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* Queen Aleena from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' was shown on a robot horse in flashbacks.

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* Queen Aleena from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' was shown on a robot horse in flashbacks. It can be assumed that these horses belong to the Hedgehog Dynasty and were claimed as Robotnik's when he usurped the throne.

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** Lord Robilar in the Greyhawk setting (one of the original characters in the setting, created while Creator/GaryGygax was playtesting the game) rode a mechanical destrier (a magically animated horse automaton).

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** Lord Robilar in the Greyhawk ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' setting (one of the original characters in the setting, created while Creator/GaryGygax was playtesting the game) rode a mechanical destrier (a magically animated horse automaton).automaton).
** [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3rd Edition]] includes "Stone Horses": {{Living Statue}}s that serve whoever speaks their command word. They have the game stats of heavy horses and the DamageReduction of stone.



** Not to mention the Stone Horse items in the 3rd edition Dungeon Masters Guide.
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SubTrope to MechanicalAnimals.

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* ''Fanfic/BetterLivingThroughScienceAndPonies'': Everyone in the Aperture Science Enrichment Center that was teleported to Equestria was physically changed to have an equine-like form, including robots like [=GLaDOS=], ATLAS, and P-body.
* ''Fanfic/TheIronHorseEverythingsBetterWithRobots'' centers around a robot pony named Turing Test.



* In the ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' series, the artificial horses are built in much of the same manner as their human counterparts, and consist largelly of tissues similar to organic ones, operated by a control unit in their skull. Like all animals in the Delos parks, they are of a lower intelligence than the humanoid hosts. They exhibit typical horse-like behaviour, but don't seem vulnerable to the simulated ammunition ("simunition") used by park guests and the parks' host characters.

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* In the ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' series, the artificial horses are built in much of the same manner as their human counterparts, and consist largelly largely of tissues similar to organic ones, operated by a control unit in their skull. Like all animals in the Delos parks, they are of a lower intelligence than the humanoid hosts. They exhibit typical horse-like behaviour, but don't seem vulnerable to the simulated ammunition ("simunition") used by park guests and the parks' host characters.


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* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has a mechanical horse that sometimes appears in the background of the Salt Mines stage. This character is a backer reward who was based on the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction character, [[Fanfic/TheIronHorseEverythingsBetterWithRobots Turing Test]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Plankton has a one-eyed robot ''sea''horse in the episode "Plankton Retires"
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* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'' adapts the namesake game, including the various [=DLCs=] for the game, such as "The Champions' Ballad". At the end of it, Link fights Monk Maz Koshia, and earns the Master Cycle Zero, which just as in canon, is unicorn-shaped. [[spoiler: Except this time, there's also Divine Beast Vah Eponia, named for Link's loyal horse throughout the ages, and the Divine Beast of nature which is also shaped like a massive horse. Monk Maz Koshia serves as its pilot in place of Link by whom the beast is meant to be piloted.]]
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* One of the early projects of ''automobile'', back in the 1800s, included a ''papier-mâché'' wheeled horse with engine inside. The idea was to make it less scary to other horses (and some of the more conservative folks as well). [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686_1657662,00.html Here's]] some proof. Seriously... That particular early automobile ''was actually named and marketed as the'' [[AlliterativeName "Horsey]] [[PunnyName Horseless"]]!

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* One of the early projects of ''automobile'', back in the 1800s, included a ''papier-mâché'' wheeled horse with engine inside. The idea was to make it less scary to other horses (and some of the more conservative folks as well). [[http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1657686_1657662,00.html [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsey_Horseless Here's]] some proof. Seriously... That particular early automobile ''was actually named and marketed as the'' [[AlliterativeName "Horsey]] [[PunnyName Horseless"]]!
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' ''Animation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.
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* In''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.

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* In''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' In ''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.
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* In the little-known ''Hugo the Hippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.

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* In the little-known ''Hugo the Hippo'' In''WesternAnimation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.
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* Parodied in ''Series/HomeMovieThePrincessBride'' for Creator/DavidOyelowo's turn as Humperdinck, which has him for the scene where he rides up on horseback to send Westley to the Pit of Despair. Except instead of a horse, Oyelowo rides up in a golf cart, and exits stage left by putting the golf cart in reverse and backing out of frame.
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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Members of the SupernaturalElite can make highbeasts, which are essentially magic-powered moving statues looking like [[{{Pegasus}} winged horses]]. Some people give them the form of the winged version of another ridable animal, making HorseOfADifferentColor quite common.

