Mommy Long Legs

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Poppy Playtime Chapter 2: Fly In a Web; read at your own caution.

About

Mommy Long Legs, also known as Experiment 1222 and Marie Payne, is the antagonist of the video game Poppy Playtime "Chapter 2: Fly in a Web," released in May 2022. She is depicted as a pink spider-like creature with elastic, noodle-like hair and appendages that can stretch hundreds of feet. In the months after the game's release, Mommy Long Legs inspired fan art, memes and became the subject of video edits relating to the series online.

Origin

Mommy Long Legs Commercial

On April 7th, 2022, the MOB Games YouTube channel posted a fake commercial for a toy called Mommy Long Legs to promote Poppy Playtime chapter two. Mommy Long Legs was debuted in the clip as a pink character with stretchy legs and arms (shown below). The video gained over 7.1 million views in five months.

In-Game Presence

Mommy Long Legs was officially introduced in "Chapter 2: Fly In a Web," the sequel to the survival horror game Poppy Playtime, released on May 5th, 2022. When she is introduced to the player, she puts on a welcoming, warm facade only to threaten the player with death if they refuse to do what she says.

On the day of the game's release, YouTuber^[1] Banden uploaded a video of the first encounter with the character, garnering over 600,000 views in four months (shown below). Throughout the game, it is hinted that she was a human named Marie Payne before undergoing an experiment to transform her into Mommy Long Legs, a representation of a toy by Playtime Co.^[2]

At the end of the game, the player kills Mommy Long Legs by putting her through a grinder (shown below). The video was uploaded to YouTube^[3] by Banden the same day, garnering over 3.9 million views in four months.

Spread

The character became notably popularized among fans of the Poppy Playtime series following her reveal and inspired a considerable amount of fan content in the months after the game's release. On May 4th, 2022, YouTuber^[4] TYE Arcade posted a video where a man tries to win a Mommy Long Legs plush from a vending machine, garnering over 61 million views in four months. On June 8th, YouTuber^[5] GH'S posted an anime video offering a potential origin story for the monster, garnering over 31 million views in three months (shown below).

As of September 2022, there are over 30,000 results for fan art of the character on DeviantArt.^[6] Some of the highest engagement examples show renditions of the character as a human female, including a piece of art by DeviantArt^[7] user inumysuzue that garnered over 27,000 views and 200 favorites in six months ( shown below, right).

On August 4th, 2022, YouTuber Hornstromp Games posted an animation where Mommy Long Legs transforms back into human form, garnering over 1.4 million views in a month (shown below, left). On September 13th, YouTuber DOM Studio posted an animation featuring the character titled, "MOMMY LONG LEGS has a DAUGHTER !?," garnering over 400,000 views in a day (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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