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"Like every right-thinking person in America, I am wary of mannequins. What are they? Are they alive or dead? No one knows! But what we do know is that they are extremely susceptible to being inhabited by spirits. We all saw the movie Mannequin. I mean, that idea doesn't come from nowhere!"
— Wayne in "Dead Mall", Bless the Harts
The villainous example of a Living Mannequin, the Murderous Mannequin is a clothing mannequin brought to life and sent to kill. Like Mecha-Mooks, a hero can be shown cutting down swathes of these without moral qualm as they are 'not truly alive.'
Also make for excellent Paranoia Fuel — they're everywhere, and they're staring at you.
Like the Creepy Doll, Demonic Dummy, and Perverse Puppet, part of the eeriness is down to the Uncanny Valley.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Anastasia Aldarismen of Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician uses animated faceless mannequins as servants in Chapters 28 & 29. They're properly dressed as valets and maids, but they rip out of their clothes when she sends them into battle. Theodore destroys them with little effort.
- Adal is the main villain of Episode 19 of Devilman. He's a demonic spider who takes possession of mannequins as if they were marionettes. Adal's mannequins can (drastically) shapeshift into a human's appearance, although their shadows don't change along, and have an identity separate from the demon. For years, Adal's been replacing people in key positions with his mannequins, but they all burn up when Devilman kills him.
- The movie entry of Doki Doki! PreCure casts a trio of discarded objects as the villain's main forces. They are given life through the sound of the magical clarinet. The one female member of the group is Mannequin Carmine, a mannequin dressed in red and with a star drawn over her left eye. She's physically very strong and has a bigger form with ribbons adding extra volume to her lower limbs.
- In Fairy Tail during the Fighting Festival arc, Bickslow move his "babies" inside some mannequins. While they don't become "alive", they can still float around, move and shoot laser beams at Gray.
- Flame of Recca, though it was a surprise. The heroes came upon a beautiful woman and her small doll, who were able to use strings to restrain and kill their enemies. One of them realized that the woman never bled, and so figured out instead of the woman making the doll talk, the doll was actually a little girl, using one of the magical artifacts to give the mannequin life. Cue tragic backstory.
- Episode 16 of Ghost Stories deals with a haunted apartment complex. These days, the building is abandoned but for whatever the main spirit residing there throws at trespassers. One of the things the spirit can do is summon an army of rundown mannequins to go after its targets. Keiichirou and Hajime are captured by these mannequins and brought to the roof of the apartment complex.
- In Chapter 38 and Episode 33 of Ghost Sweeper Mikami, a youkai takes a mannequin it's body when for aesthetic reasons it's placed on a pentagram that under a certain angle of light completely throws off the feng shui of the store. The mannequin goes on the run, donning various disguises and turning whoever it can into non-living mannequins. (In the anime, it specifically targets the ghost sweepers.) Mikami manages to destroy it with Okinu's help.
- Episode 9 of Gosick opens with Avril telling Kujo a horror story about a mannequin that invites people that stop by store window into the store after closing hours. She, or a spirit possessing the mannequin, then consumes the victim in the dressing room.
- In the Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection story "Headless Statues", an artist makes headless mannequins because he wants people to appreciate the body language, not the face. Then his creations come to life, kill whoever they can, and place the victims' heads on their necks.
- In Ibitsu's side story The Corridor of Dolls, there is a hall in an abandoned building filled with discarded mannequins. It's said that if a couple crosses the hall and enacts a small ritual, their love will become eternal. It really does... because the mannequins kill them and wear their skins, remaining ageless and "preserving" them.
- In Episode 3 of ID: Invaded, the sniper in the Pyrotechnician's ID well is a faceless mannequin with a rifle. It's a figurative nobody, because it doesn't need to be anybody as long as it causes the destruction the Pyrotechnician craves.
- In Hideshi Hino's "The Mannequin Room", the son of a mannequin maker enters his father's workshop and by accident knocks over a little girl mannequin. That night, she attacks him while he sleeps and he smashes her head in in self-defense. The next night, he's attacked by the other mannequins in the hallway. His baseball bat saves him once more there. The third night, he's attacks while he sleeps by all the broken mannequin parts and again he fights back. There is the question of how the mannequins got in his room or in the hallway, but it's left up in the air whether the mannequins truly attacked or the boy just imagined them doing so.
