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[[File:rise_of_darkrai_ash_pikachu_7378.jpg|link=Pokémon (Animeanime)|frame|The average Pikachu weighs 13.2 pounds (6.0kg). Ash is ([[Comic Book Time|still]]) 10 years old.]]
 
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]''
** Pikachu often rides on Ash's shoulder. However, he's heavy enough to tip him over, which may have been lampshaded once when it takes James a bit to get used to the sudden weight of the [[Criminal Amnesiac|amnesiac electric mouse]].
** Similarly, Iris's Axew pops out from her hair to form this appearance on her shoulder.
* Boota from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. Whenever he isn't [[Victoria's Secret Compartment|in Yoko's cleavage]], he's on Simon's shoulder.
** The prequel video depicts [[Four-Star Badass|General]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Guame]] [[The Dragon|The Immovable]] doing the same thing with Lordgenome. Obviously this is before he partially evolved.
* In ''[[Zero Seven 07-Ghost]]'', a dragon-like creature rides on Teito Klein's shoulder.
* As part of her part as an evil witch in the [[Non-Indicative First Episode]] of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', Nagato gets a shoulder-mounted cat. It tends to slide off, so she has to keep pushing it back up throughout the episode. Kyon's sister has the cat [[Head Pet|on her head]] in the opening sequence.
* Luna and Artemis from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
* ''[[XXX HolicXxxHolic]]'': After much experimentation (including up Watanuki's shirt, and probably once or twice in his pants), Mugetsu appears to have found his(?) niche as a shoulder pet.
* ''[[Moyashimon]]'' has a weird example: Tadayasu Sawaki is often seen with an anthropomorphic spore of ''Aspergillus oryzae'' sitting either on his shoulder or on his head. It's often seen chatting up other microorganisms, or making comments on the craziness in Sawaki's life (even though Sawaki and the audience are the only people who can see or hear it).
* Yachiru in ''[[Bleach]]'' is often found clinging to Kenpachi's shoulder. '''''[[Berserk Button|Do not try to steal her spot.]]'''''
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== Card Games ==
* ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Gamegame)|Munchkin]]'' has the Cute Shoulder Dragon, which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: a cute little dragon that sits on your shoulder and gives a higher bonus to women than to men (is Dragons Like Women a trope yet?).
 
 
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== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'': Maleficent's raven (later Ret-Named "Diablo") takes this spot.
* ''[[Tangled]]'': Pascal is usually seen riding on Rapunzel's shoulder, or failing that, her head.
 
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== Literature ==
* Captain Flint, Long John Silver's parrot in ''[[Treasure Island]]'', may be the [[Ur Example|ur-example]].
* ''[[The Sword in Thethe Stone]]'': Merlin's pet owl, who is very stuck up, can be shut up by lowering your hand he's perched on, forcing him to run up your arm to your shoulder, thus demonstrating to him that he is only a bird and thus subject to a bird's instincts.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'', Lady Sybil Ramkin is seen training swamp dragons to sit on one's shoulder, as shoulder-sitters are in fashion. However, the would-be fashionistas often don't consider the consequences of having a volatile creature on your shoulder, as Sybil details: "... next thing you know, you've got crap all down your back and a singed hairstyle."
* It is a centuries old tradition in ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' that treecats ride on the right shoulder of their human, necessitating that a treecat's person include padding in their wardrobe to accommodate their claws. On occasions where Honor doesn't have access to her regular wardrobe, she simply carries Nimitz. This also goes for those adoptees who aren't quite strong enough to go walking about comfortably with a 30+ pound cat riding on their shoulders.
* Beauty, Menolly's [[Dragonriders of Pern|queen fire lizard]], reserves this position exclusively for herself.
 
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== Web Comics ==
* Blackwing, Vaarsuvius' raven familiar from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', has started riding of V's shoulder once the wizard stopped acknowledging the bird's existence only when s/he remembered about him. This can sometimes look weird, since [[Stick Figure Comic|stick figures in this comic]] have heads bigger than their shoulders are wide.
* Bun-Bun and Kiki of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' regularly rides some shoulders. Kiki is just a cute [[Weasel Mascot]], but for Bun-Bun... it isn't like anybody would dare saying "no" to the little bunny psychopath.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Both Iago the parrot and Abu the monkey in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' the series.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''
** The illustration on the cover of ''[[Treasure Island]]'' that Bart was supposed to read for a book report, but didn't.
{{quote| '''Bart:''' Fellow students, prepare to be dazzled! ''(walks to the front of the room)'' Well, as Mrs. Krabappel already mentioned, the name of the book that I read was ''Treasure Island''. It's about these... ''(describing the book jacket)'' pirates. Pirates... with patches over their eyes... and... shiny gold teeth... and green birds on their shoulders... ''(pause)'' Did I mention this book was written by a guy named [[Robert Louis Stevenson (Creator)|Robert Louis Stevenson]]? And published by the good people at McGraw Hill. So, in conclusion, on the Simpson scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, one being the lowest, and five being average, I give this book... a nine. Any questions? ''(hands go up)'' Nope? Then I'll just sit down.}}
** [[Played With]] in the episode "Simpson Safari", where they take a trip to Africa and meet their guide, Kitenge who first appears with a bush baby on his shoulder. Lisa comments on it being cute. Cue Kitenge being surprised it's there and shooing it away.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
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