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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[MST3KMantra Just don't question how this could possibly work in any other universe, and you'll have a fun time.]]]] |
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| 7 | Ever since their invention, people have always been enamored with vehicles. So just like animals, they've been anthropomorphized. There are sentient and sapient cars, buses, trucks, [=RVs=] (motorhomes), trams, [=ATVs=], trains (steam-powered, diesel-powered, monorail, or light rail), train wagons, airplanes, helicopters, boats, ships, spaceships, etc. Name any vehicle, someone has probably made a character that's one of it. Some of them maintain a {{Masquerade}}, some do not, and some live in a world of their own without humans. |
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| 9 | This trope does not cover vehicles that happen to have [=AIs=] when those [=AIs=] are treated as separate entities that are not integrated into the vehicle itself. Also, with the exception of {{Living Ship}}s, they have to be inorganic (in other words, not a "living" being). May be justified if the vehicle [[TransformingMecha has a true robot form]] and/or has its own AI. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Things under the heading "Other" include farm vehicles, construction vehicles, bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, [=ATVs=], and golf carts. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Subtrope of AnimateInanimateObject. Often overlaps with AutomatedAutomobiles and MagicBus. Supertrope of LivingShip, SapientShip, and SapientTank. For the villainous version, see SinisterCar. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | See also SapientSteed and UpliftedAnimal. |
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| 18 | !!Examples: |
| 19 | |
| 20 | !!!Automobiles (Cars, Buses, [=RVs=], and Trucks, etc.): |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 25 | * The Chevron Cars are Chevron Corporation's clay-animated stop-motion talking cars that feature in television commercials crafted by Creator/AardmanAnimations. Modern commercials retain the art style set by Aardman, but do it in CGI. |
| 26 | * One of the species in ''Advertising/{{Cryptoland}}'' are sentient cars. These cars tend to say “To the moon!”, which annoys Connie. |
| 27 | * The Red Car and the Blue Car in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4drNFXd6dw this Milky Way ad]]. |
| 28 | * A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud6HlW3UIfs short]] for Shell during Nazi-era Germany features talking cars, and treating the fuel as drinks, and even had sentient fuel pumps. Some of them even ''sing and dance''. |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * In the series Bumpety Boo, a sentient car that hatched from an egg [[{{a boy and his x}} accompanies Ken]] in Bumpety's search for his mother. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'': Purple Buggy from the movie. |
| 34 | * In the fourth ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' movie ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheCastleOfTheUnderseaDevil'', one serves as the TheTeam's underwater exploration vehicle. It acts as somewhat of a DeadpanSnarker and {{Jerkass}} to most of the boys, although it acts nice to Shizuka, partly because she is nice to it. [[spoiler: In the climax, despite being stuffed into Doraemon's [[{{Hammerspace}} 4-D Pocket]], it hears Shizuka crying and bursts out, performing a HeroicSacrifice and taking down the BigBad.]] |
| 35 | * The Asurada series of cars in ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' are race cars that can talk and it can help the driver as well as grow with them. Justified since it has an AI supercomputer built into it as a highly-advanced navigation system. |
| 36 | * The Devil Z in ''Manga/WanganMidnight'' is a subversion of the trope. It may look like a regular classic sports car, but it can drive so fast it claimed the life of the original Akio Asakura and seriously wounded the current Akio. The current Akio treats the car as if it were alive and sentient, due to the numerous accidents it caused. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 40 | * In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Magical Book", Motu, Patlu, and their friends are [[PortalBook sucked into a magic book]] which details how their hometown of Furfuri Nagar was once populated by sentient cars and trucks rather than humans. They end up helping a female car named Baby to save her sister from being bullied by several cars and trucks. |
| 41 | * In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Happy Formula'', the characters drive their own cars. The cars are at least a little sentient since they know what's going on around them and they often look ahead or look at who's driving them. |
| 42 | * ''Animation/RobocarPoli'': The team is a bunch of sentient vehicles, with the main team being a policecar, an ambulance, a fire engine, and a helicopter, led by a human. |
| 43 | * ''Animation/SuperWings'' takes place in a world where sapient vehicles, humans, and animals co-exist, and some, such as the eponymous Super Wings, are TransformingMecha. |
| 44 | * ''Animation/TayoTheLittleBus'', a popular South Korean kids' show available in English on Hulu, is based entirely on talking vehicles and aircraft and their interactions with humans. |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 48 | * The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin RapeVan]] from ''ComicBook/HackSlash: Trailers 2''. |
| 49 | * In ''Comicbook/SpiderVerse'', amongst the weirder AU Spiders is a sentient Spider-Mobile from a universe of living cars. |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Vitamitje, their car, has a face and a personality of its own, but it can't talk. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/WackyRaceland'', DC's post-apocalyptic reboot of the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'', has the racers' cars issued with AIs that are as surly and sour as their crews: all hard, grizzled veterans of the wasteland. In one issue they are parked outside a bush pub where their crews are drinking, and... indulging in less healthy chemical stimulations (willingly or not), while talking smack and dealing with wasteland critters. An eight-legged mutant lizard jumps up and urinates on the Mean Machine, which fries it alive. |
| 52 | --->'''Mean Machine''': I've got to put up with a driver who gets me trashed in every single race and a biomechanical dog who wipes his wormy tailpipe on my seats on a daily basis. I sure as hell don't have to take crap from an eight-legged lizard. |
| 53 | --->'''Convert-O-Car''': Technically, that was urine. |
| 54 | --->''A drunk vomits on the Mean Machine'' |
| 55 | --->'''Mean Machine''': Hey! |
| 56 | --->''The other cars point and laugh'' |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'': Late into the series, a sentient car named Bugg [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse shows up for one issue before disappearing forever]]. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | |
