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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-Human Robots|Lifelike robots]];
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Compare [[Replacement Goldfish]], [[Robosexual]], [[Robo Ship]], [[Robotic Spouse]].
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== 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!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' dared not dwell too long on what Kaiba planned to do with Princess Mokuba.
** You know, it ''could'' have just been Kaiba [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] how [[Damsel in Distress|Mokuba gets kidnapped all the time...]]
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* The whole point of ''[[Chobits]]'' is whether or not the love interest is an example of this trope or something more.
* Pretty much the main theme of Ken Akamatsu's early work ''[[A.I. Love You]]''.
* ''[[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
* ''[[Video Girl Ai]]''
* 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 [[
* [[Incredible Hulk|Bruce Banner]] once built an A.I. called the Recordasphere that looked like a little flying silver ball. It faithfully followed him around on his adventures for a short time, but then fell in love with him and became insanely jealous of his then-girlfriend. It tried unsuccessfully to kill her, and got destroyed in the process.
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* ''[[Tron]]'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System (created by, and a doppelganger of, his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.
** [[Like Father, Like Son]] in [[Tron: Legacy|the sequel]], though Quorra turns out to be a little different from most. The [[Canon Discontinuity|discredited]] [[Tron 2.0|sequel]] also had shades of this between Jet and Mercury.
* In ''[[Serenity]]'', Mr. Universe is "married" to a Sexbot
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* 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]].
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* ''[[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.}}
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. In "River of Souls" Captain Lockley is very unamused when she discovers a popular hologram (especially [[Even the Girls Want Her|amongst women]]) in a virtual reality brothel is modeled on herself.
* 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-Human Robots]] count, then the, ahem, relationship between John Connor and Cameron in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' definitely does. It doesn't help that Cameron can adopt the personality of Allison Young, who is implied to [[
* ''[[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}}
* ''[[Angel]]''. Illyria offers this opportunity to Wesley, but even though it's clear he's tempted Wes repeatedly refuses {{spoiler|until he's at the point of death, whereupon he lets Illyria 'lie' to him -- she shapeshifts into his dead [[Love Interest]] Fred and kisses him, saying they'll be together in the afterlife.}}
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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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