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* In Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[ASpaceOdyssey 2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', the incorporeal David Bowman is led by the Monolith intelligence down through the atmosphere of Jupiter, where he sees various polyhedric kite-like creatures which feed on hydrocarbon precipitation in the atmosphere, and each other. The Monolith intelligence (with Bowman's input) assessed that these primitive nonsentients were worth sacrificing in detonating Jupiter as a second sun to help uplift the more advanced life on Europa. (Note: this was ''not'' shown in the film.)
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* In Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[ASpaceOdyssey ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', the incorporeal David Bowman is led by the Monolith intelligence down through the atmosphere of Jupiter, where he sees various polyhedric kite-like creatures which feed on hydrocarbon precipitation in the atmosphere, and each other. The Monolith intelligence (with Bowman's input) assessed that these primitive nonsentients were worth sacrificing in detonating Jupiter as a second sun to help uplift the more advanced life on Europa. (Note: this was ''not'' shown in the film.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Has the black cube of Darkness. While he is just a cube and not a shape with large number of sides, Even the characters in the show find him strange at first, Particularly Hater and Peepers. The cube is sentient, alive and frequently displays emotion [[DullSurprise In a way...]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Has the black cube of Darkness. While he is just a cube and not a shape with large number of sides, Even the characters in the show find him strange at first, Particularly Hater and Peepers. The cube is sentient, alive and frequently displays emotion [[DullSurprise In a way...]]
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* ''The Cubing'', a season 2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', featured the Wisdom Cube, a sentient and supposedly all-knowing cube from space who may just be the most obnoxious being in existence. [[spoiler:In the end, this is revealed to actually be the Dumbassahedratron, a cousin of the real Wisdom Cube, though the genuine article is still incredibly immature.]]
* ''The Cubing'', a season 2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', featured the Wisdom Cube, a sentient and supposedly all-knowing cube from space who may just be the most obnoxious being in existence. [[spoiler:In the end, this is revealed to actually be the Dumbassahedratron, a cousin of the real Wisdom Cube, though the genuine article is still incredibly immature.]]
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* The {{Supervision}} game ''[[http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/games/DancingBlock.jpg Dancing Block]]'' is set in "GB (Geometric block) Kingdom in another end of the universe", and has a Mr. Dancing Block as the protagonist.
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* [[MechanicalLifeform The Neuroi]] from ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' have polyhedron-shaped cores
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[GameMod mod]] ''The Adventures of Square''. It takes place in "Shape Land" and has the protagonist, Square, face off against the evil cult "Circle of Evil" to save Professor Hexagon. According to the author, the protagonist was originally designed as "the most generic children's cartoon character possible".
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* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[GameMod mod]] ''The Adventures of Square''. It takes place in "Shape Land" and has the protagonist, Square, face off against the evil cult "Circle of Evil" to save Professor Hexagon.
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* ''Flatland'' inspired the book and cartoon ''TheDotAndTheLine'', which stars both a dot and a line (and a squiggle).
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* ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellbound: Hellraiser II]]'' has Leviathan, [[EldritchAbomination the God]] [[BiggerBad of the Cenobites]], that takes the form of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge lozenge.]]
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* ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellbound: Hellraiser II]]'' ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'' has Leviathan, [[EldritchAbomination the God]] [[BiggerBad of the Cenobites]], that takes the form of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge lozenge.]]
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* Not featured directly in ''GrandTheftAuto : ViceCity'', but in-game adverts for [[http://gta.wikia.com/Degenatron "The Degenatron"]] talk about "save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!" and so on, as a parody of the limitations of early 80's videogames.
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* Not featured directly in ''GrandTheftAuto : ViceCity'', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', but in-game adverts for [[http://gta.wikia.com/Degenatron "The Degenatron"]] talk about "save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!" and so on, as a parody of the limitations of early 80's videogames.
*Cubivore: ''VideoGame/{{Cubivore}}'': Said cubivores are cube bodies with a very large face and different rectangular prisms i.e. "flaps" that give them shape.
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* ''ThomasWasAlone'' is an indie platformer where you control an ensemble of variously colored quadrilaterals that represent emerging AI's. While none of them speak directly, the narration ends up giving each a unique personality and voice.
* Not featured directly in ''GrandTheftAuto : ViceCity'', but in-game adverts for [[http://gta.wikia.com/Degenatron "The Degenatron"]] talk about "save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!" and so on, as a parody of the limitations or early 80's videogames.
* Not featured directly in ''GrandTheftAuto : ViceCity'', but in-game adverts for [[http://gta.wikia.com/Degenatron "The Degenatron"]] talk about "save the green dots with your fantastic flying red square!" and so on, as a parody of the limitations or early 80's videogames.
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* ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert'' is set in a world of sapient geometric shapes; Robert is a rhombus, and Triangle is unimaginatively named. It's explicitly stated that they're only geometric shapes because the Cartoonist is incapable of drawing proper people; characters sometimes reminisce about the good old days before the strip started, when nobody was trying to draw them (and they were, implicitly, something other than simple polygons, though what they were is of course never shown, since the Cartoonist is incapable of drawing it).
* ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert'' is set in a world of sapient geometric shapes; Robert is a rhombus, and Triangle is unimaginatively named. It's explicitly stated that they're only geometric shapes because the Cartoonist is incapable of drawing proper people; characters sometimes reminisce about the good old days before the strip started, when nobody was trying to draw them (and they were, implicitly, something other than simple polygons, though what they were is of course never shown, since the Cartoonist is incapable of drawing it).
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* Polygon Man was a failed {{Mascot}} for the PlayStation in North America, meant to symbolize how many polygons the machine could render. Ken Kutaragi hated the design and Poly was quietly retired, but he eventually returned as the FinalBoss of ''PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale''.
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Who are you?"
-->-- '''The Dodecahedron''', ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''
Some creatures have a very simple shape: just a polygon or a polyhedron, such as a cube or a cone, mathematically perfect and featureless except possibly for small legs, eyes, etc.
As [[SinisterGeometry perfect geometric shapes can be unnerving]], such a being often feels truly alien. Their perfect shape often implies that they're cold, mechanical and emotionless. That said, sometimes their appearance is simply a result of the artists being lazy.
Sometimes they may be SiliconBasedLife. Not to be mistaken with a CompanionCube (though some polyhedron-shaped {{Companion Cube}}s might be treated as if they were alive).
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* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the Angel Ramiel takes the form of an [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/270px-Ramiel_RoE.jpg octahedron several hundred meters in diameter]].
** Thanks to computer technology, the creators were able to exploit and show off Ramiel's design much better in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. For a being that almost has a non-Euclidean design, it still has hundreds of gallons of liquid blood packed inside its core.
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* ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellbound: Hellraiser II]]'' has Leviathan, [[EldritchAbomination the God]] [[BiggerBad of the Cenobites]], that takes the form of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge lozenge.]]
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* All inhabitants of Literature/{{Flatland}} are two-dimensional polygons. There's also a Sphere, which claims to inhabit a Sphereland with other 3D shapes.
* The Rationals and Parentals from ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' are ellipsoids and parallelepipeds, respectively.
* All of the characters in Shel Silverstein's ''The Missing Piece'' are represented as two- dimensional shapes.
* In Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[ASpaceOdyssey 2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', the incorporeal David Bowman is led by the Monolith intelligence down through the atmosphere of Jupiter, where he sees various polyhedric kite-like creatures which feed on hydrocarbon precipitation in the atmosphere, and each other. The Monolith intelligence (with Bowman's input) assessed that these primitive nonsentients were worth sacrificing in detonating Jupiter as a second sun to help uplift the more advanced life on Europa. (Note: this was ''not'' shown in the film.)
* ''Flatland'' inspired the book and cartoon ''TheDotAndTheLine'', which stars both a dot and a line (and a squiggle).
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* ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has the Dodecahedron, a living geometrical solid with a NiceHat. He only likes to use one face at a time, but each of his twelve faces expresses a different emotion; he finds it odd that Milo can live with only one.
* In Creator/HPLovecraft's story "The Dreams in the Witch House," a human has to make a pilgrimage to the Cold Waste beyond the stars to where the Old Ones dwell. On the way he meets many bizarre and eldritch life-forms, polyhedra included.
* Pinwheeling four-sided sentient triangles also crop up in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', but these are explicable as part of a trainee Shaman's communion with the Sacred Mushrooms.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E22ByAnyOtherName By Any Other Name]]" some {{Redshirt}}s get all the moisture sucked out of their bodies and turn into polyhedrons. The polyhedrons could somehow be reconstituted and are thus still alive (in some sense), but the bad guy breaks one, "killing" it.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** Modrons from TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}, who look like polyhedral robots. The higher in rank one is, the more sides it has. As Modrons are inhabitants of the lawful neutral plane of Mechanus, their appearance fits their mechanistic, impassive nature.
** The Gelatinous Cube, a large BlobMonster shaped like a cube. Apparently, it's a life form specifically adapted for living in a typical D&D dungeon corridor.
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* There are many, many newbie amateur video games which feature a square or a triangle as the protagonist (and sometimes explicitly have a title along the lines of ''Triangle Adventures'', etc.), since such heroes are very easy to draw and animate (if they're indeed animated at all).
* The {{Supervision}} game ''[[http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/games/DancingBlock.jpg Dancing Block]]'' is set in "GB (Geometric block) Kingdom in another end of the universe", and has a Mr. Dancing Block as the protagonist.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/137Porygon_1972.png Porygon]] is an artificial Pokémon which was created with a pink and blue, polyhedron-style body. Its odd shape is evidently because it was created out of "programming code".
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* The [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]] "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail181.html web comics]]" features a fictional [[AnimatedAdaptation Saturday morning cartoon adaptation]] of the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional computer game]] ''Secret Collect''. Since ''Secret Collect'' is [[{{Retraux}} supposedly an Atari-era game]] with all the characters being just large pixels, the animated adaptation makes the protagonist into an anthropomorphic cube.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RubikTheAmazingCube'' Rubik is a living (?) Rubik's Cube with feet sticking out the bottom and a face on one side of the cube.
