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{{quote|''"{{smallcaps|The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that the Weighted [[Trope Namer|Companion Cube]] [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|will never threaten to stab you]] and, in fact, cannot speak.... In the event that the Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.}}"''|'''GLaDOS''', ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''}}
{{quote|''"Treat your cardboard box with care. Take care of the box and it'll take care of you. Don't think of it as just another box. Treat it with love... Don't be rough, okay?"''|'''Solid Snake''', ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8RRGYiCU4&feature=relmfu&t=0m20s\]}}
Take an otherwise uninteresting object, and have the other characters (or at least one character) [[Surrogate Soliloquy|interact with it]] as if it is a real character, and you have a Companion Cube. Sometimes, the object blurs the line between real and imaginary by apparently doing things which would be hard for an inanimate object to do or telling people things they shouldn't have been able to already know, but the defining characteristic is that we the audience never, ever see it move of its own volition on camera, even if it clearly must've done something.
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* Crona of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' refers to the [[Corner of Woe|corner]] that [[Ambiguous Gender|s/he]] hides in as Mr. Corner.
* ''[[Strawberry Panic!|Strawberry Panic]]'''s Kagome has a teddy bear named Percival that she treats like it's alive. Being very shy, she tends to channel her feelings through the bear. After a random act of kindness from Nagisa, Kagome asks Percival "Was that a friend of yours?" (Side note: You may know the bear as something like "Oshibaru", as it was a hard name for the subbers to make out.)
* In one episode ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', Sosuke was coaching the lousy school rugby team. He made them go through physical and mental training from hell. At the end of the training, he gave each of them a football and made them assign female names to them. Cut to one of the football players caressing his ball saying, "Don't worry, baby. I won't be rough. I won't hurt you" with a mentally disturbing smile and crazy eyes.
* ''[[Berserk]]''
** In the earlier parts of the Golden Age Arc, we see Guts as a child being taught how to use a sword. He uses a two handed blade which is considerably oversized for a kid. We later see him hugging that sword like a teddy bear while he's going to sleep. Considering that he was raised in a mercenary band, blamed for the death of the only mother figure he ever had, and the abuse he suffered from the guy he considered a father figure, it's not too far fetched to believe that for Guts the sword ''was'' his only friend at that time.<br /><br />Guts is often visibly shown having trouble sleeping without a sword and claims he can't relax without it on hand. Considering the dangers he faces this concern is probably for more practical reasons, but who's to say whether the possible emotional and practical reasons can't complement each other?
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** Ishizu has the giant rock. It's the only one who understands her.
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'': Kyon has his PDA, which can learn. He calls it [[Terminator|Skynet]] and talks to it more than once.
* Aside from Shinji himself, the first recurring characters in ''[[Shinji and
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''[[Progress]]'', Princess Luna is rather attached to an antique abacus; in one chapter, her maid Sundance claims that Luna made pajamas for it and reads it bedtime stories. It became popular for a while for writers of other fanfics, especially (but not limited to) more light-hearted ones, to depict Luna with an abacus companion.
** Another fanfic had Applejack comment that accidentally tearing her [[Nice Hat]] felt like injuring a close friend.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The Adeptus Mechanicus "Machine Cult" of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' treat ''all'' machines as if they contain sentient "machine spirits". Interestingly, ''actual'' artificial intelligences are considered anathema by the Cult Mechanicus, as it's believed that "thinking machines" nearly [[Robot War|destroyed humanity at one point]].
** Though, it is notable that Titans, The Giant Mecha of the ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' universe, are Semi-sentient, with each having its own mind. On one occasion, the mind of a Titan commander is also resident inside the machine, after he dies while still linked up to it.
** It should also be noted that Machine Spirits seem to be real, particularly in more advanced machines; Land Raider tanks in particular have a reputation for continuing fighting long after their crew has been killed. Either the vehicles genuinely are possessed, quite possible in the demon and god filled setting, or the Techpriests are building AIs into their machines without realising it, since many machines are made by creating exact copies of ancient designs that nobody really understands anymore.
*** Some 40k media state that instead of AIs the Adeptus uses the brains of large, predatory animals as organic computers, which explains why a tank can go "feral".
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