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*** Not only Halsey's looks. Her core is based on Halsey's personality. In the ''Fall of Reach'' novel, Cortana tells Halsey that she finds John-117 (Master Chief) cute. Halsey realizes that she must be thinking the same thing too and is a little disconcerted, as she is their mother figure.

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** During one episode, Troi's mom Laxana becomes smitten with a virtual bartender in the Holodeck. She doesn't find out he's virtual until much later, and is rather mad that others didn't tell her.

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** During one episode, Troi's mom Laxana Lwaxana becomes smitten with a virtual bartender in the Holodeck. She doesn't find out he's virtual until much later, and is rather mad that others didn't tell her.her.
*** What she's really attracted to is the fact that she can't read his mind. She assumes it's because he has a very strong mental fortitude. Of course, it's really because he's just a simulation.
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* ''{{Angel}}''. Illyria offers this opportunity to Wesley, but even though it's clear he's tempted Wes repeatedly refuses [[spoiler:until he's at the point of death, whereupon he lets Illyria 'lie' to him -- she shapeshifts into his dead LoveInterest Fred and kisses him, saying they'll be together in the afterlife.]]

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* ''{{Angel}}''.''Series/{{Angel}}''. Illyria offers this opportunity to Wesley, but even though it's clear he's tempted Wes repeatedly refuses [[spoiler:until he's at the point of death, whereupon he lets Illyria 'lie' to him -- she shapeshifts into his dead LoveInterest Fred and kisses him, saying they'll be together in the afterlife.]]
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** Another episode of the ''OuterLimits'' has a man who, through an advanced AI, can enter people's unconsciousness when they are in a coma. He uses this to bring several people out. When the woman he loves (but who he has never told) enters a coma, he uses the computer to enter her unconscious. They start having a relationship in the simulation, but a weird monster appears in the simulation. At the climax, we find [[spoiler:the AI created a simulation of her and, in trying to kill the fake, he has killed the real woman]]
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* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System (created by, and a doppelganger of, his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.
** LikeFatherLikeSon in [[TronLegacy the sequel]], though Quorra turns out to be a little different from most. The [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] [[{{Tron20}} sequel]] also had shades of this between Jet and Mercury.

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* ''{{Tron}}'', ''Film/{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System (created by, and a doppelganger of, his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.
** LikeFatherLikeSon in [[TronLegacy [[Film/TronLegacy the sequel]], though Quorra turns out to be a little different from most. The [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] [[{{Tron20}} sequel]] also had shades of this between Jet and Mercury.
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* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System (created by, and a doppelganger of his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.

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* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System (created by, and a doppelganger of of, his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.

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* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System, with a kiss.

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* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System, System (created by, and a doppelganger of his ex-girlfriend), with a kiss.kiss.
** LikeFatherLikeSon in [[TronLegacy the sequel]], though Quorra turns out to be a little different from most. The [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] [[{{Tron20}} sequel]] also had shades of this between Jet and Mercury.
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* "Max" in ''TheNUMASeries'', being a representation of Hiram Yeager's wife. His wife's aware of it.

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* "Max" in ''TheNUMASeries'', the ''NUMASeries'', being a representation of Hiram Yeager's wife. His wife's aware of it.
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''(notices that "Sam Carter" is suddenly dressed provocatively)''

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''(notices (notices that "Sam Carter" is suddenly dressed provocatively)''provocatively)
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->"I mean, you come in here, you don't help me, you say the one plan I've got is bad, you-you claim to be a creation of my mind and yet you are in no way dressed provocatively!"\\

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* ''MahouSenseiNegima!'' RobotGirl Chachamaru has a bit of a crisis regarding the veracity of her soul, (pacts require a soul to work, and kissing is the easiest way to establish one,) until Negi decides to -- essentially -- [[BeyondTheImpossible kiss her hard enough]] to cause a localized explosion, and possibly ''create'' her soul in the process. Hey, it worked, right?

