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** The 2005 ''[[The Question]]'' miniseries had him talking to "the spirit of Metropolis", who would answer with seemingly-coincidental snatches of conversation from the people in the street.

** ''[[The Sandman]]'' spinoff, ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', had one character converse with the Spirit of Las Vegas (summoned by deliberately losing one's life savings in a rigged game, appeared as a 1930's hipster in a zoot suit).

** The Sandman collection Endless Nights features a story in which the stars themselves are portrayed as alive, and even hypothesizes that the destruction of Krypton and the survival of one of its people was a deliberate set-up between Despair and Krypton's sun, Rao.

** The Sandman collection ''Endless Nights'' features a story in which the stars themselves are portrayed as alive, and even hypothesizes that the destruction of Krypton and the survival of one of its people was a deliberate set-up between Despair and Krypton's sun, Rao.

*** In the ~~issue~~ ~~where~~ ~~the~~ ~~hero~~ tells us each city has its own personality, {{spoiler|he ~~gets~~ stuck in his city's dreams}}

*** In the collection ''World's End'', a man tells a tale of another man who discovers each city has its own personality. {{spoiler|At one point the second man is stuck in his city's dreams}}

** The Endless themselves are this. Dream of the Endless lives in the Dreaming, but he also IS the Dreaming.

** A recurring character in ''[[Hellblazer]]'' is essentially the personification of London. He even refers to himself as this.

** Fiddler's Green (or Gilbert, when he's in his [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] form) counts as this.

** Fiddler's Green (or [[G. K. Chesterton|Gilbert]], when he's in his [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] form) counts as this.

** Solaris, an evil sentient artificial sun, from the ''[[DC One Million]]'' event and ''[[All-Star Superman]]''.

** Aquarius, a rogue living star responsible for the death of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Black Canary's husband.

** In Justice League International, during the Keith Giffen era, several important events revolved around the island of Kooey Kooey Koey, which was mobile and sentient.

** In ''Justice League International'', during the Keith Giffen era, several important events revolved around the island of Kooey Kooey Koey, which was mobile and sentient.

** On a smaller scale, it is implied in some stories that [[Bedlam House|Arkham Asylum]], the Gotham City psychiatric institution which houses the various psychopaths and lunatics that [[Batman]] frequently battles, is in fact a living entity that causes and feeds on madness, thus partly explaining why Arkham's patients have a particularly tough time being cured, and why the asylum itself is a [[Cardboard Prison]].

** The DCU also had a ''sentient galaxy'' in some story that I can't seem to recall exactly. But it aligned a bunch of stars to give [[Superman]] a huge powerup. Also there were some smaller living (but not sentient) galaxies, artificially made by some uberpowerful race as bioweapons. Supes, again, kept one as a pet.

* From the [[Marvel Universe]], the first foe the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' fought in the [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] [[Revival]] was Krakoa, the Living Island, whose life had been [[Hive Mind|mutated into a single organism]] by a [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear test]]. Marvel also had the aptly-named Ego the Living Planet, who tangled with such persons as [[The Mighty Thor]] and [[Galactus]]. Another living planet known as Kathulos once appeared in a [[Doctor Strange]] story. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|He blew it up.]]

* From the [[Marvel Universe]], the first foe the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' fought in the [[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] [[Revival]] was Krakoa, the Living Island, whose indigious life had been [[Hive Mind|mutated into a single organism]] by a [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear test]]. Marvel also had the aptly-named Ego the Living Planet, who tangled with such persons as [[The Mighty Thor]] and [[Galactus]]. Another living planet known as Kathulos once appeared in a [[Doctor Strange]] story. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|He blew it up.]]

** Deadpool once destroyed a [[Genius Loci]] called Id, the Selfish Moon, which used to be a moon of Ego the Living Planet.

** [[Deadpool]] once destroyed a [[Genius Loci]] called Id, the Selfish Moon, which used to be a moon of Ego the Living Planet.

** Cloud, one-time member of [[The Defenders]], was a sentient nebula, an immense cloud of gas, with the ability to assume human form.

