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When an artificial intelligence is given the face and voice of a real (in the fictional setting) human being, instead of a made-up face.
Distinct from [[Virtual Ghost]] and [[Replacement Goldfish]] in that the resemblance is only skin
Also, this is usually not a case of the AI taking the place of the person it's modelled on; the model is usually still alive, and they will generally go on to lead separate existences. Nor is it usually a case of the AI being introduced as a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]; in fact, in series fiction it's very common for the AI to appear first.
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* In ''[[Resident Evil (
* A few of these appeared in the ''[[Alien]]'' film series, particularly in the form of androids. Bishop, from ''Aliens'', is established in a subsequent film as having been modelled on a real person.
* In ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'', Skynet manifests itself to Marcus with the face and voice of Dr. Kogan.
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== Literature ==
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[
* In ''[[
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Labyrinth Of Reflections]]'', the protagonist uses Windows Home as his computer OS. He keeps the original avatar of the OS, an attractive woman. While in [[Cyberspace]], he is running away from a mob and runs into a virtual brothel. He then browses through the catalog and is stunned to find a virtual prostitute that looks exactly the same as his avatar. After meeting her, he starts developing feelings for her, which she cautions him against, as she can be a fat guy for all he knows. At the end of the novel, they agree to meet in the real world, and it turns out that this is what she really looks like.
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** Later, in "Let's Kill Hitler," the vocal control interface can take the appearance of anyone. The Doctor chooses the form of 6-year-old Amelia Pond, since at that point he hadn't screwed her up yet.
* In ''[[Eureka]]'' the voice of the house AI SARAH is actually a pitched up version of its inventor Fargo (because [fictionally] Sarah Michelle Gellar wouldn't agree to supply the voice).
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Star Trek:
** Geordi got in quite a lot of trouble when he created an AI engineer for one episode in the holodeck, developed a crush on her/it, and then came to an abrupt awakening when the "model" visited the ship in a later episode.
* The Emergency Medical Hologram in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
* In ''[[Time Trax]]'', Captain Lambert's AI sidekick SELMA has a "visual mode" based on a picture from his childhood, which turns out to have been modelled on his [[Missing Mom]].
* A plotline in ''[[Century City]]'' involved one of the lawyers, who had developed a crush on his computerised PA, wanting to track down the actress she was modeled on, despite her pointing out this was a very bad idea.
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** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', you can see the VI, who can "predict what Shepard would say with 7% accuracy." Shepard is worried if he really sounds like that.
** Also, {{spoiler|The creator of the reapers takes on the form of the child Shepard watched die to talk with him.}}
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* Ma3a from ''[[
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