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* Darien's sidekick Selma (Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive) in ''Series/TimeTrax''. She is almost a VirtualGhost, as her appearance was based on a photograph of Darien's late mother. For Darien's mission into the 20th century, Selma is disguised as a credit card and frequently used as such (she just hacks the computer to accept her). In one episode, Darien meets an old friend of his, who has traveled back in time to catch a certain criminal. He shows off his own computer called CINDI (Consumer Information Network and Data Interface), who looks like a ditzy blonde and doesn't do much except giggle and take up seductive poses, while her hologram occasionally glitches. Obviously an inferior version of SELMA, who is a little insulted.

* ''The Sun Eater'' series by Christopher Ruocchio has the main hero Hadrian understand a passage from their sacred histories "...and the daughters of Columbia seduced the kings of the Earth". Columbia is the first American A.I. and her daughters are next generation A.I. To help sell other countries's governments on the adoption of A.I., these next-gen machines had holographic avatars of flawlessly beautiful naked women made of white light who offered gifts of more advanced technology and seamlessly efficient government.

* The Impostors in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' project holograms around their bodies as disguises, which also allows them to speak human language.

* In ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' from the second season onward, the six Nacaals and Princess Rana'Ori appear as "lumino-projections" in some of the Cities of Gold. At one point in the final season, [[BigBad Ambrosius]] also makes a holographic message of himself as part of a trap.

* In the second of ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', the six Nacaals and Princess Rana'Ori appear as "lumino-projections" in some of the Cities of Gold. At one point in the final season,[[BigBad Ambrosius]] also makes a holographic message of himself as part of a trap.

* Sora in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'' (at least until the True Ending, where she becomes a RobotGirl).

* The {{AI}}s that control ships in the ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' universe are usually represented by holograms, for interaction with "meatbags". And for the sake of exposition, [[BreakingTheFourthWall as they themselves occasionally notice]], even for direct interaction between [=AIs=] themselves. Some exceptions are Haban, who is embedded into a human and talks through him, Ennesby, who has a physical flying body and was talking through it or just speakers when he was a ship AI, and TAG, who speaks disembodiedly on purpose.

* In ''Webcomic/LeavingTheCradle'', Quantum, the residential {{AI}} appears as this to those speaking with them. Athough his appearance appears to be based on one of the aliens of the setting, the [[https://leavingthecradle.com/characters character page]] says that he has no actual self-image and chooses the form that's being the most convenient for the other speaker.

* [[spoiler: Layla,]] the girl in the Sunset Cage looks like just another MysteriousWaif up until she [[spoiler: suddenly [[HologramProjectionImperfection flickers]] and shuts down. She gets better.]]

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** Stel from the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] (Creator/DCComics) does this too.
* Miguel O'Hara, the [[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Spider Man of 2099]], had a personalized AI assistant who went by Lyla, and projected a Marilyn Monroe-like figure to communicate with him. She could take other forms, including an obvious lookalike of Aunt May.

* The villain Optilux from Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/{{Supreme}}'' run was an alien intelligence (and Brainiac {{Expy}}) who existed as a living hologram. He also converted whole cities into light constructs and imprisoned them in prism-like structures (parallelling Brainiac shrinking cities and imprisoning them in bottles), believing that [[ScaryDogmaticAliens he was fulfilling a higher purpose]] by converting living people into light.
* Some ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comics have his father, Jor-El as a hologram who can walk around but he's usually portrayed as a HugeHolographicHead like in [[Film/{{Superman}} the movies]].

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BlueSky'' has Wheatley transferred into a HardLight body. It's so realistic that several characters don't even realize he's not human - at one point, he shows a plug in the back of his neck to the local technology expert, and the other character is so stunned [[INeedAFreakingDrink he decides he needs a drink]] before the conversation can continue.

* In 1995's ''Hologram Man'' Kurt Decoda and Norman Galagher are transformed into holographic parolees in a Film/DemolitionMan-esque universe with [[DomedHometown Domed Cities]].

* In the later ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' Archie comics, NICOLE appears as a lynx using this trope.

* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', the AI running the Ellicott Chatham Enterprises SpaceStation interacts with humans through a holographic projection of a young man, which it can manifest anywhere within the Station or via [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3647 remote drone]] elsewhere. PlayedForLaughs when people [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2160 forget]] that he's not made of HardLight, when he [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2162 glitches out]] while "hung over" from modeling weather patterns, and when he [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2145 stages]] paranormal activity.

* "[[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep Station]]", the [[SpaceshipGirl Spaceship Boy]] in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' who controls Hannelore's father's space station, manifests this way on-board.
** May is a personal AI assistant projected through Dale's AugmentedReality Glasses (who, as a result, only he can see). She has her own robot chassis, but it's locked up in Robot Jail at the time (she tried to upload herself into a fighter jet) and she's essentially doing community service. Later on, she shows up "in the flesh".

** In ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', T-AI is a sentient computer who projects a holographic image of herself. She even operates equally holographic keypads to make the computer (which is ''her'') do stuff. [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] summed up the FridgeLogic of this. [[note]]"Whenever T-AI makes radio contact with any off-base Autobots, she initiates it by pressing a sequence of buttons on a keypad. Considering that these elements are all a part of the same computer, T-AI is in fact projecting and controlling the holographic representation of herself and making it use the keypad that controls T-AI, herself. She is effectively telling herself to tell herself what to do. If you also factor in the fact that the hologram is totally incorporeal, and therefore cannot actually make contact with the keypad, then the assorted beeps and lights that seemingly indicate when the buttons are being pressed are actually being controlled from within T-AI like a player piano, and therefore don't need to be pressed even if the hologram could press them. This gives me a headache."[[/note]]The RuleOfCool is definitely in effect.

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* The Doctor aka Emergency Medical Hologram in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', and a number of other characters late in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise.
** Any humanoid-like being produced by the Holodeck counts as well, although most don't seem to be sentient.
** The other noteworthy mention here is Creator/StephenHawking who as this type of character got to be the only person in Franchise/StarTrek history to date to appear on the show as himself.
* The Sirens from ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' has at least four holograms [[note]] An Emergency Medical Hologram, an Emergency Navigational Hologram, a Hospitality Hologram and an Engineering Hologram[[/note]]. All look the same as the ship's owner but [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct all dress, talk and act differently.]]

* The Sirens from ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' has at least four holograms [[note]] An Emergency Medical Hologram, an Emergency Navigational Hologram, a Hospitality Hologram and an Engineering Hologram[[/note]]. All look the same as the ship's owner but [[HeReallyCanAct all dress, talk and act differently.]]

* Rimmer in ''Series/RedDwarf'', although he very definitely did not fit the mold of RobotBuddy. ** Holograms in this franchise are [[VirtualGhost Virtual Ghosts]] of [[BrainUploading Brain Uploaded]] crew members but due to the high energy costs, most ships can only generate one hologram at a time so they have to hope that nobody more important dies.

* Rimmer in ''Series/RedDwarf'', although he very definitely did not fit the mold of RobotBuddy.

* At the end of ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'', Captain Proton realises that the President of Earth is actually just a DigitalAvatar of the [[MasterComputer Great Calculator]] that truly runs society. This is a MythologyGag to ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' where the President of Earth is played by Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram.

* ''VideoGame/Defiance'': Your EGO implant projects a blue flickering light lady into you field of vision to make the interface feel more natural.