Sandbox / Pyramid Power Wick Check

Laconic: Pyramids tend to possess unique power, or house something that does.

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Description breakdown by paragraph:

1. Several ancient civilizations built pyramids and the shape is practical
2. Belief that pyramids' shapes must be significant or built by aliens; belief that pyramid-shapes are magical
3. Egyptian pyramids weren't actually built by slaves

Wicks checked: 52/50

Pyramids have mystical power

building with mystical power

shape with mystical power

• Characters.Cuphead: In the final stage of the fight, he summons three floating pyramids with eyes encircling a half of the stage while firing cross-shaped beams from them. shape with mystical power
• Characters.Digimon Mega Digimon: The name of one of its attacks, which involves sealing its opponent in a pyramid of light. Either that or it lets him jump up and kick the enemy. shape with mystical power
• In Pyramids, once the gigantic pyramid is completed, its incredible amount of Pyramid Power almost completely severs Djelibeybi from world, trapping its inhabitants with ALL of its gods. Since several of the gods often were responsible for the same thing, Hilarity Ensues as the gods duke it out for control over things like the sun. building with mystical power
• Characters.Kamen Rider Ghost Others: His Omega Fang summons the Pyramid that can warp any poor victims who get hit into Pocket Dimension of dead and kills them. shape with mystical power
  • Also seems to be his main power, as in #32 he manages to reverse the Time Ganmizer's power with his arcane magic.
  • Artistic License – History: While forever symbolic of Egypt, pyramids, especially as burial sites for pharaohs, had been obsolete for centuries by Tutankhamun's time, being easy targets for tomb robbers. Furthermore, Tut is represented in a man of his prime, despite having died as a sickly teen, and he never really accomplished much in his nine-year reign (The restoration of the old pantheon following the Aten cult is arguable). One could argue that Tut is more of a representation of ancient Egypt as a whole instead of simply the short-lived Pharaoh himself.
• Characters.Trails Series Erebonia Thors Class VII: Machias' Trinity Cannon S-Craft creates a pyramid using chess pieces that encloses the enemies before delivering massive damage. shape with mystical power
• Characters.Warhammer Lizardmen: The Temple-Cities are centered around the pyramids in which the Slann reside, having been built on privileged places of power to facilitate magic and meditation. Moreover, the End Times reveals that they double as spaceships. building with mystical power
• ComicBook.Sasmira: It's hinted that the glass pyramid at the Louvre may have longevity-enhancing properties. building with mystical power
• ComicBook.The Authority: Living Polyhedron: God takes the form of a pyramid large enough to house ecosystems capable of supporting advanced civilizations in its bowels. building with mystical power
• Creator.Francis E Dec: According to Dec, all ancient pyramids were built by the Polish-Slovenes as "sophisticated Secret Space Astronomical Centers". building with mystical power
• Film.Beyond The Pyramids Legend Of The White Lion: A pyramid houses the gate to another world; Hell's Gate. It's by entering it that Maria's journey starts. building with mystical power
• Film.Ultraman Mebius And The Ultra Brothers: The seal used by the Ultra Brothers to keep Yapool imprisoned manifests itself in the form of a translucent pyramid, with a member of each of the four brothers standing at each corner. shape with mystical power
• MagicTheGathering.Planes: Somewhat surprisingly, these didn't really play much of a role either in-story or on the cards. But all over the landscape, there're loads of pyramid whose top sections are physically detached from and just floating above the bottom ones. building with mystical power
• Recap.Doctor Who S 36 E 7 The Pyramid At The End Of The World: The Monks arrive on Earth in an "ancient pyramid" — actually their spacecraft — that appears out of nowhere. building with mystical power and seems like Ancient Astronauts
• Recap.The Reflection S 1 E 12 The Reflection: Wraith made one of darkness to call forth Darkness onto the world. It can also be used as a barrier and it neutralizes the powers of the Reflected in it other than himself. shape with mystical power

About the belief/pseudoscience about pyramids holding mystical power

• Film.Licence To Kill: Spoofed with Professor Joe's scam religion, which attributes similar powers to cones.
• Film.The Crazy Family: Embraced to crazy degrees by the son.
• In The Cat Who Blew the Whistle, Elizabeth Hart is big on the idea of pyramid power. Unannounced, she and her boyfriend pop over to the Qwilleran's apple barn and set up a makeshift portable pyramid. After they leave, Koko makes his way to the very center of the pyramid, and there is a blackout across all of Pickaxe that doesn't stop until he exits the pyramid.
• Magazine.Fortean Times: (in the description) Pyramid Power and its associated cascades of conseqences.
• MundaneUtility.Real Life: How did Karel Drbal, a 1940s Czechoslovakian, decide to apply the (alleged) Pyramid Power in daily life? By making a patent for a way to keep razor-blades sharp.
• Music.The Alan Parsons Project: Referenced and made fun of in Pyramid, particularly in the song "Pyramania".

