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| “ | ♪ His name is "Huggy," "Huggy Wuggy!" When he hugs you, he'll never stop! *Huggy Wuggy Laughs* Your friend Huggy, Huggy Wuggy! He'll squeeze you until you pop! *Pop* ♪ | ” |
| — Huggy Wuggy's theme song, Poppy Playtime Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze" | ||
Huggy Wuggy is an antagonist of Poppy Playtime and the main antagonist of its first installment, Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze". Additionally, he was featured in Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep" as a hallucination induced by the Red Smoke, at the end of Chapter 4: "Safe Haven" as a plot twist, and as an antagonist in PROJECT: PLAYTIME.
Huggy Wuggy was a toy created and produced by Playtime Co. since 1984. Due to the toy's success in the market, he served as the company's mascot, presumably until its closure in 1995. Like many of Playtime Co.'s other characters, his likeness was used to create an oversized organism under the Bigger Bodies Initiative. This organism was created in 1990 and was Playtime Co.'s 1170th experiment, under the designation of Experiment 1170. The latter served as a security guard for Playtime Co. and was often stationary in the Main Lobby of the factory, his right arm raised in a gesture that the company referred to as the "Welcome Wave."
Appearance[]
Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze"[]
Mascot[]
Huggy Wuggy is a tall, slender creature covered in thick, bright blue fur. His arms and legs are disproportionately long and end in large yellow hands and feet. His hands have large Velcro straps on the palms, and both they and his feet possess four digits, including thumbs, though they are merely just stitches and are unable to move individually (with the exception of the thumbs). His torso is stout and disproportionately small in comparison to his long limbs. His head is large and contains two large black, dilated eyes, as well as oversized, cartoonish, bright red lips. He also wears a thin blue bowtie around his neck.
Experiment 1170[]
His Bigger Body counterpart mostly remains the same, with the exception of his eyes being dilated bigger than intended, giving off a deranged and disturbing appearance, and the lack of a bowtie: Behind his lips is a maw of dozens of jagged needle-like teeth. Closer observation of Huggy's mouth shows a secondary set of jaws located near his throat, akin to that of a moray eel, resembling human teeth.
(Using the tallest man Robert Wadlow's height and weight of 8'11 and 439 lbs, and his BMI of 27, Huggy Wuggy's height and weight can be estimated to be around 18'0 and 1795 lbs.)
Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep"[]
His nightmare form is similar to the original Huggy's, but he is now much taller, his face is more skewed, his blue fur is much darker, his mouth has been elongated, and the side parts at the top of his head are shaped into devilish horns. He has two black sockets in place of his eyes, and his teeth are longer and thinner, while he lacks the second row of teeth at the back of his throat. The rest of his body remains the same, but his hands and feet now have splayed, elongated fingers and toes that resemble claws.
Chapter 4: "Safe Haven"[]
As a result of the fall in Chapter 1, Huggy has gained noticeable injuries on several areas of his body; 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[]
Originally marketed as a toy intended solely for providing platonic love through hugging, Huggy Wuggy was designed to hug children in need, with warm traits.
Huggy stalking and killing someone during RESTRICTED_disappearance.
Meanwhile, his Bigger Bodies counterpart retained a similar purpose, serving as a guardian to children and only reacting aggressively when faced with hostility. This was exemplified on June 18, 1992, when Huggy went on a rampage upon being attacked with darts. He was known to be "obedient" as long as no aggression was directed towards him, which was explicitly stated in Log 08502. However, under the influence of the Prototype, Huggy transformed into a relentless, genocidal entity driven by his given objectives, lacking control and mercilessly killing anyone who stood in his way.
When The Player returned in 2005, Huggy strictly adhered to the objectives given by the Prototype. His task was to surveil and protect the Playtime Co. factory, alerting others to the presence of any new intruders. Huggy took a stealthy approach, stalking The Player until finally confronting them with a lethal embrace. When the two meet again at the end of Chapter 4: "Safe Haven", Huggy furiously pounds on the door separating him and The Player and roars at them, indicating he is absolutely infuriated for what The Player had done to him and is determined to get revenge.
History[]
Before Poppy Playtime[]
Huggy Wuggy was created by Playtime Co. in 1984, and he quickly became a huge success and one of the many signature toys of Playtime Co. A female counterpart, Kissy Missy, was created in 1985. In 1990, Playtime Co. started the Bigger Bodies Initiative, conducting numerous unethical and highly illegal experiments on the orphans who lived in Playcare, one such example being Huggy Wuggy, who was known as Experiment 1170. His purpose was to function as part of the factory's security,[1] while spending the day posing as a statue in the Main Lobby.
