| “ | Hello, Papa. | „ |
| ~ Slappy the Dummy to his creator R.L. Stine. |
| “ | Papa, you left without saying goodbye. Trying to hide from me? That's like hiding from yourself. I was your best friend and you turned your back on me. Locked me up, imprisoned me in the pages of a book. (IN UNISON): You stuck me on a shelf for years and years. The key was right there. And you never used it. | „ |
| ~ Slappy explaining his anger towards Stine. |
| “ | You know I always survive. You wrote me that way. In fact, I wrote my own story while I was gone. And guess what? YOU'RE THE MAIN CHARACTER! | „ |
| ~ Slappy getting back at Stine. |
Slappy the Dummy, simply known as Slappy, is the main antagonist of Sony Pictures Animation's Goosebumps film duology, based on R. L. Stine's horror book series of the same name.
The leader of the Goosebumps monsters, he is a living ventriloquist dummy who was accidentally released from one of R. L. Stine's manuscripts, Night of the Living Dummy, and proceeds to release the other monsters from their manuscript, wreaking widespread havoc on the town of Madison, Delaware, as a result of his liberation. He is R.L Stine's son-like creation, former best friend and arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by Jack Black in the first film and by Mick Wingert in the second film.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- While he has comedic moments in both movies, he is still taken seriously as most of them highlight how vile and sadistic he is.
- While some could argue his defeat in the second movie was played a bit comically, it is more played for satisfaction than anything, not to mention it still wouldn't matter in the long run given the fact that he survives in the end.
- While some could argue he is tragic as he was trapped in a manuscript (which is heavily implied to be a fate worse than death) by his own creator for years, he was already evil before that point, which was clearly the reason Stine imprisoned him in the first place, making this a pretty petty and hypocritical excuse. Not to mention, he tried to kill various innocent people (and even put some through a fate worse than death) that had nothing to do with this. This is not played for sympathy either as he subverts all his care for Stine.
Goosebumps[]
- Once he gets out of the manuscript he was trapped in, he suggests to Stine that they "terrorize the locals" and "destroy the town". These lines also heavily imply that he has killed individuals in the past.
- Once he realizes that Stine and the gang are bent on trapping him back in his manuscript, he releases all of the Goosebumps monsters, allowing them to wreak havoc across the town in an attempt to destroy it with all of its inhabitants, meaning he is also the one responsible for their actions.
- He also burns all of their books so that they don't get trapped in.
- He releases the lawn gnomes from their book in an attempt to kill Zach, Hannah, Champ, and Stine.
- He allows the body squeezers to freeze Officers Stevens and Brooks along with the rest of the townspeople and later allows them to freeze Lorraine Conyers.
- He tells the monsters to get rid of Stine if they don't want Slappy's "favorite day" to end.
- He breaks Stine's fingers in the typewriter's case once he realizes he's making a new book to trap all of the monsters.
- He unleashes the Blob That Ate Everyone in an attempt to get rid of Stine and his friends once and for all, it is also shown to be a slow and painful way to die as you can't move while the blob consumes you.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween[]
- When he reawakens he harasses Tommy Madigan by taking off his pants and trips over him and his gang with a hose. While they were jerks, Slappy likely did this more for personal amusement as opposed to being protective.
- He injures Tyler's neck by dismantling his ladder whilst he was decorating the school auditorium. Though he did do this to avenge Sarah, as Tyler cheated on her, this put Tyler's life in danger, which is unwarranted.
- While he was initially affable towards Sarah, Sam, and Sonny, doing their chores and homework for them and genuinely wanting to be part of their family, he subverts this when he realizes they want to get rid of him.
- Even then he was a demanding jerk towards them, saying that this is "his family now" in a domineering way.
- He brings all the Halloween Decorations to life by turning them into monsters and uses them to terrorize the city, all because he wasn't accepted into Sarah's, Sam's and Sonny's family.
- He straps a mask onto the store manager named Walter and turns him into a hideous ogre, basically enslaving and brainwashing him in the process.
- He turns Kathy into a ventriloquist dummy, which is confirmed to be a fate worse than death since she's not controlling her actions.
- He planned on finishing the story that the kids made in order to defeat them and destroy the town, confirming that he indeed wanted to destroy innocents in both films.
- In the end he gets away with getting revenge on R.L. Stine, trapping him in a manuscript that he wrote with apparently no means to ever get out (at least for a while), with the implications that he still roams the Earth, Also Slappy must have rhetorically killed R.L Stine, but this was never revealed.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is shown to have a degree of affability, as he was genuinely affable to Sarah, Sam and Sonny initially, wanting to be part of their family until he realized they wanted to get rid of him. This is also played for sympathy, as he has an outburst of not being accepted into their family, clearly hurt by their rejection of him.
- While he is not seen bonding or protecting them, showing that their relationship is pragmatic, he still genuinely cares for his fellow monsters, as seen when he calls them his friends in the first film, and called them his family in the second film, and is never seen abusing them, the only reason he didn't worry about them after they got blown up is that he knows they can regenerate with the magic ink that Stine wrote the books with, showing he has a strong but estrange friendship with them.
- He has moral agency issues, as he was created with Stine's magic typewriter to be the monster he is.
Trivia[]
- This version of Slappy was currently the only version of him to be Near Pure Evil, as his Book/TV Series counterpart was Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Slappy the Dummy on the Villains Wiki
- Slappy the Dummy on the Goosebumps Wiki
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