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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Monk Gyatso's remains are found atop a pile of skeletons dressed as Fire Nation soldiers. Notably, the soldiers are burnt but his own bones are unmarred, inferring that he somehow managed to turn their own firebending on them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSouthernAirTemple The Southern Air Temple]]", Monk Gyatso's remains are found atop a pile of skeletons dressed as Fire Nation soldiers. Notably, the soldiers are burnt but his own bones are unmarred, inferring suggesting that he somehow managed to turn their own firebending on them.them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry The Late Philip J. Fry]]", in which Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Bender go forward in time, Bender wants to stay in a Terminator-like era and build a home atop a mountain of skulls.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'', when [[NonHumanSidekick Guano]] is asked to [[ASimplePlan draw up a plan to replace Ozu's precious bonzai tree]] he instead draws himself standing on Mikey's and Gonard's bodies while Mitsuki and Lily [[LegCling hang onto his legs]].



* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode where Fry/Professor/Bender go forward in time, Bender wants to stay in a Terminator-like era and build a home atop a mountain of skulls.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'', when [[NonHumanSidekick Guano]] is asked to [[ASimplePlan draw up a plan to replace Ozu's precious bonzai tree]] he instead draws himself standing on Mikey's and Gonard's bodies while Mitsuki and Lily [[LegCling hang onto his legs]].



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land" Homer arises on top of a pile of defunct robots he "killed" by taking flash light photographs of them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" when the boys all suddenly become attracted to Bebe because of her budding breasts they revert to a primitive state and attack each other grunting like apes, Stan finds a bone and beats up the rest of the boys with it and he stands on top of their unconscious bodies yelling in triumph.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT: Back to the Sewer]]'' episode "Identity Crisis", one of the memories that ends up breaking Raph's brainwashing involves Raph doing this [[http://www.4kids.tv/images/uploads/btts_blog_wk07_33.png over a bunch of Foot Ninja]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "Triple Takeover", Blitzwing defeats several Autobots and makes a throne from their bodies. They are rescued and repaired later.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Brock, during a stay in a LotusEaterMachine.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Cartoon", the intro for the eponymous ShowWithinAShow depicts Lord Hater standing on [[ContinuityCavalcade a pile of assorted, beaten-up hero and villain characters from previous episodes]], with Princess Demurra doing a LegCling.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Itchy and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy & Scratchy Land" Land]]", Homer arises on top of a pile of defunct robots he "killed" by taking flash light flashlight photographs of them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Bebe's "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E10BebesBoobsDestroySociety Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society" Society]]", when the boys all suddenly become attracted to Bebe because of her budding breasts they revert to a primitive state and attack each other grunting like apes, Stan finds a bone and beats up the rest of the boys with it and he stands on top of their unconscious bodies yelling in triumph.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT: Back ''Back to the Sewer]]'' Sewer'' episode "Identity Crisis", "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S7E7IdentityCrisis Identity Crisis]]", one of the memories that ends up breaking Raph's brainwashing involves Raph doing this [[http://www.4kids.tv/images/uploads/btts_blog_wk07_33.png over a bunch of Foot Ninja]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' the episode "Triple Takeover", "[[Recap/TransformersG1TripleTakeover Triple Takeover]]", Blitzwing defeats several Autobots and makes a throne from their bodies. They are rescued and repaired later.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': Brock, during a stay in a LotusEaterMachine.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Cartoon", "[[Recap/WanderOverYonderS2E13TheCartoonTheBot The Cartoon]]", the intro for the eponymous ShowWithinAShow depicts Lord Hater standing on [[ContinuityCavalcade a pile of assorted, beaten-up hero and villain characters from previous episodes]], with Princess Demurra doing a LegCling.
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* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'':
** After the Slayer butchers 1,000 Saber soldiers in a blind rage, when he snaps out of it and wipes off the blood, he finds himself standing upon their dismembered and mutilated corpses with an ankle-deep lake of blood surrounding it. The next squad of Sabers arriving are [[OhCrap terrified]] at what they view as a monster.
** During Ragdoll's [[GoneHorriblyWrong mind reading of the Slayer]], one of the things she saw was the Slayer standing upon a mountain of dismembered, disemboweled and mutilated demons. She tries to replicate the scene on a hospital wall with a scalpel.
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* Another one for standing: in the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story "Back to the Klondike", the young Scrooge [=McDuck=] defeats everyone in a bar and [[http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l241/fonkaygarry/Uncle_Scrooge_Adv_26_14.jpg uses their unconscious bodies as a makeshift staircase to reach the balcony.]]

