History Main / FantasyLandmarkEquivalent

* This trope was PlayedForDrama in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' ending where the protagonist Leo [[spoiler:encounters ape police at the foot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, but is in fact a memorial to Thade, the ape main villain of the movie]].

* At the beginning of ''Film/Barbie2023'', there's a cutaway gag where Stereotypical Barbie drives through an equivalent of Mount Rushmore in Barbieland that depicts the very first Barbie, Christie, Kira, and Teresa dolls. [[spoiler:When Beach Ken brings the patriarchy ideology to Barbieland, prompting the Kens to take over and rename the world to "Kendom", the mountain faces are replaced by the faces of horses, due to Beach Ken thinking horses are a defining symbol of masculinity]].

* In ''Film/Barbie2023'' there is a cutaway gag where Stereotypical Barbie drives through an equivalent of Mount Rushmore in Barbieland that depicts the very first Barbie, Christie, Kira, and Teresa dolls. [[spoiler:When Beach Ken brings the patriarchy ideology to Barbieland, prompting the Kens to take over and rename the world to "Kendom", the mountain faces are replaced by the faces of horses, due to Beach Ken thinking horses are a defining symbol of masculinity]].

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* In ''Film/Barbie2023'' there is a cutaway gag where Stereotypical Barbie drives through the equivalent of Mount Rushmore in Barbieland that depicts the very first Barbie, Christie, Kira, and Teresa dolls. [[spoiler:When Ken brings the patriarchy to Barbieland, the mountain faces are replaced by the faces of horses]].

** ''Flim/SpiderManHomecoming'' shows a memorial to the first responders of the Battle of New York atop the reconstructed Grand Central Terminal, replacing the statute of Hermes from real life.

** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' explicitly shows that Tony Stark bought the [=MetLife=] Tower and converted it into Stark Tower, which turns into the Avengers Tower for the rest of the MCU.

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* ''Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire'' (including ''Series/GameOfThrones''): The harbor of Braavos is guarded by the Titan of Braavos, a towering statue of a hoplite that straddles the inlet. It was almost certainly inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic idol of the god Helios built at the entrance to the city harbor to commemorate their defensive victory against Demetrius of Macedon (destroyed by an earthquake in antiquity and never rebuilt on advice of the Oracle of Delphi).

* ''Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The harbor of Braavos is guarded by the Titan of Braavos, a towering statue of a hoplite that straddles the inlet. It was almost certainly inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic idol of the god Helios built at the entrance to the city harbor to commemorate their defensive victory against Demetrius of Macedon (destroyed by an earthquake in antiquity and never rebuilt on advice of the Oracle of Delphi).

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* ''Film/BatmanForever'' ups Gotham City's BigApplesauce aesthetic by giving it Lady Gotham, its very own Statue of Liberty. There's pretty much no difference apart from the Lady having "GOTHAM" across her crown, though the statue's [[CanonImmigrant since migrated]] into other pieces of Bat-media with more creative designs.
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** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' shows a renovation to the Statue of Liberty, where it's being converted to hold Captain America's shield in order to memorialize Cap after the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' draws inspiration from the Framchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse in that it makes the Avengers tower replace the [=MetLife=] building in Midtown Manhattan. Furthermore, Fisk Tower, where the opening of the game takes place, is a stand-in for Trump Tower, fitting Fisk's {{Trumplica}} status in this game.

* Marketing for ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'' shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a Nazi armband and doing a Roman Salute; in the show itself, Lady Liberty is destroyed as part of the "Jahr Null" (Year Zero) initiative following Nazi victory, in order to make way for a new monument ironically titled the New Colossus.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': Counter-Earth, the High Evolutionary's replica of Earth created in his own image, features a statue of himself and a monkey modeled after the Statue of Liberty.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has generic museums in place of the Smithsonian Institution, as the Smithsonian is very protective of their copyright; for instance, the Museum of Technology lines up with the real-life Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

In RealLife, landmarks and monuments contain many things of cultural and symbolic value. When an author wants to include a landmark or monument in their work, but that work takes place in a completely fictitious setting, an alternate universe or a highly fictionalized version of a real life location, or if their intended reference to the aforementioned landmark got ScrewedByTheLawyers, what should they do? They can create an equivalent of that landmark/monument that is appropriate for their setting. One common method is to replace the iconic face of the human in a landmark with the face of the important characters or change the letters in the landmark to important phrases or locations in the setting. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore Mount Rushmore]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign the Hollywood sign]] are especially prone to this method, as the faces of former presidents are easily changed to those of important characters within the setting while the latter are letters that can spell out a fantasy location while still retaining the Hollywood parody that the work wants to depict. The Hollywood sign version of this trope is so common that it has its own [[MockHollywoodSign subtrope]] and any examples of that landmark should go on that page.

Note: This trope does NOT cover straight-up depiction of the monument/landmark in question in the work. If the landmark isn't significant altered in name, appearance, history and/or symbolic value in accordance to the setting, it doesn't fit this trope.

