History Main / KissMeImVirtual

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.

* In the Coma Arc of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Earl dreams he's a 50's sitcom protagonist, HappilyMarried to Billie Cunningham. (His friend Frank's ex-girlfriend, and the woman who found him on the road when he got hit by a car... again.) Everything in their life is perfect (reflecting Earl's desire for the happy, perfect life he saw on TV but never had himself), and Earl takes this to mean he's to marry Billie when he wakes up BecauseDestinySaysSo. He does, but he soon finds out the hard way that sometimes WantingIsBetterThanHaving, and they ultimately end up divorced.

** 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.

* "world.execute(me);" by ''Mili'' is a Deconstruction of the trope, which depicts the relationship between a simulation AI and its users as unhealthy and detrimental to the former, which is being seen as a tool and nothing else.

* One of the characters that Hajime Hinata, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', has the most prominent amounts of ShipTease with is [[spoiler: Chiaki Nanami, who at the end of the game is revealed to be an AI created to look after him and the others in [[LotusEaterMachine the Neo World Program]].]] ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' reveals [[spoiler:[[InterfaceWithAFamiliarFace she was based on a real girl]] who was also heavily implied to have feelings for Hajime.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Soos and the Real Girl", the Pines twins buy Soos a dating sim so he can practice without scaring real girls away (he's very bad at flirting). This being Gravity Falls, of course, it's cursed and sentient. Giffany falls hard for Soos, invading every screen to stay with him and eventually even hijacking an animatronic band to pull off IfICantHaveYou. For his part, Soos is more than happy dating Giffany on his computer until he realizes he's managed to charm a real girl, Melody (and that Giffany is [[{{Yandere}} dangerously]] [[CrazyJealousGirl possessive]]). When Melody mentions that she's leaving town in a week and they can video-chat, Soos considers it a best of both worlds scenario.

* ''WebAnimation/UniverseFallsTheSeries'' has "Fuster the Death Robot", a killer robot repurposed as a robotic boyfriend for Mabel.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls,'' the Pines twins buy Soos a dating sim so he can practice without scaring real girls away (he's very bad at flirting). This being Gravity Falls, of course, it's cursed and sentient. Giffany falls hard for Soos, invading every screen to stay with him and eventually even hijacking an animatronic band to pull off IfICantHaveYou. For his part, Soos is more than happy dating Giffany on his computer until he realizes he's managed to charm a real girl, Melody. When Melody mentions that she's leaving in a few weeks and that they can video chat, Soos considers it a best of both worlds scenario.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsikPswAYUM Guy marrying a Video Game girl.]] And you thought you've seen everything.
* [[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 ping-pong.

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* ''Druuna'':

* Theran Cedrax (the Consular's companion character) in Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic has a gorgeous virtual assistant named Holliday. Holliday doesn't mind Theran's incessant flirting with anything humanoid, female, and reasonably attractive, or his dalliances when his flirting pays off. However, she ''does'' mind if it looks like it's going to be anything more serious than a dalliance.

* Like his HonoraryUncle (see Film section), Jet Bradley in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' 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.]]

* Franchise/TheSmurfs in ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' have had sexual relationships with magical holographic beings in the Imaginarium.

** Much less humorously, at the end of season 5, [[spoiler:House hallucinates having had an entire affair with Cuddy after she helped him GoingColdTurkey and end his vicodin addiction. No, he's still hooked on the stuff, which has messed with his brain. House only realizes this when he's befuddled by Cuddy seemingly ignoring their RelationshipUpgrade for no reason.]]

* ''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]]. Then she stops, as it's distracting House. [[BigNo He's not happy about it]]. Hilariously, she points out that since this is all in his head, he actually stopped ''himself'' because he's more interested in the mystery.

* ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' has a comic where a figure asks his online girlfriend to get "tested" with him. The test turns out to be CAPTCHA, and the girlfriend is unable to read it, revealing that she's an advertising chatbot. She insists her love was real, but he blocks her anyway. That there's a couples' CAPTCHA service in the first place implies that this kind of thing is not uncommon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Dr. Krieger very nearly managed to get married to an A.I. with a hologram. Of course, the original gag was that the State of New York found her so lifelike, that she was capable of having a marriage (as opposed to gay marriage). Naturally, SocietyMarchedOn.

* One of the characters that Hajime Hinata, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', has the most prominent amounts of ShipTease with is [[spoiler: Chiaki Nanami, who at the end of the game is revealed to be an AI created to look after him and the others in [[LotusEaterMachine the Neo World Program]]. Though, ''Anime/Danganronpa3'' reveals [[InterfaceWithAFamiliarFace she was based on a real girl]] who was also heavily implied to have feelings for Hajime.]]

* ''Film/{{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."

* According to rumor, Electro once tried to convince a [[ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange shape-shifting prostitute]] to take Franchise/SpiderMan's form. Significant FoeYay there. (Also, he wanted [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] or [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Scarlet Witch]]).

* In the ''Google Translate Sings'' series of videos, its what KSR shippers think and there is a ton of LesYay

* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' has Joi, a commercially available AI meant to give companionship for lonely individuals such as the protagonist K. She later hires a flesh and blood hooker, then "synchs up" their body movements so that K can make love to Joi for real. What makes that scene especially interesting is that ''all three participants'' are artificial. K and the prostitute are both [[ArtificialHuman Replicants]], and Joi is a [[ProjectedMan hologram]].