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Full name: Andrew William Barclay
Aliases: Andy, Cadet Barclay, Barclay, Wimp
Canon from: Child's Play series (specifically, Child's Play 3 (1991)
Canon type (movies/books, etc):Movie
Age (approx if not sure): 16
Gender: Male
Link to picture of character (if possible): http://i.imgur.com/5orsfR0.png
Point in time when character has been taken from canon: The end of Child's Play 3, after being taken away by the police.
Character History: Relatively little is known about Andy Barclay's life from the time he was born until we first met him at six years old in the original Child's Play. He noted during the second movie that he lived in apartments all his life and there was never any indication that he knew his father, who died through circumstances never explained. Andy just turned six at the beginning of the first movie and by every indication was a happy and content child. He lived with his mother in an abnormally-spacious Chicago apartment, had a large room all to himself and there was only one thing in the world he wanted: a Good Guy doll, his world's equivalent of the Teddy Ruxpin or Furby or any number of 'fad toys'. Unable to afford the $60 doll on her strained budget, Andy's mother bought a Good Guy from a homeless street peddler on a whim, a decision that later came back to haunt her as unbeknownst to her, the doll was possessed by the spirit of a voodoo-practicing serial killer, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler Charles Lee Ray - better known by his nickname, Chucky.
Though the young Andy was initially delighted with his new doll that joy soon faded as a string of murders took place, each of which police linked to Andy. Each time, Andy insisted he had nothing to do with it, and while he initially had little understanding of his situation, he soon began to realize that the doll who told him it'd been "sent down from heaven by Daddy to play with me" had a much darker personality. Eventually Andy shifted from Chucky's unwitting patsy to his primary target when the serial killer realized that he could transfer his soul out of the body of the Good Guy doll and into Andy by way of another voodoo ritual, presumably because Andy was the first person he told his real name to. Institutionalized because he was the prime suspect in Chucky's murders, Andy was forced to flee the institution to escape Chucky and ran back to his home. Chucky followed him and almost managed to possess him, though Andy's mother and police detective Mike Norris managed to interrupt the ritual in time to save Andy. Having realized by now that Chucky was evil, Andy helped his mother overcome Chucky and lit the killer doll on fire. This was not enough to kill Chucky, though, and he continued to try to pursue Andy even after being burnt alive and having his arm and leg shot off. It took being shot through the heart by Detective Norris before Chucky finally collapsed and was presumed dead.
In the aftermath of these events Andy, his mother, and Detective Norris all went public with the truth and paid the price. Facing the loss of his job and all his credibility, Detective Norris was forced to recant his story. Andy's mother was not so easily deterred, however, and ended up being institutionalized as a result. For his part, Andy earned the ire of the powerful businessmen behind the Good Guy toy line and was shunted into the foster care system. Andy's caseworker was sympathetic to him, though, and he soon found a home. Unfortunately, Chucky was soon revived when his doll body was reconstructed and he immediately resumed his pursuit of Andy, tracking him down to his new home and tying him up in his sleep to possess him without resistance. He was thwarted only by chance and continued stalking Andy relentlessly, following him to his new school and murdering Andy's new teacher Ms. Kettlewell for getting in his way. Having realized if he did not stop Chucky that no one would, the young Andy took a knife and went down into the basement to deal with the killer doll, only to find himself framed for yet another murder when Chucky took advantage of the chaos to kill Andy's foster father.
Taken away by Social Services, Andy soon found a friend and ally in his foster sister, Kyle, who discovered evidence of Chucky's chicanery and tried to help him. Unfortunately, she was too late to save their foster mother, who was also killed by Chucky. Chucky took Kyle hostage and used her to go after Andy. After yet another brutal murder (in this case Andy and Kyle's caseworker), Chucky finally caught Andy and forced him to go to the Good Guy Factory where he knocked the boy unconscious. But although Chucky finally managed to perform his ritual, nothing happened - he wasted too much time stalking Andy, and as a result was trapped in his doll body. Never a stable individual to begin with, Chucky went ballistic, deciding to murder Andy and Kyle both and pursuing the pair tenaciously through the doll factory. He endured gruesome injuries as he hunted the two kids, first being forced to rip off his own hand and then losing his legs. Chucky refused to give up, pursuing Andy on a rolling cart before Andy immobilized the killer doll with a spray of molten plastic. Yet even that was not enough to stop Chucky, who burst from the plastic goo in one last attack before Kyle shoved a hose in his mouth, inflating his head until it exploded. Their foster parents were dead and they had nowhere to go, but Andy and Kyle believed they'd finally rid themselves of Chucky.