- Not Lives: The Queen of Puppet's forces comprise mainly of mannequins that kill anyone who uses a skill.
- In "Makoto - Sailor Jupiter" of Sailor Moon Crystal, Nephrite remote-possesses a bride mannequin to lure men and steal their life energy. He also uses it to fight the Sailor Scouts until it's destroyed by Jupiter's Flower Hurricane attack. For comparison, in the manga Nephrite uses a shadow doppelganger instead of a mannequin in this scheme.
- In So I'm a Spider, So What?, Ariel's first generation of Puppet Taratects resembled mannequins with additional arms and eyes. They are also the second strongest variant of Taratects, employing swords and bladed arms to tear apart any enemies.
- Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories: Two instances of living mannequins occur.
- In "The Next Floor", a mannequin serves as the elevator girl of a hellevator in a department store. She drops the victim-of-the-day off at a floor where he's "left alone" forever, as per his wish.
- In "— Drawings —", a boy with the power to draw monsters into existence sics a handful of mannequins on the watchman. It's implied they murder him.
Audio Plays
- Big Finish Doctor Who: In The Nightmare Fair, Peri and Kevin are attacked by the dummies of miners on the Gold Mine Ride as they try to sneak out of the funfair.
Comic Books
- In Adventure Comics #434, The Spectre battles a mannequin maker whose mannequins come to life and commit murder.
- Batman: The villain Manikin is a deformed supermodel wearing a suit of Powered Armor that makes her look like a chrome mannequin.
- "They Walk by Night" (Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #10): The mannequins at Lacey's Department Store come to life at night as vampires. Anyone who is still inside the store becomes their meal and joins their ranks, be that a locked-in customer or a vagrant looking for a roof for the night. Some time ago, a smalltime thief named Pete would've been their meal were it not for the fact that he struck a deal to provide them with a steady supply of victims if they'd let him go. Having some morals, Pete makes it a point to acquaint with rotten people only so that at least the victims deserve their fate. He's come to believe he's sort of doing society a favor.
- "Clearance Sale" (Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion #10): Two mannequins in a beach scene in the store window are in love and happily posed next to each other. The one disagreement they have with their position is that the male one has to hold up high a sign that reads "Clearance Sale" when he'd rather wrap his arm around his companion. And so they get into a fight with the store clerk, who continues to put them in the "Clearance Sale" position while they keep going back to the position they want. Things escalate when the store clerk threatens them with the incinerator, so they kill him.
- Ice Cream Man #11: Victim du jour Will Parson gets banished to a Reality TV dimension by Rick to compete in a dating show populated exclusively by mannequins. He loses the first round of Mannequin House when Stiffanie doesn't give him a rose on account of him having facial detail. Will is taken away for "improvement", which entails the removal of his face, but he escapes. In order, he ends up on the sets of Family Autopsy, which has mannequins in the audience, Chop'd, where one other contestant is a mannequin, America's Got Intestines, uniquely without mannequins, and Wealthy Family of Zombies. The zombies' cook is a mannequin and he feeds Will to them for brunch.
- "When Darkness Falls!!" (Journey into Mystery #69): A man is the only that notices the subtle movements of the wax mannequins of a men's clothing department. He chooses to remain after hours to investigate. As soon as he's alone, the mannequins move in to attack him, but he reveals himself to be one of them and berates them for their carelessness that could endanger their species.
- Spider-Woman: Nathan Dolly transfers his essence into two mannequins and used them to commit several crimes.
- "Showcase for Horror!" (This Magazine is Haunted #6): Window display man Tod Tilstrom receives a grotesque and corpulent manikin he sets up and abuses for the customers' entertainment. It gets weird when the manikin starts showing up all over the department store without any admitting to moving it and both tears and blood can be discerned on it, though everyone by Tod believes in rational explanations. One evening past closing, he has to exit through the warehouse full of broken and abandoned manikins. They come after him, furious over his treatment of the grotesque manikin, who himself awaits Tod at the exit. He swaps places with him, becoming human while Tod is forced into the existence of a manikin.
- "Mannequin of Murder" (Witches Tales #17): A guy invents a serum to freeze people into mannequins. This is intended as a form of And I Must Scream torture, but they eventually come back to zombie-esque life and kill their creator. Then they go back to posing, get shipped all over America, and start going on killing sprees after dark.
