History Main / MonsterShapedMountain

* Creator/MarvelComics:
** ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': The 2018 title starts off with an arc where the corpse of a Celestial is discovered in the Arctic. After resolving the crisis involving a cabal of Celestials corrupted by the same force that killed the first one, the other celestials honor their victory by raising the body up from the ocean floor and the Avengers move into it as their new headquarters, Avengers Mountain. It's posed holding a staff with an outstretched hand and partially frozen over. Features include a spinal column elevator, a cerebral cortex database, a world teleporter, intestines for a brig and it's fingers are hangars.
** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on UsefulNotes/EasterIsland. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.
** In some stories featuring the Mole and Monster Island, the mountain that leads to his underground lair resembles a monstrous face (complete with CaveMouth).

* Creator/DCComics:
** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': One of the more bizarre sequences in ''Superman: For Tomorrow'' involves Superman fighting Mount Rushmore. Not ''on'' it, but the actual mountain given a body with the presidents' four heads.
** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': One [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks silver age]] story reveals that the origin of the legion's headquarters, which looked like an upside down rocket perfectly planted into the ground, is that it's actually the body of a Legion reject named Fortress Lad. Defending the Legion from another, disgruntled reject with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory erasing powers]], he completely forgot everything of his identity with only the thought to [[{{Determinator}} never give up]] being left. The rest of the Legion forget where a sorely needed headquarters came from, though they do feel some familiarity to it.

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* Creator/{{Disney}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'': In the Pedro segment, Mt. Aconcagua is portrayed as a scary, human-faced monster.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', once Te Fiti's heart is restored to her, the goddess lies down on the seabed and becomes indistinguishable from an island.
* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': A number of mountains and rock formations resemble automobiles or parts of them. This counts as this trope, as all self-propelled vehicles in this 'verse are living creatures.
* Some of the offshore rocks near the village of Berk in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' are carved into the shapes of fierce Vikings. They can be clearly seen during Hiccup's and Astrid's first flight, with bonfires blazing in their open mouths.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'': More of a CompanionCube than a creature, but the island of Skrattlantis looks like a giant acorn when seen from the right angle.

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* In ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', after being rescued by the Eagles, the dwarves' party is set down on a mountaintop resembling the head of a bear.

* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', Ape Mountain is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a mountain shaped like a gorilla head]].
* In ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'', the villains stage a necromantic ceremony inside a rock formation that's shaped like a screaming skull.
* ''Film/DraculaUntold'': The rock ledge outside the Elder Vampire's cave looks like a mandible, complete with teeth along its edge.
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', the "gateway" to the titular Golden Army is a giant animated stone half-figure, with a doorway in its belly. It resembles an ordinary bunch of scattered boulders until signaled to rise up.
* Many huge stone faces border the rim of Gargantua in ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer''. A fight scene between Elmont and Roderick takes place in a water-filled tunnel that leads to the mouth of one such face, with the former actually clinging to a platter-sized tooth to avoid falling to his death.

* ''Literature/PeterPan'': Skull Rock in the various versions of the story, where Captain Hook takes the kidnapped Princess Tiger Lily.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'': In ''The High King'', Mount Dragon is so named because its peak is in the rough shape of a monstrous, crested dragon's head with gaping jaws, and on either side the lower slopes spread like outflung wings.

* Some versions of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' that use the "Ten Little Indians" version of the rhyme also refer to the setting as "Indian Island", and depict one of its rocky cliffs as resembling an elderly Native American's profile.
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredWorld'', by Michael Reaves, one of the FloatingContinent fragments is carved into the shape of a robed wizard. In the sequel, ''The Burning Realm'', a mountain on Tamboriyan resembles a regal woman on a throne, although it's unclear if it was carved that way or if it's natural.
* ''Literature/JackelianSeries'': Coppertracks captures photos of a gargantuan stone face on the neighboring planet of Kaliban. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a former energy-collecting facility from the fallen Kal civilization.]]

* When ''Series/SesameStreet'' visits Hawaii, Big Bird spends a lot of time looking for Mount Snuffleupagus; a mountain shaped like, well, a Snuffleupagus.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the Fourth Doctor episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]", a gigantic carving of the Evil One's head is what taught the Sevateem what this terrifying villain looks like. Too bad for the Doctor that it has the face of Tom Baker...

* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: The album ''Music/DemonDays'' (2004) has "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", about a demonic mountain killing off everything and everybody.

* ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'': The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' bit about mountainous trolls is referenced in a vignette, in which a clacks operator delivers the message "[[Literature/{{Thud}} Mr Shine, him diamond]]" to a cave near the top of a rocky hill, and then the entire hill starts to move.

* Ride/DisneyThemeParks: Disney's California Adventure theme park has Grizzly Peak, shaped like a bear's head. It was originally the park's signature landmark, though that honor has since gone to the Carthay Circle Theatre.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In an episode about erosion, the class's trip along a mountainside triggered a series of rockfalls and stream-diversions that re-shaped the terrain to resemble a vaguely human visage.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'': Snake Mountain; in [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 the 2002 series]], it was eventually revealed to actually ''be'' a giant snake frozen in place when King Hiss and the Snake Men take over.

* ''WesternAnimation/PixarShorts'': In ''Lava'', an old volcanic island and the new island that's about to emerge from the depths both have human-like faces, and sing to one another.
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': The gang has solved mysteries in places like Skull Island (named for a cranium-shaped rock on which an abandoned prison was built) and Vulture's Claw (a peninsula shaped like a bird's foot).
* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': A mountain shaped like a bear's head and a boulder shaped like a nose are used by Molly as guiding landmarks on a canoe journey.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood:'' In the third season, the would-be rat king Bully keeps his personal quarters inside of a cave in a rockey outcropping that resembles an upturned, screeching rat's head, with [[CaveMouth the interior accessible by twin caves behind its stalactite incisors]].