And for eight years, they did. Separated from each other by the foster system, Andy and Kyle lost touch, and for the next eight years Andy was sent from one foster home to another. Kyle's advice to rely only on himself stuck with him, shaping him into a quiet, introverted young man who couldn't fit in or be controlled no matter where he went. As a last resort, Social Services enrolled Andy in Kent Military Academy, where he was arranged to remain until he reached adulthood. Naturally, the socially awkward Andy found himself a pariah once again, but he slowly started to open up to a select few of his fellow cadets and adjust to his new environment. Yet little time passed before Andy found himself facing Chucky yet again, his childhood tormentor having acquired a new body when his remains at the Good Guy factory were recycled to make a new doll. Though Chucky set his sights of a new target this time, the young cadet Ronald Tyler, Andy made it his mission to stop the killer doll once again. Naturally, this mission was complicated by the interference of authorities, in this case Andy's superior officer Cadet Colonel Shelton. After murdering a garbage man and inadvertently causing the death of Kent head Colonel Cochran (by scaring him into having a heart attack), Chucky made his move, sabotaging the academy's war games and taking Andy's friend Krsten De Silva hostage. Though he managed to save De Silva, Andy lost his other close friend, Whitehurst, to Chucky. Pursuing Chucky and Tyler from the woods to a nearby carnival, Andy engaged in a brief shootout with Chucky before chasing him to the top of an amusement ride and using his newly acquired shooting skills to disarm the killer doll and save Tyler. Tenacious as ever, Chucky leapt upon Andy, who used his knife to sever the serial killer's remaining hand and subsequently threw him into a large fan which naturally sliced Chucky into kibble. In the last scene, Andy visited Kristen, who was being treated for her gunshot injury, before surrendering to police custody. Andy's fate is left unclear, though with no suspect and a string of murders in his past, it didn't look good.
Character Personality Whatever kind of person Andy Barclay was going to be before his life intertwined with that of Chucky, his encounter with the serial killer and subsequent encounters with him over the years left a deep and lasting impact on Andy's character. Throughout the second and third movies, he is immediately pegged by almost everyone he meets as a troubled kid, being described variously as 'withdrawn', 'quiet', and 'traumatized'. In truth, Andy's social reticence develops almost exclusively due to his realization, borne from multiple incidents, that no one will help him or even believe him, and that he must rely on himself alone. This isn't to say that Andy is antisocial - he bonds easily with Kyle in the second movie and Tyler in the third movie, putting himself in harm's way numerous times for their sake. He also forms a friendship with fellow cadets Whitehurst and De Silva in the third movie. So while he is definitely introverted, Andy is by no means a loner.
Spending the good majority of his life passed from one foster home to another, Andy has developed a certain indifference towards authority figures in general. It's not that he's a rebel, mind - he just realized at a very young age he couldn't rely on them and that he'd have to find his own way. to that end, the interference of the Warden will be resented but for the most part will be a presence Andy will adjust to quickly - heavy-handed authority figures are nothing new to him. The stress of incarceration, on the other hand, will be another matter - as someone who has moved so many times in his life, Andy developed a certain habit of coming and going as he pleased, which got him into trouble early at Kent and will likely weigh heavily on him in an even more restrictive institution. Furthermore, due to an experience in the second movie where Chucky tied Andy up while he slept and almost possessed him, he is extremely averse to being restrained. Nothing good can come of it, he found, and it's likely that he would take restraints, sensory deprivation and/or isolation very poorly.
