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Unknown20Troper: Companion Cube? Why the hell is this trope called Companion Cube? What the hell is a Companion Cube? Should be called 'The Wilson', clearly the Trope Maker.

Jazhara7: Could Chuck the Plant be considered a companion cube? He appears in most of the Lucas Arts adventure games (Maniac Mansion, Zak Mc Kracken, Indiana Jones [all of them, I think. The adventure games, I mean. Don't know about the action games.], Monkey Island series, Maniac Mansio 2: Day of the Tentacle, you name it. Only a few didn't have him.). He might not gain companion cube status after playing a single of those games...but if you've played several of those games, you feel rather attached to the local Fauna of Lucas Arts adventures. (I know I'm not the only one who has a plant named Chuck in their house because of that.)


Skazka: This may seem kind of petty, but I had to edit the real-life use (the BJD one specifically) someone listed- specifically the 'clone' line. :: sound of nitpicking ::

phantomreader42: Speaking of real life examples, is the ficus thing actually true?

HeartBurn Kid: I found references to the ficus running as a write-in candidate, but nothing about it receiving a major share of the vote.


Ununnilium: Yoink:

  • Largo's "Cool Thing" in Megatokyo.
    • Not really. It's more a case of assigning fanciful abilities to an otherwise unidentified device than giving it an actual implied personality. Largo's Ph34r Bots, on the other hand, perhaps could qualify as a borderline case for this trope.


Great Limmick: Do Shiunji and Mr. Watanabe's... er... girlfriends from the webcomic Sexy Losers count? On one hand, they are human. On the other hand, they're inanimate...


Ununnilium: I'm gonna cut out the single-person examples:

  • This editor bought a life sized stuffed dog (artificial, not taxidermy), named him (Holden), and spoke to him like he was alive and also far smarter than a dog should be, consulting him while playing a board game for example. Six different people addressed him as though he were a person within a week of buying him.
  • This troper has a tendency to do this to just about anything he owns- most specifically his computer 'Lucky' and his iPod 'Zuko'. The iPod is of note due to literally having a scar, going into a coma, and then deciding to hate everything.
    • Likewise, this troper's laptop's name is "Lazarus" thanks to a Brush With Death only a few months after purchase.

Sukeban: Took out

  • The man who made ball jointed dolls a phenomenon, and practically outright invented them, Hans Bellmer, took this trope to its absolute extreme.

Because, well, BJDs are 1/6 scale articulated resin dolls that look like the prettier kind of anime characters, not the "Real Doll" kind of doll, which is discussed just below that entry.

Boobah: Removed

  • Also from Discworld, in Reaper Man, the city of Ankh-Morpork is under attack by a parasitic life form which starts as snowglobes, metamorphoses into shopping carts, and eventually becomes an evil living mall. And knowing Terry Pratchett, it's better than it sounds here.

since the Mall was obviously a creature that resembled a mall, rather than a mall that the characters reacted to as a creature. Normal malls do not, as a rule, have shoggoth escalators, pulsing tubes/tentacles behind the walls, or golden killbot security guards, especially in the shape of sharpened shopping carts.

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