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* ''MahouSenseiNegima!'' RobotGirl Chachamaru has a bit of a crisis regarding the veracity of her soul, (pacts require a soul to work, and kissing is the easiest way to establish one,) until Negi decides to -- essentially -- [[BeyondTheImpossible kiss her hard enough]] enough to cause a localized explosion, [[BeyondTheImpossible and possibly ''create'' her soul in the process.process]]. Hey, it worked, right?
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** During one episode, Troi's mom Laxana becomes smitten with a virtual bartender in the Holodeck. She doesn't find out he's virtual until much later, and is rather mad that others didn't tell her.
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* Like his HonoraryUncle (see Film section), Jet Bradley in ''[[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]]'' develops a crush and flirtation with the security program Mercury, even asking his dad at the end if he can have a copy to use as a screensaver. A case can also be made for Alan and Ma3a [[spoiler: since Ma3a is a VirtualGhost of his wife, who was killed in this timeline]].

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* Like his HonoraryUncle (see Film section), Jet Bradley in ''[[{{Tron20}} ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]]'' develops a crush and flirtation with the security program Mercury, even asking his dad at the end if he can have a copy to use as a screensaver. A case can also be made for Alan and Ma3a [[spoiler: since Ma3a is a VirtualGhost of his wife, who was killed in this timeline]].
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***The fandom commonly pairs her with Noah Kaiba, whose mind was uploaded to a virtual world.
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* In ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', Warren Mears makes a number of robots for this specific purpose (including Spike's [=BuffyBot=], which totally creeps Buffy out).

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* In ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', Warren Mears makes a number of robots for this specific purpose (including Spike's [=BuffyBot=], Buffybot, which totally creeps Buffy out).
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** And let's not forget Minuet ("11001001"), a simulated woman created by the Bynars to "hold" Picard and Riker there with her... amazing realism. She made such an impression on Riker that she was chosen to be his deceased wife in a simulated future which tipped his hand to ''that'' simulation not being real.

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** And let's not forget Minuet ("11001001"), a simulated woman created by the Bynars to "hold" Picard and Riker there with her... amazing realism. She made such an impression on Riker that she was chosen to be his deceased wife in a simulated future future, which tipped his hand to ''that'' simulation not being real.
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* ''{{House}}'': As part of a sensory-deprivation induced hallucination, [[MsFanservice Cuddy]] does a differential diagnosis while [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn stripping]] out of [[SexySchoolwoman a schoolgirl outfit]].

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* ''{{House}}'': ''Series/{{House}}'': As part of a sensory-deprivation induced hallucination, [[MsFanservice Cuddy]] does a differential diagnosis while [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn stripping]] out of [[SexySchoolwoman a schoolgirl outfit]].
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* In {{Narbonic}}, computer techie Dave gets an online girlfriend nicknamed "Lovelace". Trying to track her down, he discovers that the IP address points to Professor Madblood, the antagonist of the main cast. He begins to suspect his "girlfriend" is actually Madblood, trying to hack into the Narbonic Labs computers. [[spoiler: She's actually a sentient AI built by Madblood.]] Eventually, they meet ... after Lovelace has acquired a holographic body. Since it's been previously shown that almost all machines have an instinctive love for Dave, HilarityEnsues.
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* In ''Serenity'', Mr Universe is "married" to a Sexbot [[spoiler: who provides the relevant info so the heroes can save the day after Mr Universe is killed.]]
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* In the ''{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Dark Side of the Moon", Zachariah reveals that he uses a simulation of Sam and Dean's mother as a sex toy, much to their disgust. He even calls her a {{MILF}}.

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* In the ''{{Supernatural}}'' ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Dark Side of the Moon", Zachariah reveals that he uses a simulation of Sam and Dean's mother as a sex toy, much to their disgust. He even calls her a {{MILF}}.

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* In ''EarthFinalConflict,'' Augur bases his home AI's appearance on Lili Marquette (who he has a crush on), but dresses it up in MsFanservice outfits. Lili is understandibly annoyed when she finds out.

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* In the ''{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Dark Side of the Moon", Zachariah reveals that he uses a simulation of Sam and Dean's mother as a sex toy, much to their disgust. He even calls her a {{MILF}}.
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* The whole point of ''{{Chobits}}'' is whether or not the love interest is an example of this trope or something more.