** Another living location is Spragg the Living Hill--it was a hill controlling people's minds. [[She Hulk]] fought him, then sent him to space...well, Mole Man sent him to space. On a geyser. He last appeared in a She-Hulk issue, being arrested by Cop Rocks in Space.

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* Htrae, the Bizarro-copy of Earth that was home to the Bizarros, was sentient simply because regular Earth ''wasn't''. (Though this was only so in ''[[Ambush Bug]]'', which isn't really in continuity.)

** ''All Star Superman'' certainly seems to indicate Htrae has some semblance of intelligent and/or sentience.

* In [[The Authority]] Jack Hawksmoor can talk to and command all cities, implying that they are ''all'' Genii Locorum, albeit fairly sedate ones who don't interfere in their own affairs very often. Apparently they all have wildly different personalities, and even genders, though these are somehow strangely appropriate--the first time he fought using his city-powers, for example, Jack ''wore'' Tokyo like a [[Humongous Mecha]] suit.

* In ''[[The Authority]]'' Jack Hawksmoor can talk to and command all cities, implying that they are ''all'' Genii Locorum, albeit fairly sedate ones who don't interfere in their own affairs very often. Apparently they all have wildly different personalities, and even genders, though these are somehow strangely appropriate--the first time he fought using his city-powers, for example, Jack ''wore'' Tokyo like a [[Humongous Mecha]] suit.

** And more recently, a bizarre borderline example: Gaia Rothstein, a century baby. Her astral form looks like the ten-year-old girl she really is, but her physical form is an island... which looks like a walking, talking, two-mile high version of the [[Swamp Thing]].

* In ''[[Zot]]'', a [[Time Travel|trip to the future]] results in the hero meeting a small girl in purple clothes who makes some enigmatic comments before vanishing. She is later said to be the living embodiment of the planet Sirius IV.

* A [[Justice League of America]] limited series starring Zauriel and [[Martian Manhunter]] declares that {{spoiler|the reason the forces of evil fail in the invasion of Heaven that happens in the end is that God -IS- Heaven, down to the chairs, walls, and floor}}.

* [[Tom Strong]] has a beautiful birth of this- when the Modular Man comes to town, Tom reasons with him that the life he has, and will have, sporadically, isn't the life he wants; he'll get a couple months, maybe a year, before Tom and his crew hunt him down and destroy him and then he'll be dead for years before someone else builds the next module from plans on the internet. So, Tom offers, why not go elsewhere? He ends up on Venus. Scratch that- he ends up ''as'' Venus. Venus, in the ''[[Tom Strong]]'' universe, ''is'' the Modular Man. Which is how, in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], Venus can swat a spaceship out of the sky with a giant hand, give Tom a thumbs-up, and then go back to being what it was.

* ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' has Medusa, the consciousness of the planet [[Mars]].

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* The Galactus-infused zombies from [[Marvel Zombies]] EAT one of them.

* Barbelith, in ''[[The Invisibles]]''. Barbelith is a planetary-type body that helps "initiate" agents of the Invisibles into the higher mysteries. Its true nature, though, is pretty damn mixed; Dane isn't sure, yet Barbelith answers, "You made me" (it? [[Aliens From Earth|they]]?) Whoa, more and more questions...[[Figure It Out Yourself|better]] luck asking [[Grant Morrison]], maybe?

* The ultimate goal of Krona in Trinity was to learn from the worldsoul, the sentient soul of the planet Earth itself.

* The ultimate goal of Krona in ''Trinity'' was to learn from the worldsoul, the sentient soul of the planet Earth itself.

* ~~in the~~ [[Futurama]] and [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]] crossover comic book has Nerdanus XII, guardian of the Geek-E galaxy. looks like a giant ~~nerdy dude~~, ~~which~~ mountainous acne and an asteroid belt for glasses

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' and [[The Simpsons (animation)|''The Simpsons'']] crossover comic book has Nerdanus XII, guardian of the Geek-E galaxy. He looks like a giant nerd, whit mountainous acne and an asteroid belt for glasses

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