History Main / VoiceWithAnInternetConnection

* All the characters in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' have neural implants that allows them to communicate with each other entirely by thinking without any need for either microphones or headsets, which they regularly use for silent coordination during operations.
* The detective L from ''Manga/DeathNote'' starts the series as this, aiding the police task force in their goal to catch the serial killer Kira from the shadows. L eventually reveals his face to a select few of the task force, but to the general public, his only identity is a digitized voice and the letter "L" on a computer screen.
** Subverted in the ''Series/DeathNote'' where he doesn't bother disguising his voice.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In ''Stranger to the Sun'', CanonForeigner Franklin Ayers-Bishop and Cordelia trade emails about how to save Wesley and stop the villain, but they never meet.

* Jules often fills this role in ''Series/BreakoutKings''.

* [=GLaDOS=] from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''.

* Severin from ''VideoGame/BloodRayne 2''.
* The Voice of the Agency in ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}''.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' had several of these, starting with Alex Jacobson as your tutor. Explained in-game with nanotechnology providing the audio and video uplinks. Somewhat unusual for the trope, you get to meet everyone who communicates with you this way "in person", except for the [=AIs=] Daedalus and Icarus -- [[spoiler:though you do meet Helios "in person" in the last mission]].

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' Sarif, Pritchard and Malik fill in this role. Other characters also gain this ability, making Adam Jensen wonder how people keep getting his info link frequency.

* The original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' for the MSX had several of these, with Big Boss being the most prominent.
** Any and all of the radio/Codec contacts in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games -- including the "cut to black and screaming" bit for the GameOver screens if the hero is killed. Although, the video and audio feed is explained by use of the radio on the main character/[[AppliedPhlebotinum nanomachines]] in the main character's blood stream.

* The Internet in ''VideoGame/{{Sam and Max|FreelancePolice}}: Reality 2.0''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, a scientist in one of the later levels begins communicating with Jack claiming he needs his audio help to find a computer. He explains he secretly slipped a device on Jack, and Jack expresses uncomfortability with that.

* The Guildmaster from ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}''.
** Apparently, in one of the later games, the Guildmaster is found dead with "[[CriticalAnnoyance YOUR HEALTH IS LOW]]" [[TakeThatScrappy carved into his forehead]].

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* Bruce Wayne in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', who continued to be Batman into old age vicariously through Terry [=McGuinness=].
** It's even lampshaded in the first episode featuring the elderly Barbara Gordon, who wants the new Batman to back off from a case, only to turn to Bruce and wonder if she should be talking to the older Batman.

* Player serves as this for Carmen Sandiego in the [[WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego 2019 reboot series]], providing navigational and hacking help remotely from his home in Niagara Falls while she traverses the world for caper after caper.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' uses this all the time, usually with Hardison acting as the Voice. Then there was Chaos, his EvilCounterpart for another crew. Nate and Sophie also spend their fair shares of time on Voice duty, although about half the time they're also actively working in the field at the time.

* Used by Sedgewick at the end of ''The Emperor's Club'' to cheat at a trivia competition (vastly updating the cheat-sheet-in-the-sleeve method he used in the same competition when he was at school).

** Bain fills this role again in [[VideoGame/PAYDAY2 the sequel]]. On some missions, other contractors[[note]]Vlad, The Butcher, and Locke[[/note]] will share the role with him. [[spoiler: After Bain is captured during the Reservoir Dogs heist, Locke takes over this role full-time.]]

* All the characters in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' have neural implants that allows them to communicate with each other entirely by thinking without any need for either microphones or headsets, which they regularly use for silent coordination during opperations.

* ''VideoGame/TotalChaos'': Throughout the game, you're contacted by a voice over your radio who tells you what to do at certain points and is insistent that you get to the mines to stop the monsters on the island. [[TheGhost You never get to see him]] and his only direct action with you was to block off a door to prevent some monsters from overwhelming you. [[spoiler:When you reach the end of the game, it gets revealed that the whole game is a MentalStory and that the voice is a part of [[PlayerCharacter Tyler's]] subconciousness that was likely created off the misery he felt from getting treatment for his lung cancer but discovered that the community of Fort Oasis that he's grown attatched to doesn't exist anymore.]]

