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* Smiley the Psychotic Button will, if separated from [[Evil-Ernie]] long enough, eventually revert back to an ordinary novelty pin.
* The 1988 Marvel comic book event [[Inferno (Comic Book)|Inferno]] involved several objects in New York coming to life thanks to Magik and Madeline Pryor's actions resulting in demons invading New York. Everything went back to normal after Pryor died and Magik was turned back into a child.
* While [[Wonder Woman]] being made out of clay doesn't come up often, one issue had Clayface attempt to eat her to enhance his shapeshifting powers, attempting to invoke this trope. He succeeded in eating a bit of that clay, causing her to shrink and resemble Donna Troy aka the original Wonder-Girl. Diana went to Donna for help, and they conspired to steal back Diana's essence by using their new resemblance to fool Clayface. Fortunately, ''Donna'' didn't have the same weakness, meaning when she dresses in Wonder Woman's costume, Clayface has to spit her out when trying to absorb her.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* The Disney version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' has this hanging on the head of the inhabitants of Beast's castle all the time: if Beast doesn't become a better person before the last petal of a rose falls, they will become completely inanimated. Forever.
* ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' discusses this: can you have free will if you are built as a weapon of destruction? Hogarth explains to the titular character about souls and death after they see a deer shot in the woods, and that souls allow you to live after death. His friendship with the Giant means {{spoiler|the latter overcomes his programming during a conflict with the military, and pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save the town from a nuclear missile. His last words? ''"Superman!"''}}
* ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' shows the Carpet suffering this fate after it attempts to steal the lamp from Jafar; Jafar spitefully turns it into unraveled thread and fabric. (Carpet gets better after Aladdin tricks Jafar into becoming a genie.)
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* The stage version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' has Cogsworth and Lumiere discuss this. Some of the servants are already turning into inanimate objects, and they don't know who is next.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* They player can quite easily stop the protagonist of [[No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!]] by running out of time, which
* The Subspace Emissary story in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' shows that once a character is defeated, they return to being a collectable trophy.
* The Blades of [[Xenoblade Chronicles 2]] start their lives as inanimated crystals, called core crystals. When someone able to be a Driver touches them, they gain physical bodies with weapons that they give to their Drives to wield while they offer support from the sidelines. If the Driver is killed or, more dramatically, their core is shattered, they turn back into core crystals. Of course, they can only become animated again if a Driver touches them and their core is intact. This also applies if the Driver's heart stops beating but he is resurrected later, so even the necessity of killing the Driver is relative.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Treehouse Of Horror VI, the giant advertising mascots that were brought to life by a storm are rendered inert by simply ignoring them.
* The rat talisman of [[Jackie Chan Adventures]] can animate an object into life if the object is shaped into the image of a living thing, but you just need to remove physical contact between it and the object to make it inanimated again. Interestingly, that is
* In ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' Holiday Special, this plays out to a Nightmare Fuel effect. Previous episodes have established the bus is sapient, and as a result can become [[The Chew Toy]] depending on the plot. When Wanda wants to see a world with no recycling, Liz turns the Bus into an un-recycling machine and they see the consequences firsthand. Wanda then accidentally compels the Bus to shoot ''itself'', reducing it to recycled plastic, metal and glass parts while the grinning skeletal structure remains. The kids have to remake all the bus parts with Miss Frizzle's help to fix things.
* In the ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' short ''[[A Grand Day Out]]'', the moon is home to a coin-operated robot. Inserting a coin buys the robot a limited amount of life, and when the credit runs out, it freezes in place.
== [[Other Media]] ==
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