Plot hole in Voodoo Rules.

[Dragon Prime]

I was over at Chucky Nation and they had a discussion about how Chucky's finite death should go.

Of course this brought up discussions about the Heart of Damballa and whatnot.

So with that said, let's go back to the Original Child's Play movie.

Before Bride, it was believed that he just simply put his hand on a dolls head, spoke some tongues, and just like that... his soul was in a doll.

My question is, how was he able to do that without being trapped in his own body.

Again, Bride gave us new (made up depending on how you look at it) information that he was wearing the Heart of Damballa around his neck, so riddle solved.

For the sake of argument, let's say we never saw a pic of him with a photoshopped necklace, and it was strictly him transferring his soul.

Why would switching to a new body now have this rule that he has limited time, and it has to be to the first person he revealed his true identity to?

Is it because he was now something unnatural? Would this rule apply if it were done to another human instead of a doll?

Also if you think about it, there was no real explained reason why he had to follow these rules. He transfered out of his human body easily enough, which I am sure he spent a long time in... obviously.

Would this rule go away after spending "X" amount of years in the doll, as if he were just a man?

BTW, I put this topic in here because it does kind of cover all the films.

[Metal Matt]

Yeah, it seems like they just outright changed the rules of it for the most part in Bride.


As far as him having to transfer his soul into the first person he revealed himself to within a certain amount of time, I'm not too sure. I've always kind of wondered that myself.


Voodoo's weird.

[Spanky]

I feel like the time limit is mostly because he went into something that wasn't living in the first place, so it was unnatural, and therefore took more "voodoo power" to accomplish, and had more restrictions on it.

The other idea that gets brought up time to time is what if the body we saw in the original wasn't his original body? Of course you could say this was debunked by the interaction he had with John, where he said he thought John was "pulling his chain".

I always figured the Heart of Damballa was created as a trump card to circumvent any limitations they may have cornered themselves with in the prior 3 films. I also kind have always took it as there's many ways to accomplish the soul transfer, with various rules. The HoD provides the most clear cut and easiest way, whereas doing it without or into a non-living object presents higher risk and more limitations. Kind of like the further he stretches the voodoo power and whatnot, the less stable and reliable it becomes, like in DBZ when they do the fusion dance and they are only given an hour, or in SSJ3 form, your power is greatly increased, but it burns through your energy faster.

[Dragon Prime]

That's a good way to look at it.

I myself drew the similar conclusions, but of course they added the HoD element so now we have to wonder if he would have been able to transfer into a doll in the first place without it.

Then again, he transferred Tiffany's soul into a doll without it, so I guess he didn't need it.

On a side note, I had a funny thought... Imagine if he finally did transfer his soul into a human, but then slowly started turning into a doll because his soul spent so much time in one.

Of course that puts things back into the comedy zone, so... No thanks.

[Spanky]

He transfers in Johnny Depp and slowly turns into Warwick Davis.