Basic Trope: A vehicle that is alive.
- Straight: Carol the car is alive.
- Exaggerated: Carol is self aware.
- Downplayed: Carol can talk, but not much else.
- Justified:
- Carol has an AI built into her.
- Carol is possessed.
- Carol lives in a world where humans don't exist, and cars are the dominant species.
- Inverted: Carol the car allows Bob the human to be sentient.
- Subverted: Carol is not really alive, but Bob treats her as though she is.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob installs an AI into Carol that grants her sentience.
- Tony the truck really is alive.
- Parodied: The vehicles are alive, but the humans are not
- Zig-Zagged: Some vehicles are alive, some aren't, and some are only partially alive.
- Averted:
- There are no vehicles.
- The vehicles aren't alive.
- Enforced: The story is about sentient vehicles.
- Lampshaded: "What? My car can talk?!"
- Invoked: Bob installs an AI into Carol.
- Exploited: Carol is Bob's best friend.
- Defied: Bob destroys Carol's AI.
- Discussed: "Could cars be alive?"
- Conversed:
- "How is that car alive?!"
- Implied: Bob is seen talking to Carol.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs:
- Played for Drama:
- Played for Horror: Carol is also a Sinister Car
Drive back to Sentient Vehicle.
