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== Advertising ==
* These show up in commercials for [[McDonald's]] a lot, and not just [[Anthropomorphic Food]]. One commercial from the 70s had talking trash cans and walking forks, while commercials from the 90s suggested everything in Ronald's house was alive, including furniture, utensils, and even his big, red clown shoes. Which he got from the Tooth Fairy for some reason.
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'': Where the hell do we start?!! Main characters are: an egotistical sugar confectionery Don Patch, soft service ice-cream for a head, Softon, walking jelly mold Jelly Jiggler, and Torpedo girl. Non-main characters are hamburger men, the dynamite brothers, a green onion man (or is he garlic?), and talking fries and chocolate.
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* ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' has several of the household items in Ureshiko's home are alive, thanks to her magic.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Big Mom's ''Soru Soru no Mi'' Devil Fruit lets her turn ''anything'' into this Trope. Not just tangible objects either, she can use it on meteorologic effects like clouds and rainbows. She's even done so to [[Nice Hat|her hat!]]
* Baita, the talking motorcycle Hane uses at the driver's ed school where she earns her license in ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' Part of the [[Magic Realism]] that laces through the series, Baita and her advice are critical to Hane learning to be a confident driver -- and she's shown to ''not'' be a figment of Hane's imagination when one of the school's staff is shown speaking with her.
== Comic Books ==
* [[Doctor Strange]]'s Cloak of Levitation has the ability to move on its own and can also grasp and hold things like a second pair of hands.
* In one ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' comic book adapation, the hero finds that the costumes of all of St. Canard's villains are committing crimes ''without'' the villains wearing them. The actual villain is the tailor who designed them; seeing as "those deadbeats won't pay me enough!" he created some formula that made them animate. The hero manages to defeat the costumes with an ample supply of fabric softener.
== Fan Works ==
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* And if ''Rubber'' isn't silly enough for you, try ''[[Slacks]]'' where the killer is a living pair of jeans. Although, unlike ''Rubber'', that [[Genre Busting|occasionally ''tries'' to be serious]], there's no question here that this is a lampoon.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Stephen King's ''[[Christine]]'' is one. Then again, his usage of this trope (from [[The Shining|Killer hedge animals]] to [[The Mangler (novel)|laundry machines]] is so prevalent in his work it has been parodied in [[Family Guy]], where a Stephen King running low on ideas ([[Affectionate Parody|implicitly due to this trope and his prolific output]]) is reduced to pitching "Oooh, Scary Lamp!". {{spoiler|The pitch is accepted.}}
* The Luggage from the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels is made of sapient pearwood and runs around on a hundred tiny legs. This being Discworld, there is no Masquerade involved. People just naturally get out of the way of the box that could eat them.
** Sapient pearwood Luggages see a fair amount of use in the Agatean Empire. However, ''the'' Luggage, the best-known in the novels, has been noted to be a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|little more aggressive]] than its siblings.
*** Judging by some descriptions of The Luggage's trip around the Counterweight Continent, it can also mate and have children. Yes, that's right; two wooden chest are implied to have you knowed, [[Brain Bleach|try that out of your heads folks.]]
*** It didn't mate with the other Luggage, they ''built'' their offspring. There were ''sawing and hammering'' noises when the two slipped off alone together, presumably into a grove of sapient pearwood trees.
** Discworld's trolls and gargoyles are implied to have originated when rocks and statues respectively invoked this trope. The Power
* The titular protagonist of ''[[The Velveteen Rabbit]]''.
* A variant is seen in the novel ''Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls''; the protagonist can speak to any inanimate object that has been handled by humans enough. Some of them have... unique... personalities, like the bomb that really, really wants to explode.
