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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The webcomic ''Krakow'' parodies this trope mercilessly with the "planegirl" story, starting [http://www.krakowstudios.com/krakow/archive.php?date=20060801 here].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'s'' starships have embedded AIs that assist in the running and maintenance of the ship, that develop a hologram avatar that gives the meatbags inside the ship something to focus on when they're trying to talk. Most of these are actually ''male'', probably to instill respect in a male-heavy military environment, but the ''Athens'' had Athena, a [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-06-09 blue-skinned, red haired human girl]. When the characters reunite with Petey and discover that his ears have become prodigious, he informs them that the algorithms determining an AI's hologram avatar are outside the AI's control, but the bigger ears indicate moving up in station, as it were. Incidentally, only two AIs aren't subject to this-Ennesby, an ex-computer virus and boy band with a separate robotic body, and TAG, the AI of the Touch-and-Go; this is because they both reside in physical units as opposed to the ship itself (although TAG does appear to have his rather firmly affixed to the floor of the computer room).
** After his recent mental breakdown, TAG has had a personality reconstruction, courtesy of Ensign Ventura. In a re-inversion of the trope, he is now a she, and she has renamed herself [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d2009-04-23 Tagioalisi]. As [http:/20090423/www.htmlschlockmercenary.com/2009-04-22 TagioalisiThurl] and [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-12-26 Kevyn] quickly figure out, it was a good move. Also, after {{spoiler|having a personality overhaul ''again'' and being moved to vastly different hardware, "Tagii" became "Chinook" and}} chose a more enthusiastic-looking girl avatar.
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