Child's Play is an American horror franchise that consists of eight slasher films, a television series and numerous comic books. The main antagonist is Chucky (except the fourth and fifth films), also known as Charles Lee Ray, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler, whose soul was passed onto a Good Guy Doll. Chucky pursues a variation of victims in each instalment, usually with the purpose of possessing the body of a new human host. Recurring characters in the series include Chucky's first target and Child's Play trilogy protagonist, Andy Barclay, and Chucky's wife/partner, Tiffany Valentine, which is the second of the two dolls of the Chucky saga, but not the franchise or the Child's Play trilogy. The 2019 remake is not connected to the original franchise. The 2021 television series is howeve