History Main / LoveImbuesLife

* Traditionally ComicBook/WonderWoman was a statue of a child created by her mother who yearned for a daughter of her own to love which was then brought to life by Aphrodite in reference to Pygmalion and Galatea, with motherly love substituted for the lust of the original myth.

* In the poet Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses'', one of his poems tells the story of Pygmalion. Pygmalion was a sculptor who creates a beautiful ivory statue. He [[PygmalionPlot falls in love with the statue]], and eventually Venus brings her to life for him. Bonus points that it's ''literally'' love that brings her to life, since it was Venus who did it! The statue was not named in the original myth, but later adaptations would name her Galatea, which [[AudienceColoringAdaptation has generally become the accepted name.]]

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* Animism is based around the concept that ''[[FridgeHorror every object has a soul]]'', and that some objects "gain" more "power' by being closely affiliated with another thing or entity. For example, a rock flowing down a river will have its "soul" intertwined with that of the water. A human who comes to heavily rely on weapon will have their souls [[{{Synchronization}} become almost one]], and so on...

* The ArcWords of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' are "Without love, it cannot be seen." Although those words come to mean several things over the course of the series, one of them is the way in which magic can be used to create furniture. This is most seen in Maria's (and Rosa's) creation of [[LivingToys Sakutaro]]. However, it takes on a particularly cruel meaning in [[spoiler:Yasu's]] creation of [[spoiler:Shannon, Kanon, and Beatrice]].

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The now living object/person may want to BecomeARealBoy, but usually doesn't suffer from all-out PinocchioSyndrome. In some cases the newly living object/person stays on the level of EmpathicWeapon, never outright sapient, but now a character in their own right.

* In the poet Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses'', one of his poems tells the story of Pygmalion and Galatea. Pygmalion was a sculptor who creates a beautiful ivory statue called Galatea. He [[PygmalionPlot falls in love with the statue]], and eventually Venus brings her to life for him. Bonus points that it's ''literally'' love that brings her to life, since it was Venus who did it!

Compare SpontaneousGeneration. See also ABoyAndHisX (this trope being what creates the X). Distantly related to HumanityIsInfectious.

* The lesser known Disney movie about LivingToys called ''Where the Toys Come From''. Two wind-up toys belonging to a little girl go on an adventure to find out the origin of toys and arrive at a factory in Japan, where a kindly toy designer finds them and shows them around the factory. They come to an assembly line full of identical wind-ups, but find that they don't talk back when they try to interact with them. The toy designer explains that once they find someone who loves them they'll be talk like them

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the climax of [[DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], the scientist Bracewell is told he's actually a robot with a bomb in his chest. To stop the bomb, the Doctor needs to trigger human emotions in him to "prove to the universe" that he isn't just a robot. The Doctor tries appealing to his sense of pain and loss. It fails, mystifying the Doctor. Fortunately his companion steps in and takes the Love approach. It ''works''!

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* This is played for {{Horror}} in the Czech movie ''Film/LittleOtik''.
* In ''Film/TheLoveBug'', it was implied that this was how Herbie (the eponymous car) developed a mind of his own.
* The lesser known Disney movie about LivingToys called ''Where The Toys Come From''. Two wind-up toys belonging to a little girl go on an adventure to find out the origin of toys and arrive at a factory in Japan, where a kindly toy designer finds them and shows them around the factory. They come to an assembly line full of identical wind-ups, but find that they don't talk back when they try to interact with them. The toy designer explains that once they find someone who loves them they'll be talk like them

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'' he states that love is the reason a computer goes from merely extremely powerful to A.I. It "comes alive" because someone loves it (rather him/her, that's part of the reason, treating the computer as more than "it").
* Pauline Clarke's ''Return of the Twelves'' is about the (actual) [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Napoleonic wars]] wood soldiers owned by the Bronte sisters (Creator/AnneBronte, Creator/CharlotteBronte, and Creator/EmilyBronte) and their brother Branwell. In RealLife the kids endowed the "Young Men" with individual personalities, created an enormous [[WorldBuilding paracosm]] for their adventures and wrote countless stories, novels, poems and plays about them. The delicious concept in this novel is that the Young Men were brought to life by this loving attention. They are discovered by children in the 1960s, still alive, active and ornery as ever.
* In Doris Orgel's ''A Certain Magic'', twelve-year-old Trudl has been sent from Nazi-occupied Austria to England alone and aching for her family and her dolls. Her host family's snobbish daughter has an exquisite doll called Felicity. In her diary Trudl writes a beautiful story about bringing Felicity to life and taking her on secret adventures. Years later when Trudl's niece Jenny reads Trudl's diary, she goes to enormous lengths to locate the family and the doll.

* In the climax of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], the scientist Bracewell is told he's actually a robot with a bomb in his chest. To stop the bomb, the Doctor needs to trigger human emotions in him to "prove to the universe" that he isn't just a robot. The Doctor tries appealing to his sense of pain and loss. It fails, mystifying the Doctor. Fortunately his companion steps in and takes the Love approach. It ''works''!
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* This is pretty much the premise of ''Hoshizora Hall wo Oide yo''; an unnamed Master of thirty something instruments took such good care of them and loved them so much that they were imbued with life afterwards. However, they are separated from their master, and use the CDs to reach out and express their love with songs and encouraging messages.