Disney, due to its extensive and often mixed use of Funny Animals, Civilized Animals and Intellectual Animals and the many, many series and mediums its various characters have appeared in, has no shortage of examples.
- The most obvious Disney example, cited in the quote on the main page: Mickey Mouse is an anthropomorphic mouse. His best friend Goofy is an anthropomorphic dog who walks on two legs. Mickey's pet Pluto is a (relatively) normal dog that mostly behaves like a real dog.
- This is parodied on Drawn Together, during a montage of hostage situations. One of those situations is Pluto holding a gun to Goofy's head screaming, "He's the only fucking dog who's good enough to wear fucking pants? Well, I want to wear the fucking pants for once!" (before casually shooting Goofy and then himself).
- A comic strip also made fun of this: A cartoonist makes a strip in which the main hero is a "mouse", his best friend is a "dog" and his pet is also a dog. Said strip is rejected for lacking consistent internal logic.
- A segment of The Simpsons that spoofed Lady and the Tramp featured most of the cast as talking, but non-anthropomorphic animals. At one point, we see a transparent Goofy parody being led to the gas room in a dog pound, despite insisting that he's "half human."
- In some theatrical cartoons, Goofy owns a pet dog. He is also, for some reason, identified as George G. Geef in these cartoons, and his floppy dog-ears are not visible. A short film, "The Goofy Success Story", played with the Animated Actors trope by showing Geef as a role that Goofy played as an actor.
- The Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Dog Show" finally hung a lampshade on it, with Pluto getting injured before the titular show and Mickey having to substitute Goofy in his place, which goes as well as you'd expect. And apparently, Mickey makes for a better non-anthro dog than Goofy does.
- Another 2013 Mickey short, "Easy Street", has Goofy notice that Pluto lives an easy life as a pet, and decide to imitate a pet dog so he won't have to work for a living. To Pluto's consternation and jealousy, Goofy hogs all of Mickey's treats and attention, and Mickey himself doesn't question this even once. Pluto finally gets Goofy to leave by tricking him into accompanying him on a trip to a "doggie spa" — which entails getting washed, something Goofy can't stand; the spa manager there seems to treat Goofy like a pet dog as well.
- Goof Troop:
- A notable Lampshade Hanging occurs during an episode in which Goofy, when confronted by a pair of vicious non-anthro canines, says something to the effect of: "I'm great with dogs. It's like I'm one of the family".
- Goofy has a pet cat, and Pete has a pet dog. While Pete was originally a cat, his later appearances suggest he's a dog or maybe a wolf. And then there are a number of similar but separate characters existing in a number of mutually exclusive universes and a whole bunch of cartoon shorts that have Negative Continuity anyway. There are even multiple Petes running around the DuckTales (1987) universe.
- In another episode, Goofy hears a crash in his garage and assumes it was made by a giant mouse. Aside from a quick cameo in A Goofy Movie, Mickey never appeared on Goof Troop, but...
- A 1930s cartoon, Mickey's Good Deed, has Mickey playing Santa Claus to a family of poor cats — smaller than him. Pete is apparently the absentee father, as there's a picture of him, in prison stripes, on the wall. You can tell they're poor as their empty cupboard is overrun with tiny, non-anthro mice. And why the cats just don't eat them is never addressed. Not only that, but the butler, who is himself a dog, demands Mickey to sell Pluto, who is a smaller dog, to him.
- In the cartoon Society Dog Show, Mickey is the only non-dog Funny Animal to take his dog to the dog show. Everyone in that cartoon is a dog anthro... judging non-anthro dogs.
- In the 1945 short "The Eyes Have It", Donald hypnotizes Pluto to make him think he's a mouse, and we also see a real mouse scurrying about the house. Remember that Pluto's owner is none other than Mickey Mouse.
- Similarly, a Disney comic that's the page image for Eek, a Mouse!! shows Minnie Mouse shrieking at a non-anthropomorphic mouse.
- "The Worm Turns": Mickey is working on a courage potion and goes around testing it on a variety of non-anthropomorphic animals — including a normal mouse that was being chased around by a cat. Things also get pretty awkward whenever Chip and Dale appear in the same cartoon as Mickey.
