Spaceship Girl: Difference between revisions

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Compare with [[Robot Girl]] and [[Sapient Steed]]. A subtrope of [[Sapient Ship]] and often a kind of [[Genius Loci]]. Related to [[I Call It Vera]] and [[Living Weapon]]. Psychologically related to [[Companion Cube]]. Might become [[Robo Ship|a love interest]].

== Anime & Manga ==

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* ''[[Gao Gai Gar]]'s'' {{spoiler|Penchinon}} is a subversion. {{spoiler|After Pasdar is destroyed, it is revealed that he is the AI system for Soldat-J's J-Ark. All Penchinon really is...is an eye.}} Also subverted because, even in his 'old' form, {{spoiler|Penchinon}} is some kind of... {{spoiler|anchor-eyed, boat-person with a spinning head (but no neck), big teeth, a sailor uniform, and a tendency to go '' '''"BREEEEEEEEE!!"''' ''.}}

* At least two of the [[Space Whale|Vaia]] ships in ''[[Infinite Ryvius]]'' possess a "Sphix", a physical manifestation of the ship's control system. Unsurprisingly, the titular ship has the Spaceship Girl {{spoiler|and in a slight twist, the "final boss" has a Spaceship Bishounen}}.

* Then there's that whole [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Mecha_Musume~~ Mecha Musume] trend.

* Then there's that whole [[wikipedia:Mecha Musume|Mecha Musume]] trend.

* In ''[[Zone of the Enders]] Dolores, i'', the titular Dolores has a ridiculously advanced AI making her a [[Humongous Mecha]] girl. She develops a crush on her pilot, and day-dreams of being in storybooks and a waitress, among other things. {{spoiler|At the end of the series, when her body is destroyed, they transfer her AI to a ship. She complains that makes her feel fat, since her consciousness isn't stored on [[Applied Phlebotinum|Metatron]] anymore. }}

* T-AI of ''[[Transformers Robots in Disguise|Transformers: Robots In Disguise]]'' was an AI for the Autobots' base who took the form of a little girl.

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* Inverted in the [[Iain M Banks|Iain. M Banks]] novel ''Matter''; the Special Circumstances vessel 'liveware problem' has a man as its human avatar, and offers to sleep with one of the protagonists.

** Ships and other structures run by Minds in the Culture series often have thousands of these (which doesn't even begin to test the [[Deus Est Machina|computing power]] of a Culture Mind). Some of them are indistinguishable from other humans (this has caused at least one character minor embarrassment the morning after); others are more obviously nonhuman.

* In ''[[Posleen War Series|Yellow Eyes]]'' by [[John Ringo]] and Tom Kratman, a US Navy cruiser, the [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/USS_Des_Moines_~~(CA-134) USS ''Des Moines'' (CA-134)], is converted to serve as a weapon platform for combating the aliens (it's a [[Sci Fi]] novel, after all) and has a AID installed to control it. However the AI was left on while shipping to earth, and developed more sentience (and some mental instability, due to sensory deprivation) by thinking the human equivalent of 5000+ years (in real terms a month or so, because AI think fast). the AI then proceeds to buy a cloning device on eBay (a [[Running Gag]] in the book is that you can find ''anything'' on eBay) and the clothing of a famous actress for DNA, and creates a living avatar for the ship. This is more of a Ship Girl, though, because it is a wet navy ship.

* In ''[[Posleen War Series|Yellow Eyes]]'' by [[John Ringo]] and Tom Kratman, a US Navy cruiser, the [[wikipedia:USS Des Moines (CA-134)|USS ''Des Moines'' (CA-134)]], is converted to serve as a weapon platform for combating the aliens (it's a [[Sci Fi]] novel, after all) and has a AID installed to control it. However the AI was left on while shipping to earth, and developed more sentience (and some mental instability, due to sensory deprivation) by thinking the human equivalent of 5000+ years (in real terms a month or so, because AI think fast). the AI then proceeds to buy a cloning device on eBay (a [[Running Gag]] in the book is that you can find ''anything'' on eBay) and the clothing of a famous actress for DNA, and creates a living avatar for the ship. This is more of a Ship Girl, though, because it is a wet navy ship.

** The AID's personality {{spoiler|later merges with the "gestalt" of the original ship (basically a composite of the leftover traces of her crew's strong emotions}}, and in ''The Tuloriad'' she and several similar entities are rebuilt as starships using materials from the original ships because {{spoiler|the non-AID portions of their "programming" make them resistant to several security flaws}} in the original AID design. Which proves to be of great benefit to humankind.

* Joked about in the book, ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'', when it stated that American ships are shes, Russian ships are hes, and the intelligence community calls them both its.