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* The doors to a boss room in ''[[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion]]'' are covered by giant eyes that shoot eyebeams at the player and must be destroyed before you can enter the room.

* From the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', there are the Whomps which are based on the Nurikabe from Japanese folklore.

** Second edition had the "Greater Mimic". A larger version of the game's resident ChestMonster which could impersonate rooms or other structures.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'': The Cross Wall is one of the bosses in the "fortress" stages. It attacks by summoning Living Crosses that homes in on you and fires energy shots from its "eye". [[AdvancingBossOfDoom It also pursues you forward.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'',, there is the Heartless boss Thresholder. It is the possessed dungeon doors which impede Sora and company in Beast's castle.

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* Rangda Bangda (pictured) from the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series, which comes up twice: once in the first game, and once in the fifth game as its powered up form.

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* Death Wall, which probably is the "cousin" of the above-mentioned example, hailing from the ''Franchise/RuneFactory'' games.

* The titular creature of ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a monstrous, animate house, specifically because it's haunted by the spirit of an extremely bitter woman. Mostly it manifests as MalevolentArchitecture, but in the climax, the house shows its ire with the protagonists by uprooting itself and chasing after them.

* In one episode of the ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Rita accidentally brings a brick wall to life. Brick Bully is literally a brick wall with an upside down face, limbs, and various graffiti all over him. He can turn others into bricks and when he eats more bricks, he assumes a slightly more humanoid and mobile form.
** The Monster in question was adapted from "Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger", whose monsters were designed as "Bronx {{Youkai}}". In this case, it was a modern incarnation of a Nurikabe

* The Demon Wall is a recurring enemy in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series.
** The Final Fantasy series also has Alexander; a recurring summon/boss which usually takes the form of a gigantic living castle.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' has the Clocktower, who went insane after listening to "It's a Small World" for far too long. His face, once a bubbly, happy smile [[BodyHorror has since melted away, leaving a hideous scowl.]] He attempts to crush Mickey with his massive, metallic fists while a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] version of the well-known song plays hauntingly in the background.
** It gets worse. If the player chooses to kill the Clocktower, it's arms horribly twist and fall off, and his face falls into the lake of Thinner below, lamenting, "Oh dear, my time has come. I don't feel too good..."

** It gets worse. [[SpoilerAlert If the player chooses to kill the Clocktower, it's arms horribly twist and fall off, and his face falls into the lake of Thinner below, lamenting, "Oh dear, my time has come. I don't feel too good..."]]

** It gets worse. If the player chooses to kill the Clocktower, it's arms horribly twist and fall off, and his face falls into the lake of Thinner below, lamenting, "Oh dear, my time has come. I don't feel too good..."

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' has the Clocktower, who went insane after listening to "It's a Small World" for far too long. His face, once a bubbly, happy smile [[BodyHorror has since melted away, leaving a hideous scowl.]] He attempts to crush Mickey with his massive, metallic fists while a [HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] version of the well-known song plays hauntingly in the background.

* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' has the Clocktower, who went insane after listening to "It's a Small World" for far too long. His face, once a bubbly, happy smile [[BodyHorror has since melted away, leaving a hideous scowl.]]

* Epic Mickey has the Clocktower, who went insane after listening to "It's a Small World" for far too long. His face, once a bubbly, happy smile has since melted away, leaving a hideous scowl.

* In MarvelComics, the Chrysler Building is a sentient being who came to life on at least one occasion in an issue of ''Comicbook/DamageControl'' due to some of the effects from ComicBooks/WorldWarHulk. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* In one episode of the ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Rita accidentally brings a brick wall to life. Brick Bully is literally a brick wall with an UpsideDownFace, limbs, and various graffiti all over him. He can turn others into bricks and when he eats more bricks, he assumes a slightly more humanoid and mobile form.
** The Monster in question was adapted from "Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger", whose monsters were designed as"Bronx {{Youkai}}". In this case, it was a modern incarnation of a Nurikabe

** The Monster in question was Adapted from "Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger" the series theme for monstrs was "Bronx {{Youkai}}" where is was an modern incaration of an Nurikabe

* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth-ing Persons]]'', the vampire city of Blut uses an animated dragon-head statue's mouth as a prison cell. Should a vampire confined within attempt to break out, it swallows them; if they try turning to mist to escape, it inhales them.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', there is the Heartless boss Thresholder. It is the possessed dungeon doors which impede Sora and company in Beast's castle.

* In the horror film ''Film/FourteenOhEight'', the entire hotel room itself, not just any specific piece of it, is evil.

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* In ''Film/TheGreatYokaiWar'', one of the {{Youkai}} featured is a talking, limbed wall. Just picture an extremely wide WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants with a disproportionately huge body. Guy's just a literal LivingProp though, and does nothing much in the story other than being literally part of the background.
* The movie ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' features a number of creatures that are basically part of the architecture of the eponymous maze. These include the talking door knockers, and the talking walls which give false alarms to passersby.
* In the horror film ''Film/FourteenOhEight'', the entire hotel room itself, not just any specific piece of it, is evil.

* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' has a HedgeMaze that acts like this in the third task.

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* In the first ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', the blocked doors would attack Dante if you got too close, but otherwise left you alone until you got rid of them by solving a puzzle and/or killing some enemies.