One of the reason this trope comes into play is the culture and communities the story depicts is a FantasyCounterpartCulture or NoCommunitiesWereHarmed. The monument and landmark in question will always be given an AlternateLandmarkHistory because of the difference in setting. The landmark would very likely suffer from MonumentalDamage, RushmoreRefacement or become a WeaponizedLandmark during the course of the story. Expect a lot of [[EiffelTowerEffect shots]] depicting the landmark in order to remind the audience this is an important location within the story.

* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' has the Hokage Rock, a mountain with the heads of the previous Hokages, a title given to the leader of the Leaf ninja village. This is an obvious homage to Mount Rushmore. This seem to be a unique Leaf village tradition, as the other villages Kages do not have their own Rock.

* In ''Film/Barbie2023'' there is a cutaway gag where Stereotypical Barbie drives through the equivalent of Mount Rushmore in Barbieland that depicts the very first Barbie, Christie, Kira and Teresa dolls. [[spoiler:When Ken brings the patriarchy to Barbieland, the mountain faces are replaced by the faces of horses]].

* ''Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The harbor of Braavos is guarded by the Titan of Braavos, a towering statue of a hoplite that straddles the inlet. It was almost certainly inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic idol to the god Helios built at the entrance to the city harbor to commemorate their defensive victory against Demetrius of Macedon (destroyed by an earthquake in antiquity and never rebuilt on advice of the Oracle of Delphi).
* In the ''Literature/Timeline191'' universe, the Statue of Liberty does not exist due to poor relations between France and United States. Standing in its place is the German-influenced Statue of Remembrance, carrying a sword in its right hand and a shield in its left.

* ''Videogame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'': In the location "Avengers' Park" there is a mountain with faces of four avengers, an imitation of Mount Rushmore.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has generic museums in place of the Smithsonian Institution, as the Smithsonian is very protective of their copyright; for instance, the Museum of Technology lines up with the real life Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

* ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes2'': The setting's version of Statue of Liberty is depicted to be inside the Lemuria area with the BigBad Kang's face on it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has the Everlight digsite, visited as part of the Archaeology skill; while other digsites have inspiration from real-life cultures (the Kharid-Et is based on a Roman fort, for instance) the Everlight is basically a ''Runescape'' take on the Lighthouse of Alexandria, being a massive lighthouse that once sank into the sea, with elements of {{Atlantis}} and the Olympic Games mixed in.

* Republic City in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is based on a mash up of various cities as the were in roughly the 1920-30s including Shanghai, New York, Vancouver, and Chicago. The statue of Aang in Yue Bay is inspired by the Statue of Liberty, and the Silk Road Bridge is based on the Brooklyn Bridge and Republic City Park [[spoiler:that later gets renamed Avatar Korra Park]] is based on Central Park with some elements from London's Hyde Park (particularly Speakers' Corner) mixed in.

In RealLife, landmarks and monuments contain many things of cultural and symbolic value. When an author wants to include a landmark or monument in their work, but that work takes place in a completely fictitious setting, an alternate universe or a highly fictionalized version of a real life location, or if your intended reference to the aforementioned landmark got ScrewedByTheLawyers, what should they do? They create an equivalent of that landmark/monument that is appropriate for their setting. One common method is to replace the iconic face of the human in a landmark with the face of the important characters or change the letters in the landmark to important phrases or locations in the setting. [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore Mount Rushmore]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Sign the Hollywood sign]] are especially prone to this method, as the faces of former presidents are easily changed to those of important characters within the setting while the latter are letters that can spell out a fantasy location while still retaining the Hollywood parody that the work wants to depict. The Hollywood sign version of this trope is so common that it has its own [[MockHollywoodSign subtrope]] and any examples of that landmark should go on that page.

Note: This trope does NOT cover straight up depiction of the monument / landmark in question in the work. If the landmark isn't significant altered in name, appearance, history and / or symbolic value in accordance to the setting it doesn't fit this trope.

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* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' has the Hokage Rock, a mountain with the heads of the previous Hokages, a title given to the leader of the Leaf ninja village. This is an obvious homage to Mount Rushmore. This seem to be a unique Leaf village tradition as the other villages Kages do not have their own Rock.

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* This trope was PlayedForDrama in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' ending where the protagonist Leo [[spoiler:encounters ape polices at the foot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, but is in fact a memorial to Thade, the ape main villain of the movie]].

** In ''Literature/TheLastContinent'', the city of Bugarup has an opera house that "looks like an open box of tissues", or "is about to set sail"; given that the work is a commentary on the country of Australia, this is clearly meant to be a pastiche of the Sidney Opera House.

** The Greco-Roman city of Altador contains it's own version of the Colosseum, where an Olympic games / World Cup equivalent known as The Altador Cup takes place each year.

* Republic City in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is based on a mash up of various cities as the were in roughly the 1920-30s including Shanghai, New York, Vancouver, and Chicago. The statue of Aang in Yue Bay is inspired by the Statue of Liberty, and the Silk Road Bridge is based on the Brooklyn Bridge and Republic City Park [[spoiler:that later gets renamed Avatar Korra Park]] is based on Central Park with some elements from London's Hyde Park (particularly speakers corner) mixed in.

''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': There are two Golden Gate Bridge counterparts in the series, one in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' and another, called Red Gate Bridge, in ''VideoGame/SonicForces''.

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