- "I found my purpose Lexy. I'm Chucky's real friend 'till the end."
- ―Caroline to Lexy.
Caroline Cross is the daughter of Michelle and Nathan Cross, and the younger sister of Lexy. She is a gifted little girl and is enamoured with Chucky.
Chucky: Season 1 (2021)
She attends the middle school talent show with her family, where she spots Chucky and becomes obsessed with the doll. A week later on Halloween night, she sits in the living room drawing Chucky. Her parents are amazed that she is able to remember every detail of the doll only after seeing him once. When she is asked if she wants to meet Chucky, Caroline replies that she would be too scared that he wouldn't like her. Lexy is forced by her mother to take Caroline trick-or-treating. Instead, she takes her little sister to a Halloween party and lets her stay downstairs playing video games. Sometime during the night Chucky joins her in the videogame, complimenting her potential and attempting to persuade her to kill Lexy. However, she insists that killing is bad because her mother told her so. Once the party is over, Caroline refuses to go home with her sister as she is waiting her new friend to come back.
Caroline watching the news with Chucky.
A few days later, her obsession becomes so strong that she shuts down, crying and screaming that she wants Chucky. Lexy goes to Jake, who agrees to give Chucky to Caroline. They become inseparable, playing together and watching the news. At night, Lexy tucks Caroline and Chucky into bed before going downstairs to throw a party. When the two of them are alone, Chucky tells her he is going to kill her sister and invites her to come along, but she opts not to as she is too tired.
As a result of the fire caused by the fight between Chucky and Lexy, Caroline ends up in the ICU to treat her smoke inhalation. While Jake is being interrogated by Detective Evans, Chucky unplugs Caroline's oxygen causing everyone to run into her room and discover Detective Peyton's corpse. The next day, Caroline finally wakes up and tells her father she wants Chucky. After he shows her the disfigured doll, she screams in fear so much that Nathan gets rid of Chucky by throwing him down the needle disposal chute. While she is playing on her iPad, Lexy approaches her and asks if she can see the doll for a bit. Furious, Caroline shouts that she now hates Chucky as he is "bad".
After being discharged from the hospital, the family returns to their partially burned home and Caroline's new room is her mother's office. She is upset at having to sleep on the couch and demands her old bed. In order to distract her, Nathan surprises her with a new Good Guy doll named Tommy. She is promptly made happy by this and proceeds to hug the doll tightly. Lexy asks Caroline if she can hug Tommy, and immediately tries to destroy the doll. Realizing the doll isn't Chucky, she takes a photo of it and runs out of the house. Sometime that night while Caroline is sleeping with Tommy, the disfigured Chucky enters the house and switches bodies with the other Good Guy doll. The following morning at the town meeting, she tells Nathan that Tommy ran away. When he tries to assure her that her doll will be waiting for her at home, she shouts loudly that he won't.
Later in their home, Caroline spots Lexy packing her toys into a box. She tries to take one of the dolls from Lexy's hands, but the resulting tug-of-war causes the doll's head to pop off. Caroline immediately starts laughing, and the two of them begin pulling the heads off the rest of her dolls. Caroline and Lexy then attend a press conference with Michelle as she announces the arrest of the supposed killer suspected in many recent deaths. When one of the reporters asks Caroline if she wants to be a mayor like her mother one day, she bluntly states that "Chucky told her to kill mommy". Lexy pulls her aside and asks what Chucky told her exactly. She remarks that Chucky told her to kill them all: Michelle, Nathan, and Lexy.
The next day, Tiffany poses as celebrity guest Jennifer Tilly at a special movie screening benefitting children's hospitals, held by Michelle. The mayor announces that as part of the benefit, 72 children's hospitals will be receive a vintage Good Guy doll. Caroline wants the Chucky doll Tiffany is holding, so she allows her to take it into the movie theatre to watch Frankenstein. She places Chucky in the seat next to her, and does not leave her seat even after Chucky begins murdering people and everyone else flees the theatre. Eventually, Jake finds her alone next to her father's corpse, and has Devon escort her out safely.
Chucky: Season 2 (2022)
On Halloween night, Caroline answers the door to find Chucky dressed as a ghost, holding onto another doll that is also dressed like a ghost. He asks to use her bathroom, claiming it's an emergency, and is let inside. But Chucky does not stay long, and leaves before the police arrive.
Caroline and her Wedding Belle doll.
The next day, Caroline attends a family therapy session with Michelle and Lexy. She explains to the therapist, Dr. Mixter, that Chucky seemed nice at first but he lied and always had secrets. Chucky also killed a lot of people, including her father. Dr. Mixter tries to convince Caroline that Junior Wheeler was the real culprit behind the murders, but she remains firm that is was Chucky, and now he has returned as she recognized him coming to her door on Halloween. Lexy and Michelle insist to her that it was Junior, and Michelle explains to the therapist that this experience has affected her very negatively. Caroline can't sleep without waking up screaming from nightmares, and she made her mother get rid of all of her dolls. Believing this topic may be a good starting point for therapy, Dr. Mixter gifts Caroline a Wedding Belle doll to take home.
