Monster Roommate: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Pals with Jesus]], where the hero is friends with a powerful cosmic or mythical figure, and [[Pet Monstrosity]], where [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a monster is kept as a pet]].

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Doraemon]]'' - the titular robot cat lives in Nobita's closet (one of the earlier examples).

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* ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' (1947)

* ''[[My Favorite Martian (film)|My Favorite Martian]]'' (1999)

== Literature ==

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* ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' (1968-1970)

* ''[[My Favorite Martian (TV)]]'' (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 ~~monsterousness~~ of]] some of the others living in the house (eg. Lurch).

* ''[[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.

* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', there was the period where Spike lived in Xander's basement.

* On ''[[Angel]]'', Cordelia shares her apartment with "Phantom Dennis", the ghost of a previous tenant whose [[My Beloved Smother|mother]] [[Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere|walled him up]] to prevent him from running off with his girlfriend. (Except we only rarely "saw" Dennis past the episode establishing him.)

** He was referenced or spoken to/of in anytime an episode featured Cordelia's apartment. He was even shown helping Cordy cover up the escalating damage her visions had been doing.