| 60 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 61 | * "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/3726/ Nor Hell a Fury]]" is a crossover between ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' and ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' which establishes that Christine is the latest manifestation of a supernatural entity identified as a "hell-stead"; the first recorded manifestation of such a being was a horse that returned as a ghost after the death of its original owner. Dean, Sam, and Dennis's subsequent research confirms that there have been other examples of possessed vehicles, including a helicopter, a train and a boat, all of which essentially stopped once they could no longer be of use. To defeat Christine, [[spoiler:the three perform a ritual that essentially turns the Winchesters' Impala into a "good" counterpart to Christine, allowing the car to drive and repair itself until it has destroyed its enemy]]. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 65 | * RC from the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', a [[LivingToys living remote-controlled toy car]]. |
| 66 | * The cars in Creator/{{Disney}}[=/=]Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', the TropeCodifier |
| 67 | * ''WesternAnimation/ACarsLifeSparkysBigAdventure''. |
| 68 | * The song "Worthless" from ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster''. |
| 69 | * ''[[Creator/VideoBrinquedo The Little Cars]]'' |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 73 | * ''Dad, Can I Borrow the Car?''. The used cars for sale have distinct personalities, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGkVHnIwfZA here]]. |
| 74 | * Benny the Cab in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': He even [[FurryConfusion drives Roger to the Acme warehouse in a non-sentient, non-Toon car]]. |
| 75 | * Herbie, ''Film/TheLoveBug'' |
| 76 | * TheFilmOfTheBook ''Film/{{Christine}}'' |
| 77 | * Bumblebee as a car in ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'' before TheReveal that he and his friends are totally alien giant robots from outer space. |
| 78 | * ''Super Hybrid''. |
| 79 | * ''Film/RoadTrain'' |
| 80 | * The titular ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''. |
| 81 | * ''Film/IBoughtAVampireMotorcycle'' has a malevolent, sentient motorbike that is possessed by a demon. |
| 82 | * The eponymous vehicle in the horror film ''Film/TheCar''. |
| 83 | ** And its futuristic counterpart in the sequel ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge''. |
| 84 | * The Gadgetmobile in ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'' and ''Film/InspectorGadget2'', which was not the case in the [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget original cartoon]]. Subsequent Gadget cartoons included the sentient Gadgetmobile (except for the [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 2015 reboot]]). |
| 85 | * The titular ''Film/DeathShip'' seemingly has a mind of its own [[spoiler:due to being controlled by the vengeful ghosts of its former crew]]. Among other things, it can summon pieces of machinery to attack you and lower its lifeboats into the sea on its own in order to prevent you from escaping. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 89 | * A man was lost in the wilderness at night and trying to get back to civilization. As he was walking along the road, he saw a car rolling along and tried flagging it down. After it stopped, he climbed inside and tried to thank the driver...only to see there was no driver. Then the car started to roll along the road again with the man in the passenger seat. The car later came to a turn and the man was afraid they would go right off. Then a hand reached through the window and turned the steering wheel to make the turn. After some time of the car rolling along and the mysterious hand turning the wheel to make the turns, they came upon a town. As they passed a diner, the man jumped out and ran inside. He told his story to the other patrons who either dismissed him as crazy or thought there was some truth to his tale. Then two tired looking men walked into the diner and sat at a table. One of them looked at the man and said "Hey, that's the guy who got into the car [[SubvertedTrope while we were pushing it!"]] |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 93 | * In the first book in Creator/DianeDuane's young adult ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, ''So You Want To Be A Wizard'', the two protagonists enter an alternate Manhattan that is populated by sentient cars that spend most of their time trying to kill each other. |
| 94 | ** Kit manages to befriend one, a Lotus Esprit, by pulling a piece of metal out of its wheel. Later, as he and Nita are nearly chased down by the [[BigBad Lone Power]], the Lotus [[YouShallNotPass stands between them,]] [[spoiler: and ends up being [[HeroicSacrifice crushed to death.]] However, at the end of the book, it reappears in [[{{Heaven}} Timeheart.]]]] |
| 95 | * ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' and ''Literature/{{Trucks}}''. |
| 96 | * ''Literature/DrTomatoAndTheBeetle'': Dr. Tomato's new [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle [=VW=] Beetle]] is able to speak, and has BlackDotPupils in place of his headlights. |
| 97 | * The train Sei follows in ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}''. |
| 98 | * Mr. Weasley's Ford Anglia becomes this in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''. After crashing into the Whomping Willow, the car ejects Harry and Ron and takes off into the Forbidden Forest, where it [[GoingNative goes native]] and putters around the woods all year. [[spoiler: It later saves Harry and Ron from being eaten by Aragog's clan of acromantulas]]. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/DemonRoad'' has the protagonist being driven across the USA by a man named Milo, aboard a 1970 Charger which is always spotless in the morning, though he is never seen to wash it, has incredible fuel economy for classic American muscle, is always spoken about like it's alive, ''regenerates damage from a CarFu incident'' again being absolutely pristine by morning, and [[spoiler: begins to devour and slowly digest an undead serial killer who is placed into the boot, which actually deforms to engulf him]]. [[spoiler: Milo is eventually revealed to be an urban legend known as the Highway Ghost, and the Charger is his daemonic symbiote car]]. |
| 100 | * In ''Literature/VoidCity'', when Eric invests some of his vampiric essence into his classic Ford Mustang, turning it into a SoulJar called a ''momento mori'', it gains a measure of life and intelligence of its own. It is able to drive itself independently, and fuel itself by consuming the flesh and blood of creatures it drives over. |
