Leonardo Dolls

The **Leonardo Dolls** (also called **L-Dolls**) are monster that appeared in the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy.

## Characteristics

Each Leonardo Doll is made to resemble King Leonardo, but has blank white eyes and a coin slot for a mouth which money can be deposited. The doll appears to be a plush in some instances and solid in others, but in most instances is solid. The doll is roughly the same size as Leeko.

Through the dolls, King Leonardo can pass on his voice, and he can cast a hypnotizing spell on those who hear him through the doll in their sleep. This has the negative side-effect of forcing King Leonardo to forego sleep in order to cast this spell. Additionally, King Leonardo can direct the dolls to mimic his movements and he uses this power to antagonize the people of Usapia; particularly, Leeko. However, there is a further negative side-effect which Leonardo does not know until later that any harm done to the dolls is carried over to him. As such, whenever a doll gets struck or tossed around, King Leonardo receives that same punishment.

It is not clear exactly how the relationship between King Leonardo and his dolls works, as he seems to need to make a conscious effort to control the dolls. By contrast, relatively minor actions done to the dolls - such as holding or rocking them - appear to have no effect on King Leonardo.

## Role in the series

### Leeko: The Beginning

King Leonardo orders a large supply of Leonardo Dolls in the episode Voo Doo’s And Don’ts in order to influence the people of Usapia in their sleep. Every night at 2 AM, King Leonardo wakes up and delivers hypnotic suggestions and commands to his sleeping subjects. On the first night, he influences them to like and trust him, but this effect wears off quickly. One the second night, he commands them to deposit small amounts of spare change into the dolls, to convince them that the dolls brought them money. On the third day, he tells them to put all of their money into the dolls, and then influence them to deposit that money into a new bank he sets up.

However, these consecutive night-time hypnosis sessions causes King Leonardo to become sleep deprived, and on the fourth night, he snaps and decides to use the dolls to attack his subjects. This rash action ends up breaking the spell he held on the people, and also leads to him realizing that he is harmed whenever the dolls are. In a panic, Leonardo tries to confiscate all of the dolls before he can suffer further punishment, but one of them ends up in Leeko's possession, and the pink Star Warrior proceeds to play with it and toss it around. King Leonardo tries to get his revenge by swinging wildly at the air, and manages to get the doll to hit Leeko a couple of times. To retaliate, Leeko uses his vacuum-mouth to eat the dolls, which causes King Leonardo to become stranded in Leeko's bowel dimension. It is never clear at this point how King Leonardo escapes it.

## Appearances in the series

### Leeko: The Beginning

* **S2E16/TB050** - Voo Doo’s And Don’ts (*debut*)

## Trivia

* The way King Leonardo is physically connected to the Leonardo Dolls is a reference to how voodoo dolls are commonly believed to operate.