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{{quote|''"The rabbit is cuddly! Kids like little cuddly sidekicks! I mean, the rabbit... it's a time-tested... okay, the rabbit bites."''|[[The Incredibles|Mr. Incredible]], defending an In-Universe fictional Team Pet.}}

 

 

Most of the time, the Team Pet is comic relief. For obvious reasons their mere presence can [[Narm|ruin a dramatic scene]] most of the time. More seriously, their motivations for fighting may seem kinda vague, especially when they are [[Optional Party Member]]s. You wish more of them were. This doesn't stop some of them being a member of the [[Five-Man Band]].

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* Kon the mod-soul in ''[[Bleach]]'', who insists on being taken seriously, since he has the duty of possessing Ichigo's body when he's in shinigami form. He seldom is, since he normally inhabits the body of a plush lion.

* In early episodes of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', Pikachu, when not in battle, was usually found doing something goofy while the human characters were dealing with the situation. This was later dropped with both his and Ash's maturity.

* [[Sublime]] had Louie Dog, the beloved Dalmatian of the late Bradley Nowell, who frequently joined the band on stage.

 

 

== Video Games ==

== Web Comics ==

* Parodied in the hiatused webcomic ''[[RPG World]]'' by the character Dragobo, a portmaneau character based on a dragon and a chocobo.

* The [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040528.html May 28, 2004 strip] of ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' sees Virus bring a [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Chao]] to the team, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] its role in the process, which is soon followed with a [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040611.html discussion on what to name it]. Seven strips after its introduction, it meets a demon, [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040716.html undergoes a radical transformation], and becomes a bite-sized killing machine. In [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20040723.html the following strip], it is christened "Blasphemy."

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', the non-human members of the main cast (Bun-Bun, Kiki, and Aylee) tend to fill this role, each in varying degrees (though not so much Aylee now that she's taken a mostly human form).

** Bun-Bun is actually a pardoy of this trope as he was specifically bought by Torg so the strip could have a cute animal...said cute animal is a murderous criminal that can take care of himself and seemingly only hangs around Torg for free food and lodging and whom orginially Torg wanted dead and/or gone (although it IS later revealed he has grown to actually really care about the main cast much later in the strip and fairly early on Torg was shown to clearly miss Bun-Bun when he was AWOL for a while). Kiki on the other hand plays this trope very straight.

* Davan's hairless, amorphous cat Choo-Choo Bear in ''[[Something*Positive]]'', odd for an otherwise (usually) non-fantastic [[Life Embellished]] [[Web Comic]]. Sometimes seen seeping out of box, popping out of a toaster or acting as Davan's scarf or somesuch.

* Snookums the tentacle bunny in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', although he's mainly Molly's pet. It's notable that Molly herself started out as Bob's pet, before she turned out to be sentient and grew to human size.

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', Mr. Scruffy the cat becomes the Team Pet once adopted by Belkar. It could be argued that Blackwing, Vaarsuvius' raven [[Familiar]], occupied the role before, but he's more of an [[Intellectual Animal]], and now a full character in his own right.

* Bronx in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is the pet of the gargoyle team, and their equivalent of a [[All Animals Are Dogs|dog]].

* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' has both Sphere the supercycle and Wolf the um, [[Big Badass Wolf]]. They both help in missions.

 

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