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* The Art teacher in the Website/YouTube series ''Goth Lyfe''.
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** In the pre-''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' continuity, [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Red Robin]] has a controller in the form of the former ComicBook/{{Anarky}}, now paralyzed but wired into the Net.
** In post-52 ''We Are Robin'', the Robins are given cryptic messages by The Nest, their recruiter [[spoiler: who is actually Alfred]]. Shug-R is introduced in #3 as also serving this role; a Robin who doesn't go out in the field but is very good at looking things up for the others.

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strips where Torg infiltrates something ''Film/MissionImpossible''-style, listens to somebody encouraging him over the radio, then explains to Bun-Bun that this is just a tape record he listens for encouragement.

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': Atlas, your guide via short-wave radio through most of the game. All other [=NPCs=] in the game seem to have this ability as well, though Atlas is the most prominent and helpful, [[spoiler:in terms of gameplay, at least. Plot, on the other hand...]] In [[VideoGame/BioShock2 the second game]], his role is filled by Augustus Sinclair [[spoiler:due to Atlas's death as the FinalBoss]].

** ''[[VideoGame/TwentyTwentySeven 2027]]'': Titan [[spoiler: and its subroutine]] and Xander fill in on this role for the majority of the game. Other characters will fill it as well as the game progresses.

* All the other characters from the ''VideoGame/StarFox'' series. They'll talk to you to give you advice ("Do a barrel roll!"), inform you when they're in trouble, or yell at you when you shoot them or steal their kills.

-->"You'll never escape my hedge maze, Meeester Scott Kennedy!"
* The ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' series:
** They were probably the first to justify this trope as an actual plot element for an RTS game. Specifically, the ''Tiberium'' series introduced the Electronic Video Assistants, an expert system designed to monitor the status of all troops on the battlefield in real time instead of using a brigade of human officers to do the same significantly slower. It became especially noticeable in Tiberian Sun where the EVA installed onto the Kodiak is a fully sentient AI and no longer just spouting pre-recorded messages like its predecessor. Red Alert, since it was originally intended to be a prequel, gave the player an experimental EVA prototype but from ''Red Alert 2'' onward, there is a MissionControl in the form of the FeaturelessProtagonist's [[BridgeBunny female intelligence officer]] instead.
** The only exception might be Yuri who's personally commanding his forces. The "commander" is implied to be a split personality of his and therefore doesn't need this trope.
** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'', being a FPS instead of an RTS, you actually go down on the field and have commanding officers telling you where to go. In one cutscene you get a glimpse of their workstation and it looks exactly like the interface of the strategy games.
* Similar to above series, Terrans in ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' have AI "adjutants" responsible for distributing orders and collating intelligence.

* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}''

* In the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series, almost every main and supporting character qualifies for this trope, though, It's usually Bentley.

** Like in the comics, ComicBook/{{Oracle}} serves this role to the player.
** Early in the game, ComicBook/TheRiddler hacks the channel they use, and he harasses Batman on it at intervals (usually when you solve one of his puzzles) for the rest of the game.
** Inverted for the goons with ComicBook/TheJoker talking over the speaker system. He alerts them when you take down one of the suicide-collar-wearing henchmen. He's otherwise [[UnwantedAssistance about as helpful]] as you'd expect [[BadBoss the Joker to be]].

* In a rare villan version, ''Dr.Eggman'' becomes this in the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2.'' During the Cannon's Core stage, he'll either tell you where the security door that you'll need to destroy (Tails), or your objective for a particular point. (Rouge, Knuckles, Sonic) During Eggman's segment, Tails fills in this role.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Revive}} [=[REVIVE]=]]]'' has GOV, or [[FunWithAcronyms Generic Omnipresent Voice]], guide you through the testing grounds as a means of conducting his experiments with Life Syrup.

* False Caster (Alexandre Dumas) from ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' serves as one to his master. While he's too weak to participate in the war (like with [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Caster of Red (Shakespeare)]]), his reason for refusing to participate actually comes from the fact that he's TheHedonist. Unfortunately for his master, [[HilarityEnsues Dumas has discovered Internet memes]].

* Two from ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'' -- the Architect, a VirtualGhost that's downloaded itself into the Ghostrunner, who provides background on the Tower's construction and politics; and Zoe, the seeming SoleSurvivor of the [[LaResistance The Climbers]], a group that attempted to resist the Keymaster's tyranny, and explains the current situation.

