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12->''"The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.... In the event that the Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice."''
13-->-- '''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''VideoGame/Portal1''
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15Take an otherwise uninteresting object, and have the other characters (or at least one character) [[SurrogateSoliloquy interact with it]] as if it is a real character, and you have a Companion Cube. Sometimes, the object blurs the line between real and imaginary by apparently doing things which would be hard for an inanimate object to do or telling people things they shouldn't have been able to already know, but the defining characteristic is that we the audience never, ever see it move of its own volition on camera, even if it clearly must've done something.
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17For some reason, Companion Cubes [[VideogameCaringPotential tend to become very popular]] [[RobotGirl with the audience]]. Maybe because the idea of having an inanimate object being a character is funny. Or maybe because it's easy to project the best traits you can think of onto the object. Or because you can [[TheRedStapler make yourself a replica at home]]...
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19Dolls and stuffed animals, especially teddy bears, are common examples, probably because they're humanoid, friendly looking, and meant to be bonded with. Typically the owner will treat it as their [[TheConfidant Confidant]]. {{Security Blanket}}s are also common in this regard. This can be used to reinforce a character's [[TheIngenue childlike innocence]] (if they're meant to be sympathetic) or make them look [[PsychopathicManchild dangerously immature]] (if otherwise). Beware if they start ConsultingMisterPuppet!
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21If a character gives a weapon this treatment, [[ICallItVera expect it to have a name]].
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23This can go [[CargoShip wrong]] in fandom. [[RuleThirtyFour Horribly, horribly wrong.]]
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25As a frightening and interesting aside, it has been demonstrated in US Army experiments that people kept in isolation have a tendency to form attachments to inanimate objects (this is why this tends to show up in SpeculativeFiction a lot, where the crew personifies their starships and other objects). Sweet dreams!
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27If an inanimate object ''does'' move onscreen, it slides from this trope to ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or MagicRealism in general. (Unless it's designed to move independently, like a Roomba or something.)
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29The 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.
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32[[index]]
33* CompanionCube/AnimeAndManga
34* CompanionCube/LiveActionTV
35* CompanionCube/VideoGames
36* CompanionCube/WesternAnimation
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40[[folder:Advertising]]
41* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsQXQGaasUg One IKEA commercial]] by Creator/SpikeJonze makes fun of the phenomenon by using camera angles and editing to make it appear like a lamp is being cruelly abandoned. Appropriately, the trope is lampshaded when a spokesman chastises the audience for feeling sorry for an inanimate object.
42* Advertising/{{GEICO}}'s "money you saved from using GEICO", which is a stack of money with eyes. They have been known to do things off camera like texting.
43* One commercial for the Advertising/SeattleMariners baseball team showed designated hitter Edgar Martinez treating his bat this way, hanging out with it in the park, taking it for car rides (buckling it into the passenger seat), and even bringing it to a massage parlor. Unfortunately, tragedy struck when the bat broke. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he found another bat that he liked just as much.]]
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47* A literal version happens in Season 3 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' when Kalo takes on the form of a Rubix Cube to replace the one belonging to Careful S., after events he was directly involved in led to it breaking.
48%%* ''Kuai Le Xin Xin'': We have Duo Duo the bat and her pink stuffed elephant named "Da Xiang" [[ADogNamedDog (the Mandarin Chinese name for Elephant)]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like a real person?)
49* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Wonky owns a little wooden doll he used to play with and talk to as a kid. This doll was the closest thing he had to a friend as a kid, as all the other wolves perceived him as a bully and ran away whenever he appeared... that is, until Wolffy saw the doll with its head broken from Wonky accidentally dropping it and decided to fix it.
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53* Cheeks, The Toy Wonder, ComicBook/AmbushBug's trusty young ward is... a stuffed animal. Even when turned into an OMAC, all he does is sit there. This is made especially clear when he's cast in the role of "Sgt. Cheeks, Frontline Medic". Yeah, that was a dark time for everyone involved.
54* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
55** The Ventriloquist, a.k.a. Arnold Wesker is a villain whose multiple personality disorder led him to carry around an aggressive mafia-esque dummy named Scarface -- which became the dominant personality of the duo, abusing Wesker and ordering him around. This made Wesker a rather tragic villain, because his core personality is mild-mannered and doesn't like what Scarface is doing or the abuse Scarface heaps on him, but cannot seem to break with the idea that he and Scarface are separate individuals. In one instance, Wesker actually shoots Scarface while the dummy is still on his hand, then proceeds to not notice that his hand is bleeding. At one point, when the Scarface doll is destroyed, Wesker uses a sock puppet that he called Socko in his therapy. Socko is a lot nicer.\
56The second Ventriloquist is much the same, except we're told ''why'' she had a mental breakdown and took over Wesker's schtick. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Unless]], of course, Scarface really is the [[DemonicDummy combined ghosts]] of all the murderers hanged on the gallows he was carved from.
57** The third incarnation of [[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface]] is in love with Helena, a cheerful blonde... mannequin. In his first appearance there's a creepy yet humorous moment where he says that he would have gone insane if he hadn't met her. Batman seems sympathetic by the second time they met: he pulled strings so Clayface could keep Helena in his cell at Arkham. By then, though, the spark in their relationship is gone and Clayface kinda wants a divorce.
58* ''ComicBook/TheBeano'''s strip ''Number 13'' ran a story in which Frankie obtained a pet brick. After taking it to a vet and for a run on a lead, he demonstrates how obedient it is by telling it to "stay" and walking away. Finally, the brick is accidentally incorporated into a wall [[spoiler:and destroys the wall by following Frankie when he calls it, [[RuleOfFunny further demonstrating]] how obedient it is]].
59* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' has the same one that every comic book character has: his text boxes. The differences are 1. Deadpool's are yellow and 2. Deadpool often references, and occasionally speaks to these boxes as though they were not, by default, a part of him. This has further evolved -- there are now two differently colored text boxes which converse with Deadpool. And occasionally refuse to speak to him.
60* An obscure British comics hero named ''Dolman'' fought crime using remote controlled mechanical puppets. The puppets had no minds or autonomy of their own whatsoever, but Dolman would frequently use his ventriloquism skills to throw his voice and hold conversations with them, ''even when no-one else was present''.
61%%* The Doomguy in the ''ComicBook/{{Doom}}'' comic treats his {{BFG}}-9000 as a Companion Cube. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way?)
62* Mellow Mister Monkey from ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''. Emp claims that he protects her from bad dreams.
63%%* World manga ''Manga/HollowFields'' has Lucy's stuffed dinosaur (later converted into a grappling hook) Dino. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like it's alive?)
64* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In his childhood, Bruce had a stuffed doll which served as a makeshift guardian (between his abusive dad and an abusive nanny, and burgeoning D.I.D., there wasn't a lot of love in the Banner household). Years later, Bruce's mind uses an anthropomorphization of the doll as a guardian entity.
65* Shmee, the creepy teddy bear carried by perpetual victim Squee in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac''. Both Johnny and Squee refer to the toy speaking to them, and the things it tells them are rather disturbing (enough to get Johnny to take a knife to the toy at one point). In the follow up comic, there is a dream sequence where Shmee reveals that he is Squee's own personal trauma sponge, possibly an analog to the thing behind Johnny's wall, but this is open for interpretation since this ''is'' AllJustADream, OrWasItADream
66* Nooby from ''ComicBook/PocketGod'' has a coconut with a smiley face carved onto it [[ShoutOut named]] [[Film/CastAway Wilson]]. Wilson is Nooby's most loyal friend and is sometimes seen [[FunnyBackgroundEvent somewhere in the background]].
67* Marv has his colt 45, which he names [[ICallItVera Gladys]], in ''ComicBook/SinCity''. When "she" first appears, Marv talks to her and we get a full backstory about the gun.
68* One of Bill Maudlin's most famous ''Up Front'' cartoons is of a cavalry sergeant about to mercy kill his mount... a jeep with a broken axle.
69* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain the Looter thinks that the meteor that gave him his powers is alive and can talk to him. According to Spidey, he even watches TV with it.
70* In ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem briefly but memorably made use of the "wise and terrible" Chair Leg of Truth while interviewing Fred Christ (with extreme prejudice). The Chair Leg was quite a fan favorite.
71%%** Also, Bucky and his little toy bear, Smacky. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does he treat it like it's alive?)
72* In the Danish comic ''ComicBook/{{Valhalla}}'', Thor has a tendency to treat {{Mjollnir}} as a pet rather than a weapon; this is most evident in the second album, when the hammer is stolen by Thrym, and Thor is close to panic because the hammer "isn't used to being alone." Of course, Mjollnir is a magical hammer, and on one or two occasions does display something resembling sentience (like when Thor tries to throw it at the Fenris Wolf, and the hammer turns around in mid-air and flies back to Thor rather than face the open jaws of the wolf).
73* Lucille from ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' is this for [[NightmareFetishist Negan]]. A baseball bat covered in barbed wire that Negan enjoys talking to about killing people while being [[CargoShip turned on]] by the senseless death she causes. However, when Carl damages his Lucille, Negan [[DisproportionateRetribution declares war with him]] just to avenge her. This is justified. [[spoiler:He named it after his deceased wife.]]
74%%* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]]'s bestie George takes her laptop with her literally everywhere and is quite upset, even if she understands the reasoning, when the thing is confiscated after it's been fused with [[ComicBook/NewGods Apokoliptian]] tech. (Does she treat it like an actual sentient being or is she just attached to it? If the former, elaborate, and if the latter, that is not this trope and the example should be deleted.)
75* ''ComicBook/XStatix'''s El Guapo is a mutant with the power to telekinetically control his skateboard. But when nobody else is around, he talks to it and it appears to move of its own volition; at one point they get into an argument and the board beats him. Whether the board is actually semi-sentient or he's a lunatic and doing it himself is never established.
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79* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' has an odd example: Sarge's stomach. When it's growling, Sarge often treats this as a verbal demand for food, sometimes talking to it as if it were his best buddy and sometimes arguing with it.
80* In ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Reynelda (a headless doll) serves as this for Ronald-Ann. She speaks on rare occasions, such as after Ronald-Ann's conversation with Trump!Bill and during a tea party in ''Outland''.
81* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
82** Hobbes, depending on your interpretation. Aside from Calvin, the characters treat Hobbes as inanimate (though Susie has occasionally interacted with Hobbes similar to how Calvin does). When Calvin's mom laundered Hobbes, he stumbled around a bit after coming out of the drier. The creator of the strip, Creator/BillWatterson, has stated that he does not believe that Hobbes is either truly alive ''or'' a Companion Cube -- and as there is no WordOfGod saying otherwise, it seems that Hobbes's Companion Cube status is entirely dependent on the reader of the comics.