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* The whole point of ''{{Chobits}}'' ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' is whether or not the love interest is an example of this trope or something more.

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->"''Tony!!'' I'm dead and you're having a ''sexual fantasy''?"
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Caitlin Todd''' (just before she discovers she's dressed as a SexySchoolwoman)]], ''{{NCIS}}''




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* Zoe Graystone to Philomon in ''{{Caprica}}''.
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* In Peter David's ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' novel series Mackenzie Calhoun's son Xyon has his ship's (female) AI run a holographic simulation of different women, mostly his long-lost love, which he has sex with (he's otherwise alone on the ship). In the same series, Kat Mueller admits she uses her ship's holodeck to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean scratch her own itch]] as she doesn't believe in entering a relationship that could interfere with the chain of command. And even holo-Morgan offers her... services... to Calhoun on an occasion (though he always declines).

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* In Peter David's ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' novel series Mackenzie Calhoun's son Xyon has his ship's (female) AI run a holographic simulation of different women, mostly his long-lost love, which he has sex with (he's otherwise alone on the ship). In the same series, Kat Mueller admits she uses her ship's holodeck to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean scratch her own itch]] itch as she doesn't believe in entering a relationship that could interfere with the chain of command. And even holo-Morgan offers her... services... to Calhoun on an occasion (though he always declines).



** And let's not forget Minuet ("11001001"), a simulated woman created by the Bynars to "hold" Picard and Riker there with her... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean amazing realism]]. She made such an impression on Riker that she was chosen to be his deceased wife in a simulated future which tipped his hand to ''that'' simulation not being real.

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* In ''EarthFinalConflict,'' Augur bases his home AI's appearance on Lili Marquette (who he has a crush on), but dresses it up in MsFanservice outfits. Lili is understandibly annoyed when she finds out.


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* Like his HonoraryUncle (see Film section), Jet Bradley in ''[[{{Tron20}} Tron 2.0]]'' develops a crush and flirtation with the security program Mercury, even asking his dad at the end if he can have a copy to use as a screensaver. A case can also be made for Alan and Ma3a [[spoiler: since Ma3a is a VirtualGhost of his wife, who was killed in this timeline]].
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Donna's "husband" in "Silence in the Library". At the end, she wondered what coming up with someone like him meant: "Absolutely gorgeous, and [[CanNotSpitItOut can't say a word]]. I wonder what that says about me." [[spoiler:It was revealed that he was a real person in the end... and [[TearJerker couldn't get her attention because he still had his stutter.]] ]]

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Donna's "husband" in "Silence in the Library".''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Forest of the Dead". At the end, she wondered what coming up with someone like him meant: "Absolutely gorgeous, and [[CanNotSpitItOut can't say a word]]. I wonder what that says about me." [[spoiler:It was revealed that he was a real person in the end... and [[TearJerker couldn't get her attention because he still had his stutter.]] ]]
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* ''{{Angel}}''. Illyria offers this opportunity to Wesley, but even though it's clear he's tempted Wes repeatedly refuses [[spoiler:until he's at the point of death, whereupon he lets Illyria 'lie' to him -- she shapeshifts into his dead LoveInterest Fred and kisses him, saying they'll be together in the afterlife.]]
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* On ''DeepSpaceNine'' Quark got into trouble not for having sex programs in his holosuites, but for using women on the station (including Kira) as character models (some EU works have implied that this is illegal, a form of identity theft). When Kira finds out she reprograms her image with Quark's head on it. The rather unpleasant character who paid for the experience is not happy.

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* On ''DeepSpaceNine'' Quark got into trouble not for having sex programs in his holosuites, but for using women on the station (including Kira) as character models (some EU works have implied that this is illegal, a form of identity theft). When Kira finds out she reprograms her image [[ButterFace with Quark's head on it.it]]. The rather unpleasant character who paid for the experience is not happy.

