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== Film ==
* In [[G.I. Joe:
* Played with in ''[[Superman II]]'', in which Lex Luthor escapes prison by sticking a hologram of himself in his cell. The hologram itself is flawless, and the guard is tipped off only when {{spoiler|he steps in front of the projector}}.
* ''[[Star Wars]]''.
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== Literature ==
* Most of the time in ''[[
* Conspicuously averted in ''[[The Naked Sun]]''. Elijah was surprised to find out he was talking to a hologram because the Earth holograms did have [[Hologram Projection Imperfection]]. (The planet he was on was still settled by humans; This wasn't an alien technology thing.)
* Holograms in ''Dream Park'' are so realistic that Gamers who allow themselves to step out-of-character still can't guess when real actors and animatronic models are switched out for holographic ones. The one time a holo's response is delayed by a couple of seconds, the Game Master chews out his technicians for the lapse.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': For a little while Starfleet experimented with holographic communicators, where it looked like the other character was actually in the same room with Sisko et al. (because the actors were); but Starfleet stopped using it.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': The Doctor almost always worked perfectly, even while using his mobile emitter.
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'': Al.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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** [[Fridge Logic|A greater puzzle]], why does Artoo (an astromech droid, basically a self-mobile starship repairman and navigator) have a hologram projector, while Threepio (a protocol droid, and thus a professional translator and messenger) does not?
** Holograms in the prequel trilogy frequently cut out as well, even though it's supposed to be the [[Crystal Spires and Togas|"more civilized age"]] of the galaxy.
* In ''[[I, Robot (
* ''[[Minority Report]]'' has a good example of not-great hologram tech, though it may be justified, being set [[Twenty Minutes in The Future]] instead of a far-future [[Space Opera]].
* There's a hologram of Sinestro communicating in the ''[[Green Lantern (
* In the ''[[Ghost in
* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' also has a justified example, because the AI in question has been sitting around for many years -- long enough that the heroes were lucky it played at all.
* ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''. As the protagonists are walking up to Dr Totenkopf's office a Tesla-type generator creates a [[Huge Holographic Head]] image of Totenkopf that explains his motives and warns them to get out or die. Both the image and voice are distorted when powering up, highlighting the more primitive 1930's [[Zeerust]] technology of the film.
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== Literature ==
* Holos are ''always'' like this in [[Ciaphas Cain]], requiring [[Percussive Maintenance]] to work properly.
* In ''[[
* The Chee holograms in ''[[Animorphs (TV series)|Animorphs]]'' are normally an aversion, but when the Yeerks screw with the ship that powers them, the holgrams begin to fizzle, fade and fail.
== Live-Action TV ==
* The ''[[
* The ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' episode "Top Copy" used a hologram which somehow convinced people that Clark and Superman were side-by-side despite the fact that it was flickering. The glitches were Justified in that it was only built by a farmer's wife... but then that just raises other questions.
* SELMA from ''[[Time Trax]]''; despite being a 22nd century, self aware, supercomputer her holographic "visual mode" suffered this trope. In one episode she managed to make herself appear perfectly for a brief time but implied it was too much of a strain on her power systems to maintain this for long.
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' communicates with an alien representative via hologram in "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol," and the image is blue and staticky. What makes this more amusing is that at one point, when the alien representative quotes [[Die Hard
* In ''[[Stargate SG
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' mostly averts this trope as the holos look rather good. The audio, however, is a little tinny in the case of Dodanna and Vandar. Amusingly, if you turn down the graphics settings, the holograms will look physical.
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' Dead Money add-on, the holograms scattered around the Sierra Madre are a uniform color, rather fuzzy and have prominent lines all over their figures. Oh yeah, and they shoot lasers. Granted this is two hundred year old equipment, though the Cloud was supposed to protect most of the Old World artefacts in the area. And lasers are cool. The fact that they can change colors suggests someone just wasn't willing to put in the work (humorously, ''Old World Blues'' has log entries which pretty much give this exact excuse; the designers were programmers, not artists).
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' also has an example with Vigil. The hologram doesn't even really show up you just get this weird jumble. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since the VI in question has been sitting around for tens of thousands of years, you're lucky it was still functional to begin with {{spoiler|and in fact it shuts down soon after your group talks to it}}.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', the holograms of Shepard and The Illusive Man are wavery and have horizontal lines going through them like they are on a screen instead of a 3-D projection.
* In ''[[Disgaea]]'', when a hologram appears, not only is the picture glitchy, but the first thing the hologram "says" is always "ffffffffffff... ffffffff..."
* [[Deus Ex: Invisible War
** ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Arthur (
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Vlad Masters has some AI programmed holograms of Maddie Fenton, all designed to be madly in love with him. But they display the usual translucency and dither problems of fictional holograms, as well as being a bit....temperamental.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'': They've done riffs on [[Star Wars]], so those holograms are the trope played straight. But when [[Jimmy Neutron]] shows up for the Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour, Jimmy is convinced the fairies are just really good holograms.
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