Physical Description: Andy Barclay is very unassuming physically; all of sixteen years of age, he's of average height and weight, a tad bit on the lanky side perhaps but otherwise unmemorable. He wears his hair in a flattop haircut, though this is more due to regulations at Kent than personal preference - when he arrives at the beginning of the movie his hair is unkempt and somewhat outgrown, indicating he might be inclined to grow it out again provided he is allowed to do so. Remarkably for a person whose life has so frequently been in danger, he has no scars or identifying marks to speak of.
Magical powers or special skills: Andy is a baseline human teenager with no superhuman powers or abilities. He shouldn't be underestimated because of this, though: ten years of moving through foster homes and fighting off murderously sociopathic dolls have shaped Andy into a supremely resourceful and self-reliant individual. Throughout all three of the Child's Play films Andy exhibited a canny knack for survival, knowing the right times to be passive and the right times to act and catch his enemy off-guard. His training at Kent laid the groundwork for him to go on the offensive against his tormentors; while not a master marksman or knife fighter by any means, Andy picked up enough of the basics to hold his own in a fight. As seen in the recently released Curse of Chucky, Andy's skills as an adult are formidable enough to surprise and kill Chucky within seconds, indicating he possesses a great deal of aptitude for combat provided he is allowed to cultivate it.
Any crimes committed in canon: Andy sets Chucky on fire in the original Child's Play, assists Kyle in killing him in 2, and finally throws him to his death in 3. While these were all acts of self-defense, Chucky was still a human being (albeit a murderous one trapped in a doll's body) and in some cases Andy uses arguably excessive force against him, such as in 3 when he throws Chucky to his death after quite literally disarming him. Aside from his skirmishes with Chucky, Andy is also heavily implied to have been something of a juvenile delinquent, as Kent head Colonel Cochran labels him a 'troublemaker' after reading his file and midway through the film he successfully steals a map from his superior officer's tent. Going by this conjecture, Andy can be safely assumed to have engaged in shoplifting, at the very least.
Crime incarcerated into Glaxcin for: Manslaughter (Dollslaughter?), complicity in the (temporary) murder of Charles Lee Ray, aggravated assault, stealing from a superior officer, multiple counts of disobeying orders, multiple counts of shoplifting.
Aliases: Andy, Cadet Barclay, Barclay, Wimp
Canon from: Child's Play series (specifically, Child's Play 3 (1991)
Canon type (movies/books, etc):Movie
Age (approx if not sure): 16
Gender: Male
Link to picture of character (if possible): http://i.imgur.com/5orsfR0.png
Point in time when character has been taken from canon: The end of Child's Play 3, after being taken away by the police.
Character History: Relatively little is known about Andy Barclay's life from the time he was born until we first met him at six years old in the original Child's Play. He noted during the second movie that he lived in apartments all his life and there was never any indication that he knew his father, who died through circumstances never explained. Andy just turned six at the beginning of the first movie and by every indication was a happy and content child. He lived with his mother in an abnormally-spacious Chicago apartment, had a large room all to himself and there was only one thing in the world he wanted: a Good Guy doll, his world's equivalent of the Teddy Ruxpin or Furby or any number of 'fad toys'. Unable to afford the $60 doll on her strained budget, Andy's mother bought a Good Guy from a homeless street peddler on a whim, a decision that later came back to haunt her as unbeknownst to her, the doll was possessed by the spirit of a voodoo-practicing serial killer, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler Charles Lee Ray - better known by his nickname, Chucky.
Though the young Andy was initially delighted with his new doll that joy soon faded as a string of murders took place, each of which police linked to Andy. Each time, Andy insisted he had nothing to do with it, and while he initially had little understanding of his situation, he soon began to realize that the doll who told him it'd been "sent down from heaven by Daddy to play with me" had a much darker personality. Eventually Andy shifted from Chucky's unwitting patsy to his primary target when the serial killer realized that he could transfer his soul out of the body of the Good Guy doll and into Andy by way of another voodoo ritual, presumably because Andy was the first person he told his real name to. Institutionalized because he was the prime suspect in Chucky's murders, Andy was forced to flee the institution to escape Chucky and ran back to his home. Chucky followed him and almost managed to possess him, though Andy's mother and police detective Mike Norris managed to interrupt the ritual in time to save Andy. Having realized by now that Chucky was evil, Andy helped his mother overcome Chucky and lit the killer doll on fire. This was not enough to kill Chucky, though, and he continued to try to pursue Andy even after being burnt alive and having his arm and leg shot off. It took being shot through the heart by Detective Norris before Chucky finally collapsed and was presumed dead.
