Kiss Me, I'm Virtual: Difference between revisions

Compare [[Replacement Goldfish]], [[Robosexual]], [[Robo Ship]], [[Robotic Spouse]].

== Anime & Manga ==

** 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]]...

** {{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 short story "The Sandman" (''Der Sandmann''; written 1815) by German author [[ETA Hoffmann (Creator)|ETA Hoffmann]] is a darkly fantastical tale about a university student, Nathanael, who [[Naughty Birdwatching|ogles]] and then falls deeply in love with a professor's beautiful 'daughter', Olimpia (even forgetting his hometown fiancée in the process) -- then going mad when he finds out that Olimpia is merely {{spoiler|an [[Artificial Human|automaton]] constructed by}} her supposed "father", and finally {{spoiler|jumping to his death from a steeple}}. Though "gothic", the story is also full of {{spoiler|sly satirical humour, as Olimpia actually is quite mind- and lifeless and can only perform mechanical actions, and the "deep understanding" Nathanael detects is entirely his own imagination}}. Presumably Hoffmann mocked the idealized description of 'romantic love' that was widespread in the popular literature of his days (the "romanticist" age). Or Did He? -- See the ''Theater'' folder for some adaptations of this story.

* 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).

* 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.}}

* ''[[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.

** 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 (TV)|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.}}

== Western Animation ==

* 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".

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