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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Members of the SupernaturalElite can make highbeasts, which are essentially magic-powered moving statues looking that look like [[{{Pegasus}} winged horses]]. Some people give them the form of the winged version of another ridable animal, making HorseOfADifferentColor quite common.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Slugterra'' has Mecha Beasts, which come in all sorts of animal forms, including horses.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Slugterra'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'' has Mecha Beasts, which come in all sorts of animal forms, including horses.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Slugterra'' has Mecha Beasts, which come in all sorts of animal forms, including horses.
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*** That one character reasons that, since (some) golems ''can'' talk (it partially has to do with how they're "built"), then... why can't a golem horse? So he asks one what it wants. And gets an answer: permission to actually '''act''' like a horse, including time to just run around, and occasionally roll around in fields.
--->"... 'Give me Livery, or Give Me Death'."
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* Speaking of the Mechanicus, in 2020 they received a fully playable example of this trope in the form of the Serberys Cavalry, available in two flavours: the [[SwordAndGun Serberys Raiders]] and their [[ArmedLegs clawed]] robot horses; and the [[GunsAkimbo Serberys Sulphurhounds]], who are more partial to [[BreathWeapon fire-breathing]] robot ''greyhounds''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' features Cyborg riding a mechanical horse while "The Night Begins to Shine" is playing, because of ''Awesome/TeenTitansGo''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' features Cyborg riding a mechanical horse while "The Night Begins to Shine" is playing, because of ''Awesome/TeenTitansGo''.playing.
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* Queen Alina from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' was shown on a robot horse in flashbacks.

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* Queen Alina Aleena from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' was shown on a robot horse in flashbacks.
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* "The Quest for Saint Aquin," a 1951 short story by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass," which happened to be an atheist.

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* "The Quest for Saint Aquin," a 1951 short story by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass," "robass" ("robot [[StubbornMule ass]]") which happened to be an atheist.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In one of the twists in "31st Century Fox", not only are the fox and the dogs robotic, but so are the horses that the fox hunters ride on; the horses even work as helicopters and can validate parking.
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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Members of the SupernaturalElite can make highbeasts, which are essentially magic-powered moving statues looking like [[{{Pegasus}} winged horses]]. Some people give them the form of the winged version of another ridable animal, making HorseOfADifferentColor quite common.
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* In the second episode of StationArcadia, Noah rides a diesel powered horse through a war zone too toxic for live horses.

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* In the second episode of StationArcadia, Podcast/StationArcadia, Noah rides a diesel powered horse through a war zone too toxic for live horses.
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Since all the machines are built to look like animals, there's naturally a machine horse, called a Strider. Aloy can tame them and use them as mounts once she figures out how to hack machines.

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* Creator/StephenKing's Dark Tower novel ''DarkTower/WolvesOfTheCalla". The "wolves" that kidnap children from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis every generation appear as wolf-masked riders, but are actually robots mounted on mechanical horses.

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* Creator/StephenKing's Dark Tower ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' novel ''DarkTower/WolvesOfTheCalla".''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla". The "wolves" that kidnap children from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis every generation appear as wolf-masked riders, but are actually robots mounted on mechanical horses.


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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': Xayide created hollow metal horses that she could control with her mind. Bastian, due to Auryn, could also control these horses and rode one away from a battle until it shattered from overuse.
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** Pratchett touched on the subject again in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/MakingMoney''. The horses are golems -- clay automatons -- and the only one to ride them notes just how uncomfortable a terra cotta saddle is. And don't ask about the Igor horses built from spare parts...

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** Pratchett touched on the subject again in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/MakingMoney''.''Literature/MakingMoney''. The horses are golems -- clay automatons -- and the only one to ride them notes just how uncomfortable a terra cotta saddle is. And don't ask about the Igor horses built from spare parts...
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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Available in Gun-Gale Online as a mount, but are notorious for being more temperamental than actual horses. To the point where players who can ride in real life can't master them.

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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Available in Gun-Gale Online as a mount, Among ''Gun-Gale Online''[='=]s in-game vehicles are robotic horses. In an amusing [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of AutomatonHorses, they are fully robotic, but are notorious for being more temperamental than actual horses. To horses, to the point where players who can ride in real life can't master them.get them to listen.



* "The Horse that Jack" built was a comic strip in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' back in TheForties about a boy and the robot horse he had built. Made more amazing by the fact that the story was set in [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy the middle ages]].

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* "The Horse that Jack" built Jack Built" was a comic strip in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' back in TheForties about a boy and the robot horse he had built. Made more amazing by the fact that the story was set in [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy the middle ages]].



* Obviously drawing on such tales Chaucer in the [[Literature/TheCanterburyTales "The Squire's Tale]] told a very similar steed being gifted to UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan alongside other wondrous items. Yes you read that right.

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* Obviously drawing on such tales Chaucer in the [[Literature/TheCanterburyTales "The Squire's Tale]] Tale"]] told a very similar steed being gifted to UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan alongside other wondrous items. Yes you read that right.
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* In ''Webcomic/MerchantBand'', Amira has full control of an Orb Stallion which is essentially a {{Magitek}} horse with an orb for a head.
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* In ''LightNovel/InfiniteDendrogram'' there are a series of mechanical steeds known as Prism Steeds, created by an ancient civilization. While there are replicas in the modern age, the original series are both rare and valuable enough that a player could be murdered over it.

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