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* ''Animation/TheMissingLink'': [[OnlyOneFemaleMold All of the female characters are modeled after]] the Woman of Willendorf.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMissingLink'': [[OnlyOneFemaleMold All of the female characters are modeled after]] the Woman of Willendorf.
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* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': "Mother figures" are stylised carvings of women which the Cro-Magnon characters use for spiritual protection. A number of them are based on real-life prehistoric carvings, including the Venus of Willendorf.
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The Senior Wrangler is a big fan of the fertility idols created by early humans on Roundworld (implied to be copies of the Venus of Willendorf).
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanHistoriaTheAmazons'': Aphrodite is portrayed as [[AdaptationalCurves more heavyset and curvaceous]] than in previous Wonder Woman works, evoking the Prehistoric Woman of Willendorf. Fittingly, since this version of her also embodies motherly love.
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* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Suring the [[Recap/TowerOfGodWangnan Wangnan]] StoryArc, Hockney compliments Bero telling her that she looks like a model and is voluptuous like the Woman of Willendorf.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': BigBeautifulWoman Venus, of the super-villain team Venus and Milo, bears a strong resemblance to the Woman of Willendorf.
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[[AC:Animation]]
* ''Animation/TheMissingLink'': [[OnlyOneFemaleMold All of the female characters are modeled after]] the Woman of Willendorf.

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* ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'': The large fertility goddess statue for sale at the auction is based heavily on the Venus of Willendorf, just bigger in size.
* ''Film/WitchingAndBitching'': The climax features a gigantic, bloated, rotten-looking female monster. It's based on ancient fertility idols such as the Woman of Willendorf.

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* ''VideoGame/KingdomRush'': In the "Beheader's Seat" level, there's one statue of a female plump ogre that greatly resembles the Venus of Willendorf.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': Therazane, the Stonemother, is built like the Willendorf Venus, what with being a floating rotund rock-like humanoid with a voluptuous, chubby body.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Princess Theradras is a stocky, large, {{gonk}}ily-designed earth elemental with a bulging tummy and big breasts.
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