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Virtual Celebrity
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So there's this new performer taking the entertainment world by storm. She's gorgeous, she's talented, she's got tons of fans... and she's not real. Well, not a flesh-and-blood human, anyway. (Whether that makes her not real is sometimes debatable.) She's some sort of program or AI, created specifically to be an actor, Idol Singer, or what have you. Most often her artificial nature will be concealed from the world, though there's the occasional Cyberpunk or Post Cyber Punk setting where celebrities (sometimes, all celebrities, or at least the majority) are known to be virtual and nobody cares. Any metaphors occurring to you about how celebrities are manufactured and marketed as products? Don't be such a cynic. These do exist in reality; they usually either have a Kayfabe while clearly being fictional, or are openly marketed as virtual celebrities for the sake of a gimmick, but at least one, Aimi Eguchi, had been successfully passed off as a real person. Not to be confused with Synthetic Voice Actor. Compare Reused Character Design. Contrast VTubers, who are basically the opposite — real people performing through digital avatars. |
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NG Resonance from Deus Ex: Invisible War is a human pop star, but the AI-controlled holographic copies of her fulfill this trope. It eventually transpires that the AI is actually a WTO-controlled espionage system, and that the friendly and affable simulation is significantly different to the spoiled and inconsiderate original it was based on. You have the option to make the trope one hundred percent after you meet NG Resonance in person if you shoot her (not a spoiler, since you can shoot anybody you come in contact with). Strangely, her AI alter ego doesn't seem to care. | |
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The D trilogy embodies this. All of the characters are re-used in later games, giving the vibe they're the same 'actor' playing a different role. This is especially true for Laura in each game, being a mute blond every time, but different characters in the story. Characters from Enemy Zero, Parker and Emily specifically, appear in D2, giving the same vibe as Laura does. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Throughout the cities, there are two idols gaining popularity; Idol-Chan, a singer who uses a virtual avatar while keeping her real identity a secret, and Mion, a virtual idol who promotes herself and freely sends messages to gather fans. | |
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Especially Hatsune Miku, who even has her own Facebook page. Virtual celebrity to the max! Miku took the next step, aka Character Celebrity Endorsement, in a Toyota Corolla Commercial thanks to Toyota sponsoring her upcoming USA concert. She was recruited by Domino's Pizza to do the same for them, along with being featured in a pizza ordering app for iOS gadgets. She's even helped with Sapporo tourism with the annual "Snow Miku" festival, and serves as the mascot of Goodsmile Racing's stock team as "Racing Miku". | |
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In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the religion of Earth worships Wilbur Mercer, who is later revealed to be a mental simulacrum of a character actor recorded decades ago. | |
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The Plastic E-Gulls are a cartoon four-piece band performed by one guy, albeit still looking for that big break... | |
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Konami tried to market Tokimeki Memorial's heroine Shiori Fujisaki as one, complete with several music albums, two music videos, and an official fan club. Apparently it didn't go very far thanks to several Ensemble Darkhorses such as Saki Nijino stealing the limelight. | |
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Since then, there have also been hologram versions of Ronnie James Dio and Roy Orbison. | |
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Mnemosyne has an example of this in episode four. The basis of the virtual celebrity is her memories and thoughts, sucked from the Mad Scientist's daughter, killing her. | |
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Agents of Mayhem has AISHA, a K-Pop idol group consisting of five sentient AI (all of whom look identical save for different colored clothing) who are romantically involved with cyborg supervillain Steeltoe. After you defeat Steeltoe, one of the AISHA units becomes a villain. | |
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Rei Toei and the other idorus in Idoru. | |
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The New Sync Boys from Schlock Mercenary. Definitely a metaphor. The AI later runs away in shame, and joins the regular cast. | |
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In Red Dwarf, "Groovy" Channel 27 has a holographic newsreader. This is a borderline case, since holograms in the series are often modeled on real, deceased people. | |
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Android Announcer Maico 2010: The titular character is an an android radio announcer. | |
