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Subtrope of [[Animate Inanimate Object]]. Often overlaps with [[Automated Automobiles]] and [[Magic Bus]]. Supertrope of [[Sapient Ship]] and [[Living Ship]]. See also [[Sapient Steed]].
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=== [[Advertising]] ===▼
▲==== Automobiles (Cars, Buses, RVs, and Trucks, etc.) ====
▲== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Chevron Cars are Chevron Corporation's clay-animated stop-motion talking cars that feature in television commercials crafted by [[Aardman Animations]]. Modern commercials retain the art style set by Aardman, but do it in CGI.
=== [[Anime]] and Manga ===
* The title character from ''[[Bumpety Boo]]''.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|RapeVan]] from ''[[Hack Slash]]: Trailers 2''.
=== [[Film]] ===
* The cars in [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]]'s ''[[Cars]]''
** There are also [[Stealth Pun|VW Beetle]] insects.
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* [[Video Brinquedo|''The Little Cars'']]
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In the first book in [[Diane Duane]]'s young adult ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series, ''So You Want To Be A Wizard'', the two protagonists enter an alternate Manhattan that is populated by sentient cars that spend most of their time trying to kill each other.
** Sentient almost everything, you mean. The [[Jerkass]] elevator and the killer helicopter come to mind.
* ''[[Christine]]''
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "[[wikipedia:You Drive|You Drive]]". After a man kills a boy in a hit and run accident, his car develops a mind of its own and forces him to confess to the crime.
** There's also the episode "A Thing About Machines", where a man is tormented by the machines in his home, among them a car which ends up chasing him into a swimming pool where he drowns.
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* The cast of the preschool series ''The Big Garage''.<ref>Which also features a talking gas pump.</ref>
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Some ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games have Oboroguruma, which are ghost/demon cars that talk.
* When ''[[Choro Q]]'' series steps into the RPG [[Wide Open Sandbox]] genre, every car in it is this.
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* ''[[Putt-Putt]]''
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Roary the Racing Car]]''
* Ricardo the racecar in ''[[Doc McStuffins]]''.
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* The cartoon version of ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' had the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dragster Of Doom]] (or "Doomie") for short. A sentient car created through mad science. Oh, and he's also a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werecar]], transforming into a monsterous version of himself whenever he's in pain or to chase dogs.
* Tonka's ''Chuck and Friends''
==== Spacecraft (Rockets, Spaceships, etc.) ====▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In [[wikipedia:The Jesus Incident|The Jesus Incident]], Ship.
* In [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'' series, the Berserker ships.
* Many spacecraft in [[Iain M Banks]]' ''[[The Culture]]'' series.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* The titular ''[[Lexx]]''. Admittedly it's not ''especially'' intelligent, but it can blow up entire planets.
* Moya from ''[[Farscape]]''
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gomtuu Gomtuu]
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Love and Rocket," the Planet Express Ship gets a new AI, which quickly falls in love with Bender.
* Captain Roger the space shuttle from the DVD-exclusive ''[[Pixar Shorts|Cars Toon]]'' "Moon Mater".
* Rocket from ''[[Little Einsteins]]''
== Trains, Monorails, Trolleys, Steetcars, and Train Cars ==
== [[Anime and Manga]] ==▼
* * [[Digimon Frontier]] had the digital world populated by machine digimon called Trailmon, who were basically sentient trains who carried their passengers to certain locations. Many of the trailmon had different looks, voices, and personalities, some even resembling mechanized animals, a kettle, and even Frankenstein.
=== [[Animated Films]] ===
* Casey Jr. in ''[[Dumbo]]'', as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxeLR_To0lc#t=1m05s here].
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** Model trains acting like snakes.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[wikipedia:The Little Engine That Could|The Little Engine That Could]]''
* Blain the Mono from ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
* The .007 from the [[Ruyard Kipling]] short story of the same name.
* [[Thomas the Tank Engine]] is actually an [[Adaptation Displacement|adaptation]] of a series of books called "The Railway Series" by the Rev. W. Audry.<ref>Further, Thomas wasn't originally the main character. He didn't even appear in the first book</ref>
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' had a model trolley that seemed to be able to converse with Mr. Rogers, as well as with the inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
=== [[Theater]] ===
* ''[[Starlight Express]]''
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' and friends
* [[Chuggington]]
* [[Color Classics|''PLAY SAFE! PLAY SAFE!'']] featured a rather demonic-looking steam locomotive that actually [[Nightmare Fuel|scared the lives out of children that have watched this short.]]
=== [[Animated Films]] ===▼
▲==== Airplanes, Helicopters, and Other Aircraft ====
▲== [[Animated Films]] ==
* Pedro the airplane from ''[[Saludos Amigos]]''
* Rotor Turbosky, Kathy Copter and Ron Hover the helicopters, Al Oft the blimp, and Barney Stormin the biplane and the four fighter jets from ''[[Cars]]''.
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** There are also remote control airplanes that act like birds.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Windy Plane, the first boss of ''[[Ninja Baseball Bat Man]]''. It's an anthropomorphic prop plane that stands on its tail and punches the player with its front wheels, no less.
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* "Little Johnny Jet," an early 50s Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon by [[Tex Avery]].
* ''[[Budgie The Little Helicopter]]'' (also adapted from a book series)
==== Boats, Ships, Submarines and other Seacraft ====▼
== [[Animated Films]] ==▼
▲=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Arpeggio of Blue Steel]]'' is about the Fleet of Fog, a massive collection of alien [[AI]]s that have taken the forms of [[World War II]] naval vessels and have essentially besieged the nations of Earth.
▲=== [[Animated Films]] ===
* Little Toot in ''[[Melody Time]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[Dive Olly Dive]]''
* Captain and Bulstrode from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]''.
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* Bucky on ''[[Jake and the Never Land Pirates]]'' seems to have limited sentience, in that he will obey commands and sometimes act independently. He can't talk, though, and is mostly just used as a way to get from place to place.
== Other ==
* Elea in ''[[Blassreiter]]''. Joseph's jet bike with chatty and [[Fairy Sexy|all-around shapely]] little [[Projected Man|holographic avatar]].
=== [[Animated Films]] ===
* In ''[[Cars]]'', there are tractors that act like cows and a combine named Frank that acts
** In one of the ''Maters Tall Tales'' shorts, there were bulldozers that acted like bulls.
** A tie-in storybook based on this series called ''Mater Saves Christmas'' showed [[Santa Claus|Santa Car]] (a vehicle resembling a Dusenberg) being pulled by snowmobiles that acted like reindeer.
** Bessie, on the other hand, despite also being a bulldozer herself, [[Furry Confusion|is for some reason, not
** The sequel featured a giant dump truck near the beginning that presumably acted like a bison.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The main vehicle characters in ''[[Bob the Builder]]'' are construction vehicles.
* Terence, Trevor, George, and the Pack from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]''.
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