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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I mean, you come in here, you don't help me, you say the one plan I've got is bad, you-you claim to be a creation of my mind and yet you are in no way dressed provocatively!"''
(notices that "Sam Carter" is suddenly dressed provocatively)
|'''Dr. Rodney McKay''', ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', "Grace Under Pressure"}}
Ah, love, the chance for two minds to seek each other out bask in each their beloved's presence... unless one of you doesn't really ''have'' a mind.
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* [[Digital Avatar|Characters]] in a [[Virtual Worlds|lifelike simulation]];
* Character in a [[Lotus Eater Machine|dreamworld or hallucination]];
* [[Hologram
* "[[Brain Uploading|Personality downloads]]" or [[Artificial Human|duplicates]] of an often still-living person;
* [[Ridiculously
** [[Mobile Suit Human|Lifelike]] [[Motion Capture Mecha|telefactors]];
* [[Brainwashed|Mind-controlled people]];
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Compare [[Replacement Goldfish]], [[Robosexual]], [[Robo Ship]], [[Robotic Spouse]].
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== Anime
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' anime, the virtual world Kaiba designed includes a Zelda-style princess character that looks exactly like his younger brother Mokuba. Even ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** You know, it ''could'' have just been Kaiba [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] how [[Damsel in Distress|Mokuba gets kidnapped all the time...]]
** Or just a sign of [[Big Brother Instinct]]...
** In the original Japanese version, Kaiba had nothing to do with developing the game at all. If true, that would make the princess's Mokuba-ness entirely the fault of the Big Five. Still creepy, but on a different level.
*** The fandom commonly pairs her with Noah Kaiba, whose mind was uploaded to a virtual world.
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi in Tokyo]]'' has {{spoiler|Sakuya Kumashiro, who is a "shadow" created by the [[Big Bad]] Yugi to fall in love with Tenchi and split apart his [[Unwanted Harem]]. She doesn't know it though.}}
* The whole point of ''[[
* Pretty much the main theme of Ken Akamatsu's early work ''[[
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' [[Robot Girl]] Chachamaru has a bit of a crisis regarding the veracity of her soul, (pacts require a soul to work, and kissing is the easiest way to establish one,) until Negi decides
* ''[[
* Ruon Kamiyama from ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' is a virtual reality sex doll. Things get difficult when she goes all [[Yandere]] over Teruki and downloads herself into an android body to meet him in [[Real Life]].
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* According to rumor, Electro once tried to convince a shape-shifting prostitute to take [[Spider-Man]]'s form. Significant [[Foe Yay]] there.
** I heard he wanted [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Invisible Woman]] or [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Scarlet Witch]].
* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The android Vision and the Scarlet Witch.]] They were happily married in the 80's, with the Vision finally [[Humanity Ensues|getting his act together and becoming very human.]] Then [[Executive Meddling|some of the creators]] decided the idea was [[
* [[
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* At the end of ''[[
* ''[[
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* ''[[
* ''[[Virtuosity]]'': Sheila 3.2, Virtual reality sex doll, Sole function is to deduce your psychosexual needs, and fulfill them. Clyde asks the programmer who created her: "Hey, man, let me use your (virtual reality) gear for a little while."
* Jobe and Marnie's virtual sex scene in ''[[The Lawnmower Man]]'', which unfortunately turns into [[Mind Rape]].
* ''[[
** [[Like Father, Like Son]] in [[Tron: Legacy
* In ''[[
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** {{spoiler|It gets worse when he convinces her that instead of remaining the unchanging, unrelenting corrupting influence she's "supposed" to be, she finally agrees and [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices herself to save him from brain damage]].}}
* "Max" in the ''[[NUMA Series]]'', being a representation of Hiram Yeager's wife. His wife's aware of it.
* ''The Dreamland Chronicles''(not [[The Dreamland Chronicles|that one]]) combines this and [[What Measure Is a Non
* The short story "The Sandman" (''Der Sandmann''; written 1815) by German author [[
* In Peter David's ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' novel series Mackenzie Calhoun's son Xyon has his ship's (female) AI run a holographic simulation of different women, mostly his long-lost love, which he has sex with (he's otherwise alone on the ship). In the same series, Kat Mueller admits she uses her ship's holodeck to scratch her own itch as she doesn't believe in entering a relationship that could interfere with the chain of command. And even holo-Morgan offers her... services... to Calhoun on an occasion (though he always declines).
* Troblum in the [[Void Trilogy]] by Peter Hamilton maintains several female "i-sentient solido projections" - essentially avatars of finely tuned [[A Is]] that exist, fully lifelike, in real space. They're even based on real people from events in the previous novels. In the end, one of them {{spoiler|gets married to him, but only after being made into a biologically real person}} (long story).