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Jem: The titular Jem doesn't even exist as a person in the show, she's actually Jerrica disguised beyond recognition by means of Synergy's holographic projections. The thing that draws the line between virtual star and stage alias? No one but Jerrica's closest friends knows she is Jem. The people in that universe perceive Jem and Jerrica as two different entities. | |
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One of the singers whose music you can purchase for BGM in Phantom Crash is actually just an AI. Said AI (Mona Lisa) was created by and is used by the (first) game's Final Boss. Go figure. | |
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Eve Tokimatsuri of Megazone 23, though it's well-hidden until well into Part 1. She's a subroutine of the Bahamut supercomputer that controls the Generation Ship the cast lives on. She chose 1980s Japan as "the best time to live in" and is also responsible for evaluating humanity's readiness to return to Earth at the end of Part 2. | |
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Mutant X has a virtual reporter, Proxy Blue, who reports on mutant-related strange occurrences. | |
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Nekomimi A and Nekomimi B, twin Cat Girl robots, are apparently the idols of the Transformers: Energon world, making cafeteria appearances, hosting virtual gladiator matches, and even starring in their own in-series manga. | |
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The band Binky in Arthur, who are revealed at the end of "Meet Binky" to just be holograms. | |
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Aki Ross from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, whom Square and Sony were marketing as a virtual celebrity of sorts, even planning to reuse her as a "virtual actress" in unrelated roles for future films. Of course, the film flopped (taking Square with it) and consigned Aki to the dustbin of history. | |
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Two of NSR's Megastar groups in No Straight Roads count under this: Sayu, a mermaid-themed virtual idol who satirizes the whole concept. Sayu's design is intentionally saccharine, and she only speaks cutesy catchphrases and sings generically about love. Her fans get incredibly defensive when people say she isn't "real", even though cutscenes regularly show she's only a combination of computer programs and machinery controlled by nerdy students, only one of whom is actually a girl. The game doesn't quite go all the way in damning the concept though: by the end, Mayday lets the students off with a warning to go back to school, rather than have their talent and Sayu be used by NSR. (Likewise, being in a game about music, Sayu's boss theme, which is supposedly her image song, is actually well-made.) Then there is 1010 (pronounced ten-ten), a Boy Band made up of five androids who act as The Dividual with auto-tuned voices. |
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Azure Striker Gunvolt has Lumen, who is promoted by Sumeragi as a virtual Idol Singer. In reality, she's a hologram subconsciously projected by Joule, and her songs manifest Joule's powers. | |
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Savlonic, a fictional band created by Weebl of Weebl & Bob fame. | |
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Looker: The corrupt company Digital Matrix has models scanned into its computer to make perfect 3D copies of them that can appear in any commercial. The company then hires a hitman to murder the models so that the company doesn't have to pay them royalties for their image. | |
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The VBirds were an animated girl group created by Cartoon Network UK. Their single "Virtuality" was heavily promoted for a while (the group even opening for a real-life boy band), but they faded into obscurity not long afterward. | |
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Phony actress Simone in S1m0ne is a particularly strong example in that there isn't even an AI involved — 'her' controller speaks for 'her' and programmes 'her' movements directly, making Simone spiritually more akin to a ventriloquist's dummy. | |
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Courtney Gears from Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal would be a perfect example, seeing as she's a robotic pop singer. She is not technically made to be a singer, but she fits. | |
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Sharon Apple in Macross Plus, who is known to be computer-generated, though she still has a secret: much of her personality and emotions are drawn from programmer Myung. An attempt to increase her ability to emulate emotions using an experimental military AI chip goes badly. | |
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YUNA from Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale is the image character for the augmented-reality game Ordinal Scale, regaling players with songs and temporarily boosting their skills during event battles. It is later revealed that YUNA is based on her creator Shigemura's daughter, who died in the Sword Art Online incident in his quest to fully recreate her as a top-down Artificial Intelligence using the memories of past SAO players. | |
