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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' gives us Chamo, the talking [[Weasel Mascot|ermine]]. He's also a bit of a mentor, though.

* ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'' has V-8 (Asuka's pet dog) to the Sugo Asurada team.

* Ryo-Ohki from [[Tenchi Muyo!]] certainly belongs here, when she's not a [[Cool Starship]].

* [[Super Sentai]] has a few of these, most notably IC the cyborg dog from ''[[Denshi Sentai Denziman]]'' who {{spoiler|dies by using himself as a power circuit for the [[Humongous Mecha]], but gives the team one final [[Tear Jerker]] message}}.

* ''[[Lexx]]'' had 790 the robot head (and briefly, Squish the cluster lizard).

* Classic ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had K-9.

* In ''[[Primeval]]'' we get Rex, a Coelurosauravus from the Permian anomaly. He doesn't serve much purpose, except to hang out and look cute, possibly to counter all of the [[Nightmare Fuel]].

* Cupil from ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' fills this role, but doubles as Fina's weapon. To a lesser extent, the "Jester" Pow, who's Vyse's <s>dog</s> [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|huskra]].

* Hans in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', a (vestigially) winged pig. Exists mostly to look [[Even the Dog Is Ashamed|embarrassed]] when the protagonist flubs romantic moments in cut scenes.

** And, apart from being the [[McGuffin]] at the end of one chapter, he doesn't have any impact on the story at all. And, the best that the main character can get out of his [[Relationship Values]] with Muppy? ''A pinky swear''. No, really.

* Similarly to R2-D2 in the movie example, T3-M4 from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is essentially a very useful team pet.

* Ricky [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|the monkey]] from ''[[Dubloon]]''.

* In ''[[Mother 3]]'', one of the party members is the main character's dog, [[Loyal Animal Companion|Boney]], who is also the only character besides main character Lucas to appear in every chapter.

* ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'''s [[Dub Name Change|Borongo/Saber]] is a sabrecat served as [[The Hero]] and Bianca's Team Pet. Though in the later of the game, Borongo has no more importance to the plot, and you can develop your own army of monster Team Pet.

** ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' has Munchie, [[The Hero]]'s rat pet that is very smart. It can be used to clear curtain puzzles in a dungeon. {{spoiler|It turns out very latter that Munchie is [[The Hero]]'s ancestor in disguise.}}

* 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.

* ''[[Adventurers!]]'' has Chookie, some sort of [[SMURFING]] pink thing. Karn has a... [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.

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