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* ''[[.hack]]'' tells its story from the viewpoint of the character's [[Digital Avatar|Digital Avatars]] in an [[MMORPG]].

** The exception is ''.hack//LIMINALITY'' which was focused entirely in the real world. It should also be noted that ''.hack//SIGN'' was the only series to display the real world in an off-color shade of blue, while very other series has used normal colors. Real Colors appeared in one real world segment of Sign however {{spoiler|at the very end and Tsukasa's player An Shoji is shown awake leaving the hospital and accidentally meeting the player behind Subaru}}

* ''[[Ghost in ~~The~~ Shell]]'', being a textbook [[Cyberpunk]] setting, has the full virtual reality with customised avatars variant.

* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', being a textbook [[Cyberpunk]] setting, has the full virtual reality with customised avatars variant.

* Doing this is what initially drew attention to Lain from ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''. {{spoiler|The reason? She's an [[Artificial Human]] with a software uploaded into her mind, and being in the Wired is what liberates that software.}}

* Half of the [[Summer Wars]] movie is told in a MMORPG-like virtual world called Oz, in which everyone has their own avatar.

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* ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'', also during its finale.

* "Residual self-images" in ''[[The Matrix]]''.

* The Antichrist Franco Maccalusso has one in the Day Of Wonders virtual reality program in the [[~~Apocalypse (Film)|~~Apocalypse]] film series. In essence, he is fulfilling what the book of Revelation says about "the image of the beast".

* The Antichrist Franco Maccalusso has one in the Day Of Wonders virtual reality program in the [[Apocalypse]] film series. In essence, he is fulfilling what the book of Revelation says about "the image of the beast".

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* ''[[Snow Crash]]'', as above, being the [[Trope Codifier]] and partial [[Trope Namer]] in that the avatars in [[The Metaverse]] were among the first to have the term used in the way we know it today.

** To be fair, the quip under the page pic of ''Snow Crash'' protagonist [[Punny Name|Hiro]] [[Meaningful Name|Protagonist's]] avatar (yes, that's his real name) is inaccurate as Hiro is just as badass IRL as he is in the Metaverse.

* The William Gibson book ''[[~~Count Zero (Literature)|~~Count Zero]]'' (from the same universe as ''[[Neuromancer]]'') is probably the [[Trope Maker]] at least as far as the [[Cyberpunk]] genre is concearned; it was published in 1986, ''[[Snow Crash]]'' in 1992.

* The William Gibson book ''[[Count Zero]]'' (from the same universe as ''[[Neuromancer]]'') is probably the [[Trope Maker]] at least as far as the [[Cyberpunk]] genre is concearned; it was published in 1986, ''[[Snow Crash]]'' in 1992.

{{quote| A square of cyberspace directly in front of him flipped sickeningly and he found himself in a pale blue graphic that seemed to represent a very spacious apartment, low shapes of furniture sketched in hair-fine lines of blue neon. A woman stood in front of him, a sort of glowing cartoon squiggle of a woman, the face a brown smudge. "I'm Slide," the figure said, hands on its hips ... [She] gestured, a window suddenly snapping into existence behind her. }}

* The construction of Digital Avatars and how they function are a major element of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'' series, one of the more modern takes on [[The Metaverse]] in fiction.

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== Western Animation ==

* The User in ''[[Re Boot]]'' is only ever seen as one of these inside the games.

* ''[[~~Code Lyoko (Animation)|~~Code Lyoko]]'' represents them with a 2D to 3D [[Medium Blending]] when the characters go into cyberspace to fight XANA.

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' represents them with a 2D to 3D [[Medium Blending]] when the characters go into cyberspace to fight XANA.

* The characters of ''[[~~Futurama (Animation)|~~Futurama]]'' use avatars to enter the Internet. Also, there's the miniaturized avatars used [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|to go inside Fry]] in "Parasites Lost". (Because shrinking would require very tiny atoms, and have you ''priced'' those lately?)

* The characters of ''[[Futurama]]'' use avatars to enter the Internet. Also, there's the miniaturized avatars used [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|to go inside Fry]] in "Parasites Lost". (Because shrinking would require very tiny atoms, and have you ''priced'' those lately?)