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That's right, folks: You don't need to be a human being or even technically ''alive'' to be the star. With a big enough budget, a little imagination and some talent to provide a memorable voice ([[Vocaloid|though this may not be the case for much longer]]), you can take a prop and turn it into a ''character''.
This trope is all about movies that not only employ such special effect characters, but ''put them in the spotlight'': if you can take the [[Muppet
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== Film ==
* The vast majority of [[Harryhausen Movie
** ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' - Joe is the star of the film, after all.
** ''[[The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms]]''
** ''[[Twenty Million Miles To Earth]]'' - A movie where to many audiences, the monster is the most like-able characters.
** ''[[The First Men in
** ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]''
** ''[[Clash of the Titans]]''
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* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'', which merges live action and animation in much the same way as ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
** And there's its predecessor, ''[[Space Jam]]''. The credits for both films ''actually used'' "Bugs Bunny" as part of the starring role.
* The live-action ''[[Alvin and the
* The live-action ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies
* The live-action ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' movie
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*** Gamera himself, natch.
** ''[[King Kong]]'' . Possibly the originator of the trope, to the point where Fay Wray was initially told that she would be appearing with the "tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood".
* Gwoemul from ''[[The Host (2006 film)||The Host]]'' is a CGI fish-monster.
* All the movies starring [[The Muppets]].
** The policy of working with Muppets is that one has to treat them as legitimate people, to the point that many Muppeteers don't break character during the outtakes of the production.
*** Special mention to the 2011 Muppet movie where the Muppets get their own promotion interviews with the media.
** [[Jim Henson]]'s non-Muppet films ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' and ''[[Labyrinth]]'' also
*** ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' is especially notable, as it was the first live action movie done with no human cast. Every character however big or small was a puppet. This lent to the viewer's immersion in Henson and Froud's [[World Building]].
* Jar-Jar Binks from ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' is what happens when this goes [[The Scrappy|horribly, horribly wrong]].
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* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''
* ''[[S1m0ne]]'' is an in-universe example.
* The makers of ''[[Ghost Rider (film)|Ghost Rider]] Spirit of Vengeance'' seem to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120621113543/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/idUS220754507020120216 describe ] the movie as such while trying to downplay the role of the movie's actual star Nicholas Cage.
* Variation: The film ''Battle of the River Plate'' included acting credits for the ''warships'' involved in filming it.
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