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* The protagonist of Seanan McGuire's ''[[Literature/Velveteen|Velveteen]]'' stories has this as a superpower, though it only works on inanimate objects that have been made to look like living things. She can also modify them to an extent to give them weapons, i.e. a stuffed bunny rabbit growing claws and sharp teeth when she brings it to life to combat her enemies.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
▲== Live Action TV ==
** The Nestene Consciousness' Autons
*** Or its most impressive accomplishment: real people.
** Also from ''Doctor Who'', the Weeping Angels as a special example, in that they have always been animate, but can only move when no one is watching them. They ''most frequently'' take the form of [[Living Statue|ultra-creepy statues]] but, ''anything'' that holds the image of an angel can ''become'' an angel if one of them is close. So a photograph, a TV screen, or even a sketch might come alive. Don't put them near other statues.
* Inverted in ''[[Soap]]''. Bob is strictly a ventriloquist doll but often characters will forget and talk to him like he's a separate character from Chuck, the one who controls him. The [[Only Sane Man]], Benson, is one of the few who never gets confused.
* This is the entire premise of the Brian Fuller show ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' though only the main character can see them.
* ''[[Haven]]'':
** An episode
** Another episode has stuffed animals {{spoiler|and people}} come alive.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, told by Ovid, which makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* According to a Japanese legend, objects owned and used for a hundred years (teapots, umbrellas, etc) become alive. [[Fridge Logic]] waves away some problems by explaining electricity repels such creatures, hence modern examples
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
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* A large chunk of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'''s supporting cast is made up of these, all possessing [[Rare]]'s now-trademark "googly eyes". This was toned down a lot for the sequel, ''Banjo-Tooie'', and in the third installment, Nuts & Bolts, there are no characters like this at all.
** ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'' brought back this style of character and [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] it, showing what life for a living, googly-eyed piece of cheese or sweetcorn must be like.
* Both [[Super Mario
** ''[[Mole Mania]]'' also has Muddy fighting Funton, an animate 100-ton weight who occasionally jumps sky-high and delivers a damaging tremor if you're foolish enough to stay underground when he lands.
* Grimoires [[Theme Naming|Weiss, Noir, and Rubrum]] in ''[[NieR]]'' are all ancient books that are capable of speech and float around on their own. Weiss lends help in the form of magic attacks (and [[Only Sane Man|British-accented snarky commentary]]) to the main character. On the other hand, Noir and Rubrum are mustache-twirlingly evil and bugfuck insane, in that order.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Circuit]]'' very much [https://web.archive.org/web/20131209033822/http://unbalancedhumors.com/?p=4 Humanizes internal computer parts.]▼
* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' takes this in a disturbing direction. Blowup dolls have minds and can remember everything that's been done to them. A fairy occasionally shows up to animate them as full humans, whereupon they usually a): [[Driven to Suicide|kill themselves]], b): kill their former owners, and /
▲* ''[[Circuit]]'' very much [http://unbalancedhumors.com/?p=4 Humanizes internal computer parts.]
▲* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' takes this in a disturbing direction. Blowup dolls have minds and can remember everything that's been done to them. A fairy occasionally shows up to animate them as full humans, whereupon they usually a): [[Driven to Suicide|kill themselves]], b): kill their former owners and / or or c): become prostitutes and remain as objectified as before, since they lack the education and skills to make decent lives for themselves. This being ''[[Sexy Losers]]'', all three of those fates are [[Played for Laughs]].
* ''[[My Milk Toof]]'' is about two walking, talking milk teeth.
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' loves this trope, often taking it to dark and scary places.
* ''[[The
* ''[[The Fourth]]'' has ghosts possessing [http://thefourthcomic.com/?p=438 swords and plant pots].
* ''[[Evil Inc.]]'' had [//evil-inc.com/comic/thanks-for-the-memo-6/ Matter Animator] built by Dr. Muskiday. It turns out [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|an accidental discharge]] may have really weird consequences.
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* The [[Insane Cafe Series]] features living vehicles that help fight against Chong.
* Some of the characters from ''[[Weebl and Bob]]''.
* The [[Short Film]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAfC5yW_hw "Gisoku no mōzesu" ("Moses with prosthetic feet", roughly)] on [[YouTube]] features a pair of animated shoes teaming up with a [[Cute Ghost Girl]] who has [[Fog Feet]] to dance to the song "Moses Supposes" from ''[[Singin' in the Rain]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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