History Main / AtopAMountainOfCorpses

* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard of the final level features Peppino standing furiously over the bodies of the enemies and bosses of the game.

* In the film version of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'', Bella has a nightmare of her and Edward being married by the leader of the "evil" vampires, Aro. The camera pulls back, revealing Bella and Edward standing on top of a huge pile of the bloodied corpses of all the human and werewolf people of Forks, all dressed in white formal garb, with copious amounts of red blood being the only other color. As ''Blog/DasSporking'' puts it in ''15 Reasons to See Breaking Dawn and 1 Reason Not To'', [[https://das-sporking2.dreamwidth.org/382272.html#cutid1 Bella and Edward look like the toppers on a massive wedding cake from hell.]]

* ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'': In the beginning of the last volume (''Wheel Smashing Lord''), a flashback shows Yaun -- before he became Jagganoth -- after he's killed six thousand soldiers in one day. With that many bodies, he has needed to be somewhat systematic: he's piled most of them in huge mounds around him, and only keeps a smaller pile as a seat.

* In ''Videogame/PizzaTower'', the TitleCard of the final level features Peppino standing triumphantly over the bodies of the enemies and bosses of the game.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] this trope twice.
** In "Teso Dos Bichos", a horde of sewer killer pussy cats were filling an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer with dead bodies but the cats were not seen triumphantly sitting on top of them.
** In "Detour", Mulder and Scully fell into a pit full of dead and injured people that were dragged there by the monsters of the week. They tried to stack them so that they could get out of the pit.

* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': Arthur's BigDamnReunion with Tessia and the Twin Horns after he finishes his years of training in Epheotus has the latter parties find him in a dungeon pulling off a RecliningReigner SwordPlant atop a mountain made of the corpses of the monsters they thought they would find there, [[OneManArmy having slaughtered them all on his own]] before they got there.

* The Dreaded Red Arremer is first seen sitting atop a mountain of skulls in ''[[VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins Ghouls n Ghosts]]'' which it throws at the player. This is the Red Arremer character's fight intro in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''.

* MickeyMouse at the end of "The Barnyard Battle".

* Another one for standing: in the Creator/CarlBarks story "Back to the Klondike," the young [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse 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.]]
* One cartoon magazine series had the protagonists filming a ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' rip-off, with the hero eventually "knee-deep in the bodies of his slain enemies". A producer comments: "We wanted it to be waist deep, but we couldn't afford enough extras."
* The [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/gi-joe-1982/95-10.jpg cover]] of Marvel Comics' [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]] #95, the middle issue of the "Snake Eyes Trilogy", has the aforementioned [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie mute ninja commando]] hunched over a pile of slain Cobra Vipers of various types.
* Comes up in ''ComicBook/InnocenceLost'': During her breakout and destruction of the Facility base, ComicBook/{{X 23}} slaughters a dozen or so guards who have her cornered in the room with her incubating clone "sisters." When a straggler rounds the corner, he has an OhCrap moment as Laura glares murder at him while crouching on the heaped bodies of his comrades.
* ComicBook/TheJoker invokes the villainous version of the trope in a bizarre way in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' by using a pile of half-broken kewpie dolls and a tilt-a-whirl cart as a throne. While not strictly a pile of dead bodies, it's pretty damn close...
** ...and then the New 52 version decided to top that with a literal throne of human corpses. But boy were they smiling.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'', Kol Skywalker pulled this off [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Legacybattle1.jpg during the first issue.]]

* The cover of ''Comicbook/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher'', Frank manages to get some LegCling in [[http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/JackSkinnerMorningstar/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher3025.jpg there.]]
* ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends My Brother, My Enemy]]'' has Janek "Tank" Sunber, one of Luke Skywalker's childhood friends who became an Imperial officer, has [[http://images.plurk.com/1027ba6c3da04605ed2cd287b91a6152.jpg this dream]] about Luke. It's notable that Tank is an infantry officer, the kind who ''doesn't'' see his stormtroopers as FacelessMooks.
* Done by the Saint of Killers in ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'', but since he's invulnerable and his guns cannot miss, run out or be anything other than lethal, the corpses pile up on either side of him, since the BigBad is sending them in to slow him down.
* In a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' issue the villain ComicBook/{{Carnage}} stands on top of a pile of people he has killed while laughing maniacally.
* The cover of ''[[http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=87748&zoom=4 Superman & Batman: World's Funnest]]'' shows Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk battling each other atop a pile of Supermen & Batmen.
* In the Archie-published ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'', one of the initial scenes in the Dreamland arc features Raphael in this position...right before acid rain burns his skin off, leaving only a laughing skeleton.
* ''Thrud The Barbarian'', a comic strip published in the ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine, once had the eponymous main character creating the pile and posing himself on it (with a woman clutching his leg). So he could have his passport picture taken (erh, painted)...