83** On occasion, Susie treats Mr. Bun, who is always depicted as a stuffed rabbit, as real. And Hobbes is at one point disturbed by the fact that Mr. Bun appears to be in a coma. Susie plays with toys like a normal child -- Calvin brings the nature of reality in the comic into question. (Not an exaggeration. WordOfGod states that there will never be an official explanation regarding Hobbes's nature.)
84** Calvin's evil bicycle has ambushed and assaulted him several times, but like with Hobbes, it's ambiguous whether it's actually alive or not.
85* In one ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' SundayStrip, a woman is fondling a baby that looks like a loaf of bread, and Dogbert points out that it actually is a loaf of bread. She finds her actual baby in the grocery bag, but then admits that she bonded with the bread.
86-->'''Dogbert:''' Remind me not to eat hoagies at your house.
87* Quincy from ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', despite being a live iguana, fits this trope perfectly. When Jason uses Quincy (and some old clothes) as part of a "Lone Iguana" persona, the effect is that of a guest character.
88* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' treats his teddy bear, Pooky, as if he were a real person.
89* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'''s Satchel has taken time to name just about everything in the apartment, though usually Mr. Hands (his wristwatch) and Mr. Bones (chewtoy) appear most often.
90* The brick in ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' is, at times, presented as a character with a mind of its own; this is not unexpected in such a surreal series.
91* Madariaga, Enriqueta's teddy bear from ''ComicStrip/{{Macanudo}}''. Even Fellini, her cat, talks to him as if the toy was a sentient being.
92* ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'': Mafalda often makes sarcastic comments to her terrestrial globe, once even tucking it in bed and acting as if it's sick. It's a tad deeper than most examples, seeing as she talks to it as a stand in for the world. It can get quite {{Anvilicious}} sometimes, such as in the "sick" example. The poor thing has frequent sharp pains in its democracy.
93* In one storyline of ''ComicStrip/MyCage'', Norm, the main character, spends a week out sick, but no one notices, as his secretary places a potted plant with a face and the word "Norm" drawn on the pot at his desk instead. The plant later shows up as a member of the company's softball team.
94* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
95** 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".)
96** Sally regularly has conversations with the school building (or at least one wall of it). Eventually, the wall begins to produce [[SpeechBubble thought balloons]] expressing opinions and making observations on life and its philosophical approach to wall-ness, while occasionally dropping bricks on the heads of people he doesn't like. When the building collapses, Sally interprets this as the school "committing suicide."
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100* One ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic has Applejack comment that accidentally tearing her hat feels like injuring a close friend.
101* 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''.
102* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Asuka treats her Unit 02 as if it was alive and talks to it. After discovering that [[spoiler:their robots really ''are'' alive and their mother's spirits are locked within]], Asuka realizes [[spoiler:that is the reason her synch rose and her robot went berserker when she talked to it]]. From that point onward, Shinji and Asuka start to talk to their robots more often.
103* In ''Fanfic/BloodAndRevolution'', Kenshin refers to his sword Mamosei as "he" and is a little protective.
104%%* In ''Fanfic/{{Brainbent}}'', the Fucking Ugly Stuffed Bee (aka FUSB) gets passed around to various people, with Sollux being the current holder. Also has undergone a bit of {{Defictionalization}} since several real life people have made their own. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how do they treat it like it's sentient?)
105* ''Fanfic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': Before her CharacterDevelopment, Astrid seems to trust no one but her beloved axe.
106* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/TheEggTeam'' with Teddy's Sonic plush that he obtains early on. He thinks it's cute, and makes it watch him practice his aim while he's recovering in the basement.
107* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Grouchy, being jealous of Empath having the privilege of marrying Smurfette and enjoying intimacy with her, creates for himself a love doll named Angel that he can enjoy himself with. Nobody else except Papa Smurf knows about it, though, until the doll is somehow given life.
108* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': Before starting her B-1C assignment, Asuka says goodbye to her Unit 02, reassuring it that "It will be only for a little while".
109* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' Harry doesn't want an owl, because of his past traumatic experience with pets, namely that [[EpicFail his Pet Rock died]]. [[spoiler:It turns out that ''Dumbledore killed it because of a prophecy''. And he could never even figure out why this was important.]]
110%%* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'' has a downplayed example with [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Gamzee]] and the scalemate Terezi gave him as well as the FUSB (a shout out to {{Fanfic/Brainbent}}, above). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how does he treat it like it's alive?)
111* ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'': Kyon has his PDA, which can learn. He calls it [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Skynet]] and talks to it more than once.
112* ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'':
113** "The Log", Sasuke's invincible rival. In fact, the only creature who might have a shot at beating him is Clucky... who is a chicken.
114** The "One-Foot-Tall Brick Wall", which is Naruto's response to The Log, though not a bitter rival so much as an occasional cameo sidekick and a way to keep Konohamaru and his tag-along buddies out of the story as much as possible.
115%%** Kakashi has his milk carton from time to time. "Heh-heh... moo." (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does he treat it like it's sentient?)
116%%* In ''Fanfic/TheNewRetcons'', Roary the stuffed tiger becomes this to Meredith Patterson. (Roary is also a ShoutOut to Hobbes of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.) (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like it's alive?)
117%%* In ''Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth'', we have Toey the toe ring, [=BreadLegs=], and [=RollFeet=]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; whom are they companions to, and in what way do they treat them like they're sentient?)
118* Matthew's lamp is ''Fanfic/PartRightHalfWrongAThirdCrazy''. It is predictably an EnsembleDarkhorse, and supposedly gives terrible advice. However, given Matthew's status as both TheStoner and the local {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, this may or may not be justified.
119* In ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'', Princess Luna is rather attached to an antique abacus; in one chapter, her maid Sundance claims that Luna made pajamas for it and reads it bedtime stories. It became popular for a while for writers of other fanfics, especially (but not limited to) more light-hearted ones, to depict Luna with an abacus companion.
120* ''Fanfic/ARabbitAmongWolves'': Yuma has a bizarre fixation with the vending machine located in the White Fang building, which he calls "Vendi-chan". He goes into hysterics when Cinder destroys it.
121* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11235609/chapters/25109694 Shattered Stars]]'', [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Jaune]] has a tendency to talk to machines he's working on out loud (as opposed to his usual method of mentally talking to machines, since he's a {{Technopath}}), which he says was a habit he picked up during his childhood on [[CoolStarship the Beacon]], since there weren't many other children around. This ranges from singing lullabies to his ship, calling an electronic lock "sexy",[[note]]To the confusion of Yang, who thinks he's coming on to her[[/note]] and saying "Good morning, beautiful, how'd you sleep?" to the Beacon when he wakes up... forgetting that he's now sharing a room with Pyrrha...
122* Aside from Shinji himself, the first recurring characters in ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' are the four miniatures with whom Shinji has several character-building conversations (a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Space Marine Captain]], an [[ManipulativeBastard Eldar Farseer]], an [[BloodKnight Ork Warboss]], and a [[EvilMentor Chaos Lord]]). Then they develop their own personalities against Shinji's will. Then he starts having conversations with them entirely in his mind. Then they develop their own independent existences to the point where other characters have conversations with them (granted, those characters are Rei and Kaworu, who aren't exactly normal to begin with).
123* In ''Fanfic/TimeFixersNicktoonsOfTheFuture'', [=SpongeBob's=] youngest son has his own jellyfish doll that he calls Mr. Jelly. Jimmy Neutron's son has his own teddy bear called Edwin Huggles.
124* In ''Fanfic/TSATheAmazingSpiderMan'', Spider-Man occasionally talks with Carl the gargoyle. Based on Bruce from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.
125* In ''Fanfic/TheWitchOfTheEverfree'', if Sunset's narration is anything to go by, [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel Bloomberg]] wasn't the only tree Applejack named.
126-->I groaned and leaned against an apple tree. It was probably named Rupert or Jackanape or something like that.
127* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheWrathOfAvelina'', the titular Avelina has a journal whom she named Diana, and whom she talks (writes) to like she's a real person.
128%%* Kyouko, being TheDitz, treats a Magic 8-Ball this way in ''Fanfic/YouGotHaruhiRolled''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; ''how'' does she treat it like it's alive?)
129* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
130** Mako Tsunami plans to get married to the ocean. They have a falling out after that but eventually make up. Somehow.
131** Ishizu has a giant rock. It's the only one who understands her.
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135* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'', Tim has his Lamb Lamb, which the Boss Baby makes fun of. The Boss Baby then threatens Tim through his Lamb Lamb, and their fighting eventually results in Lamb Lamb being badly ripped. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Boss Baby presents Tim with a repaired Lamb Lamb.]]
136* Jonathan's backpack gets this treatment in the first ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''. [[spoiler:It is even a groomsman at Jonathan's wedding during the montage at the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2''.]]
137* Scrat's acorn gets this treatment in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' movie. When he drops it in favor of Scratte, it "sings" a sad ballad as if it has just been dumped. [[spoiler:At the end, Scrat leaves Scratte and runs back to his beloved nut.]]
138* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': Emmett, who starts the film living alone without any real friends, has a potted plant called "Planty", who he considers his roommate.
139* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', Skipper marries a bobblehead doll named Lola.
140%%** The film parodies ''Cast Away'''s Wilson with "Spalding", a Spalding brand basketball. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; example descriptions have to stand on their own, not direct the reader to a different example)
141* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', B.O.B., a BlobMonster, treats a plate of Jello as if it was sentient, and even flirts with it.
142* In ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'', crazed hunter Shaw has named his shotgun "Lorraine", sings to it, and even tucks it in at night.
143* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', Ray the firefly has fallen in love with the Evening Star, which he calls Evangeline.
144* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite and the Star Stealer'' has the Dark Princess, who dotes on and talks to a large green gemstone like a beloved pet, even yelling at it for laying on the bed. [[spoiler:Though this doesn't stop her from throwing it into the furnace to give her starship a bit more fuel.]]
145* At the start of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', the main character, a pet chameleon, treats the toys, fake palm, and dead bug in his cage as his friends and fellow actors.
146* Penny from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' carries her teddy bear, Teddy, everywhere with her and treats it like her own child. [[spoiler:Madame Medusa eventually holds the bear hostage when she sends Penny to get the Devil's Eye diamond from the grotto it's hidden in, telling her she'd better find the diamond or she'll never get the teddy back. It works.]]
147* In the {{Novelization}} of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei refers to her stuffed dog, Wilfred, as her best buddy and mentions that he always make her feel better.
148* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', Carl is fastidious in preserving his house the way it was when his wife Ellie was alive, and sometimes even speaks to it as if it was her. This isn't really treated like a sign of serious psychological problems, but does demonstrate that he's failed to move on after her death.
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152* Otto, the automatic pilot -- who happens to be an inflatable doll -- in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' However, Otto seems to be capable of some independent action.
153* ''[[Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked]]'' references ''Film/CastAway'', where Zoe has an entire collection of sports balls with drawn faces on them which she talks to as her companions aboard the desert island.
