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This can be any object, but it often takes the form of a [[Magic 8-Ball]]. Things that specifically are [[Artificial Intelligence]] in canon do not count.
 
Related tropes include [[Animate Inanimate Object]], [[Companion Cube]], and [[The Man in Thethe Mirror Talks Back]]. See also [[Talking Appliance Sidekick]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, the PokeDex is canonically just a database. However, Dexter (Ash's PokeDex) had shades of this in the first episode of the series, notably calling Ash "stupid."
 
== [[Fairy Tales]] ==
* In some variations of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Literaturenovel)|Snow White]]", the Magic Mirror is a smart aleck backtalker.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Oliver Wendell Jones' Banana 2000 computer from ''[[Bloom County]]''. Not intended to be an animate object, it frequently was sentient.
** Also in ''[[Bloom County]]'' and ''[[Doonesbury]]'', frequent examples of subtrope [[The Man in Thethe Mirror Talks Back]].
* On occasion ''[[Garfield]]'' will use a talking scale, which will naturally make a fat joke.
* The ifruit computer in ''[[FoxTrot]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* There are a whole lot of inanimate-object-based characters in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'', but even the immobile ones who can only blink may still snark at you.
* Lilacor from ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] 2'' is not this - intelligent weapons are far from unprecedented in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' - but the Morrowind mod of the same name veers closer to this by it being unique for the ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''.
 
== [[Web Comic|Webcomics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': In a [[Manatee Gag]], Peter [[Person Asas Verb|pulls a]] ''[[Cast Away]]''.
{{quote| '''Peter:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}YZ6D919dm7A Wilson!] What are we gonna do now?! Wilson! ''WILLLSOOON!'' <br />
'''"Wilson":''' My name is Voigt, dumbass. }}
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