* This is a plot-point in ''Film/TheAccountant'', where an unseen woman arranges jobs and hacks new identities for the title character, a high-functioning autistic accountant for various dangerous criminal organizations. [[spoiler:The end of the movie reveals her to be a low-functioning autistic who can only communicate via her computer.]]

* Aleph in ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', who was hired specifically for being a BrilliantButLazy internet whiz. Her job is to sit in a chair, look up information for dozens of agents simultaneously, and save the world.

* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'': Atlas, your guide via short-wave radio through most of the game. All other [=NPCs=] in the game seem to have this ability as well, though Atlas is the most prominent and helpful, [[spoiler:in terms of gameplay, at least. Plot, on the other hand...]]

** In the 2009 ''[[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}} Batgirl]]'' series, Calculator's daughter Wendy, following her paralysis in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', takes on the alias of Proxy to serve as mission control in Oracle's place when necessary.

* {{Discussed}} in Franchise/{{Tron}} fanfic "Up and Apart" where [[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Jet Bradley]] is acting as this for [[Film/TronLegacy Sam Flynn]].

* The current series of ''Series/KnightRider'' has ''three'' of these, and all of them are ''redundant'' because KITT has shown he can just do that sort of stuff himself anyway. Fortunately the three [[BridgeBunny bridge bunnies]] still have some job security: one is DaChief, another is the [[SassySecretary Sassy]] SexySecretary, the third is the [[CowardlySidekick Sidekick Chop Suey]]. Also, all three of them have varying degrees of [[MrFixit technical expertise]].

** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}''[='s=] ''Spartan Ops'', Miller is usually the one doing this, though both Palmer and Roland occasionally take up the role too.

** They were probably the first to justify this trope as an actual plot element for an RTS game. Specifically, the ''Tiberium'' series introduced the Electronic Video Assistants, an expert system designed to monitor the status of all troops on the battlefield in real time instead of using a brigade of human officers to do the same significantly slower. It became especially noticeable in Tiberian Sun where the EVA installed onto the Kodiak is a fully sentient AI and no longer just spouting pre-recorded messages like its predecessor. Red Alert, since it was originally intended to be a prequel, gave the player an experimental EVA prototype but from Red Alert 2 onward, there is a MissionControl in the form of the {{AFGNCAAP}}'s [[BridgeBunny female intelligence officer]] instead.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' pulls this off in ''Subterranean Animism'', as the "options" in the game are effectively two-way radios to the {{youkai}} on the surface, who also have the ability to sense the world around the options. The protagonist is essentially sent into harm's way simply as a proxy for the {{youkai}} you choose, since the surface youkai are barred from going into the underground. The youkai partners tend to make statements about just how comfortable they are at home while the protagonist is risking her life.

** ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamCity'' and the other sequels have some vocal from Alfred too.

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* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', a "Skywatcher" helped a downed pilot through her radio to keep on going and reach a pick-up point. Was later revealed [[spoiler:it could have been all in her head as said radio was apparently broken. [[MindScrew Or it could have been a goddess]].]]

* Jéremie Belpois from ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', who provides the page image. He talks through and guides the other lyoko warriors on their missions to prevent XANA's latest schemes.

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' [[DeconstructedTrope shows what happens]] when one tries to ''improvise'' this trope rather than have it be a regular occurrence. During the homecoming dance, Ned tries to be as helpful to Peter as possible while the latter is trying to stop the Vulture's plans. However, he can only provide information as fast as he can type and as fast as the school's shoddy internet connection will allow, leading him to use two to three computers in the school's computer lab at any given time, loading information simultaneously and running back and forth between them, so he's not that helpful when things start to go south and Peter needs information instantly. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He's inevitably caught when a teacher confronts him for sneaking through the school while the dance is going on]], and he has to cover his tracks by claiming he was watching pornography.

* The AIs act as this to their Freelancer partners in seasons 9-13 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''.

* The original ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' for the NES had several of these, with Big Boss being the most prominent.

An inversion of the above may be considered a subtrope, where ''you'' are the Voice with an Internet Connection and you have to assist a character in a remote and dangerous situation; these are generally variants of the VisualNovel with branching story paths and multiple endings, and were recently popularized by the mobile game ''VideoGame/{{Lifeline}}''.