List of fictional living planets
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of fictional living planets, planets in fiction which are said to be alive, and in some cases, intelligent. This includes worlds covered by a single immense organism (such as Solaris) or whose biosphere is composed of organisms which are linked into a hive mind.
- 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).
- Balfrost, a seasonally frozen planet whose permafrost is laced with a network of mycelia in Roger Zelazny's short story "Permafrost" (1986).
- 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"
- Father, a creature that envelops a watery moon and absorbs other species into itself: from K.A. Applegate's The Ellimist Chronicles, part of the Animorphs franchise.
- 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
- In the 2015 film Infini a planet is revealed to be entirely organic – when thawed it forms a primordial ooze, infecting and eventually mimicking and dominating any biological tissue, and is predatory in nature.
- 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
- Mellagio, a sentient planet, first being crated in the universe of Genesis Rising: The Universal Crusade videogame
- In Iain M. Banks' Culture series, some inhabited planets have their own Minds: sentient, hyperintelligent machines originally built by biological species which have evolved, redesigned themselves, and become many times more intelligent than their original creators.
- 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
- 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
- Planet, the setting of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- 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
- Safehold, the planet in the Safehold series of sci-fi novels, written by David Weber
- 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
- Torajii in the Doctor Who' ' episode "The Doctor's Wife"
- 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
- Every character from the webcomic Nebula
- Tamagotchi planet as seen in the Tamagotchi! anime, as well as the two Tamagotchi anime movies.