Fan Works
- Downplayed in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series - there are creepy mannequins, but they don't move. Except for the Monster Clown one...
- Vow of Nudity: In Lost in the Faewilds, one line of defense for the fay bandit hideout is four animated mannequins. They have spotlights in red, yellow, blue, and white and cannot see their own colors, though they can change their colors if one or more shines their spotlight on the same thing (for example, blue + yellow= green). If they land a solid hit on you, you'll be teleported outside, though a glancing blow will only send you outside briefly.
Films — Live Action
- Asylum: In "The Weird Tailor", a magical suit designed to restore the dead to life is placed on a shop mannequin. The mannequin comes to life and attempts to strangle Bruno.
- The Curse of Sleeping Beauty: Thomas and Linda open a book with seals they find in the hidden room and are attacked by the mannequins in the house. Later Billings returns to the property and is killed by the mannequins.
- A wooden mannequin named Morty is the main monster of The Fear series. It may or may not be the same mannequin each movie.
- The Fear is about a group of patients with psychological problems that get hunted down by a therapy manikin.
- The Fear Resurrection is about a group of friends with psychological problems that get hunted down by an heirloom manikin.
- In Ghostbusters (2016), one ghost possesses a mannequin, which goes after the Ghostbusters. It's even lampshaded by Patty — the second she enters a room full of mannequins, she goes "Okay. Yep. Room full of nightmares. Not going in there." and hightails it out of there. She then is followed around by the mannequin, not noticing it until it appears behind her in a hallway.
(The mannequin immediately turns it's head towards Patty and starts run towards her)Patty: (immediately hauling ass away from the mannequin) I SAID "DON'T ANSWER"!
- In The Hazing, Professor Kapps animates the mannequin that was one of the Scavenger Hunt items. It pulls Justine into an embrace and forcibly kisses her, before transforming her into a mannequin.
- A horror short from 1980 called Living Dolls.
- Frank hallucinates being ripped apart by his own mannequins (on which he placed the scalps of his victims) in both versions of Maniac! (1980).
- In the 1984 film Noroi no Mannequin Ningyō, four men have conspired to murder an elderly couple who refused to sell their small clothing store. The four took over the store through the couple's remaining debt, demolished it, and built a new store called Mon Cheri in its place. The couple's daughter, Natsuko, found out about the scheme and she too was murdered. Her vengeful spirit came to inhabit a wax mannequin that had been made in her likeness and had cruelly been put on display in Mon Cheri. The haunted mannequin proceeds to murder each of the four men as well as the mistress of one of them.
- In Puppet Master II, André Toulon wants to use the same soul transfer method he's used for his puppets to put his soul and that of Carolyn Bramwell into two mannequins. The mannequins have the likeness of him and his lost wife Elsa in their younger years. After transferring his own soul, Toulon's puppets realize he's tricked them and murder him. Carolyn gets away and in need of a new master, the puppets turn to the corpse Camille Kenney to put her soul in the female mannequin. Thus, Miss Camille is born as the new Puppet Master. This plot point gets ignored in the sequel films, but is continued on in the comics. There, Miss Camille ceases to be when Camille's soul is put in a puppet as the evil counterpart to Dr. Jenn's soul.
- Mannequins feature heavily in the 80's slasher Tourist Trap.
- The life-sized Action Man that kills Mrs. Goodman in Xtro.
Gamebooks
- In Shop Till You Drop... Dead! you accept your friend Reggie's challenge to spend a night in his father's department store, which is reputed to be haunted. Turns out the stories are true - the mannequins will come to life and stalk you, for starters. And in one of the bad endings you end up becoming one of them.
Literature
- Diogenes Club:
- Caricatured mannequins of the Nazi high command are part of the Axis forces animated by the evil forces in "The End of the Pier Show".
- In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", the waxworks in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors are magically animated and sent out to plague London.
- The Rubbermaid from Fool on the Hill is a mannequin in dominatrix gear holding a bowl of condoms that the fraternity Tolkien House had custom-made for them as a poor joke. Said joke is that at the time all other fraternities were getting blasted for promoting sexism and the Tolkien House felt left out. The Rubbermaid gets possessed by a portion of Rasferret's spirit to serve as his in-combat avatar. Initially armed with a mace, the Rubbermaid makes several victims before being shotgunned to bits by Hollister.
- The evil of Crystal Lake brings a House of Horror ride's mannequins to life in Friday the 13th: The Carnival.