In March 1991, Huggy Wuggy was noticed by visitors to be looking at them. Rowan Stoll reported their complaints to Leith Pierre on the 30th, believing someone could have put nanny cameras in Huggy Wuggy's eyes. On May 28, Rowan sent an apology to Leith, explaining a maintenance worker told him the eyes were not locked in place, giving the illusion they were moving.[2][3]
Disappearance incident[]
At 10:27 PM on June 18, 1992, Experiment 1170 managed to escape the Playtime Co. factory through an open bay delivery door. Two staff members witnessed his swift escape and hit the alarm. He traveled nearly a half-mile from the factory before a survival team was deployed at 10:30 PM. One employee, presumably a male adult, was driving through the forest in an attempt to catch up with 1170 by driving to the railroad covering most of the land around the factory. He quickly stopped when he came across a creature wandering around in the forest. Aggressively and swiftly, Huggy rammed himself straight into his car's windshield, frightening him and resulting in him attempting to shoot Huggy with tranquilizer darts. The man successfully shot Huggy, but died at his hands in the process.
At 10:38 PM, the security team began to block and surround 1170 at a railroad crossing. Catching up with Huggy, they successfully shot him with a tranquilizer dart in his left leg. Unfortunately, he escaped back into the forest. The security team then spread outwards using their increased search radius of four miles. However, their radios became unreliable as they were outside of the effective zone. At 11:33 PM, an unknown security worker roamed the woods, encountering the fresh corpse of a deer. They then heard crunching and snaps before Huggy Wuggy appeared, staring down at them ominously before presumably killing them. Later, the worker's still recording camera would capture Huggy Wuggy loudly shrieking in the woods. At 3:38 AM, a camera caught Huggy Wuggy motionlessly standing in front of a suburban house. Huggy would later be caught and brought back to the factory over five hours after his escape. Five workers had died and six were unaccounted for.
After the incident, Leith Pierre wrote a document explaining how 1170 escaped the factory through the ventilation system, stating it was only blind luck that he was caught before being seen by anyone else. He concluded his document by saying that neither he nor the Innovation Department were happy regarding what had happened that night. These events would be documented in a restricted VHS tape and a security report.[4]
The Hour of Joy[]
Huggy Wuggy killing a series of civilians in the Main Lobby.
On August 8, 1995, half a decade after the disappearance of the Prototype, an emergency warning was broadcasted upon all televisions and electronics in the Playtime Co. factory. It was stated for all employees to hide as the experiments' rampage against Playtime Co. began. It is heavily implied to have begun with Huggy Wuggy being influenced by the Prototype to mindlessly kill all of the employees in the Main Lobby. This was all depicted in the Hour of Joy VHS recording, which recorded snippets of Huggy Wuggy and various other toys, such as Mommy Long Legs, the Ruined Critters, Miss Delight and her sisters, Kissy Missy, Boxy Boo, and CatNap, in that order as shown via the tape.
Project: Playtime[]
- Main article: Huggy Wuggy (Project Playtime)
After the catastrophic events of The Hour of Joy, Leith Pierre emerged as one of the few known survivors. Driven by his determination to carry on with the Bigger Bodies Initiative, Leith Pierre began sending out “Resource Extraction Specialists" in groups of six at a time into the Playtime Co. factory, where rampant toys roamed freely. Their mission was to retrieve artifacts related to the Bigger Bodies experiments, despite the threatening risk of facing potential death. In the end, this project would fall futile as, canonically, the employees would be killed by the toys and fed to the smaller Bigger Bodies experiments such as the Wuggies and the Ruined Critters.
During the Monster Tutorial, it is divulged that Huggy Wuggy plays a vital role as one of the selected toys assigned by the Prototype to provide sustenance to the smaller experiments.
After the company stopped sending out the Specialists, leaving the factory closed for good, 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 to survive. Huggy continued to live in the abandoned factory for the next decade until The Player's return in 2005.
During Poppy Playtime[]
Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze"[]
Huggy first appears when The Player enters the Main Lobby after unlocking Security, where they had obtained the GrabPack and its Blue Hand. Upon making an attempt to open a closed door that required the Blue Hand, the power cuts off. However, Huggy could now be seen with an unexpected attainable yellow key hung on his "fingers." This key opens the Power Room, which requires a mere electric current towards two nodes. This can be done using the GrabPack's electricity-conducting wires.
Huggy's fall.
Upon restoring power to the Main Lobby, Huggy Wuggy has mysteriously disappeared from his podium. Huggy goes on to stalk The Player as they make their way through the factory. During this time, Huggy is briefly seen twice. The first time, his arm is seen sticking out of the door in the Make-A-Friend hallway after the Main Lobby. He is later seen again in the Storage Room peeking from one of the vents before closing it when The Player goes to the balcony a second time. When The Player activates the power in the Make-A-Friend room. To progress, they must create their own Swap-imals toy, which serves as a keycard to unlock a sealed door. Upon opening the door with the Cat-Bee toy, they enter a dark hallway to leave. Unfortunately, Huggy Wuggy suddenly emerges from the dark hallway and starts chasing them. This forces The Player to escape from Huggy by going into the Conveyor Belt System. As they navigate through the maze-like ventilation system, Huggy Wuggy chases them, mirroring their every move.
