History Main / CompanionCube

** Linus's security blanket, but not exactly to Linus himself. In one week-long sequence, Lucy becomes convinced that The Blanket had sentience and was out to get her, refusing to be in the house alone with it. One strip even shows The Blanket leaping from Linus's hands to pounce on Lucy. No one else witnesses anything of the sort; as Charlie Brown comments during the riff, "I never thought she would be the first of us to crack." (Interestingly, this was the only sequence of [[Creator/CharlesMSchulz Schulz]]'s strips ever to be rejected by his syndicate. They have turned up in collections, but never had a newspaper "first run".)

* In CrackFic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13979594/1/The-Accidental-On-Purpose-Marriage-of-Harry-Potter-and-Broom-Stroker The Accidental (On Purpose) Marriage of Harry Potter and Broom Stroker]]'', Harry has a drunken Las Vegas wedding with his ''broomstick''.

The opposite is LivingToys. Also contrast EnmityWithAnObject (aka "Cargo Nemesis"). If an animal or a robot interacts with an object in a romantic way, that's AnimalSweetOnObject. A subtrope of this is CompanionFood, when the object in question is food.

* Nicole Savoy has referred to her UsefulNotes/XboxOne as her boyfriend.

* A more serious example would be the Holy Crown of Hungary, which was assigned legal personhood and was considered the sole holder of all state powers of the monarch. (It's not just a matter of mentonymously referring to the monarchy as "the Crown" -- the ''physical crown itself'' was considered identical to the state in Hungarian legal theory, and the monarch himself was considered merely its representative.) This is less of a going concern now that Hungary is a republic, but the crown is still considered a Very Big Deal, is permanently on display in the Parliament, and appears on the national coat of arms -- an unusual feature for a republic.

* A more serious example would be the Holy Crown of Hungary, which was assigned legal personhood and is considered the sole holder of all state powers of the monarch.

''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'': The Pathologist has very personal relationships with his lab equipment: he considers his microscope (Tabitha) to be family, and other pieces of lab equipment (all of whom also have names) coworkers; this includes going ''on vacation'' with Tabitha. If the Youtube are anything to go by, this is Truth in Television for many medical lab workers.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "Sucker for Love", Nutty's obsession with a heart-shaped box of chocolates on display in a candy store window causes him to imagine himself marrying the box, making it breakfast, riding with it in an ambulance as it breaks water during its pregnancy (implied by the bulge in its center), and having three small boxes of chocolates as his children. Then he finds the box cheated on him, discovering the affair after seeing Lumpy (who's now a milkman) leaving their house with chocolate smeared on his lips. A quick scene shifts to Nutty in jail, where it's implied he killed Lumpy out of jealousy. When he walks in the visiting area, he meets the box of chocolates (now sporting a scarf and pair of glasses) with a dent on its side (which he may have caused after beating it in his rage from its affair with Lumpy), and expresses to it his regret for treating it. After his release from prison, they both live happily together until their old age, when the elderly box of chocolates dies by falling over and spilling its contents. Before returning to reality, the elderly Nutty stands in the rain, mourning over the box of chocolates' grave.
** Another example is the episode ''Aw Shucks'', where Lumpy treats an ear of corn as his own child, even prioritizing himself over it.