In the aftermath of these events Andy, his mother, and Detective Norris all went public with the truth and paid the price. Facing the loss of his job and all his credibility, Detective Norris was forced to recant his story. Andy's mother was not so easily deterred, however, and ended up being institutionalized as a result. For his part, Andy earned the ire of the powerful businessmen behind the Good Guy toy line and was shunted into the foster care system. Andy's caseworker was sympathetic to him, though, and he soon found a home. Unfortunately, Chucky was soon revived when his doll body was reconstructed and he immediately resumed his pursuit of Andy, tracking him down to his new home and tying him up in his sleep to possess him without resistance. He was thwarted only by chance and continued stalking Andy relentlessly, following him to his new school and murdering Andy's new teacher Ms. Kettlewell for getting in his way. Having realized if he did not stop Chucky that no one would, the young Andy took a knife and went down into the basement to deal with the killer doll, only to find himself framed for yet another murder when Chucky took advantage of the chaos to kill Andy's foster father.
Taken away by Social Services, Andy soon found a friend and ally in his foster sister, Kyle, who discovered evidence of Chucky's chicanery and tried to help him. Unfortunately, she was too late to save their foster mother, who was also killed by Chucky. Chucky took Kyle hostage and used her to go after Andy. After yet another brutal murder (in this case Andy and Kyle's caseworker), Chucky finally caught Andy and forced him to go to the Good Guy Factory where he knocked the boy unconscious. But although Chucky finally managed to perform his ritual, nothing happened - he wasted too much time stalking Andy, and as a result was trapped in his doll body. Never a stable individual to begin with, Chucky went ballistic, deciding to murder Andy and Kyle both and pursuing the pair tenaciously through the doll factory. He endured gruesome injuries as he hunted the two kids, first being forced to rip off his own hand and then losing his legs. Chucky refused to give up, pursuing Andy on a rolling cart before Andy immobilized the killer doll with a spray of molten plastic. Yet even that was not enough to stop Chucky, who burst from the plastic goo in one last attack before Kyle shoved a hose in his mouth, inflating his head until it exploded. Their foster parents were dead and they had nowhere to go, but Andy and Kyle believed they'd finally rid themselves of Chucky.
And for eight years, they did. Separated from each other by the foster system, Andy and Kyle lost touch, and for the next eight years Andy was sent from one foster home to another. Kyle's advice to rely only on himself stuck with him, shaping him into a quiet, introverted young man who couldn't fit in or be controlled no matter where he went. As a last resort, Social Services enrolled Andy in Kent Military Academy, where he was arranged to remain until he reached adulthood. Naturally, the socially awkward Andy found himself a pariah once again, but he slowly started to open up to a select few of his fellow cadets and adjust to his new environment. Yet little time passed before Andy found himself facing Chucky yet again, his childhood tormentor having acquired a new body when his remains at the Good Guy factory were recycled to make a new doll. Though Chucky set his sights of a new target this time, the young cadet Ronald Tyler, Andy made it his mission to stop the killer doll once again. Naturally, this mission was complicated by the interference of authorities, in this case Andy's superior officer Cadet Colonel Shelton. After murdering a garbage man and inadvertently causing the death of Kent head Colonel Cochran (by scaring him into having a heart attack), Chucky made his move, sabotaging the academy's war games and taking Andy's friend Krsten De Silva hostage. Though he managed to save De Silva, Andy lost his other close friend, Whitehurst, to Chucky. Pursuing Chucky and Tyler from the woods to a nearby carnival, Andy engaged in a brief shootout with Chucky before chasing him to the top of an amusement ride and using his newly acquired shooting skills to disarm the killer doll and save Tyler. Tenacious as ever, Chucky leapt upon Andy, who used his knife to sever the serial killer's remaining hand and subsequently threw him into a large fan which naturally sliced Chucky into kibble. In the last scene, Andy visited Kristen, who was being treated for her gunshot injury, before surrendering to police custody. Andy's fate is left unclear, though with no suspect and a string of murders in his past, it didn't look good.
