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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Marge''': Hi [[Smart House|Ultrahouse]]!
'''Ultrahouse''': [[Machine Monotone|Greeting acknowledged.]]
|''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Treehouse of Horror XII: House of Whacks"}}
When a house is alive and has a mind of its own, and can think and act independently. The reasons for this can vary from [[Haunted House|the house being haunted]], to the house being robotic. The house may try to kill its owners or may be very helpful with chores. It's usually able to speak, but it doesn't have to.
If it's robotic it may have been made to serve its tenants and will [[Smart House|make its owners breakfast and dinner and open doors for them]]. It can also go [[
Different from [[Smart House]] in that it ''must'' be completely sapient and it doesn't have to be AI that makes the house sapient.
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Compare with [[Sapient Ship]]. Subtrope of [[Genius Loci]]. AI examples may overlap with [[Smart House]].
{{examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* The Puppetmon arc of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' ends with Puppetmon using his powers to bring his mansion to life as a fighting machine. Kind of a wooden [[Humongous Mecha]].
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* Nina Kiriki Hoffman's novels ''A Stir of Bones, A Red Heart of Memories, and Past the Size of Dreaming'' feature a magical (and benevolent) sapient house. It's haunted, but the ghost is an entirely separate entity from the intelligence of the house itself.
* ''[[The Amityville Horror]]'' house is sometimes interpreted as this. The below ''Simpsons'' example is based on it.
* In ''[[The Neverending Story (
* The ''Shivers'' novel ''The Haunting House'' deals with one of these.
* The Wizard Tower in ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Taliking houses in ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic6j-F55rB8&feature=related Seen here]
* ''[[
* ''[[Rose Red]]''.
* In ''[[The X
* ''[[Eureka]]'' has Jack's house S.A.R.A.H. which has an AI with a mind of its own.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'', sequel to ''[[The
* [[
== Web Comics ==
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* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'', this happens when GIR gets his mind fused with the house's computer and goes on a rampage through town (with the house transformed into a dog-like mecha) for TACOS. Otherwise, the house computer is an AI itself.
* In one episode of ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', the wizard Leonard is assigned to talk down a haunted house into calming its emotional, tenant-killing behavior.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', the eponymous house is a living creature named Hooty, who can talk through an owl-shaped bust on the front door. Eda and King tend to get annoyed with him a lot.
* In the ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' episode “Home is Where the Horror Is”, the heroes expect to find a typical Haunted House, but quickly find that the house itself is one huge ghost that preys on whoever it can trick into entering it. It is described as “like a parasite, feeding on the flesh of its prisoners, and when it’s done, entraps their spirits so that it can slowly dissolve them over time!” Kylie unfortunately makes the mistake of saying this in front of two already-terrified prisoners.
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[[Category:This Index Has a Mind of Its Own]]
[[Category:Sapient House]]
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