History Main / SentientStars

** The now-deleted original SCP-1548, also known as "The Hateful Star", was a sentient star that intended to destroy all of humanity, and it was heading our way. However, in the tale "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/now-i-understand-the-problems-you-can-see Video Killed The Radio Star]]", it reverted directions, and its anomalous properties made it collapse and implode.

* Evangeline, Ray the firefly's love interest from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessandtheFrog'', is heavily implied to be this. [[spoiler: After Ray dies during the final battle against [[BigBad Dr. Facilier, the Shadow Man]], he ultimately becomes another star as well.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/WIsh2023'': Star is a sentient star. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shocker.]] They're a personification of the wishing star from other Creator/{{Disney}} films like ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', specifically.

** In ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'', Aquarius is a rogue living star responsible for the death of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ComicBook/BlackCanary's husband.

*** Rao is briefly seen in an issue of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', along with other personifications of stars, at a party where the guests are other gods and members of the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Endless]].
* In the ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' Twelfth Doctor comics, the Hyperions are an evil race of sentient stars.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'', Gert slaughters a group of stars, who are shown to be able to speak.
* Several characters in the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' are stars, and one theory is that literally all stars in the MU are sentient:
** Cloud, briefly a member of ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'', was a living nebula, a celestial body that becomes a star, that came down to Earth and took on the form of a recent car crash victim.
** Apalla, a creature who aided ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' for a story arc. She used to swear "by the Grand Nebular", whatever that is.
** The ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'''s Star-Lord's origin story involves "the Master of the Sun", the ruler of our own system's star. Eventually, though, that was revealed to be a ploy; he was just some kind of evil lizard alien thing.

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* Several characters in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse are stars, and one theory is that literally all stars in the MU are sentient:
** Cloud, briefly a member of ComicBook/TheDefenders, was a living nebula, a celestial body that becomes a star, that came down to Earth and took on the form of a recent car crash victim.
** Apalla, a creature who aided ComicBook/DoctorStrange for a story arc. She used to swear "by the Grand Nebular", whatever that is.
** The ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy's Star-Lord's origin story involves "the Master of the Sun", the ruler of our own system's star. Eventually, though, that was revealed to be a ploy; he was just some kind of evil lizard alien thing.
* ''Franchise/TheDCU''
** Rao, the sun of planet Krypton, contains a giant cosmic entity of the same name who used to be worshipped as a god.
*** Rao is briefly seen in an issue of ''TheSandman'', along with other personifications of stars, at a party where the guests are other gods and members of the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Endless]].

** Aquarius is a rogue living star responsible for the death of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ComicBook/BlackCanary's husband.

* As seen in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', the stars in the sky of Narnia are alive. Every so often they get tired of shining and take a break by coming down to Narnia in human form. Which can actually interbreed with normal humans. In ''Literature/TheLastBattle'' Father Time calls them all down when it's time to bring an end to Narnia.

* Frank Herbert's ''Literature/{{ConSentiency}}'' series novel ''Whipping Star''. During the course of the story, Saboteur Extraordinary Jorj X. [=McKie=] discovers that the alien creatures known as Caleban are the physical projection of intelligent stars.
* Almalik, the central node of the massive HiveMind in ''Literature/TheStarchildTrilogy''.
* In ''Literature/{{Dogsbody}}'', all stars have living spirits. The spirit of the star Sirius is framed for murdering a dwarf star, and banished to Earth to search for a vital piece of evidence -- and, in the process, forced to be reborn as a mortal... a mortal dog, to be precise.
* In ''Literature/StarMaker'' by Olaf Stapledon, stars turn out to be living, intelligent organisms of a sort, as do the nebulae which preceded them.
* ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'' by Creator/TerryPratchett has a living sun which, along with a [[GeniusLoci sentient ocean]], is seeking an intelligent gas.
* In ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'', Calcifer the fire demon is actually a fallen star who made a contract with Howl.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]], a living star tries to take revenge on the crew of a mining ship after they use an illegal solar mining device to extract fuel from its core.

* Nina from ''Roleplay/RainQuest'' is an anthropomorphic star. Considering that she spent her life drifting through space alone, it's unknown whether or not the other stars are alive too, but considering that the game takes place in a world where all the characters are anthropomorphized objects seen in the sky, it's possible.
* The eponymous Webcomic/{{Star Power}}s, which are sentient, masquerade their energy patterns as regular stars.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation:

** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': The star spirits are living beings in the form of cartoon stars with faces, who are held captive by Bowser.

** The replacement SCP-1548 implies the sun is sapient as it begins generating thaumaturgic patterns and mass ejections which generate a shell around the solar system. The Foundation finds out too late the shell was meant to both hide and protect the solar system from extradimensional invaders which have devoured all other stars in the universe, and their attempts to study it allow one of the invaders to start consuming the outer planets.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation's now-deleted SCP-1548, also known as "The Hateful Star", was a sentient star that intended to destroy all of humanity, and it was heading our way. However, in the tale "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/now-i-understand-the-problems-you-can-see Video Killed The Radio Star]]", it reverted directions, and its anomalous properties made it collapse and implode.