| 101 | * ''Literature/RedDwarf'': In the second book, ''Better Than Life'', when explaining how the creation of Genetically Engineered Life Forms transitioned from super-athletes to consumer products, the first example given is living cars, with bony exteriors and flesh interiors, that drove themselves and ran on "carfood" made from pig offal. Like all the other [=GELFs=], they were essentially modified humans who were treated as slaves; when the GELF rebellion started, a VW Beetle is stated to have been involved in the first uprising. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/GhostRoads'': [[spoiler:Gary Daniels]] has his soul bound to a custom-built car, then has the car destroyed when he dies, so he can [[spoiler:be with Rose again]] as the car's ghost. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 106 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 107 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E4AThingAboutMachines A Thing About Machines]]", a man is tormented by the machines in his home, among them a car which ends up chasing him into a swimming pool where he drowns. |
| 108 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E14YouDrive You Drive]]", after a man kills a boy in a hit-and-run accident, his car develops a mind of its own and forces him to confess to the crime. |
| 109 | * ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has an episode that deals with this trope: Sabrina purchases a car from the Other Realm, and it turns out to have a mind of its own. Hilarity ensues as the car pesters Sabrina about the way she treats it. |
| 110 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' basically imitated the Sabrina example ([[FollowTheLeader as it so often does]]) with a cab that Alex reanimated. |
| 111 | * Justified in ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'', as it's Mother's spirit that animates the old Porter, but from her speech she might as well really be the car. |
| 112 | * K.I.T.T. in ''Series/KnightRider''. |
| 113 | ** A couple of episodes feature the evil counterpart of K.I.T.T., known as K.A.R.R. |
| 114 | ** And ''Series/TeamKnightRider'' gave us an entire fleet of sentient vehicles, including [[ProductPlacement three Fords]] and [[CombiningMecha two motorcycles]]. |
| 115 | * ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[=/=]''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''; the good guys had a pair of sentient flying cars from outer space. Also, the Crabbie Cabbie, a MonsterOfTheWeek from [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers the first series.]] and [[PunnyName Tankenstein]] from ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. Let's not forget the Engines of ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''. |
| 116 | * Krim Steinbelt of ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' (which is inspired by the aforementioned ''Knight Rider'') [[BrainUploading uploaded]] his mind as an AI that primarily inhabits the [[TransformationTrinket Drive Driver]] (earning him the nickname "Mr. Belt"), but can also operate the [[CoolCar Tridoron]] (which is a car rather than a motorcycle like what main Riders usually use) and speak through the [[TransformationTrinket Shift Cars]]. |
| 117 | * The cast of the preschool series ''Series/TheBigGarage''. Which also features a talking gas pump. |
| 118 | * In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'''s [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot pilot episode]], the ghost possesses the Impala and uses it to chase down the Winchesters and force them off the bridge. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 122 | * ''[[VideoGame/ProPinballBigRaceUSA Pro Pinball: Big Race USA]]'' is about a cross-country road race by cartoonish cars with eyes in their headlights. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 126 | * All the vehicles in the ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' franchise - not just the cars and trucks and buses, but the planes and boats too - have faces and are at least sentient enough to perform actions on their own (the car in ''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'' clearly tries, of its own volition, to outrun the vehicle after the Tama-Friends' special delivery to the Gotchi King). |
| 127 | * Matchbox has had a few toylines about anthro vehicles, namely ''Hero City'' in 2004 and ''Big Rig Buddies'' in 2010, both of which also had tie-in cartoons. |
| 128 | * ''Tomoncar'' ([[{{Portmanteau}} Toy-Monster-Car]], as they clearly state [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0zXwnqRh60 in the theme song]]) from South Korea mixes this with LivingToys. |
| 129 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' in general. This is with the exception of those that don’t have a vehicle-mode as their Alt-modes. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 133 | * ''VideoGame/BendyInNightmareRun'' has a boss that’s a taxi named Gaskette. |
| 134 | * Some ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games have Oboroguruma, which are ghost/demon cars that talk. |
| 135 | * When ''VideoGame/ChoroQ'' series steps into the RPG WideOpenSandbox genre, every car in it is this. |
| 136 | * ''Seek and Destroy'' features sentient ''tanks!'' What makes it funny is the fact that, despite being, well, tanks, the still manage to use a number of human mannerisms, for example, one tank, upon discovering his mooks failed to stop the main character, literally ''jumps up and down'' in anger. There's also the appearance of ''tank priests.'' It brings to question what sort of religion they follow. Oh, and then there's the final boss, the Tank Emperor, with his [[OneWingedAngel Three forms]] ranging from a massive land cruiser, a bulbous SpiderTank, and finally, a blob of gears, wires, and pure energy. |
| 137 | * In the ''VideoGame/PuttPutt'' series, the title character and all his vehicle friends are alive, with eyes plastered on the front of their hoods. |
| 138 | * All the playable vehicles in ''VideoGame/StuntRaceFX'' are alive, complete with eyes that look around. |
| 139 | * One type of Heartless in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', found in Timeless River, takes the form of a convertible car that attempts to run down Sora and his companions. |
| 140 | * ''Videogame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces Varoom and Revavroom, who are essentially sentient car engines. Team Star have managed to convert Revavrooms into "Starmobiles" that are massive trucks capable of combat. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 144 | * The various characters of Raznar's [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2o4uJt5nuOkf7iZiR3UKmSlrsrKE_jCd Tanktoons]] are sentient UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and UsefulNotes/ColdWar-vintage [[TankGoodness tanks]] and [[TanksButNoTanks other armored fighting vehicles]]. Notably, cannon barrels are often treated almost like elephant trunks, serving as a weird combination of nose, hand, and gun. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 148 | * One dream in ''Literature/NightmareBeings'' had a milk truck with an old man's face on the front that shouted "[[MadnessMantra YOU'RE REPEATING THE PUZZLE! YOU'VE BEEN REPEATING THE PUZZLE! YOU'RE REPEATING THE PUZZLE!]]" |
