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Kanduu, also known as Slappy the Dummy is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Harold Biddle) of Season 1 of the 2023 Disney+ Horror TV series, Goosebumps.
He is an evil dummy who brainwashed Harold Biddle in doing his bidding, until one day he was stolen by Teenagers and broken into pieces by Ben.
He is voiced by Chris Geere, who also played Klaus in Kung Fu Panda: the Dragon Knight, and Ditto Roger Clifford in Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.
Appearance[]
He is a wooden ventriloquist dummy with a moving mouth, blue eyes, and brown hair. He wears a top hat, suit and tie, jeans, and business shoes.
Personality[]
He is highly intelligent, manipulative and evil, who manipulates people into doing his bidding by giving them the things they wanted in his evil twisted way.
Biography[]
Original life[]
Kanduu, as Slappy's human form was mostly known, was a soldier of unknown name fighting in a non-specified war. He then came to the conclusion that the war they were fighting and the lives being lost were meaningless efforts, and they should leave, but the camp was then attacked by enemy forces. He was shot in the abdomen, and proceeded to fall in a hidden cave in the trenches after an explosion from a bomb went out. Bleeding out, in the cave, he found ancient messages written in the walls. He knew the local language, and was able to read it, reading one of the phrases out loud, leading to him being cured of his wound. He'd then learn that the readings were spells, that granted him powers, including the power to bring about monsters, entities and demons long forgotten by humanity, at the cost of burning 1000 people on a spire. It would then become his main goal, with him justifying that if he unleashed those horrors upon the world, human made horrors, such as wars and tortures, would disappear, and humanity would be united. He learned the spells of the cave, memorizing them and writing them in a book, and changed his name to Kanduu.
Kanduu continued his quest to complete the spire ritual, and obtained a fame of magician, in unknown ways. As looked for a way to obtain the souls he needed in an easy way, his search led him to Franz Mahar, owner of a carnival and a proficient wooden carver. After showcasing his powers and promising him to make his carnival a great success, he worked alongside him, until one year after their first meeting, Kanduu, started Puppetizing people that came to see the carnival. Franz was horrified, but Kanduu explained it to him, expecting him to be complacent on his schemes. Franz pretends to be, and makes a plan to trap Kanduu. He uses the puppet Kanduu brought to life as a power demonstration to make a fancy wooden puppet, and gifts it to Kanduu, who is initially pleased by the sign of friendship, until he realizes Franz intends to trap him in the doll. Kanduu stabs him in the stomach and pleads for him not to complete the spell, but Franz finishes the incantation and Kanduu's spirit is trapped on the doll, which then gets trapped with Franz dying a few seconds later. It is unknown how, but Kanduu's corpse and Slappy's case were put in a coffin and ended up in a scrappy magic store, respectively.
Slappy the Dummy (1925-Present day)[]
Harold's Great-Grandfather, Ephraim Bratt found him in a magic store, "Madame Zelda's Magic Shop", trying to find magic acts, and used him in his shows. Initially didn't gather any interest from the public, but Slappy's acting, without Ephraim controlling the puppet in any way, made him be seen as a great comedy showman. Slappy talked to him, promising to skyrocket his career and never allow him to be a loser again. Ephraim became a successful magician, but Slappy made him obsessed over him as well do his bidding, to the point Ephraim abandoned his own family. This culminated in him using the "puppetification" spell on a producer of his show when he suggested a different act, killing him. Slappy convinced Ephraim to unbury his true form, Kanduu's, corpse, and read the spell, but Ephraim has a vision of the Spire Ritual, Slappy's ultimate plan, and despite not knowing exactly what it is, decides that it is evil and the doll is manipulating him, having second thoughts and putting him back in his case. He would then hide him in the wall in his new houses basement, saying no one will ever find him, despite Slappy proclaiming that "Someone will find me."
Harold Biddle and his family, descendants of Ephraim's abandoned family, inherit the house after his death. Upon exploring, Harold finds him and Slappy manipulates him as well, initially appearing as an innocent ventriloquist dummy that Harold decides to use in the school's talent show, and, similar to Ephraim, acts and talks on his own during the show, without Harold's influence, which causes it to be so successful. But Harold, who has always been quite sensitive and introverted, begins to obsess over Slappy, to the point of getting very aggressive when his mother tries to take it away from him. His parents attempt to burn it, but Slappy proves himself immune to the fire. Harold gets crazy when he finds out what his parents tried to do, claiming they were "killing [Slappy]", and, when Slappy dares him to, uses the same spell Kanduu and Ephraim used in the past, Puppetizing his parents, killing them.
Harold's presentations with Slappy start to get offensive, to the point of insulting multiple students part of the friend group of Sarah, the only person in the school who considered Harold a friend. Fearing the dummy is a bad influence on him, Sarah decides to break into his home and steal Slappy, with the others, for various reasons (Ben wanting to make Harold mad, Nora believing the dummy is evil since she saw it talking to Harold once, etc.) helping her with it. But things go south when the house's power fail, and through a lot of unfortunate incidents, Harold falls down on his basement with a candle, that ends up igniting the room. Meanwhile, Ben captured Slappy, who reveals himself alive and insults him, to Ben's shock and horror. Unable to save Harold, the teens run out of the house as the basement keeps burning with Harold inside. They decide to take him apart piece by piece and hide the pieces. However, Slappy had cursed the basement, trapping Biddle's ghost there, making sure he'd come back one day, with revenge on his mind, and would look for him.
