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Mr. Wood is the main antagonist of the Goosebumps book Night of the Living Dummy. He was created by the same evil wizard who made Slappy the Dummy.
Appearance[]
Mr. Wood has a similar appearance to Slappy, except with red hair instead of brown. He also wears a different clothing, including an orange necklace and sneakers.
Personality[]
Mr. Wood is much like his brother Slappy. He is an evil dummy who wants to enslave his owners and will do bad things if they refuse to serve him. Unlike Slappy however, Mr. Wood is not much of a prankster and is more openly vicious. While Slappy had only attempted/threatened murder much later in the series starting with Bride of the Living Dummy, Mr. Wood attempted to kill early on. Mr. Wood has no problem threatening to kill Lindy and Kris's loved ones, even going as far as to try and strangle their beloved pet dog. Mr. Wood is not laughably evil like Slappy and is more serious. Like Slappy, Mr. Wood is notable for his incredibly rude demeanor. Like Slappy, Mr. Wood is a bully who insults people for things like their weight and age. He is mean, rude, and arrogant. He boasts that he has magic powers and that his owners cannot defeat him, though his arrogance costs him his life in the end. He is implied to have a poor relationship with Slappy, as he never attempted to bring Slappy to life and Slappy states that he is glad Mr. Wood is dead at the end so he can have Lindy and Kris to himself. This is further supported in Goosebumps Horrortown, where the two dummies are depicted as rivals.
Mr. Wood's nasty personality is implied to have played a large part in making Slappy who he is in later books. Bonus material reveals that after his destruction, Mr. Wood's evil magic channeled itself into Slappy's body, making Slappy twice as evil as he originally was and a thousand times as rude. This indicates that while Slappy was already just as evil as Mr. Wood, he was nowhere near as much of an open jerk, and the only reason he's actually even worse than Mr. Wood now is because of their personalities fusing together. On the other hand, Slappy is a confirmed pedophile since he tried to force a child to be his bride, which is something that was never implied for Mr. Wood. Overall, while more openly vicious and serious than Slappy, Mr. Wood is less intelligent, charismatic, perverted, and overall heinous and dangerous. His tendency to be more violent and less of a trickster results in him dying when he lets his arrogance get the best of him.
Biography[]
The original origin story states that Mr. Wood was carved by an unnamed wizard out of the same coffin wood as his brother, Slappy, and that the wizard transferred his evil into the dummies before he died so they could continue his evil. Mr. Wood first appears in Night of the Living Dummy, brought to life by the same magic words as Slappy ("Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano") after the card containing the words was read aloud, and he intends to enslave the twin sisters and protagonists of the book Lindy and Kris Powell. He threatens to kill their parents and friends and attempts to kill their dog by strangling him. Lindy and Kris chase him outside their house, and he eventually gets smashed by a steamroller, thus leaving Slappy to inherit the girls. Supplementary material reveals that when Mr. Wood was destroyed, his evil magic transferred to Slappy, making him twice as evil and a thousand times as rude as he originally was.
He later appears in the "Slappyworld" series in the Book I Am Slappy's Evil Twin which takes place before Night of the Living Dummy. He is retconned to have been built by a friendly man named Franz Maher and brought to life by the evil magic of a sorcerer named Kanduu. He seems to be hostile to his creator unlike Slappy and Snappy. Franz moved to the United States and tried to raise Slappy and Snappy to be good, unlike Mr. Wood, though they turned out evil as well. The story does not explain how Mr. Wood would later make his way to the United States as well.
Slappy Beware retcons both the previous origin stories for Slappy, stating that he was created by Ephraim Darkwell. The original story of Slappy and Mr. Wood being created by an evil sorcerer who transferred his evil into them is stated to have been a rumored origin story that was not true, while the second story is ignored completely (implying that I Am Slappy's Evil Twin is not meant to be considered canon anymore). The book reveals that the Mr. Wood from the original book was part of a line of identical living dummies, all called Mr. Wood. The Mr. Wood from the original story was simply the only one to have been brought to life by the same magic as Slappy. The story does not explain if it was Darkwell himself, Slappy, or one of the other living dummies (such as Goldie) who infected the doll with the same magic as Slappy and left the card with the magic words to bring him to life.
Trivia[]
- Though he is the main antagonist of Night of the Living Dummy, Mr. Wood isn't featured in the cover page. Instead, Slappy the Dummy is the one featured in although his living state was just confirmed at the end of the book and that he plays the role of main antagonist in the book's sequels.
- This situation of Mr. Wood with Slappy is similar to that of Pamela Voorhees with her son Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise: though both Pamela and Mr. Wood were the first antagonists in their series, they are constantly overshadowed by Jason and Slappy, their more popular and iconic successors.
- In the dream sequence of Slappy's Nightmare, Slappy is shown to have another dummy brother created by the same wizard. This dummy is named Wally. The end of the book reveals that despite the story having been a dream, Wally actually does exist. It is commonly assumed that "Wally" is Mr. Wood, making his full name Wally Wood. However, Wally is never actually identified as Mr. Wood, and whereas Mr. Wood was noted to have worn a completely different outfit from Slappy and have red hair as opposed to Slappy's brown hair, Wally is noted as Slappy's identical twin. This means that they are unlikely to be the same dummy. Wally can be assumed to be yet another dummy that was created by Darkwell, along with Slappy and Goldie.
- Mr. Wood never made an appearance in the Goosebumps TV series, possibly because the book he was featured in was too violent. Interestingly, Slappy is shown in the TV series to have red hair, despite being a brunette in the books, which may suggest that he was originally meant to be Mr. Wood before the episode was cancelled.
External Links[]
- Mr. Wood on the Goosebumps Wiki