- Stephen Graham Jones's Night of the Mannequins: a teenage boy and his friends attempt to play a prank with a mannequin they found in the woods, but instead "Manny" comes to life with a murderous desire for revenge for not playing with him anymore. Or so the group thinks. It's left to Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane whether Manny actually is alive or not, but in any case he doesn't kill anyone. The deeply unstable protagonist murders his friends himself, after becoming convinced that a horrible truck accident that killed one of them was Manny's vengeance. He thinks that if he kills them it will be cleaner and avoid collateral damage.
- There's a case of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane in Secrets of the Shopping Mall, where there's a shopping mall called Paradise Park. Many runaway children end up there, lured by the fancy name, and those that go to live inside the mall hide during the day in the form of mannequins. It's left open whether they actually become mannequins or if they're just very good at holding still.
- The mannequins in Shop Till You Drop... Dead! come to life at night, and have the ability to turn anyone foolish enough to spend a night in the mall into one of their number.
- Wax: Most of the living wax mannequins are controlled by the Hive Mind of the two main antagonists, made for the purpose of killing and replacing everyone in town. Dud is an exception - despite being a living mannequin too, he is completely unconnected to the evil plot. Jill is suspicious of him at one point, and tries to convince Poppy that Dud is evil, but this is just a front to hide that she herself has been replaced with a mannequin.
- Worm has Mannequin, a serial killing Supervillain who transplanted his organs into an armored artificial body reminiscent of a mannequin.
Live-Action TV
- Akuma Kun 1966: In the fifth episode, a bodiless demon inhabits a mannequin left in storage. In this form, she's very strong, is able to teleport, can control people, and exhales a gas that turns living creatures into mannequins. Her main weakness is that she easily falls apart. The demon's modus operandi is to initiate contact as a "normal" animate mannequin, but as soon as her head gets knocked off the face becomes flat, featuring only a giant eye and a giant mouth. The demon is also able to telepathically control other mannequins (but, it seems, not humans turned into mannequins) and they may or may not gain similarly distorted faces. The demon is defeated when she's pushed into a Deadly Rotary Fan.
- Channel Zero: Mike's dream at the beginning of "Candle Cove", as the film crew of the man interviewing him turn out to be mannequins and dummies.
- Doctor Who: The Auton animated shop dummies, which made their debut in Jon Pertwee's first story, "Spearhead from Space"note , are the preferred footsoldiers of the plastic-controlling Nestenes whenever they visit Earth. They only appeared twice in the classic series, but the sight of them coming alive, climbing out of windows and killing people in the streets was one of the show's most iconic scares. There's a reason they're the first Monster of the Week in the revival.
- A witch animates mannequins as minions in the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Trevi Collection".
- In the Supernatural episode "Mannequin 3: The Reckoning", the Monster of the Week possesses mannequins to kill its victims. It sure was convenient that all of its targets happened to work with mannequins or use sex dolls.
- Mannequin monsters occasionally show up among the villains of Super Sentai.
- There's the puppet versions of previous Super Sentai teams unleashed by Basco in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. They reanimate previous teams' powers in the form of keys, who then become life size. There's no person in the suit, and yet they're trying to attack.
- Mannequin Jamen and Torso Hildon of Episode 30 of Mashin Sentai Kiramager are respectively a Jamenshi whose head is a mannequin and a Jamen Beast whose head is a dress form. Mannequin Jamen's powers include turning people into mannequins, summoning those mannequins to act as shields, and throwing around explosive shopping tags. Torso Hildon's choice of ammo are sewing pins.
- Tales from the Darkside: In "Everybody Needs a Little Love", a man named Curtis steals a mannequin to regain female company after his wife, Estelle, divorced him. He names the mannequin after his ex and increasingly treats the mannequin as a living companion, going so far as to take her on a vacation. However, the relationship turns abusive and when Curtis's friend Roberts comes to check up on him, the mannequin knocks him out and murders Curtis. Roberts is arrested for Curtis's murder and the human Estelle's corpse is also found in Curtis's apartment. The "mannequin" Estelle testifies against the three, stating that Roberts and Estelle were having an affair and that Curtis must've vengefully killed Estelle. Then Roberts' must've found out and murdered Curtis in return. The cops like the theory, but do have the issue that there were no fingerprints on the knife that killed Curtis. It's left ambiguous whether the living mannequin was all in Curtis's and Roberts's heads, whether she really came to life, or whether the mannequin got possessed by the human Estelle's spirit.
