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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

%%* ''VideoGame/AdvanceWarsDaysOfRuin'': Penny/Lili from the U.S. version, and "Mr. Bear".

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Davison, one of the Nightkin will regularly ask Antler, a brahmin skull, for advice. Humorously Davison states that since finding it "everything's been going pretty well", which is actually true: Davison just wants to kill [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]] immediately while it's Antler's idea to ask them for help, which is the only way the quest can be completed without his entire nightkin troop dying. Shows up in the tie-in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' story for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', "One Man and a Crate of Puppets": the story of an unfortunate individual who is assigned to a vault...alone. Except for a crate of puppets. Trope ensures, culminating in the legendary figure feared by raiders everywhere known only as "the Puppet Man".
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Jinx and her rocket launcher, Fishbones. Interestingly, she makes his "personality" completely meek as a counterpoint [[PsychopathicManchild to hers.]]
-->'''Jinx''': Maybe we should settle down and live peaceful lives.
-->'''Jinx (as Fishbones)''': Really? I always hoped one day you'd-
-->'''Jinx''': [[HopeSpot Haha, nope! You're a death machine for life!]]
* Doug Rattmann from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' hallucinates his CompanionCube talking to him, and follows its advice. Oddly enough, it works, with him failing to navigate a turret-chamber only when he takes his medication and the Cube stops talking.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' with Sheegor, who follows the trope to the letter with her pet turtle Mr. Pokeylope until [[spoiler:Mr. Pokeylope [[SuddenlySpeaking breaks out into deep, flowing dialogue]].]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Even Raz is surprised]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Raft}}: Bruno, the groundskeeper at Balboa Island, appears to have gone a bit loopy after his sister vanished and the replacement staff failed to show. There are multiple named dolls placed over the island, as well as several cryptic notes seemingly written by them and by him, making it clear that he genuinely thought they were talking (and in Miranda's case, screaming) to him. He eventually left the island with two of the dolls (Henry and Miranda) and went to Varuna Point and Temperance. When he met actual real people at Temperance, he seems to have gotten saner, as the notes you find states that "Henry isn't saying anything anymore". He ended up leaving the last doll behind when he left with his new friends.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Heavy apparently think Sandvich is sentient ("What was that, Sandvich? 'Kill them all'? Good idea! Hahaha!"); furthermore, {{Fanon}} posits that the Soldier takes advice from his Shovel.
** The Soldier takes advice from a lot of things. He needs multiple viewpoints for a balanced assessment. (In other words, [[AscendedFanon this was made canon]].)
** There are several cosmetic items that can be used for this trope, such as a teddy bear for the engineer. In Halloween 2013 the Scout and (surprise surprise) the Soldier got in on it as well, making friends with a ghost hat and a latex maggot prop respectively.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'': Some Aspirations will do this when their Aspiration meter is red, Family sims will cradle a floursack baby, Knowledge sims will talk to a volleyball wearing a motorboard (Professor Von Ball), Romance sims will dance with a mop, etc.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' Klariskrays III acts this way towards her weapon, Clarissa the Ashen, as it constantly talks to her and tells her what to do. [[spoiler:What she didn't know was that ManipulativeBastard Luther is actually speaking to her and when she has a meltdown during TheReveal in ''EPISODE TWO'' is when he stops talking.]]

* In ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Nanami does this in episode 6 when she wakes up after having suffered from a flu and severe exhaustion. Her stuffed animal plays the other voice, and she does it long enough for Sorata, who was coming to her room with some food, to hear some of it. Somehow justified as she is interested in being a voice actor.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Rubber duck debugging]] is a practice of finding errors in a computer program by explaining the program in detail to [[CompanionCube an inanimate object, such as the eponymous rubber duck]] -- the goal being to force the mind to review the situation and organize it into a logically coherent and verbally communicable form, which greatly increases the chances of catching the root cause of the issue at hand.

-->'''Russell Howard''': I love you lots, oh, let's see what Mr. Tiddles thinks of you. (''Turns to his hand'') What do you think?\\
'''Mr. Tiddles''': '''''Die, bitch'''''!

--> "And I don't mind that, you know; believe in whatever makes you happy. The problem is that some of these people are world leaders."

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', in the episode "Quarantine". [[https://youtu.be/AOE7qTAK87o Rimmer becomes deranged after contracting a holovirus]], and starts associating with a penguin HandPuppet called Mr. Flibble, who was the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes former trope namer]].
-->'''Rimmer:''' ''([[TranquilFury Shaking with rage]])'' Mr Flibble's very cross. You shouldn't have run away from him. What are we going to do with them, Mr Flibble?\\
''(Mr Flibble appears to whisper in Rimmer's ear, leaving Rimmer aghast.)''\\

''(Mr Flibble tilts to look at the crew.)''\\

* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' lampshades this when [[AffablyEvil Number Two]] uses mannequins as a jury in "Free For All".
-->'''Number Two''': Unanimous decision!

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode, "Party on Garth", a hunter named Garth gets a little girl to confess what she saw during her father's murder by using a sock puppet he calls Mr. Fizzles; much to Dean's annoyance.

* Penny/Lili from the U.S. version of ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Days of Ruin'', and "Mr. Bear".
* Minsc from the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' series, and his miniature giant space hamster Boo.
-->'''Minsc:''' Minsc will lead with blade and boot! Boo will take care of the details. <squeak!>
* Carl Clover in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' does this with Nirava/Ada, his puppet. Justified in that she ''is'' actually his sister, and he ''can'' actually hear her voice.
** His glasses allow him to talk to other things, too. Like mailboxes.

