Basic Trope: A work features a sentient location.
- Straight: Planet Troperia is alive and sentient.
- Exaggerated:
- Planet Troperia's moon and the star they orbit are also sentient.
- All planets in the work are sentient.
- The entire galaxy is sentient.
- The entire universe is a sentient being.
- The Multiverse is sentient.
- Downplayed:
- Just the town of Troperville is sentient.
- Sapient House.
- Justified:
- Planet Troperia is a giant planet-shaped organism. Or a giant planet-sized spherical robot.
- Troperia contains the spirit of a god, one with the same name.
- Planet Troperia was brought to life by a deity.
- The planet possesses a soul.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Planet Troperia seems alive, but the locals are just making it all up.
- Double Subverted: Due to these locals and their actions, Planet Troperia is, in a sense, alive.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Some of the planets in the work are sentient, but others aren't.
- Averted: There are no sentient locations.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Cool.
- The setting features animate inanimate objects, and planets are no exception.
- Lampshaded: "So, planet Troperia is a sentient being? How is that possible?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A god ponders over what form to take, a sentient location included... but chooses a different form.
- Implied: Planet Troperia isn't directly stated to be sentient, but the Troperians seem to have a psychic link with it and claim to "carry out its will".
- Played for Laughs: Planet Troperia randomly talks, for Rule of Funny.
- Played for Drama: ???
- Played for Horror: Planet Troperia is both an Eldritch Abomination and an Eldritch Location.
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