- In "The Weird Tailor" of Thriller, the tailor Erik is abusive towards his wife Anna. To cope with the pain and humiliation, she's taken one of his mannequins, Hans, as a confidant. Erik accepts a job to make a special suit, unaware it's to be worn by his client's dead son to bring him back to life. Upon discovering the truth, he hands Anna the suit for her to burn it. She, however, is intrigued by the fabric and puts the clothes on Hans. The abuse subsequently escalates to attempted murder, which only is prevented because Hans comes to life due to the suit and kills Erik. He's happy to realize he and Anna get to be together at last. The basic plot of the episode was later reused for the film Asylum.
Music
- Daniel Amos's Doppelganger is a downplayed example. The cover art and liner notes feature photos of a mannequin who never does anything overtly violent, but is still framed to be as creepy as possible. And he does somehow get ahold of a real human face to wear as a mask...
Newspaper Comics
- The Far Side had a Sunday strip with a horror movie blurb spoof, Night of the Crash Test Dummies (which shows the dummies forcing two engineers into a car, presumably then testing their resistance). Later used as the cover of a strip collection.
Podcasts
- Nikola Orsinov of the The Magnus Archives is a human transformed into a mannequin to serve the Stranger. For a long time, she served as the ringmaster of the Circus of the Other, during which period she stole the skins and voices of humans to disguise herself with.
- In "Mannequin Episode" of Beyond Belief of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Frank is visited by the living mannequins Terry, Gerald, Pat, and Bess, with whom he was friends for a short time during a time that he was transformed into a mannequin. During the visit, Prower, a mannequin hunter, attacks the quartet. He weakens them with oregano — "mannequin's bane" — and tries to kill them by drawing X's over their eyes, but Terry's heroism makes him decide to spare the group. Frank and Sadie are happy until the mannequins invite them along on the annual Dummies Night, which is celebrated by finding humans and ripping their limbs off. With some quick thinking, the couple lure the mannequins into a closet with fancy clothes and lock it.
Roleplay
- Destroy the Godmodder has the creepy dummy. It was summoned rather innocently in the first game wearing a shirt that said: "godmodder's friend" on it. Then it started to go downhill.
- It was amusing at first, but then it started to tear people's faces and arms off.
- But then everyone forgot about it and it just sort of disappeared.
- Until the second thread, when it came back even worse than the first time around.
- It was amusing at first, but then it started to tear people's faces and arms off.
Video Games
- The indie horror game Angels Cove sees you as a private investigator hired to investigate a mansion on a deserted island, and you find out it's deserted save for containing plenty of mannequins. And then a storm strands you in the island, and predictably things goes horribly wrong after dusk. The mannequins coming to life and stalking you, for starters.
- BioShock 1: In Poseidon's Plaza, there are Plastered Splicers. As their name suggests, they are covered in plaster, and they disguised themselves as Sander Cohen's statues, often attacking in silence unlike other splicers. Unlike the creepy plaster statues, these bleed and give a dull thunk when hit.
- Several mannequins appears in the basement of level of The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation, coming to life and leaking blood from their eyes and mouth as they try to maul you on sight. Your best hope is to escape from the first is hiding underneath a table, and sneak past several normal, non-sentient mannequins, but the moment you escape you turn around to see three of these mannequins chasing after you. Run like crazy to avoid getting killed!
- Condemned: Criminal Origins: In the mannequin shop, at the very beginning, you can see the mannequins each with their Slenderman-like appearance. You turn and start walking. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've teleported out of the display case and have now formed a semi-circle around the exit. You have no choice but to walk further. LIGHTNING FLASH. They've gotten even closer now. LIGHTNING FLASH. The closer you get to the hole, the more they push you backwards. Finally, once you reach the hole, if you look up you will see the mannequins in a ritual like stance in a circle around the hole. They're never mentioned again. Also, there are crazy homeless mannequin impersonators on that level, who will actually attack you.
- Each game of DON'T LOOK AWAY (2022) has the survivors facing five of these, though the Entity can only have one active at any given moment.
