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| “ | His name is Huggy! Huggy Wuggy, When he hugs you, he'll never stop! Your friend Huggy! Huggy Wuggy, He'll squeeze you until you pop! |
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| ~ Huggy Wuggy's theme song, foreshadowing his true nature. |
| “ | STARVING | „ |
| ~ A note presumably left by Huggy. |
| “ | If I were you, I'd start running. | „ |
| ~ The ending of Leith Pierre's tape at the end of Chapter 4, as Huggy reveals himself to still be alive. |
Experiment-1170: Huggy Wuggy is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside CatNap) of the Poppy Playtime franchise.
He is a gigantic, monstrous version of Playtime Co.'s mascot and highest-selling toy, created as part of the Bigger Bodies Initiative. Although he appears as a seemingly huggable, friendly mascot, Huggy Wuggy is a dangerous, predatory monster who guards the main entrance of Playtime CO. in preparation to ferociously kill and devour anyone who enters the facility, having been made to serve as the factory's security. Like most of the other toys, Huggy is actually an orphaned child that was transformed into a giant, monstrous toy under Harley Sawyer's Bigger Bodies Initiative. He is the arch-rival of the Intruder.
He was voiced by Zachary Preciado (who also voiced Bunzo Bunny) in his character cutout seen in Chapter 2 and by Micah Preciado (who also voiced PJ-Pug-A-Pillar and The Prototype) in his character cutout seen in Chapter 3.
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Appearance[]
Huggy Wuggy is shown in the game as an enormous, blue-furred mysterious-like creature, with long, lanky arms and legs, yellow hands and feet, and a large triangular head. He has two round eyes with large black pupils and a wide mouth with bright red lips, and his feet have opposable thumbs. Commercially sold toy versions of Huggy Wuggy are around a foot in height, whereas the Huggy Wuggy displayed in the factory is 18 feet tall and his weight is estimated to be 1795 lbs since he has flesh. In official Playtime Co. illustrations the inside of Huggy's mouth appears toothless with a normal-looking pink tongue, but the giant Huggy Wuggy is shown to have a mouth full of mismatched, needle-like teeth, along with a second set of similar teeth in the back of its throat, arranged in a circle like a lamprey. Being an animated stuffed toy, Huggy's limbs can bend and flex bonelessly with ease, which it uses to its advantage when chasing the protagonist through the ventilation shafts, squeezing and crawling through the tight tunnels. Huggy is also partially organic, judging by its teeth and gums, the saliva dripping from its mouth, and the bloodstains left behind after it falls down a pit and smacks against a pipe on the way down.
Assuming he is the human child seen in the Chapter 3 trailer, he was formerly a boy with dirty blond hair likely between the age of six and twelve.
In Chapter 4, he is heavily damaged, a part of the left side of his head is missing, his lower left arm is completely gone, and parts of his fur are missing revealing his "bones" or lack thereof, which appear to have been stitched together with pieces of rope. He also has what look like thin white bandages wrapped around his chest, right arm and left leg. His bowtie can also be seen on the stump of his left arm.
Personality[]
The fictional-fictional Huggy Wuggy seems to be a jolly, happy-go-lucky creature who loves hugs and making children smile, a typical family-friendly cartoon mascot. The giant Huggy that chases the protagonist, on the other hand, is a vicious, bloodthirsty predator whose only desire is to capture the protagonist and eat them alive. However, despite his violent nature and lack of speech, Huggy Wuggy is not a mindless beast; He still has the capability of manipulating and formulating strategies to better capture his prey, and he could have basic first aid knowledge, judging by all the bandaging on him during his second actual encounter with the protagonist. Huggy also has enough sentience to hold grudges, as he immediately devolves into an unhinged frenzy upon running into the protagonist again after they sent him falling off the catwalk and tries smashing through the door standing between the two, no doubt wanting revenge on them for the mishap.
When he is first shown, Huggy appears as a harmless giant stuffed toy or statue, standing perfectly still. Later in the game, he actively lures the protagonist deeper into the facility all the way in while stalking them but also slowing his pursuit when he realized that he had them cornered. He is stated to be average in intelligence and is very loyal to his superiors.
Biography[]
Past[]
Huggy's possible human self appearing in the Chapter 3 trailer.