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** ''ComicBook/UltimateFF'' #2 has a cover with Dr. Doom atop a mountain of Atlantean corpses.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': ''Ultimate Extinction'' # 1 and 3.
* Wizard Magazine once did a humorous story on the kill count of Dark Horse's popular characters depicted on top of their own body piles ranging from ComicBook/TheGoon, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}, Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian and [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]] having the largest pile.
** This actually happens with some frequency in ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', though it's often due to a camera angle. Almost invariably, they will give off the SpeechBubble for death (a skull of their species).
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': The cover of Issue 24 depicts Diana riding a black horse with a raised sword atop a pile of human bones which are mostly skulls, though there is at least one rib cage in the mix.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': [[ComicBook/YoungJustice Secret]] pulls off the PG version during "The Witch and the Warrior", sitting atop the defeated and unconscious villains she dealt with.

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

** Zwei is introduction to Absol doing this. The corpses being ''Grimm'' corpses, he's back at ground level in a few seconds.

%% * ''Film/Fury2014'': The final shot.

* Music/LemonDemon's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" ends like this. The guy on top? [[spoiler:Mr. Rogers]].

* In ''Pinball/{{Deadpool}}'', both Ninja and Mechsuit Multiball conclude with Deadpool standing triumphantly on the ([[NonLethalKO twitching]]) bodies of his enemies.

* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', [[BigBad Hector LeMans]]'s greenhouse is built on top of a huge hill of flowers. In the Land of the Dead where the game takes place, one of the only ways to make someone Deader Than Dead is by using a special chemical that makes flowers grow on their bones.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'', being the ultra super-powered heroines they are, play the PG-13 example of this trope straight and end up standing atop a mountain of their foes' brutally KO'd bodies at the end of the show's opening.

* In the end of [[http://www.teamfortress.com/classes.php?class=medic#movie Meet the Medic]], [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Medic and Heavy]] are standing atop a hill of Soldier corpses.

* The final battle of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'''s best ending is fought in a room with a floor made out of hundreds of skeletons.
** Even the ''ceiling'' is made of skeletons.

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* In ''Manga/{{Jackals}}'', the first image depicting TheHero's mom shows her on top of a pile of corpses with the BFS she passed on to her son.
%%* Done (and subsequently mocked) in ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}''.
%%* For an arguably more family-friendly take, look no further than the oft-parodied pile of mecha from the ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' prologue.
%%** The video game ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam]]'' uses this as the VictoryPose at the end of Arcade Mode, with the player's mecha atop the mountain.
* Kitsuchi, the badass general from Iwagakure in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' literally stands on top of a pile of White Zetsu Corpses, choking out the last one. He killed them all himself. [[spoiler:Note that these things are durable enough to take a One-Body Blow from Neji Hyuga, a very strong Jonin, and start regenerating immediately. As well as survive Sakura's SuperStrength--twice.]]

* ''Manga/BlackCat'': Janus defends Rinslet from a group of 30+ mobsters and is shown afterward sitting on a pile of their mostly unconscious bodies. (A couple are still groaning.)
* The title page of chapter 8 of ''Manga/SandsOfDestruction'' features a silhouette of Taupy standing on a pile of bodies, with a clearer picture of him superimposed on it.
* There's a non-combat variant in ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', where [[LovableSexManiac Panty]] has a habit of sitting on top of piles of [[ReallyGetsAround guys she just screwed.]]

* [[Literature/TheBible Samson]] is frequently [[http://www.cts.edu/library/imagelibrary?func=detail&id=642 depicted this way]], after [[DisproportionateRetribution slaying one thousand Philistines]] with the [[ImprobableWeaponUser jawbone of a donkey]].