- Introduced in Dragon Quest XI is a category of "maiden doll" monsters: Dora-in-Grey, Golden Girl, Iron Maiden, Platinum Poppet, Steel Siren, and Zomaiden.note They are all part of the Material Family, despite Steel Siren being described as undead. "Maiden doll" monsters consist of a puppet-like upper half and a cage to trap people in as lower half, evoking antique dress forms.
- Dynamite Headdy. Wooden Dresser, a giant wooden mannequin, is a boss character who uses costumes that give her various powers to try and kill Headdy.
- In The Evil Within, there's the Mannequin Factory of Chapter 11. Its mannequins are the everyday variant on the easier two modes. On Nightmare or AKUMA mode, there's mannequins skateboarding on sawblades patrol the corridors. They don't show signs of liveliness other than that they will go Sebastian if he enters their field of view.
- In The Evil Within 2, there's a puzzle in Chapter 5 that requires a picture to be snapped of a mannequin in a specific setting. The mannequin goes from looking at a corner to looking straight at Sebastian during the flash. Nothing is said about why that happens.
- Seemingly invoked in Fallout 4. 1st Generation Synths look like SkeleBots, and 3rd Generation Synths can pass for humans, but 2nd Generation Synths are at an uncomfortable middle ground and appear as porcelain-white, expressionless, genderless mannequins (until they take battle damage). Coincidentally, the game is the first in the Fallout series to feature actual mannequins hanging around the ruins of Boston. If you get both 2nd Gen Synths and mannequins in the same area...
- One creepy room in Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse has no enemies or ghosts. Unless you take a good long look at one of the eyeless mannequins in the center. The head will turn to you and open its eyes, revealing yellow demon eyes. If you try to look at it again, it won't do it anymore. It is a common scare in the games to have a doll turn and look at you if you look at it through the camera. However, they only do this once, and the instant you lower the camera, they're back in their original pose, leading some gamers to wonder if they're just imagining things.
- In Final Fantasy XI, after mannequins were added as furniture for player houses, they eventually started to be added as rare special enemies too.
- These exist within the Natural History Museum in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Their spears pack a punch.
- The mannequins of Hello Neighbor are dress forms that live in the neighbor's house and much like the Shadow, with which the mannequins have some connection, their realness is up for debate. They show up in three challenges: Fear School, Fear Supermarket, and the Birthday Party, and although not necessarily dangerous they do work against Nicky.
- In In Sound Mind this is subverted since there is a friendly mannequin who gives you keys and thumbs up when you achieve something.
- LEGO Dimensions: The Doctor Who based level has Autons show up as mooks. The 2016 Ghostbusters Adventure World also has a quest where the player has to beat up a bunch of possessed mannequins for Leslie, who's too creeped out to smash them herself.
- Little Nightmares II features enemies in the Hospital called the Patients. They're surgically-altered former humans who are now statue-still figures composed primarily of mannequin parts and prosthetics. In darkness, some of them are able to move and chase after you quickly and must be frozen back into statue poses with a light source, with mechanical joints and hollow plastic sounding when they are moving.
- The Mannequin Game, a first-person horror game, have you being stalked by a living mannequin while stuck in an empty house.
- MapleStory has these as enemies in the Kerning Square area.
- MiSide: The base form of various Mita models are represented as mannequin-esque beings. As Short-haired Mita explains, the unfinished and discarded models are completely feral and won't hesitate to attack the player, but they stay still if the player looks at them due to their shyness.
- The video game adaptation of Monster House contains a mannequin of Constance as a boss encountered by Jenny. It becomes encased in a chandelier, which it uses to attack the girl with.
- The New Resident has these as the main enemy, created by ManneCorp. It turns out that the CEO made them as part of his experiments with immortality.
- Paranormal HK have a sentient, eight-limbed mannequin demon called a "spider-mannequin" who haunts a department store and comes after you the moment you disturb it. The spider-mannequin can kill you on contact and you'll spend a level hiding underneath tables in a dimly-lit room, trying to sneak your way out without getting caught.
- A mod for Portal 2 called "The Office Prank" has you play three different Aperture Science employees, two of which are out to prank the third by setting up mannequins around the facility. However, they don't realize at first that the mannequins are sentient, and murderous. While two of the employees' fates are not revealed, (though they've both encountered the mannequins by that point) the third shoots himself in the head, apparently in his sleep while he was having a nightmare about the mannequins.
- In the DLC "Shadows of Rose" from Resident Evil Village, there are mannequins with glowing eyes that chase after Rose throughout the recreation of House Beneviento.