== Live-Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Grace Under Pressure", Rodney is [[Locked in
** In season 5's {{spoiler|1="Remnants", an alien AI appears to three of the Atlantis crew to convince to send a seed carrier that will help recreate their race on to its destination. It appears to McKay as Zelenka, Sheppard as Kolya (a dead recurring villain) and to Woolsey... as a manifestation of his "romantic and sexual desires". From this we get the impression that Woolsey, who probably hasn't had sex since John Major was British Prime Minister, likes tall, dark-haired Australian ladies who dress in Atlantis uniform with nothing underneath.}}
** On ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
** In the episode "Booby Trap", Geordi has the holodeck summon up a virtual assistant in the form of the modern warp drive's inventor to help him out with an especially dastardly [[Negative Space Wedgie]]. They're both so excited when they succeed that they kiss.
*** Subverted years later in the episode "Galaxy's Child", which had the ''real'' woman show up, discover this little incident and chew him out over it. She calms down eventually when he explains the situation.
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** Also in ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'', most of the female characters in the [[James Bond|Julian Bashir, Secret Agent]] holonovels. The [[Squick]] is indirectly referenced when a malfunction causes the characters' appearances to be replaced with those of station crewmembers, and Bashir is much more reluctant to accept advances from a character who looks like someone he knows.
** Technically, this Trope includes Shapeshifters, so Changeling Odo and Kira Nerys count. In spirit, however, Odo's natural state may be a puddle of goo but he relates to everyone he knows as a humanoid, so it's hardly a "virtual" interaction.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has Tuvok use the holodeck to cure his [[Mate or Die|Ponn Farr]] fever ([[Did Not Do the Research|even though]] it was explicitly stated in TOS that a [[Mindlink Mates|Mind Meld]] is a necessary part of the process, though it could have just been "blowing off the steam," so to speak, that meditation couldn't cure.)
** Also "Human Error" where [[Last
*** It's worth mentioning that the Doctor is a [[Hard Light|hologram]], which means a couple of the examples could be seen as playing with the trope. In fact, any romance involving the Doctor fits this by definition. He also took it to the extreme in "Real Life" when he created not just a holographic wife but kids as well, in order to gain a better understanding of family.
* ''[[Star Trek]] TOS'' has McCoy seduced by his old flame "Nancy Crater", who is actually a [[Shapeshifting Squick|hideous salt monster]] impersonating her.
* In the ''[[
** Lister had another [[Kiss Me I Am Virtual|Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]] moment in "Blue", combining 'dreamworld' and 'hologram' in {{spoiler|a dream about Rimmer}}.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Warren Mears makes a number of robots for this specific purpose (including Spike's Buffybot, which totally creeps Buffy out).
** And another time Faith switches bodies with Buffy and sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Not to mention the time where he experiences a hallucination of ''himself''.
*** Yes, but even the narcassistic Baltar never tried to [[Screw Yourself|frak himself]].
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': As part of a sensory-deprivation induced hallucination, [[Ms. Fanservice|Cuddy]] does a differential diagnosis while [[You Can Leave Your Hat On|stripping]] out of [[Sexy Schoolwoman|a schoolgirl outfit]].
** Then she stops, as it's distracting House. [[Big No|He's not happy about it]].
* Donna's "husband" in the ''[[
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' episode "The Mathematics of Tears" revolves around a sentient warship that fell in love with her captain, {{spoiler|refused to obey him when he ordered her to self-destruct, blew up the planet he was on, and went insane. In that order.}}
* ''[[
* In the first episode of ''[[NCIS]]'''s third season, {{spoiler|the recently deceased Caitlin "Kate" Todd}} appears in the form of hallucinations to the
* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "A Space Oddity", Hodges bumps into Wendy Simms at a sci-fi convention. He has a number of ''[[Star Trek]]''-style (yes, Sixties ''Star Trek'') fantasies involving him as a "Kirk" style figure and Wendy... er... not wearing very much. One time the fantasy led to him starting a small fire and Wendy guesses on the entire structure of his hallucination.
* ''[[Sliders]]'', "Virtual Slide": On a world where VR headsets are ubiquitous, the guys become addicted and Maggie has to enter their fantasies to pull them out. She's mortified to find a simulation of herself in bed with Quinn, but it forces them to confront their longtime [[UST]]. {{spoiler|Just as they're about to kiss, Maggie wakes up and learns that ''she'' was the only one who entered VR, the episode to date was a simulation of how she perceives her friends, and ''Quinn saw everything.'' The UST resumes, more awkwardly than ever.}}
* If [[Ridiculously
* ''[[The X-Files]]''. When Mulder travels back in time on a luxury liner trapped in the Bermuda Triangle, he encounters [[And You Were There|his colleagues and enemies]] in the guise of various [[World War II]] protagonists, one of whom happens to be OSS agent Scully in a [[Lady in Red|red cocktail dress]]. Just before he makes his [[Prisoner of Zenda Exit]], Mulder grabs her for a passionate kiss "[[Now or Never Kiss|just in case I never see you again]]." Scully of course responds [[Kiss Kiss Slap|somewhat differently]].