| 149 | * [[http://ravensblight.com/index.html Ravensblight]] is full of, and surrounded by, haunted things of every stripe. Buildings, vehicles, and even an abandoned fairground carousel have all popped up. Of particular note are the Phantom Semi, which may not have a being controlling it, we don't know; the same goes for Maxine, a black Plymouth Fury, though the town drunk swears old dead Selmer came back to get it; and the Haunted Car, a '37 Chevy that was bought new by a woman everyone perceived as being a witch and shunning technology, who was run off the road during the war years. The guy who ran her off was mysteriously "dealt with", with a plate from the Chevy being found nearby even though the car was last seen burning at the bottom of a cliff, though when towed away it kept regenerating itself in time to be sold to new owners, one of whom was robbed and left to die and whose attackers were run down by what appeared to be the car in question; he wanted it out of his life when he found it in his garage upon his release from hospital. The next owner raced it at night, and it is claimed it killed him; it was found ruined later, even though it hadn't a mark the previous night except for the broken windscreen from the incident, so it was towed out to a field and left there. Some say that if you pass that field at night you can still hear the first owners favourite song coming from the car. Is it doing these things itself, or is she still in there, somehow? |
| 150 | * The Website/SCPFoundation has some in custody or appearing in secured areas; [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2434 one item]] is part of some dead-end streets where various vehicles appear, scream around in impossible directions, and disappear. Some cars are damaged in accidents and end up in Foundation custody; they can talk through their sound systems, and give every impression that they know they're cars, and hints of coming from a world where cars live without people. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 154 | * Apart of this channel, there're others like [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PWQfUTDgxEBwmmLhRWTJw BinBin TV]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/KidsHopHip Hip Hop Kids]] that also features "Good vs Evil" videos about vehicles fighting against their {{Evil Counterpart}}s, or normal vehicles [[FaceMonsterTurn converted into them]]. |
| 155 | * The Website/YouTube channel "[[https://www.youtube.com/user/thekydstv Kids Channel]]" has various videos featuring monstrous cars, mostly ''Haunted House Monster Truck'' series featuring a "literal monster truck" (or a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin monster truck that is monstrous]]), usually going against [[SentientVehicle Little Red Car]] as the BigBad of his videos. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 159 | * ''WesternAnimation/RoaryTheRacingCar'' |
| 160 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheToolStreetGang'': A bus with a face that drives itself is seen during the intro sequence; presumably, if the show hadn’t been a OneEpisodeWonder it would’ve been a recurring character. |
| 161 | * Most of the cast in ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'' are these. |
| 162 | * Ricardo the racecar in ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins''. |
| 163 | * C.A.R. from ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''. |
| 164 | * C.A.R.R. from ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop''. Obvious parody of K.I.T.T. from ''Series/KnightRider'', even though K.I.T.T. is an AI installed into a car.[[note]]And even though "K.A.R.R." was the name of an evil clone of K.I.T.T. from the actual series.[[/note]] |
| 165 | * Some of the vehicle characters in ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' |
| 166 | * Some of the road vehicles from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', such as Bertie the bus. |
| 167 | * Creator/WaltDisney's ''Susie the Little Blue Coupe''. |
| 168 | * Chugaboom from ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' |
| 169 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy'' |
| 170 | * ''WesternAnimation/WheelieAndTheChopperBunch'' -- pretty much the entire cast. |
| 171 | * Ditto with ''WesternAnimation/MeteorAndTheMightyMonsterTrucks''. |
| 172 | * WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse has a sentient car in the short "Mickey's Rival" (as does his eponymous rival Mortimer). And a sentient taxicab in another, much earlier short "Traffic Troubles". |
| 173 | * In Season 2, episode 5 ("Car Trouble") of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', an inventor named Dr. Freeman created a self-driving car with a female personality named SADI (Systemized Automotive Driving Intelligence), or Sadie. |
| 174 | * Noddy's car, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Car]], from ''WesternAnimation/{{Noddy}}''. |
| 175 | * "Kitty", in ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'', is K.I.T.T. After K.I.T.T. made the decision to become a rapist after being jilted by Michael. |
| 176 | * The characters of ''[[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Construction_Site Jim Henson's Construction Site]]''. |
| 177 | * ''WesternAnimation/TurboTeen'' is seen as this, but his closest friends know he's really a human merged with a car. |
| 178 | * Creator/FrizFreleng's 1936 cartoon [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes ''Streamlined Greta Green''.]] |
| 179 | * Creator/TexAvery's [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoon]] "One Cab's Family". |
| 180 | * The Ghostbuggy from ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''. |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' |
| 182 | * ''Auto B Good'' |
| 183 | * The cartoon version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' had the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dragster Of Doom]] (or "Doomie") for short. A sentient car created through mad science. Oh, and he's also a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werecar]], transforming into a monstrous version of himself whenever he's in pain or to chase dogs. |
| 184 | * Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfChuckAndFriends'' stars sentient trucks. |
| 185 | * Another Nelvana series, ''WesternAnimation/{{Trucktown}}'' (itself the AnimatedAdaptation of a series of kids' books), features a cast of sentient trucks. |
| 186 | * The Hairy Bus (and his twin) from the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode of the same name. |
| 187 | * Eartha [[Series/KnightRider K.I.T.T.]] in ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite''. |
| 188 | * The [=UmiCar=] from ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' |
| 189 | * The toon cars and trains in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', most notably Ma Parker, the toon tow truck from "Calling All Cars" The episode does answer the question of what is behind the eyes in the windshield of windshield eye cars; it's a cabin complete with a steering wheel, seats, and seatbelts. |