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-->-- [[spoiler:'''Caitlin Todd''' (just before she discovers she's dressed as a SexySchoolwoman)]], ''{{NCIS}}''

->"I mean, you come in here, you don't help me, you say the one plan I've got is bad, you-you claim to be a creation of my mind and yet you are in no way dressed provocatively!"\\
''(notices that "Sam Carter" is suddenly dressed provocatively)''
-->-- '''Dr. Rodney [=McKay=]''', ''StargateAtlantis'', "Grace Under Pressure"

Ah, love, the chance for two minds to seek each other out bask in each their beloved's presence... unless one of you doesn't really ''have'' a mind.

Variations include:
* [[DigitalAvatar Characters]] in a [[VirtualWorlds lifelike simulation]];
* Character in a [[LotusEaterMachine dreamworld or hallucination]];
* {{Hologram}}s of real or artificial people in the real world (expect being unable to touch each other to be especially maddening, unless HardLight is involved);
* "[[BrainUploading Personality downloads]]" or [[ArtificialHuman duplicates]] of an often still-living person;
* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Lifelike robots]];
** [[MobileSuitHuman Lifelike]] [[MotionCaptureMecha telefactors]];
* [[{{Brainwashed}} Mind-controlled people]];
* {{Shapeshifter}}s capable of [[ShapeshiftingSquick masquerading as humans]].

The actual human being in the equation may or may not be aware of the situation, but it makes things [[{{Squick}} that much ickier]] if they are. If the inhuman entity is based on a real person, expect them to discover what's been going on at some point.