* An episode of the more recent ''[[Outer Limits]]'' series involved a man who'd survived a nuclear holocaust with only holographic [[A Is]] for company, including a particular character that his habitat AI used as her avatar. He can occasionally have physical contact via a body-encasing VR chamber, and uses this for sex. Then he makes the mistake of doing this with the habitat AI, and though it's just a fling to him, she falls in love with him. Oops.
** The ending even plays with the trope a little as {{spoiler|the AI creates a virtual copy of the man then is implied to play out their entire (possible, virtual) future lives as a couple whilst the real man is trapped in his bunker, watching this happen}} turning it into
** Another episode of the ''[[Outer Limits]]'' has a man who, through an advanced AI, can enter people's unconsciousness when they are in a coma. He uses this to bring several people out. When the woman he loves (but who he has never told) enters a coma, he uses the computer to enter her unconscious. They start having a relationship in the simulation, but a weird monster appears in the simulation. At the climax, we find {{spoiler|the AI created a simulation of her and, in trying to kill the fake, he has killed the real woman}}
* ''[[
* In ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]],'' Augur bases his home AI's appearance on Lili Marquette (who he has a crush on), but dresses it up in [[Ms. Fanservice]] outfits. Lili is understandably annoyed when she finds out.
* Zoe Graystone to Philomon in ''[[Caprica]]''.
* In the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Dark Side of the Moon", Zachariah reveals that he uses a simulation of Sam and Dean's mother as a sex toy, much to their disgust. He even calls her a [[MILF]].
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== Theatre ==
* The first act of Jacque Offenbach's opera ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (which as you see is based on short stories by [[
* Also inspired by Hoffmann's tales is the ballet ''Coppélia'', where a boy mistakes an elaborate mechanical doll for a young woman.
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* One of the routes in the visual novel ''[[Ever 17]]'' has a romance between the male lead and a holographic projection, so no actual touching is possible (though one end does stretch this a tiny bit...).
** She may be a hologram {{spoiler|except in two of the endings}} but Sora clearly has a mind, will and personality. {{spoiler|She even goes a bit [[Yandere]] over Takeshi at one point.}}
* Part of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'s'' infamous [[Gainax Ending]]. Is Rose real or an AI? Was she ever real? {{spoiler|She's real, but an AI started impersonating her when Raiden boarded Arsenal Gear.}}
* ''[[Halo]]'''s Cortana, after whom a surprisingly high amount of the ''Halo'' fanbase lust.
** Honestly, what ought we to expect? Cortana has been imbued with traits that serve absolutely no purpose to an AI, but which a largely-male fanbase will appreciate.
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*** Not only Halsey's looks. Her core is based on Halsey's personality. In the ''Fall of Reach'' novel, Cortana tells Halsey that she finds John-117 (Master Chief) cute. Halsey realizes that she must be thinking the same thing too and is a little disconcerted, as she is their mother figure.
* In the freeware game Digital: A Love Story, the entire plot is a romance that takes place almost entirely online {{spoiler|with an AI.}}
* In ''[[Paper Mario:
* Like his [[Honorary Uncle]] (see Film section), Jet Bradley in ''[[
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' does this in one episode, with a robot duplicate of Lucy Liu. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when the [[
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', Aelita is first believed to be an A.I. stuck in the virtual world. This doesn't stop Jérémie from falling for her and doing everything he could to materialize her on Earth. Subverted when it is discovered she's in fact human.
** Using seduction to divide the heroes is also the M.O. of some of XANA's specters, notably the fake Yumi in "Image Problem" and the Polymorphic Clone in "XANA's Kiss".
** Jérémie also creates a polymorphic clone of William in Season 4. Yumi takes him as a fake boyfriend to keep people from realizing that something is going on.
* Averted in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. But Kim [[Compressed Vice|wanted]] to kiss [[Ridiculously
* In ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', Brainiac 5 uses a "training simulation" to create a fantasy where he's mortally wounded saving Superman from a horde of enemies and the fake Superman cradles him in his arms as he gasps his dramatic last words. To romantic music, no less.
* In ''[[Archer]]'', Dr. Krieger very nearly managed to get married to an A.I. with a hologram.
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** Considering copyright laws make said character owned by a company... [[Unfortunate Implications|does that mean he married a slave?]]
*** Green-card marriage. She's free to enter the real world now.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150524120907/http://evolvedmediagroup.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pingpongrobo_0.jpg Topio 3.0], seems designed to invoke this around him, despite being designed solely to play pingpong.
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