Andy Barclay (2024)

Andrew William "Andy" Barclay is the main surviving protagonist in the Child's Play series, specifically the original trilogy, where he was Chucky's main target to take over his soul.

Biography[]

Child's Play (1988):[]

Andy is celebrating his 6th birthday, and really wants a Good Guy doll for his present. He even makes his mother breakfast in bed, to show her how good he is. However, the dolls are too expensive for her salary, and heends up getting clothes instead. Seeing her son's disappointment, after she drops him off at daycare Karen buys a doll for half pricefrom apeddler. Karen takes the doll back home to him, and he is very overjoyed to have a new best friend.

When Karen's friend Maggie falls to her death from the apartment's window while babysitting Andy, he is immediately questioned by Detective Mike Norris if he had anything to do with the death. Karen believes that Andy had nothing to do with it. However, Andy shows eerie behavior when he informs his mother that the doll, Chucky, is alive and quotes him saying "His real name is Charles Lee Ray, and he's been sent down from Heaven by Daddy to play with me," and "He said Aunt Maggie was a real bitch and got what she deserved.". The next day Andy and Chucky go to the house of Chucky's former partner in crime Eddie Caputo, Chucky sneaks in and blows up the house, killing Eddie and framing Andy. Andy shows even more possible insanity when he tells Chucky to talk and stop lying, and that Chucky will kill him if he lets out his secret. As a result, Andy became the prime suspect of Chucky's murders.

After much pursuit of his most intended victim, Chucky decides to pursue Andy on his own and eventually begins the chant that made him a doll the night he was killed. However, Karen and Detective Norris intervene just in time before Chucky finishes the chant and therefore take Andy's soul. Chucky is burned alive by Andy and then killed by being shot to the heart.

Child's Play 2 (1990):[]

InChild's Play 2, Andy has been temporarily sent to a foster home until his mother, who was considered mentally unstable and has been undergoing psychiatric testing, can look after him again. Andy now finds himself terrorized once again in his new home by the revived Chucky, who was brought back to life by Play Pals to try to (unsuccessfully) prove the rumors about the Chucky doll wrong. Chucky even stalks young Andy at school and slays Andy's teacher in cold blood with no remorse.

Later that day, Andy goes down to the basem*nt to confront Chucky, resulting in a struggle between him and the possessed doll. To make it worse, Chucky frames Andy for the murder of his foster father. Andy's foster sister, Kyle, discovers her and Andy's foster mother has also been killed in cold blood as well and realizes Chucky is really alive after all. She is held hostage and is to transport Chucky to Andy in the Good Guy Factory. After Andy is nearly knocked out, Chucky once again attempts to steal his body. However, after finishing the chant and nothing happens, Chucky realizes that his soul is trapped in the doll's body and it can no longer be done. Now that his doll body is human, he endures gruesome injuries, such as having his hand torn off and being forced to cut off his legs. Andy's body thwarts Andy's soul in molten plastic, and together he and Kyle kill Chucky's body by inflating his head and causing it to explode.

Child's Play 3 (1991):[]

Andy Barclay is now sixteen years old, and the incidents in the previous two films has permanently ruined his reputation. He has been thrown out of numerous foster homes, presumably for his inability to fit in. Social services then enrolls Andy in a military academy as a last resort. Here, Andy is the center of Cadet Shelton's harassment, and Chucky has also been rebuilt and returns to stalk Andy once again. However, Chucky now realizes he is able to set a new goal to become human again, and reveals his true self to another boy named Tyler. Chucky confronts Andy in his boarding room and reveals that he intends to transfer his personality into a different child's body: Tyler, who Andy had befriended earlier in the film.

During the academy's 'war game', Andy gets a girlfriend, Kristen De Silva. Eventually, Chucky's attempts to reach human form get thwarted again. After following Chucky (and Tyler, who is essentially Chucky's hostage) from the woods to a local carnival, and struggling with the possessed doll in a spook-house ride, Andy tosses Chucky into a large fan which dices him.

Andy visits Kristen, who is being treated by EMTs, before being taken away by the questioning authorities, presumably because he is now and forever a prime suspect of the murders due to Chucky framing him for the crimes that Andy didn't commit.

Curse of Chucky (2013):[]

In the unrated post credits scene of Curse of Chucky, Chucky arrives in the mail at the now adult Andy's home, when Andy chats on the phone with his mother, now out of the hospital and presumably married to Mike Norris, Chucky cuts himself out of the box and looks at old nostalgic photos of old characters. He turns around and Andy shoots him in the head with a shotgun.

Cult of Chucky (2017):[]

Four years later, Andy is shown to be on a date in a skyscraper restaurant, however the date goes sour after she revealed that she had searched up Andy‘s past with Chucky before leaving him. When Andy returns home, it’s revealed that he decapitated Chucky and was torturing the head since the events of Curse of Chucky. Later, Andy comes across news in the mental hospital where Nica Pierce is currently staying. The article shows a photo ofNica holding a Chucky doll. Chucky’s head reveals that he wasn’t the only possessed Chucky doll.

After learning of this, Andy decides to go the asylum where the other Chucky was, to kill him. Andy also decides to smuggle in a Chucky doll with a gun hidden inside it’s stomach. On the way there, Andy gets called byTiffany Valentine, which then he threatens her and Chucky. When he arrives to the asylum, Andy is told by a security guard to leave. Wanting to get inside the asylum, Andy punches the guard to be committed to the asylum, which succeeds.

