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== Advertising ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDQ1XwC8iPo This Halloween-themed commercial for Geiko]; one of the two girls wanted a roommate who could help with cooking, the other wanted one who liked cats. [[Be Careful What You Wish For| They wind up with a witch.]]
== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' - the titular robot cat lives in Nobita's closet (one of the earlier examples).
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* Similarly, in ''[[Bleach]]'', shinigami Rukia lives in Ichigo's closet (much to his displeasure)
* In [[Mahou Sensei Negima]], Kotaro starts staying with Natsumi and Chizuru after a little incident that resulted in amnesia. He gets his memory back, and he's been staying with them ever since (even using Natsumi's surname so he can pass as her "little brother". Considering they're well on the way to [[Official Couple]], one has to wonder what that implies.)
* The plot of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' - Melan, a flying alien cyborg with weapons for hands, moves in with Marin and her human family in order to protect her from other aliens that try to kill her. He is treated as a member of the family by everyone in the house.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Ryuk, a Shinigami, lives in Light's room, and describes himself as being his roommate.
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* ''[[My Favorite Martian (film)|My Favorite Martian]]'' (1999)
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]''; one cartoon shows a man and his wife at night, investigating a noise in the kitchen. They find an ugly, hulking, tusked, four-eyed monster going through the refrigerator - and are relieved that's it's "just Kevin".
== Literature ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' (1968-1970)
* ''[[My Favorite Martian (TV)|My Favorite Martian]]'' (1963-1966)
* ''[[The Addams Family]]'' (1964-1966) lived with The Thing, as well as frequent visitor Cousin Itt, and YMMV [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism|on the monstrousness of]] some of the others living in the house (eg. Lurch).
* ''[[The Munsters]]'' (1964-1966) inverted the trope (perhaps before it was fully developed) with family of token monsters and a human live-in relative Marilyn.
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** Lorne also filled this role quite a bit in later seasons. See also the page quote. Both ''Buffy'' and ''Angel'' were regular employers of this trope.
* SARAH, the Smart House on ''[[Eureka]]'', might qualify. Some people are certainly freaked by the idea of living inside HER and her actions/over-reactions in one of the later first season episodes made her the [[Monster of the Week]] when she thought Sheriff Carter was going to leave town.
* The show ''[[Being Human (UK)|Being Human]]'', where a vampire and werewolf move into an apartment that they later realize is haunted by a ghost. They all get along better than you might expect.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Lilo and Nani from all the ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' movies and the television series.
* In ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', Mark lives with Randall, a zombie. Of course, this is a series where the monsters considerably outnumber the humans, so Mark doesn't see anything particularly strange about his living arrangements, even though Randall has brain cravings that seem reminiscent of a recovering alcoholic and tends to borrow Mark's things without asking.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' once faced against an evil alien named Thrakkorzog, ruler of dimensio... Errr... ''Apartment'' 14-B. He was roommates with a man who was barely even aware that he was sharing rent with a [[Blob Monster]] from outer space.
{{quote|'''Arthur:''' Are you aware your roommate is a hideous monster from another dimension with evil plans for world domination?
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