History Main / HugeHolographicHead

* ''VideoGame/{{Furi}}: After defeating all the Guardians, Rider returns to [[spoiler:the Mothership. In there, he meets with The Star, the MasterComputer who sent him on a scouting mission long ago. It takes a form of a blue hologram of a head with glowing eyes and a metallic brain floating inside the projection. The player can choose to either obey and give a report on Earth to proceed with the "assimilation" or to rebel and fight it off to save the world]].

* Doctor Breen in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has his "Breencasts" to broadcast messages around City 17. The Rebellion pull down one to shut it up in ''Anticitizen One''. In ''Episode 1'', your ally Doctor Kleiner hijacks the system to warn everyone to evacuate the city before the Citadel at its center self-destructs.

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': This blimp is roughly a third the size of my ego.

-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}: Spyro's Adventure''

* In the early ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' games (and, naturally, in the [[VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy remakes]]), this was [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/crashban/images/1/1c/Cortex_Hologram.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110119192239 the preferred method of communications]] for Cortex and his minions whenever they needed to relay messages to Crash.

* ''''Series/BabylonFive'': As noted below Londo Mollari would use this when he needed to make a speech to the entire populace on Centauri Prime. His successor Vir Cotto also used this when exposing the hidden Drakh presence on Centauri Prime.

* [[http://www.drivecomic.com/archive/100313.html Emperor Cruz]] of ''Webcomic/DriveDaveKellet'' favors these, as his actual stature is [[TheNapoleon less imposing.]]

* The "Oedipus Wrecks" segment of ''Film/NewYorkStories'' has the Creator/WoodyAllen character's [[MyBelovedSmother Beloved Smother]] vanishing during a disappearing act of a magic show. [[HalfwayPlotSwitch Audience expectations are subverted]], however, when she appears as a giant head floating over Manhattan to torment her son in front of the entire world

[[caption-width-right:258:So, just to recap: [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill I come in peace, I mean you no harm, and you all will die. Gallaxhar out.]]]]

* The "Oedipus Wrecks" segment of ''Film/NewYorkStories'' has the Creator/WoodyAllen character's [[MyBelovedSmother Beloved Smother]] vanishing during a disappearing act of a magic show. [[HalfwayPlotSwitch Audience expectations are]] {{Subverted}}, however, when she appears as a giant head floating over Manhattan, to torment her son in front of the entire world.

* In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', Jor-El speaks to and finishes training Kal-El in the Fortress of Solitude using this trope. However, By ''Film/SupermanII'', it has apparently been downgraded to a projection of his mother on a crystal screen.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTreasureIsland'': The main villain, Captain Silver, creates a building-sized hologram projection of himself at the side of the titular island to warn Doraemon and gang to stay out, causing everyone to go MassOhCrap
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* Gallaxhar on ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', as shown above.

* Merlin greets the visitors with one of these in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', in a homage to the Wizard of Oz.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' does this in the climax, though in his case it's formed from his tiny robot minions instead of hologram. And he uses it to make a point that supervillainy isn't just about deeds, it's about '''[[EvilIsHammy PRESENTATION!!]]'''
* ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsWorldRace'': Tezla likes to communicate using massive revolving screens that just show his face.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'' he's upgraded to actual holograms, which also [[spoiler:hide the injuries he's sustained]].

* In ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' messages from the leader of the totalitarianist regime, "Father", does this with massive screens throughout the city. Subverted in that [[spoiler:the real Father died years before. [=DuPont=] has been impersonating him since then]].
* ''Film/{{Tron}}'' has the MCP, which is gratuitously spoofed by Moses of the [[{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}} Super]] [[CaptainErsatz Best Friends]] in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' may be the TropeCodifier.
--> '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis I AM OZ!!]]'''
* The Emperor uses one of these to talk to Darth Vader in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. (In contrast to how other holograms in ''Franchise/StarWars'' are small full-body projections; the ExpandedUniverse said that the Emperor reserved the Huge Holographic Head setting for himself).
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': Supreme Leader Snoke improves on this, with a Huge Holographic Full-Body projection.
*** Snoke also a Huge Holographic Head to talk to Hux in ''Film/TheLastJedi''.
* ''Film/ThingsToCome'' (1936). Theotocopulos addresses the people of Everytown with his [[LuddWasRight Luddite message]] via a giant full-length holographic image.
* The BigBad Xur in ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''.
* Daxus in ''Film/Ultraviolet2006''.
* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''. MadScientist Dr Totenkopf, 'played' by Creator/LaurenceOlivier, has a DieselPunk version, necessary because Olivier had been dead for ten years before the movie was made--the hologram is a CGI recreation compiled from samples of home movies made shortly before his death.

* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. Sador flies his MileLongShip [[OminousFloatingSpaceship low over the Akirans]] to provide a backdrop for his holographic head when he's threatening to destroy their planet unless they let him plunder it. He follows up his message by having his snipers [[KickTheDog kill a few of his audience at random]], just to show he means business.
* In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' during the briefing in [=MI6=] Scotland scene, M shows Bond how the bullet lodged in Renard's head is slowly killing him by blowing up a large holographic depiction of his head and the bullet's travel therein.
* In ''Film/{{Superman}}'', Jor-El speaks to and finishes training Kal-El in the Fortress of Solitude using this trope. However, By ''Film/SupermanII'' it has been downgraded apparently to a projection of his mother on a crystal screen.

* Simon Jones, [[RemakeCameo the original Arthur Dent]], as the Magrathean hologram in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', Ronan's comlink to Thanos on the Dark Aster displays as this.
* The Grandmaster in ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' projects his entire body standing over his city, as tall as a skyscraper. Hilariously, he still talks in a normal, overly casual voice while addressing the city this way.

* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': In ''The Witch Queen'' expansion, Oryx’s sister, the eponymous Savathûn, the Witch Queen, demonstrates the same ability, although she prefers the IHaveTheHighGround look as she smugly comments on your progress through her throne world.

'''Kaos:''' WHAT?! ''[cut to inside his ship, where we see that the real Kaos projecting the holographic head is a small, weak guy]'' My head is awesome, I tell you! Fear it! Fear my GIANT FLOATING HEAD!

* Doctor Breen in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has his "Breencasts" to broadcast messages around City 17. The Rebellion pull down one to shut it up in ''Anticitizen One''.

* Daxus in ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}''.

* Gideon in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is another BenevolentAI version, taking the form of a blue-skinned, [[BaldWoman bald, female]] head, floating above her control panel.