- Most "people" in Disney comics are depicted as very anthropomorphic dogs. They have a black nose and (sometimes) floppy ears, but are otherwise human. Even real historical people (similar to Arthur). Which makes Goofy even more confusing as he looks nothing like the other "dogs".
- Disney animators have given them the nickname "Dog-Noses", a term usually applied to the extras walking around. The creator of Goof Troop and Quack Pack introduced this term in an interview where he talked about both shows. Originally, he intended to have humans — just ordinary humans — inhabit both shows. However he was overruled with Goof Troop, and forced to people his universe with dog-noses. He was successful later on with Quack Pack though. Had he been allowed to use humans in both as he intended, Goof Troop and Quack Pack would have shared the same universe, much the same way Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck did.
- In the original Goofy-specific cartoons, EVERY extra was a Goof, extremely similar to Goofy himself but each being slightly different. This was carried over into more modern material as well; if Goofy was the main driving force of the feature, everyone in it would be a Goof. Remnants of this persist in the form of Goofy's immense extended family, but otherwise his modern stories feature the same background cast of dog-noses as everyone else's.
- Donald Duck: Regular ducks have been shown to exist alongside the anthropomorphic kind. Adding to the weirdness parade, in "Chef Donald", a 1941 theatrical cartoon, Donald once encountered a recipe for roast duck in a cookbook, which he angrily ripped up. In a different cartoon, he heard another recipe for it on a radio cooking show. His only comment was, "Over my dead body."
- And the Carl Barks comic "The Gilded Man"
shows Donald and the nephews being quite shaken and disturbed by the sight of stuffed normal ducks sitting on a shelf. This is quite unusual as most Barks stories treat the Ducks as stand-ins for humans, and this is, in fact, one of the only times they seem to recognize their relation to non-anthropomorphic ducks, other than the times Barks has them refer to "us Ducks and humans"... - Fantasia 2000, pictured on the main page, gives us the best Lampshade Hanging of this trope: Donald appears as a deckhand on Noah's Ark, responsible for a group of animals that includes, to Donald's visible puzzlement, a couple of normal ducks.
- One particularly Nightmare Fuelerrific Donald Duck comic strip has his cousin Fethry Duck going duck hunting — and Donald, of course, initially assumes that Fethry is coming after him. Adding to the confusion, Donald's panicked rationale for why Fethry shouldn't hunt him is that he's domesticated — which raises the question of what exactly that's supposed to mean in this context. Later, the non-anthro ducks are also able to speak, and seem to notice him in passing as well.Fethry: Hi Don! I'm goin' duck hunting!
Donald: Waak! But why me? I'm domesticated!
Fethry: Not you! I mean real ducks!
Donald: What a slap in the face! What am I, a fake? - In the classic short "Truant Officer Donald", Huey, Dewey and Louie prank Donald into thinking he'd accidentally burned them alive. They did this by fleeing their fort and placing their caps on the chickens they were roasting right before — suggesting they're not only fully aware that corpses of fellow fowl are sold as food, they're perfectly comfortable buying them at the store.
- In the "Christmas: Impossible" chapter of Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, while Huey, Dewey, and Louie are in Santa's office in order to take themselves off of his "naughty list", one of the boys gets his tail feathers singed on a candle flame. An oblivious Santa remarks that he smells roast duck cooking.
- One comic had Scrooge hypnotized into buying all the items in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (don't ask), giving us some awkward scenes with French hens (Clara Cluck?) and geese (Gus Goose?).
- Lampshaded and twisted in an episode of Darkwing Duck. Steelbeak (a Bond villain-ish anthropomorphic chicken) turns downright Hannibal Lecter with the line, "I'll offer you my recipe for roast chicken."
- Spoofed further in the 2010 Darkwing Duck comic book. Goslyn is at a pet store when she notices an area full of baby ducklings. "Okay," she says, "this is just creeping me out."
- In an early MAD parody of Disney by Harvey Kurtzman, "Mickey Rodent" traps his rival "Darnold Duck" naked in a zoo. The story ends with the zoo staff (human, of course) marveling over the "mutation freak" that "almost sounds" as if "it's" screaming "Get me back my clothes!" The last panel shows poor Darnold, his modesty covered with leaves, surrounded by non-anthropomorphic ducks, and facing a possible taxidermal fate because "it is, after all, only a duck."