154* In ''Film/AreWeThereYet'', Kevin's Galactoman figure is his single most prized companion and he won't leave the car without it after the car catches fire [[spoiler:because he keeps his asthma inhaler in the figure's leg]]. Nick's bobblehead Satch is also a companion cube, but he acts as more of a conscience.
155* ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'': The Battletruck's driver considers the huge rig his baby. [[spoiler:It [[OffingTheAnnoyance gets him killed]] when he tries to warn Straker that they are pushing the engine too hard in the final chase.]]
156* ''Film/BigDriver'': Even before her breakdown, Tess is in the habit of talking to her GPS, whom she has nicknamed "Tom". After her breakdown, she hallucinates that Tom is talking back to her. Tom is something of a DeadpanSnarker.
157%%* ''Film/BillyMadison'': "Stop looking at me, Swan!" (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
158* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. Arch villain Hedley Lamarr has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXckKwBRb0 small blue rubber frog]].
159-->'''Hedley Lamarr:''' Daddy loves Froggy. Froggy love Daddy?\
160''[squeak squeak]''\
161'''Hedley Lamarr:''' Aaaaaahhh... ribbit... ribbit... ribbit...
162* In ''Film/CastAway'', the stranded Creator/TomHanks finds a Wilson volleyball and draws a face on it to give himself a companion, which he calls "Wilson". The ball was inspired by the screenwriter's experience stranding himself on a beach and discovering a volleyball that washed ashore. Wilson is basically the only [[SurrogateSoliloquy justification for the main character's dialogue]] through most of the film. Lines were even written in the script for it, so Hanks would know exactly how to play those scenes.
163* Darkly subverted in ''Film/ChildsPlay''. Nobody but Andy believes that Chucky the doll is alive... at first.
164* In ''Film/AFaceInTheCrowd'', Lonesome Rhodes's "Mama guitar" is his inseparable companion (or so he says). It becomes heavily exploited as his trademark prop.
165* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', Gunnery Sgt. Hartman orders all of the Marines to personify [[ICallItVera their rifles with a girl's name]]. The rifle creed is "My rifle is my best friend. It is my life." Pvt. Lawrence/Pyle takes this a little too far and is later seen whispering to it like a lover... [[spoiler:before he snaps and kills the Gunny and himself]].
166* ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'', Memphis treats one of the cars he's stealing (a make and model he has a previous history with, and which has the reputation of being finicky) as a {{Tsundere}} woman, addressing her as "Eleanor".
167* In the 2007 film ''Film/IAmLegend'', Robert Neville sets up several department-store mannequins around the video-rental shop and talks to them as if they were people to maintain some semblance of human interaction. As a sign of his degrading sanity, he begins begging a mannequin to answer him back. [[spoiler:Then the zombie/vampires start moving them about to mess with him.]]
168-->'''Robert:''' Fred, if you're real, you'd better tell me right now! ''If you're real, you'd better tell me '''right now'''! [gunshots] '''...Damn it, Fred! DAMN IT!'''''
169* Teng-piao, the hero of the kung fu film ''Film/IronChainFighter'', develops this sort of affection towards his, uh, iron chain. It's the same chain that bound him in prison for 15 years after he was made TheScapegoat, and upon escaping, he takes the chain along as his new weapon on a quest for revenge. He even talks to it while all alone at one point.
170-->'''Teng-piao:''' Oh iron chain, when can I have my long-awaited revenge? You have spend the past 15 years by my side in prison, and I will prove my innocence by using you to strangle the man who wronged me all those years ago. You are my only friend now...
171%%* In the Franchise/JamesBond movie ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', cellist [[BondGirl Kara Milovy]]'s prized instrument is almost a character itself. When Bond and Kara leave Czechoslovakia, he initially doesn't want her to bring the cello since lugging it around would be a waste of time and space, but she insists. But when the pair have to ditch their car, the cello comes in handy in the film's most memorable scene, where Bond and Kara enter Austria by sledding through the mountains in the cello case while being chased by guards. The cello even takes a bullet, and the hole is [[BrickJoke still there]] when Kara performs at the end of the movie. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does any character actually treat it like it's really sentient? If not, it's not this trope.)
172%%-->'''Bond:''' ''[sledding past an Austrian guard post]'' We have nothing to declare!\
173'''Kara:''' Just a cello! ''[echoes in the background]''
174* Adele from ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}'' keeps a cactus named "Lucy" in her purse and talks to it. When it's destroyed, she gets another one and names it.
175* ''Film/TheKnowledge'': Lillian talks to her crinoline lady on the mantelpiece, instead of to her husband.
176%%** DJ's Pillow Person and Mr. Woodchuck as well. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
177* The 2007 film ''Film/LarsAndTheRealGirl'' is about a man who treats a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDoll RealDoll]] as a real woman.
178* ''Film/TheMaidenHeist'', being about three art museum security guards who have over the years fallen in love with one particular art piece each, brings this trope to mind.
179* A rather sad example in ''Film/{{May}}''. May's only friend is a china doll called Suzy, in a little glass display case. She talks to Suzy, gets advice from Suzy, tries to surprise Suzy when she gets contacts to fix her lazy eye... As the movie goes on and the already unstable May's attempts to find a real friend fail miserably, she starts to genuinely think that Suzy is actually alive, and starts to hate her sometimes, blaming Suzy for her own social mishaps. Eventually May, otherwise completely alone again, decides to make it up with Suzy and be best friends again... only for Suzy to get accidentally broken by some blind kids the next day.
180* ''Film/MirrorMask'':
181** ''The Really Useful Book'' for Helena. Whether it's actually alive or not is left a little bit vague, but [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it's really useful]].
182** There's also Valentine's [[CoolAirship flying]] tower, with which he apparently had an argument.
183* In the film ''Film/MrMagoriumsWonderEmporium'', Molly Mahoney is presented with a literal block of polished wood that her [[EccentricMentor mysterious, eccentric employer]] calls the "Congreve Cube", which he indicates is extremely significant and powerful, although we're not sure how seriously to take anything he says. In at least one scene, we see her (skeptically) trying to talk to it as though it could understand her. It may or may not be a MagicFeather.
184* The Bowler's ball in ''Film/MysteryMen'' not only serves as a focus for her power, but also provides curmudgeonly advice that only she can hear and occasionally checks corners for her... or maybe she's insane.
185* ''Film/Oblivion2013'': Harper's Bubble Ship has a bobble-head figurine glued to the instrument panel that Jack calls "Bob" and occasionally talks to. He makes a point of gluing it to his [[spoiler:fellow clone's]] replacement Bubble Ship's dashboard after his first one gets wrecked.
186* In ''Film/TheOmegaMan'', an earlier adaptation of ''Literature/IAmLegend'', Creator/CharltonHeston speaks to mannequins as well.
187* In ''Film/ThePinkPanther1963'', a really drunk princess talks with the tiger carpet on which she's lying.
188* ''Film/PleaseTurnOver'': In ''Naked Revolt'', Aunt Una's only friend is the skeleton in Dr. Gay's office, who she calls "Boney".
189* In ''Film/TheProfessional'', Léon's only friend has been a small houseplant, which he carefully waters with a squirt bottle and sets outside his windowsill each day. He says he likes the plant because it has "no roots", like him.
190* ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'': Because it's the first item they obtain, the servants keep the toilet with them for the rest of the hunt as a mascot/good luck charm, naming it "Mont Clair". They are extremely upset when Mildred, Georgie, and Selsome steal it, and when it falls out the car and smashes, Babbette screams, "They killed Mont Clair!".
191* Mr. Universe and his [=LoveBot=] companion, Lenore, from ''Film/Serenity2005''.
192%%* The green M&M plushie becomes this for Grouchy in ''Film/TheSmurfs''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does he treat it like it's alive?)
193* In the first [[TheStinger stinger]] for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', [[spoiler:Robotnik, stranded on the Mushroom Planet, has made himself a new "Agent Stone" to keep him company/boss around... by taking a [[VisualPun literal stone]], carving it into the likeness of the real one, and throwing it around to go on [[{{Pun}} "Rock-connaissance"]]]].
194%%* The dancing hula girl toy is the good luck charm of the ''Film/SpaceCowboys''. Shown at the beginning during the failed test flight, then in a church, and finally in the shuttle. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does anyone actually treat it like it's alive?)
195* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'': After most of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cast left Tune World, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny made several dummies to stand in for his friends.
196-->'''[[UsefulNotes/LeBronJames LeBron]]:''' How long have you been alone here?\
197'''Bugs:''' Alone? You're never alone when you've got friends like mine, doc. Ain't that right, [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]?\
198'''[=LeBron=]:''' Uh... that's just a pile of pumpkins.\
199'''Bugs:''' ''[gasp]'' Porky, did you hear what he just called you?!
200* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', [[Characters/StarWarsKyloRen Kylo Ren]] keeps the cremated helmet of his hero [[spoiler:and grandfather]] Darth Vader on display in his quarters, speaking to it for guidance.
201%%* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'':
202%%** Harold Crick's wristwatch. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how does he treat it like it's alive?)
203%%** The guitars are also treated this way.
204* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney Todd and his razors, as demonstrated in the song "My Friends" -- just about the only Companion Cube trait they don't have is individual names.
205-->''Speak to me, friend\
206Whisper, I'll listen''
207* Jeliza Rose from ''Film/{{Tideland}}'' has a few Barbie doll heads as her only friends and companions.
208* ''Film/{{UHF}}'': Although he doesn't actually converse with it, Stanley has an extreme attachment to his first mop, claiming that they've never been apart. He nearly panics when it's confiscated after he loses his janitorial job, and the scene where he finds it again is shot and scored like a reunion between long-lost loved ones.
209* In 1959's ''The World, the Flesh and the Devil'', with Creator/HarryBelafonte's character acquiring a mannequin and dubbing it "Snodgrass".
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213* The bomber crews in ''Literature/TheBigOne'' name their aircraft (which is TruthInTelevision) and talk to them, believing that the aircraft talk back. It's unclear whether the aircraft are really supposed to be talking back or whether the crews simply imagine they are, with the "aircraft saying" what the crews might expect them to say if they were human. It should be noted that aircraft crews talking to their planes is commonplace and a surprising number of pilots think that their aircraft do respond on some level to that courtesy.
214* In Etgar Keret's short story ''Breaking the Pig'', a boy becomes emotionally attached to his piggy-bank. When the bank gets full, he "sets it free" in the field so he won't have to break it.
215* In Katie Hafner’s novel, ''The Boys,'' the main character’s foster sons are revealed to be [[spoiler:life-sized cardboard cutout figures.]]
216* ''By the Light of the Moon'' by Creator/DeanKoontz has Jilly and her potted plant, Fred. Fred is a stalwart, if silent, companion on whom Jilly practices her stand-up comedy routines.
217* In the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' books by Creator/TamoraPierce, Daja talks to the survival kit she recovers from her family's shipwreck while she's still adrift and later turns it into her mage-kit.
218* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': One Christmas, Susan got Greg a baby doll named Alfredo which he became extremely attached to until he lost the doll (actually, his Dad took him and hid him). So Greg replaced Alfrendo with a grapefruit that he took care of in the same manner for the next three months.
219%%** Manny has the remains of his old knit blanket, which he calls "Tingy" (which was accidentally thrown away by Frank). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he treat it like it's actually alive?)
220* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
221** Any time the question of why Ankh-Morpork doesn't have a king anymore comes up, it's likely that a past monarch's habit of appointing trees, flowerpots, and decapitated bodies as Privy Councilors will be cited as a reason.
222** Of the various troll street gangs from which Brick (from ''Literature/{{Thud}}'') has been excluded, the most abysmally stupid is Tenth Egg Street's Can't-Think-Of-A-Name gang. Allegedly, they consider a lump of concrete on a piece of string to be a gang member.
223** ''Literature/MenAtArms'': When Detritus gets rather carried away in conscripting troops for Carrot's militia, he swears in the mannequin from the Natty Clothing menswear shop.
224%%** [[InstantAIJustAddWater Hex]] the calculating machine has a Teddy Bear after the events in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. Any attempts to remove the teddy bear results in Hex refusing to work. Which leads to the wizards saying that one of the requirements for Hex to work is that it is FTB Enabled, which stands for [[FunWithAcronyms Fluffy Teddy Bear]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does it actually treat the teddy bear like it's sentient?)
225* In ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', Hazel named her oxygen tank "Philip", and treats "him" like an annoying pet.
226* [[HearingVoices Angerman]] of ''Literature/TheFireUsTrilogy'' carries a mannequin with him, calls it Bad Guy, talks to it, beats on it, and is ''absolutely frickin' terrified'' of it. He even believes that it is actively trying to hurt or kill his friends.
227* ''Literature/GoblinsInTheCastle'': Igor's ever-present bear. William takes care of it for him after the goblins carry him off, but returns it to him when he comes to William's rescue during the final battle of the book.
228* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's juvenile novel ''Literature/HaveSpacesuitWillTravel'', the main character, Clifford "Kip" Russell, names his eponymous suit Oscar and has conversations with it. In one particular case, it even gives him a pep talk as he [[spoiler:lays dying on the surface of Pluto]]. While it's never mentioned outright, there's no indication that he actually believes he's talking to his suit. However, Patricia Wynant Reisfeld, aka "Peewee", remarks that when Kip was delirious [[spoiler:while recovering from injuries sustained while nearly being killed on Pluto]], he frequently talked to Oscar, and then answered himself, leading her to suspect that he suffers from multiple personality disorder.
229%%* The eponymous submarine in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', arguably ''the'' main character. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does anyone actually treat it like it's sentient in universe?)
230* ''Literature/JaineAustenMysteries'': In ''Murder Has Nine Lives'', Jaine gets interested in Jim Angelides, the nephew of her boss at her biggest client, Toiletmasters Plumbing. When she and Jim go on a date, Jim decides to run Jaine by his roommate Arnold for his approval. Arnold, however, is a teddy bear. He even takes him to the restaurant he reserved to take Jaine to, revealing that he and Arnold stage big fights to get out of paying for meals when the restaurants kick them out. Jim's uncle Phil finds this out, revealing to Jaine that he thought Jim was taking his meds.
231* In the Norwegian children's series ''Knerten'' by Anne Cath Westly, one of the main characters is a stick that looks like a human. The other main character, a little boy, treats him like his best friend and has apparently not realised that he's inanimate. Sort of like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', although this one is older.
232* In ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett, Sara gets a doll named Emily from her father. Sara conceives of Emily as a listening companion, even a protective good witch, who moves around and does things when no one's looking. Then [[spoiler:Sara's father dies in India]], and Sara's attachment to Emily becomes one of her few escapes from her horrible situation. [[spoiler:Until she breaks down and screams at it "You're just a doll!" and slaps it out of its chair. Movie adaptations cut that scene out, allowing Emily to be an expression of Sarah's imagination throughout.]]
233%%* In Anna Dewdney's ''Literature/LlamaLlama'' series, Llama Llama has his Fuzzy Llama and in the television series often takes it with him even when going out, such as running errands for Mama Llama. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he treat it like it's actually alive?)
234* In ''Literature/MinecraftTheIsland'', the protagonist uses a cow, and occasionally other mobs, for self-motivation, snark, and someone to talk to.
235%%* The battlecrusier INSS ''[=MacArthur=]'' in ''Literature/TheMoteInGodsEye''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
236* The girl in Enid Bagnold's ''Literature/NationalVelvet'' wants to own a stableful of horses, so she has a boxful of cutouts from magazines. She pastes them to heavy cardboard, makes saddles and bridles for them out of embroidery thread, and "rides" them on back country roads, then carefully rubs them down and puts them away. They all have names and histories.
237* Creator/UrsulaVernon's novella ''Literature/NineGoblins''. One of the goblins in the squad never expresses his own opinion; he merely reports on what his teddy bear says. At one point, the commander of the squad is taking the most senior members on a scouting mission and is forced to leave the bear in charge of the remainder until they get back.
238* ''Literature/NoCoinsPlease'': One of Artie's rackets is selling ordinary jars of jelly that he calls "Attack jelly" and manipulates people into thinking there is something special about it worth buying.
239%%* The Doberman Hand Puppet in ''Literature/ThePaleKing'', which is eventually revealed to belong to [[spoiler:[[HearingVoices Dr. Lehrl]]]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how does he treat it like it's alive?)
240* Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's book ''[[Literature/TowerAndTheHive The Rowan]]'' has the title character treating her Pukha this way. The Pukha is essentially a child monitor and stuffed toy in one, but Rowan has one-sided conversations with it, even as she's clearly aware that it's an inanimate object. In fact, it's later revealed that [[spoiler:it was something of a split personality that she focused on it, so when it's destroyed it's gone. Near the end of the books, it appears that her Pukha isn't quite gone and possibly a good reason why she grew up in good shape despite her DarkAndTroubledPast.]]
241-->"You'd scorch your fur and blow your circuits!"
242* In Russell H. Greenan's ''The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton'', Algernon's best friend is a china pitcher called Eulalia.
243* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' anthology ''Literature/TalesFromJabbasPalace'', DumbMuscle Gartogg hauls around and talks to the dead bodies of the cook's assistant and a B'Omarr monk after stumbling onto the mystery of their murder and being tasked with solving it. Even though he ''does'' solve it eventually, he keeps hauling the bodies everywhere he goes because he's gotten attached to them; they're the only people who don't seem to mind his company.
244* ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'' has a somber example PlayedForDrama: The shoemaker's bench and tools are this for Doctor Mannete. Being incarcerated completely alone by the Evremondes for 18 years, he begged the guards for something, ''anything'' to do to distract himself from the solitude, and [[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/2cities/3.2.html when the doctor received it]], he was so grateful he formed an attachment with "[[InsistentTerminology him]]", eh, it. Years later, Mannete's daughter Lucy marries Darnay, [[spoiler:who is secretly an Evremond]], and the doctor feels the compulsion to work with the shoemaker's bench again. When Mr. Lorry talks about destroying "it", Mannete refers to "him" as an "old companion", but he accedes. [[spoiler:In the last chapters of the books, Manette asks for his friend again when he crosses the DespairEventHorizon.]] When Lorry and Miss Prost destroy the shoemakers's bench, they also treat "him" like something alive:
245-->On the night of the day on which he left the house, Mr. Lorry went into his room with a chopper, saw, chisel, and hammer, attended by Miss Pross carrying a light. There, with closed doors, and in a mysterious and guilty manner, Mr. Lorry hacked the shoemaker's bench to pieces, while Miss Pross held the candle as if she were assisting at a murder -- for which, indeed, in her grimness, she was no unsuitable figure. The burning of the body (previously reduced to pieces convenient for the purpose) was commenced without delay in the kitchen fire; and the tools, shoes, and leather, were buried in the garden. So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr. Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, [[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/furniss/109.html almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime]].
246%%* ''Literature/TheVelveteenRabbit''. Subverted in that the eponymous rabbit becomes real at the end of the story. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is it treated like it's alive ''before'' it becomes real?)
247%%* In ''Virtual Mode'' by Creator/PiersAnthony, Colene has a stuffed horse from her childhood named Maresy Doats, named after a [[MondegreenGag misheard song lyric]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way does she treat it like it's actually alive?)
248* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Jayfeather and his stick, to the point where he always looks for the stick when he needs answers, and is horrified when he almost loses it in the lake. Feeling it also seems to calm him down. [=JayxStick=] is also a ''very'' popular CargoShip within the fandom. The authors took notice of the CargoShip and [[spoiler:[[ShipSinking killed it dead]]: The stick is broken in ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsTheFourthApprentice The Fourth Apprentice]]'', by Jayfeather himself.]]
249* The very first ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' story makes it quite evident that Edward Bear (aka Pooh) and all of his friends are actually Christopher Robin's stuffed animals. It's justified since Creator/AAMilne invented the stories for his son, who had a teddy bear named Winnie, who was -- incidentally -- named after a real (female) bear at the zoo.
250* ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' (second book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Adolin's Shardblade. He talks to it before every duel, thanking it for helping him (though acknowledging that it would do that for anyone) and reminding it about all the previous battles they fought together. [[spoiler:Since the Shardblades are all the dead [[BondCreatures spren]] of the old Knights Radiant, he's [[DeadSidekick half]] justified in doing so.]] Also as of ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'', [[spoiler:this seems to be paying off for him, as while Kaladin, Shallan, and Adolin are trapped in Shadesmar, the "deadeye" spren jumps on an enemy when Adolin is injured and about to be run through, and during the subsequent battle in the physical realm, she manages to tell him her name (Mayalaran) and comes to him in only seven heartbeats instead of the ten usually needed for a dead blade when he is desperate and begs her]].
251* In the novel ''Zip'' by Ellie Rollins, the protagonist Lyssa Lee treats her scooter almost like how one would treat their beloved horse. She considers the scooter as something of her best friend and constantly refers to it as her trusty and loyal companion. She pets her scooter, talks to it, and even reassures it whenever things are feeling hopeless on their journey, and even gave it a name, Zip, because of how fast it can go when she rides it. Zip is described like a living sentient life form with a personality of its own and not as a vehicle that is ridden from one place to another. Zip "squeals in delight" when ridden on fast by its owner, explaining excitement, "squeak[s] in frustration/sadness" when Lyssa turns it a certain way with how she herself is feeling or [[SnarkyInanimateObject "groan[s] in protest"]] to her choices.
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255* Music/BigBlack actually credited Music/SteveAlbini's Roland TR-606 drum machine as a member of the band (as "Roland").
256* Music/NeilDiamond's "I Am... I Said" has in its chorus the line "And no one heard at all / Not even the chair". Diamond himself has stated that the song was written at a time when he was in a hotel room feeling incredibly lonely, to the point where he really did regard the chair as his sole companion.
257* Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen: Echo is a drum machine.
258* Music/{{Primus}}'s "Mary the Ice Cube" is a love song about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an ice cube named Mary]].
259* Music/DianaRoss's "My Old Piano" refers to it as if it were a person.
260-->''His international style\
261Exudes an air of royalties\
262His eighty eight key smile\
263Is so pleasant to see''
264* Music/TheSistersOfMercy have had [[RevolvingDoorBand two official members since the beginning]]: lead singer Andrew Eldritch, and Doktor Avalanche, the name given to their drum machine. They treat Doktor Avalanche so much like a person that it is credited as "running" the online advice column on the group's website.
265* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: "[[Music/{{Flood}} Birdhouse in Your Soul]]" is sung from the perspective of a nightlight to its young charge.
266-->''I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend\
267But I'm a little glowing friend\
268But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am''
269* Music/{{Yelle}}'s [[CargoShip "Best Friend"]] in the song "Mon meilleur ami". [[spoiler:Her vibrator.]]
270* Music/NeilYoung feels this way about "[[https://youtu.be/Bkm76j6B5WM This Old Guitar]]", which originally belonged to Music/HankWilliams.
271-->''The more I play it, the better it sounds\
272It cries when I leave it alone\
273Silently it waits for me\
274Or someone else I suppose''\
275[...]\
276''It's been a messenger in times of trouble\
277In times of hope and fear\
278When I get drunk and seeing double\
279It jumps behind the wheel and steers''
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283* A RunningGag in ''Podcast/TotalusRankium'' is that the Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Claudius}} had a pet rock, which he kept with him on a leash at all times.
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287%%* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's watch, which always told the same time. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he treat it like it's actually sentient?)
288* Leva Bates has shown these tendencies at times with some of her props. She's even played ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' with a few of them, albeit to demonstrate the rules to other wrestlers.
289* Wrestling/CelticChampionshipWrestling's resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Bedlam Billy carries around a puppet called William whom he talks to.
290* Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} could be found serenading to various clocks, which he always ended up smashing over his head. If not to them, he instead serenaded a disembodied heart he wore as a necklace and squeezed.
291* Eddie Brown's duct tape mannequin torso Quicksilver. Yes, he sees what you're doing, and he tells Nite-stic everything he sees.
292* In the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam (DDT), several inanimate objects have held the promotion's "Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship" (a joke title defended any time at any place during any match against anyone or anything, in a parody of WWE's retired Hardcore Title and its infamous "24/7 Rule"). Several of these inanimate "performers" include Kitty-Chan (a Franchise/HelloKitty plushie), a wooden baseball bat (which lost the title by a "KO" decision after being broken in half), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LApVz53Spw YOSHIHIKO the inflatable love doll]], and -- most memorably -- ''three'' different Ladders. All of these "wrestlers" were treated by ''actual'' wrestlers and DDT performers/crew as if they were any other human competitor. The 1000th champion? The belt itself.
293%%* Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr and his hobby horse that he called Pepe. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does he treat it like it's actually sentient?)
294* Kimberly's [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat Thing dolls]] in SHINE. In addition to about two dozen she keeps and regularly talks to, she also gives them out as gifts so other wrestlers can experience the joy of having one.
295* Wrestling/EddieKingston is a rare PlayedForDrama example, since he would refer to the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/pa/e/chikara/chikara-g.html CHIKARA Grand Championship]], and even ''the wrestling business itself'', as "she" or "her".
296* [=LuFisto=]'s doll, {{ahem}}, [[InsistentTerminology mascot]], Peegaboo. Until DJ Hyde had her murdered in Wrestling/{{WSU}}. In fact, Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}'s rule book allows for "managerial objects", which in turn can be "expelled" from ring side at the referee's discretion. Peegaboo at least found some company before her passing.
297* [[Wrestling/MikeShaw Norman the Lunatic]] carried a Toys/TeddyBear around that he treated as if it was a pet or a person.
298* Ricardo Rodriguez's skeleton blowup doll, "Boner", who has even performed (assisted) choke slams. Boner was "killed" by Eric Watts at the 2014 Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA Vendetta Pro ''Zombie Walk'', which saw Rodriguez attempt to perform CPR.
299* Nicole Savoy has referred to her UsefulNotes/XboxOne as her boyfriend.
300* In 2017, Wrestling/HiromuTakahashi of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling introduced the world to a stuffed cat doll named Daryl. Daryl is incredibly over even though all he does is sit in Takahashi's corner. Bad Luck Fale "killed" Daryl during the G1 Climax tournament, but he came back as good as new and is still over.
301* The Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s Hardcore Title has received this treatment at least once itself -- one of the most prominent members of the Hardcore division was Wrestling/AlSnow, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who carried around a mannequin head and treated it as if it was alive, and, in Al's mind at least, Head once held the Hardcore Title after she [[FaceHeelTurn turned]] on Al.
302%%* The WWF of the 90's and early 2000's loved this trope. Several wrestlers utilized Companion Cubes, such as [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] (Socko!), and Wrestling/PerrySaturn (uh... mop with a wig!). (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; in what way do they treat the objects like they're sentient?)
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306* The entire premise behind ventriloquist acts is someone holding conversations with puppets and voicing them as if they're alive.
307%%* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'': (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do the characters treat the objects like they're actually sentient?)
308%%** Ojo has Snowbear, a teddy bear with white fur.
309%%** Treelo has Rockboy, a rock.
310%%* Leona from ''Series/BetweenTheLions'' has a plush moose named Lovey. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she treat it like it's actually sentient?)
311* Creator/JeffDunham frequently lampshades it during his routines. In ''Arguing With Myself'', he relates a story of taking his "helpers" through airport security:
312-->"He could've swabbed Peanut on the head, on the foot... no. In front of God and everybody, he swabs his butt, just like that! I know it's only a puppet, but... I work with the guy! There's a relationship there!"
313* In ''Series/{{Gerbert}}'', the titular character talks to his stuffed toy bear, Rory.
314* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'':
315** ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'':
316*** Squire Trelawney (Fozzie Bear) has an imaginary friend who lives inside his finger.
317---->'''Kermit:''' Your finger hired the crew?\
318'''Trelawney:''' No, [[DontBeRidiculous that's silly]]! The man who ''lives'' inside my finger hired the crew. Mr. Bimble!
319*** Dead Tom, an inanimate skeleton that the ship's crew nevertheless treats as one of their own. At one point he's "killed" and one of the pirates starts mourning him, only for another pirate to point out that Dead Tom has ''always'' been dead. The first pirate, realising that his crewmate is right, unceremoniously drops Dead Tom on the ground and moves on.
320** Amy the Dancing Brick in ''Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie''. In theory, not totally dissimilar from Gonzo's usual acts (Yollanda the Dancing Cheese, for example), except that "she's" not a Muppet brick; she's just a brick.
321%%* Series/{{Oobi}}'s sister Uma has her doll, as shown in the episode "[[BabysittingEpisode Babysitter!]]" (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she treat it like it's actually sentient?)
322* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
323** Zoe has a pet rock named Rocco, which she treats as alive. Elmo often scoffs at the idea, though he sometimes goes along with the charade just to get it over with.
324** Ernie has his rubber duckie, [[ConsultingMisterPuppet which he often talks to about his problems]].
325%%** Big Bird has his teddy bear, Radar (a ShoutOut to the ''Series/{{Mash}}'' character), whom he received as a gift from Mr. Hooper. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do the characters treat the objects like they're actually sentient?)
326%%** Julia has Fluffster, her stuffed rabbit.
327%%** Even a few of the monsters have monster dolls of their own. Herry Monster has Hercules, Telly has Freddy, and Elmo has Baby David, which he named after David, the proprietor of Hooper's Store at the time, in Episode 2256.
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331%%* Ol' Lynchy in ''Roleplay/ComicFuryWerewolf'' is this. The villagers are very fond of it, and there were riots when it was replaced with a typical lynching platform in Game 11. It was brought back in Game 12. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do they treat it like it's actually sentient?)
332* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Jemimah has a tree in her home garden that's she's dubbed Uke, and in general doesn't find it odd to talk to inanimate objects. In a strange variation of the usual bond that comes with this trope, Jemimah's goal is to one day "defeat" Uke by knocking him down.
333* In ''Roleplay/RainQuest'', there's Aramu Kurokku-chan, Joel's alarm clock, whom he has claimed as his waifu. Later on, Joel gives Nina his umbrella as her own companion, which they name Anburera-kun.
334* From the ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' SpinOff ''Virtua'', we have Sycanus Appletin and her teddy bear Tobeyn. It's also a rare canonical example of CargoShip, as she's explicitly in love with it and at one point is shown making out with it.
335%%** Cody Jenson and Loretta, a ''motorcycle''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how do they treat the objects like they're sentient?)
336%%** Alice Jones and her stuffed rabbit (complete with a ShoutOut to ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'') could count as a borderline example, until she discards it in favour of [[spoiler:Guy Rapide's [[AlasPoorYorick head]]]].
337%%** Hannah Rose and her "magic hat".
338%%** Shawn Morrison in the SpinOff ''SOTF-TV'' uses, of all things, a dead baby boa constrictor as one (he named it Music/BrianEno).
339* In ''Roleplay/UltimateChatFicOfMutualMemeing'', Nagito and Hajime's "son" Bobstevenson (actually a pet rock) [[spoiler:eventually joins the chat by way of Nagito switching accounts and throwing him at the keyboard, thus becoming TheUnintelligible]].
340* In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', Vlad and Dintel's misadventures earn the Gliscor a Salamence-shaped Pokédoll. His Trainer gives it to Nadia the Salamence, who starts talking to the plushie about her issues and her lack of confidence after being hurt and rendered unable to fly. Eventually the plushie, nicknamed [[Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon "Toothless"]], starts answering back and providing counsel. And it's not the only one.
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344* You'll get this from time to time in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. Canonically, Inner Sphere pilots are ''much'' more likely to get attached to their gear, on account of it often being old and full of quirks. Many 'Mechs are passed down as {{Ancestral Weapon}}s, so some families train the next generation of pilots with it and pass on its legacy that way. As a result, many Inner Sphere pilots specialize in piloting one or two chassis, and sometimes one 'Mech in specific, leading to this trope when a pilot spends their entire life with a certain 'Mech to the point that they give it a name and sometimes a "personality" based on its quirks. This is also because Inner Sphere pilots are much more likely to ''own'' their own gear than comparable Clan pilots, for whom being reassigned from one 'Mech to another depending on the needs of the unit is a fairly commonplace occurrence. Much of this is inspired by the real-life military examples below, and aircraft pilots/crews in particular.
345* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
346** A Familiar Item actually can be alive and have personality and ego ''only'' for the owner... and just because the owner likes it so much.