* Wizard Magazine once did a humorous story on the kill count of Dark Horse's popular characters depicted on top of their own body piles ranging from ComicBook/TheGoon, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}, Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian and [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]] having the largest pile.
** This actually happens with some frequency in ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'', though it's often due to a camera angle. Almost invariably, they will give off the SpeechBubble for death (a skull of their species).
* The cover of ''Comicbook/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher'', Frank manages to get some LegCling in [[http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/JackSkinnerMorningstar/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher3025.jpg there.]]

* One cartoon magazine series had the protagonists filming a ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' rip-off, with the hero eventually "knee-deep in the bodies of his slain enemies". A producer comments: "We wanted it to be waist deep, but we couldn't afford enough extras."

* In a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' issue the villain ComicBook/{{Carnage}} stands on top of a pile of people he has killed while laughing maniacally.

* In ''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese'', the Monkey King beats up the guests at a celestial party and leaves them in a battered pile. He's too pissed to take a VictoryPose, however.
* ComicBook/TheJoker invokes the villainous version of the trope in a bizarre way in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' by using a pile of half-broken kewpie dolls and a tilt-a-whirl cart as a throne. While not strictly a pile of dead bodies, it's pretty damn close...
** ...and then the New 52 version decided to top that with a literal throne of human corpses. But boy were they smiling.
* The [[http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/gi-joe-1982/95-10.jpg cover]] of Marvel Comics' [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]] #95, the middle issue of the "Snake Eyes Trilogy", has the aforementioned [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie mute ninja commando]] hunched over a pile of slain Cobra Vipers of various types.
* ''Thrud The Barbarian'', a comic strip published in the ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine, once had the eponymous main character creating the pile and posing himself on it (with a woman clutching his leg). So he could have his passport picture taken (erh, painted)...
* ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends My Brother, My Enemy]]'' has Janek "Tank" Sunber, one of Luke Skywalker's childhood friends who became an Imperial officer, has [[http://images.plurk.com/1027ba6c3da04605ed2cd287b91a6152.jpg this dream]] about Luke. It's notable that Tank is an infantry officer, the kind who ''doesn't'' see his stormtroopers as FacelessMooks.
* Done by the Saint of Killers in ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'', but since he's invulnerable and his guns cannot miss, run out or be anything other than lethal, the corpses pile up on either side of him, since the BigBad is sending them in to slow him down.
* Comes up in ''ComicBook/InnocenceLost'': During her breakout and destruction of the Facility base, ComicBook/{{X 23}} slaughters a dozen or so guards who have her cornered in the room with her incubating clone "sisters." When a straggler rounds the corner, he has an OhCrap moment as Laura glares murder at him while crouching on the heaped bodies of his comrades.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': ''Ultimate Extinction'' # 1 and 3
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': The cover of issue 24 depicts Diana riding a black horse with a raised sword atop a pile of human bones which are mostly skulls, though there is at least one rib cage in the mix.

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

* In ''Film/BladeII'', Novak stands at the top of a staircase that is littered with fallen security guards. Director Guillermo del Toro acknowledges it as an homage to Frazetta in the commentary.
* The poster for the teen comedy ''Film/TheNewGuy'' has the titular character standing atop a pile of [[JerkJock jocks]] and [[TheBully bullies]] with a bunch of hot chicks (two of whom are Creator/ElizaDushku and Creator/ZooeyDeschanel) at his side, [[LegCling clinging to his legs]].
* ''Film/GhostbustersII''. "On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood."
* 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.)
%% * ''Film/Fury2014'': The final shot.
* ''Film/TheProphecy3TheAscent'': In the climactic fight at the end, Pyriel shows Danyael the mountain of human corpses he plans to leave in his wake as the Angel of Genocide.
* At one point in ''Film/TheGamersDorknessRising'' Leo starts replacing his frequently dying bard character with spare character sheets instead of resurrecting and losing levels. During a big battle, so many die that the rest of the party use the pile of dead bards as cover.
* ''Film/BrightBurn''. Brandon's mother discovers in his [[NightmareFuelColoringBook coloring book sketches of the atrocities he's committed]], and the words [[TakeOverTheWorld Take The World]] scribbled [[RoomFullOfCrazy over and over]], plus a sketch of him [[PowerFloats floating]] above a pile of corpses.

