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[[File:GallaxharMeansNoHarm.jpg|link=Monsters vs. Aliens|frame|So, just to recap: [[We Come in Peace, Shoot Toto Kill|I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die. Gallaxhar out.]]]]
 
When the alien [[Glorious Leader]], [[Evil Overlord]] and [[Mad Scientist]] want the world to know about their nefarious doings, they will usually [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|take control of every TV]] (and sometimes even computer screen) to give their [[Motive Rant]] and/or [[New Era Speech]]. However, if they have access to powerful [[Hologram]] projectors they may also/instead project themselves over every city as a Huge Holographic Head.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|This blimp is roughly a third the size of my ego.]]
 
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* Gendo does this in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)|Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' when he and Shinji meet again.
* [[Hive Queen|The Goddess]] in ''[[Fallout Equestria (Fanfic)|Fallout Equestria]]''. Disturbingly, the surface of her 'head' is a mosaic of the faces of all the ponies she has [[The Assimilator|assimilated]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* Gallaxhar on ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', as shown above.
* In ''[[The Simpsons]] Movie'', Russ Cargill communicates with the people of Springfield through a giant screen projected in the [[Domed Hometown|dome covering the town]].
* ''[[Tron]]'' has the MCP, which is gratuitously spoofed by Moses of the [[Super FriendsSuperfriends|Super]] [[Captain Ersatz|Best Friends]] in ''[[South Park]]''.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|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]]''.
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** And Sheridan borrowed Draal's system to do the same thing on B5 to announce they were seceding from the Earth Alliance.
*** Considering the [[Tron]] example above, one wonders if JMS wasn't indulging in a little [[Actor Allusion]].
* In ''[[Burnt Byby the Sun]]'', a [http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/images/burnt25.jpg giant poster of Stalin] appears at the end.
* The Oz example gets a [[Shout -Out]] in ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' with the Mystic Man's cabaret show.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Doctor Breen in ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]''.
* Another full body example: in the civilization stage of ''[[Spore]]'', religious attacks on a city will include a giant hologram speaking to the city trying to convert it.
* Happens in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' when Dr. Robotnik announces his plans for world domination, shortly before blowing up the moon.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' one episode features Jorel, '''MASTER OF SCHEDULING''' who uses this to make mundane announcements about the stock market.
* One of these pops up on Mars in ''[[Invader Zim]]'', leading Zim to believe that the long-dead Martians were a race of holographic instruction manuals.
* In ''[[Beast Machines (Animation)|Beast Machines]],'' Megatron's face appears as this inside the ''even huger Megatron head'' that is his base. (He's got something of an ego, [[Verbal Tic|yesss]].)
* During the big finale in ''[[Storm Hawks (Animation)|Storm Hawks]]'', [[Big Bad|Master Cyclonis]] uses one of these to speak to all of Atmos.
* This is how [[Evil Overlord|The Sovereign]] likes to appear in [[The Venture Brothers]]. Although given his {{spoiler|shapeshifting powers, he could actually make himself look like this}}.