That night, Lexy puts Caroline to bed, and confirms to her that she knows Chucky was in fact the culprit for the murders. Lexy tells her to never trust a doll, before strapping the Wedding Belle doll down into a chair and handing Caroline a knife for protection. During the night, Lexy checks in on her, only to find the doll removed from the chair and in bed with Caroline. The following morning, Lexy questions why she was sleeping with the doll. Caroline tells her not to worry as Wedding Belle is not like Chucky, and is just a doll. After Lexy goes upstairs, the front doorbell sounds. She answers it, only to find Chucky being carried by Gary, and holding a homemade bomb. He enters the home, keeping Caroline at bay with the device. He gathers Caroline, Gary, Jake, and Devon all together and plans to detonate the bomb when Lexy arrives. However, he is unsuccessful and settles to kills himself and Jake's foster brother Gary instead.
Caroline siding with Tiffany.
Over Christmas, Lexy returns home with Jake and Devon staying with the Crosses. Caroline continues keeping the Wedding Belle doll close to her. On the night of Christmas Eve, Tiffany breaks into the Cross' residence in order to take Caroline's Wedding Belle doll as a new vessel. However, before she can leave she is stopped by Jake, Devon and Lexy, who stab her multiple times. Suddenly Caroline comes to her side, giving Tiffany a knife to hold her hostage with. Caroline demands Jake and Devon put down their weapons and allow her and Tiffany to leave the house. Before she goes, she explains to Lexy that Chucky always told her that her "real" mother would come for her as she was adopted by the Crosses. She further explains that Chucky told her to just pretend to be afraid of him, and she was able to fool everyone. When Lexy reveals that she killed Chucky Prime, Caroline retorts that she will be sorry for what she has done.
Three weeks later at their hotel room in Times Square, Caroline reads through the Voodoo For Dummies book as Tiffany prepares to transfer her soul into the Wedding Belle doll. But the ritual does not work, as the Wedding Belle doll is actually Chucky in disguise. Caroline smiles as he advances on Tiffany and prepares to stab her.
Chucky: Season 3 (2023)
As Chucky advances towards Tiffany, he is forced to stop as the police break down the door to arrest her. Caroline sneaks out of the hotel with Chucky in her arms, but is spotted by Nica. She chases after them, but she is unable to follow them when they head down the stairs into the subway. Making their way through the subway, Chucky whistles for a cab. The driver at first believes Chucky is just an AI-powered robot doll, but becomes disturbed as he listens in on Chucky and Caroline discussing his upcoming plans for his "kill list", to go after his remaining enemies: Andy, Kyle, Nica, Jake, Devon and Lexy. Chucky compliments Caroline for her potential to become a serial killer, but she corrects him as she has never actually killed anyone before. When he offers to teach her how to kill, the cab driver has had enough and pulls into an alleyway, demanding they get out. Instead, Chucky kills him by shoving an umbrella into his mouth, and opening it to explode his throat.
Caroline in Chucky's dream, watching him kill Andy.
Caroline and Chucky stop at a hotel for the night, where after waking up he makes the alarming discovery that he is losing his hair and getting wrinkles under his eyes. Having completely read the Voodoo For Dummies book, Caroline informs him that as his vessel is aging, he must see a voodoo doctor. The doctor reveals that as Chucky was involved in an exorcism, he has become infected with Christian magic and Damballa has abandoned him. The only cure is to sacrifice six people inside of an evil house. Chucky and Caroline head to Amityville, New York to the Amityville Horror House, where a party is being held inside. The two are let inside when Caroline pretends to be lost. Although he murders all eight people inside the ritual is unsuccessful, concluding that the house wasn't evil enough. He finally realizes the perfect evil house is in fact the White House, and he can easily get in by manipulating the President's son Henry. As Caroline prepares Chucky by using makeup to cover up his wrinkles, she tells him that she is sad that she can't come with him. Chucky divulges to her that he killed her father because he was jealous of him for having such a great kid in Caroline. After the two share a hug, Caroline tells him to "go make Damballa proud", and he leaves to infiltrate the White House.
Caroline holding Lexy at knifepoint.
While Chucky is away, Caroline gets busy introducing herself to the creator of the Good Guy dolls, Wendell Wilkins. She is able to manipulate him into helping her with her contingency plan to resurrect Chucky in case their original plan went awry. She stays with him in his estate for a few weeks, keeping herself hidden until the arrival of Lexy, Devon and Jake, who is possessed by Chucky Prime. Lexy tries to reach Caroline, but is kept at bay with a knife. She attempts to convince her sister that she doesn't have to listen to Chucky anymore, but Caroline retorts that has found her purpose with Chucky. She confirms that this is who she is now, and if Lexy doesn't like it, she can kill her. Using the Voodoo For Dummies Caroline transfers Chucky's soul back from Jake's body into the Good Guy doll. Afterwards, Wendell and Caroline then reveal that while they were originally going to kill Devon, Jake and Lexy, they now have a better idea to help keep Wendell company. Caroline uses another spell to transfer the trio's souls into miniature marionette dolls, and are kept in a display cabinet in Wendell's living room.
Some time later, Tiffany arrives at Wendell's estate. He provides her with the original prototype Wedding Belle doll she can transfer her soul, allowing her to end the manhunt for Jennifer Tilly. With the two dolls in the backseat, Caroline drives Tiffany's Pontiac Parisienne away.
Trivia
- In I Like To Be Hugged, the scene of her and Chucky watching the news is a reference to Andy watching the news with Chucky in Child's Play.
- Caroline is arguably Chucky's fourth female accomplice, right after Tiffany, Dr. Mixter, and Nica. She is also the youngest accomplice Chucky has ever had, being 8 years old.
- Caroline is the fifth character to perform a voodoo ritual by calling on the powers of Damballa, right after Chucky, Tiffany, Glen, and Nica.
Gallery
See also: Caroline Cross/Gallery