* In the first book of the ''Literature/WindOnFire'' trilogy, the protagonists are fleeing back to their home city and being chased by the Zars, an endless army of beautiful boys and girls who kill anything they come across without the slightest hesitation. When they take out the only way of crossing a chasm, the Zars march off the cliff and fall without even slowing down. Since there's an endless supply of them and they seem to be some kind of HiveMind, they can keep marching until there are so many corpses they can walk across the gap on a mountain of their own dead.
* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hill of Slain]] from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' (Haudh-en-Ndengin) is [[https://www.tednasmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TN-The_Hill_of_Slain.jpg a literal mountain of corpses]]. Note that this was a mountain of ''good guy'' corpses.

* There's a short story by Creator/TimothyZahn and Micheal A. Stackpole where [[Literature/XWingSeries Corran Horn]] works briefly with a disguised [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Thrawn]], and the subject of art comes up when Corran says the graffiti on walls they're passing isn't [[HoldYourHippogriffs the work of Venthan Chassu]], but it's more interesting than peeling Star Destroyer White. Pressed for his opinion, Corran mentions that he liked the early and middle works by Chassu, but the man's final work, ''Palpatine Triumphant'', was of Palpatine on a throne of mutilated bodies, and in the narration, Corran adds that the most disturbing thing about it was the Emperor's expression of homicidal joy. Thrawn dryly says that his loss was a pity, thus implying that Chassu was killed for this depiction.

* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In book 1 (''Blue Moon Rising''), the last army of the Forest Kingdom slay so many of their demonic attackers that they're shielded, for a time, by the mounded corpses of their enemies. At one point, Rupert climbs over the pile to rush to Julia's assistance.
* John Ringo's ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows'' books tend to have large fights end in the Mount Corpse scenario. In the first story, the hero (well, protagonist,) Ghost, is fighting off a series of human wave attacks. Between waves, he builds a defensive position out of the bodies of the previous wave. (When the people he's protecting express disgust, he says he doesn't have any sandbags and what do they want him to do?) When help arrives, they note that they can't climb down the stairs to the underground room where Ghost is holed up without standing on bodies two or three deep. Also, the [[spoiler:burial mound of the Keldara]], which is a literal mountain (or at least a respectable hill) of corpses.

--> '''Sean Locke:''' It's probably the one thing that short people have to cling on to- one day they might be a dictator. Now we've just taken that away from them.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has the Boltons actually invoke this trope as a military strategy during the Battle of the Bastards. [[BadBoss Ramsay]] has his cavalry charge that of the Stark loyalists, and while the two groups are slaughtering each, has his archers keep firing into the mass, killing both [[WeHaveReserves his own men]] and the Starks', until enough are dead that they've created a literal wall of corpses. Then he has his infantry move in and surround the remaining Stark forces, boxing them in between an advancing wall of spears and said wall of corpses (and to make matters worse, his allied infantry is climbing over the wall from the other side). It works horrifically well, only ultimately failing due to [[spoiler:[[TheCavalry the Knights of the Vale]] showing up in time to [[BigDamnHeroes rout the Bolton forces from behind]]]].
* In the season 2 finale of ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' Bart, [[ImmortalAssassin holistic assassin]], is seen sitting on top of a pile of the Mage's mooks, after last appearing walking calmly towards the army with a chainsaw.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' {{Sourcebook}} ''Dragons Revisited'' features a picture of a colossal black dragon crouched atop a pile of corpses.

* The credits of ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' reimagines the iconic cover of the original Doom as this.
* 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).
* The cover of ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.
* Legault of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' claims this is where the assassin Jaffar was found as an infant, sleeping on the corpses of everyone else in his destroyed village.
* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'': The soundtrack album cover depicts The Batter atop a mountain of dead [[BedsheetGhost Spectres]].
* In the end of [[http://www.teamfortress.com/classes.php?class=medic#movie Meet the Medic]], [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Medic and Heavy]] are standing atop a hill of Soldier corpses.