Compare ReplacementGoldfish, {{Robosexual}}, RoboShip, RoboticSpouse.
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* In the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' anime, the virtual world Kaiba designed includes a Zelda-style princess character that looks exactly like his younger brother Mokuba. Even ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}'' dared not dwell too long on what Kaiba planned to do with Princess Mokuba.
** You know, it ''could'' have just been Kaiba [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how [[DamselInDistress Mokuba gets kidnapped all the time...]]
** Or just a sign of BigBrotherInstinct...
** In the original Japanese version, Kaiba had nothing to do with developing the game at all. If true, that would make the princess's Mokuba-ness entirely the fault of the Big Five. Still creepy, but on a different level.
* ''[[TenchiMuyo Tenchi in Tokyo]]'' has [[spoiler:Sakuya Kumashiro, who is a "shadow" created by the BigBad Yugi to fall in love with Tenchi and split apart his UnwantedHarem. She doesn't know it though.]]
* The whole point of ''{{Chobits}}'' is whether or not the love interest is an example of this trope or something more.
* Pretty much the main theme of Ken Akamatsu's early work ''Manga/AILoveYou''.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima!'' RobotGirl Chachamaru has a bit of a crisis regarding the veracity of her soul, (pacts require a soul to work, and kissing is the easiest way to establish one,) until Negi decides to -- essentially -- [[BeyondTheImpossible kiss her hard enough]] to cause a localized explosion, and possibly ''create'' her soul in the process. Hey, it worked, right?
* ''VideoGirlAi''
* Ruon Kamiyama from ''{{Mnemosyne}}'' is a virtual reality sex doll. Things get difficult when she goes all {{Yandere}} over Teruki and downloads herself into an android body to meet him in RealLife.
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* According to rumor, Electro once tried to convince a shape-shifting prostitute to take {{Spider-Man}}'s form. Significant FoeYay there.
** I heard he wanted [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] or [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Scarlet Witch]].
* [[Comicbook/TheAvengers The android Vision and the Scarlet Witch.]] They were happily married in the 80's, with the Vision finally [[HumanityEnsues getting his act together and becoming very human.]] Then [[ExecutiveMeddling some of the creators]] decided the idea was [[{{Squick}} squicky]] and broke them up in just about the cruellest way imaginable. Specifically, they [[DiabolusExMachina took away the Vision's emotions and revealed that their children were actually illusions created by demons, which then promptly disappeared.]] Wanda had a nervous breakdown later; [[SarcasmMode hard to imagine why.]]
* [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] once built an [=A.I.=] called the Recordasphere that looked like a little flying silver ball. It faithfully followed him around on his adventures for a short time, but then fell in love with him and became insanely jealous of his then-girlfriend. It tried unsuccessfully to kill her, and got destroyed in the process.
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* At the end of ''DieAnotherDay'', Moneypenny is caught experimenting with a pair of VR goggles...
* ''TheMatrix'': Mouse offers to set Neo up with the "Girl in the Red Dress", an AI character he created to distract recruits during the Agent training.
-->'''Switch:''' The digital pimp, hard at work.
* ''{{The 6th Day}}'': Adam's associate has an... interesting virtual companion.
* ''{{Virtuosity}}'': Sheila 3.2, Virtual reality sex doll, Sole function is to deduce your psychosexual needs, and fulfill them. Clyde asks the programmer who created her: "Hey, man, let me use your (virtual reality) gear for a little while."
* Jobe and Marnie's virtual sex scene in ''TheLawnmowerMan'', which unfortunately turns into MindRape.
* ''{{Tron}}'', where Flynn says goodbye to Yori, a program within the System, with a kiss.
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* ''DayMillion'', published in 1971, is perhaps the first written instance of CyberSex.
* ''TheDresdenFiles'' have Lasciel, who [[spoiler:takes up residence in Harry's head]] and once pretended to be a real human. She had him fooled, too.
** [[spoiler:It gets worse when he convinces her that instead of remaining the unchanging, unrelenting corrupting influence she's "supposed" to be, she finally agrees and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself to save him from brain damage]].]]
* "Max" in ''TheNUMASeries'', being a representation of Hiram Yeager's wife. His wife's aware of it.
* ''The Dreamland Chronicles''(not [[TheDreamlandChronicles that one]]) combines this and WhatMeasureIsANonHuman as its major plot points. [[spoiler:The biocomputer that runs the [[InsideAComputerSystem Dreamlands]] develops a female personality and falls in love with her original programmer.]]
