed. Throughout one in every of his birthday events, Charles used a mallet to knock the piñata to the bottom however continued to aggressively smash it even after it had fallen. He then overheard the information that the Hackensack Slasher, a serial killer, was on the unfastened on the radio, and delighted in plunging a knife into his birthday cake. In 1965, when Charles was 8 years previous, the Hackensack Slasher broke into his residence and killed his father proper in entrance of him. His mom tried to cover in a closet with him, nonetheless, when The Hackensack Slasher discovered them, he was stunned to see that Charles had stabbed his mom to loss of life, claiming to have helped. Impressed by the boy’s actions, the Hackensack Slasher gave him recommendation that he ought to at all times cowl his tracks, and wiped the blood off his pocketknife earlier than handing it again to him.[6] After his mother and father’ deaths, Charles was positioned within the Burlington County residence for wayward boys. In 1972 when Charles was 14, he was identified for taking part in with the smaller youngsters, Sooner or later after monitoring mud by way of the hallway he was yelled at by the Janitor, he killed him by slitting his throat and lower off his hand and introduced his mutilated physique as “Captain Hook” to a gaggle of kids whereas they have been imitating Peter Pan and the Misplaced Boys, leaving all of them horrified excluding a younger boy named Eddie Caputo who would grow to be his future confederate. When the police got here Charles determined to run away, leaving the janitors severed hand behind as a present for Eddie earlier than fleeing into the evening.[7]
Sooner or later within the Nineteen Eighties, Charles picked up a girl named Delilah and a red-headed girl from a nightclub then introduced them again to a resort. The 2 ladies engaged in foreplay with Charles interrupting them by pulling the red-headed girl apart and holding a knife over her. To his shock as an alternative of being afraid the girl instructed him to undergo with it. Ray then selected to kill Delilah as an alternative, stabbing her and passing the knife to the redhead to affix in. After killing her collectively, the couple kissed passionately on the mattress the place the redhead instructed Charles her title is Tiffany earlier than suggesting Charles “must be Chucky” and he, in flip, prompt she must be blonde.[8] Chucky and Tiffany left Hackensack in 1987 after killing a person that was trying to promote a automotive which they proceeded to drive out of city with.
By 1988 Chucky together with Tiffany had relocated to Chicago, Illinois. Throughout his time in Chicago, Chucky studied Voodoo below the steering of a practitioner named John Bishop in try and learn to cheat loss of life. Unbeknownst to John, Chucky perverted these teachings, which have been supposed for use for good, to commit a collection of formality murders turning into generally known as the Lakeshore Strangler. Identified accomplices that helped Chucky perform his misdeeds have been Eddie Caputo and Tiffany Valentine.
Throughout his time because the Strangler, Chucky turned obsessive about a pregnant girl named Sarah Pierce and killed her husband Daniel earlier than kidnapping her thereafter. Across the similar time tensions rose between Charles and Tiffany when Tiffany came upon Chucky was killing folks with out her. Tiffany then made an nameless name to the police, telling them the whereabouts of the Lakeshore Strangler. The police discovered the place Chucky was holding Sarah and angrily believing she had turned him in, stabbed her within the abdomen, which would depart her unborn baby Nica Pierce paralyzed from the waist down. Not lengthy after a chase ensued between Chucky and Detective Mike Norris.
Appearances
Movie
Chucky as he seems in Kid’s Play (1988).
Chucky made his first look within the 1988 movie Kid’s Play. Within the movie, a serial killer named Charles Lee Ray, aka Chucky (Brad Dourif) makes use of a voodoo ritual inside a toy retailer to switch his soul right into a Good Guys doll in an effort to flee from Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon). Pretending to be an inanimate object, Chucky later is given to younger Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) and begins terrorizing the household, even once they understand that he’s alive.[9]
Chucky made his second look within the 1990 sequel, Kid’s Play 2. Within the movie, a resurrected Chucky continues his pursuit of Andy, who has been positioned in foster care after the occasions of the primary movie.[10]
In Kid’s Play 3 (1991), Chucky once more returns from the grave eight years after the occasions of the earlier movie to terrorize a now teenage Andy (Justin Whalin) who’s at present in a navy academy.[11]
Bride of Chucky (1998) continues the story, with Chucky being resurrected by a former confederate and girlfriend Tiffany Valentine (Jennifer Tilly). After transferring Tiffany’s soul right into a bride doll, the 2 terrorize a younger couple in an try and switch their souls into human our bodies.[12]
Seed of Chucky (2004) follows six years after the earlier movie when Glen/Glenda (voiced by Billy Boyd), the kid of Chucky and Tiffany (who additionally turned a doll) brings his mother and father again to life. The trio then set their sights on actress Jennifer Tilly (in a fictionalized model of herself), for whom they’ve sinister plans.[13]
The 2013 movie Curse of Chucky noticed the collection return to the easy horror components discovered within the first three movies.[14] The movie takes place twenty-five years after the occasions of the primary movie, and in it, Chucky arrives on the home of Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) and her mom Sarah, a girl with a connection to his previous. He finally ends up killing Sarah and the remainder of Nica’s household earlier than framing her for the murders.[15]
In Cult of Chucky (2017), Chucky returns to torment a now institutionalized Nica, whereas a now-adult Andy (Alex Vincent) makes an attempt to cease Chucky’s plans as soon as and for all.[16] At one level, Chucky figures out the best way to cut up his soul into many our bodies without delay, thus making a ‘cult’.
Within the 2019 reboot of Kid’s Play, Chucky (voiced by Mark Hamill) is introduced as a high-tech artificially-intelligent Buddi doll created by the Kaslan Company. Primarily designed to be a life-long companion to its proprietor by studying from its environment and performing accordingly, Buddi dolls may hook up with and function different Kaslan merchandise. One such doll has its security precautions disabled by a disgruntled Kaslan worker throughout the meeting course of, and in consequence, Chucky regularly develops murderous tendencies as he tries to eradicate anybody or something who’s stopping him and his “greatest buddy”, his proprietor Andy Barclay (Gabriel Bateman) from staying greatest associates perpetually.
Tv
Chucky made his return to tv on the October 12, 2021 premiere of Chucky, the sequel to Cult of Chucky. On this TV collection, Chucky encounters 14-year previous center college pupil Jake Wheeler at a yard sale together with his intentions to make use of him for his private artwork initiatives. A youthful model of Chucky as a human additionally appeared in flashback scenes which have been portrayed by David Kohlsmith and Tyler Barish.[17] In flashbacks of the Nineteen Eighties he is performed by Fiona Dourif (who additionally seems within the current time as Nica Pierce) dubbed by Brad Dourif.
Different
On the October 12, 1998, episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Chucky made an look to advertise Bride of Chucky and within the course of confronting Gene Okerlund and Rick Steiner.[18][19] On October 26, 2021, Chucky co-hosted NXT: Halloween Havoc aiding with the spin the wheel make a deal matches.[20]
