Virtual Ghost: Difference between revisions

 

{{examples}}

* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', when the Sailor Senshi are transported to the lunar ruins of the Moon Kingdom they are greeted by the virtual ghost of Queen Serenity, Sailor Moon's mother from her previous life.

* Bunches of examples from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''.

 

 

* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'''s Bishop had a sister named Shard who was essentially this.

* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has its usual unique take on this with foglets. When a person goes foglet tiny nanomachines eat his body for the energy to scan and download his brain. When it's done, the person is for all intents and purposes a ghost—floating through the air, making himself visible or invisible at will, and performing spooky miracles by reassembling matter at the molecular level. Though society in general doesn't think of it as death, Channon does:

{{quote|'''Channon:''' All ''I'' know is that they're going to dump {{spoiler|his}} mind into a bunch of machines the size of a fat virus and then burn {{spoiler|his}} body. Sounds like death to me.}}

* The [[Crazy Prepared|Batman-like]] version of The Black Terror featured in ''[[Tom Strong]]'' and its spinoff ''Terra Obscura'' had created one of these before his death. Once activated, Terror 2000 manifests as a hologram projected from a swarm of floating golf ball-sized machines.

 

== Films -- Live Action ==

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' offers an interesting take on this: {{spoiler|Church is killed early in the series and "comes back" as a ghost. However, in ''Reconstruction'' he finds that he is an AI based on a (living) person's mind.}} The newest series, ''Recreation'', seems to be about {{spoiler|bring Church back to "life" with the remnants of his digital memories, themselves manifested as an AI.}}

** {{spoiler|Tex}} may be a more straight version of this trope.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Possibly Franz Hopper from ''[[Code Lyoko]]''; his daughter Aelita was thought to be a Virtual Ghost, but is actually a digitized person who has survived for years in [[Cyberspace]]. Ulrich also spent one episode as a sort of Quantum Ghost due to his mind being accidentally separated from his virtual body.

* Borderline case: Watson in ''[[Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century]]'' -- he's not so much a digital recreation of his namesake as a [[Robot Buddy]] who consciously chose to imitate Watson to the best of his abilities.

** He did this ''twice''. First to mess with whoever tried to shut down Mainframe's core manually, second time as a distraction. He was more or less intangible both times.

* In the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Lost Soul", Robert Vance does this to himself so that he can advise his company from beyond the grave.

* Quite literally on ''[[Futurama]]''. When Bender commits suicide in one episode his programming is uploaded into the cloud and he acts like a "normal" ghost who can't be seen by anyone except the robot devil and can possess machines.

* Proffessor Honneycut from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had his body destroyed when he was struck by lightning, incedentally he was helping his robot assistant Sal get untangled from some fallen wires and had his mind uploaded to Sal's body.{{spoiler|It is later revealed that he uploaded himself to the internet shortly before his heroic sacrifice and comes back later to further aid the turtles}}.

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Applied Phlebotinum]]