* InUniverse: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Sue Ellen writes a graphic novel about a country of triangles and a country of circles which have a conflict with each other.
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My sides are not few.\\
I'm the Dodecahedron.\\
Who are you?"
-->-- '''The Dodecahedron''', ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''
Some creatures have a very simple shape: just a polygon or a polyhedron, such as a cube or a cone, mathematically perfect and featureless except possibly for small legs, eyes, etc.
As [[SinisterGeometry perfect geometric shapes can be unnerving]], such a being often feels truly alien. Their perfect shape often implies that they're cold, mechanical and emotionless. That said, sometimes their appearance is simply a result of the artists being lazy.
Sometimes they may be SiliconBasedLife. Not to be mistaken with a CompanionCube (though some polyhedron-shaped {{Companion Cube}}s might be treated as if they were alive).
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* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the Angel Ramiel takes the form of an [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/270px-Ramiel_RoE.jpg octahedron several hundred meters in diameter]].
** Thanks to computer technology, the creators were able to exploit and show off Ramiel's design much better in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''. For a being that almost has a non-Euclidean design, it still has hundreds of gallons of liquid blood packed inside its core.
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* ''[[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Hellbound: Hellraiser II]]'' has Leviathan, [[EldritchAbomination the God]] [[BiggerBad of the Cenobites]], that takes the form of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge lozenge.]]
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* All inhabitants of Literature/{{Flatland}} are two-dimensional polygons. There's also a Sphere, which claims to inhabit a Sphereland with other 3D shapes.
* The Rationals and Parentals from ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'' are ellipsoids and parallelepipeds, respectively.
* All of the characters in Shel Silverstein's ''The Missing Piece'' are represented as two- dimensional shapes.
* In Arthur C. Clarke's ''[[ASpaceOdyssey 2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'', the incorporeal David Bowman is led by the Monolith intelligence down through the atmosphere of Jupiter, where he sees various polyhedric kite-like creatures which feed on hydrocarbon precipitation in the atmosphere, and each other. The Monolith intelligence (with Bowman's input) assessed that these primitive nonsentients were worth sacrificing in detonating Jupiter as a second sun to help uplift the more advanced life on Europa. (Note: this was ''not'' shown in the film.)
* ''Flatland'' inspired the book and cartoon ''TheDotAndTheLine'', which stars both a dot and a line (and a squiggle).
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* ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has the Dodecahedron, a living geometrical solid with a NiceHat. He only likes to use one face at a time, but each of his twelve faces expresses a different emotion; he finds it odd that Milo can live with only one.
* In Creator/HPLovecraft's story "The Dreams in the Witch House," a human has to make a pilgrimage to the Cold Waste beyond the stars to where the Old Ones dwell. On the way he meets many bizarre and eldritch life-forms, polyhedra included.
* Pinwheeling four-sided sentient triangles also crop up in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', but these are explicable as part of a trainee Shaman's communion with the Sacred Mushrooms.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E22ByAnyOtherName By Any Other Name]]" some {{Redshirt}}s get all the moisture sucked out of their bodies and turn into polyhedrons. The polyhedrons could somehow be reconstituted and are thus still alive (in some sense), but the bad guy breaks one, "killing" it.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** Modrons from TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}, who look like polyhedral robots. The higher in rank one is, the more sides it has. As Modrons are inhabitants of the lawful neutral plane of Mechanus, their appearance fits their mechanistic, impassive nature.
** The Gelatinous Cube, a large BlobMonster shaped like a cube. Apparently, it's a life form specifically adapted for living in a typical D&D dungeon corridor.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* There are many, many newbie amateur video games which feature a square or a triangle as the protagonist (and sometimes explicitly have a title along the lines of ''Triangle Adventures'', etc.), since such heroes are very easy to draw and animate (if they're indeed animated at all).
* The {{Supervision}} game ''[[http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/games/DancingBlock.jpg Dancing Block]]'' is set in "GB (Geometric block) Kingdom in another end of the universe", and has a Mr. Dancing Block as the protagonist.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/137Porygon_1972.png Porygon]] is an artificial Pokémon which was created with a pink and blue, polyhedron-style body. Its odd shape is evidently because it was created out of "programming code".
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* The [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]] "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail181.html web comics]]" features a fictional [[AnimatedAdaptation Saturday morning cartoon adaptation]] of the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional computer game]] ''Secret Collect''. Since ''Secret Collect'' is [[{{Retraux}} supposedly an Atari-era game]] with all the characters being just large pixels, the animated adaptation makes the protagonist into an anthropomorphic cube.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RubikTheAmazingCube'' Rubik is a living (?) Rubik's Cube with feet sticking out the bottom and a face on one side of the cube.
* InUniverse: In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Sue Ellen writes a graphic novel about a country of triangles and a country of circles which have a conflict with each other.
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