39,327
edits
m (remove unneccessary quote box template) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 2:
[[File:215500105_BgSKR-L-2_7329.jpg|link=Penny Arcade|right]]
A subtrope of [[Non
Probably codified for its many imitators by ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' and their walking, talking DIVX platter, but the trope could well be [[Older Than They Think]] for examples that don't fit into the "Surrey Woman's Institute Knitting Circle" mold. For instance, KITT from ''[[Knight Rider]]'' was a talking car who was a very deadpan [[Non
Unlike a lot of other [[Animate Inanimate Object|Animate Inanimate Objects]], these guys will have no problem acting up around normal people with no sense of [[Masquerade]].
{{examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
Line 16:
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* By Season 3 of [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'', [[Do
== [[Literature]] ==
Line 32:
* Stuffwell from ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' is a sentient [[Bag of Holding|suitcase on legs]], and [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|tends to make up fancy-sounding words]] when he talks.
* PF (Personal Frame) from ''[[Fragile Dreams]]''.
* The ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]: Old World Blues'' expansion has ten appliances in the player's apartment with simulated personalities [[For Science!|as part of a scientific experiment]]. The cast includes [[Terrified of Germs|a germophobic sink]], [[Casanova Wannabe|a smooth-talking]] agricultural research station obsessed with "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|seeding]]" everything it can, a [[Red Scare|virulently anti-Communist]] book processor that turns [[Orwellian Editor|potential seditious documents into blank sheets of paper]], and a [[Robotic Psychopath|psychopathic toaster]] that would [[Kill It With Fire|burn the world]], if only its heating coils were more powerful.
== [[Web Original]] ==
Line 50:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A ''[[School House Rock]]'' series from the early 1980s, now largely forgotten, was titled ''Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips''. [[Non
* Subverted in ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' where all of the talking furniture characters are actually humans under a magic spell.
* C.A.R.R. from ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]''
|