- The Gran Festival starring The Three Caballeros ride at Epcot has a moment like this. Like its source material, the videos combine animation with live action. Looking for Donald, José and Panchito ask a live action chef if he's seen a duck. They quickly realize that they don't want to know the answer to that question, and run off. Another version of the scene has the chef showing them a plate of roast duck, which gets a similar reaction from the duo.
- Lampshaded at last in Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, where two of the eponymous anthro ducks (from another universe) spend the end of an episode discussing the differences between themselves and Earth ducks.
- There is also an old story somewhere where Donald, his nephews and Scrooge meets some native Indians where one of them is asked by another to describe what a duck is. Cue the Indian mimicking that ducks can fly and float on water, to which our gang are left with dumbfounded reactions and asking if he's joking.
- One Italian story has Donald and Scrooge fall off of a carnival ride, plunge headlong into a pond and drag themselves back out soaking wet, which two entirely normal mallards who happened to be nearby watch disapprovingly while commenting on how they bring shame on all anatids.
- There's a bizarre inversion style case in one story where anthropomorphic animals are acting so much as stand-ins for humans that they treat an anthropomorphic animal — a rat man people have encountered in some sewers — as an anomaly. Everyone treats this much like a werewolf (or -rat) would be among humans, not believing in it before they see it and then thinking it a monster. In the end, it turns out to be a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax cooked up by some cat criminals. So the terrifying anthropomorphic rat monster turns out to be... a run-of-the-mill anthropomorphic cat person in a costume.
- Don Rosa chimed in on this in a recent edition of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where he defended the removal of a early Duck-pun by saying that as far as he is concerned, the Duck characters are in fact human beings who are "caricatured" as looking like ducks in the comics, much like his Theodore Roosevelt in the same issue is drawn with a dog nose and four fingers.
- DuckTales (2017) has had a few moments of this:
- The pilot opened with a seagull flying into the harbor Donald's houseboat is located in and getting shooed away by various sailors — including an anthropomorphic seagull.
- According to producer Frank Angones, the crime that landed antagonist Steelbeak (an anthropomorphic rooster) in jail was cockfighting.
- One episode has the moonlander Penumbra watch in confusion and horror as Dewey and Webby feed popcorn to ducks at the pier, with a moment of extra confusion as Dewey casually eats a piece of popcorn himself.
- And the Carl Barks comic "The Gilded Man"
- With all of this in mind, The Lion King level in Kingdom Hearts II is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can fly, Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion), while Goofy is, out of all animals, a tortoise. What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion) while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-anthro form is identified in the Kingdom Hearts literature as "Bird Donald".
- Speaking of Disney ducks, DuckTales (1987) gave us at least two episodes with some good examples of Furry Confusion:
- In an episode inspired by The Odyssey, the Odysseus stand-in, his girlfriend, and most of the supporting cast are Dog-Noses. Circe, of course, turns several of them into non-anthro pigs. Later, Circe herself is turned into a pig as punishment. Here's the thing: Circe was depicted not as a dog-nose, but as an anthropomorphic pig.
- Even funnier is "The Golden Fleecing", where Launchpad finds himself the unwilling object of affection for a harpy. And the harpies were birds with human heads. And so we got to see a bird with some human features fawning over a human with some bird features.
- DuckTales also introduces a new sidekick for Scrooge's nemesis Magica De Spell; her brother Poe who was turned into a raven. While he can still talk, he still wears clothes (a hat at least), still has functional Feather Fingers, and is for all intents and purposes the same character, just a different species, he views his fate as awful and wants to turn back into a duck, despite the fact that he merely seems to have gotten a bit shorter and can now fly (heck, ask an ornithologist and they will make a good argument that duck-to-corvid is an upgrade). He's just barely less anthro than the other characters.
- Winnie the Pooh:
- One episode had Piglet (a pig) eating ham at a picnic. No one seems to notice the grotesque implied cannibalism there, even if Piglet is supposed to be a stuffed pig. Of course, that brings up the issue of how Living Toys digest real food — but that's probably a different trope.
- Pooh's Heffalump Movie depicts several non-anthro rabbits, and in the skits shown during the closing credits, they are shown playing alongside the other Pooh characters, including Rabbit. It should be noted that, unlike the above Piglet example, Rabbit doesn't have the "he's actually a toy" excuse—he's meant to be a living rabbit.