Then many years later, Slappy's plan comes into fruition when another distant relative of Ephraim inherits the house, the awkward literature teacher, Nathan Bratt. He ends up releasing Biddle from the basement, who then possessed Bratt and start cursing all of his former possessions, making sure they haunt, scare, and even nearly kill the children of Sarah's friend group, at the same time as he looked for Slappy. Biddle first indirectly mentions it when one of James's clones bring him Slappy's case, which turns out to be empty, leading to Biddle angrily smash and kill the clone. Slappy is the consistently mentioned by Nora, who is aware of bad things happening and tries to warn the other parents, but gets constantly shut down, culminating when she is locked up and drugged by Victoria, Isabella's mother, only later being helped out by Sarah. With a cursed scrapbook that reveals Harold's past to the teens, "Mr. Bratt" invites them all to the Biddle house, telling Slappy's story (minus from when he was Kanduu, which he didn't know about) and Harold's. When the teens clearly ignore his attempt to paint Harold as a saint and their parents as cold blooded murderers, he traps them all in the Scrapbook, along with Mr. Bratt's consciousness, who is there as long as in Harold in his body. He then goes after Slappy, at the same time as Nora decides to do the same.
Nora tries to hide him in a better place, one where he will never be found again, leading to her to get on a snowy mountain during a blizzard, and they even talk to each other, Slappy attempting to taunt her, before she duct tapes his mouth. A desperate, Biddle possessed, Mr. Bratt starts to chase her, and despite breaking his leg, manages to trick and surprise her. Exasperated and extremely cold, he falls on a small valley and Biddle finally completes his plan, rebuilding his "friend". Margot, Isaiah and Lucas come desperate to find Nora, with Lucas and Margot eventually finding her, fainted, while Isaiah fell off the mountain and just barely managed to grab the mountain's edge, only to see, looking down on him, a mischievous Slappy who greets him. Slappy and Biddle almost kill Isaiah, wanting to do it in front of his friends and the teens's parents, until the teens make Harold realize that Slappy was actually manipulating him, which doesn't initially work that well until they mention Harold's nickname that his parents affectionately called him, followed by Sarah apologizing and saying Harold never deserved what happened to him. Upon finding out his parents not only forgave him, but refused to go on if he didn't come too, he gets remorseful, and when Slappy ignores this and coldly tells him to kill them as he did with his parents, he finally snaps and realizes Slappy didn't really care for him, so he helps Isaiah up and throws Slappy off the cliff, who screams, seemingly defeated for good, as Harold gets out of Bratt's body and reunites with his parents into the afterlife.
The following paragraphs are transwiki'd from Wikipedia.
Months later, everyone is trying to move on from Harold Biddle's haunting. Margot's mother invites her to move to Seattle so the children go for a weekend trip to discover the city. Lucas finds it more difficult than the others to move on from their ordeal. He breaks up with Margot, envisioning that their life goals are different, and returns home. Bratt writes a book inspired by the ordeal, his dream being to become a published author. When a New York publisher is interested but wants him to change the ending to expand on Slappy, Bratt struggles with writer's block and his burdening financial problems. He retrieves Slappy's remains for inspiration. Slappy leads him to retrieve Kanduu's coffin buried near the Biddle House, promising him an ending.
Kanduu's Revival[]
Bratt reads the spell inside, which frees Kanduu's spirit from the Slappy dummy and revives his human body, revealing him to be a magician. Ben arrives and Kanduu turns him into a puppet.
Kanduu captures almost all of the people in Port Lawrence including Lucas and turns them into puppets. Whilst searching for them, Isaiah reveals his feeling to Margot. Kanduu then captures Margot, Isaiah, James, Isabella and Nathan. Nathan is secretly researching as to how Kanduu can be defeated. He explains to the group that the markings told him to gather 1,000 people for a sacrifice in a "special place" which is revealed to be the remains of Mahar's decrepit circus. This in turn will unleash monsters that will force humanity to stop wars among themselves and start fighting the real monsters. Finding a spell to stop him, they trap him in a false vision of his mission being accomplished with Mahar's help. Nathan realizes he is Mahar's descendant, but before they can stop him, he breaks out and goes to finish the task himself, trapping them with blackish clouds. Isaiah uses Kanduu's book to repel these clouds and gives the book to Margot, whilst he combats Kanduu. Margot finds the spell that saved Kanduu and reverses it, making him human again. The souls of all the people he killed in his journey come from hell and drag him, but not before his shoots at Margot. Isaiah jumps to save Margot, but is inflicted with the bullet and in critical condition in the hospital. Ben and his wife are told that Isaiah is going to die. Margot talks to him and says yes to his proposal. Isaiah dies, but Margot uses the book to revive him.
Distraught over Isaiah's perceived death, a crying Nathan goes to the bathroom to wash his face and realizes that Kanduu's spirit is in his body as instead of his own reflection, as he sees Kanduu's smiling face in the mirror.