* [[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.
* Luca Blight in ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'''s opening, while sporting a [[SlasherSmile gigantic, psychotic smile]].
* Seen in the box art of ''VideoGame/SeriousSamTheFirstEncounter HD''. Also seen one of the cutscenes in ''VideoGame/SeriousSamII''.
* The Flash game ''Body Ladder'' is actually based on this trope - the object of the game is to climb as high as possible on top of the dead bodies of countless enemies as they walk (and later, climb) towards you.

* Sakura's ending in ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'' showed her future son finding a picture of Sakura standing atop the other characters.
* The Temple of Ormagöden in ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''.
* In ''VideoGame/NemesisTheWarlock'' the corpses of the mooks you kill do not disappear, they remain and stack on top of each other and can be used as platforms. In fact, the completion of some levels requires you to pile enough corpses to be able to jump to the exit to the next level.
* After the second stage of the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' game, Scott and Ramona ''kiss'' atop a mountain of corpses.

* In what is probably a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', at the end of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', Joker is seated on a throne resting on a mound of dismembered manikins.

* ''VideoGame/{{Weaponlord}}'' has the final boss fight take place upon a hill of skeletons with a freakish multi-horned demon in the background and the moon appearing after the battle ends, turning red and getting grabbed by a demon's hand.
* The KillerRabbit from ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' starts the battle by landing on top a massive pile of Northern army corpses. It uses the corpses to its advantage, scattering their weapons when it jumps around and during its TornadoMove.
* ''VideoGame/{{The Battle for Middle Earth}}'' has Azog, lord of Moria, emphasize his superiority by literally stating that "I rule from atop the corpses of the Dead Mountain Kings!".
* In ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'', [[BigBad Hector LeMans]]'s greenhouse is built on top of a huge hill of flowers. In the Land of the Dead where the game takes place, one of the only ways to make someone Deader Than Dead is by using a special chemical that makes flowers grow on their bones.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Belkar Bitterleaf is a [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!]] The potential SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome is then destroyed - [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome because they were easy enough to kill that he made a pile of them, he gets]] ''[[NegatedMomentOfAwesome nothing]]'' [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome for it]].
** The trope is used practically in another moment - A death knight has his [[{{Mooks}} hobgoblin troops]] [[WeHaveReserves swarm]] Azure City's walls, until they die in such numbers that ''the other troops may walk over their corpses as a ramp to go over the walls''.

* [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2012/05/10/408-resourcefulness/ This]] rather dark ''WebComic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip does something similar to the ''Literature/WindOnFire'' example above.

* Doctor Bunnigus of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' once mused that when she heard from Schlock again, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-04-17 he'd be calling atop a steaming pile of corpses]]. Much to her chagrin, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-05-14 she was right]]. Though to be fair, Schlock wasn't actually responsible for this particular pile.
* The protagonists of ''Webcomic/BasketsOfGuts'' do this on [[CoversAlwaysLie Chapters' covers]] on occasion. [[http://acomics.ru/upload/!c/JoeDuncan/baskets-of-guts/000116-ovd4qrbtf7.jpg One of them]] is also a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]].

* During the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/doraleous-and-associates/1772-Episode-21-Attack-at-the-Gate fight at the gate]] of the Old World in the Escapist's ''WebAnimation/DoraleousAndAssociates'' the OldMaster Testecles manages to get quite the impressive kill count, having a literal mountain of bodies.
* In the ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' series on the UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine, in one video they emphasize Sir Charles Trevelyan's determination to use the famine to anglicize Ireland by drawing him like this.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Brock, during a stay in a LotusEaterMachine.
* 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 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.
* MickeyMouse at the end of "The Barnyard Battle".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "Triple Takeover", Blitzwing defeats several Autobots and makes a throne from their bodies. They are rescued and repaired later.

* For an arguably more family-friendly take, look no further than the oft-parodied pile of mecha from the ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' prologue.
** The video game ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam]]'' uses this as the VictoryPose at the end of Arcade Mode, with the player's mecha atop the mountain.

* [[BigBad Amagi]] [[KillAllHumans Miroku]] of ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'', shortly after his big massacre TV debut, does this after he and his sempai-slash-subordinate Grigori #01 (later known as Commander Grana) take out the Special Defense Force unit sent to hunt them down. [[MagnificentBastard Man always has perfect poise.]]
** P.S.: It's his birthday in the scene linked to above.

* Delacroix's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People Liberty Leading the People]]'' famously features this.