- Shin Megami Tensei I: Kugutsu (Japanese for "puppet") is a broken mannequin possessed by demons. It is a member of the Machine Race and dwells inside the mall to attack any human that passes by.
- Silent Hill:
- The Mannequins in Silent Hill 2. They look a bit different than most mannequins, resembling legs placed on top of legs. They stand still unless approached or agitated by light and will sometimes throw themselves into James' path out of nowhere.
- Subverted in Silent Hill 3. One infamous room in the Hilltop Center is filled with mannequin parts, with only one of the torsos having a head attached to it. And it doesn't remain attached for long.
- There's the Headless Mannequin in World of Horror as a reference to Junji Ito's "Headless Sculptures". It's a female form, evidently without head, that's armed with a knife. She's encountered during the Sculptures event at the School.
- The Vitreum Dancers from Wuthering Waves are a type of Echo which resemble elegantly dressed mannequins with torsos and faces made of stained glass. They carry swords made of that same glass, and a hostile Vitreum Dancer can easily carve up an unprepared player with its graceful swordsmanship.
- Living mannequins inhabit the mall in Yume Nikki -- Dream Diary. They are hostile, but will only act when the lights are out. The lights in the mall aren't reliably on, so Madotsuki gets to choose whether to get past them by cunning or the simpler option of keeping the lantern active.
Web Animation
- The Unobtrusive Fantasy of Manny Quinn stars Manny Quinn, a tailor's dummy at Mischerschmidt Playhouse. He's in love with theatre's leading lady, but for a long time is powerless to stop her maltreatment at the hands of Mischerschmidt. Eventually, he musters his will to kill Mischerschmidt and locks the body away in his own dummy box.
Webcomics
- Grrl Power has a group of mage-slayer mannequins known as the mannekillers. They are animated by a bloody handprint on their foreheads, don SWAT-style gear, and carry equipment to deal with mages, aliens and supernatural entities. Their fake bodies are reinforced for durability and they can reconstruct themselves if the limbs aren't completely destroyed, so they're hard to dispose of. Furthermore, attempting to fight them with magic results in a Mana Drain counterattack which consequently fuels them for a potential Action Bomb right there.
- Nixvir: The mannequins are sentient, but, much like the scarecrows, they have no problem killing innocent bystanders who stumble upon their Underground City in order to keep them quiet.
- Silent Hill: Promise has at least a pair of them.
Web Originals
- The SCP Foundation has SCP-847
: a usually normal seeming (if damaged) female mannequin, it comes to life if a woman approaches within 100 meters of it, with a single minded determination to murder the woman and [DATA EXPUNGED]. It's only known weakness is electricity, which will temporarily render it dormant.
Western Animation
- The Forever 23 store mannequins of "Clap Like This" of Close Enough act like regular mannequins by day and party all night when the store's closed. For them there's only the carefree life, which sounds great to the miserable new store employee Bridgette. Being forcibly turned into a mannequin in the store that doubles as an operating theater is a little less up her alley. Worse, because she's uncooperative, the mannequins threaten to use her for spare parts. Circumstances get three of Bridgette's friend captured too. Fortunately, the mannequins' party life makes them easy to involve in playing a clapping game, through which they clap themselves apart. The episode does not address whether (all) the evil mannequins started out as mannequins or if they were once human.
- A villain in Inch High, Private Eye, known for being a Gadgeteer Genius (to the point that he even evaded arrest by fooling the police with a life-like replica of himself), built robots disguised as ordinary mannequins, sold them to department stores, then used them to rob the stores and return to him.
- The Mona the Vampire episode "Night of the Living Mannequin". Of course, what Ms. Imagination Mona believes are mannequins being used to take over the town are really just mannequins being remade and modeling a new fashion line.
- The New Adventures of Superman: "The Mysterious Mr. Mist": A disembodied spirit possesses a mannequin and tries to drag Lois Lane back to his underground kingdom.
- One of SheZow's enemies is Manny Ken: a gigantic animated shop mannequin.
- In the Super Friends episode "The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends", Mxyzptlk uses his Reality Warper powers to bring three mannequins to life at the abandoned Jefferson Department Store. Two of them hold Superman down while the third, who resembles Lois Lane in a bride's attire, lifts her hand up at the hero to subdue him with the kryptonite wedding ring she's wearing.