* Davison, one of the Nightkin in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' will regularly ask Antler, a brahmin skull, for advice. Humorously Davison states that since finding it "everything's been going pretty well", which is actually true: Davison just wants to kill [[PlayerCharacter the Courier]] immediately while it's Antler's idea to ask them for help, which is the only way the quest can be completed without his entire nightkin troop dying.
** Shows up in the tie-in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' story for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', "One Man and a Crate of Puppets": the story of an unfortunate individual who is assigned to a vault...alone. Except for a crate of puppets. Trope ensures, culminating in the legendary figure feared by raiders everywhere known only as "the Puppet Man".

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', in the episode "Quarantine". [[https://youtu.be/AOE7qTAK87o Rimmer becomes deranged after contracting a holovirus]], and starts associating with a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]] HandPuppet called Mr. Flibble, who was the [[Administrivia/RenamedTropes former trope namer]].

** Pinkie's sister Maud has a pet rock, Boulder, that follows her everywhere. Not only does Maud act like Boulder is alive, but there's a running gag of {{Funny Background Event}}s implying that it is, indeed.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': '''ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH!'''

[[caption-width-right:300:Write a big H on my forehead, because I'm such a Headcase? [[WhyDidntIThinkofThat That's an excellent Idea, Mr. Flibble! Why didn't I think of that?]]]]

* A disturbing variation pops up in ''Manga/GoldenKamuy'', where [[spoiler: Nikaido]] regularly talks to his own severed ear as though it were [[spoiler: his deceased twin brother.]]

* WebVideo/PokemonTheBridgedSeries has Brock take out a sock puppet on occasion. This gets rather creepy at times...

* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' has a [[PlayedForDrama very serious and tragic]] take on this trope. [[spoiler: Asuka's doll, implicitly the same one as canon, stands in for one of her alternate personalities.]]

* Maxwell Madison Jr. in ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'' never goes anywhere without his cat, Baudelaire, and never expresses an opinion without prefixing it with "Baudelaire says..." After Max performs an EpicFail by trapping all his family in Cyberville, they ask him WhatWereYouThinking? His response is to look at Baudelaire and say:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "A Better World", the Ventriloquist and Scarface are seen as residents of Arkham Asylum, all of whom have been lobotomized by the Justice Lord Superman's heat vision. [[spoiler: The Ventriloquist was neutralized by zapping Scarface, fueling further speculation on just who is calling the shots.]]

* The little girl Kagome in ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' whose best friend is the teddy bear almost as large as she is.

* In ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Nanami does this in episode 6 when she wakes up after having suffered from a flu and severe exhaustion. Her stuffed animal plays the other voice, and she does it long enough for Sorata, who was coming to her room with some food, to hear some of it. Somehow justified as she is interested in being a voice actor.

* Yoshino, from ''LightNovel/DateALive'', prefers to have her puppet Yoshinon do most of the talking and sees Yoshinon as an individual unto herself. Yoshinon for her part, represents Yoshino's ideal self, being very brash, outspoken, and generally extraverted. Also, woe betide anyone nearby if Yoshinon goes missing, as Yoshino, who [[AnIcePerson has ice powers]], will start freezing the area over in her sadness and despair and won't stop until she gets Yoshinon back.

* Maria and Sakutaro, from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', used to be like this before Rosa [[KickTheDog tore Sakutaro in half]].

* ''Webcomic/DragonTails'' has Bluey and his companion the bunny-dragon.
-->'''Bunny-Dragon:''' This robot's an idiot. I think you should tell him he means delusion, not hallucination.\\
'''Bluey:''' You're an idiot, Barry! You mean delusion, not hallucination!

'''Big Cal:''' BULLSHIT. I'M THE REAL ONE IN CHARGE HERE. YOU WORK FOR ME.
'''Bro:''' haha, you scamp.
'''Bro:''' no but seriously he does own a controlling interest in this camp.

* ''Webcomic/CestLaVie'': The relationship between Mona and her childhood stuffed rabbit doll, Monsieur Smokey. Mona also used to talk to a potted plant called Carl.

** The Soldier takes advice from a lot of things. He needs multiple viewpoints for a balanced assessment. (In other words, [[AscendedFanon this was made canon]])

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' had a palace gardener who tried to "commune with the soil". Schlock who was sent to help him didn't like his attitude, so he "talked" with the soil in question... and then [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-09-08 with his shovel]].

* The non-fiction book ''[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/654824.The_Mummy_at_the_Dining_Room_Table?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=kuNRirkjFP&rank=1 The Mummy at the Dining Room Table]]'', in which psychiatrists discuss their most unusual cases, features a story about a psychiatrist and a young boy who insists on bringing his pet snake to therapy sessions. She ends up making a breakthrough with him when she focuses her questions towards the snake, allowing it to "answer" for its owner.

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' multimedia event ''Time Lord Victorious'', Brian the Ood assassin frequently attributes opinions to his translator sphere, which he calls "Mr Ball". The Doctor isn't sure if this is an affectation, a disassociative disorder, or if there actually is something in there controlling him.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Tough Love" has Him get the idea to turn Townsville against the girls from his rubber duck, Mr. Quackers.

** Similarly, in the classic Chicago children's television show "Garfield Goose and Friends", the puppet character Romberg Rabbit communicated by whispering into the ear of host Frazier Thomas, and Garfield and his goose friends and relatives (all the same puppet with different accessories) communicated by clacking their beaks, with Thomas responding.

** The Soldier takes advice from a lot of things. He needs multiple viewpoints for a balanced assessment. (In other words, [[ThrowItIn this was made canon]])

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''