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A walking, talking female avatar of a [[Sapient Ship]].

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic miniseries "The Forgotten", in which the Doctor and Martha Jones find themselves in a museum devoted to the Doctor's past lives, Martha {{spoiler|turns out to be a mental projection of the TARDIS itself, who can take on the form and personality of anyone who has ever traveled in the TARDIS, to aid him in a fight against an invader. Most of the personalities it takes on are female (but then, so have been most of the Doctor's companions)}}. A similar idea would surface in the TV series later on.

** In the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' strip "A Life of Matter and Death", the TARDIS manifests a mental projection of herself in the form of a veiled grey lady.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Older Than They Think]]; the Harryhausen version of ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'' has the Argo's figurehead of Hera speak to Jason to give him advice. This detail wasn't in the original story, however.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[The Ship Who...]] Sang'', and later related books.

** ''The Ship Who Searched'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]] {{spoiler|featured a brainship who financed the creation of a remote-operated android accessory so she could be her human partner's... [[Robosexual|partner]]}}.

** Another book from that series has a brainship who had gone through a terrible traumatic event; in [[There Are No Therapists|therapy]] a counselor had her channel her emotions and frustrations into art, and eventually had her create a self portrait. He expected her to paint a projection of herself as a human, if she hadn't had the genetic defects that landed her in a brainship, but she painted her shipself with some anthropomorphic elements.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, ultra-advanced TARDISes from the future could use their chameleon circuits to take human form. The one we meet appears as an attractive young woman (in an amusing [[Continuity Nod]] we're told she was once stuck as a 1960s policewoman). The Doctor's cyborg companion Compassion later takes on characteristics of the TARDIS and became the prototype for the class.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: New Frontier]]'' portion of the [[Expanded Universe]]:

** Xyon's ship is controlled by a female personality that was apparently a criminal before her death.

** "Alice" in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. [[Clingy Jealous Girl|To]] [[Stalker with a Crush|a]] very uncomfortable [[Ax Crazy|extent]].

*** There was a similar episode where B'Elanna had to persuade a rogue Interplanetary Missile Girl that it was [[Colony Drop|targeting a noncombatant world]]. It wasn't just any girl, either - she'd reprogrammed it herself, and given it her own voice (the old voice was a Cardassian male which annoyed her).

* ''Moya'' on ''[[Farscape]]'' is a Leviathan, one of a race of [[Organic Technology|living ships]]. She even gives birth to a bouncing baby spaceship. Other Leviathans, of both genders, (with mixed-gender pilots, sometimes) also showed up.

** Except Moya isn't an "avatar" of herself—if anything, Pilot should serve this role, since he generally is the channel through which the crew interacts with Moya. He's also about as far as you can get from a cute girl...

* Gypsy from [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], who was directly wired into the Satellite of Love and controlled its higher functions. A more literal example was the Magic Voice.

* Sandstrom from [[Hyperdrive]].

 

== [[Radio]] ==

* Sheila the tank (later transferred into various other vehicles and structures) from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''.

* In the [[Bollywood Halo]] IGN April Fools parody Cortana is presented as a more literal and straight version of this trope as she is shown as a living human controlling the ship not a hologram. It is also implied in the parody that she has a (possibly) romantic relationship with Master Chief.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==