Huggy Wuggy was first created by Playtime CO. in 1984 as a toy for children. He soon became the most successful product of the company, so when the Bigger Bodies Initiative launched 1990, it was only a matter of time before Playtime tried to recreate their mascot, which finally happened with Experiment 1170: a living, gigantic version of Huggy made out of the organs and neural system of an orphan child. Huggy was the tenth Bigger Body made after Boxy Boo, the first successful experiment. He was considered a success due to having the right amount of obedience, intelligence and strength, with future Bigger Bodies being made to follow his image.
Huggy had escaped the facility at least once. On the 18th of June, 1992, Huggy had escaped from the factory through a delivery bay door in the production wing after getting inside the ventilation, and was estimated to have run half a mile away from the facility. Two staff members, who've witnessed the incident, then try to chase after him. As the security team tried to chase him down, Huggy attacks many of the team members, having 6 members go missing and 5 killed by him, though he was captured and sedated 4 hours later.
At an unknown point in time, an employee named Thomas Clarke was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and agreed to join the BBI by being turned into a little version of the Bron the Dinosaur toy. Recognizing he's an employee and not a child, the rest of the toys in the room - including Huggy - attack and brutalize him, devouring some of his body parts and almost killing him. This rendered Thomas mute and separated from the other toys.
On August 8th, 1995, all the experiments in the factory, including Huggy, would cause a massive riot against the Playtime CO. employees, killing them all under orders from the Prototype, before dragging the corpses into the deepest parts of the factory and eating them. This event would become known as the "Hour of Joy" and caused the end of Playtime CO with the legacy of Elliot Ludwig as well as his hopes and dreams in it.
With the factory now abandoned, Huggy and the other experiments were left without a source of food. Desperate and out of options, he and the other bigger experiments began to eat the smaller toys in order to survive. Huggy continued to live in the abandoned factory for a decade until the last former employee (The protagonist) returns to look for the company’s missing staff.
Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze[]
His first appearance saw him pretended to be a statue to fool the protagonist. As soon as the protagonist managed to grab the key and turn the power back on in a room (that requires said key), Huggy Wuggy disappears from his pedestal, and throughout the game, he stalks the protagonist from vents or high unreachable places. It is not until the protagonist runs into the dark that he will appear from the shadows and chase them down in the conveyor belt tunnels. Every time the protagonist fails to reach the catwalk at the end of the belt, they are met with Huggy Wuggy snatching up and killing them with his teeth.
If the protagonist does manage to get to the catwalk, they must pull a box to block the creature and destroy it, causing them both to fall. Where the protagonist survives by landing on a platform below, Huggy Wuggy ends up falling to his presumed death while colliding with some pipes, leaving only blood stains everywhere.
Chapter 2: A Fly In the Web[]
Though Huggy was not seen, his fur was seen in the Water Treatment room near a vent, hinting at his survival.
Chapter 3: Deep Sleep[]
Huggy reappears as a monstrous hallucination coming out of a television screen. After CatNap's death, Poppy Playtime would show the protagonist a VHS tape of the "Hour of Joy" event to reveal what happened to the factory's workers. In the tape, Huggy is seen posing as a statue before revealing himself to be alive to a crowd of people where he jumped on and ate a man. He then proceeded to slaughter anyone else he came across under the Prototype's orders during the massacre before dragging the corpses to the deepest parts of the factory and eating them to stay alive.
Poppy tells the protagonist about how they managed to kill Huggy Wuggy and Mommy Long Legs, and believes they can kill both the Prototype and CatNap together.
Chapter 4: Safe Haven[]
Huggy is first mentioned by Poppy to the Prototype about how The Intruder has killed him, Mommy Long Legs, CatNap, and the Doctor.
After the Intruder falls down a shaft and enters a hall of poppy flowers, a tape from Leith Pierre is played about how the Intruder isn't supposed to be there. Suddenly an alarm goes off, and the Intruder is forced to look into the window, where a figure - seemingly Kissy Missy - makes its way to the door. As red smoke fills the room, a screech is heard and the figure reveals itself to be an injured but therefore furious Huggy, pounding on the door in a blind rage, eager to get revenge on the Intruder.
Powers[]
- Enhanced Strength: As a gigantic mutant toy, Huggy Wuggy possesses feats of physical strength. He can lift heavy objects, smash through metal and easily kill his opponents.
- Enhanced Durability: Huggy Wuggy's body can withstand damage that would easily kill humans. When he fell from the catwalk, he bled from the impact but barely survived.
- Exceptional Speed: Huggy can move much faster than normal people, especially in the air ducts.
- Superhuman Flexibility: Huggy's body is far more malleable than normal individuals allowing him to easily maneuver the air vents to chase the protagonist.