347** Brass dragons are chatterboxes who can never get enough conversation for their tastes. As a result, some have a tendency to give nicknames and ascribe personalities to portraits, busts, and similar artworks in their hoards, and happily pass the hours having one-sided conversations with these inanimate objects.
348%%** The Prestige Class Kensai forms a bond with a specific weapon strong enough to imbue it with magical powers. There are also ceremonies that most any character can undergo to magically/spiritually bond with the weapon of their choice. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; do they actually treat the weapon like it's sentient?)
349* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' handbooks, the example given for Delusion is "all purple things are alive." How big the Delusion is (how many points it's worth) depends not on the nature of the Delusion, but on how much it affects your character's behavior. In practical terms, this Delusion could range from saying hello to purple objects and patting them (Quirk or Minor Delusion) all the way up to attacking purple things on sight (Major Delusion) and refusing to talk until all of them are taken from the room.
350* The closest things to being "cute" in a non-ugly way in the world of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are the drones the Tau use. They're programmed to be loyal like puppies, and as a result the Tau consider them companions rather than, well, expendable drones (a sentiment decidedly ''not'' shared by the players).
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354* Paul Hindemith's opera ''Cardillac'' is about a goldsmith who treats his creations like his own children; he sings to them, swears to protect them -- and murders his customers to regain them. Indeed, he treasures his handiwork more than his life-and-blood daughter; his dying glance falls not on his heartbroken daughter, but on the beautiful gold chain hanging on her neck.
355* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', while the characters generally treat [=MechaMew2=] like an actual Pokemon, Giovanni speaks to it as if it were alive at some points. His comments range from innocuous to parental to outright disturbing.
356* In ''Theatre/TheRoseTattoo'', according to the stage directions and author's production notes, the dummies should be poseable to make it look as if they were carrying on conversations with each other and Serafina.
357* In ''Theatre/ShirleyValentine'', bored housewife Shirley talks to her kitchen wall about her troubles because it's always there for her and nobody else in her life is interested. In the second act, when she's on holiday, a rock on the beach serves a similar confidant role.
358* Several characters in ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'' are played by cardboard cutouts. Most seem to be products of George's imagination, though other characters seem to interact with them. In particular, one of a pair of soldiers:
359-->'''Celeste #1:''' He's very quiet.\
360'''Soldier:''' Yes. Actually he is. He lost his hearing during combat exercises.\
361'''Celeste #1:''' What a shame.\
362'''Soldier:''' He can't speak either.\
363'''Celeste #2:''' Oh. How dreadful.\
364'''Soldier:''' We have become very close, though.\
365'''Celeste #1:''' So I see.
366* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' has this kind of relationship with his razors:
367-->'''Sweeney:''' These are my friends, see how they glisten...
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370[[folder:Toys]]
371%%* Let's face it -- most toys in general, even if they're not in the shape of a living creature. Dolls and stuffed animals especially. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
372%%* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-jointed_doll Ball Jointed Dolls]] fandom. (Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples)
373%%* Chia Pets. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
374* [[Toys/{{Furby}} Furbies]] -- Designed to emulate a plush pet with a personality, they were in fact popular enough to warrant a revival after disappearing from the market. Though they've never threatened to stab anyone, others find them horrifically repulsive, even to the point of reacting to them with violence.
375%%* The Pet Rock. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
376%%* Most PVC figures manufactured by Japanese companies fall into this category. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
377* Since the [=RealDoll's=] invention in the early 90's, an obsession with them has been born and there have been full webrings dedicated to the fictionalized characters the owners have written for their dolls, with extensive bios, journals of their lives, and galleries featuring the dolls in a variety of fashions. A photo of one such doll named "Rebecca" belonging to a man in England by Bay Area photographer Elena Dorfman was featured in an article in the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealDoll#In_popular_culture San Francisco Chronicle]]''.
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381* Larxene from ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' has a skull she named Skull-Fucky. She uses Skull-Fucky in Pokémon battles (where it uses Mega Punch) and is implied to be in a [[CargoShip relationship]] with the skull.
382* Mistah Beah in ''Webcomic/{{Applegeeks}}''.
383* ''Webcomic/BratHalla'' [[http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/brathalla.php?name=brathalla&view=single&ID=17326 here]]:
384-->"Stones are an adventurer's best friend."
385* Monsieur Smokey, Mona's childhood toy rabbit and lifelong companion, in ''Webcomic/CestLaVie''.
386* Butch R. Mann's knife as evidenced by [[http://www.choppingblock.org/d/20011217.html this episode]] of ''Webcomic/ChoppingBlock''.
387* Fluffy, Roger's pet rock (not the sort described below, but a rather large rock specimen from a museum) in ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' The weird part is that while Fluffy is never shown to move, Roger claims he followed him home, and Mike later complains that Fluffy had tried humping his leg. Occasionally, Roger claims that Fluffy wants a hump massage, and describes violence as 'erosive behavior'.
388* Gordon Frohman of ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' gets a [[http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-11-16 little too attached]] [[http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-09-12 to the gravity gun,]] which he calls "the claw"
389* ''Webcomic/CwensQuest'' Introduced the companion cubes more sinister cousins the [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=651452 Companion Pyramid and the Nemesis Cube.]]
390* Luna, Colin's life companion in ''Webcomic/DragonTails''.
391* Poodle the Beating Stick, weapon of convenience wielded by Nanashi in ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}''.
392* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
393** Lil' Cal. As a ventriloquist's dummy he naturally qualifies, but Dave treats him with nervous deference, even fear that the puppet is watching him. Lil' Cal's cold glass-eyed stare certainly gives him an UncannyValley appearance, but more unsettling is that he appears to move around when Dave turns his back. However, by the time Dave is [[EnmityWithAnObject fighting Lil' Cal]] in hand-to-hand Strife, it is clear the puppet is not moving of its own volition. Instead, Dave's Bro is puppeteering it via FlashStep. So even if the dummy is creepy, there is nothing demonic about it, right? ... Right? [[spoiler:Isn't that right, [[SoulJar Lil' Cal?]]]]
394** The Harley family seems to have a strong tradition of taxidermy. Jade gets embroiled in a conversation with [[spoiler:her Grandpa's stuffed corpse.]]
395** Terezi introduces us to the scalemates, stuffed animals that Terezi pretends are alive. Of course, she then proceeds to [[HangingJudge pass judgement on them]], and her home is littered with their "corpses."
396** The Duttle.
397---> You believe you will keep your distance from the Duttle.
398* In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Adriana names her dice, and is sure Becky, her 20 sided, is very sorry for the CriticalFailure that caused an EndlessWinter.
399* In [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/281 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'', Jodie does this with two dolls representing her friends who have been absent. It's somewhat disturbing...
400* ''Man-Man'' featured a log as a detective on [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] [[http://www.man-man.org/?comic=&date=20050612 "Log And Order."]] It was a loose cannon whose implacable manner would break the most [[http://www.man-man.org/?comic=&date=20050620 uncooperative suspects.]]
401* Eldora from ''Webcomic/{{Messenger}}'' has Icy, her stuffed cat.
402* This is how Aiden treats all cars in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'', whether he is right to do so is left unclear. Emily seems to have absorbed some of those qualities too judging by [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-09-16 one strip]].
403* Lucile the Gnarled Staff of Ass Whoop and (to a lesser extent) Escape Dummy, from ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny''.
404** And after Hubert asks for his cloak back from Hechter, Hechter mourns the loss of [[http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=290 "Steve,"]] who was "the best pet cloak I've ever had".
405* ''Webcomic/MountainTime'' has Xipe Totec, a bag of topsoil that some characters talk to, make plans with, and generally treat as a friend.
406* Amed, TheHero's pet rock from ''Webcomic/MyMiddleNamesAdventure'', who seems to move about and do [[http://www.doublepuma.com/adventure/comic/0007/ amazing things]] when his owner is not looking.
407* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0080.html Banjo the Clown,]] Elan's beloved Handpuppet "God" from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. Of course, Banjo is functionally a real god, complete with smitings. Not to mention [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0561.html Giggles, God of Slapstick,]] Banjo's brother/nemesis.
408* The On-Cue Ball from ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'', which is like a Magic 8-Ball...[[JustForFun/InSpace but talks]]! [[DeadpanSnarker And makes fun of everyone]]! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking It even burps]]!
409* A storyline in ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' features the [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=487 Buddy Brick,]] a Companion Cube {{expy}}... that apparently contains electronics that ''force'' people into having this sort of reaction to it, to the point of near-InstantSedation.
410* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', Pooch has Bally -- a ball -- and Percy has Yarny -- a ball of yarn.
411* Thadius, Buwaro's pet rock from ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned''.
412* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Torg has been known to start referring to things like a glow necklace and a serving tray as if they were persons, though those occasions did not last long.
413* Plant from ''Webcomic/StationV3'' is a character in his own - he comments on stuff, people know he's there and he has his own thought bubbles. But he's just a potted plant. Besides getting watered, cynically thinking about things (and talking whenever it would creep members of station v3 out), he's just a part of the scenery.
414* From ''Webcomic/TalesFromThePit'':
415--> '''Mark:''' ''(To copier)'' So we meet again, my nemesis. Today I shall make copies.
416--> '''Copier:''' ''([[SpeechBalloon Thought Bubble]])'' Not only am I out of toner. My toner register is broken as well. [[EvilLaugh Bwah, ha, ha!]]
417* The Geckoids of ''{{Webcomic/tinyraygun}}'' have guns so ingrained on their culture that the loss of his firearm at the jaws of a ''very'' hungry baby alien is enough to make the hulking Tork shed a tear.
418* [[BunnyEarsLawyer Phonsekal]] [[{{Sleepyhead}} Lauroe]] from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' loves sleeping. He loves it so much that he sees his pillow and blanket as his younger sibling.
419* ''Webcomic/Validation2013'': Ally’s closest friend is a dinosaur plush named [[ADogNamedDog Mr. Dino]].
420* The mysterious Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} pseudocharacter [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep known only as]] the [[http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Refrigerator_skull refrigerator skull.]]
421* The eponymous Moo from ''Webcomic/TheWisdomOfMoo'' is a cow hand puppet which character Emm speaks through. The human characters understand what's going on... but the toys treat Moo as if he's his own character, even when Emm is clearly visible -- or even actively brought to their attention.
422* Exaggerated for comedy in ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': Megan takes [[http://xkcd.com/1558/ her pet dog to the vet,]] only to have to be told that a Roomba is not a dog. [[CloudCuckoolander She also appears to later confuse it for a wild bird]] in the AltText.
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426* In ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman'', Baman and Piderman's friends Pumpkin and Tuba... except they appear to actually be alive and at least as intelligent and Baman and Piderman themselves.
427* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Paper Boy and his red bulletin board, which he uses to hide behind. He says he hates the fact that he even needs it.
428* One [[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn Film Cow]] short features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRmey2WvWnw John [=McCain=] and his Vegetable Friends.]] Also has nice doses of LyricalDissonance, horror and LetsMeetTheMeat if the title didn't seem creepy enough.
