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Poppy Playtime Mommy Long Legs

Poppy Playtime’s Mommy Long Legs is an interesting character, so let's take a deep dive into her role in the game, personality, and more.

Poppy Playtime's Mommy Long Legs looking angry in front of a pink background

Poppy Playtime’s Mommy Long Legs isn’t as sweet as she likes to make out when you first meet her – don’t let that voice fool you. She’s your major obstacle in Chapter 2, roping in other toys to help her make your time in Game Station a living hell. We can’t help but have a fascination with Mommy Long Legs, as she has a tragic backstory that helps to explain her violent and horrid nature.

Some of the games she puts you through can be difficult to overcome, so make sure you read our Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 guide, as it walks you through what you need to do in each encounter, including that terrifying chase sequence. Once you overcome Mommy Long Legs, check out Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 walkthrough to learn how to deal with Poppy Playtime’s CatNap.

Here’s everything you need to know about Poppy Playtime’s Mommy Long Legs:

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Who is Poppy Playtime’s Mommy Long Legs?

Mommy Long Legs is the primary antagonist of Poppy Playtime Chapter 2. Your early impressions of her might be that she’s not the caring maternal figure she should be when she steals your doll (Poppy Playtime’s Poppy) and forces you to take part in games that could kill you. Actually, now that I think about it, my mum took games away from me and made me go outside, and to me, that was like hell, so maybe Mommy Long Legs is nailing it after all.

Just like the other toys in the Playtime Co factory, Mommy Long Legs is subjected to heinous experiments, and it’s fair to say that she’s holding a bit of a grudge. There’s nothing like a woman scorned, aye?

There’s good reason to believe that Mommy Long Legs, in a similar manner to CatNap, encountered the Prototype around the time of the hour of joy, which makes her a prime candidate for one of the toys that participated in the massacre in 1995. Mommy Long Legs is also the one to work with Huggy Wuggy and Boxy Boo to put a stop the Resource Extraction Specialists that want to continue the Bigger Bodies Initiative (the same program responsible for Mommy, Huggy, Boxy, and countless others).

After some time, it’s clear there’s some sort of disagreement between Mommy Long Legs and the Prototype as she parts ways with him, finding a home for herself in the game station. In the years following the massacre, Mommy Long Legs likely survived in the abandoned factory by eating the smaller experiments. It’s a toy-eat-toy world out there.

Marie Payne’s background

While we’re understandably not fond of Mommy Long Legs, our hearts break for what Marie Payne endured. This young girl was an orphan who went on to become Mommy Long Legs, but that’s jumping a bit too far forward in her past. This poor girl is the perfect example of what CatNap’s red gas can do, as it induced horrid nightmares during an incident in either 1988 or 1989, though the staff at PlayCare attributed her night terrors to bullying. Safe to say Marie’s life was a living hell.

But things didn’t get better for the young girl, as in 1991, the same year as numerous other monstrous experiments, she became Experiment 1222, turning her into Mommy Long Legs. The reason for her being chosen is unclear, but we suspect it has something to do with all the headaches she gave staff due to her nightmares and bullying. Again, while we don’t like what the toy puts us through, we can’t help but feel a bit more understanding about the role Mommy Long Legs played in The Hour of Joy.

What is Poppy Playtime Mommy Long Legs’ role in the story?

As the primary antagonist of Chapter 2, Mommy Long Legs has just one purpose, to make your life miserable and short. These games she wants you to take part in aren’t fun and most certainly are meant to kill you. She takes Poppy near the beginning of the chapter, and that’s when all hell breaks loose, as you need to get the train working in the games room to get out and can only do so with the train code, and surprise, surprise, spaghetti lady knows what it is.

After you successfully complete the first two games, you get two parts of the train code. The third game is absolutely meant to kill you, as the way to escape Poppy Playtime’s PJ Pug-a-Pillar is blocked off, but you still find a way to escape, Mommy Long Legs kinda loses the plot and insists you’re a cheat. We all know a sore loser, and she’s the sorest of them all. Naturally, this leads to a game of cat and mouse as she tries her hardest to catch and kill you.

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Poppy Playtime Mommy Long Legs’ personality

Mommy Long Legs does have motherly instincts and is kind and caring towards children, to the extent that the staff at Playtime Co would feel more comfortable with kids around as the toy is less likely to lash out and be hostile in the presence of children. However, make no mistake, she is vicious, vindictive, furious, and violent, and while Mommy Long Legs used to protect her other toys, she’s not above killing them these days.

The mini Wuggys and Bunzo Bunny are a testament to that, as she kills them for failing to kill you. It’s actually pretty horrible. Though they try to kill you, it’s hard not to feel a little bit bad for them when you can hear them scream a few minutes after you leave the room, and should you return, you see their dead bodies in Mommy Long Legs web. So, from that, it’s clear that she doesn’t tolerate failure. What a pushy mom.

Poppy Playtime Mommy Long Legs’ appearances

Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 is Mommy Long Legs’ main appearance, and given she meets her end, it’s unlikely that she’s going to reappear again, well, in a meaningful way, as you’ll soon read. However, a claw drags away her dead body, so perhaps her corpse is set to show up when the mysterious prototype finally does. Who knows, she might even appear in the Poppy Playtime movie.

As for Deep Sleep, Mommy Long Legs does appear, her arm being part of the shrine CatNap creates for the Prototype. Beyond that, she also appears in The Hour of Joy videotape, which shows her chasing down and killing staff members in Game Station.

We aren’t sure whether or not she’ll make some sort of appearance in Poppy Playtime Chapter 4. For all we know, she might appear on posters, have a cardboard cutout, or appear on another videotape. We can but hope that Poppy Playtime’s Yarnaby isn’t as malicious as Mommy Long Leges, but something tells us he’s actually worse.

There you have it, everything you need to know about Poppy Playtime’s Mommy Long Legs. To keep the scary times rolling, you can check out our horror games list. Or, if you’re after a potential ally in the hellhole that’s the Playtime Co factory, our Poppy Playtime Kissy Missy guide is the place to be.