- Feral Mind: Due to all the experiments that were conducted on Huggy Wuggy, his mind is much like that of an animal, and he tends to attack and kill anything he sees. When Huggy returns in Chapter 4, he appears a lot angrier and more feral than before as he now bears a deep hatred towards the Player for defeating him and severely damaging his body at the end of Chapter 1.
- Control over the Mini Huggies: In Project: Playtime, Huggy has the ability to summon a Mini Huggy, which acts as a living sentry that shrieks out when a survivor comes close, alerting Huggy Wuggy.
- Stealth: Huggy Wuggy can stand perfectly still in a given area (most notably the pedestal where he has to pose as a statue) in a similar fashion to Miss Delight to fool unsuspecting prey.
Victims[]
Chapter 1:
- Unnamed Male Scientist- Killed offscreen prior to the game, (death recorded)
- At least one person among the eight dead people- Killed offscreen prior to the game, (heard in the background of the unnamed scientist's final log as uniquely distinct screams and noises)
Chapter 3:
- Two Unnamed Male Playtime Co. Workers- Killed in the VHS
- Two Unnamed Female Playtime Co. Workers- Killed in the VHS
Project: Playtime:
- Four Unnamed Resource Extraction Specialists- Thrown into the feeding pit by Huggy Wuggy and eaten by the Wuggies off-screen.
Quotes[]
| “ | I'm gonna hug you until you pop! | „ |
| ~ Huggy's cardboard cutout. |
| “ | A hug a day keeps the monsters away! | „ |
| ~ A Huggy cutout found in Playcare |
Trivia[]
- An old theory by fans suggested that Huggy Wuggy was Rich, who gets subjected to an experiment conducted by Playtime CO that went wrong for allegedly complaining and speaking out against the company. However, later material all but outright confirms Huggy is actually an unnamed orphaned child.
- Due to Huggy Wuggy falling off the catwalk, it was unknown whether or not he survived, and thus if he would return in future chapters of the game. However, it was widely believed he would return due to being the main mascot of both the game and the in-game company Playtime Co, as well as appearing heavily in the marketing for the game stated by mashoor.
- In Chapter 2, in the last puzzle room before Mommy Long Legs' transformation, blue fur and blood marks can be seen on the walls, heavily implying that Huggy Wuggy survived and climbed up, albeit in a bloodied, injured state.
- Poppy states Huggy is dead in Chapter 3, although it was later revealed to be a red herring.
- However, it was finally confirmed Huggy Wuggy survived since he appears in the ending of Chapter 4, but wounded due to the fall.
- Some theorized that Huggy Wuggy is actually dead and the player was only hallucinating Huggy Wuggy due to the Red Smoke appears after. However, as the Red Smoke seems to produce monstrous and distorted hallucinations when inhaled, it's likely that Huggy would've appeared in his nightmarish form rather than in a severely injured state. However, Issace, the writer for the first three chapters, confirmed this is the real Huggy and that he was always meant to return.
- This is proven true since his return in Chapter 4's ending.
- It was originally speculated that Huggy Wuggy was Experiment-1006, as it was the only experiment number mentioned in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 revealed Huggy Wuggy's identification number is Experiment-1170, and 1006 is a different entity.
- Huggy is considered by scientists to be the optimal outcome for the experiments as he demonstrates not only intelligence, but also obedience to the company.
- While Huggy is a major antagonist of the Poppy Playtime games, his depiction in EnchantedMOB's Minecraft animations (which are non-canon to the games despite being made by the same developers) does not count as a villain since he displays genuine compassion to his friends and even comes across as heroic in some skits.
- A major joke on YouTube was YouTubers high-fiving the Huggy statue, including Markiplier. The Huggy statue was even posed in a high-fiving stature.
- MOB Games revealed that Huggy's design is based off of the Sour Patch Kids.
- He is the only main antagonist of a chapter that hasn’t died yet.
- The Huggy costume used in the Playtime Co. Safety video is actually a prop from YouTuber the Stupedium's Poppy Playtime fan song, "The Toy Box".
- MOB said that Huggy Wuggy is the Darth Vader to the Prototype's Palpatine. What this means exactly is unknown, but it’s likely this means Huggy Wuggy might be a begrudging high-ranking minion of the Prototype.
- Huggy's lips and teeth move around when he attacks the protagonist.
External Links[]
- Huggy Wuggy on the Poppy Playtime Wiki
- Huggy Wuggy on the Mob Wiki
- Huggy Wuggy on the Dark Deception Wiki
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