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* ''[[Tron]]'' has the MCP, which is gratuitously spoofed by Moses of the [[Superfriends|Super]] [[Captain Ersatz|Best Friends]] in ''[[South Park]]''.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' may be the [[Trope Codifier]].
{{quote| '''[[This Is Sparta|I AM OZ!!]]'''}}
* The Emperor uses one of these to talk to Darth Vader in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
* ''[[Things to Come]]'' (1936). Theotocopulos addresses the people of Everytown with his [[Ludd Was Right|Luddite message]] via a giant full-length [[Fridge Logic|holographic image]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Big Brother]] in ''~[[1984~]]''.
* Partial example: ''~[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy~]]'', having originated on radio, doesn't bother with the giant head and just has the alien menace speak through the hidden powerful sound system with no visuals. Still notable because the novel actually spares a paragraph to explain how the hidden powerful sound system was achieved.
* In the ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' series, a surveillance system scanning random people in the lower City levels
* In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], Thrawn quietly lampshades this after C'baoth contacts him using "the Emperor's private hologram setting."
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' treats the idea with its usual irreverence:
{{quote| '''Madblood:''' PEOPLE OF EARTH, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! I choose to address you as a 300-mile holographic projection against the ionosphere solely to secure the attention of Helen Narbon, whom I regret I am unable to join for dinner this evening. I apologize profusely and assure Miss Narbon that when Earth is brought under my heel, she, the planet's loveliest blossom, may have [[Shiny New Australia|the continent of her choice]]. Except Europe. Mother dibsied it.}}
* The ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' does this with a magical image of Lord Shojo's head when {{spoiler|Belkar activates his Mark of Justice.}}
* In ''[[Bob and George]]'', the leaders of the Soviet Union consult the projected giant floating head of Josef Stalin whenever Communism faces a crisis. Later on, the leaders of the United States consult the giant floating head of Joe McCarthy when faced with a communist threat.
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