Talking Appliance Sidekick: Difference between revisions

*** When Momo goes shopping for a chassis, one of the other [[A Is]] in the shop is installed in a ''toaster''. [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1999 He seems pretty happy about it.] The AI shop assistant also says that her first job was as a sentient forklift.

* David the sentient, surly and snobbish DVD player from ''[[Theater Hopper]]'' was, on observation of this trope, introduced just to lead up to [http://www.theaterhopper.com/2006/01/25/dvd-commentary/ one panel] so that he could act "as a mouthpiece to deconstruct some of the cliches inherent in comics" as the creator puts it before being summarily [[Look Both Ways|run over by a truck]] four comics after being introduced. The creator also phrased his take on the issue in a more self-deprecating manner:

* A talking car, like KITT as mentioned above, but much more snarky and meanspirited Ultra Car from ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]''.

* Tor the Calculate from ''Funny Farm'' is a... [[Stealth Pun|I think you can guess]]. Interestingly he is the sidekick of the main villain, who is a talking computer (although [[Computer Equals Monitor|you see only a monitor]]) called PC who, in his first appearances, was a bit more like the other examples before gaining freedom and becoming a [[James Bond|Bond]] villain in a [[Doctor Doom]] green cloak.