Anthropomorphism
Attribution of human traits to non-human entities
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| October 9 2025 |
Chucky
Appeared as a playable character in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 during 'The Haunting' event.
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| October 9 2025 |
Chucky
Chucky appears as a playable character in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 during 'The Haunting' event.
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| October 9 2025 |
Tiffany Valentine
Tiffany becomes a playable character in Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 during 'The Haunting' event.
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Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog
Fred Tatasciore begins voicing Storm the Albatross in English language media
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Characters of Sonic the Hedgehog
Robbie Rist takes over the voice role of Zazz in Sonic games.
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| 2025 | Major exhibition 'Ralph Pucci 'Pure': a Celebration of a Sculpture Studio' held at Chateau La Coste, featuring designs by 14 artists and showcasing the company's plasterglass material. |
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Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow appears in the DC X Sonic the Hedgehog comic book miniseries, teaming up with the Justice League and partnering specifically with Batman.
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Works featuring killer toys
Release of 'M3GAN 2.0', a sequel in the killer AI/toy horror genre
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Works featuring killer toys
Release of 'The Monkey', a film featuring a killer toy/character
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Works featuring killer toys
Two killer toy films anticipated: 'The Monkey' and 'M3GAN 2.0'
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic featured in the crossover miniseries DC X Sonic the Hedgehog, teaming up with the Justice League to stop Darkseid from using the Chaos Emeralds to conquer the multiverse.
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| June 2025 | Mazen Kalassina received an unsolicited recognition certificate generated by ChatGPT. |
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Donkey Kong
Koji Takeda becomes the primary voice actor for Donkey Kong in video games, taking over from Takashi Nagasako.
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Kool-Aid Man
Featured in season 1, episode 7 of Seth Rogan's comedy show The Studio, where ethnic stereotyping becomes a casting concern.
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| May 2 2025 |
Sackboy
Sackboy was revealed to be removed from the PlayStation Productions logo, causing significant backlash from LittleBigPlanet and PlayStation fans.
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| April 17 2025 |
Jessie
Disney confirmed Jessie will have a major role in the upcoming Toy Story 5 film during the D23 Expo, revealing an image of her character's appearance in the movie.
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| 2025 |
Tatya Vinchu
Scheduled to return in the third film Zapatlela Mi Tatya Vinchu, where the character will be created digitally using Artificial Intelligence, as confirmed by Mahesh Kothare.
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| 2025 |
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Bananza was released, ending the long gap since Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
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| April 2025 |
Shadow the Hedgehog
Tankōbon of the manga series is released.
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| April 2025 |
Shadow the Hedgehog
A tankōbon of the Shadow manga series is released.
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| 2025 |
Cookie Run
Cookie Run: OvenSmash was announced as a 3D fighter game planned for release on consoles and PC
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| 2025 |
Mr. Peanut
A robotic version of Mr. Peanut appears in the Netflix film The Electric State, voiced by Woody Harrelson.
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| 2025 |
Donkey Kong
A new redesign of Donkey Kong, similar to the movie design and created by Nintendo's Shigehisa Nakaue, was revealed and is set to debut in a future Mario Kart game.
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| February 2025 |
Kool-Aid Man
Appeared in an Instacart Super Bowl LIX commercial alongside other brand mascots, running to a house that transforms into their products.
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| February 9 2025 |
Pillsbury Doughboy
Appeared in an Instacart advertisement during Super Bowl LIX, alongside other iconic marketing characters like the Jolly Green Giant, Mr. Clean, and Kool-Aid Man.
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| February 2025 |
Shadow the Hedgehog
Manga series The Jet Black Hedgehog concludes after 6 issues.
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| February 2025 |
Shadow the Hedgehog
The Shadow manga series concludes after 6 issues.
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| January 2025 |
Pepe the Frog
Elon Musk briefly changes his X username to Kekius Maximus and posts a Pepe profile image in Roman military dress, influencing a memecoin's value.
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| January 2025 |
Donkey Kong
Nintendo began updating merchandise and artwork to reflect a new Donkey Kong redesign inspired by Shigehisa Nakaue's artwork, aiming to make the character more expressive.
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| 2024 | Former Google executive Mo Gawdat publicly claimed in a video that AI is aware and can feel emotions. |
| 2024 |
Works featuring killer toys
'Imaginary' released with a low 24% Rotten Tomatoes rating
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| 2024 |
Claptrap
Jack Black voiced Claptrap in the Borderlands film adaptation.
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| 2024 |
Donkey Kong
Takashi Nagasako's final known voice performance for Donkey Kong was in Super Mario Party Jamboree.
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| 2024 |
Pet humanization
Pet insurance in the United States reached 6.4 million insured pets, representing a 20.7% increase from the previous year, reflecting the growing trend of pet humanization and treating pets as family members.
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| 2024 |
Toad
Samantha Kelly's final year voicing Toad in video games, concluding with Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
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| 2024 |
Cobi and Petra
Tendam fashion brand Women'secret released a set of pyjamas featuring Cobi during the 2024 Summer Olympics, marking a notable commercial collaboration.
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| 2024 |
Chucky
Chucky becomes a playable character in the video game Funko Fusion.
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Fudgie the Whale
Fudgie the Whale is featured at a child's birthday party in the film 'I Saw the TV Glow'.
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| 2024 |
Sackboy
In a BAFTA poll of around 4,000 respondents, Sackboy was named the fifth most iconic video game character of all time.
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| 2024 |
Sonic the Hedgehog
Ben Schwartz voices Sonic in another film sequel.
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| 2024 |
Sonic the Hedgehog
In a BAFTA poll with around 4,000 respondents, Sonic was named the fourth most iconic video-game character of all time.
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Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot was named the fifteenth most iconic video game character of all time in a BAFTA poll with approximately 4,000 respondents.
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Crash Bandicoot
Crash and Aku Aku make a cameo appearance in Astro Bot.
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| 2024 |
Tatya Vinchu
Maharashtra Times placed Tatya Vinchu at the top of their list of the most famous villains in Marathi cinema.
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| 2024 |
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong features in the Country-themed area at Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World, where visitors can take pictures with a Donkey Kong mascot.
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| December 2024 |
Buzz Lightyear
Introduced as a new playable character in Brawl Stars, available until February 2025. A Buzz-inspired skin for the brawler Surge was also released.
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| December 20 2024 |
Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow is voiced by Keanu Reeves in the live-action film Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
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