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The Archies tried to be one. They had a hit single. That's about it. | |
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Futurama features robots who work as entertainers, most notably Calculon, star of the all-robot soap opera All My Circuits. | |
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Max Headroom, who went on to become this in real life (except that it was a character played by Matt Frewer in a foam suit in real life), with his own talk show (for which the character was actually created: the pilot didn't turn into its own fiction series for a few years until after a jump across the pond). | |
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Pentakill was initially started as a skin set turning Karthus, Mordekaiser, Yorick, Sona, and Olaf (and Kayle much later) into a Heavy Metal band (even releasing some non-canon supplementary material), but the demand was high enough that in 2014, Riot Games released a full-fledged album of their epic Power Metal, Smite and Ignite, as well as their follow-up Grasp of the Undying in 2017. Out of universe, the project is an extensive collaborative effort including several big metal names, including ZP Theart, Jørn Lande, Derek Sherinian, and Noora Louhimo. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it turns out that Eliza Cassan is one of these, specifically engineered to alter human opinions through manipulation of communications and mass media. | |
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K.K. Slider from the Animal Crossing series became one when he made a surprise appearance in the Splatoon 2 concerts. | |
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In Project SEKAI, the Crypton Future Media characters (Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin/Len, MEIKO, KAITO, and Megurine Luka) are canonized as in-universe virtual celebrities just as they are in real life. Since the term "Vocaloid" is actually a trademarked name, they are given a more appropriate title: "Virtual Singers". The twist is the existence of Pocket Dimensions called SEKAI, where they appear as real people to humans who visit the SEKAI from the real world. | |
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Splatoon: All the music in the games is stated to be performed by different bands in-universe, but this trope kicks in with the real-life Japanese concerts featuring mocaped holographic projections of each game's respective Idol Singers, who perform both their own songs and some covers of the game's other bands. Funnily enough, despite all these characters having assigned voice actresses, since the games utilize Speaking Simlish, they need to have all their dialogue between songs subtitled anyway. K.K. Slider from the Animal Crossing series became one when he made a surprise appearance in the Splatoon 2 concerts. |
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In The Dark Knight Strikes Again, the president of the United States is one of this. There's an Anvilicious reason why. | |
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If Gummibar counts, so does Crazy Frog, a computer generated amphibian whose call to fame was a One-Hit Wonder cover of Axel-F, and the fact that the designers gave him visible genitalia which raised controversy in several countries. | |
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Super Sonico was originally created as the mascot of nitro+'s very own live show NITRO SUPER SONIC, but her popularity resulted in her becoming a virtual singer, along with her band First Astronomical Velocity. Here is their official site. | |
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League of Legends have dipped their toes into making some of its characters into music acts, usually as a promotion for cosmetic in-game skins, including several high-profile forays into making their music a reality: Pentakill was initially started as a skin set turning Karthus, Mordekaiser, Yorick, Sona, and Olaf (and Kayle much later) into a Heavy Metal band (even releasing some non-canon supplementary material), but the demand was high enough that in 2014, Riot Games released a full-fledged album of their epic Power Metal, Smite and Ignite, as well as their follow-up Grasp of the Undying in 2017. Out of universe, the project is an extensive collaborative effort including several big metal names, including ZP Theart, Jørn Lande, Derek Sherinian, and Noora Louhimo. A slighter case was the Ultimate-status DJ Sona skin in 2015, turning Sona into a futuristic, Cool Helmet'd DJ, with her in-game abilities mixing up three various styles of Electronic Music. Little supplementary lore was given, but the music tied to her name was heavily advertised, once again being a huge collaborative rollout, with names including The Crystal Method, Dada Life, Bassnectar, Renholdër, Nosaj Thing, and Pretty Lights. 2018 saw the release of K/DA, a K-Pop-inspired Girl Group consisting of Ahri, Akali, Kai'Sa, and Evelynn, which also came with its own lore, but is also publicly headlined in real life by Madison Beer, Soyeon and Miyeon of (G)I-dle, and Jaira Burns. Their skinline release coincided with a full-fledged live performance (including the characters brought in part by AR technology) during the finals of Worlds 2018, debuting their hit song and music video "POP/STARS". 