Marionettes in pop-culture

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Marionettes are featured in the movie The Sound of Music.
EarthBound: In the town of Threed, Smilin' Sam and Handsome Tom are marionettes that attack you.
ABBA released a song (or musical) named I'm a Marionette.
Tillamook Treasure: a 2005 feature film in which Floyd Red Crow Westerman and Max Gail play puppeteers. The marionettes, carved by master puppeteer Phillip Huber to look like characters in the film. Huber (Huber Marionettes) performed all the puppet manipulations in the film.
Thunderbirds: a television series in which all characters were marionettes.
Being John Malkovich: a 1999 movie starring John Cusack as a street puppeteer whose performances include marionette adaptations of the story of Abélard and Heloise. Puppeteers who worked on this include Images in Motion, Coad Canada Puppets, and the Huber Marionettes.
The Double Life of Véronique: a 1991 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: a 2002 GameCube game, features a marionette boss named Puppet Ganon who can change his form into a spider and a snake.
Team America: World Police: a 2004 movie using Thunderbirds-style marionettes.
Strings, a 2004 fantasy film made entirely with marionettes on strings.
Marionettes took an evil turn when featured in a popular PS2 game Devil May Cry where they became the key enemy.
In later Castlevania games, marionettes also become enemies. They usually appear as wooden dolls which can cast curse on the heroes upon contact. One major exception to this is in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, where there is a boss named Puppet Master, who is a giant marionette himself, and attacks using iron maidens.
Saber Marionette is a collection of several anime series, manga, audio dramas and OVAs originally created by Satoru Akahori, primarily involving various robotic female characters called marionettes.
In the manga and anime series Naruto the ninjas Kankuro and Sasori use various marionettes as weapons.
In the Chilean telenovela Los títeres (The Puppets), each main character poses as a model for a puppeteer who makes marionette look-a-like versions of them. They play an important symbolic role in the series.
In the popular MMO Ragnarok Online, Marionette serves as a monster character found in Geffen Dungeon level 3.
Pinocchio from the popular childrens novel and later movies Pinocchio is a marionette who can move without strings.
A symbol of the Godfather films is a hand holding marionette strings, showing how mafia dons often control their families as dictators.
Mister Squiggle, Australian marionette

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