History Main / LivingStatue

* ''WarcraftIII'': "The Oracle" has a hallway lined with set-dressing statues and golems, the latter activating when Cairne walks by them.

The ambush effect is undermined by the fact that [[https://youtu.be/1rLv88aMHns?t=2208 the statues and golems]] look ''nothing'' like each other.

* One of the areas in ''VideoGame/BloodySpell'' is the courtyard of an ancient Chinese temple filled with statues, the largest of them who's an effigy of a warrior god immediately comes to life trying to squash you for trespassing. The boss is even named onscreen as "Living Statue".

* Two examples occur in ''Musya''. Firstly, the boss of the catacombs is the Saru-Ishi (Monkey Stones). In the English version, they enter with a rumble while in the Japanese version, their arrival is announced by laughter. Only one true Saru-Ishi is fought, which starts out blue and later in the battle becomes red and more aggressive. This version is the only one fought in the English version, while in the Japanese version the statue [[DoppelgangerAttack can create up to three copies]]. The statue and its copies fight by stomping down on Imoto. The other example are the Jizō statues encountered in the next level, the Palace of Hate. They also fight by hopping and stomping.

* Lady Liberty in ''[[VideoGame/ClayFighter Clayfighter 63⅓]]'' is the Statue of Liberty turned into sapient clay by Dr. Kiln. She immediately had no intention of serving him and joined the battle against him. In her ending, she begins dating the cyborg T-Hoppy.

Living statues are a varied league of fantastic artificial creatures. Common roles they fulfill are as [[MistakenForGranite guardians]] of places of importance, as [[WeaponizedLandmark doomsday devices]] HiddenInPlainSight, and as (wanted or unwanted, but AlwaysFemale) [[PygmalionPlot romantic partners]]. The size of living statues and the material they're made from, which is usually stone or metal, means [[SuperStrength immense strength and endurance]] are a likelihood as long as the ConservationOfNinjutsu is not in effect. How a living statue comes to be differs per story.

** In the second issue of the 2007 miniseries ''Captain Carrot and the Final Ark!'', the monster Frogzilla mistakenly believes the Statue of Ribbity (Earth-C's Statue of Liberty) to be alive and picks her up for a date. He ends the date before reaching third base when his boss orders him back to work.

* The ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' has the mannequins of museum exhibits, including Attila the Hun, Sacajawea, and Theodore Roosevelt, coming to life at night. The second film, ''Battle of the Smithsonian'', includes animate versions of Rodin's ''The Thinker'', a Jeff Koons balloon animal, and, yes, the Lincoln Memorial. The third film has the lions of Trafalgar Square come to life when the characters are chasing after the magic tablet until they get distracted by a flashlight.

* "Heart of the Snow Maiden" in ''Adventures into the Unknown'' #40 features one ice sculpture and one (probably) [[ElementalEmbodiment ice elemental]]. The sculpture, the Snow Maiden, has no feelings for the elemental, the Ice King, which he is fine with as long as she doesn't love another either. But she falls in love with a human twice. The first time, the Ice King kills the entire human village and the Snow Maiden with an avalanche. Her heart remains and decades later another human re-sculpt her form and places her heart inside, reviving her. Upon sensing this, the Ice King returns and tries to wreak havoc again, but he is, for the time being, destroyed. The Snow Maiden then banishes herself from society to avoid the Ice King's ire from befalling anyone ever again.

* ''Animaion/SatelliteGirlAndMilkCow'': At one point in the movie, while [=KITSAT=]-1 is lamenting her situation with Kyung-chun, the statue she's sitting at offers her its gigantic hanky.

There are many different types of statues made for different purposes by different cultures in different periods from different materials. Which is why Living Statue is a busy SuperTrope, covering OurGargoylesRock, LivingFigurehead, EenieMeenieMinyMoai, and technically {{Snowlems}} and ScaryScarecrows. In turn, it's a SubTrope to AnomalousArt. Might be a specific version of ChekhovsGun in case of MistakenForGranite and WeaponizedLandmark. See also TakenForGranite, SculptedPhysique, NobodyHereButUsStatues, PygmalionPlot, GeniusLoci and TerrifyingTiki. Depending on the material the statue is made of, further see RockMonster or {{Treants}}.

** Claydol, according to the ''Diamond/Pearl/Platinum'' Pokédex, is "An ancient clay figurine that came to life as a Pokémon from exposure to a mysterious ray of light." By extension, this also applies to its unevolved form, Baltoy. There's also Nosepass, a [[EenieMeenieMinyMoai Moai statue]] mixed with a compass, as well as its evolved form Probopass.

* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' features a giant statue of Porky as a BonusBoss. It also appeared in one of the segments in the Subspace Emissary on ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl''.

** Regigigas was originally a Pok­émon that (somehow) was locked away in Snowpoint Temple. However people eventually forgot about it and it was thought to be a statue. When the player gathers Regirock, Regice and Registeel, Regigigas awakens and attacks. Its long time spent as a statue is shown in its ability, Slow Start.
*** It later appears in Clay Tunnel in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''. It's the same deal as before.
*** Also noteworthy is the boss battle in ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'''s Aegis Cave. Regigigas plus a slew of Bronzong and Hitmonlee that appear to be statues come to life and attack the player's party.
*** Regigigas was also shown to have become statue-like in the 11th ''Pokémon'' movie before awakening to hold back a [[RuleOfCool glacier]].

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* ''VideoGame/MarioKart'': The respective ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash Double Dash!!]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartWii Wii]]'' versions of Bowser's Castle feature each a statue of Bowser that periodically spits giant, exploding fireballs. ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''[='s=] version has a section of the road that splits around an even larger statue of Bowser who will alternate between punching both paths, [[SquashedFlat flattening]] any race who gets in the way.

* The figures from the wax museum in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' come to life during the [[{{Pun}} waxing moon]]. The collection comprises Franchise/SherlockHolmes, UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden, [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, Myth/RobinHood, UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan, Coolio, Larry King, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, and John Wilkes Booth. Stan acquired the lot years ago from a garage sale, unaware that they were sapient. They brought in good money and at night could roam around in peace, so everything was well. Then people stopped coming and Stan boarded the wax figures up. The collection was rediscovered in "Headhunters" by Soos and the exhibit reopened, but at night the vengeful figures set out to murder Stan. Dipper and Mabel destroyed them with sunlight and fire, although Larry King's head escaped.

A third possibility is for someone to be turned into a statue. Take note that if this is a regular statue it's TakenForGranite, which is not a living statue, while if [[AndIMustScream they retain their awareness but cannot move]] the result is a living statue. In the opposite scenario, where a statue being brought to life becomes organic, it still qualifies as a living statue until it takes successfully part in a PinocchioSyndrome plot.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has a few:

* As seen in the picture, the entire first level of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'' is an epic battle against the Colossus of Rhodes come to life.

* Downplayed example in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'' with the Statue of [[Myth/HinduMythology Ganesh]]. The wood statue claims to only be [[{{Avatar}} an aspect]] of Ganesh, not the god himself, and so doesn't have the power to do much more than speak and passively examine the local situation, though its senses are still powerful ([[Main/BizarreAlienSenses and strange]]) enough to be a great help during the story.

* ''WarcraftIII'': "The Oracle" has a hallway lined with set-dressing statues and golems, the latter activating when Cairne walks by them.\\