429* ''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.
430** Another example is the episode ''Aw Shucks'', where Lumpy treats an ear of corn as his own child, even prioritizing himself over it.
431* Several inanimate objects from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' are treated as characters, like The Stick. Some of them, like Strong Bad's computers, seem to actually have minds of their own!
432** Paper actually "talks" to Strong Bad. Once, it admitted that it liked hushpuppies.
433** This was also parodied in the Strong Bad Email "Original", in which Strong Bad tells the tale of "Original Bubs", who supposedly left the series on unfriendly terms and whose absence was excused through a series of [[FakeShemp increasingly ridiculous tricks]] and [[TheOtherDarrin guest stars]], the most popular of which was "Onion Bubs" (just an onion with Bubs' face drawn on it).
434** Hell, even the sound made by Strong Bad's chair when he gets up has been turned into a character. Two characters, actually (The Geddup Noise and "his cousin, Chairscoot").
435** A list can be [[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Category:Pseudocharacters found here.]]
436* Box in ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity II'' can be classified as one of these. And this is in a [[ObjectShows world]] where everyone else is an AnimateInanimateObject.
437* In the ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'' episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg4KdDma8yg My sister, who takes all my things, brags that she stole my boyfriend. But she was mistaken..]]'', the mascot Puni appears as a talking doll Kanade carried since she was a baby. Years later, she tied the Puni doll to a farewell letter for Alto after her sister Milano stole her high-school crush. [[spoiler:However, she eventually gets it back after marrying Alto, who became a CEO]].
438* Hubert Cumberdale from ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers''. In fact, it's used an awful lot to emphasize just how messed up Salad Fingers really is.
439* Subverted in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' since, though characters interact with Andy the Bomb, who is an actual bomb, he is given a voice (and quite a nasty personality).
440* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The titular [[PerkyGoth Ruby]] has her scythe Crescent Rose. She has hugged it, cuddled it and called it her "sweetheart". While she loves all weapons, she particularly loves Crescent Rose the most.
441* ''[[WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons Smosh Babies]]'':
442** Ian's Miss-Hugs-A-Lot teddy bear, which he treats like his girlfriend. She has been seen in several episodes of the series, and even made a live-action appearance in the ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' episode, "So Many Hickeys!"
443** To a much lesser extent, Anthony's Froggy doll, which only appeared in the episodes, "The Rise of the Bread Head" and "Ian's Lost Love". The former revolved around Anthony challenging Ian to get her back from the playground, guarded by [[TerribleTrio Lenny, Bruce, and Melvin]].
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446[[folder:Web Original]]
447* ''WebVideo/The8BitDrummer'': along with his plushies, he also has a jug and a water bottle with googly eyes that he drinks to stay hydrated during his streams.
448* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Downplayed example is Jane's toy plushy cat. Jane introduces her as such: "She's not a real cat, which makes her far more superior to any real cats." Considering Jane's lack of friends, it's understandable she bonds and still relates to her toy, but she only showed her twice and she doesn't really talk to her.
449* The ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "Now Who's the Dummy" features what is effectively a custody battle between two ventriloquists, Tom Simon and Leo Jones, neither of whom seem able to grasp that their dummies aren't actually people. When the two are face to face, Jones pulls a gun on everyone twice and has to be talked down by Simple, the dummy they're fighting over and which is currently in Jones' possession. Once that's settled, Simon's puppet, Morty, pulls his own weapon. [[SarcasmFailure Jack and Trixie can only lampshade the absurdity of it all]].
450-->'''Trixie:''' The puppet has a ''cap gun tied to his hand!''\
451'''Jack:''' The nervous guy with the real gun is taking this seriously.
452* WebVideo/BrandonFarris' co-host is a canvas portrait of a woman wearing a wedding dress, whom he has dubbed "Kelly". He accidentally received the portrait and contacted the original customer, who had received his portrait instead. Why he still has it is never explained. It has become a regular background item whenever he is doing a solo video and tends to get knocked over when Brandon either flips out from a jump scare or fails to perform a life hack correctly.
453* WebVideo/DannyGonzalez loves his giant nutcracker toy quite a bit, and keeps it in the background of his videos. In one video, he freaked out because he thought it had been magically stolen by the creators of ''VideoGame/LilysGarden'' due to him mocking their ads.
454* In ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'', after spending an indeterminate amount of time isolated in the hyperbolic time chamber, Vegeta begins [[SanitySlippage talking to a volleyball]] with Nappa's face drawn on it.
455* ''WebVideo/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver'':
456** After getting kicked out of his own house by Wilbur in the "Natural Disaster mod" video, Tommy makes himself a girlfriend out of wood and a pumpkin, naming her "hot fucking sexy ass hot lady".
457** In the VideoGame/{{Portal}} mod video, Tubbo becomes ''incredibly'' attached to the Trope Namer, snapping and screaming wildly at anyone who he ''thinks'' gets close to it. He becomes immensely distraught when he accidentally throws it into a lava pool.
458* Hitler in the ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies shows a bizarre amount of affection towards his office desk, as he tends to bring it along with him no matter where he goes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_40SFtRA8 One parody]] delves into the relationship he has with his desk, explaining how he was first united with it and why he treats it as a close family member.
459* [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]] reveals himself to be NotSoAboveItAll during ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut VideoGame/EuroTruckSimulator 2'', where he reveals that he bought a Roomba and named it Sodbury as a surrogate for a dog, which he can't have due to his apartment complex not allowing them. He mentions that it's also a good name for a butler, and is surprisingly forgiving of the machine's flaws when Gabe points out that it missed more than a few spots. He goes as far as to just patiently accept the Roomba's shortcomings and says that he'll just clean up where it can't reach. Bear in mind that the man hates to do cleaning chores and is at best [[VitriolicBestBuds acerbic and critical with his friend Gabe]].
460-->'''Yahtzee:''' Now clean the place, Sodbury, and by the time I get back, if you've been very good, I'll put you back on the charger.
461* WebVideo/JesuOtaku and his subtitles. Until they have a falling out about their use in the ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' review.
462* There are a lot of examples in ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'', most notably the purple monkey puppet, P. Monkey.
463* In ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'', The Final Pam takes a [[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Radroach Corpse]] to be her son and husband. She also adopts a coffee can.
464* ''Website/NobodyHere'':
465** "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/chair.here Chair]]" features a portrait of Jogchem posing next to his chair and saying that, together, they're never lonely.
466** In "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/socks.here Socks]]", Jogchem says that "socks are [his] greatest love". In the accompanying minigame, once all the pairs are assembled, the socks will merge into a vaguely human-like figure and hold Jogchem by the hand, with the two jumping excitedly.
467* In Overthegun's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', he befriends a circular blade named "Sharpy" during the Ravenholm section. He carries it around with the gravity gun for at ''least'' half an hour, eschewing (the faster, easier) explosive barrels littered around, in favour of bisecting every zombie individually. He even has a brief panic attack when he thinks he's lost Sharpy.
468-->Sharpy's just an all-round really cool fella. You can either shoot him, like '''that'''... or stuff'll jump at you, and he'll absorb a hit for ya. How great of a guy is he, really? These fuckin' washing machines ''wish'' I'd carry ''them'' around for three loads in a row.
469* [=YouTuber=] Patrick Willems has Charl, a coconut with googly eyes he found on a desert island in his Review of 2019 video (much to the consternation of his friends Jake and Matt).
470* A strange justification in the second episode of ''Perverts On The Internet'': After raiding large amounts of Mike Gibbons' booze, Kunt winds up believing that a Girl's World doll is possessed by the spirit of his dead ex-girlfriend.
471* The ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'' has a particularly morbid example: on Day 67, Bek adopts the [[TakenForGranite petrified statue]] of an unknown individual on Monkey Island as her "ride or die" and names them 'Dai', taking them nearly everywhere she goes. [[spoiler:This is PlayedForDrama on Day 75 when Dai mysteriously disappears, where Bek is LuredIntoATrap as the Hooded Figures use Dai as bait to capture her.]]
472%%* Ramirez the Gnome in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lSaRbIJHWw Episode 6]] of ''WebVideo/ProfoundMomentsInLeft4Dead2''.
473* How Ridiculous, basically the [[TransatlanticEquivalent Australian equivalent]] of Creator/DudePerfect, features a ''[[UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]]'' doll that the group calls "Rexy" in many of its videos. The group even lists Rexy as [[https://howridiculous.org/pages/team an official team member]].
474* ''LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys'': During their Let's Play of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', the guys got attatched to a mannequin of an old man that sits outside Station Square's burger shop. They then dubbed it the Old Man and attempted to take it everywhere with them, even into areas the mannequin isn't supposed to be in.
475* In ''Website/SCPFoundation'''s SCP-3001, Dr. Robert Scranton has the blinking red light from an audio recorder as his only companion, and often talks to "Red" as though it were his friend.
476* When there's an odd number of players for WebVideo/TheSharkasmCrew's Doubles tourneys, the odd player out plays with a computer-controlled player. This CPU is represented by a piece of paper with a face on it, named Sonjai.
477** [[spoiler:Ever since Sonjai's death, a new Companion Cube named Mogo (not to be confused with the original identity of Cephalo the Pod) has replaced him.]]
478* Perfect Jones, the sanest [[ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder double Darkwell]] in ''Literature/StarHarborNights'', confides in her stuffed bunny Mr. Buttons, occasionally taking him on patrol. He also doubles as her BerserkButton.
479* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan:''
480** Bowser Junior's ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' toy. The episode, "Bowser Junior Loses Thomas!" focuses on Junior going through a deep depression when he loses it [[spoiler:behind the couch]].
481** Cody's [[Franchise/{{Barbie}} Ken]] doll. Being a closeted homosexual, Cody treats him like his boyfriend.
482** In "Cody's Sister!", Cody's twin sister, Katy, owns a Barbie doll, much like how her brother owns a Ken doll. Katy hasn't even taken her Barbie doll out of its box, though.
483%%* The Helix Fossil in ''WebVideo/TwitchPlaysPokemon''.
484* Subverted in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', where Generator (Jade Sinclair) has a toy rabbit, a stuffed toy lion, and what looks like a Hello Kitty compact. But Jade's superpower is the ability to cast a psychokinetic copy of herself into objects, so they really are temporarily alive, and intelligent, and often ''very'' dangerous.
485* Actor and blogger Creator/WilWheaton frequently posts conversations with iTunes on his Twitter feed.
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488[[folder:Real Life]]
489* The Pet Rock, a 1970s phenomenon, was based around this idea.
490* The digital pet craze of TheNineties could be seen as yet another variant of this.
491* Many people have toys, porcelain dolls and security blankets for this very reason. The practice is usually associated with children, but it's also quite common in adults with autism, who may experience [[https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf object personification]] and/or trouble relating to other humans.