Eventually, The Player reaches a pair of catwalks where Huggy fiercely pounds on the closed ventilation door. However, as Huggy crashes through the door, he becomes trapped under a large crate toppled by his prey, sending both of them to the catwalk below. Though The Player managed to land safely on the catwalks, Huggy fell into the depths of the Playtime Co. Factory after colliding with a series of large pipes, spraying blood upon them. It was speculated that Huggy died, but he would be shown to have survived; after Huggy presumably lands in the Water Treatment zone, he bandages his injuries and wanders the factory until coming across The Player again in Chapter 4.
Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web"[]
Huggy does not make an appearance in this chapter, but is instead mentioned in the second tape discussing Experiment 1006, in which he was confirmed to be a different entity, as he went with the alias Experiment 1170 instead. In the Water Treatment zone, lots of blue fur can be seen on the walls of the zone, implying he had landed here during his fall. Even though he's not in the chapter, smaller versions of him known as Mini Huggies appear in the Wack-a-Wuggy game in Game Station.
Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep"[]
Home Sweet Home[]
Upon entering Home Sweet Home, The Player encounters the Red Smoke. Despite Ollie's warnings, they walk through it and ultimately pass out in the real world. In a dream-like state, Home Sweet Home twists into a nightmarish labyrinth filled with unsettling images of children and eerie messages etched into the wood. The disturbing scene climaxes when The Player reaches an unknown nursing room. A tape titled "Welcome To Playtime" sits on a bed. On the screen as the tape plays is a picture of Huggy, and over the course of the tape, it begins to outright call out employees who may be unhappy with something they've "done". The picture of Huggy fades away, to soon be replaced by a picture of Nightmare Huggy.
Nightmare Huggy's jumpscare.
During the concluding segment of the tape, the tape begins to take a more monotone turn as the announcer directly calls out The Player's actions for not being present for the other toys, mocking them for descending downwards into the factory. The announcer describes the factory as "their world", and welcomes The Player "home". Suddenly, a monstrous version of Huggy Wuggy emerges from the TV and begins chasing The Player.
Defenseless, they have no choice but to head down the never-ending corridor they had previously entered. The monstrous Huggy Wuggy taunts The Player, intentionally slowing down as they approach, before finally delivering a jumpscare. The Player suddenly wakes up in the real world, lying on the floor.
CatNap Dream Sequence[]
Later on during the runtime of Chapter 3, CatNap knocks The Player out and puts them through a lucid trance. Using the voice of Poppy, CatNap attempts to dissuade The Player from delving further into the Playtime Co. Factory.
Huggy as seen during the Dream Sequence.
Towards the end of the dream sequence, The Player finds themselves in a spiralling red cloud with only the presence of Huggy Wuggy. CatNap, speaking through Poppy's voice, questions them, "Do you know what's real?" and then declares, "No, you don't," in a more focused tone than before, ending the echoing. The Player is later taken to the Main Lobby yet again, overrun with the Red Smoke and its glass dome shattered open. Presumably taking the perspective of Huggy Wuggy, the Prototype reaches down towards The Player, which can later be called back to the beginning of The Hour of Joy when Huggy was taken control of by the Prototype and ordered to kill anything in sight.
Chapter 4: "Safe Haven"[]
During her conversation with The Prototype, Poppy lists Huggy Wuggy as an example of him having no more allies.
Huggy as seen at the end of Chapter 4: "Safe Haven".
After inputting and watching the final tape of Chapter 4: "Safe Haven", Huggy Wuggy staggers into the labs, summoned by the alarm activated by the tape. Due to the lighting, he initially appears to be Kissy Missy, but, as he approaches, his mouth full of fangs becomes visible. He aggressively charges towards and bashes at the windowed entrance of the top-secret laboratory of Playtime Co., presumably ready to guard the place from The Player and have his revenge.
Abilities and Anatomy[]
While walking, Huggy has a stiff, yet rather lithe and oddly organic-like gait. He is capable of breaking into incredible bursts of speed, using his long arms and legs to propel himself forward. His stringy arms are mentioned to be extremely dense and strong enough to dent metal. Huggy is able to run half a mile in 3 minutes, as demonstrated during his escape attempt in 1992. While crawling through the vents after The Player, Huggy is able to bend and contort his body to fit into tight spaces. Before The Player drops the crate onto Huggy on the catwalk, he can be seen sprinting towards them on all fours, much like an ape. Due to his sheer height of a whopping 18 feet tall, he possesses a size advantage against average humans. During the vent chase, Huggy is able to cut off and keep up with The Player by navigating through the ventilation system. He also wields formidable brute strength, capable of damaging and knocking down barriers, including those constructed from metal. Huggy is mentioned to possess a digestive system, and his mouth exhibits various rows of sharp teeth that are strong enough to split bone (according to the Orientation Notebook).