This work contains a pyramid

• Characters.Board Game Online: Acquired Poison Immunity: Alchemists are immune against all kinds of poisons (such as drinking a slowing poison or being stung by a scorpion in the Deadly Pyramid). Apparently, all this time working with toxic substances has granted them a resistance.
• Fanfic.Calvin And Hobbes The Series: "Pharaoh Andrew" has the gang going to the Pyramids of Giza for Calvin's school report. They end up having to fight off some mummies.
• Robe and Wizard Hat: An issue of Dragon Magazine, the D&D tie-in periodical, explained that gnomes wear pointy hats because they symbolize the power of knowledge in much the same way pyramids do: few at the top, many at the base.
• Fanfic.Quiververse: A pyramid serves as Ahuizotl's headquarters as well as the location for the tomb of the Nahual. While its exterior is keeping with Mayincatec design philosophy, its interior is more like an Egyptian pyramid. Ahuizotl and his followers, leaning towards the former more than the latter, aren't all that impressed, especially in light of how stifling the heat is inside.
• JustForFun.Tropes Examined By The Mythbusters: Pyramids don't have any preserving powers. Milk, fruit, and flowers in pyramids have been spoiled at the same rate as those that weren't in pyramids.
• Literature.Generation P: * Its close variation, ziggurat power, actually ziggurats predated pyramids. As ancient Mesopotamians erected pyramid-like ziggurats, the version of this structure near Moscow is a significant landmark for Tatarsky (who lives in the world still ruled by Mesopotamian gods). This ziggurat is said to be an incomplete radar station partially built for the military in the Soviet time then abandoned.
  • At first he rises to the top of an uncompleted ziggurat under the influence of fly-agarics and has some visions there.
  • Near the end during a trip with Azadovsky and his retinue he notices a distant ziggurat, the same as in the first case. Tatarsky is struck by this sight and then leaves the company, visits Guireev to consume fly-agarics once more and rises to the top of construction to pick up three objects he needs to marry Ishtar.
  • Azadovsky is also prone to this. He knows about the same ziggurat and, being a magnate, wants to buy it and to build a mansion for himself out of it. That does not happen.
• Series.Mythbusters: Does fruit stored in a pyramid rot more slowly? Can pyramids sharpen razor blades? The MythBusters test them to find out! Answer: no. After this one, Adam opined that he wasn't a fan of such "oogie-boogie myths", and declared that there would be no more such nonsense on the show (it's perfectly fine with the nonsense it's got). In the end-of-series reunion special, everyone bemoaned testing these myths.
• UsefulNotes.Cairo: Cairo sits next to the only extant Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramids of Giza.
• VideoGame.Civilization: Throughout the series, The Pyramids have always been one of the available Wonders of the World, and they always grant a fairly impressive bonus to whoever builds them.
• VideoGame.Culpa Innata: The Pyramid is the center of the city. It's apparently a big part of Union design, and even more impressive ones are alluded to.
• VideoGame.Rez: (trope-slashed with Ancient Egypt) The design motif for Area 1.
• WesternAnimation.Clone High: Manson even gets his own song... about eating healthy!
  Marilyn Manson: It's the food pyramid, and it's approved by the USDA.
• WesternAnimation.Egyxos: Kefer lives in a golden palace that looks like a pyramid. His brother Exaton lives in a pyramid as well.

ZCE/potholes

• Academy of Adventure: Detentionaire's A. Nigma High School. Let's see: a weird snake/dragon/lizard monster thing called a Tazelwurm (who also happens to be the school's mascot) crawling around in the vents, secret passageways literally everywhere, an eye-patched cyborg principal, a mysterious pyramid under the school, most of the teachers being clones of famous people, vacuum-wielding hazmat janitors, mysteries, conspiracies... there's quite a lot of adventure to be had.
• Anime.Sacred Seven: The Darkstone from episode 5.
• Characters.Pathfinder Fiendish Divinities: Many of her temples are, appropriately, pyramids.
• Characters.The Elder Scrolls Divine Beings: His symbol is a simple triangle, and his shrines are in the shape of a pyramid.
• Cool Key: Early on in Detentionaire, Lee is given an octagonal key with retractable spikes. The spikes are what open things, as the locks the key is meant to open are also octagonal and have holes to the spikes to grab. The key opens several doors throughout the underground passageways beneath the school, and Season 3 reveals that it's one of two identical keys that are meant to be used to open the mysterious pyramid, also located under the school. What is with potholing "mysterious pyramid"?
• IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming.Literature: Krim Pyramid: The novels of the duology are named after phrases to do with pyramids: pyramid scheme and Pyramid Power.
• Literature.Lands Of Red And Gold: A certain group of headhunters...
• Long Song, Short Scene: The ending for the second season of Queen's Blade is sung by the Terrible Trio and has 3 variations, one for each girl. While Melona and Menace got to sing their variations several times, Airi's only appears ONCE, and on the second to last episode at that (The finale doesn't have the ED). Clearly a ploy to sell more CDs, since Airi's the Ensemble Dark Horse, but still.
• Music.Mothership Connection: From "Mothership Connection":
  "We have come to claim the pyramids"
• Pinball.Twilight Zone: The Power, appropriately enough.
• Series.Chouriki Sentai Ohranger: One of these provides the Ohrangers' power.
• Series.In Search Of
• Series.Jungle Run: The Old Pyramid area.
• VideoGame.Rabi Ribi: Golden Pyramid zone.
• VideoGame.Twisted Metal: Obviously enough, in the Egypt stages. The irony

Miscellaneous/unsure

• Characters.Compati Hero Series: In his strongest attack, Debudabide creates a pair of large pyramids, which are used to crush his opponent. They seem to just be bludgeons
• Literature.The Lando Calrissian Adventures: Played with. The Sharu did leave massive mysterious pyramids, and also cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders, and every other basic 3D shape. The important one they enter, though, is a pyramid, the largest in the system.
• TabletopGame.Through The Ages: In this case, the power is to give you one extra civil action per turn. Probably not thematic, but nevertheless powerful.
• WebVideo.Critical Role: Ambiguously Human: Played for Laughs in regards to one Taliesin Jaffe. Competing interpretations of his ‘true’ identity include a bog-standard immortal, an Archfey, the Vampire Prince of Los Angeles, an Eldritch Abomination, or just a pyramid in human form.