492* The practice of personifying ships and other forms of transportation goes back so far it's definitely OlderThanDirt and might be even as old as mankind. Many ancient cultures would ritually paint or carve eyes on the prow of ships as a way of granting them sentience, a practice still followed today in some places. Depending on the culture, ships (and other vehicles) may be personified as male or female, regardless of whether the vehicle's name implies one or the other. Of course, for the English-speaking crowd, a personified vehicle is almost always female, even if she's the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_(DDG-56) USS John S. McCain.]]
493* In his book ''Water Transport'', historian James Hornell mentions an old Hindu tradition which involves imbuing a protective god or goddess into a ship, taking the personification a step further. This coincides with an "opening of the eye" ceremony, in which pupils are carved into the outline of an eye to "awaken" the ship.
494* During WWI and WWII almost all aircrews named their birds, as they were assigned to fly only one. In those days production standards couldn't be as high as they were today, so every airplane had its own ticks and tricks. This was more noticeable in bombers. Nearly every B-29 bomber ever produced had its own unique flaw that would have made it inoperable. One of the design engineers, Victor Agather, had to fix 600 of these fatal flaws in a three-day time period. Every bomber's crew were the only people who could keep it flying, so they would only be paired with that aircraft, kicking off the relationship between crew and machine. Most of them even made their own extensive modifications to keep their birds flying, like waxing the props. Many bomber crews would not only refer to their airplanes as female, but went so far as to refer to the airplane's model as if it were the airplane's ethnicity. For that matter, the very fact that aircrews ''call'' their planes "birds" has overtones of this.
495* Also the subject of a psychiatry study with monkeys. Young monkeys were studied with various socialization forms: one was only socialized with its mother, one was socialized with many other monkeys, and the last was only socialized with a fur-covered board. The young monkey became extremely attached to the board. Psychologist Harry Harlow performed another, similar experiment with baby monkeys, putting them in a room with two surrogate mothers. One was made of wire and dispensed food, while the other was made of soft cloth and didn't dispense food. The baby monkeys only went to the wire mother when they were hungry, and would always prefer clinging to the cloth mother. (If the cloth mother had food and the wire mother didn't, the babies would ignore the wire mother entirely.) He concluded that the baby monkeys had a psychological need for comfort and love, which was extremely important to their development and growth.
496* In 2000, a ficus tree ran against incumbent Rodney P. Frelinghuysen for the 11th district New Jersey house seat... and won the election by a 4:1 ratio before being disqualified. The Ficus campaign was masterminded by Creator/MichaelMoore for his TV show ''The Awful Truth''.
497-->'''Campaign ad:''' Rodney wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, Ficus' ass IS a hole in the ground.
498* A ''New Scientist'' article on human interactions with robotics and attempts to bridge the UncannyValley notes incidents of US troops in Afghanistan seeking counseling after their bomb disposal robot was destroyed by an I.E.D. Other incidences include a report that an bomb disposal robot had been stolen, in Helmand, only to find the Commonwealth solders had taken advantage of its dexterous remote control arm to ''take it fishing with them''. [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009.html Here]] is Washington Post article covering human-robot interactions in the military and the aforementioned incidents.
499* US Marines are made to memorize an [[http://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/marine_corps_rifleman%27s_creed.htm oath]] that basically personifies their rifle. Presumably so that they remember to take care of the firearm and have it at their side whenever possible.
500* Music/UtadaHikaru owns a plush bear, which she named Kuma Chan. Kuma was [[http://www.oricon.co.jp/upimg/news/20060809/30942_2.jpg issued a staff pass]] at one of her concerts.
501* In software development, when trying to fix a stubborn bug, it is sometimes considered helpful to discuss the bug with another developer. The practice is considered useful even when the other person is completely unfamiliar with the code, perhaps not even a developer at all. The reasoning is that the act of having to explain it to another person forces you to step back from the problem a bit and challenge some of your assumptions. Lone developers will sometimes resort to discussing the problem with an inanimate object, a practice which has come to be called "talking to the Furby." And then there's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging rubber duck debugging...]]
502* One university's engineering department has a teddy bear sitting in the dean's office. If a student comes in with an engineering problem that they can't handle, they are first urged to "talk to the bear". Often, after they go over the problem with the bear, they do actually come up with a solution.
503* A number of people [[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006030409257 name their cars]] and talk to them. There's even a service to [[http://www.carbirths.com/index.php register your car's name and get it a birth certificate.]]
504* Serge Kahili King in his book ''Urban Shaman'' explains that he named his personal computer and speaks to it. "All things have their own spirit. They cooperate better if you can relate to them well."
505* It's not entirely uncommon for musicians to name their instruments, especially adolescents in high school band.
506** B.B. King's guitar Lucille may be the most famous example.
507** Willie Nelson's guitar Trigger is at least a close second.
508** Andres Segovia at times ended up with rumors of a woman in his life after booking transit tickets for his guitar -- by name.
509** Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Strat which he named "Lenny" after his wife Lenora.
510** Music/TheSistersOfMercy has only two regular members left: Andrew Eldritch and Doktor Avalanche. Doktor runs the online advice column on the Sisters' website. He's also a drum machine.
511** Often professional musicians who play a large instrument (cello, double bass, etc.) travelling by plane will book a separate seat for the instrument (mainly to avoid it getting damaged in the hold). Owing to airplane regulations, they are consequently obliged to give the instrument a name (often something like "Cello Smith") so that all seats have a corresponding name on the flight manifest. Some instruments receive junk mail from the airlines or even qualify for frequent flyer status.
512* Steam Locomotives are always referred to as she, even if they have a male name. This often causes confusion to the punters.
513** Joe Duddington apparently gently encouraged ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard Mallard]]'' to help her break the World Steam Speed record.
514* Champion Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych talked to the ball before throwing it, among other eccentricities. Proof that the BunnyEarsLawyer exists in RealLife.
515* Hockey goaltender Patrick Roy was famous during his active career for naming his goalposts and talking to them, thanking them when a shot bounced off one of them instead of going in. Considering his highly successful career, he was probably on to something.
516* Build-A-Bear Workshop is a company that basically caters to this trope, where children (or even grown-ups) go to the workshop and pick the skins of their stuffed animal, fluff it up themselves, put a heart in it, and proceed to give it a birth certificate and even enter it in a system quite like Amber Alert.
517* This was done to a lesser extent with adopting Cabbage Patch Kids. It's played out completely at the official Cabbage Patch Museum. Hundreds of dolls are arranged in theme rooms. The main room is the actual cabbage patch, where several times a day visitors can witness the labor and birth of a real doll out of one of the cabbages. The audience is then asked to help name the new "baby" and she is immediately put up for adoption in the gift shop.
518* In a crossover with CargoShip, assigning names and personalities to sexual aids is incredibly common. [[RunningGag Even on this very wiki]] the term Battery Operated Companion has been used.
519* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanimate_Objects_Party Inanimate Object's Party,]] a joke political party at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that has an inflatable whale run for the position of Grand Marshall (read: Student Counsel President) every year.
520* 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.
521* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_misidentification_syndrome Delusional Misidentification Syndrome]] is a series of mental delusions where the identity of a person, place or thing is different or has been altered. One such delusion is called "Delusional Companions Syndrome", a condition that mostly affects Alzheimer's patients who believe inanimate objects are actually sentient.
522* With the dramatic increase in the use of robotic drones in the US military, there were a variety of concerns including the idea that soldiers might be more removed from battle or otherwise not want to use such things due to their inherent complexity in a chaotic environment (i.e. they'd be more trouble than they're worth). Well, as it turns out, this isn't exactly true...
523** One EOD squad ended up taking their bomb defusing robot out drinking with them.
524** A soldier was in tears when he brought in his squad's robot drone (nicknamed "Scooby Doo") for repairs. When told he'd just get a new drone, he replied that he didn't want a new one, he wanted Scooby Doo.
525** A soldier ran 84 yards through enemy fire to rescue a downed drone.
526** [[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009_2.html Some soldiers have been known to take their EOD bots fishing.]] [[SubvertedTrope Subverting]] MundaneUtility, the soldiers are not sure if they've ever actually caught a fish.
527* The custom of giving tropical cyclones human names started in 1944, when forecasters in the U.S. military started nicknaming storms after their wives and girlfriends. Giving human names to storms eliminates confusion, but it also adds a certain identity to the storms.
528* In 2007, a female swan fell in love with a [[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/love-at-first-flight-for-swan-and-boat swan-shaped boat.]]
529* The several TV examples of characters using pillows as either imaginary characters or replacements for real people is based on the real life phenomenon.
530* During the meeting between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander at Erfurt in 1808, Alexander's brother Constantine apparently told one of Napoleon's aides: "I say, Monsieur Oudinot, if your august master were to give me one of his swords, I should take it to bed with me!" (the original French sounded even more like a DoubleEntendre, with Constantine saying "''je coucherais avec elle''", which is more often used to refer to the other kind of "going to bed".)
531* A woman asks her husband to take some pictures of himself with his new selfie stick as he goes about his daily routine. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/comments/5l998f/just_doing_what_my_wife_asked/ Cue a series of pics where the guy actually includes the stick in the pics with him, treating it like a friend or a loyal pet.]]
532* The Opportunity Martian Rover (affectionately called "Oppy") held a similar place in the hearts of NASA, and nerd culture. "She" managed to last 15 years, and was even taught to sing "Happy Birthday" to herself. Her permanent deactivation on February 13th 2019 due to her heating unit being broken by a dust storm was cause for ''mourning'' in certain circles.
533* After the robotic Cassini spacecraft had been disposed of by plunging her into Saturn's atmosphere, there were tears in JPL's MissionControl, as some team members had been involved in the mission for decades.
534* Roomba has a policy wherein they will repair instead of replace damaged units because people get so attached to the darn things.
535* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakimakura dakimakura,]] a large pillow with an image of a fictional character on it, was invented for this purpose, and children in Japan still use them as security objects. However, they are more famous among otaku, who often buy body pillows of [[PerverseSexualLust fictional characters that they are attracted to]], which overlaps with CargoShip.
536* Twitter user @aritsmo owns a dog [[https://twitter.com/aritsmo/status/1001684261118898178 whose best friend is a brick.]]
537* Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu has a plush Franchise/WinnieThePooh tissue box that follows him to competitions. If he's being interviewed or sitting at the kiss-and-cry while holding Pooh-san, it's more than likely he'll make the bear wave to the camera.
538* The Robot Combat sports fanbase, among whom many of these remote-control fighting machines are far more famous by name, capabilities, reputations and (alleged) ''personalities'' than their human designers or drivers. It's not uncommon for fan mail to be addressed to the robots, c/o their build teams. Most of the teams are proud enough of their handiwork to play along, and may "Cube-ify" their creations by calling them him/her, boasting of their bots' aggressiveness, or claiming that 'veteran' machines have grudges to settle.
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