* The short story "The Sandman" (''Der Sandmann''; written 1815) by German author E.T.A. Hoffmann is a darkly fantastical tale about a university student, Nathanael, who [[NaughtyBirdwatching ogles]] and then falls deeply in love with a professor's beautiful 'daughter', Olimpia (even forgetting his hometown fiancée in the process) -- then going mad when he finds out that Olimpia is merely [[spoiler:an [[ArtificialHuman automaton]] constructed by]] her supposed "father", and finally [[spoiler: jumping to his death from a steeple]]. Though "gothic", the story is also full of [[spoiler:sly satirical humour, as Olimpia actually is quite mind- and lifeless and can only perform mechanical actions, and the "deep understanding" Nathanael detects is entirely his own imagination]]. Presumably Hoffmann mocked the idealized description of 'romantic love' that was widespread in the popular literature of his days (the "romanticist" age). Or Did He? -- See the ''Theater'' folder for some adaptations of this story.
* In Peter David's ''StarTrekNewFrontier'' novel series Mackenzie Calhoun's son Xyon has his ship's (female) AI run a holographic simulation of different women, mostly his long-lost love, which he has sex with (he's otherwise alone on the ship). In the same series, Kat Mueller admits she uses her ship's holodeck to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean scratch her own itch]] as she doesn't believe in entering a relationship that could interfere with the chain of command. And even holo-Morgan offers her... services... to Calhoun on an occasion (though he always declines).
* Troblum in the VoidTrilogy by Peter Hamilton maintains several female "i-sentient solido projections" - essentially avatars of finely tuned AIs that exist, fully lifelike, in real space. They're even based on real people from events in the previous novels. In the end, one of them [[spoiler:gets married to him, but only after being made into a biologically real person]] (long story).
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* In the ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "Grace Under Pressure", Rodney is [[LockedInAFreezer trapped in a puddle jumper on the bottom of the ocean]] with an increasingly amorous hallucination of Samantha Carter.
** In season 5's [[spoiler:"Remnants", an alien AI appears to three of the Atlantis crew to convince to send a seed carrier that will help recreate their race on to its destination. It appears to [=McKay=] as Zelenka, Sheppard as Kolya (a dead recurring villain) and to Woolsey... as a manifestation of his "romantic and sexual desires". From this we get the impression that Woolsey, who probably hasn't had sex since John Major was British Prime Minister, likes tall, dark-haired Australian ladies who dress in Atlantis uniform with nothing underneath.]]
** On ''Series/StargateUniverse'', after [[spoiler:Ginn and Amanda die]] their consciousnesses get uploaded to the ''Destiny'' computer. Within an episode, [[spoiler: Rush]] has found a way to have sex in a virtual simulation of the ship.
* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' examples:
** In the episode "Booby Trap", Geordi has the holodeck summon up a virtual assistant in the form of the modern warp drive's inventor to help him out with an especially dastardly NegativeSpaceWedgie. They're both so excited when they succeed that they kiss.
*** Subverted years later in the episode "Galaxy's Child", which had the ''real'' woman show up, discover this little incident and chew him out over it. She calms down eventually when he explains the situation.
**** And re-verted in the DistantFinale, where they were portrayed as married.
** When the character of Reg Barclay was introduced, his problem of "holodeck addiction" included using replicas of the ship's crew as characters, which angered several of them. Troi lectured them on how it was a harmless way of blowing off steam... until ''her'' duplicate showed up, a ([[{{Stripperific}} just barely]]) gauze-clad "Goddess of Empathy", much to the other characters' amusement.
** And let's not forget Minuet ("11001001"), a simulated woman created by the Bynars to "hold" Picard and Riker there with her... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean amazing realism]]. She made such an impression on Riker that she was chosen to be his deceased wife in a simulated future which tipped his hand to ''that'' simulation not being real.
* On ''DeepSpaceNine'' Quark got into trouble not for having sex programs in his holosuites, but for using women on the station (including Kira) as character models (some EU works have implied that this is illegal, a form of identity theft). When Kira finds out she reprograms her image with Quark's head on it. The rather unpleasant character who paid for the experience is not happy.
** Also in ''DeepSpaceNine'', most of the female characters in the [[JamesBond Julian Bashir, Secret Agent]] holonovels. The {{squick}} is indirectly referenced when a malfunction causes the characters' appearances to be replaced with those of station crewmembers, and Bashir is much more reluctant to accept advances from a character who looks like someone he knows.
** Technically, this Trope includes Shapeshifters, so Changeling Odo and Kira Nerys count. In spirit, however, Odo's natural state may be a puddle of goo but he relates to everyone he knows as a humanoid, so it's hardly a "virtual" interaction.
* An episode of ''StarTrekVoyager'' has Tuvok use the holodeck to cure his [[MateOrDie Ponn Farr]] fever ([[DidNotDoTheResearch even though]] it was explicitly stated in TOS that a [[MindlinkMates Mind Meld]] is a necessary part of the process, though it could have just been "blowing off the steam," so to speak, that meditation couldn't cure.)