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* Another one for standing: in the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story "Back to the Klondike", "ComicBook/BackToTheKlondike", the young Scrooge [=McDuck=] defeats everyone in a bar and [[http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l241/fonkaygarry/Uncle_Scrooge_Adv_26_14.jpg uses their unconscious bodies as a makeshift staircase to reach the balcony.]]
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* ''ComicBook/MinorThreats'': On the [[https://d2lzb5v10mb0lj.cloudfront.net/covers/600/30/3012679.jpg cover]] of the first issue of ''Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down'', Frankie Follis sits on a throne on top a mountain of costumed corpses with her right hand [[spoiler:and girlfriend]] Scalpel sitting besides her also on the pile.
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* The at least semi-intelligent monsters in ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' make a large pile of the bodies of the humans they've killed, which is mostly a larder but they also lie on top of it to reinforce how badass they are. (And in a scene which is going to be really hard to deal with in pre-psychotherapy times, they toss the heroine into it while she waits for certain death.)

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* The at least semi-intelligent monsters in ''Film/{{Outlander}}'' ''Film/{{Outlander|2008}}'' make a large pile of the bodies of the humans they've killed, which is mostly a larder but they also lie on top of it to reinforce how badass they are. (And in a scene which is going to be really hard to deal with in pre-psychotherapy times, they toss the heroine into it while she waits for certain death.)
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** The [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_large/6/67663/6386762-799.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2015'' #799 shows the Red Goblin (Norman Osborn with the Carnage symbiote) standing victorious on the bodies of Spider-Man's allies Miles Morales and Clash with Silk, Anti-Venom, and Johnny Storm laying defeated around them.
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* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': In Chapter-63, as Twilight recounts his early life, he mentions that after he lied about his age to join the army, he made it a point to avenge his parents, friends, and hometown by killing as many enemy soldiers as he could, and to show [[RevengeBeforeReason how far he was gone in his quest for revenge]], he's shown sitting atop a mound of corpses in one panel.
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Compare NothingButSkulls and HitlerCam. See also BuriedInAPileOfCorpses.

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Compare NothingButSkulls and HitlerCam. Also compare VictoryPoseOnPerson when the winner puts one foot on the body of the defeated, who is often still alive but unconscious, as part of their VictoryPose. See also BuriedInAPileOfCorpses.
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* [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP]]-5140 reveals ''everyone'' who's climbed Mt. Everest has done this. Following an avalanche in April 2024 caused by rising temperatures, aerial scans and excavations made by the Foundation revealed that [[spoiler: around ''45%'' of Everest's mass is made of impossibly large piles of anomalous human corpses]].
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* After the second stage of the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' game, Scott and Ramona ''kiss'' atop a mountain of corpses.

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* After the second stage of the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' game, ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame'', Scott and Ramona ''kiss'' atop a mountain of corpses.
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Frequently (especially in FilmPosters) comes with a LegCling by the LoveInterest in a GoGoEnslavement bikini, as the hero waves his {{BFS}} [=/=] {{BFG}} (or CoolSword) [[StabTheSky in the air triumphantly]].

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Frequently (especially in FilmPosters) comes with a LegCling by the LoveInterest in a GoGoEnslavement bikini, as the hero waves his {{BFS}} [=/=] {{BFG}} {{BFS}}[=/=]{{BFG}} (or CoolSword) [[StabTheSky in the air triumphantly]].



