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{{trope}}
{{quote|I am creation and destruction. I am the power to transform and to destroy. I am every drop of Energized Protodermis that exists, and every drop is me. I am as far beyond you, creature of armor and tissue, as you are beyond an insect.|Energized Protodermis, ''[[Bionicle (Franchise)|Bionicle]]''}}
 
That [[Applied Phlebotinum]] you've known about and have been using since ever? It's alive ... question is, what are its intentions?
 
If it's also biological it may also be a [[Living Battery]]. May or may not be an [[Empathic Weapon]] or [[Living Weapon]]. See also [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]] and [[Artifact of Doom]].
 
{{examples|Examples}}
 
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Innocence from ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]''; its implied/stated how Innocence "chooses" people or something like that.
* {{spoiler|The Hougyouku}} from ''[[Bleach]]''.
* The Shikon No Tama from ''Inuyasha''
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== Film ==
* ''[[Flubber]]''
* The Crystal Skull from the ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]''.
* The angels in the various angel sports movies: e.g. ''Angels in the Outfield''.
* The antagonist of [[Sci Fi]] movie ''Fire From Below''. It is a radioactive substance, useful for both a power source and armor plating when depleted. The problem is it seeks certain substances to burn with virtual sentience.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'': you see that blue police box that can travel through time? Well, it's not just the Doctor's space-ship. 'It' is a 'she', and often chooses where the Doctor lands.
 
 
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* Metatron in ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'', the resident Phlebotinum, is at least [[Psycho Serum]] and possibly sentient. Without an AI intermediary to "filter" a pilot and metatron the pilot tends to go insane and (in the above case) construct a virtual ghost of a dead lover to embody their genocidal tendencies.
* The lums in ''[[Rayman]]''. They're small orbs of energy which usually float towards you. The [[Backstory]] in ''Rayman 2'' reveals that {{spoiler|they combined their collected conciousness to create Polokus, who would then create the world.}}
* In ''[[Freedom Force]] Versus The Third Reich'', {{spoiler|Energy X actually turns out to be}} [[Sentient Phlebotinum]]. And not exactly a nice entity, either.
* ''[[Gears of War]] 3'': {{spoiler|Immulsion, which is a parasitic lifeform.}}
* The magic cloth in ''[[Journey (Video2012 Gamevideo game)|Journey]]'' appears to have sentience and, in fact, different species within itself, from small scraps that float through the air together like fish, to a more familiar tassled [[Flying Carpet]] style, to a massive dragon-looking creature. They emit tones just like the traveler, and aid you on your travels.
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': Alpha, the [[Super Prototype|original control nanite]]. He was made sentient to be able to properly control the nanites to do tasks, but [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|that didn't end too well]]. Any body he makes for himself is basically a swarm of nanites as well... Until he burns through them and has to get ''more'' nanites to build ''another'' new body, at any rate.
** The {{spoiler|Meta-Nanite}} has some sort of intelligence since Rex could talk to it {{spoiler|and order it to cure every Evo in the world. Well, almost every one}}.