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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.}}
The default mascot of the party and usually the most outlandish of the bunch. Can be a robot, magic animal, or in a more realistic setting, a [[Tagalong Kid|little]] [[Token
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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== Web Comics ==
* Parodied in the hiatused webcomic ''[[RPG World]]'' by the character Dragobo, a portmaneau character based on a dragon and a chocobo.
* Parodied in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120104020018/http://thosedestined.pensandtales.com/ Those Destined]'', where the Team Pet is also the party thief. Another adventurers party was less lucky, and their Team Pet is a [[Small Annoying Creature]].
* 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.
* ''[[Adventurers!]]'' has Chookie, some sort of [[smurfing]] pink thing. Karn has a... [https://web.archive.org/web/20090910072225/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0140.html violent reaction] during their first encounter, but he's shown to be part of the party later anyway.
* 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.
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