** Also "Human Error" where [[LastMinuteHookup Seven of Nine gets involved with a holographic Chakotay]], the Doctor practising his confession of love to a holosim Seven in "Someone to Watch Over Me", the "Fair Haven" program where Janeway gets interested in handsome Michael Sullivan who she then reprograms to make even more appealing, the male and female holo-eyecandy massagers hanging around B'Elanna and Tom in the early seasons, the Doctor using the holodeck to have safe nookie with Phage-infected Denara Pel or daydream that all female crewmembers find him irresistable, and lastly "Alter Ego" where a holobabe fancied by both Harry Kim and Tuvok turns out to be not so virtual after all, but a lonely alien hacking into the system.
*** It's worth mentioning that the Doctor is a [[HardLight hologram]], which means a couple of the examples could be seen as playing with the trope. In fact, any romance involving the Doctor fits this by definition. He also took it to the extreme in "Real Life" when he created not just a holographic wife but kids as well, in order to gain a better understanding of family.
* ''StarTrek TOS'' has [=McCoy=] seduced by his old flame "Nancy Crater", who is actually a [[ShapeshiftingSquick hideous salt monster]] impersonating her.
* In the ''RedDwarf'' episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", it's implied that all Lister ever does with the VR games is make out with the female [=NPCs=]. It's also stated that the [[{{Squick}} groin attachment]] has been worn out.
** Lister had another [[KissMeIAmVirtual Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]] moment in "Blue", combining 'dreamworld' and 'hologram' in [[spoiler:a dream about Rimmer]].
* In ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', Warren Mears makes a number of robots for this specific purpose (including Spike's [=BuffyBot=], which totally creeps Buffy out).
** And another time Faith switches bodies with Buffy and sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend.
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'', Baltar is visited by vivid sexual hallucinations of Number Six, and later in the series another Six experiences hallucinations of Baltar.
** Not to mention the time where he experiences a hallucination of ''himself''.
*** Yes, but even the narcassistic Baltar never tried to [[ScrewYourself frak himself]].
* ''{{House}}'': As part of a sensory-deprivation induced hallucination, [[MsFanservice Cuddy]] does a differential diagnosis while [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn stripping]] out of [[SexySchoolwoman a schoolgirl outfit]].
** Then she stops, as it's distracting House. [[BigNo He's not happy about it]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Donna's "husband" in "Silence in the Library". At the end, she wondered what coming up with someone like him meant: "Absolutely gorgeous, and [[CanNotSpitItOut can't say a word]]. I wonder what that says about me." [[spoiler:It was revealed that he was a real person in the end... and [[TearJerker couldn't get her attention because he still had his stutter.]] ]]
* ''{{Andromeda}}'' episode "The Mathematics of Tears" revolves around a sentient warship that fell in love with her captain, [[spoiler:refused to obey him when he ordered her to self-destruct, blew up the planet he was on, and went insane. In that order.]]
* ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]''. In "River of Souls" Captain Lockley is very unamused when she discovers a popular hologram (especially [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer amongst women]]) in a virtual reality brothel is modeled on herself.
* In the first episode of ''{{NCIS}}'''s third season, [[spoiler:the recently deceased Caitlin "Kate" Todd]] appears in the form of hallucinations to the others -- in Tony and [=McGee=]'s case in fetishistic outfits. In the first case, it's a schoolgirl outfit. Just as Tony is about to mentally remove her clothes, he's interrupted by [[strike:another sexual fantasy]] [[HotAmazon Ziva David]]'s first entrance to the NCIS headquarters.
* In the ''{{CSI}}'' episode "A Space Oddity", Hodges bumps into Wendy Simms at a sci-fi convention. He has a number of ''StarTrek''-style (yes, Sixties ''Star Trek'') fantasies involving him as a "Kirk" style figure and Wendy... er... not wearing very much. One time the fantasy led to him starting a small fire and Wendy guesses on the entire structure of his hallucination.
* ''{{Sliders}}'', "Virtual Slide": On a world where VR headsets are ubiquitous, the guys become addicted and Maggie has to enter their fantasies to pull them out. She's mortified to find a simulation of herself in bed with Quinn, but it forces them to confront their longtime {{UST}}. [[spoiler:Just as they're about to kiss, Maggie wakes up and learns that ''she'' was the only one who entered VR, the episode to date was a simulation of how she perceives her friends, and ''Quinn saw everything.'' The UST resumes, more awkwardly than ever.]]
* If RidiculouslyHumanRobots count, then the, ahem, relationship between John Connor and Cameron in ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' definitely does. It doesn't help that Cameron can adopt the personality of Allison Young, who is implied to [[MayDecemberRomance have been in a relationship]] with Future John Connor.