- In Amphibia's third season, the Plantars (A family of anthropomorphic frogs) end up on Earth for a spell. In the episode "Adventures in Catsitting", Sprig sees a common Earth frog and quickly gets dew-eyed at the sight of his "brethren". Nothing more is said of this, but at the end it's revealed that Sprig took the frog to be released into the wild. Nothing more is said of this sequence except Sprig and the common frog making some unspoken connection.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In one episode, Dale wants to get a pet. His desired pets, a frog and a kitten, are fairly standard for a human. But considering his other best friends are mice and a fly, the wisdom of bringing them home is... questionable (not to mention the sight of Funny Animals having pets and the logistics of getting them up into a tree all by himself).
- The kitten is the worst, as other cats in the series (Fat Cat for example) are portrayed as being every bit as anthropomorphic as the titular rodents. It's almost like wanting a human baby for a pet. Considering that cats eat rodents, that is actually closer to bringing the baby of a sentient, extremely dangerous monster home as a pet.
- The confusion goes up about eight or nine more levels when Dale discovers an unusual-looking chipmunk-sized animal lost in the park and, because he acts just like a dog, Dale decided to make a pet out of him. Said animal soon reveals that he can talk, that he is an alien, and that he is a miniature Stegosaurus sent from the Dinosaur Planet to check on the team of explorers who went to visit Earth millions of years ago. And it turns out that those small explorers became the long-necked or armored dinosaurs we know when they started eating Earth food; when our hero does this he grows very large and loses his ability to speak. Things get straightened up eventually and the alien returns to his ship to go back home, but not before topping off the Furry Confusion bonanza with this line:"I'd love to take you with me, Dale. But I'm not old enough to have any pets."
- Gargoyles: Bronx and the other "gargoyle beasts" like him are kind of an odd, borderline case. At first glance, Bronx is a wingless Gargoyle, and isn't really any physically different from the talking Gargoyles aside from lacking wings. But he acts like, and is treated as, a non-talking, non-loincloth-wearing animal. A few episodes (such as the one that introduced Puck) explicitly pointed out that he was the other Gargoyles' "dog", while the show's creator described him as their equivalent of a non-human ape. And yet, when Puck swaps everyone's species in the city turning every human into gargoyle and every gargoyle into human Bronx is turned into a dog.
- In their early cartoon appearances, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar were sometimes shown as regular four-legged non-clothed barnyard animals, and other times as fully anthropomorphic creatures on par with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy. Horace's first appearance was as a horse that Mickey was riding. At other times, he has been depicted himself riding non-anthropomorphic horses.
- This Zé Carioca cover gag has Zé, an anthropomorphic parrot dressed up as a Pirate, with a non-anthropomorphic pirate on his shoulder instead of a parrot◊. a couple◊ others◊ also play with the idea. There's even a story where he sees a contest for whoever can get a Parrot to say "Rio De Janeiro". He decides he's going to enter this contest. He then goes out and buys himself a Non-anthropomorphic parrot.
- In TaleSpin, all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. There are also non-anthro, non-sapient animals including normal-looking sea life and a few "cryptids". Where it gets really weird, though, is the episode that features a talking parrot who clearly has full human-level intelligence — but is not anthropomorphic and is treated like a pet by all the other characters. Some episodes involve the main characters transporting other non-anthropomorphic animals including birds and kangaroos, and one episode even has them buy a pig (and the pig vendor is another porcine, a Hippo).
- The show gets even weirder when you consider the source material. Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were characters from Disney's The Jungle Book (1967), and were Largely Normal Animals who could talk among each other and make human-like facial expressions and hand gestures, but lived in the jungle and walked around naked. Suddenly it's the 1930s, and the same characters are wearing clothes, flying planes, etc. Their designs changed a bit as well; Baloo traded his claws for fingers, but otherwise looked the same. Khan on the other hand went from a quadruped to a biped, a much more noticeable change.
- The Diabolical Mastermind Thaddeus E. Klang from the "For Whom the Bell Klangs" two-parter seems to be an anthropomorphic cobra (albeit with a metal jaw and hands), just as smart as everyone else. Except the end reveals he's not anthropomorphic. As no one else witnesses this, it seems to serve no purpose but to confuse the audience.
