History Main / SpaceShipGirl

* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject 2'' has Arthur, a space''station guy'', created by Dr. Kenneth Farnstien while on board his space station, Amarax. His integration is such that he can feel the craft "like a body", although the station itself has its own feminine ComputerVoice, which Arthur at one point calls "Mom". When you arrive, Farnstien is dead and the station's been hit by a meteor shower [[spoiler: and another time traveler who got there before you pissed him off but good]]. Then, after reading your Biochip files, discovering that he will die in the future, Arthur copies himself to a blank chip you're carrying and becomes your RobotBuddy for the rest of the game.

* Cortana in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', though the ship in question doesn't last as long as she does (although [[PlayerCharacter Master Chief's]] armor is apparently very similar to a spaceship, and the time she inhabits a Halo ring would probably count).
** Serena of ''VideoGame/HaloWars'' as well. And in this case the ship lasts as long as the SpaceshipGirl.

* VideoGame/SystemShock's Shodan is a space''station'' girl. The sequel gives us Xerxes, a spaceship ''guy'' [[spoiler: who eventually gets hacked and sublimated by a resurrected Shodan, allowing her to ''finally'' be a spaceship girl at last]].
* Averted in ''{{Albion}}'', where the computer of the spaceship Toronto is represented by a masculine android "AI body" known as Ned. Later it turns out there's a whole bunch of armed Neds hidden on the ship in case anyone gets rebellious. At the very end, you see the core AI itself, a very decidedly neuter mechanical thing inside an indestructible black tin.

** Other research has claimed that female voices feel "safer" to listeners, but that this may be because HAL from ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' has soured the general public on male voiced computers through PopCulturalOsmosis.

** The German Kriegsmarine averts this trope with the battleship Bismarck. Admiral Erich Raeder insisted the Bismarck be designated as a 'male' vessel at all times. Doesn't stop modern Germans from referring to that ship as a "she" every time it is mentioned.

* ''Series/{{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 ''Series/StargateSG1'' or ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''.

* Kate Rose from ''TrinityBlood'' she is the basically the AI of the flying ship "The Iron maiden", although she's also a {{Wetware CPU}} whose body is comatose, 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.

* ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' does this with actual naval ships, though the technology in said ships rivals that of most spaceships which would feature this trope. Interestingly, one of the human characters actually inquire about why all of the ships feature female avatars. The mental models state that humans have always referred to ships as "female", [[HandWave so logically they would be represented that way]]. See the Real Life entry for further details.

* ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' does this with actual naval ships, though the technology in said ships rivals that of most spaceships which would feature this trope. Interestingly, one of the human characters actually inquire about why all of the ships feature female avatars. The mental models state that humans have always referred to ships as "female", so logically they would be represented that way. See the Real Life entry for further details.

* Perhonen, Mieli's CoolShip in Hannu Rajaniemi's ''TheQuantumThief'' manifests as [[BilingualBonus holographic butterflies]], but her voice and personality are distinctly female. The protagonist even assumes that [[LesYay she and Mieli]] [[CargoShip are lovers]], but Perhonen explains that they are just good friends.

* AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/TheShipWho Sang'', and later related books.
** ''The Ship Who Searched'' by MercedesLackey [[spoiler:featured a brainship who financed the creation of a remote-operated android accessory so she could be her human partner's... [[{{Robosexual}} partner]]]].
** Another book from that series has a brainship who had gone through a terrible traumatic event; in [[ThereAreNoTherapists therapy]] a counselor had her channel her emotions and frustrations into art, and eventually had her create a self portrait. He expected her to paint a projection of herself as a human, if she hadn't had the genetic defects that landed her in a brainship, but she painted her shipself with some anthropomorphic elements.

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* OlderThanTheyThink; the Harryhausen version of ''JasonAndTheArgonauts'' has the Argo's figurehead of Hera speak to Jason to give him advice. This detail wasn't in the original story, however.

* Sandstrom from {{Hyperdrive}}.

* On one episode of ''TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'', Arwin makes an A.I. for the cruise ship that will control all the main processes of the ship. It becomes evil and eventually manifests itself as a RobotGirl, who falls in love with Cody.

* [=SAL9000=] in 2010 ([[TheCameo played]] by [[MurphyBrown Candice Bergen]]) is almost neuter, but female (and sounds very like Eldon Tyrell's computer in Blade Runner).

* ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'': the ship [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/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.

* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': Ryo-ohki, TheSpeechless WeaselMascot who can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn into a ship]], eventually develops a couple of cute girl forms. Also, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1126135980051.jpg Tsunami,]] progenitor of the space trees, and goddess and most powerful warship of Jurai.
** [[spoiler: Yes there is a reason she looks like Sasami.]]

->''"I'' am ''the Normandy now. Its sensors are my eyes. Its armor, my skin. Its fusion plant, my heart."''

She may be a [[{{Hologram}} holographic projection]] by the ship's computer, or she may be a physical manifestation created by BlackBox technology, she may be a WetwareCPU running the ship, or she may simply [[MacGuffinGirl turn into a human]] [[VoluntaryShapeShifting when she wants to]]; but she ''is'' the ship, and thus requires special handling. Spaceship girls range from the deadly serious to the outright wacky, but they are never just machines. Hint: don't make her angry when you're parsecs away from the nearest planet...[[ComingInHot Or even if you're close to a planet.]]

* AnneMcCaffrey's ''TheShipWho Sang'', and later related books.

* ''Moya'' on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' is a Leviathan, one of a race of [[OrganicTechnology living ships]]. She even gives birth to a bouncing baby spaceship. Other Leviathans, of both genders, (with mixed-gender pilots, sometimes) also showed up.
** Except Moya isn't an "avatar" of herself-- if anything, Pilot should serve this role, since he generally is the channel through which the crew interacts with Moya. He's also about as far as you can get from a cute girl...

* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': Ryo-ohki, TheSpeechless WeaselMascot who can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn into a ship]], eventually develops a couple of cute girl forms. Also, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1126135980051.jpg Tsunami]], progenitor of the space trees, and goddess and most powerful warship of Jurai.

* ''Anime/LostUniverse'' has [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1142146262764.jpg Canal Volfied]], {{Meido}}-outfitted hologram with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair greenish-blue]] RapunzelHair. Though she's well-aware of her nature as the ship's mind and can get very hyper when it comes to supplementing the ship's weaponry (which she refers to as "accessorising"), she's also got a very human-like personality. She has a particular distaste for Millie because Millie is insistent upon being the ship's cook... ignoring that she blows up the kitchen ''every single time''.

* ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'': the ship [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/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.

* The protagonist of ''Boojum'' by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette, faced with AFateWorseThanDeath (becoming a BrainInAJar owned by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s), allows herself to be absorbed by her LivingShip.

* In RobinHobb's ''The Literature/LiveshipTraders'' series, there are sentient ships with animate figureheads. Some of them are males, though. They are mostly considered as persons, with one captain actually ''courting'' his female ship to the point that his sexual partner and the ship consider each other love rivals. Not played for laughs at all.