| 190 | * Two regular characters from ''WesternAnimation/BudgieTheLittleHelicopter'' are Dell, a baggage cart, and Smokey, a fire truck. |
| 191 | * ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' |
| 192 | * The remote control toy car in "Drive My Car" from ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', Deestructor (or "Dee" for short because he feels "Deestructor" sounds mean) is sentient and shouts to the Beat Bugs for help when he's driven nearly out of control by his kid. This often happens, and he's disturbed because he doesn't know who's controlling him. |
| 193 | * The ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Rolling Romance" features Abigail, a car that Jon buys for cheap at a used car lot and falls madly in love with him, as a parody of ''Christine''. Garfield rids Abigail from Jon's life by finding a sentient airport PA system Abigail loves more. |
| 194 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E18TheHonking The Honking]]" features "Project Satan", a were-car built from the parts of other evil cars. Its steering wheel came from [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Hitler]]'s staff car, its left blinker from [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson Charles Manson]]'s Volkswagen and its windshield wipers from [[Series/KnightRider K.I.T.T.]]. |
| 195 | * In "Cutie Pie's Pizza Pies!" from ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'', Cricket forms a bond with a pizza truck named Cutie Pie who clearly wants to be with her and actively resists Miss Marmalady.'' |
| 196 | * There were two episodes in WesternAnimation/{{Regular Show}} that contained sentient vehicles characters. |
| 197 | ** The first time was in the episode "Ello Gov'nor" where Rigby tries to face his fears from a possessed British Taxi after seeing a British horror film called "Ello Gov'nor" (Which appears to be similar to the film Film/{{The Car}}.) |
| 198 | ** The second time was in the episode "Out of Commission" when Mordecai and Rigby poured energy drinks on to an old golf cart's engine, resulting in it coming to life. |
| 199 | -->'''Cart''': Woah, is this what it's like to be conscious? |
| 200 | * The race cars in ''WesternAnimation/PolePosition'' are controlled by [=AIs=] similar to K.I.T.T. Unlike K.I.T.T., the computers running the [=AIs=] can be removed from the cars and carried around seperately. |
| 201 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'', the Garbage Pailers occasionally ride in a sentient car named Rustin' Justin. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'' establishes Ronald to have a sentient car named the [=McSplorer=], who is shown to be quite a grouch. |
| 203 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/RockPaperScissorsNickelodeon Rock, Paper, Scissors]]'': In an effort to win a car show, Rock gives their vehicle "The Susan" in the episode of the same name the ability to talk by teaching it how to say apple replacing its honking sound. It's averted at the end of the episode by reversing the method used after The Susan affirms just wanting to be a normal car again. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | !!!Spacecraft (Rockets, Spaceships, etc.): |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 209 | * In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Incident The Jesus Incident]], Ship. |
| 210 | * In Creator/FredSaberhagen's ''Literature/{{Berserker}}'' series, the Berserker ships. |
| 211 | * Many spacecraft in [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks']] ''[[Literature/TheCulture Culture]]'' series. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 215 | * The titular ''Series/{{Lexx}}''. Admittedly it's not ''especially'' intelligent, but it can blow up entire planets. |
| 216 | * Moya from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. |
| 217 | * [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gomtuu Gomtuu]] from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E20TinMan Tin Man]]". |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 221 | * The Normandy SR-2 from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 225 | * The main characters of ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'' are three space probes (namely Pioneer 9, Pioneer 10, and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer [JUICE]) who gained sentience from exposure to human broadcasts. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 229 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E3LoveAndRocket Love and Rocket]]", the Planet Express Ship gets a new AI, which quickly falls in love with Bender. |
| 230 | * Captain Roger the space shuttle from the DVD-exclusive ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Cars Toon]]'' "Moon Mater". |
| 231 | * Rocket from ''WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins''. |
| 232 | * Every character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Space Racers}}''. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !!!Trains, Monorails, Trolleys, Streetcars, and Train Cars: |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 238 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': |
| 239 | ** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' had the digital world populated by machine digimon called Trailmon, who were basically sentient trains who carried their passengers to certain locations. Many of the trailmon had different looks, voices, and personalities, some even resembling mechanized animals, a kettle, and even Frankenstein. |
| 240 | ** The [[Recap/DigimonTamersM2RunawayLocomon second]] ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' movie features Locomon, an intelligent locomotive whose desire to run was amplified by [[PuppeteerParasite Parasimon]] until it became all-consuming. Parasimon compelled Locomon to run faster and faster until he tore a portal between worlds for Parasimon's buddies to invade through. Locomon evolves to [=GrandLocomon=], a larger train with a much faster engine and a spiked wheel in front, in the process. |
| 241 | ** ''Manga/DigimonNext'' features Trailmon C-89, a unique Trailmon variant based on a bullet train. It can fight using its SuperMode, [[MoreDakka Trailmon Battle Form]], though it is ultimately killed off by the tank-like Trailmon Battle Armament. |
| 242 | ** The [[DownInTheDumps Dust Zone]] of ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' is home to several Trailmon and ruled over by a tyrannical [=GrandLocomon=] who bribes and threatens the local Digimon into stealing a Fusion Loader so that it can leave the Zone. |
| 243 | ** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' features another Locomon partnered to [[RailEnthusiast Kiichi Funabashi]]. Like his predecessor from the ''Tamers'' movie, he wants to run faster and his wish is granted by a Parasimon, this time supplied by [[{{Jerkass}} Ren]] as a bribe to convince Locomon to join him. Unlike his predecessor, this Locomon can also fly, which he and Kiichi use to provide world tours to other kids. |