Potential ways to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope include [[HumanShield using the corpse]] [[BulletproofHumanShield as cover]], or surprise attacking anyone who goes over the corpses while you're on the other side of it. Or in some cases, [[BodyOfBodies creatures forming themselves with a pile of corpses]].

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Potential ways to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope include [[HumanShield using the corpse]] [[BulletproofHumanShield as cover]], or surprise attacking anyone who goes over the corpses while you're on the other side of it. Or in some cases, [[BodyOfBodies creatures forming themselves with a pile of corpses]].
corpses]]. Don't expect people who use this trope to touch upon the awful smell that a pile of dozens of corpses in the sun would give off.









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* During the Battle of the Somme, the German commander Falkenhayn insisted on the immediate recapture of every bit of ground the British took, proclaiming that "the enemy should have to carve his way over mountains of corpses". Unfortunately for Falkenhayn, as inefficient as the British were in advancing, they were tenacious in defending, and he was trading his toughened veterans away against over-eager amateurs.

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* [[https://zeldawiki.org/images/9/99/OoT_Link_Sheik_Artwork.jpg One of the promotional images]] for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', with Link and Sheik still working to make the pile higher.



* During the intermission in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', the hero's caravan is attacked by brigands. Just when you think the game is going to make you fight them, cut to the hero standing atop a pile of brigand and saurus corpses in the victory pose (pictured above).

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* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard for [[https://i.imgur.com/2IPK2sG.png "The Crumbling Tower of Pizza"]] features Peppino looking both victorious and furious while standing atop a gigantic pile of various objects, enemies, bosses and other characters of the game.
* During the intermission in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', the hero's caravan is attacked by brigands. Just when you think the game is going to make you fight them, cut to the hero standing atop a pile of brigand and saurus corpses in the victory pose (pictured above).pose.



* ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' - the box art of this Warhammer 40,000 videogame features the titular Fire Warrior character crouching atop a mountain of skulls.

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* ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' - the The box art of this ''[[VideoGame/FireWarrior Warhammer 40,000 videogame 40,000: Fire Warrior]]'' features the titular Fire Warrior character crouching atop a mountain of skulls.



* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard for [[https://i.imgur.com/2IPK2sG.png "The Crumbling Tower of Pizza"]] features Peppino looking both victorious and furious while standing atop a gigantic pile of various objects, enemies, bosses and other characters of the game.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' features this with robot "corpses" after the berserk spa-bot HAN-S is released on the Steward-bots. Combined with OffhandBackhand.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' features this with robot "corpses" after ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': When the berserk spa-bot massage robot HAN-S is released unleashed on the Steward-bots. Combined a platoon of Steward bots, it ends with OffhandBackhand.a victorious HAN-S on top of a huge pile of wrecked Stewards.
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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', the anime shows "Zekken" standing on top of a mountain of defeated players as Lisbeth tells Asuna about how Zekken defeated every single challenger. Considering that Zekken doesn't look at all like [[SamusIsAGirl she]] does in the game, this is purely a product of Lisbeth's imagination.

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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', the anime shows "Zekken" standing on top of a mountain of defeated players as Lisbeth tells Asuna about how Zekken defeated every single challenger. Considering that Zekken doesn't look at all like [[SamusIsAGirl she]] does in the game, this is purely a product of Lisbeth's imagination.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Monk Gyatso's remains are found atop a pile of skeletons dressed as Fire Nation soldiers. Notably, the soldiers are burnt but his own bones are unmarred, inferring that he somehow managed to turn their own firebending on them.
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* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard for [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pizzatower/images/f/f1/Spr_titlecards_11.png/ "The Crumbling Tower of Pizza"]] features Peppino looking both victorious and furious while standing atop a gigantic pile of various objects, enemies, bosses and other characters of the game.

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* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard for [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pizzatower/images/f/f1/Spr_titlecards_11.png/ [[https://i.imgur.com/2IPK2sG.png "The Crumbling Tower of Pizza"]] features Peppino looking both victorious and furious while standing atop a gigantic pile of various objects, enemies, bosses and other characters of the game.

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