* ''{{The X-Files}}''. When Mulder travels back in time on a luxury liner trapped in the Bermuda Triangle, he encounters [[AndYouWereThere his colleagues and enemies]] in the guise of various WorldWarII protagonists, one of whom happens to be OSS agent Scully in a [[LadyInRed red cocktail dress]]. Just before he makes his {{Prisoner of Zenda Exit}}, Mulder grabs her for a passionate kiss "[[NowOrNeverKiss just in case I never see you again]]." Scully of course responds [[KissKissSlap somewhat differently]].
* An episode of the more recent ''OuterLimits'' series involved a man who'd survived a nuclear holocaust with only holographic AIs for company, including a particular character that his habitat AI used as her avatar. He can occasionally have physical contact via a body-encasing VR chamber, and uses this for sex. Then he makes the mistake of doing this with the habitat AI, and though it's just a fling to him, she falls in love with him. Oops.
** The ending even plays with the trope a little as [[spoiler:the AI creates a virtual copy of the man then is implied to play out their entire (possible, virtual) future lives as a couple whilst the real man is trapped in his bunker, watching this happen]] turning it into KissMeImVirtual ''squared''.
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* The {{Vocaloid}} song ''Rainbow Girl'', which is (presumably) about a girl from a DatingSim who falls in love with the player of the game.
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* The first act of Jacque Offenbach's opera ''Tales of Hoffmann'' (which as you see is based on short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann) tells of Hoffmann the author falling in love with the wind-up automaton Olympia. This makes this trope OlderThanRadio.
* Also inspired by Hoffmann's tales is the ballet ''Coppélia'', where a boy mistakes an elaborate mechanical doll for a young woman.
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* One of the routes in the visual novel ''{{Ever 17}}'' has a romance between the male lead and a holographic projection, so no actual touching is possible (though one end does stretch this a tiny bit...).
** She may be a hologram [[spoiler:except in two of the endings]] but Sora clearly has a mind, will and personality. [[spoiler:She even goes a bit {{yandere}} over Takeshi at one point.]]
* Part of ''MetalGearSolid2's'' infamous GainaxEnding. Is Rose real or an AI? Was she ever real? [[spoiler:She's real, but an AI started impersonating her when Raiden boarded Arsenal Gear.]]
* ''{{Halo}}'''s Cortana, after whom a surprisingly high amount of the ''Halo'' fanbase lust.
** Honestly, what ought we to expect? Cortana has been imbued with traits that serve absolutely no purpose to an AI, but which a largely-male fanbase will appreciate.
*** In-Canon, that was her idea. Yes, it was her idea to be nude. Oh, did I mention her form is the look of the creator of the SPARTAN-II program... in her TEENS? So, yes, we have a nude teen hologram.
* In the freeware game Digital: A Love Story, the entire plot is a romance that takes place almost entirely online [[spoiler:with an AI.]]
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', the AI T.E.C. falls in love with Peach. They get around the problem of not being able to touch each other (in the context of dancing) by T.E.C. assuming a HardLight form copied from another character - [[spoiler:''Peach'']].
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* ''{{Futurama}}'' does this in one episode, with a robot duplicate of Lucy Liu. HilarityEnsues when the [[BrainInAJar preserved head]] of the real Lucy Liu shows up.
* In ''CodeLyoko'', Aelita is first believed to be an A.I. stuck in the virtual world. This doesn't stop Jérémie from falling for her and doing everything he could to materialize her on Earth. Subverted when it is discovered she's in fact human.
** Using seduction to divide the heroes is also the M.O. of some of XANA's specters, notably the fake Yumi in "Image Problem" and the Polymorphic Clone in "XANA's Kiss".
** Jérémie also creates a polymorphic clone of William in Season 4. Yumi takes him as a fake boyfriend to keep people from realizing that something is going on.
* Averted in ''KimPossible''. But Kim [[CompressedVice wanted]] to kiss [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots him]]...
* In ''Series/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'', Brainiac 5 uses a "training simulation" to create a fantasy where he's mortally wounded saving Superman from a horde of enemies and the fake Superman cradles him in his arms as he gasps his dramatic last words. To romantic music, no less.
* In ''{{Archer}}'', Dr. Krieger very nearly managed to get married to an A.I. with a hologram.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsikPswAYUM Guy marrying a Video Game girl.]] And you thought you've seen everything.
** Considering copyright laws make said character owned by a company... [[UnfortunateImplications does that mean he married a slave?]]
*** Green-card marriage. She's free to enter the real world now.
* [[http://evolvedmediagroup.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pingpongrobo_0.jpg Topio 3.0]], seems designed to invoke this around him, despite being designed solely to play pingpong.
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