Character Personality Whatever kind of person Andy Barclay was going to be before his life intertwined with that of Chucky, his encounter with the serial killer and subsequent encounters with him over the years left a deep and lasting impact on Andy's character. Throughout the second and third movies, he is immediately pegged by almost everyone he meets as a troubled kid, being described variously as 'withdrawn', 'quiet', and 'traumatized'. In truth, Andy's social reticence develops almost exclusively due to his realization, borne from multiple incidents, that no one will help him or even believe him, and that he must rely on himself alone. This isn't to say that Andy is antisocial - he bonds easily with Kyle in the second movie and Tyler in the third movie, putting himself in harm's way numerous times for their sake. He also forms a friendship with fellow cadets Whitehurst and De Silva in the third movie. So while he is definitely introverted, Andy is by no means a loner.
Spending the good majority of his life passed from one foster home to another, Andy has developed a certain indifference towards authority figures in general. It's not that he's a rebel, mind - he just realized at a very young age he couldn't rely on them and that he'd have to find his own way. to that end, the interference of the Warden will be resented but for the most part will be a presence Andy will adjust to quickly - heavy-handed authority figures are nothing new to him. The stress of incarceration, on the other hand, will be another matter - as someone who has moved so many times in his life, Andy developed a certain habit of coming and going as he pleased, which got him into trouble early at Kent and will likely weigh heavily on him in an even more restrictive institution. Furthermore, due to an experience in the second movie where Chucky tied Andy up while he slept and almost possessed him, he is extremely averse to being restrained. Nothing good can come of it, he found, and it's likely that he would take restraints, sensory deprivation and/or isolation very poorly.
Physical Description: Andy Barclay is very unassuming physically; all of sixteen years of age, he's of average height and weight, a tad bit on the lanky side perhaps but otherwise unmemorable. He wears his hair in a flattop haircut, though this is more due to regulations at Kent than personal preference - when he arrives at the beginning of the movie his hair is unkempt and somewhat outgrown, indicating he might be inclined to grow it out again provided he is allowed to do so. Remarkably for a person whose life has so frequently been in danger, he has no scars or identifying marks to speak of.
Magical powers or special skills: Andy is a baseline human teenager with no superhuman powers or abilities. He shouldn't be underestimated because of this, though: ten years of moving through foster homes and fighting off murderously sociopathic dolls have shaped Andy into a supremely resourceful and self-reliant individual. Throughout all three of the Child's Play films Andy exhibited a canny knack for survival, knowing the right times to be passive and the right times to act and catch his enemy off-guard. His training at Kent laid the groundwork for him to go on the offensive against his tormentors; while not a master marksman or knife fighter by any means, Andy picked up enough of the basics to hold his own in a fight. As seen in the recently released Curse of Chucky, Andy's skills as an adult are formidable enough to surprise and kill Chucky within seconds, indicating he possesses a great deal of aptitude for combat provided he is allowed to cultivate it.
Any crimes committed in canon: Andy sets Chucky on fire in the original Child's Play, assists Kyle in killing him in 2, and finally throws him to his death in 3. While these were all acts of self-defense, Chucky was still a human being (albeit a murderous one trapped in a doll's body) and in some cases Andy uses arguably excessive force against him, such as in 3 when he throws Chucky to his death after quite literally disarming him. Aside from his skirmishes with Chucky, Andy is also heavily implied to have been something of a juvenile delinquent, as Kent head Colonel Cochran labels him a 'troublemaker' after reading his file and midway through the film he successfully steals a map from his superior officer's tent. Going by this conjecture, Andy can be safely assumed to have engaged in shoplifting, at the very least.
Crime incarcerated into Glaxcin for: Manslaughter (Dollslaughter?), complicity in the (temporary) murder of Charles Lee Ray, aggravated assault, stealing from a superior officer, multiple counts of disobeying orders, multiple counts of shoplifting.