Hours after being committed, Andy is confronted by the now alive Chucky he sent to asylum. After having a knife thrown into his leg, Andy grabs Chucky and precedes to disembowl Chucky to get the hidden gun. After so, Andy shoots Chucky multiple times and finishes him off by stomping on his face several times. Seconds later, Nica (now possessed by another Chucky) arrives and locks Andy inside the room.

Chucky (2021):[]

Andy stays at the Harrogate mental institution in Rhode Island until he is freed by Kyle, and the two of them begin hunting down the remaining Chucky dolls. When he learns of a Teenager Young Man named Jake Wheeler in Hackensack looking to sell a Good Guy doll online, he emails him about wanting to talk. He phones to ask if the doll's name is "Chucky", and if anything weird has happened with it recently. After warning Jake to be very careful with the doll, he asks him if he's checked the batteries. Suddenly, Andy is interrupted by someone entering his location and he hangs up.

Meanwhile in South Carolina, he and Kyle have tracked down a Chucky doll that escaped from Harrogate, the one with the melted fingers. Bringing their guns, they enter a nearby home pretending to be members of the U.S. Census. While Kyle conducts the survey, Andy questions if they've had any recent property damage or freak accidents, until he flatly asks if they have any new dolls in their house. The family's daughter Becky runs to her room and brings back her Good Guy doll, "Charlie". While Becky hugs the doll, Chucky reveals himself to Andy and prepares to stab the girl in the back. Before he can act, Andy quickly pulls out his gun and shoots Chucky in the head causing Becky to drop him to the ground. Screaming "f*ck you Andy", Chucky is shot repeatedly in the chest by Andy and Kyle until he finally dies. With their job finished, the two exit the house and drive away.

While driving at night, he and Kyle discuss the family they just saved, with him remarking that nobody would believe them if they told anyone what happened. Kyle worries about the girl being traumatized, but he replies that the two of them also went through a lot as kids and turned out okay. She then changes the subject, demanding to know why he was keeping a living Chucky head locked in a safe at his cabin for four years. He tells her he was keeping him to get information, and learned that Chucky broke his soul into pieces to transfer them into multiple vessels. They know there is one doll left, but the last piece of his soul is in a human,Nica.

In order to track down Chucky, Jake,Lexy and Devon decide to contact Andy to help them save their town from his murder spree. While trying to find contact info, Devon pulls up an article mentioning that "violent patient" Andy Barclay escaped from Harrogate two weeks ago and a manhunt for him is underway. Jake finally realizes Andy was the one who contacted him a month ago about the Chucky doll, and phones his number. Now in Virginia, Andy answers his phone and warns Jake against telling anyone about Chucky as everyone will believe he's going crazy, and asks if the doll has been seen with one or two women. When Jake questions how they can find Chucky, Andy mentions that Chucky will find them, and if he can't he will get to them by killing their family, especially in a familiar place and when they are at their most vulnerable. Before hanging up, Andy has Jake text him his location so they can begin the drive to Hackensack.

After driving for six hours, Kyle and Andy stop at a gas station. While he refills the gas, she goes into the store and buys a pack of cigarettes and black leather gloves for the both of them. As Kyle puts on her gloves, Andy gets into the car, locks her door and drives away, leaving her at the gas station so he can face Chucky alone. The next night, Andy finally arrives in Hackensack and sets his sights on the Wheeler house to look for Jake. The door is answered by Junior, who lets him inside so he can speak with his father Logan. Andy claims that he is a member of a group of Good Guy doll collectors and wants to see Jake's Chucky doll. Junior leads him upstairs into Jake's room where Logan and Chucky supposedly are, but upon finding an empty room, mentions that his father must have went out with the doll. They hear a thumping noise coming from the closet, but upon inspection Andy finds nothing inside. He then asks if Junior can call Logan's cellphone, but they then hear it ringing from the bathroom down the hall. He hears a noise coming from the bath filled with bubbles, but again finds nothing inside the water. Displeased, Andy tells him to have Jake call him and to stay away from the doll before leaving the house.

Andy then makes his way to Charles Lee Ray's childhood home, arriving just in time to save Devon from Chucky's headless body by smashing it with a baseball bat. Devon warns him that they boobytrapped the front door and that they left with a truck full of possessed Good Guy dolls. After telling the boy to leave, Andy confronts the decapitated Chucky head with a lighter and demands to know where the other dolls are. Just then, he sees Kyle approaching the house through the window, lured in by Chucky's Good Guy voice pretending to be a trapped child. She opens the front door, setting off the tripwire and causing the house to be destroyed in a fiery explosion.

Surviving the explosion, Andy follows after Tiffany to the theatre. He knocks out her truck driver and commandeers the Good Guy truck, bound for the airport to ship the dolls countrywide. He gives Jake, Devon and Lexy a thumbs up before driving past Tiffany and giving her the middle finger. While on the road, the Tiffany doll breaks the glass window and holds him at gunpoint, telling him to keep driving.

Trivia[]

• Don Mancini revealed that Andy suffers from PTSD.
• Besides Chucky, Andy has appeared in the mostChild's Playfilms, appearing in five of them.
• A photo of Andy's father can be seen in the background of Andy's Bedroom. The photograph is of director Tom Holland.
• In theCult of Chucky commentary, Don Mancini claims that Andy is well-off financially because of the insurance money he received from the murders he was involved in as a child.