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[https://scryfall.com/card/c16/327/spinerock-knoll Spinerock Knoll]], in Lorwyn, is a hill strongly resembling a sleeping dragon. When Lorwyn becomes Shadowmoor, this resemblance turns out to be far more than coincidental when the [[https://scryfall.com/card/shm/98/knollspine-dragon Knollspine Dragon]] awakens from its slumber.

Both variants are often combined with CaveMouth. Mountaineers may find themselves engaged in a ColossusClimb. For its [[{{Squick}} squickier]] sister trope, see GiantCorpseWorld, a landscape made of a decaying corpse.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': A number of mountains and rock formations resemble automobiles or parts of them. This counts as this trope, as all self-propelled vehicles in this Verse are living creatures.

* In Romania, there are the Great Bucegi Sphinx (nicknamed as such for resembling the Great Sphinx of Giza), and the Babele (The Old Women) in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania. Both are natural rock formations and one of most popular tourist destinations in the country.

** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' #261, the Hulk battles the Absorbing Man on EasterIsland. The Absorbing Man absorbs the Earth itself, but then Hulk bashes him into the sea, where he becomes a small, man-shaped island.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', "the rock that looks like a Longneck" is one of the landmarks that Littlefoot's mother teaches him to look for on the way to the Great Valley. There is also Three-Horn Peak, a mountain that resembles a Triceratops.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', "the rock that looks like a Longneck" is one of the landmarks that Littlefoot's mother teaches him to look for on the way to the Great Valley. There is also Three-Horn Rock, a mountain that resembles a Triceratops.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1588 SCP-1588]], "The Cliff Face"... literally, a giant face which is part of a cliff.

* In the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series:

* In "The White People" by Creator/ArthurMachen, the young girl's diary describes her wandering among strange stones that look like faces, weird creeping animals "putting out their tongues", and dead people lying on the ground.

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** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': One of the more bizarre sequences in ''Superman: For Tomorrow'' involves Superman fighting Mount Rushmore. Not ''on''it, but the actual mountain given a body with the presidents' four heads.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'': In "Wings of FEAR", FEAR's secret base is inside a mountain called Death's Head Peak which has a giant skull at the apex.

* In ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'', the dungeon of Dragon's Eye is much in the shape of a dragon's head, hence the name.
* ''VideoGame/{{Azada}}'': In the fourth game, a path leads up a hill shaped like a giant canine.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'', Saxton folklore holds that the jagged rocks along the shoreline are spines on the back of Grindle, a dragon from local legend.
* ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'': Parodied with "Skull Island", which turns out to have a prominent mountain that's clearly in the shape of a ''duck.'' When the ferryman claims it looks like a skull if you squint at it and tilt your head sideways, Guybrush points out that just makes it look like a bunny instead.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': One of the zones in the ''City of Villains'' expansion is named Cap au Diable (literally, "the devil's headland"). It's overlooked by two curved mountains that resemble a devil's horns.

* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'': During your second incursion into Hell, the player encounters a massive series of bones, gore and decay that are the remains of a Titan, one of the greatest warriors of the realm that [[PlayerCharacter the Doom Slayer]] [[OffScreenMomentOfAwesome killed in single combat before the game began.]] The rest of the level then takes place inside temples made within its remains.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers'', you and your partner often stay on Sharpedo Bluff, which is a cliff hanging over the ocean that resembles a Sharpedo.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'': DK Island is shaped like Donkey Kong's head.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', Fortune Island, true to its pirate theme, has a stone hill shaped like a skull jutting out into the ocean nearby.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': There are a number of skeletons in the DLC "Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt" that tower way above the player character and sit on various mountain surfaces.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' has several areas with distant mountain ranges, that are eventually revealed to be the gradually awakening Kuzuryu, who is also the cause of the earthquakes that occur periodically beforehand.
* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the gateway to Kwolok's Hollow is a gigantic stone idol of the eponymous frog guardian. The key is the two Eyestones found nearby after acquiring the Spirit Arc, as hinted by Tokk's line "The gaze of the great Kwolok admits only the worthy". Earlier, the background of Howl's Den has what looks like a large elephant skull.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' has the appropriately named Face Rock, which is an important landmark in the Treasure Map quest.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/KingsBounty Dark Side'', where the island inhabitated by Amazons, when seen from above, is in the shape of a woman in a pinup pose.

* ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' has a rock shaped like the legendary Irish hero Mac Lir. [[spoiler:It is the actual Mac Lir, TakenForGranite due to Macha taking his emotions.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'': More of a CompanionCube than a creature, but the island of Skrattlantis looks like a giant acorn when seen from the right angle.

* ''Franchise/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'': Snake Mountain; in [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 the 2002 series]], it was eventually revealed to actually ''be'' a giant snake frozen in place when King Hiss and the Snake Men take over.

* ''Franchise/HeMan'': Snake Mountain; in [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 the 2002 series]], it was eventually revealed to actually ''be'' a giant snake frozen in place when King Hiss and the Snake Men take over.

** ''ComicBook"{{Superman}}'': One of the more bizarre sequences in ''Superman: For Tomorrow'' involves Superman fighting Mount Rushmore. Not ''on''it, but the actual mountain given a body with the presidents' four heads.