History Main / MemorialStatue

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': The MagicalGirl memorial park has a statue of a girl standing at its center, with an inscription reading ''"To Our Guardians"''. Seemingly a general dedication to all the magical girls killed in action while defending the City, the statue is actually of [[spoiler:the Founder, the first magical girl and the one responsible for granting all other girls their powers]]. This fact has been lost to time, and most residents of the City believe the statue to simply depict a generic magical girl.

* In ''WebComic/SchlockMercenary'', [[spoiler:Brad]] gets one after he blows up a tank he's inside in order to save hundreds of lives.

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* In ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' the capital city has a statue commemorating Vin and Elend from ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy''. She is known as the Ascendant Warrior and he as the Last Emperor and the whole crew from the original trilogy are remembered as heroes.

* [[spoiler: [[Creator/LeonardNimoy King Kashekim Nedakh]]]] is given a stone face based on his likeness by Milo and Kida [[spoiler: who respectively being the new King and Queen as a result of [[WouldHarmaSenior his death]] [[TheKingslayer at the hands of Rourke]]]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', which then floats away to join the stone faces of the previous kings orbiting the Heart of Atlantis crystal [[spoiler: so he can be with his dead wife (who sacrificed herself in the prologue) again]].

* [[spoiler: [[Creator/LeonardNimoy King Kashekim Nedakh]]]] is given a stone face based on his likeness by Milo and Kida [[spoiler: who respectively being the new King and Queen as a result of [[WouldHarmaSenior his death]][[TheKingslayer at the hands of Rourke]]]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', which then floats away to join the stone faces of the previous kings orbiting the Heart of Atlantis crystal [[spoiler: so he can be with his dead wife (who sacrificed herself in the prologue) again]].

* The voice actor for Soldier, Rick May, passed away in March 2020, and in response to this news, Valve created a rendition of TAPS to play on the Menu, as well as erect statues to several well-known TF2 maps like 2Fort and Granary. Most of the statues were removed the following month, but one remains on Granary (the setting of "Meet the Soldier").

* Meta-example: After the unfortunate 2020 passing of Rick May, the beloved voice actor for ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s Soldier, Valve updated many of their original maps to feature a bronze statue of Soldier with a eulogy plaque for May. The statues remain on these maps and it is traditional for players (and especially Soldier mains) to pay respects when passing one.

* Jonathan Brisby was mentioned in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' as the mouse who unlatched the last barrier that allowed the uplifted rats to escape the lab. In the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue'', Jonathan has a memorial statue erected in the rats' Thorn Valley village. His son Timmy gets one as an addendum to his father's memorial.

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': Exclusive to the light novel version; Guiche made a statue of Saito when Saito was presumed dead. Louise and Siesta accidentally destroyed it before Saito eventually returned.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "For the Future", [[spoiler:the students at Hexside are shown to have erected one of Principal Bump during the TimeSkip to honor his and the other teachers' sacrifice after they were turned into puppets and captured by the Collector (though they're technically not dead). Of course, since the statue was made by a bunch of kids and teenagers, so it depicts him with a baseball cap and CoolShades while skateboarding off a half-pipe.]]

-->'''Lirian:''' ''[At the memorial]'' Dearest Kraagor... your brave sacrifice will not be forgotten.
-->'''Girard:''' Actually, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what will happen.

* ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother'' ends with a shot of life-sized sculpture of the titular character, the robomom Milan, made by the RaisedByRobots protagonist Sinbell, after his JerkassRealization on how much the robot that adopts him actually loves him (despite him spending most of the story being an UngratefulBastard who rejects her love repeatedly). It even comes with a plaque that doubles as a TitleDrop, that reads "My Beloved Mother".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' episode "Starscream's Brigade" features a pair of Autobots attending the unveiling of a statue explicitly identified as the "Optimus Prime ''Memorial'' Statue". It actually served as a bit of grim foreshadowing as this episode was aired 8 months before Optimus actually died in TheMovie, and was canonically set almost 20 years before to the events of the film.