| 244 | ** ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'' features Resshamon, a cycloptic train that runs completely out of control after being [[TheCorruption corrupted]] by a Viramon, [[RunawayTrain taking an actual train full of passengers along with it]]. It keeps running after Gatchmon and Musimon manage to knock it out, with disaster only being narrowly averted when Musimon gets it to hit the brakes by calling the next stop. |
| 245 | * ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has both SL-Man and Poppo-chan. SL-man is a regular steam locomotive, while Poppo-chan is a baby train, about the size of ones that you'd find on a child's ride. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 249 | * Stephenson the high-speed spytrain in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' |
| 250 | * Casey Jr. in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxeLR_To0lc#t=1m05s here]]. |
| 251 | -->All aboard! Let's go! |
| 252 | * Little E and the other trains from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleEngineThatCould'', the film of the book. Also in the 1991 direct-to-video adaption. |
| 253 | * The nature-loving steam train from the Creator/{{Soyuzmultfilm}} work ''Train from Romashkova''. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 257 | * Old No. 22, a retired cable car from ''Herbie Rides Again''. |
| 258 | [[/folder]] |
| 259 | |
| 260 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 261 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could The Little Engine That Could]]'' |
| 262 | * ''Literature/ChooChoo1937'': The book stars a steam locomotive who decides to try going fast without her coaches dragging her down one day. |
| 263 | * Blain the Mono from ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''. |
| 264 | * The .007 from the Creator/RudyardKipling [[Literature/PointNoughtNoughtSeven short story of the same name]]. |
| 265 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' is actually an [[AdaptationDisplacement adaptation]] of a series of books called ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' by the Rev. W. Awdry[[note]]Furthermore, Thomas wasn't originally the main character. He didn't even appear in the first book[[/note]]. |
| 266 | * ''Literature/RaisingSteam'': Iron Girder the locomotive achieves sentience when so many people see her go until she basically becomes the goddess of all things steam-powered. |
| 267 | * ''Literature/HurrayForTheDorchester'': The title character is a living steam locomotive who was brought to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} to help the country begin to establish its railway system. |
| 268 | * ''Literature/TaroAndJiroTheSiblingLocomotives'': This book and [[Literature/DrTomatoAndTheBeetle its sequel]] feature a pair of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNR_Class_C11 [=JNR=] Class C11]] tank engines named Taro (the older one) and Jiro (the younger one) who worked on the Nichu branchline in the Fukushima area. |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 272 | * ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' had a model trolley that seemed to be able to converse with Mr. Rogers, as well as with the inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 276 | * ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'', a very loose adaptation of ''The Little Engine That Could'' |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 280 | * ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': Aside from the fact that the entire Phantom Express ''[[DealWithTheDevil owes the Devil its soul]]'', the train engine itself attacks the heroes Cuphead and Mugman in the final phase. |
| 281 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has the Phantom Train, a talking AfterlifeExpress. |
| 282 | ** One of the summons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is Doomtrain, a strange organic-looking train with a face. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 286 | * ''WebAnimation/OverTheHills'': Half of the protagonists are the locomotives of The Penwyth Valley Railway. The most prominent one is Dai, but there's also Iain and Leslie. |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 290 | * The Beast from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is a particularly malevolent Heterodyne built train and [[spoiler:Brother Ulm]] ends with his consciousness transferred into a new experimental train in order to save his life after part of the Beast blows up in his face. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 294 | * ''WebVideo/TheBritishRailwayStories'': The cast of the stories are the steam locomotives of Copley Hill sheds Allen, Stephen, Sir Ralph, Scott, Herbert, Nigel, Tavish, and later Gronk. |
| 295 | * ''WebVideo/CrossedLines'': The cast are the locomotives of the Waterdown Railway, Steam and Diesel alike. The steam engines are Atlas, Zebedee, Ince Castle, Dawn, and Ramona. The Diesels are Cojack, Wurzel, Benjamin, and Boomer. |
| 296 | * ''WebVideo/LocomotivesOfBritishRailways'': The show is likely to have a rotating cast, but they are indeed of sentient locomotives working on British Rail. The cast of Series 1, "Brighton", are the steam engines at Brighton Station, consisting primarily of Johnny, Nicholas, Rafferty, and Sir Kay. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 300 | * The train belonging to WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse in the early Mickey cartoon, "Mickey's Choo-Choo". |
| 301 | * The opening of the Creator/VanBeurenStudios Tom & Jerry short "Swiss Trick" features a sentient cartoon train. At one point, it gives out and a rescue dog arrives to give it some brandy to drink. |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigTim'': The cartoon is about a new locomotive named Tim, and how his roller bearing axles allow him to not fall victim to Kid Friction, who likes grabbing train axles and bringing them to a grinding halt. |
| 304 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Chuggington}}'' |
| 305 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/ColorClassics PLAY SAFE! PLAY SAFE!]]'' featured a rather demonic-looking steam locomotive that actually [[NightmareFuel scared the lives out of children that have watched this short.]] |
| 306 | * The engines of ''Underground Ernie''. |
| 307 | * At least two of Creator/{{UPA}}'s earliest endeavors featured trains of this kind: |
| 308 | ** The first, WesternAnimation/HellBentForElection, which promoted UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt's 1944 reelection, involves a race between two trains. One is the Win the War Special, a modern streamlined train with a caricature of Roosevelt's face on the engine, and the other is the Defeatist Limited, a rickety old train whose engine has the face of Roosevelt's Republican rival Thomas Dewey, and pulls a bunch of cars representing all that's wrong with America: hot air, high prices, taxes, business as usual (a sleeper car), poor housing for war workers, a hearse wagon for labor legislation, a small two-wheel cart with just a few apples inside for unemployment insurance, and finally a caboose named "Jim Crow." Naturally, the Win the War Special wins the race. |
