List of Fictional Living Planets - Living/sentient Planets

Living/sentient Planets

  • Acheron in the computer game Unreal 2 is entirely covered by a single, sentient organism.
  • Alcoreth in Nat Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat's 1931 short story "The Menace from Andromeda".
  • Alyx, covering the eponymous planet except the poles in Murray Leinster's The Lonely Planet (1949).
  • Chiron (often known simply as "Planet") in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
  • Dahak in David Weber's Mutineers Moon, a planetoid sized battleship masquerading as Earth's moon
  • The Doctor Moon in the Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library", a massive sentient computer made to look like a moon
  • Earth in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story When The World Screamed.
  • Ego the Living Planet, supervillain in Marvel Comics, and its twin Alter-Ego
  • Erythro in Isaac Asimov's novel Nemesis
  • Eylor in RPG Rifts, a living world said to be the source of the magical Eyes of Eylor, living disembodied eyes of great power
  • Fairy in the novel and OVA Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze
  • Fannie Mae, a sentient star in Frank Herbert's novel "Whipping Star" and "The Dosadi Experiment"
  • First Sirian Bank in Terry Pratchett's The Dark Side of the Sun
  • G889, an Earth-like planet in the short lived TV series Earth 2
  • Gaea, a sentient artificial space habitat in the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard & Daemon) by John Varley
  • Gaia in Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov. The name is derived from the Gaia hypothesis
  • Ghroth in Ramsey Campbell, a contribution to the Cthulhu Mythos
  • Gozmastar in the Super Sentai series Dengeki Sentai Changeman
  • House in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife"
  • Id the Selfish Moon, who was once Ego's moon in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Kathulos, a living planet that served Shuma-Gorath in Marvel Comics. It was destroyed by Doctor Strange.
  • The Krang, a moon-sized weapons platform built by the Tar-Aiym, in Alan Dean Foster's The Tar-Aiym Krang
  • Mogo, from the Green Lantern Corps comic books, is not only alive, but also an appointed member of the Corps, orbiting a Red Sun
  • Ōban, a living (though not quite sentient) planet larger than Earth's sun that can actually create other planets, in Ōban Star-Racers
  • Pandarve in the Storm comic books is not only alive, but also has the status of a goddess
  • Pandora in the film Avatar
  • Various worlds spread across the galaxy in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space universe are inhabited by Pattern Jugglers, networks of marine organisms which serve as vast information-cataloging systems, recording the minds of various star-faring races which have visited the planets. It is unclear to what extent Juggler worlds are independently sentient.
  • Petaybee in the Petaybee Series (Powers series) by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Phaaze, an evil sentient planet in the Metroid Prime video game series
  • Primus/Cybertron in the Transformers multiverse
  • Primus, a planet from the TV show Ben 10 Alien Force, a massive organic machine that holds the DNA from sentient life and wirelessly communicates with the Omnitrix
  • Planet Remina from the Junji Ito manga Hellstar Remina
  • Scub Coral in the television show Eureka Seven
  • Solaris, the planet in the eponymous novel by Stanisław Lem and 1972 and 2002 films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh, covered by a sentient ocean
  • Thallon in books 1–4 of the Star Trek: New Frontier novel series, the egg of a gigantic being
  • Triton, a living planet encountered by the crew of a space exploration ship in the book Triton is a Planet's Name (Triton Ekti Groher Naam) by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
  • Unicron in the Transformers multiverse
  • Worm Planet in The Power Twins by Ken Follett
  • Wormwood in RPG Rifts
  • Yggardis the Sorcerer Planet, from DC comics
  • Zonama Sekot, a living world in the Star Wars Expanded Universe

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