In Log 08502, Huggy was briefly mentioned as Experiment 1170, and was dubbed the most optimal subject, as he possesses the ideal amount of intelligence and is obedient to the scientists working at the company.
As indicated in Chapter 4, Huggy appears to have basic first aid knowledge, bandaging himself with rudimentary tools and even contain what appear to be his "intestines" pouring out with no advanced medical tools. This trait is also seen with Kissy Missy as well.
Huggy is also very durable; he was able to survive falling down the depths of the Playtime Co. factory and move on with only a few external injuries; at the end of Chapter 4, he is not seen limping, implying the fall did not do much damage to his performance. Such a fall would have certainly killed anyone else.
Trivia[]
- According to Micah Preciado, Huggy Wuggy was not actually inspired by any animal like a dog. Instead, he was inspired by Sour Patch Kids.
- Huggy's design, however, may have been based on a Hanging Monkey Plush, as they both have long limbs, hands and feet that are the same, and Velcro plates on their hands (which may be how Huggy gives hugs).
- Huggy Wuggy's height stays inconsistent throughout the chapters:
- During Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze", it was said that Huggy Wuggy was 17 feet, although after Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web"'s release, it was said on Twitter that Huggy was 18 feet.
- In a trailer headshot close-up of Huggy, it seemed that behind his plastic "eyes" lie big bloodshot, human-like eyes.
- However, this has been proven false, as the eyes are assumed to have been a reflection of the floor.
- Huggy's lips and teeth move around when he attacks The Player.
- Huggy is presumed to have once been human and the one who wrote the countless words within the walls in the Ventilation Shaft, as some writing in the Ventilation Shaft says "This isn't my body."
- This is evident by the fact that some writing says "Starving" and "I'm so hungry." This is further proven by the fact that he seems to eat The Player when he catches them.
- This is further enforced since during the Hour of Joy VHS tape, Huggy Wuggy is seen biting off a few co-worker's heads before chasing after a few more workers in the Main Lobby.
- This, however, is contested, as three different entities can be depicted talking to The Player throughout the Ventilation Shaft via the conveyor walls, and some of the writing is actually guiding The Player through the vents instead of attempting to trick them.
- Huggy Wuggy is implied to be Kissy Missy's lover, based on her profile on the digital collectible website, as “Better half” is a term for a spouse.
- An interesting fact to note is that one of the Huggy Wuggy toys in the Main Lobby seems to be sitting down with the front of the box broken or opened. This Huggy toy has his eyes blacked out and a large grin showing his teeth.
- This could have been a foreshadowing to Huggy Wuggy's return in Chapter 3 as the hallucination with the eyes blacked out and the large grin.
- Huggy Wuggy is the only returning toy character from Chapter 1, returning in Chapter 3 as a secondary antagonist, in Chapter 4 as a cameo, and possibly as one of the antagonists in Chapter 5, alongside Poppy Playtime (who appeared in Chapter 1 as well) and Kissy Missy who appeared in Chapter 2.
- Huggy climbing out of the TV in Chapter 3 may have been inspired by an official sticker back in 2021.
- When Nightmare Huggy jumpscares The Player, his hands wrap around the whole person, when moving the camera away.
- According to P.W. in the Orientation Notebook, he at one point heard Jimmy Roth claim it was he who suggested Huggy Wuggy to be blue.
- Huggy's appearance at the end of Chapter 4 has him tinted pink by the red security lights, to initially fake out the player into thinking it's Kissy. This is an inversion of Kissy being lit with blue light when she tackles the player coming out of Home Sweet Home in Chapter 3 to make them think she's Huggy.
- Huggy Wuggy is the first and so far the only main antagonist in a chapter to survive his defeat.
- He is also the first Poppy Playtime antagonist to not speak.
- In April 1, 2023, an April Fools TikTok video was published on the Official Mob Entertainment TikTok Channel, showing a fictional commercial of a cereal brand themed around Huggy Wuggy, titled "Huggy Wuggy's Furry Flakes". This cereal brand also came with a milk, with Mommy Long Legs being the cover on it, the main antagonist of Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web".
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- ↑ Leith Pierre Closing
- ↑ Rowan Stoll Recordings
- ↑ Orientation Notebook, page 130
- ↑ Orientation Notebook, pages 66-67