2019 added the group True Damage to the mix, stated in-universe to be a side project of Akali's and led by Ekko. Like K/DA, they have lore attached to them and debuted with an animated music video at Worlds with their signature song "GIANTS". The real-life singers Becky G, Keke Palmer, DUCKWRTH, Thutmose stood in for them, in addition to Soyeon returning. In 2020, a new twitter account titled Seradotwav popped up, with no outward ties to League of Legends being apparent from the start. The account features a quirky, pink haired aspiring singer and producer named Seraphine who claimed to be a real person and denied that the paintings making up her "selfies" were fake. After several weeks of hints being dropped that she was the next champion, and enough time passed which allowed for her to amass a rather large real life fanbase that played along, Seraphine being the next champion was finally confirmed when it was revealed that she would be collaborating with the virtual pop group, K/DA. Following this confirmation, a comic was released showing the interactions between the characters as they collaborated on a new song for Worlds 2020. |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks is an earlier example that targets kids: taking studio recordings and pitch-shifting it up to comical levels that sounds like it could be sung by Chipmunks. | |
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In MegaMan NT Warrior (2002), there's a virtual Idol Singer, Aki-chan. Every nearby male Navi crushes on her, from Gutsman to MegaMan himself. Roll isn't pleased. | |
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2018 saw the release of K/DA, a K-Pop-inspired Girl Group consisting of Ahri, Akali, Kai'Sa, and Evelynn, which also came with its own lore, but is also publicly headlined in real life by Madison Beer, Soyeon and Miyeon of (G)I-dle, and Jaira Burns. Their skinline release coincided with a full-fledged live performance (including the characters brought in part by AR technology) during the finals of Worlds 2018, debuting their hit song and music video "POP/STARS". | |
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Possibly hinted at in Peter Schilling's "(Let's Play) U.S.A.": | |
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Phantasy Star Online 2 has Quna, who holds scheduled in-game "live" concerts as well as live action hologram concerts, similar to Miku Hatsune. Sometimes guests will appear in-game instead, such as virtual versions of real-life singers and sometimes even characters from other games and even Miku herself. | |
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Link! Like! Love Live! features livestreaming as a unique aspect distinct from other Love Live! series, although in practice it ends up being a weird halfway point between this and Virtual Youtubers. The game allows players to watch livestreams of the characters, which are done in real time and feature the actresses performing as their characters, but in-universe they are just considered normal streamers and the actresses are supposed to be in-character for these segments. This is averted outside of the game, where supplementary content for the game features the actresses proper rather than them playing the characters. | |
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Deus Ex Universe: NG Resonance from Deus Ex: Invisible War is a human pop star, but the AI-controlled holographic copies of her fulfill this trope. It eventually transpires that the AI is actually a WTO-controlled espionage system, and that the friendly and affable simulation is significantly different to the spoiled and inconsiderate original it was based on. You have the option to make the trope one hundred percent after you meet NG Resonance in person if you shoot her (not a spoiler, since you can shoot anybody you come in contact with). Strangely, her AI alter ego doesn't seem to care. In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, it turns out that Eliza Cassan is one of these, specifically engineered to alter human opinions through manipulation of communications and mass media. |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Virtuoso", the Emergency Medical Hologram finds himself a celebrity among the Qomar: smug, isolationist aliens who've never heard music before. This newfound fame goes to his head, and he seriously considers leaving Voyager, only to find that his Qomar girlfriend has created a 'better' version of himself. | |
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Pixel Perfect revolves around this, with main character Roscoe using holographic technology to create Loretta Modern, intended to be a multi-talented and seemingly "perfect" vocalist for his best friend's band, the Zettabytes. | |
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Internet psychic Talisman and virtual anarchist Spooky Boogie from Psycho-Pass. | |
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The Muppets are basically treated like real life celebrities everywhere they appear. | |
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