- In the Disney story Panchito, Panchito only realizes he's left behind Clara Cluck when he's served a plate of Roast Chicken. He immediately goes out to find her, and no one questions that a Rooster was just served a Roast Chicken.
- A running thing in the comics was that Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear were after various animals (Chip, Dale, Bambi, etc) sometimes to eat them and sometimes to sell them to a pet store. This slightly works since the Br'ers are more humanlike and actually live in houses and wear clothes. However, one comic has Br'er Bear getting so mad at Br'er Fox that he ties the fox up and takes him off wanting to sell Br'er Fox to a zoo, despite the fact that both Br'ers are closer to people than they are animals. So are humans still the elite in the Disneyverse? Can animals willingly sell each other? Who would want Br'er Fox, anyway? Many, many, many questions are raised.
- In a similar vein, Handy Manny has his "team" of sentient, talking tools (who are just barely anthropomorphic, in that they resemble regular tools with eyes and mouths but no limbs — how they move or grab things is a mystery), yet their universe also includes regular, non-living tools. In the opening title sequence, two of the tools paint a sign using non-living paintbrushes.
- Minnie Mouse has Figaro from Pinocchio as a pet in various cartoons, such as some shorts of House of Mouse. A joke from the writers, maybe?
- House of Mouse is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see Baloo (a talking, bipedal bear who is completely naked) sitting next to Little John (a talking, bipedal bear who wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see Jiminy Cricket (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to Cri-Kee (a nontalking, quadrupedal cricket who is completely naked).
- One episode of House of Mouse was actually about Donald Duck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (Dumbo, the Magic Carpet, Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps, and Victor, Hugo, and Laverne), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by Peter Pan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he should be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he doesn't have wings. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue Burrito from The Three Caballeros).
- The "what is Goofy" question is lampshaded in House of Mouse. Hades calls Goofy over to complain about the menu using his name without authorization, then gets derailed by asking what Goofy is supposed to be.
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse:
- In one episode, Donald is shown with normal ducks. To add insult to injury, he is flying an airplane rather than flying like a normal duck alongside the other ducks. The only time Donald is actually shown flying like a normal bird is in one later scene in The Three Caballeros, but he is flying like a hummingbird.
- Ludwig Von Drake is shown flying using an inflatable jumpsuit rather than like a normal duck.
- In another episode, Donald is shown swimming like a dog or human as opposed to like a duck.
- The Brave Little Toaster: Although all electronic devices are sapient (though the humans don't realize this), and the junkyard cars are all sapient as well, but at the beginning the appliances plan to use an old refrigerator mounted on a rolling chair as a mode of transportation to help find the Master. Taken in context, this would be like a group of people climbing inside a corpse. Furthermore, a sentient refrigerator is one of the appliances seen in the "It's A B-Movie Show" song.
- It gets even more ridiculous in the sequels. Animal Talk is possible with the appliances all of a sudden starting with the second movie (there were animals in the first movie too, and none of them were able to talk to the appliances), and they really begin pushing the envelope by having sapient sinks and balloons in the third movie.
- There were talking animals in the first film. When they visited that meadow in the middle of their trip, Toaster was harassed by a group of talking squirrels. Also there was a fish who could sing albeit just going "la-la-la-la-la".
- In the 1940 short Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip, Pete mentions that he used to have a cat.
- Disney Animated Canon:
- Chicken Little: What humor there is derives from lampshading this trope. For example, a father and son play Frisbee in the backyard, and the son catches the toy in his mouth — they are both Funny Animal dogs. Then there is the rug in Chicken Little's bedroom which is designed after a fried egg, yolk and all (classic "fried egg"-style eggs are non-fertilized so it's not quite the same thing. Still pretty squicky though...).
- The Lion King:
- During "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", crocodiles are shown singing, showing sapience equal to the other animals. Crocodiles are also shown sapient in The Lion Guard. In The Lion King II: Simba's Pride however, there is a scene where Kovu and Kiara are attacked by non-sapient crocodiles.
- Lampshaded in the "Timon & Pumbaa Virtual Safari 2.0" feature of the Lion King 2 DVD, where they spend the entire adventure riding a seemingly non sapient elephant named Gerdie. At the end, she reveals she can talk, much to their surprise, and comments "What? A meerkat and a warthog can talk but I can't?"