| 309 | ** The second is the title character in ''Big Tim'', which was produced for the Timkins Ball Bearings Company to advertise their roller bearings for freight cars. |
| 310 | * ''WesternAnimation/RhymeTimeTown'' has Jaime, who chats with the other characters and is guided by a sentient star at night to get home. |
| 311 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' has Train, a living and talking red locomotive with a 4-2-2 wheel arrangement and a two-wheel tender who serves as transportation for Dougal and his friends in the Magic Garden. |
| 312 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLocomotive'' is centered around Linus, a blue locomotive who manages to save Samson, a fellow of his, and a few others. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | !!!Airplanes, Helicopters, and Other Aircraft: |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 318 | * ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' has Tsubasa-kun. |
| 319 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' has Storm Raider, an [[EmpathicWeapon Intelligent Device]] whose AI was transferred to a helicopter when her owner retired from sniping to become a pilot. [[spoiler:She gets transferred back to her weapon form near the end of the season.]] |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 323 | * Franchise/WonderWoman's invisible plane has been sentient to an extent in several revamps such as ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' where it commits a HeroicSacrifice and is a gift from godlike SufficientlyAdvancedAliens rather than a cloaked aircraft created by the Amazons. |
| 324 | [[/folder]] |
| 325 | |
| 326 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 327 | * Pedro the airplane from ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' |
| 328 | * ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': |
| 329 | ** Rotor Turbosky, Kathy Copter, and Ron Hover the helicopters |
| 330 | ** Al Oft, the blimp |
| 331 | ** Barney Stormin, the biplane and the four fighter jets. |
| 332 | ** Siddeley, the fighter jet from the sequel. |
| 333 | ** Props [=McGee=], Captain Munier, the Falcon Hawks, and Judge Davis from the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts ''Cars Toons'']]. |
| 334 | ** The entire SpinOff film ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 338 | * Windy Plane, the first boss of ''VideoGame/NinjaBaseballBatMan''. It's an anthropomorphic prop plane that stands on its tail and punches the player with its front wheels, no less. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has a monster called the Tsunderplane, which is, you guessed it- a {{Tsundere}} airplane, which attacks by summoning aircraft and needs to be "Approached" in order to spare it. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 343 | * ''WesternAnimation/JayJayTheJetPlane'' |
| 344 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': In “The Flying Circus”, Biff and Chip visit a world inhabited by sentient airplanes. |
| 345 | * Harold the helicopter and Jeremy the jet from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' |
| 346 | * The planes in the 1980s UK animated series ''Jimbo and the Jet Set''. |
| 347 | * "WesternAnimation/LittleJohnnyJet", a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons directed by Tex Avery]]. A sentient B-29 bomber is despondent because he can't get work in the new age of jet aircraft. He is happy to learn that he has become a father -- until he discovers that his new son is a jet, too. |
| 348 | * ''WesternAnimation/BudgieTheLittleHelicopter'': Many of the main cast: |
| 349 | ** Budgie is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin little blue helicopter]]. Lionel, the "aircraft in charge", is a slightly larger brown helicopter with a four-blade rotor. |
| 350 | ** Pippa is a green "single-engined monoplane"[[note]]a 'monoplane' is one with only one set of wings, as opposed to a 'biplane'[[/note]], although it's not evident where her engine is. |
| 351 | ** Chuck is a large twin-engined helicopter (a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, to be precise). |
| 352 | * The ''WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon'' had a sentient plane named Bombed Bill serve as the Garbage Pailers' usual means of aerial transport, with "The Land of Odd" having Split Kit, Patty Putty and Clogged Duane find themselves in the Land of Odd while taking anthropomorphic hot air balloon Cheryl Peril for a ride. |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | !!!Boats, Ships, Submarines and other Seacraft: |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 358 | * In ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' humanity has been driven out of the seas entirely by a massive fleet of sapient super ships. More than half of the regular characters are ships. |
| 359 | [[/folder]] |
| 360 | |
| 361 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 362 | * Little Toot in ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime''. |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | [[folder:Mythology]] |
| 366 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology makes this OlderThanFeudalism, maybe even OlderThanDirt, with Homer writing in ''{{Literature/The Odyssey}}'' of Phaeacian ships that "have no pilots, nor steering oars such as other ships have, but the ships themselves understand the thoughts and minds of men, and they know the cities and rich fields of all peoples, and the gulf of the sea..." |
| 367 | ** Sailors of the ancient Mediterranean had a tradition, which lasted into the days of Rome, of painting eyes on the bows of their ships. Modern historians still debate over the significance of this, but it seems that ships were commonly thought of as having a living spirit of their own, and eyes were painted on their prows to allow them to "see." |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 371 | * ''VideoGame/RainbowBillyTheCurseOfTheLeviathan'': Friend-Ship is a talking tugboat with eyes who ferries [[PlayerCharacter Billy]] and his friends across the sea. He runs on colour fuel, which drains as he moves, and can be refueled by chugging through colour refueling water. |
| 372 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ratatan}}'': Fortrun, the flying ship, has an expressive face and as seen in the trailer joins in battles. |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/DiveOllyDive'' stars a pair of sentient submarines. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/EliasTheLittleRescueBoat'' |
| 378 | * Captain and Bulstrode from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'': Bobo the boat. |
| 380 | * Several anthropomorphic boats can be seen in the ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Cars Toons]]'' "Tokyo Mater", "Moon Mater" and "Mater, Private Eye", and ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' has Crabby the fishing boat and Tony Trihull the combat ship. |
