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* [[Arpeggio of Blue Steel]]

* ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'': the ship [[media:1143698982844.jpg|Jan-puu]], who crashes into Hazumu, is the ditzy and affectionate type. She considers the crash that killed Hazumu and set the series in motion to be her first kiss.

* Kate Rose from [[Trinity Blood]] she is the basically the AI of the [[Flying Ship]] "The Iron maiden", although she's also a [[Wetware CPU]] whose body is commatose, she's been inside the ship for so long that she often refers to the parts of the ship as if they were her own appendages

 

* In the [[Cross Gen]] title ''Sigil'', a female character remains a hologram tied to the ship's computer throughout the series.

* In [[Runaways]], when the group gets back together after {{spoiler|the death of the Pride}}, Chase insists that the Leapfrog is a he, as there is enough estrogen on the team already, thank you very much.

* 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.

* Somewhat inverted in [[Babylon 5]]: Legend of the Rangers, in a case of the Spaceship Girl NOT being the Voice of the ship. The weapons officer enters a holographic chamber in which she sees everything from the ship's own point of view, and fires weapons by throwing punches.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Perhonen, Mieli's [[Cool Ship]] in Hannu Rajaniemi's ''[[The Quantum Thief]]'' manifests as [[Bilingual Bonus|holographic butterflies]], but her voice and personality are distinctly female. The protagonist even assumes that [[Les Yay|she and Mieli]] [[Cargo Ship|are lovers]], but Perhonen explains that they are just good friends.

 

* ''[[Andromeda]]'' and the titular starship, with her holographic and robotic avatars: Rommie, the ship's AI given an android body. The ship's AI also looks like Rommie, though the two became separate characters to a degree. Most of the High Guard ships of her class seen in the series had female avatars (with the explanation being that humans and a number of other species prefer female avatars), though we have had several on-screen examples of male AIs, usually portrayed by someone who appeared on [[Stargate SG-1]] or [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]].

** The only real difference between Rommie and the ship was that the android avatar experienced emotions. When Rommie is destroyed, Harper creates a new Android named Doyle from the leftover parts, who thus has the same access codes as Rommie. She and Andromeda get into a fight over who should control the ship, thus proving their completely separate identities.

* [http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/may-12-2011-stargate-universe-beyond-season-2-what-might-have-been/ Apparently,] one of the ideas for a followup to ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' would have had Eli becoming a Spaceship Boy...

 

* In the [[CBC]] radio comedy series ''Canadia 2056'', the main computer of the ship, the Canadia, starts off having a female voice simply because he captain chooses it, while the French-Canadian Commander Margaux prefers the voice of a French-Canadian man. Latter in the series, the computer becomes sentient do to the interference of a Wish-Granting Sentient-Cloud being, and soon develops a crush on the captain, eventually leading to her crushing an American captain with a car, all because she thought he was trying to steal the captain from her. Actually, not very comedic sounding...

 

** While we're on the subject of [[Other M]], we have {{spoiler|MB, the Mother Brain [[Expy]].}} She built an android body for herself, and she looks exactly like a normal human. {{spoiler|She manages to fool both Samus and the player into thinking that she's Madeline Bergman, the head scientist.}}

* [[Air Rivals]] has the Akron First Fleet Flagship, which can be owned by the brigade of a certain nation after a war that takes place every 6 days. The main computer of the battleship manifests itself as a hologram of a seemingly female robotic head. The hologram itself doesn't interact with you apart from giving you management options for the base you own, though. Although one has to admit, according to the storyline, the Akron was built by Barkians, and Bark city was destroyed around 140 years prior to the player's timeline, [[Fridge Logic|which means that the poor hologram girl has been trapped alone for 140 years]], maintaining an abandoned ship that gets some nasty wars between ANI and BCU every 6 days and then it has to cope with brigade members that are possibly not nice people ''over and over again''. I would probably not enjoy it very much.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' starships have embedded AIs that assist in the running and maintenance of the ship, that normally has a hologram avatar, to give the meatbags inside the ship [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-03 something to focus on] when they're [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-09 trying to talk]. Evidently, "I don't feel comfortable arguing with a disembodied voice" is a common trait that applies to all the sophont species we have seen controlling spaceships so far.

** 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.

* A.L.E.X., the ''Xcalibur's'' AI hologram from [[The Xtacles]], who is constantly fending off advances from her dim-witted crew.

* Aya from [[Green Lantern: The Animated Series]] was originally just the artificial intelligence of the Lantern's [[Cool Starship]] until she created a body for herself.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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