- The Little Mermaid: During the "Les Poissons" song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.
- The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: Undertow the tiger shark can speak, which is confusing when you consider how Glut from the first film didn't.
- Pinocchio evidently takes place in a universe with fully anthropomorphic cats, foxes, and crickets; ordinary cats and fish with human-like awareness; and fully non-anthropomorphic animals. The closest this comes to furry confusion (imagine if Figaro met Gideon) is how Cleo doesn't seem to have a problem with the fact that all Geppetto and Figaro seem to eat is fish.
- The Rescuers (and its sequel) and The Great Mouse Detective are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but the larger animals seem to be non-anthropomorphic creatures and yet display some degree of sapience. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's unclear) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some nondescript (possibly non-sapient) bats and a zoo lion; and its sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal Big Friendly Dog Toby, Ratigan's Right-Hand Cat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.
- Pixar:
- A Bug's Life:
- Depending on how you view him, Thumper is either the grasshoppers' insane thug, or their pet. He acts much more animalistic — specifically doglike — than fellow grasshoppers Hopper and Molt, and it's unclear how intelligent he's supposed to be or what his relationship to them is. We do, however, get a scene in the outtakes where he's shown as an "actor" who can talk normally, so make of that what you will.
- In one of the in-universe bloopers, the scene where the circus performers are flying towards the anthill in interrupted... because Slim's actor swallowed a bug.
- Cars:
- The first movie features Bessie, a non-anthro paving machine. There's also still a dinosaur on the logo for Dinoco, and one RV seen near the end of the film appears to be surrounded by plastic flamingos, while another has a jackalope tattoo on his rear end — all this despite flesh-and-blood animals never appearing anywhere in the films.
- In Cars 2, and one of the racers' crew chiefs is a VW Beetle; in the first film, VW Beetles are all supposed to be the car equivalent of insects.
- A trailer for Disney Infinity has Mater trying to strike a conversation with a non-anthropomorphic vehicle.
- Toy Story: Just what constitutes a "toy", anyway? The Etch-A-Sketch is animated and sentient, but Molly's iPod doesn't seem to be. Toy vehicles are self-propelling, but toy versions of other objects (xylophones, tracks for toy trains) have to be put in place by the humanoid toys. The L.G.M.s who worship "the Claw" are sentient, but "the Claw" itself (basically a big toy with little toys inside) is not. Duke Caboom is sapient, but his motorcycle and launcher aren't.
- However, at the end of the first movie, Woody drives RC Racer against his will with his remote control to rescue Buzz. Off of that, RC is considered a sentient toy. In the sequel another toy car (possibly a Barbie car) can be driven by the toys, but gives no indication of being sentient, and Bo Peep's Skunkmobile in Toy Story 4 is similarly inanimate.
- Not to mention Bullseye, a toy horse who acts like a horse (and dog), despite the presence of other animal toys who speak and act like humans.
- A brief moment of this happens in the second movie when Buzz uses an out-of-the-box, yet apparently non sentient or even alive toy Monkey in his attempt to catch up with the other toys as they leave Al's Toy Barn. It could have just been in "hyper-sleep" like the boxed toy, despite not being boxed, but there's no explanation either way.
- The "snake in my boot" toy that Woody encounters in the second movie appears to be an inanimate object, despite being an animal toy.
- Games and game pieces aren’t alive; the other toys can play Battleship or chess with no interference from the ships and chessmen.
- Believe it or not, Toy Story 4 actually addresses this. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky" — a random plastic spork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict.
- Inside Out:
- Played for Laughs. Bing Bong has a non-anthropomorphic cat in his bag despite being part cat himself.
- A version of this appears with the imaginary friends themselves. Bing Bong is a self-aware being capable of independent thought, yet the Imaginary Boyfriend behaves more like a non-sentient robot who can be cloned and whose life is more expendable, whereas Bing Bong's death was taken more seriously.
- There are also people made out of cloud living in buildings also made of cloud.
- A Bug's Life:
- In Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, Mei explains to Clawhauser that her Tamagotchi is a virtual pet. He then asks "What's a 'pet?'" to which she replies "I am like, zero percent sure how to answer that question."