| 381 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''. |
| 382 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheodoreTugboat''. |
| 383 | * Tugger, Russel Crow's boat from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. |
| 384 | * Bucky on ''WesternAnimation/JakeAndTheNeverLandPirates'' seems to have limited sentience, in that he will obey commands and sometimes act independently. He can't talk, though, and is mostly just used as a way to get from place to place. |
| 385 | [[/folder]] |
| 386 | |
| 387 | !!!Other: |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 390 | * Elea in ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}''. Joseph's jet bike with chatty and [[FairySexy all-around shapely]] little [[ProjectedMan holographic avatar]]. |
| 391 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' features Machmon, a cybernetic motorcycle who loves to race, but used the power boost from a Parasimon to unfairly beat his competition. As a result, Parasimon periodically sends him out of control and he lives all alone on his track until he meets Yamato and Gabumon, the latter of whom is also a something of a racing enthusiast. |
| 392 | * Kino rides a talking motorcycle named Hermes in ''Literature/KinosJourney''. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 396 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher2099'' made his police vehicle sentient by [[spoiler:giving it the personality chip from his old robot partner, who turned out to be in the same vigilantistic line of work]]. |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bikes}}'': Three guesses what's alive in this [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] of ''Cars'', and the first two don't count. |
| 401 | * In ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', there are tractors that act like cows and a combine that acts like a bull. |
| 402 | * In one of the ''Maters Tall Tales'' shorts, there were bulldozers that acted like bulls. |
| 403 | * A tie-in storybook based on this series called ''Mater Saves Christmas'' showed [[SantaClaus Santa Car]] (a vehicle resembling a Dusenberg) being pulled by snowmobiles that acted like reindeer. Bessie, on the other hand, despite also being a bulldozer herself, [[FurryConfusion is for some reason, not anthropomorphosized.]] The sequel featured a giant dump truck near the beginning that presumably acted like a bison. Another one of Mater's stories features "The Banshee", a monstrous earth-mover. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Films -- Live Action]] |
| 407 | * The ''Film/WarriorOfTheLostWorld'' has Einstein, a talking motorbike, although mostly it just repeated "90s street lingo" phrases in triplicate in a high-pitched whine. [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel and the Bots]] were unimpressed. |
| 408 | --> FOUR BAD MOTHERS. FOUR BAD MOTHERS. FOUR BAD MOTHERS. |
| 409 | [[/folder]] |
| 410 | |
| 411 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 412 | * The jumping (and talking) stagecoach in ''Bellacrín y la Sombra''. |
| 413 | [[/folder]] |
| 414 | |
| 415 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 416 | * Bill the Steam Shovel from ''Series/MrSquiggle''. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 420 | * In ''TabletopGame/DianaWarriorPrincess'', Diana has a sentient (but not sapient) motorcycle, that behaves like a horse. |
| 421 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Many Chaos vehicles are possessed by demons, giving them an urge to kill and destroy. DependingOnTheWriter, "machine spirits" can be this as well. |
| 422 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' has vehicles with bot brains, from transbots (buses) to autohacks (cabs) to warbots (guess). Like [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything else]] in [[CrapsackWorld Alpha Complex]], they're already [[TheAllegedCar notoriously unreliable]], and sentience [[AIIsACrapshoot only makes it worse]]. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 426 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocoCycle LocoCycle,]]'' brought to you by the same people that made ''VideoGame/SplosionMan'', has you playing a sentient female motorcycle assassin. |
| 427 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperdimensionNeptuneVSSegaHardGirls'', Neptune from the first timeline is stuck in IF's motorbike and possesses it. She can talk without problem, but is unable to move by herself. |
| 428 | * One of the races in ''VideoGame/ProgressQuest'' is "Enchanted Motorcycle." |
| 429 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduce the Pokémon Varoom and its evolution Revaroom, which are sentient engines. They’re noticeably used by Team Star to power the Starmobiles, which are treated as Revaroom with SecretAIMoves in gameplay. |
| 430 | [[/folder]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 433 | * {{Reconstructed}} in ''WebAnimation/TheStoriesOfSodor''. Ever since the mid-19th century, vehicles have had a chance to gain faces the first time they're activated, and no-one can figure out why. Faced vehicles can move on their own if they have fuel, but usually have humans with them just in case. They also have rights; for example, they can't be bought or sold without their permission, they can't be scrapped while they're still alive, and they can be euthanised. Most faced vehicles are happy with their purposes in life. |
| 434 | [[/folder]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 437 | * ''Literature/BosunsReturn'': Caravan, one of the three artificial posthuman bodies that the Bosun created to explore the Earth, is an organic vehicle who serves as the expedition's transportation and base, and like the other two houses a copy of the Bosun's own mind. He's shaped to resemble a quadrupedal mammal of sorts, with a sealed offshoot of his body cavity shaped to act as a living space in which the other two members spend their time while traveling. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 441 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'': The main vehicle characters are construction vehicles. |
| 442 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': "Super Bike" deals with Timmy wishing one up, resulting in a bike with a centaur like human half. Said bike turns out to be a {{yandere}} with HypnoticEyes who keeps Timmy isolated from everyone else. |
| 443 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': Terence, Trevor, George, and the Pack. |
| 444 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/WheelieAndTheChopperBunch'': The entire cast |
| 445 | %%* Creator/HannaBarbera: The titular character in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Wheels Wonder Wheels]]'' |
| 446 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/JungleJunction'' mixes this with MixAndMatchCritters. |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
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